Doodle Art Book Cover for Bee Crafty

Hello!

As the weather here at the moment is very spring like I was in the mood for a bright and happy project this week!

I have been watching lots of crafty videos in the past few weeks, and the other day was reminded during one by Dina Wakley of a book you can make using one sheet of paper (there will be videos/tutorials available in various places online if you want further details).  This made me want to create my own, but I didn't want a tiny book so used a sheet of A3 mixed media card.

Once I had folded it into the correct shape I used media tape to seal up some of the sides but left some tops open for tags to fit into and added smaller tags inside to create pockets. 

Then I created my bright and happy cover...

I started by spraying the cover with turquoise gloss spray from Dina Wakley, then with lime green through the Fernando big inkable.  Once this was dry I used the same stencil again but this time with white crackle paste...

Then I stamped out images from some of the doodle art stamps: Regular Sunflower; Regular Butterfly; Regular Bee.  These were cut out and coloured using watercolour pens.  I covered the flowers with glossy accents and added a few gold micro beads whilst the glaze was still tacky...

I left them to thoroughly dry overnight then the next day added them to the cover using glue gel.

Finally I stamped out one of the phrases on the Small Words stamp set and inked around the edges before adding to the cover as well...

Here are links to the products I used:

* Doodle Art Stamps - Sunflower Regular
* Doodle Art Stamps - Butterfly Regular
* Doodle Art Stamps - Bee Regular
* Wordage - Small Words
* Inkables Big Ones - Fernando

I am looking forward to filling up my little book!

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx

Mandala Brusho Card for Bee Crafty

Hello!

Today on the Bee Crafty blog I am sharing with you a card I made this week.

One of the advantages of having more time at home is it gives me the opportunity to try out some of those techniques I have seen other people do and have never gotten around to trying myself so this week I had a go on the spur of the moment at using my brushos through a stencil...

As this wasn't planned I unfortunately didn't take step by step photos but I will try to explain what I did.

To start with I used the Mandala 1 inkable on a piece of stamping card, I put some clear gel through with a palette knife then sprinkled brusho powders on top (turquoise, leaf green and emerald green).  I let it sink in for a few moments then very carefully removed the stencil (which I then printed onto some extra card a couple of times).  I gave it a gentle spritz of water then allowed it to dry...

Before the gel was totally dry I decided to experiment by sprinkling some gold embossing powder onto areas and heating with my heat tool.  This worked in some places so I added a bit more to create a few small areas of gold.

After this I cut around the flower shape of the main stenciling, then took one of the extra pieces I had printed and cut around the circular part, I inked around both sets of edges using black archival ink then layered them onto the faintest print I had made.

Once these were all adhered together I used a green Pitt Pen by Faber Castell to add some shading...

I wanted a bit more interest along the other edge of the card so used one of the texture border stamps with clear ink and gold embossing powder.

Finally I stamped one of the sentiments from the Everyday Sentiments 1 XL onto black card and embossed in gold before cutting it into a banner shape and applying it to the card using foam tape...

Here are the products I used...

* Inkables - Mandala 1
* Background, Textures & Borders - Texture Borders
* Wordage - Everyday Sentiments 1 (XL)
* Gold Embossing Powder

All Bee Crafty stamps and inkables (including d'inkables etc) currently have a 20% discount, if you would like a browse you can visit the website here... https://www.beecrafty.net/

Thank you for looking, I hope my steps made sense :)

Stay safe and happy crafting!

Jane xx

Jellyfish Memorydex Card for Bee Crafty

Hello!

This week I am sharing a sea themed card that I have made to go on my Memorydex spinner...

I started on a a mixed media card base and used the alternate circles stencil with crackle paint...

Then I used liquid watercolour inks in blue, turquoise and green to add colour...

Using one of the sentiments from the regular jellyfish stamp set, I stamped along both the sides using blue archival ink and also added some around the edges...

Next I used the bubbles from the same set with clear ink and gold embossing powder, then decided to add gold around the edges of the card instead of the blue ink...

Then I used black versafine clair to stamp the jellyfish on and coated it in clear embossing powder...

                                           

Finally I re stamped the top of the jellyfish and coloured it with sparkle pens, before adding the same sentiment on another piece of card...

Here are the products that I used...

* Inkables - Alternate Circles
* Art Stamps by Sam - Jellyfish (regular)

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx

Just Bloom Journal Page with Bee Crafty

Hello!

I hope you are all keeping well in these difficult times.  I have found that at the moment I am enjoying doodling and colouring in my crafting, I think because they are quite soothing craft activities, so today I am sharing with you a journal page I made this week using those very actions...

I started by creating a couple of masks using the 'Just Bloom' flower and one of the leaves with some masking sheets...

Then I filled my journal page with the flower, leaves and small circles from the 'Geometric Walls' stamp set.  I used archival black ink and added the masks to be able to layer some of the images up...

Next was the fun part, colouring in all the elements using my Faber Castell Pitt pens...

I wanted some colour in the background, and as I had used permanent inks for the stamping and colouring I used watercolours to do this...

Once the background was completely dry I used a white signo gel pen to doodle in some extra elements...

Using the words from the same flower set I stamped in clear ink then embossed with white powder.  This I then cut up and added to the page.  At this point I decided to add the words to one side of the page as well using black archival and then edged the page to help draw the eye in...

I enjoyed the process of making this so much that I then made another piece to be cut into sections for a couple of 6 x 4 cards, then added sentiments from the 'Everyday Sentiments 2' set...

Here are links to the products that were used:

* Art Stamps by Jane Royston - Just Bloom
* Art Stamps by Jane Royston - Geometric Walls
* Wordage - Everyday Sentiments 2

Crafting is an amazing outlet for many people and I hope you are able to do some this week.
Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx