Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Tracey Campbell

 Hello everyone, it is Tracey Campbell here today to share my latest creation using the Electric Dreams Mini Collection. A bright, bold, fun collection that is the perfect choice for those photos that are a little bit crazy!! Are you like me? When you take photos of your kids they start hamming it up and you take multiple photos just trying to get one nice photo? On this particular day a few times I ended up with at least 100 photo (thankfully we have digital photos now not still film) and I only got 1 nice photo. But I have all these extra ones of the girls being crazy but nice to each other...... which as they are going through the teenage years now it doesn't happen that often. 

Anyhoo enough about my girls, lets scrap!

GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN

I have absolutely loved this collection and am down to a few full sheets left and lots of scraps, so I decided to pull the scraps and see what I could come up with.

I cut the scraps into various sized strips and cut a "V" into each small end of the strip.

Using one of my full sheets left from the Electric Dreams Mini Collection for the base, (the B side of the colourful doodled circle paper) this sheet is mainly white with large colourful script around the edges. I stamped the base sheet with the bubble stamp form the Bokeh Stamp Set and a waterproof black ink. You can use any background stamp that you wish to help emphases the subject in your photos. 

This is the finished shape of the stamping that I have created for my background. A large stamped image on the left of the background and a small shape in the top right hand of the paper.

Next I mixed some pink Neon Colour Mica Powder with some water and splattered it across the stamped shapes with a paint brush.

At this stage I had found three 6.5 cm square photos of my daughters that I knew I was going to used in a portrait photo stack. I wanted to use a bit of the pink Neon colour as the mating for the photo stack but I didn't have any pink neon paper in my stash so I used the pink Neon Colour Mica Powder mixed with water to paint the edges of some white Card Stock. When it was dry I adhered the photos in a stack running down the mat.

Once the Colour Mica Powder slashes were dry I started to layer and over lap the paper strips across the left-hand side of the base.

Next I adhered the mated photo stack down over the top of the layered strips. 

For the finishing touches I fussy cut some of the shooting stars, the hearts and a camera from the "B" side of the paper with the large black and white zig-zags from the Electric Dreams Mini Collection. Then I adhered them in three positions on the layout - you can see the positioning in the final layout. Lastly I used some foam letters to create a title that ran down the right-hand side just under the shooting star. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope I have inspired you to use those not so perfect photos and to use you scraps from one of you favourite collections. 

Hugs

Tracey

One Moment, Art Journalling - With Karyn Schultz!

Hi Bee Arty Lovelies!

It's Karyn here and today I have an art journal page to share with you made using lots of cool products from Bee Arty.

 

 

I'm playing along with the November moodboard challenge. We would love for you to join in with this challenge and be in the running to win a Bee Arty online voucher. You have until November 30th and you need to upload your challenge here (please follow challenge rules). 

I was inspired by the colours of this moodboard, as well as the cane/hessian texture, and the wall art piece of the tree/leaf. 

I'm using a cotton rag watercolour page in my DWM art journal. I start by painting Steel, Stormy Weather, Deep water and Sienna Mica Powders on my page using a painting with plastic technique. I also add splatters of each of the colours.

 

 

I then added stamping using the Bokeh stamp set (script) from the Grateful heart collection, and black Archival ink. I used the Scripted Stencil with Dusty Charcoal Colour Paste to add some stencilling across the page. 

 

I also used the Bokeh stamp set (script) to stamp some tissue/collage paper to add to my page.

 

 

Here is my completed page. I found a picture on Pinterest and printed it on photo paper and added to the page.

 

 I've embellished with flower and leaf die cuts in white cardstock and kraft cardstock using the Flowers of Paradise metal dies and  Leaves of Paradise metal dies from the Find Paradise collection. The title "One Moment" is cut from the Untangle collection. I've outlined my page using a fine black Life of Colour paint pen.

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

This Is Me by Belinda Spencer

 Hello Bee Arty fans!

It's Belinda here with you today to share my layout created for Bee Arty inspired by the August Sketch Challenge.

Here's a reminder of the awesome sketch:

I chose to work with the stunning Grateful Heart Collection for my layout.

I cropped a sheet of the Grateful Heart Love patterned paper and mounted on a sheet of the fabulous 350gsm white cardstock. I spritzed the page with water and added Road Base Colour Spray. I spritzed with a bit more water and played around with the ink on the page. I used a paintbrush to help spread the colour on the page and also flicked some of the colour over the surface. Then I set it aside to dry.

Once my page was completely dry, I added some stamping using Jet Black Ranger Archival Ink with the Bokeh Stamp. I also added stencilling using Stormy Weather Colour Paste with the Circulate Stencil.

Once the Colour Paste was dry, I added my layered, cropped patterned papers according to the sketch. 

I die cut some leafy stems using the Autumn Trio Metal Die from the Embrace Change Collection. I did a whole lot of fussy cutting using the gorgeous elements from the Grateful Heart Gathers and Collection Bonus sheets.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you find some time to play along with the August Sketch Challenge too.

Cheers

Belinda

Keep Going by Charmane Koch

 Hey Everyone! Hoping your Monday is off to an AWESOME start! I'm guessing some of you will be getting those kids back to school? We still have a week to go, but I LOVE it when my kids are home! No school lunches to worry about, no drop offs & pick ups... just WORK! Ha, ha!

Anyway, today I wanted to share with you my most recent layout loosely based on the April Sketch this month...

I loved all the layering and mix of stamping... so decided to create my background using lots of Bee Arty Stamps & Stencils.

Here is what my base looked like after stamping and stencilling...

I have then added more colour to the page, using similar colours to the Fearless, Brave and Free Confidence paper that I used, Slipper & Oasis in the Artist Inks {with water} and also Polar Mica Powder...

Can you believe I managed to use all of these Stencils and Stamps!

Heres a list of them for you:

Bokeh Clear Stamp

New Dawn Clear Stamp

Wonderful Clear Stamp

Live Life Stencil

Rhythm Stencil

Triangle Spray Stencil

Keep Going Stencil

And this is the final outcome of my layout...

I finished off the page with doodling around the stencilled images & a bit of machine sewing around the edge of the layout & partially around the photos that I matted using Fearless Brave & Free Strength paper

It was so therapeutic creating the background loosely stamping & stencilling! How much fun it is to play with the fabulous Bee Arty Goodies!

I hope I've inspired you to get out a mix of stamps and stencils and create your own background!

Thanks for popping in!

Have a fantastic week!

XO Charm

Follow Your Soul...by Belinda Spencer

 Hello Bee Arty fans!!

It's Belinda here with you today to share my latest layout featuring lots of awesome Bee Arty products.

'Follow Your Soul'

I started my lay out by cropping a sheet of the Tangled patterned paper from the Untangle collection. I then added it to a sheet of the fabulous Bee Arty 350gsm White Cardstock for extra strength and support.

I sprayed the background paper with Saffron Colour Spray and let it drip down the page. Next I added Slipper Colour Artist Ink and let that drip down too. I dried the page with a heat gun and then added more Slipper Ink letting it run down the page again. I flicked some of the ink over the page too using a soft wet paintbrush and then dried with the heat gun again. I repeated this process using Citrus Ink too.

How gorgeously vibrant are those colours??!!

Next I added two lacy scroll borders die cut from the Desire Metal Die Set as well as some wire thread, a doily and flowers fussy cut from the Embrace patterned paper

I used the same inks to colour these super pretty die cut leaves from the Leaves of Paradise Metal Die Set. Once dry I added them to the layout along with all other embellishments, my photo and title.

Here is my finished layout:

You can see that I fussy cut some leaves and added some uncoloured die cut leaves too. I sprayed the Polaroid Butterfly die cut with the Saffron Colour Spray, let dry and then doodled a border with a black pen before adding over the top of my photo.

Here's what I used:

UNTANGLE Collection:

- Embrace patterned paper

- Lines patterned paper

- Silence patterned paper

- Tangled patterned paper

Colour Spray:

- Saffron

- Sunset

Colour Artist Ink:

- Citrus

- Slipper

Bokeh Clear Stamp

Metal Dies:

- Desire

- Leaves of Paradise

- Polaroid Butterfly

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you are feeling inspired to have a play with your Bee Arty stash too.

Cheers

Belinda