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Monday, March 25, 2019

Under The Sea Watercolour Artist Trading Coins

Hello all

Check out my brightly coloured artist trading coins,

using the nautical stamps set available from Blank Page Muse.

Product list

The Blank Page Muse Nautical

The Blank Page Nautical Set 2

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White card

Any Circle die cut around 2.5 inches

Ranger Archival Inks, Green, Purples, Hot Pink,Blue, Teal.

Resin starfish

Resin Shells

Apply watercolour to the circle shapes.

Stamp the texture stamps over the top and heat set with embossing powder..

Add little shells and gems to the layers to finish.

Stamp out the Sealife image in bright colours and cut them out.

Layer the pieces together using 3D foam pads to add dimension.

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Sunday, March 24, 2019

Art Journaling Cards

Hi BPM fans!

Mercy here to chat with you about putting some pizzazz into your scrapbooking. If you're like me, you might like the photo cropping and page design part of the process, but the journaling part is a real struggle. I'm personally uninspired to write down notes about whatever event I'm scraping and have found myself not bothering for years. And then, by that time, I forget dates, times and details of that day. If I do bother to journal, it's usually on a boring piece of scrap and really, doesn't help the actual format of the page. Wanting to change things up with my layouts, I thought it might be nice to highlight the journaling itself by creating these decorative journal boxes to be added onto simplier pages to dress them up.

As I created these, I had a lot of fun with coming up with different formats and images for the journaling boxes. Part of my challenge with this project was to try an use up some twenty plus year old embossing powder and some of the many scraps I have for this project.

Supplies:

Correspondence Pens, Ink & Postage Art Rubber Stamp Sheet by Katy Leitch SCKTL-001

Hearty Doodles Heart, Connected Circles and Small Dotted Stamp

Crackle Background Art Rubber Stamp

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Cardstock Scraps in White, Light Green, & Red

Versamark Ink (or any clear Embossing ink you have)

Black Archival Ink

Distress Oxide Mustard Seed

Gold Embossing Powder

Black Fine Embossing Powder

Instructions:

1. Find some scraps of paper that you need to use up and cut into 4 X 2.5 strips of paper.

2. Taking the darker shaded scrap paper, ink the entire surface in Versamark ink and heat embossed with gold embossing powder (you can use any color for this since you are embossing its surface). Make sure to cover the entire page with several layers of embossing to get a smooth golden finish and no paper should be exposed.

3. Once the first sheet is cool, set aside and stamp out the various pens, logos and images onto white card stock in black permanent ink with embossing ink and black powder. Heat emboss. After everything is cooled, fussy cut out the pens, ink bottle and smaller stamped images.

4. Cut 3 separate 3 3/4 X 2.1/4 pieces of white card stock and one light green scrap.

5. Grabbing one of the white 3 3/4 X 2.1/4 papers, stamp top center of the white paper using the One Penny Geo W. Hughes stamp with embossing ink, then heat emboss with black powder.

Embossed strip of paper and the cut down white cardstock with the One Penny stamp impressed.

6. Add the connected Connected Circles in Mustard Seed stamped randomly across the white areas. Ink the edges of the card. Adhere the white stamped card to the embossed scrap.

7. Take the Crackle Background Art Rubber Stamp and the light green cropped paper, stamp across the entire scrap. Fill in the edges and outer rim of the paper with the small Dotted Stamp. Keep in mind to allow the paper below to show through.

Small dotted stamp from the Hearty Doodle set.

8. Glue the stamped paper to the embossed background card. Stamp with archival black ink on a red scrap using one of the larger heart doodles. Fussy cut the heart out and glue it to the bottom left corner.

9. Taking the last two white cropped papers, stamp randomly with the connected circle stamp in yellow ink. Adhere that paper to the embossed paper, centering it. Take the remaining fussy cut embossed images (pens, ink bottle, etc) and arrange across the yellow inked paper. Leave room for journaling. Once you arrange the way you prefer, glue everything down.

10. Attach these to scrapbook pages, or slide into photo albums. Journal across them. Share your thoughts and dream through them.

Completed journaling cards. Using this same technique, you can experiment with other stamps as well from Blank Page Muse to match your scrapbooking pages.

Journal Away!

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Saturday, March 23, 2019

Underwater Birthday Card

Hi everyone! Charlotte here, and today I am sharing a clean and simple, one layer birthday card with an underwater theme.

Blank Page Muse products used:
Happy Birthday Phrase
Concentric Circles by Cathy Frailey
Seahorse

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Other materials:

White card base
Inks in teal, medium blue and dark blue
Alcohol markers
Nuvo Drops in Sea Breeze
Stamping tool
Acrylic block

Instructions:

First stamp the Seahorse stamp directly onto an A2 card base using a dark teal ink.

Using an acrylic block and a medium blue ink, stamp the Concentric Circles stamp three times onto the card base, creating a visual triangle with the layout.

After removing the card base from the stamping tool, use pale teal shades of alcohol markers to color the seahorse.

After completing the coloring, return the card to the stamping tool and stamp the Happy Birthday Phrase using a darker blue ink.

Finally embellish by adding some Nuvo Drops in Sea Breeze. Follow the flow of the stamping when choosing the position of the drops, work in odd numbers, and again create a visual triangle.

I hope you enjoyed my blog post! Clean and simple cards can be such fun to make, and beautiful detailed stamps such as these can really go along way to making a one layer design stand out.

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Friday, March 22, 2019

Mermazing

Hello Blank Page Muse fans. Gail here today. This month the team is looking at all things beach and under the sea so I decided to make this pretty Mermaid card.
Enjoy!

Blank Page Muse Stamps used:

Mermaid 2

I'm Not Perfect Phrase

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Other Supplies Used:

Crafters Companion Pebbles Embossing Folder

Sizzix Deckle Edge Dies

VersaMark

Dare 2 B Artsy Midnight Blue Dye ink

Black Archival ink

Do-crafts Tangerine Glitter Glue

Markers

Apply Versamark ink to the Pebbles embossing folder and dry emboss a piece of blue card.

Sprinkle clear embossing powder and heat set it.

Ink the embossed panel with the Midnight blue dye ink, wiping any excess of the embossed areas. Stamp the sentiment with the same blue ink and use the Sizzix Deckle Edge dies to cut both the panel and the sentiment.

Stamp the Mermaid with black archival ink onto some woodgrain paper.

I colored her with markers

Fussy cut her and add some tangerine glitter glue.

I used a dark blue card base and a black mat, then added the embossed layer, the mermaid and the sentiment, which I popped up on some foam pads.

Thanks for dropping by. I hope you get the chance to ink up your stamps today. Hugz

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Thursday, March 21, 2019

Dress Form Card

Hello Ladies,
Karen here and I'm bringing a card with a bit of vintage antique which is not my usual style. The muted colors and brown distressed edges are the trademark of the vintage look. The simple dress form suited the seamstress theme I had in mind. This sentiment is perfect to lend that extra bit of support to someone struggling with life's circumstances. Sometimes a simple act of encouragement can really lift someone's spirit. Don't forget to share your creations with us on the Blank Page Muse Fan Page.

BPM Stamps:
Mannequin Tags 2 Rubber Stamp Set
Chicken Wire Mesh Background Texture Art Rubber Stamp by Pam Bray Designs
Hearty Doodles Art Rubber Stamp Set
Everything is Going to be Alright Word Stamp

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Other Supplies:
ink pads (black, rust, blue, green, brown), clear mounting block, ink applicator tool, buttons, liquid adhesive, card stock (craft & maroon), card base (6x6")

Directions:
1. Stamp three mannequin figures each with a different color ink. Carefully, fussy cut each image.

2. Use brown ink to stamp a honeycomb pattern irregularly creating a wide border along all the edges.

3. Adhere the three mannequin figures attaching the center figure with foam tape for added dimension. Stamp the sentiment with black ink near the top right corner.

4. Use black ink to stamp a scratchy speckled pattern subtly along the edge. Use an ink applicator to lightly distress the edge of the card with brown ink.

5. Matte the finished piece on maroon card stock.

6. Adhere a random collection of buttons at the base of the mannequins. Attach the matted piece onto a white card base (6x6") leaving a narrow border.

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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Sunshine

Hello again, friends! Samantha here and I'm excited to be back on the blog sharing my card with you. I love these beautiful girl stamps. They're so much fun.
I was inspired to create this card by the way that this particular stamp looks like she's walking toward something. I thought that maybe she was walking toward the sunshine and as such I felt that the sentiment I used was perfect.

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For this one layer card you will need:

White A2 (5.5" x 4.25") card base
Black ink
Masking tools of your choice
Inks for blending
Clear shimmer brush
Colored pencils

Stamp one of the girls from the stamp set onto the card base using black ink.
Cover the stamped image with a mask of your choice. I prefer to use notebook paper covered with repositionable adhesive.

Over the girl place a second mask. I used a piece of cardstock from which I'd die cut a circle. Tape down.

Using your inks, do some simple ink blending over the masked image.

I used Distress Inks in shades of blue, pink, and yellow.

Remove the circle mask. You should have something like this.

Take your sentiment stamp and, using black ink, apply to the lower left side of the stamped girl, slightly overlapping your ink blending.

Remove the mask from the stamped girl image.

Color the girl with any medium you'd like. I decided to go with colored pencils. I also chose to apply shimmer over the ink blended area with Wink of Stella. Completely optional but it does add a fun touch.