Distress Background Journaling Girl Card

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This week in my Facebook live I was using distress inks to create backgrounds for cards, so I decided to carry on with the theme...

1) First I used my blending brush with Kitsch Flamingo and Squeezed Lemonade on a piece of mixed media card...

2) Using the same two colours plus Carved Pumpkin I added some stenciling with one of the d'inkables from set 10 and also the circles, one layer at a time...

3) Next I used the same inkpads to add some stamping from the Journaling Girls Sam set.  Once I had added the coloured ink I also added some stamping with the black Hero Arts ink pad...

4) After that  I stamped the girl from the set, cut out and coloured with Ecoline markers...

5) Finally the card was put together with a black layer...

Here are links to the products used:

* Distress Ink Pads

* Hero Arts Black Ink Pad

* Ecoline Brush Markers

* D'inkable Set 10

* Circles D'Inkable 

* Journaling Girls Sam Stamp Set

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx

Bloom Layered Card

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This week on the Bee Crafty blog I am sharing a card that I made by layering up stencils and stamps...

1) First I created some colour on a piece of water colour card using distress inks (Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers and Twisted Citron).  I applied the inks with a brush then splattered with water to create a distressed look...

2) Using the same ink colours I added stenciling with the circles d'inkable and flower from d'inkables set 10...

3) Next I used a white pen to add doodling around the circles...

4) With archival ink I then stamped the main flower and one of the leaves from the 'Just Bloom' set and then added some of the circles from the 'Journaling Blocks' set...

5) To colour the flowers and leaves I used ecoline brush markers and added white highlights...

6) For highlighting the circles I used white gesso, then went over the stamped elements with a black fineliner to refresh the lines...

7) As a finishing touch I stamped the sentiment from the same set onto black card and heat embossed with white powder...

Here are links to the products used:

* 'Just Bloom' Stamp Set

* 'Journaling Blocks' Stamp Set

* Circles D'inkable

* D'inkables Set 10

* Distress Ink Pads

* White Embossing Powder

* White Pen

* Black Fineliner Pen

* Ecoline Brush Markers

* White Gesso

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx

'Future Girl' Art Journal Spread

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This week I thought it was about time I completed some more pages in my tag art journal...

1) The pages of this journal are already pre coloured with distress oxide sprays so I chose the ones that I wanted to use...

2) Then I used the Honeycomb Multi inkable with Wild Honey distress ink to add some pattern to the pages...

3) Next I stamped the small ledger circle from the Dragonfly stamp set using black archival ink,..

4) After stamping parts of the Light Bulb Circuit stamp onto tissue, I tore some parts off and added them to the spread using distress collage medium...

5) Once this was fully dried I used my white and black pens to add some colour and doodles to the pages...

6) When I looked through my box of pre stamped images, I discovered one of the Winter Journaling Girls which had already been coloured and had glossy accents on.  The colours went with the spread so well that I decided to add her.  

7) Finally I chose a sentiment from Ticker Tape 1 that went with the look of the pages and stamped it onto black, heat embossing in white...

Here are links to the products used:

* Distress Ink Pads

* Archival Ink Pads

* Honeycomb Multi Inkable

* Dragonfly Stamp Set

* Light Bulb Circuit XL

* Winter Journaling Girls - Cool

* Ticker Tape 1

* White Superfine Embossing Powder

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx

A Trio of Butterflies

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This week I have created a card using some of the beautiful butterflies with matching stamps and dies...

1) I started by stenciling through the bakewell big inkable with distress grit paste onto a piece of watercolour cardstock...

2) Once this had dried I used two of the distress oxide sprays (mermaid lagoon and twisted citron).  I also spritzed some water to help them move more and create some drips...

3) Again I made sure that this had dried thoroughly before then dry brushing gilt Dina Wakley acrylic paint across the top to pick up the stenciled detail...

4) Next I stamped (using archival ink) and die cut a selection of the butterflies and coloured them using ecoline brush markers...

5) Finally I stamped one of the everyday sentiments onto a piece of black card and heat embossed with white powder, before matting and layering up the whole card...

Here are links to the products used:

* Art Stamps - Birds and Butterflies Regular (stamps and dies)

* Art Stamps - Birds and Butterflies XL (stamps and dies)

* Wordage - Everyday Sentiments 1 Regular

* Inkables Big One - Bakewell

* Distress Oxide Sprays - Twisted Citron and Mermaid Lagoon

* Dina Wakley Acrylic Paint - Gilt

* Archival Inkpads

* Ranger Super Fine Embossing Powder - White

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx

Warm Sunflower Wishes

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This week I have gone full on warm colours to try to bring back the summer!

To create the background I used mustard seed, dried marigold and festive berries through the circle lattice inkable.

Then I stamped using black archival ink with the regular doodle art sunflower plus some of the splatter elements on the set and coloured the image in more warm colours.

For the sentiment I stamped directly onto the card using one of the everyday sentiments.

Here are links to the products used:

* Doodle Art Sunflower Stamp 

* Everyday Sentiments 1 Stamp Set

* Circle Lattice Inkable

* Distress Inkpads

* Archival Inkpads

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx

Faux Bleached Butterfly Card

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This week I have created a card using a faux bleaching technique...

1) First I stamped the doodle art butterfly onto watercolour cardstock using black archival ink.

2) Then I used salvaged patina and mustard seed distress inks, blending them all across the card with a blending brush.

3) Next I used a paintbrush and water to wet the butterfly areas and lifted some of the colour off with kitchen towel.

4) When I was happy with the result I splashed some of the water across the rest of the card to create some distressed spots.

5) Finally I stamped one of the everyday sentiments onto white vellum and wrapped it around the card before matting onto black and then the card base.

Here are the products used:

* Doodle Art Stamps - Butterfly

* Wordage Stamps - Everyday Sentiments 1

* Distress Inkpads

* Archival Inkpads

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx

'Without Darkness' Art Journal Spread

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This week on the Bee Crafty blog I thought I would create an art journal spread in a tag book that I created in one of my Bee Crafty Facebook lives a while ago.  The tags have all already been spritzed using distress oxide sprays, and the pages I used today had Speckled Egg, Mermaid Lagoon and Seedless Preserves on them...

1) I started by creating a moon using white gesso through the circle easy frame.  As it was over the oxide spray some of the colour bled through which is the look that I wanted rather than a solid colour...

2) Next I added some more stenciling using the Cosmic inkable and Seedless Preserves distress oxide inkpad...

3) Then I used some of the stamps from the La Luna stamp set with archival inks in the distress colours Mermaid Lagoon, Faded Jeans and Dusty Concord...

4) I wanted to highlight some of the areas so added in some white gelly roll pen...

5) After that I wanted a bit of stamping that contrasted more so used some of the stamps from the Stars Textures set with black archival ink.  I also added some dots with a black fine liner pen to make it look like the stars were dangling...

6) Finally I stamped one of the sentiments from Moons and Stars Sentiments onto black card and heat embossed with white powder...

Here are links to the products used:

* Distress Oxide Sprays

* Distress Oxide Inkpads

* Archival Inkpads

* Easy Frame - 4" Circle

* Inkables - Cosmic

* Art Stamps - La Luna

* Art Stamps - Stars Textures

* Wordage - Moon and Stars Sentiments

* White Superfine Embossing Powder

* Pretty Gets Gritty White Gesso

* Gelly Roll Pens

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx