Hanging Heart

February is the month of hearts, flowers, chocolate and love.  So to go along with the romance, here is an inspirational hanging heart to help keep a little romance in your home.  A wooden heart from Dollar Tree was used, but if you can't find these near you, one can always use chipboard or layered (cut and glued back to back) paper stock instead.

Supplies:
Hot Air Balloon Stamp
Bird Form Hot Air Balloon
Steampubk Propeller Hot Air Balloon
Octopus Time! Octopus Balloon
Airship Bathtub
Heart Stamps
Wooden Hanging Heart base
Black Archival Ink
Distress Oxides: Broken China, Worn Lipstick, Festive Berries, & Wilted Violet
Adhesive
12 X 12 White Card stock Sheet
Scissors
Post It Note/Masking Product
Blender Tool for Oxides
Pearl and Heart gem embellishments

Instructions:

1. Pull out your heart base and remove any ribbons or tags.  Take out your 12 X 12 white sheet and trace out with a pencil around the heart shape.  Once traced out, cut out the paper heart.  Put the wooden heart base aside.

2. Get out all of the balloon stamps, ink and stamp each one at different opposing parts of the cards.  As you stamp, make sure to place the stamps so there is plenty of negative space between and that there is a balloon stamp that takes up each corner to balance off the design.  As you stamp, also stamp out a mask of each image (using your preferred masking tools, in this case post it notes were used) and cut out.  Once all the images are stamped out on the card stock and the masks completed, layer the masks over the correlating stamped images.

Stamped and masked balloons.

3. Pulling out three of the various doodle hearts (the smaller of the hearts), randomly start to stamp in black into the blank negative space. Overlap the sizes, flip, adjust direction.  Have fun!

4. Using a blender, sponge or dry towel, start layer the Distress Oxides within the heart background. I started off with reds, then blue, and lastly purple for shadows.

5. Glue the stamped heart to the base.

6. Remove the masks and hand color with our favorite pens, pencils or whatever you have on hand, the stamped balloons.

7. Ink the edges of the heart with any of the distress oxides that were used on the heart.

8. Add the pearl and heart embellishments throughout the heart to add more interest and sparkle.

9. Punch holes on either end of the top of the heart, punching out in order to balance them evenly while hanging. The wooden heart I had already had where the holes should be punched out.

10. Add your ribbon. Hang on a door knob or wherever you like.

11. Admire how awesome it looks and bask in your crafty magnificence.

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Pockets full of inspiration

Hi Everyone,
Jess here today.  I am a huge reader.  I love everything about books.  Remember when you used to have to sign out your books at the library by writing your name on the card in the pocket?  Today I have a project for you using library pockets.

Blank Page Muse Products:

 Small Crackle

Correspondence 

Feathers

Sequin Waste

Pointing Hand

Small Butterfly

Hot Air Balloon

Other Supplies:

Library Pockets

Paper Dolls

Photobooth Photos

Distress Inks

Distress Oxide Ink

Archival Inks

Adhesive

Chipboard Sentiments

Bronze Paint

Vintage Sheet Music

Heavy weight thread

Milk Cap

Die Cuts

Mini flashcard

fabric tape

Frosted Crystal Embossing powder

Cardstock

Paper Distresser

Start by using a piece of silver cardstock. Coat the cardstock using Distress Ink and Oxide Ink.  Once the ink is dry use archival ink to stamp the  Small Crackle stamp.  Using a paper distresser rough up all the edges and cover the front of your library pocket.  

Stamp a piece of vintage sheet music with the postal stamp from the Correspondence  set.  Slide the paper into the pocket and glue it in place.  Add your 3d embossed border to the top of the pocket.  Stitch a small "x" onto your photo and glue it onto the crackled background.  Glue on the milk cap and chipboard sentiment. 

Stamp out the small Butterfly using archival ink.  Add bronze paint to the edges and cut the butterfly in half.  Add the wings to a paper doll and slide her into the pocket. 

This will complete your front cover. 

 Line a second pocket up to the backside of your first pocket.  Using a piece of fabric tape attach the pockets together.  Line the backside of your first pocket with a vintage airmail envelope.  Use postage stamps from the Correspondence  set in various spots.

Using archival ink stamp a Hot Air Balloon.  Color the balloon using various shades of blue distress ink.  Fussy cut your balloon and use the bronze paint to cover your raw edges.

Adhere the balloon to the page.  Add a paper doll, chipboard sentiment, and die cut globe.  Using the smallest  of the Feathers stamp them all around your page.  

   Use patterned scrapbook paper to cover the pocket on your next page.  Add the Pointing Hand and Feathers to the top of the pocket.   

Use the   Small Crackle stamp to add age to a tiny flashcard.  Use bronze paint around the edges. 

Add paper doll with die cut suitcase into the pocket.

Here are the middle pages. 

For the back of the second page(your back cover), stamp on a plain piece of cardstock. Use the script stamp from the Correspondence  set, the  Small Crackle stamp, Sequin Waste, and the  Feathers.  I used various shades of archival inks in browns and reds to create my background.  Glue the paper to your pocket.  Rip a piece of patterned scrapbook paper and add it to the edge.  Stamp out a couple Feathers using archival ink and fussy cut them,  Add the tiniest hint of blue using distress inks to the feathers and edge in bronze paint.  Cut a small slit in your photo and slide the feathers in to make them appear to be wings.  Glue remaining pieces to complete your book.     

I hope you enjoyed this project as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Jess 

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Where The Wind Takes You Art Journal Page

Hello all
I have a colourful art journal page to share using stamps by The Blank Page Muse.
September is all about layers of color so the more the merrier.

Products used

Background Grunge 

Hot Air Balloons 2

Dandelion Wishes

Gesso

Craft foam

Ink pads

Mist sprays

Art journal

Ephemera/ clip art

Washi tapes

Here are some close ups of the project. 

Keep reading to learn how to create this page!.

Cover the page in gesso and leave to dry. 

Next spray on two mist sprays until you have a rich layer of colour.

Take a few texture stamps and stamp them along the bottom and one side of the page. Use different colours so each layer shows through.

Add washi tapes and emphera  onto the page.

Add more layers until you are happy with it.

Stamp images onto scraps of craft foam and cut them out.

Position them onto the page and glue them down. Add quotes to the center of the page and decorate with gems and other bits.

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Hot Air Balloon Travel

Hello all the Blank Page Muse Stamp fans.

Here is a steampunk, distress, hot air balloon travel postcard.

What goes well with steampunk?

A Octopus of course!

Come with me on a journey with steampunk travel.

 Stamps Used:
Chicken Wire Mesh 
Chicken Wire Mesh
Single Dandelion Blowing by Terri Sproul
1887 Vertical Number
Hot Air Balloon from Octopus Time sheet
Octopus from Octopus Time sheet

Other Supplies:
White Cardstock
Craft Cardstock
Tissue Paper
Distress Ink
Copic Marker
Black ink
Glue stick
Heat gun

 First take a piece of 4x6 white cardstock and color it with distress inks. It takes many different colors to make it look vintage. Spritz water for the drip effect.

Next stamp the following:

Chicken Wire Mesh

Chicken Wire Mesh

                                              Single Dandelion Blowing by Terri Sproul

                                                            1887 Vertical Number

 Stamp randomly all over your background. Do all the stamping in brown ink except the dandelion seeds. Stamp them in black.

 Next grab some tissue paper. What was used here was some tissue paper that had newspaper text on it already. Stamp the Hot Air Balloon from Octopus Time sheet 5 times. Heat set so they wouldn't smear.

                                      Then color with some brown ink. Heat set them also.

Cut out just the balloon part from the tissue. Fold in half and glue parts together of each one to make a honeycomb. Set aside to dry.

 Stamp the balloon onto craft cardstock. Color that in with brown ink. Cut out. This will be your base to hold the honeycomb balloon top.

 Then take your honeycomb balloon top and glue it to the top of your cut out craft balloon piece.

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On a scrap piece of white cardstock stamp the Octopus from Octopus Time sheet. Color with a  marker and fussy cut out. Cut in half and add to the of corners of the piece.

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Creating Simple Embellishments - Who's to Say Card

Hello BPM Fans,
Karen here to share a quickie card! Let's make a simple embellishment with major impact.

Blank Page Muse Stamps:
Hot Air Balloon with Wooden Barrel Basket Rubber Stamp

Dandelion Wishes with Butterflies Art Rubber Stamp Sheet by Terri Sproul

Other Supplies:

• Pattern paper
• Black permanent ink pad
• Watercolor paints
• White gel pen
• Transparency
• 5x7" card base
• Clear mounting block 
• Foam tape

Directions:

1. Stamp the hot air balloon onto white cardstock using permanent black ink. Color in the image with watercolor paints. When dry, use a white gel pen to add highlights to the balloon.  Carefully cut out the colored images. You will have 3 pieces: the balloon, the basket, and the clowns.

2. Stamp the image again unto transparency and set aside to thoroughly dry.

3. Next assemble and adhere the balloon, basket, and clowns over the transparent image with foam tape. This will allow the ropes that hold the balloon to the basket to be visible.  Stamp a sentiment using black ink and matte it with a thin border of black cardstock to form a flag.

4. Adhere a piece of pattern paper to cover the entire front of the card base and adhere the balloon and sentiment.

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