The Sun Will Rise...

 

Hi There! Thought I would share a bit of journaling with you today. Here's how it came together. 

I began by spraying the page with Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide spray, Tarnished Brass Distress stain and Fossilized Amber Distress Spritz. 

When this was dry, I stamped clocks and cogs in Peacock Feathers Distress oxide ink across the page. 

Next, I added some script in Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink...

along with some stitchy borders and a little stencilling through a texture disc. 

In my stash I found some teal coloured parchment paper. I heat embossed the leaves on it before cutting them out. 

I stamped the rainbow bird and painted it using pastel shades of distress oxides.

Using Matte Medium, I attached the leaves and bird to the left page. 

On the right page I added a transparency sentiment.

Here is  the finished page again. 

I used:

Time is Free Stamp set

Background Script Stamp Set

Journaling Essentials #6 Stamp set

Rainbow Birds stamp set

Texture Discs set 4

Distress oxide spray - I used Salvaged patina

Distress spray stain - I used Tarnished Brass

Distress Spritz - I used Fossilized amber

Distress oxide inks in Vintage Photo, Peacock Feathers, Squeezed Lemonade, Dried Marigold and Spun Sugar

White embossing powder

The Best things take time transparency sheets

Matte Medium

I will be live at 8pm this evening over on the Bee Crafty Facebook Page. Do join me if you can. 

Don't forget, if you find yourself on the Bee Crafty Website from my blog post, you can get yourself an extra 10% off by using my discount code! Just pop BEESALLY10 in at the checkout x

Thanks for looking! 

Vintage Vibes

Hi There! I am here with a vintage feel journal spread today. Here's how I did it. 
 

I began by brayering a mix of Vintage photo, Victorian Velvet and Bundled sage Distress ink in patches across the page. 

Next I used the Crackle and script background stamps along with the roman Numerals to stamp randomly around the page using the same inks. 

Using the Set 2 Dinkables I added some Diamonds in bundled sage...

and some bricks in Vintage photo.

Next I stamped A Stitch in Time using Versafine Clair Portobello on the right page, adding some stamping of the outer edges around the left page. 

on a seperate piece of card I smooshed the Bundled sage and Victorian Velvet ink before stamping it with a Stitch in Time once more, using Versafine Clair. 

I cut out a few elements adding a little more Victorian Velvet ink...

and attached to the pages using Matte Medium. 

I added wordy Stickers for the sentiment...

And added a few splatters of fossilized amber and Picked Raspberry Distress Spritz. 

Here are the finished pages again. 

I used:

A 5x5" notebook

Distress inks -I used Vintage Photo, Bundled Sage and Victorian Velvet

Brayer 

Background Crackle stamp

Background Script Stamp

Roman Numerals (Discontinued)

Bee Crafty Dinkables Set #2

A stitch in Time Stamp

Versafine Clair Portobello ink

Wordy Stickers 1B

Distress Spritz - I used Fossilized Amber and Picked Raspberry

Don't forget, if you find yourself on the Bee Crafty Website from my blog post, you can get yourself an extra 10% off by using my discount code! Just pop BEESALLY10 in at the checkout x

There will be a brand new challenge on the Bee Crafty Facebook Group on Saturday, so please check it out. 

Thanks for looking! 

Happy New Year!

 

Hi There! I often spend some time between Christmas and new year tidying my desk, and putting all the christmas stamps back in their folders so I can find them again (I have in the past lost things at this time of year). Once the desk space was clear I decided to do a little bit if journaling to welcome in 2025. I don't do new years resolutions, but I do like to choose myself a word or two to focus on with a positive mindset. How about you? What do you do?

I began by blending distress oxides across the pages. I used Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Mermaid Lagoon and Wilted Violet. 

Next, I placed the mandala inkables onto the page and blended Black Soot Distress Oxide through them. I was thinking of using the same inkable twice, but changed my mind and used a different one as you will see in the next photo. 

Using an inkables skyline I added more Black Soot Distress oxide along the bottom of the page. 

I then added a few light sprays of Distress spritz in Fossilized Amber, Worn Lipstick and weathered wood. 

On a scrap of white card, I stamped the big numbers 2025 in Charming Pink Versafine Clair and cut them out. 

Finally I added these to the page along with sone wordy stickers using matte medium.

Here is the finished (?) page again. I may well add some white pen before I put it away😂

I used:

Mandala Inkables  - I used 4 and 7 

Skyline Inkable

A square 5 inch journal 

Distress Oxide inks in Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Mermaid Lagoon, Wilted Violet and Black Soot. 

Bee Crafty Art Stamps Numbers

Distress Spritz 

Wordy Stickers #2

Matte Medium

Thanks for looking and I hope 2025 bring you joy and opportunities!  I also hope you can treat yourself to something from the Bee Crafty Twixmas sale which ends on 5th January! 

Pop-up Pumpkin Journal Page

 

Hi There! I've managed to do a bit more craft wise this week and it was great to get my journal out for a good play. Here's what I did.

I began by blending some distress oxide inks over the innie of the 4" oak easy frame inkable around a double page.

Next I stamped several different mixed leaves using a variety of autumn colours.

Using the script background stamp without a block I added some stamping in vintage photo distress ink. I also added some dots and lines from the pumpkin stamp set. 

I cut the sentiment from the transparency sheet and stuck it to the page using matte medium. 

On  a separate piece of watercolour card I stamped the pumpkins in versafine Clair ink and coloured them using ecoline pens. I cut them out and left to dry.

I folded the biggest pumpkin roughly in half, then equally distant each side of the centre fold, I added two more folds. I used a bone folder to burnish these and made sure the centre fold was a mountain and the two side folds were valley folds. Next I added a little matte medium to the outer edges beyond the outer folds. Making sure the journal page is completely flat, I lined up the centre fold with the centre fold of the journal and stuck that down flat to the page (just with the matte medium already applied) 

Once this was dry, I made sure the pumpkin centre fold popped out as the pages were closed.

Here's the finished page again. 

I used:

4" Oak easy frame inkable

Mixed leaves Art stamps

Doodle Art Pumpkin stamp set

Script Background stamp

Bee Crafty Transparencies - Autumn/Winter words

Distress oxide inks in Mustard Seed, Vintage Photo and Aged Mahogany

Distress inks in Fired Brick, Crushed Olive and Vintage Photo

Ecoline pens 

Versafine Clair Nocturne ink

12x12cm notebook

Watercolour paper

Matte medium

The wrist is progressing nicely and my lovely friend Jane has helped me by finishing the design on my cast, using sharpies and one of the mandala inkables. I'm able to do a lot more than I could as you can see from my pages above. All being well it will be cast free before the end of the month. 

Thanks for looking! 

Bloom and Grow

 

Hi There! Thought I would share how I put together this quick mini journal page with you using the new Catalyst cards and stamps from Bee Crafty. 

I began by cutting a piece of catalyst card to fit the page of my 5x5 journal. I rounded the corners to match the page. 

Next I used the innie leaf mask from dinkables set 14 and some picked Raspberry Distress oxide to add a leaf. 

On a scrap of white card I used versafine Clair ink to stamp the small gerbera and leaves from journaling essentials #2 before cutting them out. I used coloured pencils to colour the gerbera.

I also stamped the sentiment from the gerbera set and added a faux stitched line with a gelly roll moonlight pen. 

Finally I added all the elements into the journal and stuck them using Matte Medium

Here's the spread with the page I completed for 7th August's blog post. 

I used: 

Bee Crafty Catalyst Cards #2 A5 full colour

Bee Crafty Dinkables set 14 

Journaling Essentials #2 stamp set

Doodle Art Gerbera stamp set

Versafine Clair ink in Verdant, charming pink, Nocturne and Green Oasis

Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide

5x5" notebook/ journal

All of the new stamps, papers and transparencies can be found here.

Thanks for looking! 

New Year, New Journal

 

Hi There! Thought I would share my first completed page in my new journal today. It's a Dylusions mini journal, although this page would work equally well in any A5 notebook or sketchbook

I began by adding random patches of magenta and ocean acrylic paint to a double page. I used some Dina Wakley paints that need using up, but Dylusions paints in Blue Hawaiian and Bubblegum pink would give a similar effect. Where the paints mix they are a fabulous purple colour. I purposefully left the top left corner colour free as a place to put the sentiment.

I taped the chrysanthemum 6x6 inkable in the bottom right corner and added black gesso through it with a stencil brush. I removed the inkable carefully and left the page to dry.

Next I added a stem to the chrysanthemum, using a black sharpie pen and painted the top left corner with white gesso. I extended this gesso very lightly across the pink and blue areas and left to dry. 

Once the paint was completely dry I used wilted violet distress oxide through the circles D'inkable over the paler areas.

I used distress oxide inks to stamp some of the Doodle Art mandalas over the background. 

whilst the stamping dried I stamped two of the sentiments from mixed messages #1 onto a scrap of thin card using versafine clair inks and cut them out

I added these to the page using matte medium and added a little texture paste through the small dots D'inkable. 

Here is the finished page once more...

and here is a close up to show the stamping and texture. 

I used:

Dylusions mini journal

Acrylic paint 

6x6 inkable - Chrysanthemum

Black gesso

White gesso

Dinkables sets 2 and 3

Doodle Art Mandalas sets 1 and 2

Distress oxide inks in Tumbled Glass. Salty Ocean, Shaded Lilac and Wilted violet

Mixed messages set 1

Versafine clair ink in Monarch and Fantasia

Matte Medium

Texture paste

It was really lovely to just play in my journal and make a good start on this new one that has been lying here since I finished the previous one back in September. I will be live on the Bee Crafty facebook page tonight at 8pm. Hope you can join me!

Thanks for looking!