Friday, 18 April 2025

Design Team Mash-up

Hi everyone today I'm sharing an art journal page created using stamps and stencils from both the design teams I'm on. Bee Crafty and Doly Dimples/Shady Designs.
To begin, cut out 5 of the panels from the greyscale A5 catalyst card front cover sheet, and 4 from the corresponding full cover sheet.
Edge with Gathered Twigs distress oxide and glue to a piece of card. Trim to size and edge with Scorched Timber distress oxide, blendig some over the joins as well. Glue to a page in an A5 journal.
Next, using Dolly Dimples Angle Leaf stencil with Brushed Corduroy distress oxide, add some leaves and diamonds to the page.
Next use Portobello Versafine Clair ink with Bee Crafty's smaller Coffee stains and numbers stamps.
Stamp 2 of the film cell, from Shady Designs Frame by Frame stamp set, using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink onto a piece of the catalyst card. Add the smaller of the stemed flower from Bee Crafty's Journaling Essentials 5 using Versafine Clair Glamorous ink. Cut out the frames.
Add more to the background by stamping the diamonds, from the Frame by Frame set, using Versafine Clair Glamorous. Stamp off the page first to give second generation stamping on the page.
Glue the film cells to the page and add a sentiment from Bee Crafty's Ticker Tape 3.

Products used:
Bee Crafty

Dolly Dimples

Shady Designs by Lou Sims

Versafine Clair - nocturne, glamorous, portobello 

Distress Oxides - brushed corduroy, scorched timber, gathered twigs 

Thank you for taking a look. 
Alison

Friday, 11 April 2025

Floral Art Journal Page

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using products from Shady Designs by Louise Sims. 
To begin, create a background by blending seedless preserve and villainous potion distress oxide ink over two corners. Then add seedless preserve through the Moroccan Trellis stencil. Spritz the ink on the stencil with water and press on to the page. 
Using Versafine Clair nocturne ink, ink the right hand vertical edge of the building blocks stamp and stamp on to the page, then ink up the other edge and stamp on the page. Repeat with both edges again.
Add text to the page using the text stamp from the Oh! So Circular stamp set with both of the distress oxides used for the background. 
Stamp a mix of leaves, flowers, birds, butterflies, tickets and dangly Moroccan tiles (see below for stamp sets used) using a mix of both the distress oxides and VersafineClairNocturne ink. Colour the tickets by wiping a damp paintbrush across the stamped image. Use the oxides with a paintbrush to colour the flowers. Cut everything out.

Glue the ephemera to the page and add a sentiment from the A5 Celtic Whispers Sentiment Collection.
Products used:
A5 Celtic Whispers Sentiment Collection 

Versafine Clair Nocturne 
Distress Oxide - Seedless Preserve, Villainous Potion 

Thank you for taking a look.
Alison 



Friday, 4 April 2025

She is Full of Colour

Hi everyone, I'm obsessed with Natalie May Scrapbooking collage papers at the moment and love how they mix with products already in my stash. Today I'm sharing a double page spread in a 5 inch watercolour paper journal.
To begin, I spritzed the page with picked raspberry distress oxide spray and whilst still wet I splattered Dina Wakley blackberry gloss spray on to it. I left this to dry, then added some picked raspberry distress spritz.
Next I die cut, from black card, 2 of each of the hearts and circles from the AALL & Create Heartnook die set.
I glued the image, from the Natalie May Scrapbooking She is Full of Colour collage sheet, to a piece of white card. I did the same with the small words that name the sheet. I cut both out.
Then, I stamped the small malva flower, from Tracy Evans' Malva stamp set, 7 times. I coloured them using my Ecoline pens and cut them out.
Using Versafine Clair nocturne, stamp the text and the c-shaped stamp directly on to the page. I've stamped one upside down, but am not worried that the text is upside down as most will be hidden by the die cuts.
Glue all the elements to the page using a mix of foam tape and wet glue.

Products used:
Natalie May Scrapbooking  - She is full of colour collage paper
Tracy Evans - Malva stamp set
AALL & Create - Heartnook dies
Ecolines - fusia, sky blue
Distress Oxide spray - picked raspberry 
Dina Wakley gloss spray - blackberry

Thank you for taking a look. 
Alison 


Friday, 28 March 2025

Mad Hatter

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using stencils from Julia Mcneil Designs, Snip Art chipboard and part of a Natalie May Scrapbooking collage paper.

To begin, I created a background using JMC Designs Spade, Diamond, Heart and Club stencils by blending the correct colour from on the stencil on to the page. I then went round the edge of the page using the Sprinkle Suite stencil with candied apple distress oxide. I then used the Random Script with black soot distress oxide to add some text to the page.
Next, I coloured the Snip Art Card Suits Decors with red and black sharpies.
I then stamped and cut out the large heart, from Tracy Evans Quirky Burds stamp set, using seedless preserve and villainous potion distress oxide ink. I then cut them out.
I chose three clocks and two sentiments from the AALL & Create ephemera packs.
Next, I used distress collage medium to glue the Mad Hatter image from the Cheshire Collage Paper from Natalie May Scrapbooking and cut it out.
Finally, I assembled all the pieces on the page. To finish the page I added some of the small double heart stamp, from the Quirky Birds stamp set using the same inks as used for the bigger single heart.
Products used:
Sprinkle Suite stencil 
Diamond stencil 
Heart stencil 
Club stencil 
Spade stencil
Random Script stencil 

Card suits - long decors

Tick Tock ephemera 
Les Sentiment 

Cheshire Collage paper

Quirky Birds stamp set 

Red and black sharpies
Distress Oxide - black soot, lumberjack plaid, seedless preserve, candied apple and villainous potion 

Thank you for taking a look.
Alison

Friday, 21 March 2025

Clocks and Ledgers

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using the brand new release from Bee Crafty.
To begin, cut the white edges from the A5 greyscale catalyst card, from set 4, and glue to the page in the black art journal.
Next blend mermaid lagoon and uncharted mariner distress oxide in the top left and bottom right corners. Then blend uncharted mariner through the off set dots inkable. With the ink left on the inkable, spritz it lightly with water then press, ink side down, onto the page in several places.
Using black soot distress oxide and a blending brush add leaves using d'inkable from sets 6 and 14.
On some of the A5 fullcolour catalyst cards 4 stamp the clocks and assorted other ephemera stamps (for a full list of stamp sets used see below) using versafine clair nocturne. Cut all the images out.
Stamp, using versafine clair nocturne, the border, from the Wasted Time stamp set, 6 times on the page.
Use foam tape to stick the two large clocks to the page, then add all the other ephemera to the page using glue.
Cut out the sentiment from the Transparency Prints and colour the back with a white posca pen. Then glue to the page.
Products used:
White Posca pen 
Versafine Clair nocturne 
Distress Oxide  - uncharted mariner, mermaid lagoon, black soot 

Thank you for taking a look. If you would like a 10% discount on your purchase from Bee Crafty then enter code BEEALISON10 at checkout. 

Alison

Friday, 14 March 2025

Don't be afraid

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this tag using Natalie May Scrapbooking Collage Papers with  Dina Wakley Gloss Drops and stamps.
To begin, add two strips of scrim tape to a large cream tag.
Add several drops of Gnarlyand Radical gloss drops to the tag and spritz with water. Tilt the tag to encourage the gloss drops to run and mix. Leave to dry.
Add two strips of dotty tissue paper to the tag with distress matte collage medium. Then spritz with spiced marmalade distress spritz. Leave to dry.
Add the grid stamp from Bee Crafty's Journal Art Elements 3 using versafine clair nocturne using first and second generation stamping. 
Using a 0.7mm black posca pen and a ruler draw some straight lines onto the tag.
Edge the tag with black soot distress oxide ink, bringing some areas in to the tag.
Add black splatz using the posca pen.
Using versafine clair nocturne stamp the numbers from Bee Crafty's Journal Art Elements 3 several times. Then glue the tag to black card and trim to size.

Use distress collage medium to add the Natalie May Scrapbooking image from the She is a Goddess Collage Paper. 
Add a sentiment from Claritystamps Word Sticker Collection by Leonie Pujol. 

Finally punch out the hole and add some fibres.
Products used:
Scrim Tape
Large Cream tag
Spotty tissue paper 
Ranger Distress Collage Medium 
Versafine Clair Nocturne 
Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink 
Claritystamps Words Stickers Collection by Leonie Pujol 
Black posca pen

Thank you for taking a look. 
Alison

Friday, 7 March 2025

Frame by Frame

Hi everyone today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page using products available from Dolly Dimples, Shady Designs and Snip Art. 
I chose to use a page which I had used to clean the Flower Bass stencil the last time I used it with Ecoline Liquid Watercolours. I had also used the page to clean the same stencil when it had been used with candied apple distress oxide.
 
I stamped the main image, four of the tulip buds and a selection of leaves, from the Frame by Frame stamp set, using Versafine Clair nocturne ink, onto a seperate piece of card. I coloured the flowers and leaves using distress oxide ink pads, then cut everything out.

I, carefully, removed the smaller film strip, the large number 1 and smaller 2 and 3 film cells from the Snip Art sheets. I coloured these using a black posca pen.
I used Versafine Clair Nocturne ink to stamp the Gridwork stamp slughtly to the left of the page, matching it to give a continuous line down the page.
Then I used Versafine Clair Nocturne ink to stamp some of the numbers stamp from the Layering Circle stamp set.
I used pva glue to stick all the pieces to the page.
Finally, I stamped the sentiment from the Layering Circle stamp set down the right hand side of the page.
Products used:
Shady Designs by Louise Sims 
Dolly Dimples
Snip Art
Picture Perfect Small Film Reel

Black Pisca Pen
Versafine Clair nocturne ink pad
Distress Oxide ink pads - Shabby Shutters,  Wild Honey,  Spiced Marmalade,  Candied Apple  and Twisted Citron 
Ecoline Liquid Watercolour - yellow and orange

Thank you for taking a look. 
Alison 

Mushrooms

Hi everyone,  I really live mushrooms and when I saw TIMESTAMPS Creations new release, I just knew I had to combine them with Bee Crafty...