Blank Page Muse Blog: grungy

Thursday, June 27, 2019

Dream Journal Page

Hello! I love working in my journal and I wish I would take the time to do it more than I do, there is something about working in a journal that seems to calm me.

I usually seem to work in my journal when I am trying to work out a project or problem to create something larger. This page was more to play with some ideas that are forming in my head!

Supplies

Background Grunge Pam Bray

Correspondence Pens, Ink & Postage Katy Leitch

Bird Behind Barbed Wire

Unknown grungy marks stamp

Journal

Journal card

Black embossing powder

Ranger Archival Ink Jet Black, Plum, Sepia

Versamark ink

Sharpie marker black

Blending tool

First of all, using the long grungy stamp, stamp with Versamark ink and emboss in black. Then using Blank Page Muse Stamps, the Tread stamp along the edge of the embossed area and then randomly stamped the Script around the page.

Using the plum and sepia archival inks and the blending tool, cover the page with color. Stamp the Bird on Barbed Wire stamp onto the journal card and emboss it. Cut down the card to approximately 2” x 2” then emboss the edges with black. Run the Versamark around the edges to emboss.

Take the Sharpie pen and make some marks along the edge of the page that looks like stitching.

The journal page is finished!

Tips – If you don’t have a grungy stamp to use for the middle of the page, just run the edges of your Versamark ink pad down the middle of your page and heat emboss.

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Sunday, June 9, 2019

Postcard Journal

Hello everyone! So glad to see you back. This month's theme was Postcards and I first had this idea when I was going through my old vintage papers and other stuff, I remember my grandma having this old album full of postcards, it was crazy fun to look through and hear all of the stories she remember about each one. This had me thinking of a way to create something similar and just as fun!

Here is the cover of the postcard album.

Supplies used
Blank Page Muse stamps -
Correspondence Pens, Ink and Postage
Tall Flamingo
Dear Beach sentiment
Classic Car
Lady and Man Clock
Grungy Circles and Crackle

Watercolor paper
Tim Holtz Embossing folder
Rub N Buff Gold
Lumiere paint Green Gold
Ribbon
Hole punch
Paper Scorer
Map piece
Washi tape
Postage stamps
Distress inks in various colors

Start by cutting your watercolor paper into postcard sized pieces with about 1 1/2" extra for the binding holes, then score the pages at the 1 1/2" mark and holding tow pages together punch the holes in all of the pages.

Set aside 5 pages and paint the front and back of the covers with the Lumiere paint. You can use any paint you have on hand, I just like the old vintage look of the Green Gold. Then using the embossing folder, emboss the front cover and stamp with the Postcard stamp. Using the Rub n Buff light rub it over the raised images. Take some of the Distress ink in black and rub it along the edges of both the covers for an aged look.

Next, you will start on the postcards, for the first one, stamp images all over the card and them using Distress Inks smoosh them over the images.

For the second card, use the Distress inks like watercolor, paint and splatter the background, let dry and stamp with the Flamingo stamp, Dear Beach sentiment, and Florida.

For the next postcard, glue down the map piece and use Distress Ink in Vintage Photo to distress the paper then stamp the postage marks and stamps on the map, then add some real postage stamps to the front along with the Dear Beach sentiment.

For the fourth postcard, I used the Grungy Tread stamp and the Classic Car stamp along with the postage stamps and stamped the card. Adding washi tape for added emphasis. Then using an alphabet stamp set added Arizona and Route 66.

For the last postcard of the bunch, I stamped the Grungy Circles and Crackle stamps on the background then used Distress Ink around the edges and on the Dear Beach sentiment and the Woman and Man Clock stamp.