Clean and Simple Card~Friendship~Kindness~Gratitude

Hello! Welcome back to the BPM blog. We are glad you are here. The theme this month is on Kindness-Gratitude-Friendship. I created a generic card that can work on any of these themes since I did not add a sentiment. 

The Blank Page Muse products that I used on this card are:

• Woodlands Art Rubber Stamps
  
• Leaves Collage Stencil
  

I stamped the flower image on watercolor cardstock using Versafine Onyx Black ink. I used a stamp positioner so I can restamp the image. Since the watercolor paper I used is textured,  I did not get a crisp image on the first stamping. The stamp positioner helps in making sure that I stamp on the same spot.

I heat set the flowers to dry it before applying ink.

I colored the flowers using watercolor markers. I only applied the pigment on the inside end of the petals.

I used a waterbrush to spread the pigment to the tips of the petals.

I used another color for the stamen.

I dried the ink with a heat gun.

I fussy cut the flowers.

I die cut stems on green cardstock. I adhered the stem to the flower.

I adhered the flowers to the card front of an A2 white note card. I positioned the leaf stencil and blended ink to add leaves to the stems. I masked any open areas that I don't need to apply ink on.

I was going to ground the stems but decided against it. I like the white space. How about you?

Keeping this card without a sentiment allows me to customize it later on or just leave it like this.

I hope you like today's project. 

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In behalf of the DT, let me wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you for being a BPM friend and supporter.

Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

of Maria Giselle's Creative Cuts 

 

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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Guest Designer Tracy Ware~Stencil It May~Mixed Media Play!

Hey guys!  It’s Tracy here, hoping everyone is doing well and staying healthy … and sane!  To be honest, some days are the greatest having my husband and youngest daughter home, and other days it’s quite distracting.  I have been getting a bunch of crafting done, and that’s really to maintain my own sanity!

Our May Challenge on the Blank Page Muse Blog is “Stencil It.”  I decided to venture out of my comfort zone and give mixed media a whirl.  Woooo, I tend to overthink it!  Anyone else experience that?  Sometimes I do it with my regular cards too, so I wasn’t surprised.  Well let’s take a look at my project.

I’ve been watching some videos lately, and got out my Distress Spray Stains and Distress Oxide Sprays and went to town on some mixed media paper.  I chose mixed media paper because it can tolerate a good deal of water without warping.  I don’t have too many colors of sprays, so I just worked with what I had.

Once my backgrounds were to my liking and dry, I applied some texture paste through a stencil over my ink.  Because the texture paste has water in it, the paste reacted with my already inked background and took on the color of the layer beneath, hence the greenish, yellowy colors.  I actually wasn’t sure what was going to happen since I don’t work with sprays and pastes very much.  I ultimately liked the outcome so I just went with it.

Since I had the stencil and texture paste out, I went ahead and added paste to a few backgrounds for later use.  Such a time saver!

While my texture paste was drying, I moved on to the focal elements of my card.  This flower is from the Scribble and Scratch Mixed Media Set 2, and these cute little bees are from the Heart of Nature Butterflies Bees Set.  I wasn’t sure if I was going to use both bees, but I went ahead and stamped both of them, along with the flower and clear embossed them.

I used Copic markers to add color to my images, and did a little bit of shading using colored pencils.

I also wasn’t sure if I wanted to use a yellow flower or a blue flower, so I went back and stamped another one and colored it.  It’s nice to have options!!  I colored those tiny open spaces from the scribbles with a Copic multiliner pen.  I also added some yellow Nuvo Drops to the middle of the flowers for interest, as well as texture.

Now that my cute little bees were colored, I remembered that I had some acetate wings.  I added those to my bees for even more interest!

I used dye ink to add some various stamps to the background of my card panel.  Among the stamps used were the Bubble Wrap and Sequin Waste Texture Art stamps, which can be seen in the top right and left corners.  I also used some Distress Crayons around the stenciled areas. Once all the background stamping was complete, I adhered the bee using foam tape for dimension.  Yes, I decided to use only one bee, but both flowers!!  The blue flower is glued directly onto the card panel, while the yellow flower was adhered using foam tape.  Very textural and dimensional!

I added a tiny sentiment to the panel as well as some additional color with Copic markers.  When complete, I mounted my card panel on to a black panel.

I hope you guys enjoyed the project.  Even though this style is way out of my comfort zone, I like it!  Maybe that’s because I don’t have to be so perfect in the design.  You just do what you like and not be so critical of yourself.  Gosh gracious, I am so very critical of myself and my work.  Thanks so much for hanging out with me on the Blank Page Muse Blog.  Hop over to Instagram and join us there too!  Be sure to tag us #blankpagemuse and #blankpagemuseblog so that we can see your awesome projects!  You can also find me over on Instagram @redsas.

Our June Challenge is going to feature an inspiration board!  Can’t wait to see what Kim has in store for us!  I hope you join us next month as well.

Until next time, stay awesome!

Tracy

Supplies Used:

Scribble and Scratch Mixed Media Set 2

Heart of Nature Butterflies Bees Set

Bubble Wrap and Sequin Waste Texture Art

Strathmore Mixed Media Paper

Distress Spray Stains from Ranger Ink and Tim Holtz

Distress Oxide Spray from Ranger Ink and Tim Holtz

Texture Paste from Ranger Ink

Number Stencil from Ranger Ink and Dyan Reaveley

Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink from Tsukineko

WOW Embossing Pad

Clear Embossing Powder from Ranger Ink

Copic Markers

Copic Multiliner (.3)

Prismacolor Colored Pencils

Nuvo Drops from Tonic Studios

Neenah Solar White 110lb Cardstock

Distress Crayons from Ranger Ink and Tim Holtz

Transparent Wings from Tim Holtz Idea-ology

Small Talk Stickers from Tim Holtz Idea-ology

Text Stamp from A Stamp In The Hand (background)

Tiny Squares from Rubbermoon (background)

Black 110lb Cardstock from Recollections

Lineco Neutral PH Liquid Adhesive

Foam Tape

Misti from My Sweet Petuna

Unicorn ATCs

Hello! So I thought I would explore the realm of the ATC and how far you can take it away from the standard size of 2 1/2" x 3 1/2".  Stayed tuned for more out of the box ATCs!

For these ATCs I used -
Unicorn Wishes by Donna Gray
Correspondence Pens by Katy Leitch
Black embossing powder
Tombow markers
Gelli printed papers
Watercolors
Stencils
Word Tags
Acrylic paint

 These ATC backgrounds were done on watercolor paper because there were lots of wet mediums applied to the surface. I painted the backgrounds with Fushia watercolors then added orange acrylic paint over that and stamped with the Script stamp from the Correspondence stamp set.

Then Unicorn Wishes stamps were stamped on white cardstock that was gelli printed and heat embossed in black. One of the unicorns was colored with markers while the other one was left as is from the gelli print.

The unicorns were too long to fit on the ATC, so cut off the tail of the longest one and attach it with a small brad, now the tail will move. The word tags were added with a small brad also.

This technique could be used for any number of items that don't fit on the ATC. Let me see what you come up with that is interactive on your ATCs!!

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Butterfly Love...

Hi Everyone!

I hope you have all been enjoying the DT makes this month and getting some ideas and inspiration for layering on your creations!

Today I am sharing some mini "moo" sized gift cards - perfect for attaching to little gifts!

They are quick and easy to make and you can use any Blank Page Muse stamps you have on hand ad you can make them any size you like - I like the mini size - they are nice and cute and they were perfect for my little jar of bath salts!

Supplies:

Blank Page Muse Stamp Set: Heart of Nature Butterflies Bees by Donna Gray
Blank Page Muse Stamp: "Love" word Dandelion Wishes Set or ay other little word stamp
Embossing Pad and fine Black & White Embossing Powder
Black card - cut to 140mm x 28mm plus extra black card
Scrap of painty card - cut to 66mm x 25mm
Small piece of white card/paper to glue inside gift card for writing greeting
Embellishments: string/twine and small piece muslin
Tools: heat gun, ruler, scissors, knife, glue, double sided tape or glue stick, hole punch

Instructions:

Cut your black background card to size and score in the middle and fold in half.

Cut your "painty" card to just smaller than the front of the base cards so when it is ready to adhere it leaves a nice black border around the outside.



Next step is to stamp and emboss all the card elements. Use the garland flowers to stamp on the painty card with theblack embossing powder. Stamp the small butterfly onto black card and emboss with white powder and fussy cut. Stamp the "love" word onto black card and emboss in white and free hand cut the word.

Glue the embossed painty card to the gift card front and then arrange and glue your butterfly, muslin cloth and word to the front.

Use a small hole punch and punch a hole in the top corner of the card to attach twine.

Hope you have enjoyed my embossed and layered gift tags - a perfect way to personalise your gifts - even better if your gifts are also handmade!!



Have a wonderful week!
Happy stamping!

Sharon

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New Rubber Stamps for Summer~ Blog Hop & Giveaway

Hello Lovely Stampers!

Today we have a little bit of fun for you! We are celebrating our Summer Stamp Release and the Inspiration Team has been having lots of fun trying to stay cool while making lots of amazing samples to share!

What's in it for you? Comment here and tell us which is your favorite!
Then, Hop along to each blog, leave some comment love no later than August 10th!

We'll soon announce the winners of some of our new lovely stamps!


**Edited to add WINNERS!!!**
Thank you so much to everyone who came by and left some comment love, thank you to the whole Inspiration Team for your amazing projects!!

Random.org picked 4 Winners for us:
Please click on photo to see it larger.

If you are a winner, please contact me at blankpagemuse@gmail.com to arrange your prize. Congratulations and Have an amazing day! ~Kim

This is a jam packed post with new releases from Pam Bray, Donna Gray and two amazing new Featured Artists: Dead Sea Toons by Rachel Huddleston and BPM Inspiration teamie from the first half of the year, Stephanie Eaton!!

Here is the Blog Roll:

Katie

Sharon

Chris

Susie

Kelly
Samantha

We have three new plates from Pam Bray Designs!

Hibiscus Doily Mixed Media Collage stamp

Scribble Hearts & Elements Mixed Media Stamp Set

Love never fails by the designer Pam Bray!

Love this watercolor card, it's part of a series created by Susie using Pam's newest stamps. 

See more HERE

Wild Berries Background Coloring Art Rubber Stamp

Color this one to match the seasons and occasion!

Kelly used Wild Berries for this letter set, hop over to her blog for more ways to use this stamp!

                                         Pam made this awesome card, see it on her blog HERE


                            From illustrator Donna Gray we have Mermaid Fantasy and Heart of Nature !

The lovely Mermaid and Narwhal are available as singles as well.

Hop over to see what Sharon created HERE

Chris made these stunning cards, check out here blog HERE

Ready for some creepy cute wonderfulness??!! Look no further, introducing red rubber stamps designed by DeadSeaToons!

The Midnight Collection

Sharon made some index card art, check out more on here blog Here

Katie had lots of fun making some ATCs, hop over HERE

You all remember BPM Teamie Stephanie, let's take a look at here awesome new red rubber stamp set!

Meet Mermaid Kai Lana & Friends!

Kai Lana is also available as a single stamp but honestly, you neeeeed the set!

See more from Sharon on her blog HERE

Kelly made this colorful card, see it on her blog HERE

Lastly for all our vintage stamp fans, a set of Perfume bottles and lovely lady!

Vintage Scents

Samantha created this lovely pair of cards, you MUST read her story, HERE

Sharon crafted this fun art journal page!

Thanks so much for reading this far!

To recap, comment here on which stamps you can't live without!

Hop on over to the blogs of the BPM Inspiration Team and leave some comment love!

Come back here on August 10th for the Hop Winners!

 One last mention, by popular demand, we have added the option of cushion cling! If you want to purchase it for your stamps, just tick the box when adding to your cart

Have a great day and enjoy the Hop! Share with your friends, we'd love it if you would!