'Bloom with grace' by Amy C.

Hi everyone, 

Amy here with you today. I have a scrapbook page to share with you using lots of amazing products from Bee Arty - take a look!

To start, I took a sheet of the 'Twenty Twenty' 12" x 12" scrapbooking paper from the 365 collection. 

This sheet will be the border.

In order to save paper, I cut out a 10" x 10" square as pictured, to leave just the border.

Next I trimmed a sheet of heavy 12" x 12" heavy white cardstock to 10 ¾" x 10 ¾" so it overlapped the border.

This square was now my working space for my background.

Next, I splattered some some Colour Artist ink in 'Bordeaux' mixed with water onto a messy mat and placed my page face down over it and gently rubbed the back of the paper to allow the the ink to spread over the white cardstock. I then heat-dried it with my heat gun.

I repeated this step with the Colour Artist inks in 'Oasis' and 'Citrus' but I did not apply as much ink for these colours as I wanted the beautiful 'Bordeaux' to dominate here. 

With a paint brush, I added some splatters over the background using the remnants of the ink.

Once I was happy with background I set it aside to dry and set to work on the layers behind my photo. Apart from medical gauze for texture, I trimmed down papers using both the 'Silence' paper from the Untangle Collection and 'Direction' from the 365 Collection, as well as some more of the 'Twenty Twenty' paper.  

I then placed them behind the photo with a torn paper doily and adhered them down to my page.

With the 'Direction' paper from the 365 collection, I die-cut it with the 'Beaded' metal die. 

To add a bit of bling to this gorgeous cut shape, I applied some of the Colour Blast Shimmer pen in 'Clear' then adhered the shape slightly over the bottom corner of the photo.

To complete this page, I included some thread, flowers, sequins and the title from my stash.

Take a look at these close ups...

Here are the products I used from the store:

Colour Artist Ink in 'Bordeaux', 'Oasis', 'Citrus'

Papers: 

365 Collection 'Direction', 'Twenty Twenty' 

Untangle range 'Silence'

Metal Die 'Beaded'

Shimmer Pen in 'Clear'

Other Products:

Heavy white cardstock

Messy mat

Water

Paint brush

Plastic wrap

Thread

Sequins

Medical gauze

Title

 (Anything goes when it comes to embellishing!)

Thank you for looking and I hope this might inspire you to try some of these techniques.

Amy 😊

'Fly High' by Amy C

Hi everyone! Welcome to June. Today I am sharing a simple 12 x 12 page using Bee Arty goodies. 

I have a photo captured of our youngest Samuel back in the days when he was having swimming lessons.

1) I started by adding splatters to the 12 x 12 sheet of white cardstock. I used Colour Blast Black Heavy Gesso mixed with water and set aside to dry.

2) Next I mounted the 6 x 4 landscape photo onto some white cardstock slightly larger than the photo so I could hand draw a black border with a black pen.

3) Then I (a) trimmed down a piece of the 'Twenty-Twenty' patterned paper from Tanya Froud's 'three six five' collection - to 4.5" (width) x 12" (height).

and (b) trimmed down a strip of 1" x 12" of the 'Direction' patterned paper.I adhered this strip vertically under the 'Twenty Twenty' paper as pictured - with 0.5" exposed.

I then stuck the combined papers down to the left hand side of the splattered white cardstock. 

4) Next I took a sheet of the 'New Year' patterned paper and - as pictured - cut out the full backing square from the bottom right hand side. 

Then I adhered the mounted photo onto this square and stuck it down to the page. I placed it partly over the patterned paper and the remainder over the white cardstock. 

5) For the subheadings, I cut out some words from the 'Resolutions' word sheet and placed around my photo. 

For the main title I heat embossed chipboard by Kinder Kreations with the vibrant 'Just Blue' embossing powder and pasted it underneath my photo with some craft glue. 

6) Finally, to add colour to the background, I splattered it lightly with 'Deep Water', 'Saffron' and 'Lagoon' Colour Sprays and then added some embellishments from my stash to finish the page. 

Here are some close ups:

Products used.

three six five collection

'Twenty Twenty' paper

'Direction' paper

'New Year' paper

'Resolutions' word sheet 

Colour Blast - Black Heavy Gesso

'Just Blue' embossing powder

'Deep Water', 'Saffron' and 'Lagoon' Colour Sprays

Thank you for stopping by - until next time, ciao! Amy 😊