Wednesday 30 March 2022
21st Birthday Card - With Karyn Schultz!
Monday 28 March 2022
The flowers and the butterfly - natures true love affair… by Linda Pearson
For today's blog I let my imagination take me to a place of fantasy and beauty. Using the Flux and Foliage stencils to create some fantasy flowers to attract its winged lover. The Bee Arty stencils provide a wonderful avenue for challenging your creative mind to produce wonder journal pages or photo layouts. Enjoy the process.
Colour
Spray – Bubblegum, Caribbean Colourblast
colour sprays
Gesso – Bee Arty heavy primer 250ml white
Sparkles
12”x12” cardstock paper (Fireworks collection)
Mica
powder – sunflower, cobalt, lollipop
Colourblast mica powder
Catalyst silicone mini blades tool
Dina Wakley Acrylic
paint - (Lemon, Orchid, Syrup, Green, Olive, White, Orchid, Magenta, Fuschia)
Modge Podge
Dimensional Magic
Nuvo Crystal Drops
white
Silver Rhinestones
Moulding Paste
(texture paste)
Makeup sponges,
Paint brushes,
Silicone Spreader
Tool
Apply 2 coats of Gesso. Dry off.
First background layer - 2-3 green colours into paste through the Cascading
leaves A5 stencil over the entire page by tapping the
paste with a silicone sponge. Can add
some white Gesso to lighten the green paint.
Second background layer – Apply a second
spread of green colours through the Cascading
leaves A5 stencil – this time turn the stencil on
angles over the entire page again. Dry
off.
Third background layer – For this layer
apply Gesso through the Cascading
leaves A5 stencil again changing the direction of the
stencil to cover some of the gaps in the previous layers. Dry off.
Using the Flux
A6 stencil to create abstract flowers, mix quantities
of DW orchid (light shade), Magenta
(medium shade) and Fushcia (dark shade) into the moulding paste. Pounce the light shade through the stencil using
a makeup sponge. Repeat this process
using the medium shade then the darker shade in turn to add depth to the petals. Dry off between each pass.
Stamens – Mix some DW lemon
paint into a small amount of moulding paste.
Swipe a good amount of paint through the berry shapes on the Foliage
A4 stencil to resemble flower stamens.
Add one stamen to the centre of each flower. Dry off.
Use a stipple
brush to tap some textured lemon paste into the centre of each flower.
Add white dots
around the stamens and on some of the petals using the Nuvo crystal drops.
Add silver
rhinestones to the stamens and on some of the smaller petals using dimensional
magic. Use a paint pen to highlight
around the textured shapes.
Add spatters of
paint in DW fuschia and olive over the entire paint (not flowers). Dry off.
Butterfly – Use a
sheet of Sparkles 12”x12” cardstock paper as a coloured base to add Butterfly
A4 stencil. Mix small quantities of moulding paste, adding Mica
powder – sunflower, cobalt and
lollipop. Spread the 3 colours through
the Butterfly
A4 stencil. Allow to dry.
Spray some Colour
Spray in bubblegum and Caribbean to the butterfly shape,
spray with water to spread (Note: some
of the colour in the moulding paste outline will move also). Cut out the shape from the paper when completely
dry.
Add dimensional
magic and silver rhinestones over the textured shape to add shine and
dimension.
Adhere the butterfly to the right-hand side of the page using mounting tape.
Add silver rhinestones to the butterfly with dimensional magic adhesive.
Outline the butterfly with fine black paint pen.
Add the sentiment
to the page and border to the page with paint pen.
Sunday 27 March 2022
Love My Girls by Tracey Campbell
Hello Bee Arty people, it is Tracey Campbell here again with another creation to share. My layout this time is a bit different for me. I started this layout when I was away on a work trip, with limited room in my luggage around my uniforms so had to restrict myself to easy to carry items. I ended not taking anything for the title and decided to finishing off the layout at home where I could raid my Bee Arty supplies to create the perfect title. Which was a nice way to finish as I had access to my mixed media and completed it whist doing an online crop with a bunch of lovely ladies from all over the world. Anyhoo let me take your through my process on how I created:
Love My Girls
I love the Embrace Change collection so decided to use the Falling pattern paper as my background, the colours and foliage reminds me of the Australian bush. The paper has a lovely image on it but I must admit I had trouble trying to work out how to use it at first as I didn't want to hide too much of the image, I wanted to include it in the design, so I thought less is more.
Working with limited space in my luggage I decided to pull a bit of a kit together for this layout and pre-cut some elements for my layout. I used the String Leaves metal die and two string wreaths and a few of the leave clusters from the maroon coloured paper in the Embrace Change collection. Next I fussy cut two of the grey tags from the Elegant Tags patterned paper in the Spread Your Wings Collection and some of the grey leaves and butterflies from the cut-apart-sheet in the Embrace Change Collection.
Using some of B side of the Living patterned paper in the Embrace Change collection I matted a 6x4 portrait photo with a 3mm boarder.
I adhered the matted photo to the centre of the Falling patterned paper and positioned all the elements around the photo. The string wreaths were tucked under the top left and bottom right corners first, I then cut one of the tags in half and positioned a piece under the op and left hand edge of the photos, making sure that the string leave was on top of the tag. You can see the positioning in the final layout.
At the bottom right hand corner of the photo I adhered the second tag in the centre of the string wreath and popped a fussy cut butterfly at the top. Here I was creating a space for the title.
Such a quick and easy layout but as the Falling patterned paper is such a stunning design it makes the layout interesting with a lot to look at.
Thursday 24 March 2022
14 Today created by Tracey Thorne
Tuesday 22 March 2022
Harmony's 15th Birthday by Charmane Koch
Happy Tuesday Everyone!
Today I wanted to share with you my layout I created using the Mixed Embossing Powder Technique & the fabulous NEW Fireworks Collection! How FUN & AWESOME is it!
You can see the video over on the Bee Arty Hive HERE!