Journal pages using this week's Bee Crafty Palette

Hi There! This week I thought I would have a little play with the Bee Crafty Palette in my journal. Every week Bev is providing some inspiration on the Bee Crafty Facebook page for the new colours. Some folk might find 5 shades of brown a bit tricky, but to me it gave off vintage vibes, so here's what I did. 
 

I began by smooshing some Rusty Hinge distress oxide ink over a double page in my journal. 

I also smooshed some Vintage photo distress oxide ink. 

Using the same ink I used a tag inkable from set one and blended through it around the pages. 

Next I used the script stamp (not on a stamping block) to add patches of script in Ground espresso Distress oxide ink.  

To finish off the background, I added a few splatters of the Ground Espresso and some white splatters too. 

I chose one of the small images from the front A4 sheet of Autumn portraits Catalyst collage papers. I cut it out and blended a little ink around the edges. 

On a scrap of paper, I stamped the large flower from Journaling essentials set 8, cut it out and coloured it using rusty hinge Distress oxide ink. 

I added both of these to the pages with matte medium, adding a few highlights with a gold pen. On the background, I also added a little stamping using a smaller stamp from the journaling essentials set already mentioned. 

On a piece of rust coloured paper, I stamped and heat embossed a ticker tape sentiment in white. 

I cut this out and added it to the pages with matte medium. 

Here are the finished pages once more. 

I used:

Bee Crafty Catalyst Collage papers - Autumn Portraits A4

Bee Crafty Journaling Essentials Stamp Set #8

Bee Crafty Wordage Ticker Tape set #1

Bee Crafty Background Script stamp

Bee Crafty Tag inkables set #1

Distress Oxide inks in Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo and Ground Espresso

Versafine Clair Pinecone ink

Versamark ink

White embossing powder

White ink/ paint or posca pen for splatters

I will be live at 8pm this evening on the Bee Crafty Facebook page. I hope you can join me. 

Thanks for looking! 

Where Flowers bloom

 

Hi There! For my blog post today I thought I would use mostly the Lilius set of stamps and create a simple card. Here's how I did it.

I began by blending distress inks through the Bakewell big one inkable onto the front of a 6x6" card blank. 

Next I used the Border from the Doodle Art Daisy stamp set and stamped it in wilted violet Distress ink along the side of the stencilling. 

Onto the card front I stamped the larger lillius stamp in black ink.

I also stamped the same image onto a scrap of white card, colouring it with Ecoline pens and cutting out the leaves and flower head. I coloured the stem on the base card using the same pens. 

Using Matte Medium, I added the coloured parts to the flower and also used liquid pearls to add to the stamens

On another scrap of card, I stamped the sentiment and the corner stamp from the same set. 

Finally I added the sentiment to the card using 3d foam. 

I used:

6x6" card blank

Inkable Big one - Bakewell

Doodle Art Daisy Stamp set

Doodle Art Lillius Stamp set

Distress inks (Distress oxide inks would be equally suitable) - I used Wilted Violet, Twisted Citron, Fossilized Amber and Abandoned Coral

Black Versafine Clair ink

Ecoline pens

Liquid Pearls - I used Buttercup

3d foam

Matte Medium

This card was made using this week's Bee Crafty Palette but it also fit the Challenge theme for this month too, where we have a theme of Spring Zing (Bright colours and spring images)

Thanks for looking! 

Spring Zing!

 

Hi There! It's 1st April and time for a new Challenge theme in the Bee Crafty Facebook group. I chose Spring Zing for the theme this month. Think citrus colours and spring themed images for this one. I created this journal page to inspire you. 

I began by blending 3 shades of Distress oxide ink across the pages - I used spiced Marmalade, Twisted Citron and Mustard Seed. 

Next, I lifted off some of the colour, by spraying the Bakewell Big one inkable with water, laying it over the page and blotting with a clean cloth. I then dried it completely with a heat tool. 

In other areas on the page, I used the tag inkable to add some more spiced marmalade and Twisted Citron inks using a blending brush. 

I added stamping using the same inks and the worker stamps from the Daisy stamp set. 

On a separate piece of smooth card, I stamped the daisy in memento ink and coloured it using alcohol markers before cutting it out. I cut the daisy head from the stem as it was too tall for the page. This also allowed me to angle it differently. 

I added this daisy to the background using Matte Medium. 

next I followed the same steps for the larger daisy from the sketchy flowers set. 

on a thin strip of card I stamped the sentiment and cut to separate each word. 

I splattered the page with Spiced Marmalade distress spritz and added the sentiment and the small daisy using Matte Medium.

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

Here are the finished pages once more. 

I used:

Bee Crafty Doodle Art Daisy stamp set

Sketchy Flowers Stamp set

Big ones inkable - I used Bakewell

Tag inkables - I used set #1

5x5" sketchbook

Distress oxide inks - I used Mustard seed, Twisted Citron and Spiced Marmalade

Black Memento ink

Alcohol markers

Matte Medium

Gelly Roll Moonlight pens 

I do hope you can join in the challenge this month. 

Thanks for looking!