Baby Elephant!

 Hi BPM Fans!

Can you believe it's June already? this year is going so quickly!

It's Winter here "Down Under" so perfect weather for being indoors creating with my Blank Page Muse Stamps!

Our "theme" for the month is "Say It" - this makes me think of words - so today I have created a newborn card with the word "baby" and I think that says it all to explain the card purpose!

Supplies:

Blank Page Muse Stamp: Cute Baby Animals II Set - Baby Elephant

Blank Page Muse Stencil: Hearts Stencil designed by Magda Polakow

Stamped Pattern Paper: See my Post from March

Base Card

Black Ink Pad

Alphabet Die Cuts & Die Cutting Machine

Ink Pads & Sponge

General supplies: scissors, glue, coloring mediums, embellishments

Instructions:

Start by Stamping the little Baby Elephant onto white cardstock and color with your fav coloring mediums. Fussy cut.

Next step is to stencil your base card using the Hearts stencil. Use a sponge and colored ink pads to cover one corner of your card front.

Use your alphabet die cuts and scraps of patterned/stamped card to make the word "Baby".

Arrange your main stamped image with coordinating embellishments - fiber, hessian and adhere to the card front. 

Add your die cut letters and you have completed your card!

Such a perfect soft colored card for a newborn!

Thanks for joining me!

Happy Stamping!

Sharon

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Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi!!!

Hello Stampers!

Wow we are nearly halfway through the year - time flies when you are having fun stamping!

Have you been enjoying our themes for this month?

Today I've created a "patriotic" postcard - of course I'm an "Aussie" so it has a "Down Under" feel LOL but of course this can be adapted to wherever you are from!!!

Supplies:

Blank Page Muse Stamp: Cute Baby Animals II Set "Koala"

6 x 4 Index Card, Postcard or Card cut to size

Old postage stamps from "your" home country

Dye Ink Pad - Brown Shade (Memento "Rich Cocoa" used)

Your Fav Colouring "tools"

Stencil and Gesso

Ink Sprays

Computer Generated Wording OR Rubber Stamps

Postcard "Backing"

General supplies/tools: glue stick, glue, scissors, spatula, paper towel, sewing machine

Instructions:

Start by covering the entire index/postcard with postage stamps - adhere with a glue stick. When dry trim the overhanging stamps.

Use your favourite stencil and a spatula to apply thick white gesso to the postcard. Allow to dry.

Using a spray ink lightly spritz the postcard to colour the white gesso. Use the paper towel to "mop up" the excess ink. Allow to dry.

Glue the printed postcard back to the postcard front. Use your sewing machine to "edge" the postcard with a "zig zag" stitch for interest.

Stamp the "koala" stamp onto white card using your brown ink pad. Colour with your choice of medium (Copics used for this project). Fussy cut the stamped image.

Adhere the koala and wording plus any other embellishments you like to the front of your postcard and it's all ready for posting to a penpal!

Hope you can find some inspiration from my project today!

Have a great week!

Sharon

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Baby Animals....

Hi Blank Page Muse Fans!

Are you enjoying this month's "embossing" theme?

So many fabulous projects from the DT to inspire you to get creating and join our monthly challenge!

Today I am sharing some "dry embossed" cards using tamps from the super cute "Baby Animals" sets available at the Blank Page Muse Store!

Supplies:

Blank Page Muse Stamp Sets: Baby Animals 1 & Baby Animals 2

Blank Page Muse Stamp: Happy Birthday - several available in store - (used here from the Steampunk Circus Set)

Embossing Folders

Watercolour Paper

Brushos Pigment Powders or similar

Base cards

Scrap white card for stamping
Scraps of muslin cloth

Tools: embossing machine, water spritzer, scissors, paper trimmer, edge distresser

General supplies: glue, double sided tape, mounting tape, colouring mediums (Copics used here), black ink pad

Instructions:

Start by gathering your items for embossing so the embossed pages have time to dry whilst you are stamping and colouring.

Open your embossing folder and sprinkle several colours of Brushos on the front flap.

Spritz with water. Don't you just love the effect??!!

Place your watercolour paper onto the spritzed side and close the folder ready for winding through your embossing machine.

You will get a lovely result from embossing with the water and ink through the machine. Depending on how much water you spritzed you will probably be able to achieve another embossing or if you think you need to add a little more colour sprinkle some more Brusho over the folder and emboss again. A great way to emboss scraps of paper for small projects like ATC's etc. You can use tags as well for a great background effect.

Below are a few different designs. You can get some really interesting colour combos if you refrain from cleaning the folder in between colour changes! Once dry you can then cut these pieces to size for your creation.

Now to stamp the cuties from the Baby Animal Sets using your favourite black ink pad. I have used stamps from both sets for my cards. Great for cards for new borns and kids! and you will notice I've used the "Koala" seeing as I am an "Aussie" - perfect LOL!

Colour the stamped images with your favourite colouring medium in co-ordinating colours. I have used Copic Markers to colour these little babies. Then fussy cut your stamped images ready to use on your cards.

Using the Black Ink stamp the "Happy Birthday" (or sentiment of your choice) onto white card and cut out.

Now to assemble all of the elements to complete the cards! Trim the dry embossed card to slightly smaller than your card front and distress the edges.

Edge the "Happy Birthday" sentiments with co-ordinating coloured markers.

Use double sided tape or glue to attach the embossed card to your card front along with a scrap of muslin cloth. Add tape to the sentiment. Add mounting tape pieces to your Baby Animal. Arrange and adhere to the card front.



Just love how these turned out!!

Hope you have enjoyed my post today! Make sure you have some fun embossing and join this month's challenge!

Remember we always share our creations in the Facebook Group along with updates, new releases and fun!!

Happy stamping with "Blank Page Muse"!!!

~Sharon

Just a note to light up your day!

Hello All Lanette Here!

Today I am going to share a couple sweet little cards that can be used for almost anything!

Lets start by taking a look at my finished cards, then I will show you how I made them :)

Sin City Supplies Used: Baby Animals Art Rubber Stamps

Just look how cute they are!!!

Other Supplies Used: Tim Holtz Distress Markers, Ranger Water Brush, Tim Holtz Mask Material, Faber Castell Gelatos, Staz-on Ink, Versa mark Stamp,& Heat Embossing Powder.

Now lets look at my process......

I started by stamping my image on my two cards and the masking material.

Next I fussy cut my masked image.

My Next step was to add my verse stamp, that is also found in the Baby Animals Art Rubber stamp collection.  I heat embossed my verse so it would resit the gelato background.

After placing my masked image over my stamped image I started created my background using Gelatos. 

My last step was to remove my mask and color my zebras shirt using Distress Markers.

Lets take one more look at my cards just for fun! After all they are super cute!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

I hope that I have inspired you to have some inky fun of your own!

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