Bird Artist Trading Cards

Hi there! Thought I would show you how I made this trio of ATCs for my blog post this week. 
 

I began by smooshing some distress inks onto 3 ATC blanks. 

Once these were dry, I used the same inks to add some more ink through the tag inkables

Next I added some stamping to the backgrounds using Journaling essentials 2 and the same shades of distress ink

Setting the backgtrounds to one side I stamped the Birds onto some book paper using brown versafine clair ink.

I added a little shading using a brown colouring pencil

I stuck these birds to the backgrounds using Matte Medium. As the Kingfisher was too large to fit I cut off the tail 

Once dry, I added sentiments from the same stamp sets

Finally I added a splatter or two of Tarnished Brass Distress stain. 

Here are the finished ATCs again.

I used:

ATC blanks (Cards measuring 2.5x3.5 inches)

Distress inks in Mermaid Lagoon, Wild Honey and Gathered Twigs

Tag inkables set 4

Journaling Essentials 2 Stamp set 

Sketchy Birds stamp set

Rainbow Birds stamp set

Book paper

Brown Versafine Clair ink

Brown colouring pencil

Matte Medium

Tarnished Brass Distress Spray Stain

I will leave you with a photo of the Journal page I created during my live last Wednesday, also using the Rainbow Birds stamp set along with Mixed messages 4 and Journaling essentials 1

You can find the live here

Thanks for looking! 

New Stamp Launch today!

 

Hi There! I am here with the samples that I have made using the brand new Dancing Daisy Stamp set from Bee Crafty. They are being launched today over on the Bee Crafty Facebook page. I used the smaller daisy on my first card, embossing it in silver and stamping over the base card in lilac memento ink.

I blended the distress ink background for this one and added a little inking through the  Circles 1 Big one  inkable. The daisy was coloured with coloured pencils and the stamping was done with Barn Door Distress ink.

For this card I sprayed some mixed media paper with dylusions sprays. When this was dry I added some mustard seed distress oxide ink through the Circles for Circles big one inkable, then stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne and Distress oxide Lost shadow. The daisy was stamped onto white card and coloured with pencils. The sentiment is from mixed messages 2  

I created two contrasting journal pages. The left page was smooshed with Lucky Clover and Twisted citron Distress oxide. The right page had an inkables mop up on it already from the big ones Bakewell

Finally, I used the circle easy frame and the horizon inkable to create the little scene, adding the larger daisy as a focal image. 

I do hope you can join us for the lives. 

Thanks for looking! 

Robin and Wreath samples

Hi There! I am here with the cards I made for the Bee Crafty Stamp launch that was on Facebook on Tuesday. We had a fantastic day with lives, offers and giveaways. This first card was made with the smaller stamps from both the Robins and the Wreath set

This was the card I made during my live which you can find here. I also used one of the Bauble Easy frames and the snowflake mask inkable

This one was embossed in gold, then masked before adding smooshed distress oxide ink.

This background was created by blending broken China distress ink through a mandala inkable and then stamped with snowflakes from the Winter journaling girls sets.

Another using the easy frame bauble inkables,

and a vintage looking wreath with the script background stamp in antique linen distress ink. 

Finally, here's the card from my blog post last week again. I did a second facebook live on Wednesday, this time creating a journal page using Distress Oxide sprays and the Doodle Art Houses. You can find the live here. 

We will be doing some similar journaling to this at my workshop this Wednesday at PDA card and Craft, Langley Mill. There are still a couple of spaces if you fancy it and you are local! Thanks for looking! 

Welcome back Doodle Art stamps!

 Hi There!

On Thursday we had a fantastic day welcoming back the Bee Crafty Doodle Art stamps. Here are the samples that I made for the day, plus the card I made during the live I did. 

first we have a couple of cards made using the doodle art butterfly and dinkables

Next are 3 doodle art dragonflies. The first two have the doodle art mandalas in the background

The last three have been made with the doodle art ladybirds. 

This last one was the card I made during my Facebook live that you can find here.

The whole doodle are stamp range can be found here

The Dinkables (stencils) sets can be found here

The mandala inkables can be found here

I coloured my butterflies, dragonflies and ladybirds with Ecoline pens

I used this watercolour pad to stamp and colour with ecolines on 

The Wordage stamps used were Ticker tape set 4 and Incredible words

I used the Wordy stickers 1 and 1B

All inky backgrounds were created using Distress oxide inks

Do check out Ann's live too if you haven't already. It was absolutely brilliant and we are hoping the first of many! 

Sam and Bev were equally brill too and you can find their lives here

Thanks for looking! 

New Crafty Individuals Stamps part one

 Hi There!

Did you see Jean Hardy  on Create and Craft on Friday 1st April? There were some new stamps and papers as well as some older stamps and greyboard too. Jean's demos were wonderful as always. I thought I would share my samples in several posts over this week. Todays are the new butterflies.

My lolly stick plaque also has a sentiment from Chocolate Baroque. 

The new papers feature on this sample too. 

Here is a journal page using an older stamp in the background and the new butterflies as focal points. 

As well as these samples I made some ATCs for a facebook live on Wednesday

You can find the Video from the live here 

During the Live we decided to have a Crafty Individuals ATC swap. If you would like to join in here is a link to the swap in the Facebook group 

All of the new stamps, papers and greyboard can be found here on the website 

Thanks for looking! 

A Vintage tag

 Hi there! I have made another tag this week, and this time I have gone for a vintage vibe. Here is how I made it.

I began with a Dina Wakely size 10 mixed media tag. (I cut 2 cm from the bottom as I intend adding it to a journal page later.) 

I used a blending brush to apply distress oxide inks over the whole tag.

I splattered water and sprayed a little Distress oxide spray in wild honey across the tag. 

When it was dry I used the metalwork alpha 6x6 inkable to add the numbers top and bottom.

I stamped the dotty borders around the tag, 

then added the smaller stamp from the ledger measure down the left side.

I stamped the pocket watch stamp (no longer available, but there is a pocket watch a little smaller that you could stamp then cut out on the other Ledger measure stamp) onto a book page using versafine clair pinecone ink . I blended a little distress oxide ink on it to age it and cut it out. 

Using collage medium, I stuck it to the tag and left it to dry.

I stamped the Time sentiment in versafine clair ink onto a scrap of Dina Wakely collage paper and cut it out. 

I worked out where I wanted to place each part of the sentiment before sticking it down with more collage medium. 

Here is the finished tag with a gold mat and some lace and twine added.

This is what I used:

Dina Wakely Tags size 10

Distress oxide inks in Antique linen, Tea dye, Vintage photo and Walnut stain.

Distress oxide ink spray in Wild Honey

Metalwork Alpha inkable

Texture borders stamp set

Ledger Measure stamp set

Pocketwatch stamp

Time sentiment stamp

Versafine Clair ink in Pinecone

Book page

Dina Wakely  plain collage paper

Tomorrow, Bev and Sam are on The Craft Store at 1pm with some gorgeous new tag inkables that are a Must-have! Here is a sneaky peek at one of the samples. 

I will be doing a Try it out Tuesday takeover Facebook Live tomorrow evening at 8pm over on the Bee Crafty Facebook page. Hope you can join me! 

Thanks for looking and for all your lovely comments. They are very much appreciated.