Happy Birthday~Easy DIY Card~ Challenge Link is Open!

Hey There wonderful Muse Fans!

Happy Friday and thanks so much for coming by today!

It's Kim today and I have a quick and easy Birthday card idea to share and want to remind you that today the Creative Challenge link is open! The rules are HERE and the link is below. It'll be added to the sidebar ASAP as well. Basically come on back and link up your NEW Birthday card or project using rubber or clear stamps, which need to be the STAR of the show! The stamps don't have to be ours but we'd love it if they were. The link is open until the 5th of February, Midnight Pacific time. Come back on February 9th when we announce the winner!

Here's my easy peasy DIY card I made using some papers I already had in my box o' backgrounds! I love making backgrounds and cannot stand to toss scraps and... is anyone in agreements with me? I love to keep them and it takes awhile sometimes before I can bring myself to use them!

That's one stash!

I looked through my box and pulled out some pieces that I liked today.

Those choices help set the colors for the card. To add interest and texture I tore strips from the paper. This is just like Kelly Parker did in here post HERE Paper strips are so amazing and fun to layer up!

Pick a stamp and proceed to stamp all over one of the torn paper strips. Remember is does not have to be perfectly spaced or stamped. Casual is just fine. I picked our Daisy stamp. You might recognize it from my last project, HERE

Place the stamped torn paper strip wherever you like, to me if felt most comfortable on the left side. Then tear the bottom and top to be even to the edges of the base.

I used a small photobooth style stamp and stamped on another scrap of book page. Most of my stamps are not mounted. I just use double stick tape on the block, it stamps great! 

Add some more small stamping to the photobooth stamp and use the same stamp on the background, randomly. I used this flower stamp in purple for a bright touch.

I stamped Happy Birthday on another book page scrap a couple of times then picked the one I liked the best. I used the Happy Birthday from Pam's Llama plate, HERE

I used thin tape runner pieces to attach everything once I felt good about the layout.

I decided to add a little sparkle with some washi and rhinestones.

I hope you like it and that you feel inspired to play with your stamps and paper stash! Come back and share what you've made we'd love to see it!

Have an amazing day!

Happy New Year! Welcome 2020! New Year, New Challenge!

Happy New Year!

From all of us to you and yours, we wish you a joyful year filled with crafty happiness!

This year at Blank Page Muse, we have a few new things to inspire you as well as some amazing crafty goodness to share on these pages all year long! We'll continue to bring you some amazing projects crafted by our Inspiration Muse Teams, the Rubber Stamp Team and Planner Team. So check back often to see what's new!

We have some treats in store with some fabulously talented Guest Designers, we can't wait to share what they create! And of course some super fun new stamps!

January 15, 2020, Bella Crafts Publishing will be doing a Facebook Live using our rubber stamps. We'll post more details when we get them. In the meantime, we'd love it if you liked and followed Bella Crafts, tell them Blank Page Muse sent you :) Here's their link, Bella Crafts Publishing. A little birdie tells me there is a giveaway involved to those that watch and comment.

Speaking of giveaways, we are proud to sponsor a couple of fantastic giveaways at the Stamp and Scrapbook Expo Blog, so make sure to check back here and our Facebook Fan Group to learn the dates. Blank Page Muse Fan Group  The wonderful folks at the Stamp & Scrapbook Expo can be found HERE.

We will be selling at two Stamp and Scrapbooks Expo shows this year, this April in Pomona, California and next Fall in Ontario, California! We can't wait to meet all of you!

Wrapping up this post, we are bringing back our Creative Challenge!! Yay!! The rules can be found HERE and at the top of the blog.

Here's how it goes, on the first of the month we'll post the theme you need to follow. Then on the 10th of each month the link up tool will be active and ready for you to share your makes. The projects must be new, follow the theme and must use physical stamps, clear or rubber. We'd love it if they were our stamps, but we're open to any stamps, just no digis. The physical stamps must be the star of the show. The challenge runs to the 5th of the next month. The winner will be announced on the 9th before the new link up opens.

Enough words now! Thanks for reading this far!

The theme for January 2020 is......... BIRTHDAY!

Blank Page Muse Stamps used:

Butterfly

Daisy

Happy Birthday

Crafted by me, Kim, using Distress Inks, stencils, Derwent Inktense blocks and pencils.

Grab our badge for your blog and come back on the 10th to link up your hand stamped Birthday project and it doesn't need to be a card :)

Happy New Year Crafty Friends!

Have an amazing day,

Kim