Time Flies: It's up to You to Navigate!

 Hi Creative Fans!

Today I am sharing a mixed media journal page using stamps available in store plus collage image and stencil from my stash.

Stamps used:

"Cogs" from Steampunk Circus Set

Dragonfly by Pam Bray Designs

Time Flies Word Stamp

I had a page in my journal that I had painted with excess paint so I decided to finish it off with a Steampunk theme.

I added texture paste through a stencil and once dried I painted over the texture with Lindy's Magicals.

I stamped the little cogs/gears stamp over the background. I added embellishments, bits of washi and book page along with a fab Steampunk college image from my local scrapbook store!

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Art Journal - Nature's Art

Hello BPM Fans! It's Betty here! My favorite season of the year is Spring. I love how the trees are bare one week then full of leaves the next, the smell of fresh cut grass, and the sound of birds chirping. My husband and I walk every morning and it's been a delight to see all the different flowers blooming everywhere. This inspired me to create my art journal pages called Nature's Art using stamps from Blank Page Muse Art Rubber Stamps (please see supplies list below for list).

This is the perfect project to make for the BPM monthly challenge for a chance to win a prize! The theme for April is "nature." Here is the link to the challenge: CHALLENGE.

Supplies:

• Blank Page Muse Art Rubber Stamps: 
• Dragonfly Lady-The Femmes Series
• Girl with Basket of Flowers 
• Small Sunflower Blossom by Pam Bray Designs
• Small Dragonfly by Pam Bray Designs
• Background Grunge by Pam Bray Designs
• Stamping block
• Washi tape, wax paper, Press and Seal (to protect coils, margins, and other pages)
• White gesso
• Paint brush
• Distress Spray inks: Bundled Sage, Salty Ocean, Chipped Sapphire, Seedless Preserves, and Picket Fence
• Water spray bottle
• Heat gun (optional)
• Floral patterned paper of choice
• White cardstock for stamping images
• Coloring medium of choice. I used both Prismacolor pencils and Copic markers
• Scissors
• Black cardstock
• Alphabet dies
• Press and Seal or Transfer tape
• Liquid glue
• Distress ink pad: Black Soot
• Distress ink blender brush/pad
• Water dropper
• Collage Medium (I used Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium)
• Sentiment stickers (I used Tim Holtz - Small Talk stickers)

Instructions:

• Prepare the art journal pages by covering the coils with Press and Seal and the margins with washi tape. Add wax paper under the pages. 

• Paint on a layer of gesso and let it completely dry.

• Place the journal into a box so the over spray is contained in the box. 
• Spray the Distress Ink onto the pages, but don't overlap too much. Spray water over the ink so the ink will spread. Gently use a paper towel to mop up puddles.  Use a heat gun to quick dry or air dry.

• Using the Background Grunge stamps, randomly stamp images using a stamp block or without. The entire image of the stamp does not have to stamp to create the background. Select a variety of stamps from the set to use. 

• Tear patterned paper corners and adhere using collage medium.

• Stamp and color the butterfly, sunflower (stamp partial or cut flowers in half since they will be placed on edge of journal page), and dragonfly stamps then fussy cut. Use any colors you like, but here's what I used:
• Butterfly (Copic markers): Y17, B02, RV02
• Dragonfly (Copic markers): YG11, BV00, BV01
• Sunflower (Copic markers): Y17, Y35, Y13, E33

• Stamp and color the Girl with Basket of Flowers. Use any colors you like. Here are my Prismacolor pencil colors:
• Skin: 116, 018, 019, 020
• Cheeks: 082
• Hair: 117, 114, 010
• Blue: 042, 043
• Tree & Basket: 114, 116
• Green for leaves and flowers: 110, 061
• Pink flowers: 080, 082
• Grass: 057, 110, 061
• Sky: 101
• Walkway: 065

• Stamp and color the Dragonfly Lady. Use any colors you like. Here are my Copic colors:
• Hair: E39, YR27, YR24, Y32
• Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000
• Cheeks: R20
• Lips: R21
• Dragonflies: YG11, BV00, BV01
• Stars: Y24, Y11, Y15
• Blue background: B00, B000
• Bubbles: Y00, B000, BV000; plus Castle Arts colored pencil #35 lavender light.

• Using the Distress Ink in Black Soot, ink the edges of each image. Set aside.

• Using alphabet dies and black cardstock, cut out the words "nature's art."
• Using a self-healing mat or surface with grid lines, add a line of removable adhesive onto the mat. Line up the die cuts onto the mat and place a piece of transfer tape or Press and Seal on top to pick up all the letters at once. Use a spatula to help lift the die cuts off the mat.

• Add liquid glue to the die cuts the place them onto your journal pages.

• Carefully peel off the transfer tape or Press and Seal.
• Using the end of the water spray pump, add a few big drops of water onto the journal pages for some texture (optional - this was a last minute, spur of the moment idea).

• Adhere all the images onto the journal pages using collage medium. Add the sentiment stickers.

• Lastly, apply a light coat of collage medium all over the pages.

The art journal page is complete! This was a really fun project to do. Give it a try!

Thank you for stopping by and have a very creative week! ~Betty~

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Anything But a Card! So how about ATCs and ATCoins???

Hello Hello!

Welcome back crafty stampers! So happy you are here today!

This month our challenge theme is Anything But a Card! I adore this theme, it's just so f u n!!

It's Kim today and I wanted to share some ATCs and ATCoins I made. I made them for a swap but sadly my partner never got them :( I took a few photos because, I'm not afraid to say it, I really liked how they came out. And I really wanted to share them! So, I hope you like them. I don't have process photos but they are super easy and fast and fun to make with whatever stamps, papers, pens, inks, basically whatever you might have on your desk!

Here's the group photo! Such a fun family o'cards!

Time for solos and closeups!

This dragonfly ATC uses some scraps from my backgrounds and scraps box.

Stamps used:

Dragonfly

Photobooth Style stamps

Background handwriting text

Everything is stamped, then colored with Distress Inks

The border frame (segment) is a dimensional stamp I bought at Dollar Tree.

ATCoin

Girl with flowers basket

Summer Wild Flowers Postoids background stamp

Embossing Powders

The girl stamp is a long tall thin stamp for maybe a book mark, but I just used a portion of it.

I'm not a great colorer, I know that's not a word? But I like to emboss the stamp then the water color like effect kinda fills in an looks really cool!

Edge the border of the coin/card with some distress ink or any ink to "hold" in the design!

The background is also embossed in purple powder that has some shimmer.

ATC Sunflower

I love sunflowers! This Sunflower Postoid stamp like the Photobooth ones are perfect for planners and ATCs and ATCoins.

Sunflower Postoid Stamp

Handwriting Background Stamp

Shiny embossing powder

Edge the small stamp and card with the shiny powder to make it all pop!

Stamp the text background with a portion of the stamp then reink and rotate to get the segments. Color the blocks with a waterpen and Distress Inks

Dragonfly ATCoin

This gorgeous dragonfly stamp is designed by Pam Bray Designs.

It's abig stamp and I only needed a portion to fill the coin. I embossed the stamp and used Distress Inks to color it in.

The background is from my scrap box and honestly I have no clue how I made it! But love it anyways! Edge the coin in shiny EP to hold the design together.

Remember to Play!

Dragonfly by Pam Bray Designs

Do remember to play and come back to link your play with our stamper's challenge!

Have an amazing day!

~Kim

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August 2nd for Fan Art Friday

Welcome to Fan Art Friday! Here are some ideas to help get your creative juices flowing!

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If you share the blog post that features your card, 

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We will enter you in to win a grab bag stash of stamps for that month! 

 Dragonfly tag 

By Marie Christine Denis.

BPM stamp used:

Small Dragonfly 

Angel of Time 

Scribble & Scratch 

This Mermaid ATC 

By Stephanie Eaton

BPM stamps used:
Scribble Daisy

Kai Lana Chunky Mermaid

Make it Count 

By Donna Gray

 BPM stamps used:

Heart of Nature Butterfly's & Bees

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Dragonfly Mini Art Journal Page

Hello Blank Page Muse Fans!  Today, I thought I would share a mini art journal page that was recently added to my Bullet Journal.  This is a 8.2" X 5.5" format size, so the design could be used on an over-sized card as well, or expanded into a full sized 8.5 X 11 page with room to add more stamped dragonflies.

Supplies:
8.2" X 5.5" notebook page
Dragonfly Stamp
Flower border
Happiness Blooms from Within Sentiment Stamp
United Rings Stamp from Hearty Doodles set
Black Pigment Ink
White Pigment Ink
Clear embossing Powder
Distress Crayons [Gelatos or similar water based ink can work, in this case Mermaid Lagoon and Peacock Feathers by Tim Holtz Distress Oxides were used]
Brush [A watercolor brush with it's own reservoir was used in this case]
Water

Instructions:

1. Scribble a mid-range green Distress Crayon across the top of your blank page filling in half of the page.  Taking your blue, scribble from the bottom to the middle of the page. Overlap a bit in the center. 

2. Using your brush and some water, brush across the page, blending the crayons and diluting the colors.  Pull edge to edge, drawing out the color to the paper borders.  It should look like a light wash of color framing the heavier colored center. Once  it's all blended out, allow to dry.

3. Once dry, stamp out corner (upper left) to opposite corner (bottom right) in black pigment ink the flower border and emboss.

4. Stamp Sentiment with black pigment ink centered on page, then embossed.

5. Stamp the dragonfly on the left side, near the text and the flowered border stamp. Emboss with the clear powder.

6. Inking up with white pigment ink, stamp the Linked-Circle stamp a bit randomly, filling in some of the negative space and open areas.  Emboss using the clear embossing powder.

I found this page was super easy and an inspirational way to enjoy the beginning of the summer months.

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Remembering Edith

 Hi, guys! Samantha here, and I'm so happy to be sharing my dragonfly card with you today. The inspiration team was challenged to come up with projects for the theme "things with wings" this month.
        Dragonflies hold a personal significance for me. My best friend's late mother, Edith, let me borrow her beautiful, bejeweled dragonfly pin when I was very young. Every time I see a dragonfly I'm reminded of her. 

           
     Let's get started! You will need the following materials to make this card:

• Dragonfly Top View stamp by Pam Bray Designs
• The determined woman sentiment stamp from the  Up, up, and away steampunk stamp set
• White A2 sized card base
• Purple cardstock panel cut to 5.5"x 4"
• Green cardstock panel cut to  4 3/8" x 3 1/8"
• White cardstock panel cut to 3" x 4.25"
• White cardstock sentiment strip cut to 3" x 7/8"
• Two small squares for the faux banner tails cut to 1" x "7/8 
• Purple ink
• Black ink
• Repositionable adhesive
• Small sequins

   

     Begin by tacking the white panel onto the purple panel with repositionable adhesive.

     Ink up your dragonfly stamp with purple ink.

   
     Look at how nicely this stamp inks up! Nothing stamps the way rubber does.

     Stamp the dragonfly three times, going off of the panels slightly each time.

 
     Gently pull the panels apart.

   
     Adhere the white panel to the green panel. Layer onto your purple cardstock and then add entire panel to your card base.

   
     Using black ink stamp the determined woman sentiment onto the strip of cardstock.

     Cut notches into the small squares to create the tails of your faux banner.

     Using the sentiment strip as a guide, determine where the banner tails should go and adhere to the card front.

     After attaching the sentiment over the banner tails with foam tape, add small sequins to the card front. I used five. I think that odd numbers are very pleasing to the eye.
          That's it! A beautiful dragonfly card that can be used for many different occasions. This one will be going to my best friend as a 'just because' card.
          Thank you so much for taking the time to read through my tutorial. I hope that you have an awesome day.

          Until next time,

               Samantha

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