Colour Blast by Bee Arty

Sunday, 16 February 2020

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

Saturday, 15 February 2020

'Par-a-dise'
with Lisa Amiet

Hello Bee Arty Fans!

It's Lisa here today on the blog to share my first post as part of the

Bee Arty Team, I am so excited to be here!

Here is my first layout :)
'Par-a-dise'

I have used the gorgeous 'Find Paradise' collection,

Perfect for my holiday pics!

I have used the 'Honey Hive A4 Stencil' and some

'Colour Paste - Blush' to randomly stencil through onto my base page.

I have also used the same Colour Paste to stencil through the 'Drifting Leaves A5 Stencil',

onto white card stock.

I love these drifting leaves! Now to fussy cut them.

I have then used the 'Geo Grunge Clear Stamp Set' and

the 'Memories Red Rubber Stamp Set',

and black ink, to randomly stamp around the stencilled area.

I have fussy cut the florals and foliage from the patterned papers,

to use to start building my layers, as pictured below.

I have also fussy cut the glass.

I have used my stencilled pieces, tucking into my layers,

I have also used the title and sentiment cut from the papers.

I love how this one turned out, perfect tropical feel for my page.

I hope you like what I have created too!

Until next time!

Lisa

Bee Arty Products used:

Find Paradise Collection Pack
Honey Hive A4 Stencil
Colour Paste - Blush
Drifting Leaves A5 Stencil
Geo Grunge Clear Stamp Set
Memories Red Rubber Stamp Set

Wednesday, 12 February 2020

Think outside the 'stencil' by Ros Aggett-Madley

Hi everyone.

It's so nice to be back after a little break in the Kit Club.

This month I'm sharing some projects using stencils. I'm going to be trying to 'think outside the square' and find different ways to use them.

Can you remember when we first started going crazy for stencils.? I use to need them all and they would be slapped on the page, making sure the whole thing was added. 12 x 12 or whatever size, not a bit left out.

Now there are so many different patterns and quotes, it can sometimes be instinctive to think it all has to be used. For these 2 projects I've tried to look at them not as a whole, but as pieces that can build layers and provide different elements in my projects.

For my little journal page I started with one of my favourite ways to add a quick background.

I have mixed a little water and a small amount of Citrus Colour Artist Ink.

I simply tip this into the middle of a page and use the little tub to move it around. Once my blob of colour is just how I want it, I use the cup as a stamp and add a few circles around the page.

After I dried this off I have added some molding paste through a couple of stencils. For this background I chose to use the Keep Going and the 100% stencil.

Both of these stencils have quotes and words and nothing that matched what I actually wanted on the page. What they do offer me though is a variety letters and different text.

Without thinking about what is written on the stencils, it's easy to get an interesting and textured background. You don't have to keep them the right way up either.

Turn them around and have your letters going any way you choose, adding interest to your page.

I've then used the Live Life stencil and some Sunshine Colour Paste to add a few bees to some black card.

I thought that by adding it straight to the black card, there was no colouring needed. I made 3 bees and once dry, these have been fussy cut and glued on top of each other for dimension.

I also used the Live Life stencil on my background with some orange ink and a sponge. Again, I have just popped random pieces of the text around my page. All these layers that are added to your background give your piece, colour, dimension and adds interest.

In a couple of the corners I have added parts of the arrow on the 100% stencil and one of my favourite Scrap FX stamps.

Again, not using the whole piece of the arrow, it's not needed. Just a little point from both sides of the page, drawing your eye into the middle.

My little layered up bee looks like a little 3d bee on my page. 💙

My next sample of 'thinking outside the box' with your stencils, got me a little gift card to add to my stash.

Sometimes when you have a stencil with a lot of elements on it, it helps to section each piece off with your hands or some card and look at each part separately.

I did this with the Up Up & Away stencil and it became easy to then see that the basket from the bottom of a hot air balloon could be used as a base for so many things.

I've chosen to use it as a flower basket, but you could add anything. Lollies, toys, hearts, fruit and breads are a few of the things I thought of.

This one stared with a little wash of Calypso and Marine Colour Artist Inks. I have just used a wide, wet paintbrush to add this colour and heat dried.

Using a black sharpie and the basket in the Up Up & Away, I have drawn the basket onto this.

It seemed a little flat with the colour of the basket being the same as my background. To solve this, I have used a small brush to pool water inside the basket and dabbed it up with some paper towel. This removed some of the colour and lightened it up heaps.

The flowers and leaves are from the Flower Pennants stencil. The flowers were sectioned off with some tape and added to some white card with Just Blue Colour Paste. I've then carefully added the leaves with Apple of my Eye Colour Paste. Once dried these were fussy cut and coloured with some Lime Colour Artist Ink for the leaves, and a mix of Bordeaux and Calypso for the petals.

The sentiment on the bottom of my card is from the Kind Heart Stamp Set.

I hope you've been inspired to look at stencils a little bit differently and think about how just because they say something, doesn't mean it has to be relevant to your project. Use them to add interest to your creations, whether that be dimension or colour.

Cheers to adding more stencils to our stash 😂

Hope you've been inspired 💙

Saturday, 8 February 2020

Ways with Mica powders, by Amanda Hartmann

Hello Colour Blasters!

Today's page was originally published 12 months ago, but I am sharing again so we can focus on some of the awesome ways you can use Mica Powders.

Here is the page, then let's look at the techniques....

These Mica Powders are so versatile: Mix with a range of products to get the perfect colour combination that you need, all with shimmer and shine!

Technique 1: Mica powders with stamping

Colour Mica Powders stick to Versamark Stamp pads often used for embossing.

Stamp an image using the Versamark, then using a brush, dust some Mica Powder over. In this example I used the colour Watermelon.

After stamping and brushing a few images, use a second clean and dry soft brush to dust the excess Mica Powder. The shimmer and shine of the Colour Mica Powder can be seen in the stamped image, and some of the soft colour has transferred to the background.

Technique 2: Make a paste to paint metal charms

Mixed some Colour Mica Powders with a very small amount of water to make a thick paste. A wet brush is enough water; too much water and it won't stick to the metal!!!!

The thick paste created can be painted onto the metal charms. This one is in Lemon Zing.

And these charms painted in Peach Nectar.

Technique 3: Mix with Gel medium to make a paste

Another great use of Mica Powders, is to mix them with mediums. Mixing with Gesso will make a great paint, but mixing them with Gel medium as I have for this page, creates a thick paste, again in the perfect colour needed.

Mixed Gel medium and mica powders (Peach Nectar and Lemon Zing), ready for my page!

Apply Mica Powder pastes through stencils easily.

Technique 4: Mix with water for painting and splattering

Mix a little more water with some Mica Powder to paint and splatter, so I added slightly more water. I used Lemon Zing in this example.

I painted some of the Lemon Zing to the background, including the petals of the stamp rose images. Adding the water-based Mica Powder paint to these stamped images did not affect the stamped images. I also did some splatters.

Once the page had dried, I finished the page off with a few key embellishments.

This cluster of flowers, leaves and charms is perfect for the corner of the photo!

I love the effect of the Colour Mica Powder painted on the metal charms!

It is hard to see all the shimmer and shine in the photos of this project, but it is there!

Mica Powders are so versatile..... I hope you will try some of these techniques out today!

Thanks for much for looking today!

Amanda

Friday, 7 February 2020

Fun with stamping and Colour Blast Artists Inks! with Elisa Ablett

Hello Hive members,

Elisa here from the design team with a special blog post today.

Last year I was lucky enough to teach a few classes for Colour Blast at the Brisbane Expo using a few stamp sets I designed especially for the classes.

We have a few sets left over and now Paige has put them up for sale on the website and I get to show you what you can do with these beauties!

Here are a couple of mixed media cards that I made with both sets of stamps. Perfect fit for the front of a standard size card. Easy to use and add colour to as well!

With the Serendipity stamp set, I stamped with embossing ink pad and then used Dusty Charcoal Colour Embossing Powder and heat set with a heat gun. I then coloured the butterfly using Colour Artist Inks in Mermaid, Slipper and Citrus using a thin round paint brush, washing between colours.

With this card, I started by tearing a few strips of old book or music paper and layering them on the bottom of the card. Then used Colour Artists Inks in Citrus, Barley, Cranberry, Spice, Cider, Soot and Mermaid to add my sunset and grassed area. Once your background is complete, dry completely and then Stamp your City Lights stamp over the top using a black archival ink pad. You can also heat emboss using the Dusty Charcoal Colour Embossing Powder.

Here is another photo of the Serendipity Stamp Set, used on two card fronts, one heat embossed and hand coloured in and the other heat embossed using Snow White Colour Embossing Powder and then a colour wash applied over the top using Colour Artist Inks.

The embossing powder makes for a great resist and watercolour wash technique.

Here are the two stamp sets I designed, perfect for cards, art journalling and scrapbooking!!