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! 

My samples from the May 24 release for Bee Crafty

 

Hi There! I am here today with my samples from the new stamps, D'inkables, Catalyst cards,  transparencies mdf and wordy stickers launched yesterday on facebook.  

The first two cards feature the greyscale catalyst cards and the birds from Journaling Essentials #6. It is so easy to add a pop of colour to the greyscale cards using either ink or the coloured papers. 

Both of the new stamp sets are so gorgeous! The bold silhouette stamps are great for inking up in more than one colour, and the outline stamps are great for colouring in using your favourite mediums. They can be teamed up with the catalyst cards or your own inky backgrounds. 

The wordy stickers are great as sentiments for cards or journal pages.

For this inky background I used some of the new dinkables

If you look closely at the background of this card you can see the leaf stamped in the smaller size found on the Journaling Essentials #2 stamp set. 

The leaf outline stickers are great for embossing like the white on black I did here. 

Both of these cards were made using the transparencies that come in a larger size than the stamps. Again they look great against the catalyst cards or your own inky background. 

I used several of the new d'inkables and also some of the worker stamps in this inky background. 

Finally, here is my first attempt using the book binding kit. It is a really fabulous kit and I can see myself making lots of them! 

The Catalyst cards are the perfect size to add to the cover and the book can be stitched to hold the pages, or elastic added so the pages are removeable. 

All of the products in the May release can currently be found by following this link to the website.

Bee Crafty May 2024 Release

Thanks for looking! 

Making Rainbows

 

Hi There! After seeing Alison's stunning clean and simple card on 1st October, I had in my mind that I would like to do something similar, but in reverse. I created this card at the weekend with that in mind. 

Here is a step by step to make it. 

I began by blending a rainbow of distress inks partially across the page using blending brushes.

Once this was dry, I wiped an antistatic pad across it and stamped and embossed the pointy leaves in white.

In the spaces in between, I stamped and embossed the rounded leaves in gold embossing powder.

using the small stamp that looks like a dandelion seed, I added more stamping around the edges in the same colour inks that I had used to blend the background. 

On a separate piece of white card I stamped the sentiment in black versafine clair and cut it out.  

I mounted the panel of card onto a 6x6" card blank and added the sentiment using foam pads. 

Here is the finished card again.

I used:

Journaling essentials 2 stamps

Ticker tape 1 stamps

Distress inks in Lumberjack Plaid, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron and Peacock Feathers

Versamark ink

Embossing powder in white and gold

foam pads 

Versafine Clair black ink

6x6 card blank

white card 5.5" square

Thanks for looking! 

Autumn Leaves and a sneaky peek!

Hi there! I am here with a step by step for a simple Autumnal card for Bee Crafty. 

Here is how I made it:

I began by making a border on an ivory card using masking/ stencil tape. 

I then blended distress oxide inks in autumnal colours into the centre and left to dry completely.

After a dust with an anti-static bag I stamped the leaves from the Doodle Art dragonfly set at each corner in versamark and sprinkled over gold embossing powder. The leaves in this set were originally joined together but I have cut them apart carefully with scissors. Next I removed the masking tape carefully.

I heated the embossing powder then stamped the smaller leaf 4 times in the centre and added  embossing powder before heating again.

Using the border stamp from the same stamp set I stamped it centrally on each side of the square in tea dye distress ink

I used a gold gellyroll pen to add a doodled border to each corner and also sprinkled a few drops of water onto the distress oxide ink panel. 

here is the finished card...

...and a closer look at that gold embossing. Don't forget to enter your Autumn colour creations in the October challenge album over on the Bee Crafty Facebook group! 

Here is a list of what I used:

6x6 ivory card

Masking/stencil tape

Distress oxide ink in Crackling Campfire, Wild Honey and Peeled Paint

Distress ink in Tea dye

Regular Doodle Art dragonfly stamp set

versamark ink

Gold detail embossing powder

Anti static bag

gold gelly roll pen

Before I go, here is a sneaky peak of one of the new stamp sets that Bee Crafty are launching on Facebook tomorrow. There will be facebook lives, videos, giveaways and bargains throughout the day, including a facebook live from me at 6pm. Visit the Bee Crafty Facebook page for details! 

I hope you can join in the fun! 

Thanks for looking and Happy Crafting! 

A leafy Tag and a Sneaky Peek for Bee Crafty

 Good Morning! I am here with a step by step leafy tag using the gorgeous stamps and matching stencils in the Bee Crafty Beautanical range.

I used

Tag Dies

The maple leaf set

The Nettle leaf set 

The oak leaf set

Easy frame inkable 4" maple, nettle and oak leaf

Distress oxide inks in Fired brick, Frayed burlap, Fossilized Amber and Peeled paint

Versafine black ink and clear embossing powder

First I cut the tag from white card and the back layer  from black card.

Next I used the inkables to sponge leaf outlines in autumn colours to the tag.

I stamped over the stencilling with the corresponding leaf stamps also using the distress oxide inks before drying thoroughly with a heat gun.

Next I stamped and clear embossed the sentiment from the Maple leaf set before attaching to the black layer and adding some coordinating yarn.

Hope you like it! 

Whilst I am here, Bev and Sam are off to Hochanda tomorrow for a fab show at 10am. Here are a couple of sneaky peeks of the delightful winter journalling girls. I do hope you can watch!

Thanks for looking!

A quick and simple card for Bee Crafty

Hi there! It's my turn to be on the Bee Crafty blog again today. I made a very quick card. Here is a quick 'how to':

You will need a 6 x 6" card blank, Black versafine or versafine Clair, distress oxides in twisted citron and peeled paint (or two other shades of green), 6" Easy frame inkable nettle leaf, the nettle leaf stamp set, a sentiment - I used Time

First I sponged twisted citron distress oxide around the 'inny' mask from the stencil.

Next I inked up the smaller of the nettle leaves with Peeled paint distress oxide and stamped randomly around the edge of the card, staying out of the area that had been covered by the leaf mask.

Finally I inked up the sentiment with black versafine clair ink, and stamped it across the central leaf shape.

That simple and it is done!

Thanks for looking!