More Collage Backgrounds

Hi there! The theme for our Bee Crafty Facebook challenge this month is Collage, so I made another card with a collage background. This one is more precisely cut with strips of paper the same width but different colours.

I began by arranging the strips diagonally over a 4.5 inch square of card. I stuck them down using matte medium. 

When this was dry I trimmed the ends to make it square again. 

I used black soot distress oxide ink to add some circles through the inkable big one. 

I also added some texture paste through the dots dinkable. 

Next I stamped the largest mandala from Doodle art Mandalas set #1 in Black Versafine Clair Ink.

I cut out the centre and coloured it using ecoline pens

on a scrap of black card I stamped the sentiment from small words in Versamark ink and embossed it using fine detail white embossing powder. I cut this into a banner shape.

Finally, I added the mandalas to the centre of the background using 3d glue gel. I mounted this onto a 5inch square card, adding the sentiment and some gold liquid pearls to finish.

Here's a close up of the centre. 

I used:

5inch square white card

4.5inch square of card

Strips of card in coordinating colours

Matte medium

Distress oxide ink in black soot

Big ones inkable - Circles for circles

Dinkables set 2

Texture paste - opaque matte

Doodle Art Mandalas set 1 stamp set

Ecoline pens

Versafine Clair Nocturne

3d glue gel

Wordage  - small words stamp set

Versamark ink

Black card 

Detail white embossing powder

Gold Pearl liquid Pearls

 

Thanks for looking and I hope you get chance to enter the challenge! 

Glad you are here journal pages

 

Hi There! thought I would show you how I made these journal pages for my blog post today. 

I began by spreading dylusions paint with my fingers over the two pages.

I gave it a little dry with a heat tool then sponged through a couple of tag inkables using white gesso

I set this aside then stamped the doodle Art mandalas onto stamping tissue using Monarch versafine clair ink. I cut them out and added them to the page using Matte Medium

Next I mixed a little gold mica powder with some water on a piece of acetate and smooshed and blobbed it onto the page, leaving it to dry. 

I stamped the doodle art dragonfly twice on to stamping tissue and twice onto some mixed media paper. I cut them all out and coloured the mixed media paper ones using pencil crayons.

I stamped the mixed messages sentiment onto stamping tissue and cut it out

Back in the journal I stamped a few of the worker stamps from the dragonfly set using embossing ink, then heat embossed with detail gold powder.

Finally I added the sentiment and dragonflies to the page, positioning the coloured dragonflies over the tissue ones to replace the legs and dots I cut off when I cut them out.

Here is the finished page once more.

I used:

Dylusions mini journal

Dylusions paints in Blue lagoon, laidback lilac and peony blush

White gesso

Tag inkables set 1 and 3

Doodle art Mandalas set 2

Gold mica powder

Doodle Art Dragonfly

Stamping tissue

Versafine clair in Monarch and Nocturne

Embossing ink

Detail gold embossing powder

Matte Medium

I will be live over on the Bee Crafty Facebook page at 8pm tomorrow, so I hope you will join me.

Thanks for looking!

Mandala medley

Hi There! I thought I would show you how I made this colourful mandala card. 

On a 14x14cm square of card I stamped a medium sized mandala stamp 3 times overhanging the edges and clear embossed (The embossing isn't necessary if you want to speed up the process.)

Next I stamped the mandalas I had chosen to use on to a stamp and mask sheet and cut them out

I used the masks to cover the mandalas I had already stamped and then stamped over them until the whole of the piece of card was covered in mandalas. If you are embossing it is worth adding the embossing powder after stamping each 2 or 3 mandalas and heat embossing as you go.

if not embossing it is worth heat setting the ink with a little waft of the heat tool at this point. 

next I used the distress inks to paint the mandalas 

whilst this dried I stamped and embossed a sentiment in white on black card and cut it out

I used a pale grey ecoline to add a little shadow around the edges of a few of the circles, and covered a few less than perfect bits of stamping with a sequin or three. I added the sentiment on sticky pads and mounted it on to a card blank. 

Here is the finished card again. 

I used:

14x14cm square of card

Doodle art mandala stamps set 1

Doodle art mandala stamps set 2

Stamp and Mask sheets 

Ticker tape wordage stamps set 4

Distress inks in Peacock feathers, Fossilized Amber, Crackling Campfire and Uncharted Mariner 

Grey ecoline pen

15x15cm card blank

black card for matting and layering and adding a sentiment 

Versafine Clair black ink

Versamark embossing ink

Clear embossing powder if required

On Wednesday evening I completed another page in my Grafix media journal, this time on black Duralar. You can see the live here

Thanks for looking! 

A sunflower card

 

Hi There! Today I thought I would show you how I made this single layer card.

I began by using the 4" Sunflower easy frame inkable, blending  distress oxide ink around it. 

Next I popped the innie inkable in and blended a little vintage photo distress oxide ink through the petals.

I then stamped the Doodle Art mandala in the centre using brown versafine clair ink.

I coloured the mandala with ecoline pens, but then I felt the petals weren't quite prominent enough... 

so I took a brown fine liner and outlined the petals in the style of Bev.

I placed the innie over the sunflower and added twisted citron distress ink through the fernando big one inkable.

I stamped a small border stamp (this one is from the regular Doodle Art sunflower set) and added some liquid pearls to the mandala and the border.

finally I added a sentiment from the small words set.

Here is my finished card. 

I used:

5x5" card blank

4" Sunflower Easy frame 

Distress oxide ink in Mustard Seed, Wild Honey and Vintage photo

Distress ink in Twisted Citron

Doodle Art Mandala #2 stamp set

Ecoline pens

Versafine clair brown ink

Doodle art regular sunflower stamp set

Fernando Big One Inkable

liquid pearls

Crafting is minimal for me at the moment, but the craft room renovations are progressing nicely. Here are a few photos from this week. 

3 days for the plaster to dry out then the painting can begin. I will be doing a little live for Bee Crafty on Wednesday evening at 8pm on their facebook page if you fancy joining me.

Thanks for looking!

A Dreamy tag

 Hi There! Thought I would show you how I made this mixed media tag today. 

I began by Gessoing an MDF tag.

Next I added some Distress matte texture paste through a texture disc. Alongside I smoothed on a thin layer of the crackle texture paste too.

Once this was dry I sprinkled liberally with Atlas and Elf explosion powder and spritzed with water, before setting it aside to dry.

On a piece of mixed media card I stamped and gold embossed the mandala 3 times, cutting out layers on each one. 

I used ecolines and a waterbrush to colour the layers

Once these were dry I layered them with ultra thick gel medium onto the tag.

I brushed a little Gilt paint around the edge of the tag and added a ribbon, a gem in the centre of the mandala and a sentiment. 

And here is a close up of that texture! 

I used:

MDF Victorian Tag

Distress texture paste - matte

Distress texture paste - crackle

Elf and Atlas Explosion powders

Texture disc

Doodle Art Mandala stamps set 1

Gold embossing powder

Ecoline pens

Ultra thick gel medium

Handwritten words 2 Stamp Set

Dina Wakely Gilt paint

Thanks for looking!