You Are Wonderfully Wonderful!

Hi BPM Fans!

How are you all doing? I think the last month has seen some progress forward for us all so I hope everyone is doing well!

We have a great new challenge this month - perfect for using ANY of your Blank Page Muse Stamps!

We have a great "Inspiration" Picture for you to interpret however you want!

I love the colours on this palette plus the beachy feel especially as it's winter here in the Southern Hemisphere and thinking of the beach warms me up!

We look forward to how you feel inspired so make sure you link up to our challenge!

Hope you enjoy my  creation for today!

Supplies:

Blank Page Muse Stamps: Mermaid Fantasy Narwhal Set designed by Donna Gray

White Cardstock

Black Ink Pad

Colouring tools of your choice

Acetate cut to size (14cm square when folded used for this card)

Plain Coloured Card

Patterned Paper

Big Kick or Similar

Nesting Die Cuts

Embossing Folder

Embellishments of your choice including fibres, charms etc.

General tools and adhesives including scissors, small hole punch, double sided tape, glue etc.

Instructions:

Stamp, colour and fussy cut your images. Stamp your sentiment on one of the die cuts from the next step!

Die cut and emboss your card and paper as shown in the picture below.

Layer all your shaped cut outs and adhere together as shown below.

Next step is to adhere your little die cut "nests" to the acetate card base. Place your front "nest" centrally on the acetate card front, place another on the inside front of the card on the back of the front nest - see how it "hides" the tape back of the front piece - repeat with the very back nest ie. line up with the front nests and finish off with your sentiment stamped nest on the card inside once again lined up with the back nest. Sounds confusing! But you can see that everything through the acetate all "backs/lines up" each other neatly on the acetate so all you see when the card is folded s the front nest.

Use your small hole punch to punch "half" holes on the spine of your card so you can add some fancy twine/wool/ribbon. Thread your fibres through and tie a bow. If you want to add some little charms or beads to the ends of your fibre for interest you can.

Add your focal stamped image to the card front along with any bits & pieces you like.

Your card is now finished! Remember you can use any shaped nesting dies you like and whatever sentiment you need to suit any occasion! Love the versatility of this card and the clear acetate effect always looks so great!

Thanks for joining me today - I hope you feel inspired to get creating!

Happy Stamping!

Sharon

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Fishing Cards

Hello Crafty Friends,

Marie-Christine with you today with 2 bright cards.
Lets go fishing and pick up some seashells by the sea!

BPM Rubber Stamps used:

Fish Side View Rubber Stamp

Spiney Horned Long Fish Teeth Rubber Stamp

Fishing Word Rubber Stamp

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Other Supplies

Printed Cardstock

Watercolor Paper

Watercolor Paints

Stencil

White Modeling Paste

Seashells

First, cut 2 squares of paper to make your cards and apply some white modelling paste with a stencil.

When it is dry, colour with watercolour paints, use different colours and add some water with a spray.

Here, my 2 backgrounds.

Then, stamp your fish and colour them with watercolour. Cut them.

Adhere the seashells and the fish. Put some colors on the seashells if you want. Stamp the title on a printed cardstock and adhere it on the card. When it is dry, adhere your cards on a large printed cardstock with double-sided.

Hope you have enjoyed my tutorial!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Marie-Christine

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Plenty of fish in the sea - Art Journal

Hello Crafty Friends,

Marie-Christine with you today with an Art Journal Page. The theme this month is "Under water" and the technique is watercolor; so, I used both on this creation.

BPM Rubber Stamps used:

Fish Side View Rubber Stamp

Spiney Horned Long Fish Sharp Teeth Rubber Stamp

Conch Shell Seashell Art Rubber Stamp

Sea Snail Pointed Spiral Shell

Plenty of Fish in the Sea Phrase Rubber Stamp

Coral Reef Sponge Small Art Rubber Stamp

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Other Supplies

Small Art Journal

Old Book Page

Distress Inks

Stencil

Watercolor

Vintage image

Adhere an old book page on your Art Journal and color with Distress ink.

Use a waves stencil with green Distress ink at the bottom of the page.

Stamp the shells and fish on a watercolor paper and color them.

To finish, adhere shells, fish, coral, title and vintage image on your page.

Hope you have enjoyed my tutorial!

Thank you for visiting!

Marie-Christine Denis

Inspiration Team Member

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Swimming in the Ocean Greeting card

Hello Crafty Friends,

I am very excited to use the Sin City Stamps Nautical 2 Stamp Set because I am an avid cruiser and spend much time on the Caribbean Sea. (or at least I try to spend much time there, lol) This stamp set lends itself to ink blending, one of my favorite techniques. I hope you too will enjoy making cards with this stamp set.

Supplies:

   Sin City Stamps:

     Nautical 2 set

   Other supplies:

     Inks-in blues, greens, browns, pink

     blending tool

     Sentiment word die

     Seaweed die

     Foam tape

     sequins

     masking tape

Step 1:

Mask off edges of card base. Blend ink, using three shades of blue, in the center of the card front. Next flick/splatter water on the blended ink. This creates the water effect.  Do as much as you like.

Step 2:

Die cut the seaweed.

    

Step 3:
Using two shades of green and one brown blend color onto the seaweed die cuts.

Step 4:
Stamp and cut out the fish and seahorse.

Step 5:
Ink blend the seahorse and fish to your liking, creating a realistic look to the sea life.

Step 6:
Die cut the sentiment and assemble the pieces into an eye pleasing arrangement.  Use foam tape to add dimension and sequins to give the card a little sparkle.
Now your project is complete.

I think the possibilities are numerous with this stamp set and am looking forward to seeing all the creations you post on our Fan Page.

A Visit to the Sea Lab

Hi Chris here and today I am sharing this layout featuring my son at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.  I had so much fun stamping this layout!  This layout uses loads of stamps! Here is my complete supply list:

Sin City Stamps: Terri Sproul Alphabet, Sequence Waste, Sea Shell, Coral (SC27-11), Antique Diving Helmet, Sea Plant, crab, Craw Fish, sea horse, fish, Ship, Stencil Pattern 2

ColourArte: Twinkling H2Os--Meridian Blue, Teal Zircon, Mandarin Citrine, Ginger Peach, Deep Coral, Playful Peony

ColourArte: Radiant Gels-- Indian Copper 

Core'dinations :Cardstock (White Wash Picket Fence), Sanding block and dust buddy

PACON- Multi Media Paper

Inks: Tsukineko Memento (Tuxedo Black and London Fog). Note you may want to substitute Jet Black Archival Ink for the Memento Tuxedo Black as this project does use some watercolor techniques.  I worked fast so my ink did not really bleed.

Distress Inks: Antique Linen, Pumice Stone, Abandoned Coral

Distress Markers: Frayed Burlap, Tea Dye

Graphic 45 Papers

Crop-a-dile hole punch

Paper Studio Banner Punch

Spectrum Noir #EB8

Water Brush

Jute

Eyelets

I started by placing my Sin City Stencil under my Core'dinations Cardstock and sanding in multiple location on my background.  

In the space left over I stamped the Sequence Waste Stamp repeatedly, overlapping the stamped images to mimic a fish net look. I used a torn piece of paper to mask off the parts I didn't want stamped.  This created a subtle texture over my background. 

I then cut a frame from patterned paper and added it over my background page.

I decided that the frame was too plain so I punched holes in the frame and threaded jute through the holes and added a bow at the top of my layout. 

I then stamped the ship on Multi Media paper and added it to the top right corner of my layout.

I added my matted photos and a banner across the upper left corner. 

                                                 

I then stamped lots of sea images onto Multi Media paper.  For the Diving Helmet I painted over the image with the Radiant Gels. The other images except for the shell were painted with Twinkling H2Os.

For the Sea Shells I used my Distress Markers and drew an ink line along the outer edge and then use my water brush to pull the ink toward the center of the shell.

I then fussy cut all the images  and added them as accents throughout the layout.  

                                  

I stamped my title on to my hand made tags and added them to my layout. 

Here is the finished project!