Blank Page Muse Blog: April 2024

Good day, fellow crafters. It's me, Tamara, and today, I'm excited to unveil a captivating new design on the Blank Page Muse blog, inspired by my deep appreciation for the Far East and its vibrant cultural traditions. This project reflects the colorful ceremonies and rich history that have always intrigued me. Dive into this artistic exploration and discover how Eastern aesthetics can enrich your crafting. Don’t miss out—visit the Blank Page Muse blog and let your creativity take flight with this unique design!

To get started, you will need the following:

Blank Page Muse Japanese Characters Background
Blank Page Muse Geisha Collage
High quality watercolor paper
Coffee
Black, brown and red ink pads
Clear embossing powder
Masking tape
Watercolor pigments
Cardstock
liquid glue

Begin by immersing the watercolor paper in coffee for a full twenty-four hours to achieve a deeply weathered and aged appearance. As the paper dries, it adopts the warm, sepia-toned hues and slightly textured surface reminiscent of vintage posters you might find tucked away in an antique shop. This intentional aging process gave the paper a beautifully distressed look that perfectly complements the historical theme of my design.

Following the aging process of the paper, move on to create the background. I used the Japanese Characters Background stamp with brown ink to introduce an element of subtle depth and texture. To ensure the characters appeared subtly, first ink the stamp and press onto a scrap piece of paper—a technique known as 'stamping off. ' This step removes excess ink so that when it is stamped onto the background panel, the characters will be faint and contribute to the card's aged appearance.

This method was effective in giving the design a more authentic, worn look, as if the characters had been part of the paper for decades.

The next step in creating the background panel was the addition of the Geisha Collage stamp. To begin, mask off the large character on the left side of the stamp with some masking tape to keep it ink-free. Then apply black ink to the remaining parts of the stamp. After removing the masking tape, I inked the previously covered character in red before applying the entire stamp on my background panel.

Next, while the stamped image is still wet, sprinkle clear embossing powder over the ink and heat set it in preparation for the next step which was to water color the image.

(I personally like to add this step when I use watercolor pigments because the melted embossing powder provides a bit of a well to apply your pigments too which assists in reducing bleed through of colors.) Once the embossing is set, secure the panel to your work surface and water colored the image.

While the image dries, choose some cardstock colors that fit together with your theme, in this case red and black, them trim them to their final dimensions to act as mats for the background panel. Then adhere them together with the image onto a white card base.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Doodling with Stencil to Create Faux Wax Seals with a Bonus Card

Hello! Welcome back to the BPM blog. I am so glad you are here. Today's project features one of the many creative ways in using a stencil. I hope you like it.

Aside from mushrooms, I noticed the emergence of wax seals in the crafting world. I have eyes on the tools and supplies needed to create wax seals but decided to go with the non-conventional way of creating it since I am not sure how committed I will be with this craft. I settled with the alternative way of creating wax seals with the use of a die and an embossing powder.

The stencil I am using is the Blank Page Muse Cute Mushrooms Stencil. I traced the mushrooms using gold glitter gel pens with various tips. I added details to the mushrooms with dots and lines.

I die cut the doodled mushrooms with a wax seal die set. I adhered the layers together. I added ultra thick clear embossing powder to the layered wax seal die cut to add shine.

These fax wax seals can be adhered to the back of the envelope with any type of glue. It can also be used to embellish a card.

I had a lot of left over circle die cuts from die cutting the layers of the wax seal. Instead of putting these circles inside my bin of circle die cuts, I created a matching card for the wax seals.

I used the same technique of tracing the mushrooms on the stencil and doodling on it for details. I used one of the stamps from the Scribble & Scratch Mixed Media Set 2 to add a subtle background design to the card base.

I love it when I end up with a 2-for-1 project!

I hope you like today's project. Please visit my blog, Maria Giselle's Creative Cuts, for more details.

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Monday, April 22, 2024

So Sorry for your Loss

Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today.

Today I am using some amazing products from Blank Page Muse.

Blank Page Muse Stamps: Sympathy Flowers & Sentiments

It can be difficult creating a sympathy card, but this stamp set has all you need.

Create a background using the floral stamp.

Fill in some of the white spaces with the flourish stamp.

Add a phrase and you are done.

Details can be found on my blog.

Thanks for stopping by.

Steph

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Rocker Cards

Sue here today to show you a fun and interactive card.

This is a fun, and easy to create card.
I used a couple of fun stamp sets, and pattern papers to decorate them.

This is a fun, and easy to create card. I used a couple of fun stamp sets, and pattern papers to decorate them.

You can see details, and a short video on my blog.

Stamps/products used:

Blank Page Muse Special day Birthday clear stamp set by Pam Bray

Blank Page Muse Cyan Corsortium paper pack by Pam Bray

Blank Page Muse Tattered & Worn paper pack by Pam Bray

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Monday, April 15, 2024

Just A Note

Hello, Lyneen here,
I love vintage and distressed cards! How about you? For this card I created the vintage background paper with Blank Page Muse stamps. I stamped on velum for effect!

For this card I used the following from Blank Page Muse:

Vintage style Postcards background Art Rubber StampsTTS114-01

Correspondence Pens, Ink & Postage Art Rubber Stamp Sheet by Katy Leitch SCKTL-001 (Stamps, Pens, Script background)

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Monday, April 8, 2024

Striped Card Design Using Border Stamps

Hello! Welcome back to the BPM blog. I am so glad you are here. Cutting strips of paper and incorporating it to the card design is pretty much on trend these days. This technique is showcased in today's card. To step it up, I added a border design to each strip.

I used the Blank Page Muse Beyond the Border Mixed Media clear stamp set on this card. I used all of the 5 border stamps included in the set. After I chose the colors of cardstock for my striped design, I heat embossed each border stamp to the cardstock. I used a pearl powder for embossing powder which adds a subtle but elegant look to the stamped impression.

I glued the strips on a scrap piece of paper. I made sure that each strip is butted to the next one so that is looks like one continuous piece of paper. I die cut this into a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" panel.