Finished my journal!

 

Hi There! I have just completed my final two page spread in my 4x4 journal. Here's how the page came together. 

I began by blending colours from this week's Bee  Crafty Palette across the pages. 

Next I took the candied apple ink and blended it through a tag inkable. 

I used the same ink to add some stamped polkadots to the pages too. 

I had a piece of catalyst collage paper from the sets we were given at the last Bee Crafty Workshop and added it to the bottom right of the pages. 

Using the same ink and stamp I added a little more stamping across the edges of the collage paper.

Next I used more stamps from Journaling Essentials set #9 and stamped them in black ink around the page. 

On a scrap of card I stamped the flower from Journaling essentials #9. I coloured it using the same inks as I used on the background. I also added a few highlights with a white posca pen.  

Finally I attached the flower to the page along with a wordy sticker sentiment using matte medium. 

Here's the finished pages once more. 

I used:

Journaling Essentials #9 stamp set 

Tag inkables set #3

Wordy stickers

Catalyst Collage papers (lots of different ones to choose from here)

Distress oxide inks - I used Cracked pistachio, Lost shadow, Dusty Concorde, Mermaid Lagoon and Candied Apple

Versafine Clair ink in Black

Matte Medium

White Posca pen

There are just a few days left to enter this month's Bee Crafty Challenge over in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook Group.

Thanks for looking! 

More Challenge inspiration

 

Hi There! I am here with a journal page step-by-step tutorial for you today using Catalyst Collage papers and Journaling essentials stamps. Here's how it came together. 

I began by cutting a piece of Catalyst collage paper to fit across the pages. I used collage medium to stick it down. 

Once this was dry, I added distress oxide inks to the two panels either side of the paper. 

Next I sprayed the tag inkable with water, laid it onto the inked areas and blotted with a piece of kitchen roll. 

Once this was dry, I used Journaling Essentials set #9 and Black Versafine Clair to add stamping around the pages. 

I added wordy stickers and some faux stitching with a gelly roll moonlight pen....

along with some sharpie pen to finish off. 

Here is the finished page again. 

I used:

Catalyst Collage papers - Painted Petals and Portraits A5

Journaling essentials Stamp Set #9

Tag inkables  set #1

Wordy Stickers #2

Distress Oxide inks - I used Faded Jeans, Abandoned Coral and Fossilized Amber

Black Versafine Clair ink

Gelly Roll Moonlight Pens

Sharpie

I am really happy with how these pages came together, but I am not totally sure they don't need a couple of flowers added on the right-hand page. 

I will sleep on it and maybe add something extra another day.

Hope this has inspired you to enter the Bee Craft Stamps Facebook challenge this month where all we ask is you use one of the 9 sets of Journaling Essentials stamps or transparencies that you can find here

Thanks for looking! 

Journaling on index cards

 

Hi There! I am here with a couple of index cards for my blog post today. These are a great way to art journal in miniature without the expense of a purpose made journal. I used the Bee Crafty Palette for this week. I also used Journaling Essentials stamps so these are more inspiration for our challenge in the Bee Crafty Stamps facebook group. 

I began by smooshing the index cards with distress inks. I used a piece of acetate to apply the inks with. 

I used a couple of Dinkables to apply some Villainous Potion distress ink to the inked background.

Using Journaling Essentials sets #5 and #8, I used the prize ribbon and iced spruce to add some stamping to the background. 

I chose focal images from the same stamp sets and stamped these in Black versafine clair onto the backgrounds. 
 

I stamped the flowers again onto some white card, cut them out and coloured them using ecoline markers. 

finally I added these along with some wordy stickers to the backgrounds. Some faux stitching using a gelly roll moonlight pen finished them off.

Here are each of the cards.

I used:

Index cards

Journaling Essentials sets #5 and #8

Dinkables 

Wordy stickers

Distress inks - I used iced spruce, Prize ribbon, Twisted citron, Villainous potion

Versafine Clair black ink
Ecoline markers

Thanks for looking! 

A little Hope

 

Hi There! Here's a journal spread, as inspiration to both the new challenge on Bee crafty Stamps Facebook group, and this week's Bee Crafty Palette. Here's how I put it together. 

I began by blending patches of distress oxide inks around the page. I used Chipped Sapphire, Rustic Wilderness, Saltwater Taffy, Bundled sage and Old Paper. 

Next, I sprayed a Dinkable from set 11 with water and laid it onto the inked pages for a few seconds, before mopping up the water using a clean cloth.

Once this was dry, I added some stamping using some of the worker stamps from the Journaling Essentials #9 Stamp Set. The theme for our challenge is to use Journaling Essentials Stamps. 

On a separate piece of paper I stamped the large flower from the same set in Versafine Clair Blue Belle. I used a paintbrush and water to add colour using the same inkpads, and cut them out.  

I also added a few highlights using gelly roll moonlight pens and a white posca. 

I added some extra stamped elements from the same stamp set before positioning the flowers  and some wordy stickers with Matte Medium. Finally I added some white Faux stitching around the page and the sentiment. 

I used: 

Journaling Essentials #9 Stamp set

Dinkables set 11

Wordy Stickers - 3B

Distress Oxide inks in Chipped Sapphire, Rustic Wilderness, Saltwater Taffy, Bundled Sage and Old Paper

Versafine Clair ink in Blue Belle

Ranger Mister bottle 

Gelly Roll Moonlight Pens

Posca Pen

5x5" notebook/ sketchbook/ journal

Our Challenge theme for February is Journaling Essentials and there are plenty of stamps to choose from in the Journaling Essentials range. I do hope you will join in. 

Thanks for looking! 

What's up Buttercup?

 

Hi There! I am here with an art journal spread today. Here's how it came together. 

I began by adding some catalyst collage papers to the two sides using matte medium. 

Next, I added some torn book pages to the gaps in between. 

Once this was dry, I blended Distress oxide inks around the page to colour the base layer. 

I also blended some Distress Oxide ink through a tag inkable in a couple of pages. 

Using the same colours of ink, I added some stamping using the Bee Crafty Journaling essentials #9 stamp set.

On a separate piece of paper I stamped the flowers from Journaling Essentials #5, coloured them with ecoline pens and cut them out. 

I added these to the pages using matte medium, along with a couple of wordy stickers

Finally I added a few highlights using Gelly Roll Moonlight pens. 

Here are the finished pages again.

I used:

Catalyst Collage Birds and Sunflowers A5

Journaling Essentials stamp sets #5 and #9

Wordy Stickers - I used 3B

Book pages

Distress Oxide inks - I used Vintage photo, Antique Linen and Fossilized Amber

Ecoline pens

Black Versafine Clair ink

Gelly Roll Moonlight Pens 

This is my last chance to remind you that you have until Saturday to enter the Floral challenge over on the Bee Crafty Stamps Group on Facebook, so I hope you will enter! 

Thanks for looking! 

Perfect is an illusion

 

Hi There! I have another journal page for you today. Here's how it came together. 

I used a piece of A5 Greyscale Catalyst card from set one and smooshed it with Abandoned Coral and Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink. 

When this was dry I added some Prize Ribbon Distress oxide ink through the Bakewell Big one inkable with a blending brush. 

Using the worker stamps from the Doodle Art Dragonfly stamp set I added some stamping using the same inks.

I also used the same inks to colour a dragonfly. I then cut it out and added some white pen highlights. 

I added the dragonfly and a wordy sticker to the page using matte medium, along with faux stitching and more white pen to the background. 

Here is the finished page once more. 

I used:

Doodle Art Dragonfly stamp set

Bakewell Big one inkable

Catalyst collage greyscale papers - I used A5 set 1

Wordy stickers - I used 2B

Distress oxide inks - I used Abandoned Coral, Prize Ribbon and Uncharted Mariner

5x5" notebook/journal

White Posca Pen

Matte Medium

There are still a couple of weeks to enter the challenge over in the Bee Crafty Facebook group where the theme is Floral. Don't forget to check out the Bee crafty Palette for this week too! 

Thanks for looking!