Halloween and Day of the Dead Celebration

  Hello and Happy Halloween Gentle Stampers!

Today we have an assortment of treats to share. The season, the magic, the color... the remembrance, enjoy these days. We hope you enjoy and may be inspired by our colorful crafts. 

Hop along using the links with each project and share a little comment treat of encouragement for each of our creative stampers!

Remember When By: Tamara ~see the blog tutorial here, or the video tutorial here.

I Brake for Stamps: Skellies Set

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Día de Los Muertos

By: Lyneen Jesse  ~see the tutorial here. 

Blank Page Muse Stamps:

Day of the Dead Sugar Skulls by Michelle Frae Cummings 

Frida Art Rubber Stamp designed by Rick St Dennis RSDFri

I Brake for Stamps:

Sugar Zen Skull, Sugar Floral Skull, Mrs. Bones

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Day of the Dead Banner and Cards By: Maria Giselle Batan ~see the tutorial here.

Blank Page Muse: Day of the Dead Sugar Skulls by Michelle Frae Cummings 

I Brake For Stamps: Sugar Zen Skull

I Brake for Stamps: Mr. and Mrs. Bones Set

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Vintage Inspired  Dia de Los Muertos card

By: Walter Zemrock  ~see the tutorial here.

Blank Page Muse:  Day of the Dead Sugar Skulls Marigold Flowers Scared Heart Art Rubber Stamps designed by Donna Gray.

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Sugar Skull Shrines
By: Michelle Frae Cummings ~ see more creations here. 

Blank Page Muse stamps: Day of the Dead Sugar Skulls

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Stamp Stickers Art Journal Pages

        By: Kim ~ see more HERE

Blank Page Muse Stamps: Stitches , Take My Hand words

I Brake for Stamps: Sugar Floral Skull,  Large Butterfly Moth , Dotted Circles within Circles, XXXX border, Mushroom 

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Creating A Scene

Today's project shows how you can use several Blank Page Muse stamps to create a scene. I hope you like it.

I am using the BPM Woodlands Art Rubber Stamps and the BPM You Make Me Happy Hummingbird Clouds Flower Clear Stamp Set on this project.

After I planned how my scene will look like, I stamped the images on a scrap piece of paper to give me an idea on the placement of the images, and the order of stamping. 

It also gave me an idea which images I need to create a mask for. Since this is a rough draft, the stamping of the images need not to be straight. 

If you noticed, the stamping on the rough draft is different from the final project. I made a boo-boo on a step but it's alright. It still turned out well, what do you think?

Any image that will be on the front needs a mask. The fox had a mask but the mask fell off before I was able to take a photo.

Since most of the stamps I used are rubber stamps, I used a stamp positioner to know where to stamp the images. This is the limitation of rubber stamps compared to clear stamps. You cannot really see where you are stamping.

I used a watercolor friendly ink in stamping the images since I used this medium in coloring the images and the background. I heat set the panel before coloring to make sure that the ink is dry before water-coloring.

Once I was done coloring the images, I free painted the background. I started painting the sky since this used a very light color. It is easier to paint over a lighter color with a darker color than vice versa. It is harder to lighten up a dark color once you have painted it.

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

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Be a Unicorn

Hello Lyneen here with my first post in July. Today I have a 5 x7 card with several images from the Unicorn Wishes Moon & Stars stamp collection. This collection is a great value for your dollar, with a total of nine stamps.

Stamps used from Blank Page Muse
Unicorn Wishes Moon Stars & Words Art Rubber Stamp Set designed by Donna Gray DGUnicorn

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ATC with masterboard

Sue here with ATC's.

ATC are artist trading cards that are 3 1/2" x 2 1/2". 

Basically they are trading little works of art.  A masterboard is a full sheet of cardstock that is stamped, then cut up to create the ATC.

Go to my blog here to get more info on ATC's, and a cutting template.

stamps/products used:

stamps/supplies used:

Blank Page Muse 

World map rubber stamp

Vintage postcard rubber stamp

Unicorn dreams clear stamp set by Donna Gray

Cyan paper pad by Pam Bray

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Playing With Embossing Paste

Hello! Welcome back to the BPM blog. So glad you are here. Today's project took some effort for me to put together. It must be the hustle bustle of life that drained most of my energy. What I do when this happens to me is look at my supplies and see if something will tickle my fancy. If there is still none, I search the web to get some ideas. How about you? How do you pull yourself out of a creative slump?

Back to the project, I am using the Blank Page Muse products below:

• Butterfly Trails Circles Patterns Mixed Media Stencil
  
• Woodlands Art Rubber Stamps
  

The stencil's size is 3" x 8". I want to capture all of the circle patterns so I cut a white cardstock using the same dimensions as the stencil. I applied white embossing paste over the stencil making sure that I apply an even coating of the paste over the stencil. I gently lifted the stencil and set aside the panel to dry. I cleaned the stencil right away using warm, soapy water. Before, I would use a brush to clean the stencil but sometimes it the brush messes up the stencil. Rubbing the stencil in between your hands like you are washing your hands seem to work in cleaning the stencil. 

Once the embossing paste is dry, I sprayed the panel with different colors of spray and stain, following the order of the rainbow. I set this aside to dry. You can also heat set it to speed up the drying.

I did a second layer of embossing paste but this time, I offset the stencil to create a shadow of circles. I added embossing glitter powder to the embossing paste while it has not dried. Once the embossing paste has dried, I heated the embossing glitter powder.

I stamped the image on white cardstock using a water friendly black ink. I painted the image using the same colors I used on the panel. 

I stamped the sentiment on vellum. I trimmed the words apart so I can scatter the words on the panel making sure that the order of the words is still correct.

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Rainbow Colored Mushrooms

Hello! Welcome back to the BPM blog. So glad you are here. I got my inspiration from today's card from a washi tape. I love the colors of the mushrooms that I thought of re-creating it.

 

I am using the following Blank Page Muse stencils:

• Cute Mushrooms Stencil
  
• Clouds & Drops 5x5" Mixed Media Stencil
  
• Assorted colored ink pads
• Ink daubers - for blending

The mushroom stencil is my most used BPM product to date. I just can't stop coming up with ways of using it!

Simply choose the colors that you want your mushrooms to be, (I went for a rainbow of colors for my mushrooms), then place the stencil over a white 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" cardstock. 

Mask off the mushrooms, leaving only the caps to be colored. Use your daubers to add and blend your colors. When all the caps are colored in, then mask them off and repeat the process with the stems. 

Feel free to add a dot of white enamel with a stylus to the mushrooms caps for some fun detail.
 

You can cut this into a strip to mimic a washi tape. But I decided to create a scene on this panel for a note card.

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Stamped Thank you Card

 Greetings! Today I am excited to share this fun Thank You card I created that is suitable for anyone on your list - male or female! This card is so fun to create and has sooooo many possibilities.  Just change your ink colors and the whole card changes! Change the embossing folder and the whole card changes! So lets get creating. 

Supplies needed: 

• Blank Page Muse Heart of Nature Butterflies Bees Art Rubber Stamps designed by Donna Gray
• Blank Page Muse Fall Rubber Stamp Sheet Set by Pam Bray Designs
• Kraft Card Base
• Photo Paper
• Distress inks
• Embossing folder
• Archival ink (black)
• Enamel dot embellishments
• Brayer

Start with a 4 x 6 sheet of paper paper.  Using your brayer apply distress inks onto the photo paper.  You can see some of my brayer marks. Trust me its ok you want it to look "rough". Let ink dry.  

Choose your embossing folder and emboss your inked photo paper. 

User a blender add black distress ink over your embossed image. Just look at how that highlights your embossed image!

Attached your embossed photo paper to the left side of your Kraft Card Base. 

Create your background by using your desired colors of ink apply distress inks onto the photo paper with your brayer and let dry. 

Stamp your butterfly from the Heart of Nature Butterflies Bees  and the "Thanks"  from your  Fall Rubber Stamp   onto your stamping background. 

Adhere your stamped images as shown and finish off with some coordinating enamel dots. 

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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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