Friday, February 25, 2022

Creating an Art Journal in 2022 - A Creative Start

Today I am excited to share the start of my 2022 Art Journal! Art journaling was something I played around with in 2021 and loved the freedom it gave me to just create! To try new techniques. To try new stamps, new textures and USE my papers and scraps!

I know that I will not love all my creations and some won't even ever be seen! But this is by me and for me so that's ok! No Rules! No Limits (except for paper size!

For this year's journal, I choose a travel journal I had picked up off of amazon that I loved and had hope to use as a scrapbook of sorts but felt the pages were too thin. But I couldn't let it go to waste so it will be my Art Journal! And I love the size. Roughly 4 1/8 x 6 3/4 inches. Big enough to get creative but not so big that it would get overwhelming. You Can find the exact journal on Amazon if you want to try the same one, but any 3 to 6 ring binder will do! and in Any size.

Supplies needed to recreate Your Title Page

Blank Page Muse Alphabet Letter Set Sheet Art Rubber Stamp by Terri Sproul

Blank Page Muse "Flitter" Butterfly against a Honeycomb Background Art Rubber Stamp

Blank Page Muse Chicken Wire Mesh Background Texture Art Rubber Stamp by Pam Bray Designs

Other Supplies

Paper (Cardstock weight), Archival Ink, Planner Die (if desired) , Tiny type alphabets stickers, chipboard sentiment.

Start by die cutting or cutting your Page to size using printed paper. I chose a patterned paper that already had lots of "activity" going on!

Stamp your title and Flitter using Blank Page Muse Alphabet Letter Set Sheet Art Rubber Stamp by Terri Sproul and Blank Page Muse "Flitter" Butterfly against a Honeycomb Background Art Rubber Stamp.

Blank Page Muse Chicken Wire Mesh Background Texture Art Rubber Stamp by Pam Bray Designs

Add your Tiny Alphabet stickers.

Stamp Blank Page Muse Chicken Wire Mesh Background Texture Art Rubber Stamp by Pam Bray Designs onto background as desired and add chipboard sentiment to finish off your title page.

I hope you are inspired to get creative and try Art Journaling with me this year! ~Chris

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Sympathy Card

Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here using some amazing stamps from Blank Page Muse.

Stamps used: Sympathy Flowers and Sentiments

The full tutorial can be found on my blog.

Thanks for stopping by.

Steph

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Friday, February 18, 2022

Under the Sea

Hello from design team member, Heidi!

I had a few scraps left from some backgrounds I made previously, and I don’t like to waste these. I found some small fish stamps in my I Brake for Stamps collection to use up every bit of background. Then I just fussy cut them out. I loved the way the first turned out with some interesting texture and markings.

The other background was made a while back with alcohol inks. This is one that I just loved too much to use, which is also a terrible habit! You can see that I am really working on reforming my bad habits!

Here are the stamps I used for this project:

By the Sea Rubber Sheet

Sentiment from Turtle Set

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR VISITING!!!!

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Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Feel like having a "Purple" day?

Hi Stamping Fans!

Hope you are enjoying the DT inspiration here at the blog this month - I'm loving the new year and my resolution to make time for stamping and crafting - so far so good! Hope you are all getting lots of creativity time as well!

Today I have some "purple" themed altered index cards to share using lots of different products available in the BPM Store - I love when you can combine a range of products!

I love working to a colour theme as well and using some fun quirky collage images with stamps, stencils, paint & ink!

Stamps and Stencils used:

Flower and Bird Sketches Stamp Set

Day of the Dead Sugar Skulls Marigold Flowers Sacred Heart Stamp Set designed by Donna Gray

Dream Big Stencil designed by Magda Polakow

Feather Stencil designed by Donna Gray

Remember if you use the code BPMSharon at the store checkout you can save 15% on your stamp order - what better excuse do you need to go check out the huge range and nab some rubber stamps to create with! AND remember you can also use this code for discount at the "I Brake for Stamps" store as well! Fantastic way to build you stash of stamps and save some money!

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Friday, February 11, 2022

Love U xxx

Hi Stamping Fans!

Can you believe we are already into the month of "Romance" for 2022? I've created a romantic page in one of my art journals using rubber stamps to compliment a collage image!

Stamp links are below and if you want to see the process pop over to my blog by clicking "here"!

Here are the links to the stamps I used from the BPM Store:

Scribble Hearts and Elements Sheet designed by Pam Bray

Alphabet Letter Sheet designed by Terri Sproul

Love Fancy Word Stamp

Love is a Burning Desire Stamp

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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Bouncing Brayer Backgrounds

Hello from designer, Heidi.

I have two cards to share today that both use an easy technique my friend taught me called Bouncing Brayer. All you do is ink up your brayer (I used a kaleidocolor inkpad here, but any dye ink will work fine) and then you bounce in along your glossy cardstock until you like the way it looks.

For backgrounds like this, I often like to stamp simply over top. I chose some great stamps from the I Brake for Stamps line and stamped right over top using Archival ink. I think they both turned out great! I chose to make these both birthday cards as I completely depleted my supply by giving all mine to a local charity.

Here are links to the stamps I used.

By the Sea Rubber Sheet

Half Sheet 138B

Thank you so much for visiting today!

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Sunday, February 6, 2022

How to Create a Texture Filled Art Journal Page

Greetings! Chris Here and today I am excited to share this newest addition to my 2022 art journal! This page was so fun to create and has so many fun textures!

My Inspiration title for this page is USE YOUR WINGS! To remind ME that it's OK to step outside my comfort zone and just play! For more information on my journal you can check out other posts on my blog.

Blank Page Muse Supplies

Hearts Stencil designed by Magda Polakow

Vintage Mannequin Dress Form Lace Fan Butterfly Pattern Tags Rubber Stamp Set

Classic Spark Rubber Stamp set

Other Supplies

Embossing Folder, Black Card Stock, graph grid paper or note card, Loose weave burlap trim, Light modeling paste, black paint, wax-blue patina, bronze, black ink, copper ink, mod podge, Sentiment chipboard, Mixed media paper, water color markers

Start by cutting your mixed media paper to fit your journal. Adhere your loose weave burlap to the left side of your page.

Using your Hearts Stencil designed by Magda Polakow and light modeling paste. Just look at that texture!!!! Let dry. You can speed up the process with a heat gun. THe modeling paste has to be just dry enough you can't see your finger impressions in it.

Paint your page with black paint. I love that the black paint seemed to "re-activate" my my modeling paste and the hearts picked up the burlap texture too!