Blah Blah Blah by Tracey Campbell

 Hello Bee Arty people, it's Tracey Campbell here today to share my latest creation using the newest collection Chit Chat, designed by Tanya Frond. A fun and funky range with pretty pinks, greens and purples with black grungy accents perfect for males and females.

I've used it to great a layout about how when Bronte was smaller she loved chatting on the phone to her Dad or Grammy.... doesn't happen much anymore. Teenagers!! 

To start this layout I used the XOXO Stencil and spread some clear gesso on to white cardstock . I placed some Os and hearts in rows across the base.

Once dry apply lines of Artist Inks in Slipper and Mermaid across the page, with a thick paint brush.The clear gesso will resist the Artist Ink. 

Use a paint brush to flick some watered down white gesso across the base. Then repeat with the Mermaid Artist Ink and splatter fine splotches over the base. 

Cut three strips of paper from the She patterned paper, roughly the width of 3.5 cm. Tear off the ends and tear them in half so that you have 6 paper strips. Adhere them across the base, use both sides of the pattern paper.

Using the Road Base Colour Spray flick some liquid over the top of the base.

Using some black Stazon use the rectangular piller stamp form the Scrabble stamp set and press it across the base, over lapping the Artist Ink and She pattern paper. 

Cut 4 rectangles from the She and Chat patterned papers, just slightly larger than a 4x6 inch photo. Distress the edges and angle mat them around the photo. Adhere tot he base, slightly off center, see the final layout for the position.

Fussy cut the two spike speech bubbles from the Speak patterned paper. As I knew I wanted three spiky speech bubbles I drew another one on white cardstock with a black Sharpie pen and then cut it out.

Adhere the spiky speech bubbles around the top right hand corner of the photo. Use the Scrabble piece letters from the Scrabble stamp set and use black Stazon to stamp a title onto one of the speech bubbles. Fussy cut the words Blah, Blah, Blah from the Love Letter title pattern paper and adhere them to the other two speech bubbles.

Use the metal die to cut out a pink and teal female person from the Peeps metal die set and adhere them to the bottom right hand corner. Finish off the page by stamping some heats from the Scrabble stamp set.

Well I hope that you have enjoyed my layout that I have created today with the Chit Chat collection, it is really a versatile range.

Hugs

Tracey

COLLAGE GIRL CANVAS by Linda Pearson

 Hi Bee Arty friends ....  We are now in lockdown again but let's make the time to create some amazing art.

Today I am sharing a canvas I did last year using lots of mixed media products.  

Bee Arty Products used in this project:

• Flux A6 stencil 
• Face Side Profile 2 - A4 Stencil
• Colour paste -
• Shimmer dust –  Duke
• Gesso – Bee Arty heavy primer 250ml (black)

Other products used:

• Collage papers - Assorted Gel print papers, coloured photo of myself 
• permanent water colour pencil in dark blue
• Fiber paste
• texture paste
• gel matt medium
• pink paint
• plastic bag

   

   

Tear the gel print and photo paper into similar width strips.

Glue torn strips of paper to cover the whole canvas.  Cover the page with a coat of white paint or Gesso to a translucent finish.

Mix the Colour paste - Licorice paste with some Shimmer dust –  Duke.  I also added some fiber paste to the mixed to make a heavily textured paste, but this can be omitted if you haven't any.  Apply the mix thickly through the Face Side Profile 2 - A4 Stencil.  

Mix a  good quantity of texture paste with black Gesso, add some black paint if the colour isn't dark enough for you.  Spoon the paste into the plastic bag, snip a corner of the bag then pipe the texture paste to form the hair line and strands of hair.

Pipe a lace trim along the bottom edge of the portrait silhouette.

Mix some pink paint with texture paint then apply paste through the Flux A6 stencil stencil around the outer edge of the canvas.  Outline around the edges with permanent water colour pencil (dark blue), then add some water to the pencil outline to blend some shading to the stencil.

Thank you for stopping by and hope you are inspired to have a go at creating a canvas for yourself .... enjoy the Easter break 

linda@yourcreativepalette.com.au 

Your Creative Palette

She Flies- Chrissi Mannix

Hello Lovelies

Welcome to my first blog post as a part of the new Bee Arty Creative Team. I'm so excited to be creating as a part of the team.

Today I have created an art journal page using the Colour Artist Inks, my favourite Stardust Stencil and an easy, but awesome technique I wanted to share with you. 

I made this page using a very simple Gesso Resist technique. All you need is white gesso, a stencil of your choice and a water reactive medium of some kind.

It is as simple as applying a thin layer of gesso through your stencil of choice, and letting it dry. Then applying your water reactive medium to your page. I have used Artist Inks for this. I applied Colour Artist Inks in the colours: Calypso, Bordeaux and Slipper. The ink will move and blend over the page, but you will notice the image start to appear. When you dry your colour, take a baby wipe and wipe over the image, you will see it pop against your colours. This is the gesso resisting the ink.

Once it was dried, I added black splatters using Colour Artist Ink in Soot. To add a focal point to my page, I used an older Bee Arty stencil to add my title- She Flies. I used black gesso through my stencil for this. I love how it boldly jumps of the page.

Colour Artist Inks are some of my favourite Colour Blast products. The perform beautifully for this technique, and I love the way they blend and move. 

I also have a YouTube Video of this process if you would like to see it come together.

Bee Arty Art Journal Page

I can't wait to share more with you in my upcoming posts. 

Chrissi xxx

Bee Arty Products Used

Colour Artist Inks: 

Slipper

Bordeaux

Calypso

Soot

Stardust A4 Stencil

White Gesso

Christmas House by Suzy Loudon

I hope everyone has had a very special & safe Christmas.

So still in the Christmas spirit I thought I'd share my little Christmas House that I painted. 

I wanted it to match the tones of a little gingerbread house that I had but didn't have the paints, so I got out my Colour Blast products & gave it a go.

To begin with I gave it a good coat of Heavy White Gesso as it was porous & I wanted to seal it. 

To mix up the brown I used Rust Artist Ink with a little bit of Walnut Artist ink mixed with Heavy White Gesso.

To mix all my colours up I used Shimmer dusts with the Heavy White Gesso. The Shimmer Dusts I used are

1. Lollipop  2. Cobalt   3. Passion   4. Paris   5. Candy   6. Sunflower

I used Heavy Black Gesso as well as mixing it with the white to make a grey.

I added a good dose of material puff paint for the snow. While it was still wet I took it outside & sprinkled glitter over it. 

I then gave it a quick spray with adhesive spray I sprinkled ultra fine glitter all over.

Then it was just leaving it to dry & turning the inside lights on each night.

And that brings 2019 to an end.

I hope everyone has a happy & safe new year. Bring on 2020.

xxx Suzy

Farm Help by Suzanne Franin

Hey Everyone

Here's my latest project for Colour Blast Australia 

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And make sure to check out the rest of the Blog as there is always lots of inspiration from the fabulous Design Team there

I got these photos of my gorgeous God Daughter from her day at school where they dressed in farm type clothes to support the farmers and donated money towards it as well

She's not shy when having her photo taken if you can't tell 

I started by spreading Heavy White Gesso over the Spread Your Wings - Earth Angels paper to mute the black a little and for the  Lush Colour Shimmer Dust to stay on top of the paper and not soak through (that's what happens if you don't prime your papers)

I sprayed water onto the paper then dipped a brush into the Shimmer Dust, then lightly tapped the brush randomly over the page

Then with the spatula I spread the water and dust so it would mix and leave different shades over the paper

Here you can see I used different pieces of the Spread your Wings Collection and added the Lush Shimmer Dust to those as well

I had excess on the page so I swiped them onto it so they all got a bit of colour

I had planned on using these flowers on something else and had used the Soot Colour Artist Ink on them but had added extra water to tone them down then in the end didn't use them 

So I added more Soot to them and placed them on the page

 

I added some straw to give the farm feel and add some texture

And of course every layout needs some metal 

I also added some word stickers that I thought where just right for the photos and for Miss Sophie xx

Thank you for visiting I hope you come back soon x

You & Me by Suzanne Franin

Hey Everyone Suzanne here

This week's Colour Blast project I HAD to use the new stencil I'd gotten Colour Blast Boho Mandala Stencil from the Follow Your Dreams range it's so pretty  

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Look at these two how gorgeous are they 

Mum took them to one of those pop-up shops where they take the pictures in the shopping centres and had a whole heap of photos done and when I saw them I asked if I could do a canvas of one of the photos she said for sure not knowing what I was going to do

It was so hard to pick as there were so many of them together and apart but this was the most fun out of all of them

And lucky for me their mum loved it

 I used the Colour Blast White Heavy Gesso on all the embellishments and the canvas to prime everything so that whatever medium I was going to use on them would adhere with no problem  

I used the Colour Blast Boho Mandala  Stencil from the Follow Your Dreams range with some clear impasto
I'd have to say this is my new favourite stencil it's so pretty

 

With the background, it took a while to work out what colour to go with I was going to do it in Snow White Shimmer Cube but the Lady I made it for said the other colour she liked was purple (she hadn't seen what I was doing with the photo until I was finished)

So I used the Colour Shimmer Cube Royalty 

 I used the Colour Artist Ink Slipper and some water for the flowers as they weren't white and didn't look right 
I also used it on a few of the other embellishments

 I used a Flair from Embellish With Flair it's from the You Make Me Smile Set
I also used some Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happiness Accessory Stickers and Die Cut Ephemera set

 The Heart is from Finnabair and I filled it with some Silver Art Ingredients Glass Glitter and used a Cocoa Vanilla Studio saying sticker from the Happiness collection to put on top same as I did with the saying on the arrow

The chipboard arrow is from a Memory Maze Set Arrow love me and you

Thank you for visiting and I hope you will come back soon x