Flower Postcard

This postcard was so much fun to make. I put this postcard in an envelope so that the flowers wouldn't get wrapped off in the mail. You could sent this without an envelope just skip the step using craft foam and use really strong glue.

Rubber stamps used:

Flower & Bird Sketches

Additional items needed:

• Imagination
• Scissors
• Alcohol markers
• Paint brush
• Water colors
• Ink
• Craft Foam
• Water color paper
• Card Stock
• Glue 

1. Cut your water color paper to size. I made mine into postcards 4" x 6." 

2. Then wet the paper. Using water colors I just splashed color all over. If your paint seems to pool in one spot take  a paper towel and pat it dry. This also helps add texture and blending of the colors.

3. Once your water colors are dry. I stamped my flowers on a thick card stock. Then I stamped my postcard where I wanted my flowers to be.

4. Taking alcohol markers I colored everything in. I also colored the green parts on my postcard. Then I cut out the flowers and glued craft foam to the backs of them. Gluing that to the postcards.

5. Don't forget the quote on the top. This stamp set has so many cute quotes to choose from I used the quote, "Stand for something even if it means standing alone"

Hope you enjoyed this flower postcard. If you have any questions feel free to message Lasheet and if you choose to make your postcard tag her and Blank Page Muse. Thank you, happy crafting!! ♥

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Spring Bunny Postcard

Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere will start at 4:37am on Saturday, March 20th (central time) This is the first day of spring, this means our daylight hours will become longer and the temperatures warmer. In the Southern Hemisphere the very opposite is happening.

Rubber stamps used:

Flower & Bird Sketches

Additional items needed:

• Imagination
• Scissors
• Alcohol markers
• Paint brush
• Water colors
• Ink
• Craft Foam
• Water color paper
• Glue 

1. Cut your water color paper to size. I made mine into postcards 4" x 6." If you want white edges like mine. Tape the edges down with washi tape.

2. Then wet the paper. Use a flat (square looking) brush. Take your water color in nay color you choose. Then choose whatever color you wish for the strips. I'm using green in the sprite of spring and St. Patrick's Day. I also splashed/flicked some gold on the background.

3. I then drew a silhouette of a bunny on scrape water color paper and cut it out.

4. Using this Ombre ink I stamped flowers to the bunny. Once the ink dries I slashed/flicked water color all over the bunny.

5. Glue you bunny in place and in black ink. I stamped the quote "Bloom where you are planted" to the top. The quote comes for the Flower & Bird Sketches stamp set.

Hope you enjoyed this Spring Bunny postcard. If you plan to mail these without an envelope make sure you use really strong glue. If you have any questions feel free to message Lasheet and if you choose to make your postcard tag her and Blank Page Muse. Thank you, happy crafting!! ♥

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Wobbly Witchy Woman

Hello all Cathy N here at the end of June with a wobbly witchy woman postcard.
 Enjoy!

Stamps used:
Dark fairy queen
Scribble & Scratch

Other supplies;
Ink sprays
Copic markers
Ink pad
White cardstock
Action wobbler

 Start out by stamping Dark fairy queen on cardstock. Color in with copic markers.

 Cut out. Attach the action wobbler to the back of the Dark fairy queen. Set aside.

Next cut a 4x6 piece of white card stock and spray it with some ink sprays.

Stamp Scribble & Scratch randomly over the background. Edge it with some ink. Add a word sticker to the top.

 Now attach the action wobbler to the finished postcard.  So now you have a wobbly witch!


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Red, White and Blue Shaker Postcard

Hello all Cathy N here!

 I thought it would be fun to make a card for the 4th of July .

 So I stepped it up a notch and made it into a shaker postcard!

Stamps Used:
circle scribble by Pam Bray
Bald eagle

Other supplies:
spray inks
pattern paper
foam tape
sticker saying
sequins
white cardstock
acetate
versa mark ink

 Begin with a 4x6 white cardstock and spray some inks on it. (blue and red).
Then splatter white ink on top. Let this dry.

 Stamp the  circle scribble with versa mark ink all over the background. Dry.

 Take some 4th of July sticker sayings and place around the background. Keep the edge of the card blank.

 Stamp Bald eagle on white cardstock and cut out. Set aside till the end.  Now make the top part for the shaker postcard. Cut out a 4x6 piece of pattern paper. Next cut a window from that. Cut a 4x5 piece of acetate and glue it to the pattern paper. 

 Take your foam tape and run it around the pattern paper. I did 2 layers. Add sequins. Use colors that go together. Peel the backing off the foam tape and stick the bottom layer that was worked on earlier.

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Sketchy Post Card

Hello again! Stephanie here sharing this sketchy postcard using the beautiful BPM stamps designed by Pam Bray! A fun trick to try is making a blocked project. It can be used as a focal point on a mixed media journal page, scrapbook page or like I'm sharing here today...a postcard. So let's get started!

Blank Page Muse Products:

Scribble & Scratch Mixed Media set designed by Pam Bray

Other Products:

Mixed Media Paper

Ink Pad

Alcohol Markers

Watercolor Paints

Colored Pencils

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1. First step is to decide arrangement. Think of each piece being in it's own little box (we will sketch those in later ;)

2. Color in the lovely stamped images. You don't have to be perfect...sketchy is good!

3. Create a light wash of color over the entire postcard. White space is ok!

4. Last step is to add some depth to the images by layering some colored pencil over them. Choose a color close to your ink that you stamped the images with and draw loose sketchy lines to make boxes around each image. I also added the word Hi in a similar sketchy style.

Check out the detail in these gorgeous stamps below! Absolutely LOVE them!! So much scribbly goodness!

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Bold & Bright Postcards!

Hi Blank Page Muse Fans & Followers!

Today I am sharing my process for making colourful postcards with Gelatos and of course Blank Page Muse Stamps!

These are relatively quick and easy to make ( the gel medium drying is the longest part!!) and can be adapted to any of the fabulous Blank Page Muse Stamps!

Supplies:

Blank Page Muse Stamps:

 Dragonfly Top View (Large Size)

Whimsical 5 Petal Doodle Flower by Pam Bray Designs

Sketchy Doodle Bricks Border by Pam Bray Designs

Let the Adventure Begin Phrase

Art Journal Word Stamps by Pam Bray (Memories)

6 x 4 Index Cards or Sturdy Card Cut to 6 x 4

Old Book Pages

Gelatos - various bright colours

Gel Medium

Black Archival Ink

Ink Sprays

Scrap white card and scrap kraft card/paper

Postcard Collage Images (or make your own on the computer) - used here collage images by Art Tea Life @Etsy

Embellishments: muslin cloth. cotton

Tools: Scissors, glue, spatula or paint brush, water spritzer

Instructions:

First step is to grab your old book, gel medium, index cards and a spatula or paintbrush.

Tear the book pages into pieces and use the gel medium to completely cover the index cards, make sure you overlap the pages. Once dry trim the overhang with scissors.

Choose 3 or 4 Gelatos in nice bright colours and cover the page by scribbling small boxes to cover the entire page - see picture below. you can use other patterns for different effects. No need to be neat! Be careful not to smudge the colour as you are working.

For this effect we do not want to blend or smudge the colours but we do need to "seal" the Gelatos so we can continue to work on the postcard and keep the colour effect as is. Use the gel medium and a spatula or paintbrush to swipe a layer over the entire card and allow to dry before continuing with the next step.

The next step is to stamp with your choice of background stamps and black archival ink randomly over the postcard background. Also use the stamp pad to edge the entire postcard to give a finished look.

Now to stamp out the images to add to the completed backgrounds. You can make these images plain or fancy!

Stamp the Dragonfly and the "Let the Adventure Begin" stamps on Kraft coloured paper using the Black Archival Ink pad. Fussy cut the Dragonfly and tear around the wording.

Alternatively stamp the Dragonfly and Memories wording on white cardstock and use the water spritzer and ink sprays to "colour" the image with a thin layer of ink (a quick way to colour an image). Fussy cut the Dragonfly and tear out the "Memories" wording.

Now we can add our stamped images to the fronts of the postcards. you can add some muslin scrap and cotton if desired or any other embellishments.



Layer the muslin, cotton and arrange the stamps on the postcard. Adhere everything to the card.

Print your chosen postcard backs on good quality paper - use something with a bit more weight than plain copy paper to add extra strength to the creation. Cut out and adhere to the backs of the postcards. Edge around the postcard with the archival ink to add a finished look.

Postcards are now ready for sending!

Hope you feel inspired to grab your Blank page Muse Stamps and create something!

This tutorial is perfect for any sort of creation - ATC's, Tag Art, Journal Pages - anything that you favour!

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Happy Stamping.

Sharon

The Golden Days of Travel

Hi Blank Page Fans,

Jess here today.  

Remember when people used to get dressed up to go on vacation? You never used to see people on airplanes in pajamas and yoga pants.  I can't imagine these ladies not looking put together.  I pictured them shopping in Paris and sending a postcard to a friend back home.  

Here are the supplies you need to gather to create your own postcard.

Stamps used:

Dress Form Stamps

Pen Nibs

Postmarks

Script

Typewriter Keyboard

Travel Stamp

Adventure Stamp

Butterfly

Other Supplies:

Jet Black Archival Ink

Archival Ink in Coffee and Hydrangea

Distress Collage Medium

Distress Markers

Distress Collage Paper

Distress Ink

Cardstock

Stabilo Pencil

Clear Gesso

Let's get started!

Stamp out your main images across the postcard using Jet Black Archival ink.

Create masks, using post it notes, and stamp all over to fill in white space. 

Once you have finished stamping your background use Distress Collage Medium to apply Distress Collage Paper to various areas of the postcard. 

Add your paperdoll and color in the dresses using Distress Markers(to make sure the ink stays on the image coat your paper doll in clear gesso).   Add Distress Ink to the edges to make the postcard appear to be vintage.  Use your Stabilo pencil to add shadows around the paper doll and around the edges of the collage paper.  

Turn your postcard over and add the Script and postmark stamp to the back.  Use Distress Ink to age the paper.  Color in the postmark using Distress Ink. 

Just like that your card is complete.  

Here are a few more glamour shots.

It was really fun to see how many stamps I could add to the collage feel of the card.  I haven't done a masking technique in a long time and it was fun to play around with it again.  

I hope you feel inspired to play with your stamps too.

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Happy Stamping,
Jess