Bee-lieve Textured tag

 

                                       

Hi There! I am here to share a step by step for this textured tag.

I began by using the tag dies to cut a mixed media card tag and a kraft backing piece for it.

I used one of the latest dinkables to apply crackle paste to the tag and left to dry. 

Next I sprayed the tag with distress oxide sprays in carved pumpkin and peacock feathers. I also dripped a little peacock feathers onto the textured surface and splattered with water and left to dry.

Using walnut stain Distress oxide I stamped the border down the two edges.

On a separate piece of card I stamped the Bees in Black Versafine Clair ink.

I cut them out and coloured the bees with coloured pencils. 

I also stamped and cut out the Bee-lieve sentiment.

Using matte medium I assembled it all.

Here is the finished tag again.

I used:

Bee Crafty Cutting Dies - tags

crackle paste

Dinkables set 12

Distress oxide sprays in Peacock Feathers and Carved Pumpkin

Walnut stain Distress oxide ink

Bee Crafty Freehand Borders #2 stamps

Bee Mine stamps

Black versafine clair ink

coloured pencils

Matte medium

Don't forget we have a monthly challenge over in the Bee Crafty Stamps facebook group.

You can also book a place on my Bee Crafty Workshop over on the website. The Live Workshop will be available from 30th September indefinitely, so if you can't make it on the day you will be able to watch it as many times as you like after the event.  

Thanks for looking! 

Lilies journal page

 

Hi There! I have just finished the last page in my journal, so I thought I would show you what I did with it.

I began by masking off the page to the left and spraying it with a selection of distress oxide sprays, once it was dry I removed the masking tape and sheet of paper

I fastened the Big one inkable to the page using bulldog clips and added distress crackle paste through the inkable. The inkable will need to be cleaned before the crackle paste dries. 

once it was dry, I added some drops of brushed corduroy distress oxide spray and tarnished brass distress stain to the crackle paste, then left it to dry again. 

I used the script background stamp without a skinny slim to add some vintage photo distress oxide ink around the lilies. 

Next I used the same ink through a tag inkable from set 1 with a blending brush. 

On a snippet of kraft card I stamped the sentiment from mixed messages 2, then cut it out. 

I added this to the page using matte medium and added a few splatters of white Dina Wakely gloss spray.

I used

Dylusions mini journal

Distress oxide sprays in peacock feathers, salvaged patina, twisted citron, speckled egg and Brushed corduroy. 

Inkable big one Lily

Tag inkables set 1

Script background stamp

Mixed messages 2 stamp set

Vintage photo distress oxide ink

Versafine Clair Pinecone ink

scrap of kraft card

Crackle paste

Matte Medium

I will be having a go at decorating the cover tomorrow evening over on the Bee crafty Facebook page. 

On 30th September I will be teaching an online workshop using Bee Crafty products. This is in a private facebook group and can be viewed after the event as many times as you need it. Here's a little teaser

Follow this link to the website for more details

Thanks for looking! 

Dragonfly dreams journal spread

Hi there! I've been enjoying myself in my journal again. I thought I would show you how this page came about. 

I started off by tearing some strips of tissue from my soak up sheets that I put in place when I use sprays on things. These have been sprayed with distress oxide and gloss sprays.

I then stuck some of the strips into my Dylusions journal with matte medium and left to dry

Next I sprayed a little distress oxide ink in the white spaces and again left to dry

I added some stencilling using the circle dinkables and blending brushes. There was enough residual ink on my brushes without reinking them.

I stamped the ledger stamp in Peacock Feathers distress oxide ink randomly around the page.

I stamped the smaller coffee rings in frayed burlap distress oxide ink then left it to dry.

I used memento Espresso Truffle ink to stamp the Elder flowers and the numbers from the coffee stains set.  

Next I stamped the dragonfly onto a scrap of watercolour paper in versafine clair ink.

I coloured it using ecoline pens, the wings using pastel blue, rose, violet and yellow, then I coloured the body with a turquoise green. I cut out the dragonfly, cutting off legs and antennae.

I used the memento ink to stamp the dragonfly direct to the journal page where I wanted it to go and left it to dry.

Finally, I used matte medium to adhere the dragonfly and the sentiment (from the dina wakely collage papers) into place.

Here is another look at the finished page.

 

I used:

Mini Dylusions journal

Distress oxide sprays in Salvaged Patina, Wild honey and Salty Ocean

Dinkable circle lattice 

Dinkable Circles

Ledger inkwell stamps

Coffee stain stamps

Elder stamps

Dragonfly stamps

Distress oxide inks in Peacock Feathers and Frayed Burlap

Versafine Clair black ink

Memento Espresso Truffle ink

Ecoline pens

Dina Wakely collage papers - Backgrounds

Matte Medium

Tissue paper

Thanks for looking and Happy Crafting! 

Guest Brand Ambassador for Uniko

Hi there! I completely forgot that I had another Mixed media Monday slot this week for Uniko. I did a journal spread and a card. 

If you like the look of the sneaky Peeks here, then head over to the Uniko blog to see them in full glory by clicking on this link:
 http://unikostudio.blogspot.com/2021/07/mixed-media-monday-guest-brand.html

There are also new stamps and stencils in the Uniko shop 

Thanks for looking! 

A shimmery tree for Bee Crafty

 

Hi there! I had so much fun making this tree card I thought I'd do a step by step tutorial for it today.

I used 

A blank 15x15cm ivory card

A 14.5 square piece of watercolour card

Speckled Egg Distress Oxide spray

Peeled Paint Distress oxide ink

Inkables Skylines Horizon 1

Beau-tanicals -Large branch and tree set

Versafine Clair Pinecone ink

Easy frame circle inkable 

mister

Pretty Gets Gritty Explosion Powders in Mars, Mermaid and Atlas

Everyday Sentiments 1 

Doodle Art Dragonfly XL stamps 

liquid glaze or glitter glue

I began by using the skyline inkable and peeled paint ink to make the foreground.

 Next I lightly sprayed the top part of the card with the speckled egg spray. In retrospect I should probably have done the spray first and the blending second as I needed to wipe away a few spots of ink from the green area.

Next I stamped the tree in the centre with the waterproof ink. Versafine, Versafine Clair and Archival are all suitable for this.

I place the circle inkable over the branches of the tree and used the mister to spray lightly with water.

I then sprinkled with the explosion powders

When this was dry I added a sentiment bottom right and edged the panel with more brown ink.

I attached it to the base card, but it didn't seem quite finished, so I looked through my doodle art stamps and found the hearts on the Doodle Art dragonfly set. I stamped them top right and used a translucent red glaze on them.

Here is the card....

and a final look at the shimmer from those explosion powders...

Thanks for looking! 

Grungy Dragonfly Greetings!

 Hi there! I am here with another step by step for a card using the latest Dragonfly stamps from Bee Crafty (I just can't put them down!) It is a bit of a long one, so you might want a cuppa before you start reading! 

I thought I would use up some of the tissue paper I had under my spraying when I was using my oxide sprays to create a background. 

Here are the other things I used: 

Dragonfly stamps and coordinating dies

Coffee stain stamps

Circle easy frame inkable

Splatter D'inkable

Distress collage matte medium

Scraps of torn book paper and music paper

Pretty Gets Gritty explosions powder in Atlas

Dylusions dirty martini spray

Distress oxide spray in Brushed Corduroy 

Distress oxide inks in Peacock Feathers and Walnut stain

Fallen leaves Versafine Clair ink

mini mister

6x6 ivory card

Mixed media card

first I started by tearing the tissue, book page and music paper into strips

I stuck it to a 5inch square of mixed media paper with the matte medium. The sprays I'd used were water based so the colour spread a little with the coat of matte medium over it.

once this was dry I added a bit of the explosion powder to the mini mister with some water and sprayed it onto the collaged piece. My thinking was that it would add a little sparkle and I could remind you of the facebook group challenge theme for this month 😉

When it had dried I trimmed the overhang from the edges. Next I placed the innie from the circle stencil over the centre and sprayed with the distress oxide spray

Lift it carefully and you can use this on a blank card like a stamp for another day (everyone loves a twofer!) Both were dried off with a little gentle help from a heat gun.

I used the distress oxides to stamp the coffee stains and numbers around the edges .

Next I used the splatter dinkable and the same inks to add a border to the base card. I also sprayed it with a bit of the left over explosion powder spray. 

I layered it with some coordinating card and stuck the collage panel to the card.

I stamped and die cut the largest dragonfly and the circle using the versafine clair ink

I sprayed it using the explosion powder spray and a little dylusions dirty martini spray

then attached both to the base card with 3d glue/ gel medium.

I just love the contrast of the explosion powders sparkle against the lovely chalkiness of the oxide spray. It's quite hard to capture it in the photos.  

Thanks for looking and I hope you like it. Apologies if I have missed a few of your posts in blog land recently. Thanks for all the lovely comments x