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Saturday, July 25, 2026

Die Cutting on Digital Prints

Hello! Welcome back to the BPM blog. We are so glad you are here.

Blank Page Muse just released a new printable paper digital download set, the BPM Summer Citrus Digital Papers, Ephemera, Pockets & Tags Printables. This collection is an 8 page printable sheet with lots of images included. For today's project, I am featuring the full digital papers. There are four colors having the same floral design. You can use this in a lot of ways. I am using it on a card for today's project.

I cut a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" panel on the green and yellow printouts. On the light green printout, with the short side up, I cut a slit every 1/2" using a trimmer.

I left a 1/2" on the top and a 1/2" on the bottom uncut.

I trimmed the yellow print out into 1/2" on the long side.

I weaved the yellow strips through the slits I created on the light green print out.

You can really get creative with paper weaving but I decided to just make it simple doing a top-back-top-back pattern. The uncut portion of the light green print out helped in keeping the weaved strips stay put.

I made sure that the strips are abutt to each other.

After adding the strips through the slits, it gets a bit tight making it aifficult to thread anymore strips. I snipped the edges so I can thread more strips until the edge of the panel.

I added dots of glue to the last strip to secure the weaved strips in place.

I die cut the pieces that I needed to create the card. I trimmed another green digital paper at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". I die cut a window on this panel to create a frame. I die cut a floral set on the orange, yellow and light green digital prints. I die cut extra pieces on white cardstock. I stacked and adhered these pieces to the back of the digital print die cuts to add dimension.

I adhered the frame to the weaved panel. I trimmed off the excess.

I adhered the stem, tucking the end under the frame.

I adhered the flower die cut.

I adhered the circle die cut to the flower.

I adhered the leaves leaving the outer tip raised. To keep it raised, I snucked a clear foam adhesive tape underneath it. This ads some dimension to the leaves.

I added shimmer to the printed white flowers.

I outlined the frame with dash lines using a white gel pen. I added gems to the flower centers.

I hope you like today's project and give this design a try.

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Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

of Maria Giselle's Creative Cuts

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Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Wonderful Day-Lori

Hello, crafty friends!! Today, I have a birthday card that's fun and comes together quickly thanks to the Special Day Clear Sentiments Birthday Stamp Set, available only at Blank Page Muse. This one layer card has balloons and a rainbow of festive streamers. Follow along as I recreate the card.

First, I stamped several balloons onto a piece of masking paper. I wasn't sure how many balloons I was going to use, so I made more than I needed. Masking paper is used to mask off an image when you're going to place something that you want to appear behind it.

This sentiment was stamped in the bottom middle of a landscape-oriented, A2 panel of Neenah Classic Crest Cover Solar White 110lb cardstock. This is pretty much the only white cardstock that I use. It is great for stamping, inkblending, and Copic coloring.

I ended up stamping three balloons on the panel, above the sentiment. The first is exactly in the middle. In design, it's good to use odd numbers of objects in your projects. It is more pleasing to the eye than even numbers.

As you can see, the balloons are masked. I repeated the streamers stamp by overlapping them. I did the primary colors first: red on the left, yellow in the middle, then blue on the right. By doing this, I made sure I would have enough room for my rainbow pattern.

Finished card. You can see that, once I removed the masking paper, the streamers appear to be behind the balloons. I colored them in with Copic markers and added a small white highlight with a white gel pen. I used a light blue ink and inkblended around the edges to add interest. This sweet card came together quickly. I don't know about you, but I never have enough Birthday cards!

Monday, July 20, 2026

Girls Night Out Card by Julia

Hi!

I am back with some inspiration for Blank Page Muse shop.

Had such an awesome time using Just Us Girls Line Figure Art Rubber Stamp Sheet by Terri Sproul SC73.

I made a card and had so much fun making it.

Hope you like today's project.

You can find me here at Paper and Scraps Creations By Julia.

You are invited to visit our social media sites for more inspiration:

Julia

Saturday, July 18, 2026

Mermaid swim card

Good morning, Cathy here with a summer card for you.

Stamps Used:

Mermaid with flower

flower and leaves border

Paper:

cyan consortium paper

* Stamp and color mermaid.

* Cut out and edge with black marker.

* Stamp mermaid on the paper and stamp "seaweed" at the bottom.

* Color the "seaweed " with acrylic paint markers.

* Glue cut out mermaid over the stamped one on the paper.

* Add some glitter to the fins.

* Add an octopus die cut to the side of the card.

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Thursday, July 16, 2026

Create a Mini DIY Journal

Hello! Welcome back to the BPM blog. Blank Page Muse just released a new printable paper digital download set, the Summer Citrus Digital Papers, Ephemera, Pockets & Tags Printables. I am featuring these printables on my projects this month. This is my second post using these printables.

There are several advantages in using a digital print download. One of the advantages is that it can be resized depending on your project. For my project, I resized the top most print out sheet on the photo above. My initial plan is to make the image with the green design a card front. I thought I resized it to 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" but after I trimmed it, it was not. I can make this into an odd shaped card but I had a light bulb moment while I was working with this digital print.

I don't know about you but I have several trimmers which includes a guillotine trimmer. I trimmed the white edges off the image.

To make sure I trimmed it flushed on the edge of the printed image, I used a Post-It Note as a guide. I lined it to the edge of the print out. I positioned the Post-It Note with the digital print on the trimmer. I made sure that the edge of the Post-It Note is aligned to the blade of the trimmer.

I scored this digital print at the center using the image's center line as a guide. This is when the idea of creating a mini journal went into play.

I looked through my stash and pulled out the excess sheets of my sons' school notebooks. I made pencil marks with the edges of the print out as guide. These marks will guide me on where to trim these sheets.

I wanted some variety on my journal so I also repeated the above steps on several sheets of typing paper. Just like the lined paper, I trimmed the sheets using the pencil marks as a guide. I used a rotary trimmer this time to cut the sheets.

I folded the sheets on the center. I reinforced the fold with a bone folder.

Even if the size of the paper inserts and the print out are all the same when laid flat, the inserts tend to be longer when folded. I trimmed a sliver off the open edge, trimming by batch, around 2 folded sheets at a time.

Once the paper inserts and the cover are equal in length, I punched the outer corners for both the printed cover and the inserts just to follow the design of the image.

I used a clip to keep the sheets together while I poke the holes on the center. I used a template as a guide to where to poke the holes. I wished I made the holes farther apart. I used a poking tool to poke the hole through all the pages. I poked the paper twice before stitching to reinforce the holes.

I used a DMC embroidery floss in stitching. I used 4 strands.

I started stitching from the center. moving towards the side, then moving back to the center ending the stitching there.

I fussy cut the collage image included in the set. I left a slim white border around the image.

I fussy cut a tag from the collection. This time, I cut it on the line.

I punched a hole on the tag & the collage print out. I placed the collage image on the back of the tag so both are aligned with each other when I punched a hole on it.

While I was creating the mini journal, I thought of adding a pocket to my art journal to put the mini journal in. I trimmed one of the pocket printouts included in the collection. I also go through different scissors when I craft. With this image, I used a long scissors so I can cut it straight. If I used a smaller scissor, I would have to move the paper towards the scissors which might not guarantee a straight cut. I used a small sharp tip scissors when I fussy cut.

I scored the tabs of the pocket following the design of the print out. I marked one of the grooves on the score board with a red marker. This line guides me in aligning the part of the paper that I want to score.

After folding the tabs on the score, I inked the edges of the pocket to give it a vintage look.

I added strong double sided adhesive tape to the tabs. I added the tape to the inside of the top tab to adhere this tab to the body of the pocket. You can trim this off but I feel this will keep the top edge of the pocket smooth and add strength to the pocket.

I removed the release paper from the double adhesive tape with a craft knife.

I adhered the pocket to the page next to the interactive art journal page.

This is how the mini journal looks with the cover open. Do you know that another advantage of digital prints is that you can print the design on both sides of the paper creating a double sided pattern paper?