Live by the sea

Hi everyone xx

Hope everyone is well and been crafting away.
I'm up on the Bee Crafty blog today, and I've been playing in my Art Journal again using the gorgeous Jellyfish from the Bee Crafty Under the sea collection.

Also used:
Dinkables
Distress Oxide
White embossing powder

Having first painted my page with white gesso and dried it off with my heat gun, I then blended distress oxides randomly all over. I dried each layer off before applying more until I was happy with the effect. 

I dropped some water on and dabbed dry with paper towel. 

Using a damp wipe, and my circles Dinkables, I removed some of the ink to add more dimension. 

I stamped and heat embossed the gorgeous Jellyfish in white.

Green Distress Oxide was blended through the leafy Dinkable

I stamped various Seaweeds in different Oxides, first and second generation, to get more dimension.

The sentiment was stamped on paper, cut out and adhered to finish.

I hope you enjoyed today's post

Crafty hugs

Xx

Do something today...

Hi crafters xx

 I'm on my blog with a quick post to show you my latest Art Journal spread 😂
I love the freedom to chuck anything at it..and see where it leads you. I very rarely plan what I'm going to create lol
My first New Years challenge was to start an Art Journal.  The second was to try my hand at watercolouring/painting. For this spread I painted my own Daisies. .. I know they're not great but it's a start lol

I used Acrylic paints for this spread. 

I also used texture paste through some stencils by Bee Crafty (and other ones I had in my stash). The sentiment was also by Bee Crafty.

I sketched the Daisies first then pined them with acrylics 

Thanks for taking a look

Crafty hugs xx

O' Christmas Tree Doodle Art

Morning xx

I've been getting a bit festive with my Doodle Art sets, on my weekly Bee Crafty blog post.... mad you say... but I can't put these stamp sets down lol

Products used:
Doodle Art sets: all of them!! 🤣
Distress Oxides
Versafine
Kuretake clean colour pens
Sparkle pens
Gelli Plate
Patterned papers

Whilst I have made my backgrounds on my Gelli Plate, you can achieve a similar effect by applying Distress Oxides to an acrylic block. Spritz with water and apply to card blank. Then stamp your desired images within the inked panel.

All my images were stamped in Black Onyx Versafine as I like the bold, contemporary feel to this style.

I coloured in some aspects of the images, either with kuretake clean colour pens or sparkle pens, but you can use whatever you have in your crafty stash 

To create the 3d snowflakes I stamped on to patterned paper, cut them out and layered them up.

Well there today's selection of makes. Until next time.

Crafty hugs xx

Christmas Doodle Art samples

Hello xx

I'm so excited to be sharing my Christmas Doodle Art samples on the Bee Crafty blog today . I hope you got your orders in as these designs are stunningly gorgeous and so versatile xx

Products used:
Doodle Art Christmas Tree
Doodle Art Snowflakes
Doodle Art Robin
Dinkables
Snowflake 1 Inkable
Distress Oxides
MDF Artboard 
Kuretake clean colour pens
Sparkle pens
Embossing powder
Pearls
Gelli Plate

Used my Gelli Plate to create a Distress Oxides background

Baubles coloured with sparkle pens.

MDF inked with Distress Oxides.

Snowflakes coloured with Sparkle pens and the Robin with Distress Oxides.

Texture paste through Snowflakes Dinkable

Cut out snowflakes on patterned paper 

Gelli Plate Distress Oxides background 

Snowflakes cut from patterned paper 

Using Distress Oxides, sparkle pens and kuretake clean colour pens 

Using Distress Oxides, sparkle embossing powder and kuretake clean colour pens 

Coloured using Kuretake clean colour pens 

Versafine and red sparkle pen 

Wallet and voucher Card.

Black embossing powder 

White gel pen

I had soo much fun with this collection and it combines perfectly with all the other Doodle Art stamp sets.

I have made more samples using ALL the Doodle Art sets which I'll share over the coming months

Crafty hugs xx

Have a marvellous day

Hello everyone xx

I'm on the Bee Crafty blog today with several makes using the fabulous pen and ink style  stamps.
Love the versatility of these, using them in part or as a whole.
I recently purchased a Gelli Plate and these stamps are absolutely perfect to use. However all my back grounds can be achieved, with similar effect, using the Oxides,  stencils and stamps.

Products used:
Time Measure stamp
Ledger Measure stamp
Film Strip and Circles Texture stamp
Everyday Sentiments
Stripes and Triangle inkable
Dinkables
Distress Oxide
Gelli Plate

For this sample I made the background with Distress Oxides, Stripes inkable, and the Film Strip stamp set. I used my Gelli plate to achieve this particular effect, although you can create a similar effect without one.

The Ledger Measure stamp was then stamped with Distress Oxides and the sentiment in Black Onyx Versafine xx

Another gelli plate background. This time using stripes and dots Dinkable, film strip and circles stamp set, with the Distress Oxides.

The main focal stamp, the Ledger Measure stamp, was also stamped in the Oxides and then the sentiment in Black Onyx to complete.

The last gelli plate sample was made with the Oxides, Metal Alpha Dinkable, Triangles Inkable and texture stamp from the Film Strip and Circles stamp set. The focal image is one of the Ledger Measure stamps. 

I hope you enjoyed looking through today's makes and can see how versatile these fabulous stamp sets are.

Crafty hugs xx