Bee Crafty Samples for the Craft Store

 Hi There! Did you see Bee Crafty's Bev on the Craft Store last week with the new tag inkables?  They are sooooo cool! I have loved playing with them and still have them out on my desk! Here are the samples I made.  First up is a card where I used them to emboss through using speckled egg embossing glaze.

Next I used them to add distress oxide ink to a smooshed background...

And here I used them to add texture paste then dry brushed dylusions shimmer paint over them and the pop out mdf elements. 

 I also used them to add texture paste once more to an mdf arch plaque.

For the cover of this notebook I used them over a gelli print. 

As well as the samples above I made a bag using calico.  I painted the fabric with gesso and Dylusions paint, stencilling and stamping it with the products that were on the show. 

I also used gelli print papers to create this mini book featuring the Dragonfly stamps

You can find the Tag inkables here

The bird and butterfly regular stamps are here

The bird and butterfly XL stamps are here

The dragonfly stamps are here

The coffee stain stamps are here

The stitch border stamps are here

The big number stamps are here

The ledger stamp, inkwell and nibs are here

Dies for birds and butterflies can be found here

Dies for the dragonfly set can be found here

MDF artboards etc can be found here

Pop-out MDF can be found here

Dylusions paint is here

As Bev and Sam had been so busy with the show, I did their Try it out Tuesday facebook Live and made a concertina tag book and tag backgrounds using the new inkables and tag dies. I finished them off using some Doodle Art stamps

You can find the Facebook Live here 

Thanks for looking! 

A shiny sunflower tag and a sneaky peek!

 

Hi There! Like many of you I loved the look of the dylusions shimmer paints that Bev and Sam showcased in their facebook lives this week and had to have them! Mine arrived on Friday, so I decided I would use them on a tag for this week's blog post. 

This is what I used:

Size 8 Tag

Dylusions shimmer paints in Calypso Teal, Pure Sunshine and Fresh Lime

Regular Doodle Art Sunflower stamp set

Small Words

Archival black ink (You could use memento black)

Versafine black ink 

Memento ink (I used olive grove and bahama blue)

Watercolour card

Ecoline pens

Collage medium

gelly roll pens

glossy accents

Versamark ink

white embossing powder

black card

Here is how I made it. First I painted the tag using the shimmer paint. I mopped up the paint on my glass mat with another piece of card that will make a great background for another card too. 

Once the paint was dry, I stamped the sunflower in Archival ink  (I could have used memento) onto the painted surface, then stamped the sunflower again onto the watercolour card. Both archival and Versafine would be fine for the watercolour card.

I coloured the sunflower on the watercolour card with my ecoline pens.

Next I used memento ink to stamp a border and some spots around the sunflower on the painted tag. 

I cut out the coloured sunflower and stuck it to the painted tag using collage medium.

Next I added a few extra highlights with gelly roll pens and a white pen. I also stamped the little leaf 4 times in black where the border  joins were, and coloured with the green gelly roll pen.

I added some spots of glossy accents on the centre of the sunflower. 

Whilst this dried, I stamped the sentiment in versamark ink, then heat embossed in white onto a scrap of black card.

Finally I added the sentiment and some matching braid to the tag, matting it onto more black card. 

I hope you will be able to tune in to The Craft Store tomorrow at 1pm as Bev and Sam will be there with some brand new stamps, dies and inkables, as well as fab mdf basics and popouts. Here is a little sneaky peek at one of my samples! I will be sharing them all next week.

Thanks for looking! I will be back tomorrow with my Digi from Dora and some photos x

dragonflies

Here is another lolly stick plaque, painted with Acrylic paints and stamped with Hobby art stamps. I used memento inks to stamp this one and added a few drops of liquid pearls. I also used Glossy Accents on the wings of the dragonflies.
Thanks for looking! 

A Wedding

Yesterday my lovely niece was married. She is an ecologist and a bit of an expert on Dragonflies. I knew straight away which stamps to use when I started making her a card. The Hobby Art dragonflies were coloured with zig cleancolor markers and I added a little gelly roll sparkle pen and glossy accents to the eyes. When the eyes were dry I painted over the dragonflies with glossy slap-it-on from Indigo Blu. The reason I went for the two products is that they have different levels of shine. The background was created with ink dusters and then stamped with hobby Art wildflowers and dotted with white and stardust gel pens.

Here is a close-up of those eyes and the detail of the wings.
And here are a few photos from the big day...

Thanks for looking and please leave some love on my mid month inspiration post from yesterday too!

(Anyone would think I was on holiday - two posts in two days, lol)