My samples from the May 24 release for Bee Crafty

 

Hi There! I am here today with my samples from the new stamps, D'inkables, Catalyst cards,  transparencies mdf and wordy stickers launched yesterday on facebook.  

The first two cards feature the greyscale catalyst cards and the birds from Journaling Essentials #6. It is so easy to add a pop of colour to the greyscale cards using either ink or the coloured papers. 

Both of the new stamp sets are so gorgeous! The bold silhouette stamps are great for inking up in more than one colour, and the outline stamps are great for colouring in using your favourite mediums. They can be teamed up with the catalyst cards or your own inky backgrounds. 

The wordy stickers are great as sentiments for cards or journal pages.

For this inky background I used some of the new dinkables

If you look closely at the background of this card you can see the leaf stamped in the smaller size found on the Journaling Essentials #2 stamp set. 

The leaf outline stickers are great for embossing like the white on black I did here. 

Both of these cards were made using the transparencies that come in a larger size than the stamps. Again they look great against the catalyst cards or your own inky background. 

I used several of the new d'inkables and also some of the worker stamps in this inky background. 

Finally, here is my first attempt using the book binding kit. It is a really fabulous kit and I can see myself making lots of them! 

The Catalyst cards are the perfect size to add to the cover and the book can be stitched to hold the pages, or elastic added so the pages are removeable. 

All of the products in the May release can currently be found by following this link to the website.

Bee Crafty May 2024 Release

Thanks for looking! 

A snowy bauble

 

Hi there! I thought I would show you today how I decorated this MDF bauble.

I began by painting the backpiece with gesso and the rim in gilt acrylic paint.

Whilst this dried I stamped sky terrace onto some shrink plastic and coloured it. On the frosted shrink plastic I thought by colouring it on the back with alcohol markers, it would show through, but it didn't once shrunk. I use stazon very rarely, but I find it is the least likely to smudge on shrink plastic

I shrunk it with my heat gun and added a bit of colour with coloured pencils

Next I used the horizon 2 skyline inkable to add some snowy hills with salty ocean distress oxide

I added glitter glue to the tops of the hills and some snow

I used gel medium to attach the house, the frame and some super chunky glittery snow stuff I found in my stash (no idea where it came from, sorry!) I think the stickles glitter gel might work well for this too.

finally I added some white pen around the frame

Here is another look at it. 

I used:

MDF baubles

white Gesso

Dina Wakely acrylic Gilt paint

Salty ocean distress oxide ink

Skyline inkable Horizon 1

Sky Terrace regular stamp set

Shrink plastic

Stazon ink

Coloured pencils

glitter glue

Ultra thick gel medium

Chunky glitter/ fake snow 

Posca pen

If you haven't entered the Bee Crafty Facebook group Challenge yet, we are looking for creations on MDF this month, and you have until Wednesday night to get them done. hope this has given you a bit of inspiration! 

Thanks for looking! 

A Dreamy tag

 Hi There! Thought I would show you how I made this mixed media tag today. 

I began by Gessoing an MDF tag.

Next I added some Distress matte texture paste through a texture disc. Alongside I smoothed on a thin layer of the crackle texture paste too.

Once this was dry I sprinkled liberally with Atlas and Elf explosion powder and spritzed with water, before setting it aside to dry.

On a piece of mixed media card I stamped and gold embossed the mandala 3 times, cutting out layers on each one. 

I used ecolines and a waterbrush to colour the layers

Once these were dry I layered them with ultra thick gel medium onto the tag.

I brushed a little Gilt paint around the edge of the tag and added a ribbon, a gem in the centre of the mandala and a sentiment. 

And here is a close up of that texture! 

I used:

MDF Victorian Tag

Distress texture paste - matte

Distress texture paste - crackle

Elf and Atlas Explosion powders

Texture disc

Doodle Art Mandala stamps set 1

Gold embossing powder

Ecoline pens

Ultra thick gel medium

Handwritten words 2 Stamp Set

Dina Wakely Gilt paint

Thanks for looking! 

Bold Colours!

Hi There! I have been enjoying getting inky and combining some different colours into a simple card where the sentiment is the focus. Here is how I made it.

I began by blending seedless preserves and faded lilac distress oxide inks onto a 14cm square of mixed media paper. 

I then placed over the mandala 4 inkable and blended prize ribbon ink through it 

Next I splattered it with water...

...and some Pretty Gets Gritty Artemis Explosion powder mixed with water. I set it aside to dry. 

I stamped the sentiment in versamark ink and embossed with gold embossing powder before matting and layering it to the card on sticky pads.

Here is a closer look at the finished card. It makes me think of batik fabric. 

I used 

6 x6" blank card

Black card

Mixed media card

Distress oxide inks in Prize Ribbon, Shaded Lilac and  Seedless Preserves

Inkable Mandala 4

Pretty Gets Gritty Artemis Explosion powder

Wordage Moon and Stars sentiment set

Gold embossing powder

Sticky pads or 3d gel for attaching the sentiment

Before I go here are my Nutcracker samples for the Craft Store show last week

I decorated 4 of the regular sized mdf nutcrackers

For this one I used alcohol pens on parchment paper stuck behind the front piece

This was the same nutcracker but not backlit

I also made a couple of cards combining the stamps with some older stamps over inky backgrounds...

Next week's project may well involve a nutcracker too! 

Thanks for looking and I hope you can join in the challenge over in the Bee Crafty Facebook group where the theme is Stay subtle or Be Bold with your colours! 

See the stars plaque

 

Hi There! I hope you are okay and keeping well. I've got a little mdf plaque mixed media project for you today. Here is how I made it.

I stuck some mdf pop outs (although these aren't in the online store at the moment, you can get them at The Craft Store here) onto an mdf tag with two holes added to the bottom and painted them with black gesso.

Next I used a dry brush to lightly paint white gesso across the pop outs.

When this was dry I sprinkled with Pretty Gets Gritty Explosion powders in Mermaid, Neptune and Unicorn.

These were activated with water from a mister bottle.

Once the explosion powders were dry I used the unicorn white ink to stamp the border, circles and swirls onto the mdf.

I selected 6 pop out stars and sprayed them with Dina Wakely gloss sprays and left them to dry

I stamped the sentiment using the white ink on to heat resistant acetate and heat embossed it with fine detail white embossing powder.

I stuck the sentiment to the bottom of the mdf using gel medium.

I added some black ricrac through the holes and stuck the stars to it using gel medium. I also gave it a light spray with a spray varnish to seal it.

And here it is hanging on the wall. 

Here are links to the products I used:

• Over the moon stamp set
• La Luna stamp set
• Moon and stars sentiments
• Explosion powders are here
• Black gesso
• White gesso
• Mister
• Hero arts Unicorn white ink 
• Gel medium
• Dina Wakely gloss sprays
• These tags are the same size as the one I used 
• MDF star pop outs are here

I hope you like it. Thanks for looking!