Three Quick and Easy Cards

Hi everyone today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating three quick and easy cards using TIMESTAMP Creations latest release. 

For the first card:

1. Stamp the negative bird tileusing weathered wood distress oxide. 

2. Stamp the two burds using versafine clair nocturne ink. 

3. Stamp the sentiment with the nocturne ink.

4. Use a black fineliner to add a dots and dashes border.

5. Stick to a 5x7 card blank.

For the second card:

1. Stamp the positive dandelion tile four times using picked raspberry distress oxide ink. 

2. On seperate card, stamp the single negative dandelion using versafine clair nocturne. Cut out.

3. Stamp the sentiment using the nocturne ink.

4. Using a black fineliner add a stitched border.

5. Glue to a 5x7 card blank.

Fir the third card:

1. Stamp the single leaf randomly using shabby shutters, wild honey,  candied apple and brushed corduroy distress oxide ink. 

2. Stamp the sentiment centrally using portobello versafine clair ink. Then add some second and third generation stamping of the sentiment randomly.

3. Edge the piece with shabby shutters distress oxide. 

4. Glue to a 5x7 card blank.

Products used:

TIMESTAMPS Creations - Crow Tiles, Oak Leaves Tiles, Geo Dandelion Tiles stamp sets

Black fineliner

Versafine Clair - nocturne, portobello 

Distress Oxide - weathered wood,  shabby shutters, picked raspberry,  brushed corduroy, candied apple,  wild honey 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison

The White Rabbit Stamp Company

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using the new stamps from The White Rabbit Stamp Company with watercolour paints, acrylic markers and watercolour pencils. 

To begin, I created a watercolour wash background using my Kuretake Gansai Tambi Pearl Colors paints. I then splatted the blue part with plain water to give the effect of clouds in the sky. Leave to dry.

On seperate card I stamped the house, flowers and snails. I coloured these with a mix of the Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours, Polychromos pencils, Personal Impressions watercolour pencils and Uhuhu acrylic markers. I then cut them out.

When the background was dry, I stamped the trees and pathway onto the page. I coloured these with the watercolour pencils, polychromos pencils and acrylic markers.

Next, I glued the house, flowers and snails to the page. I added scribbled grass under the trees using acrylic markers and white highlights using a thin posca pen.

Finally I stamped one of the sentiments on to the page using Versafine Clair nocturne ink. 

Products used:

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Pearl Cirs watercolour paints 

Pink Pig 8x8 Journal

The White Rabbit stamp company 

. Tiny Houses Big Adventures 

. Every Cup Tells a Story

. Happy Place

Personal Impressions watercolour pencils 

Ohuhu Acrylic Markers

Polychromos pencils. 

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's mushrooms stamp set.

To begin I stamped two columns of the positive mushroom tile down a piece of craft card using portobello versafine clair ink. I then blended portobello ink around the edge of this strip.

Next I blended portobello ink around the three outer edges of my sketchbook page.

Next I glued the mushroom strip to the left hand edge of the page.

I then blended brushed corduroy distress oxide through Bee Crafty's metal work alpha inkable on to the right of the page.

Next I blended scorched timber distress oxide through the chevron texture disc from set 2 on to the page.

I stamped the circles border, from the mushroom stamp set around the edge of the page with portobello ink. 

Using the swirl stamp, from the mushrooms stamp set, with portobello ink, add to the corners and centre of the page.

On seperate card,  stamp two of each of the mushroom stamps with portobello ink. I coloured them in with Personal Impressions woodless watercolour pencils and posca pens, then cut them out.

Next I glued them to the page and added white pen work.

Finally I added two of the Autumn B Wordy sentiment stickers and added a white border and dots to them.

 

Products used:

TIMESTAMPS Creations 

Mushroom Tiles stamp set 

Bee Crafty Stamps 

Doodle Art Mushrooms stamp set

Inkable Metal Work Alpha

Inkables Texture Discs set 2

Autumn B Wordy Stickers 

Personal Impressions 

Woodless Watercolour Pencils 

Posca pens

Versafine Clair Portobello ink pad

Distress Oxide  - brushed corduroy,  scorched timber 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison

Nature Prints

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using Art Inspirations Nature Print Collection.

To begin, I cut my background puece to the correct size for my journal. It is a piece I created on my gelli plate using the Nature Prints Texture Element stencils with Fired Brick distress oxide ink.

Having cut my Leaf Fall stamp in to individual stamps, I stamped two of the smaller ones onto my background using spiced marmalade and gathered twigs distress oxide.

Next place the birds stencil over the stamped leaf area. Mask of the areas not needed and blend scorched timber distress oxide through the bird on a branch.

Carefully pisition the burd on a branch so that a second bird is sitting on the same branch as the first one. Mask off areas not needed and blend the same ink through the stencil.

Then add the other branch on the stencil several times on both edges of the card using brushed corduroy distress oxide, then edge the piece with scorched timber. 

Glue the piece into an art journal and add a sentiment from Claritystamps Word Sticker Collection by Leonie Pujol.

Products used:

Nature Prints Texture Elements Stencil

Nature Prints Leaf Fall stamp

Nature Prints Birds stencil and masks

Claritystamps Words Stickers by Leonie Pujol 

Distress Oxide - fired brick, spiced marmalade, gathered twigs and scorched timber 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison

Catalyst Collage Papers

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page using Bee Crafty's catalyst collage papers.

When I'm using the catalyst collage papers any off cuts from a project get stuck in an A5 journal that I keep on my craft table for this purpose. Today, as the page was full, I decided to use it as a background.

To blend out all the different edges of the pieces of paper, I used my finger to apply and spread white gesso over the page.

Next I applied picked raspberry and spiced marmalade distress oxide ink through the rectangle and crosses inkable tag from set 3.

I then cut out my chosen image from the A5 Painted Gaze catalyst collage pack.

Using matte medium, I glued the image to the left hand side of the page.

To create a shadow effect around the image, I used mermaid lagoon distress oxide with a wet paint brush to paint around it. I smudged this paint out with my finger, so there were no harsh lines.

Having chisen a Transparency Prints Walk Your Own Way  sentiment and cut it out I painted over the back with a white posca pen. This makes the words stand out against the background. When the paint pen was dry I glued it to the page.

Products used:

Off cuts of Bee Crafty's catalyst collage papers 

White gesso

Bee Crafty's A5 Painted Gaze catalyst collage papers

Inkables tags 3

Transparency Prints Walk Your Own Way 

White pisca pen

Distress Oxide - mermaid lagoon,  spiced marmalade,  picked raspberry 

Thank you for taking a look.

Alison 

Butterfly Style

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a card made using products from Julia McNeil Designs. 

To begin, I blended twisted citron distress ink through the harlequin part of the Harlequin Scribbles stencil onto a puece of six inch square card. 

Next I blended picked raspberry distress ink through the random script stencil.

I then stamped the word metamorphosis, from the wings of change stamp set, using peacock feathers distress ink.

Next, I stamped the three crosses, from the butterfly style stamp set, using picked raspberry distress ink. 

On seperate card, I stamped the face, clock and butterfly and 2 small butterflies using Versafine Clair nocturne ink. I coloured them with distress watercolour pencils in the same colours as the background and tattered rose, antique linen and worn lipstick, then cut them out.

Next, I went round the edge of the background piece using a black pen before sticking it to a seven inch square card blank. 

Next, I glued the stamped images to the background. 

Finally, I stamped the sentiment with Versafine Clair directly onto the card. 

Products used:
Wings of Change stamp set

Butterfly Style stamp set

Harlequin Scribbles stencil 

Random Script stencil 

Distress Ink - twisted citron, picked raspberry, peacock feathers 

Distress Watercolour Pencils 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Distinguished

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection #16, Papillion and The Inspector stamp sets.

To begin I stamped the S M TINKERMAN stamp, from the Stampers Anonymous #16 stamp set, with Brushed Corduroy oxide ink. I then stamped Horlogerie stamp, from the Papillon set, over the rest if the page with the same ink.

I blended tumbled glass distress oxide over the top part of the page and antique linen distress oxide over the bottom. 

On seperate card, I stamped the top hat and shoulders from the #16 stamp set, the light bulb from The Inspector stamp set and the three miths/butterflues from the Papillon set using Versafine Clair nocturne ink.  I coloured the images using mermaid lagoon, antique linen and brushed corduroy distress oxide. I then cut them out.

I glued the images to the page, then added some of the crosses from the stencil from the #16 stamp and stencil set using antique linen distress oxide. 

Finally, I chose a sentiment from the Small Talk sticker book and stuck it to the page 

Here's another look at the completed page.

Products used:

Stamper Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection #16

Papillon

The Inspector 

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Small Talk

Distress Oxide - antique linen, brushed corduroy,  tumbled glass, mermaid lagoon 

Versafine Clair nocturne 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison