Wildflower Silhouettes for Bee Crafty

Hello!

This week on the Bee Crafty blog I am sharing a fairly simple card created to show the beauty of the silhouette stamps...

I started by using a glossy card stock to create an alcohol ink background.  The colours were added one at a time along with blending solution and blown around, I did this with a keyboard cleaner puffer (*it is important not to use a straw to do this as this increases the risk of inhalation of the alcohol ink fumes, also the blending solution should not be spritzed/sprayed from a bottle due to the added resins in the product*).  Once the colours were as I wanted and most of the ink was dry I  theadded gold foil to the tacky areas...

The card was cut down to a 4" square and then I stamped the Wildflower 1 using versamark ink before heat embossing with black powder.  You do need to be careful heating glossy card as it can bubble, so I made sure my heat tool was well heated up before starting then kept my tool moving over the whole area until the powder started melting so that when it was aimed directly it was for the minimum time possible.

The Everyday Sentiments 1 was used on a spare piece of the background and then all pieces matted onto black before being added to a 5" square card base...

Here are the products used:

* Beautanicals - Wildflower 1
* Wordage - Everyday Sentiments 1
* Alcohol Inks & Blending Solution

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx

Black and White Doodle Art for Bee Crafty

Hello!

This week on the Bee Crafty blog I am sharing some cards that I made to use up the doodle art images that I stamped and cut out for last weeks project...

I started by creating a background on a piece of A4 watercolour card using Brusho powders.  I wanted it to be quite blended so added lots of water and tipped the colours around to run them together...

Next I used the Fernando large inkable stencil with distress inks in similar colours to the background.  After stenciling through I also spritzed the stencil and printed off the excess onto the card...

To add some lighter elements I used white gesso through the Metal Alpha d'inkable.  The white gesso also took on some of the colour below which I wanted rather than a bright white...

After the stencils I needed some stamping to complete the texture.  I started by using the Texture Circles with the same distress inks already used, then to add contrast I used one of the Texture Borders with black archival ink...

To create my cards I cut the sheet into pieces each measuring 4" square and matted them onto black card...

I then selected the pieces stamped out from last week and decided to leave them in black and white as this made them stand out against the background.  I chose some general sentiments from the Everyday Sentiment sets so that I can add these cards to my emergency card collection and heat embossed them in white powder onto black...

Here are the products I used:

* Inkables Big Ones - Fernando
* D'inkables - Metal Alpha
* Background, Textures and Borders - Texture Circles
* Background, Textures and Borders - Texture Borders
* Wordage - Everyday Sentiments 1
* Wordage - Everyday Sentiments 2
* Doodle Art Stamps - Various
* Distress Ink Pads

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx

Crackle Woodland Plaque for Bee Crafty

Hello!

Today on the Buzzy Goings on at Bee Crafty blog I decided to combine different stamps from a selection of Doodle Art sets to use on a paper mache plaque that I found in my crafty stash.  It was one that I had already added crackle mediums to so I went for a woodland type of theme...

This is how my plaque looked when I rediscovered it with the crackle...

As the crackle seemed to me to have a bit of a wood look about it I sprayed it with a range of brown inks...

Once I was at this stage I considered whether to add any background stamping or stenciling, but I decided that I wanted the stamps to be the main focus so got out my Doodle Art sets and stamped a variety of images using memento black ink, which I then cut out...

I then chose which of these I wanted on the plaque before colouring them with alcohol markers and adhering them using glue gel for a bit of extra dimension...

Here are the stamp sets I used:

* Doodle Art - Sunflower (XL)
* Doodle Art - Bird #1 (regular)
* Doodle Art - Butterfly #1 (reguar)
* Doodle Art - Mushrooms (regular)
* Doodle Art - Mushrooms (XL)
* Doodle Art - Dragonfly #1 (regular)
* Wordage - Small Words

I still have quite a few images left over to use on other projects which I may do for next week.

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx

'Winter Blues Journal Page' for Bee Crafty

Hello and Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a Christmas and new year that was good to you and are all prepared for 2020.

To start the new year, over on the Bee Crafty Facebook group a new monthly challenge has started and for this first month I have created a mood board to hopefully inspire you to use some of your Bee Crafty products and enter some of your creations.  To find out more you can visit the group here...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1511225329105390/?ref=bookmarks

Here is the project I made using inspiration from the mood board...

I have made a video showing how I created my page which you can watch here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw2T2p_1_fI

I wanted to incorporate all the different elements into my page but as I love snowflakes this was to be my main feature.
First to create my icy crackle I used crackle paint, paste and also a stamp...

The blues were applied using a variety of different mediums: chalk paint; pigment sticks; acrylic ink.

For background interest I used a snowflake inkable as well as the d'inkable with paint before adding extra elements with the doodle art snowflake set...

Next I used the 4" circle easy frame to add shapes using an inktense pencil then used the branch stamp with archival ink.

After applying some more acrylic ink the focal point was created using the main stamp from the snowflake set again along with a word stamp...

Here are the products that I used:

* Backdrop, textures and borders - Crackle Paint
* Yuletide - Doodle Art Snowflake Set 
* Wordage - Imagine
* Beautanicals - Large Branch and Tree set
* Inkable - Snowflake 2
* D'inkable - Snowflakes
* Easy Frames - 4" Circle
* Archival Distress Inkpads

Thank you for looking and I look forward to seeing some of your creations over in the group.

Happy crafting!

Jane xx