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Saturday, October 5, 2019

Happiness Blooms from Within

Greetings! Chris here today, and I have been obsessed by watercolors lately as you will see by all my projects this month, as each features watercolors. I just love that watercolors are a little messy and outside the lines!

For today's project I chose to highlight two new Blank Page Muse stamp sets - Happiness Blooms from Within words & Henna Floral Motif Decorative Art Rubber Stamp designed by Shaloo Webster and Heart of Nature Butterflies Bees Art Rubber Stamps designed by Donna Gray

Start by stamping the flower from Heart of Nature Butterflies Bees Art Rubber Stamps designed by Donna Gray repeatedly on watercolor paper. with archival ink. Stamp butterfly on upper left corner.

Using a wet watercolor brush pick up distress ink to roughly color your flower petals.

Repeat with a darker ink color.

Paint flower centers.

Paint butterfly with blue and purple inks. Stamp greeting from Happiness Blooms from Within words & Henna Floral Motif Decorative Art Rubber Stamp designed by Shaloo Webster and mat to finish card.

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Monday, June 24, 2019

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.