Hug in a Mug

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this quick and easy card using Julia McNeill's Hug in a Mug papers and ephemera. 

To begin cut a piece of the Chocolate and Marshmallow Collection paper to 6.75 x 4.75 inches and glue to a 5 x 7 card blank.

Fussy cut the strip of flowers from another of the papers in the pad and glue them down the left hand side of the card.

Choose 3 mugs and a heart from the Mocha Mux Bit Box Buts pack. Glue these to the card.

Stamp the sentiment from the Iced Coffe stamp set using Fallen Leaves Versafine Clair ink.

Products used:

Chocolate and Marshmallow Collection 

Moca Mix Bit Box Bits pack

Iced Coffee stamp set 

Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Passion

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page created using Stamptagious' 8x8 Passion paper pack. 

Cut a piece of the backing paper to fit the art journal page and edge with scorched timber distress oxide ink.

Cut out the images from the paper pad.

Edge the tag and dance word with scorched timber. 

Glue the backing paper to a page in the art journal.

Add the images to the page.

Using scorched timber distress oxide with a damp paintbrush add a shadow around the ballerina, tag and roses and under the lace and dance word.

Products used:

Stamperia 8x8 paper pad - Passion

Distress oxide scorched timber 

Paintbrush 

Distress collage medium 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison

Glimmer of Light

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using Visible image stamps and stencils.

To begin sprits the page with water, then add drops of black Ecoline liquid water colour. Sprits with a little more water and tip the page to encourage runs. Add drops of yellow Ecoloine liquid water colour. Tip the page to encourage runs and mixing. Add more water if necessary. Dry with a heat gun.

Add to the background by blending squeezed lemonade distress oxide through the count me in stencil.

Using Versafine Clair nocturne ink stamp the ripple and three circles on the background. 

Next add some of the de-stressed diamonds using nocturne ink. 

On seperate card stamp 9 of the light bulbs and 2 of the moths. Colour the light bulbs with squeezed lemonade distress ink and the moths with freyed burlap distress ink. Cut them out and glue them to the page.

Finally stamp the sentiment, cut it out and edge with black pen and add to the page.

Products used:

Ecoline Liquid Watercolour - black, yellow

Count Me In Stencil

The Ripple Effect stamp set

De-stressed stamp set

Glimmer of Light stamp set 

Distress Ink - freyed burlap, squeezed lemonade 

Distress Oxide - squeezed lemonade 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Tickets and Butterflies

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page created using products from Mama Makes and Bee Crafty. 

To begin draw through the ticket stencil to create 5 tickets, then cut them out.

Using a micron fineliner pen, draw round near the edge of the tickets to give them a frame.

Use the stamps, with Versafine Clair nocturne ink, to create different ticket types.

Using a Harmony tool, blend vintage photo distress oxide over the tickets.

Blend peeled paint and vintage photo on to the page. Add peeled paint to the centre of each ticket.

Blend vintage photo through the inkables tag from set 6 and peeled paint through the 6" distressed diamond inkable. 

Glue the tickets to the page.

Stamp 3 of the larger butterflies on to a seperate piece of card, colour them with peeled paint distress oxide and cut out. Edge with vintage photo. 

Glue the butterflies to the page and stamp4 of the small butterfly direct to the page using Versafine Clair nocturne. 

Add the sentiment. 

Products used:

Mama Makes

Vintage Tickets Stencil

Vintage Tickets stamp set

Stampscription Oct '21 (discontinued)

Harmony blending tools

Bee Crafty 

Inkables Tags set 6

6" Inkables Distressed Diamonds 

Claritystamp

Words Stickers Collection by Leonie Pujol 

Distress Oxide - Vintage Photo, Peeled Paint 

Versafine Clair Nocturne 

Black Micron Fineliner 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

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

A5 Catalyst Cards 4 greyscale

A5 Catalyst Cards 4 full colour

Journaling Essentials 5 stamp set 

Ticker Tape 3 stamp set 

Coffee Stains stamp set 

Dolly Dimples

Angle Leaf stencil

Shady Designs by Lou Sims

Frame by Frame stamp set

Versafine Clair - nocturne, glamorous, portobello 

Distress Oxides - brushed corduroy, scorched timber, gathered twigs 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison

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:

Moroccan Trellis stencil 

Building Blocks stamp set 

Blooming Blocks stamp set

Blooming Circles stamp set 

Oh! So Circular stamp set 

A5 Celtic Whispers Sentiment Collection 

Versafine Clair Nocturne 

Distress Oxide - Seedless Preserve, Villainous Potion 

Thank you for taking a look.

Alison 

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 

Distress Spritz - picked raspberry 

Dina Wakley gloss spray - blackberry

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison