Art Journal, Nature's Wonder...

  Hi Creative Fans!

Today I have incorporated stamps and a stencil with a digital image in one of my art journals!

Your stamps don't always have to be the "main" focal point - I love to use them to "enhance" the main image and add interest to my page - same with the stencil!

The main image is a digital file printed on tissue paper, adhered to my page and coloured with watercolours. I added some acrylic paint to fill around the image on the edges.

I stamped one of the gothic flowers with embossing ink and embossed with fine white embossing powder at the bottom of the page. I used white paint through the honeycomb stencil to cover the digital image sides and top.

To finish off I added a little bit of gold and the letters "Wonder".

Love how this turned out!

**NEW** Products used:

Gothic Garden Flowers Stamps by Miss Rach

Honeybee Honeycomb Stencil by Miss Rach

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So many fab stamps to choose from!

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Stamping on a Art Canvas

  Greetings! Today I am excited to share this mini canvas I created using some of my favorite I brake for Stamps stamps.  I love creating mini canvases and art journal pages as it gives me a chance to play with different stamps and different mediums.

 

  

Supplies needed:

I Brake for Stamps Music Sheets Background 

I Brake for Stamps The Old and New

I Brake for Stamps Art of Chemistry Background

 5x5 canvas, colored tissue paper, paper doily, film strip, Alphabet Stickers, black archival ink, mod podge, versamark, patina embossing powder.

Start by stamping your I Brake for Stamps Music Sheets Background  and I Brake for Stamps Art of Chemistry Background repeatedly onto colored tissue paper ( mine was blue)

Crumple tissue paper to create wrinkly texture. 

Tear and adhere pieces of tissue paper onto your canvas with Mod Podge. 

Continue piecing tissue paper under canvas is covered.  Trim center from doily and adhere to top corner of your canvs. 

Adhere film strip to your canvas over doily.

Add "Be You" with alphabet stickers. 

Stamp  lady from I Brake for Stamps The Old and New and emboss with patina embossing powders.

You an see the dimension embossing your lady adds to your canvas. 

Stamp and emboss "dare to be Different" from the I Brake for Stamps The Old and New stamp set to finish your canvas. 

I hope you are inspired to get creative with your stamps and papers from Blank Page Muse and I Brake For Stamps.  Don't forget to use my discount code BPMChris. 

 

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Making Backgrounds

 Hi Creative Fans!

Today I'm sharing a background idea - works for journal pages, card fronts, index cards, atc's - really whatever you want to create!

The best thing is that you can use up your patterned paper scraps and as you know I hate throwing any pretty bit of paper away!

There are some wonderful patterned paper pads available in store designed by Pam Bray - I save all the left over bits for using as backgrounds - it's quick and easy and looks effective - minimal supplies required so everyone can do this!

CLICK HERE to see the paper packs in store!

Gather your paper scraps - works best with all different sized pieces - grab your backing item whether it be a journal page or card front - you can use "mop up" pages and pieces of card - gives some extra grunge and interest to the page. My journal page had been used to "clean" excess paint from my brayer so I had some colour on the background.

If you have a plain page you might want to gesso it.

Adhere your scraps over the page - use glue or gel medium whatever is your fav!

Rub white gesso or paint over the patterned papers to dull out the colors - just a really thin layer - I use my fingers because it allows the layer to be thin and translucent! And then grab a charcoal pencil and color all around the edges of the patterned paper, smudge with your finger - love the dimension this adds. You now have a great background to add a focal stamp, sentiment and any other embellishments you like!

Pop over to My Blog and you can see all my stamping & digital creations!

***Remember to us the code BPMSharon at the store for 15% off ***

So many fab stamps to choose from!

Note: you can use the code at either the IBFS Store OR the BPM Store - why not do an order from each and increase your stash!

And visit our social media sites for more stamping fun!

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Creating with Paper Scraps

 Hi Stamping Fans!

Today I am sharing a couple of snippet rolls I whipped up with scraps!

I've been wanting to create one of these for ages - these are just the most perfect thing to make to use up all of your scraps, excess stamped images, bits & pieces in general - perfect for those of us that just cannot bear to throw anything away - even the tiniest bit of paper!

I had lots of fun delving through my scraps and excess stamped Blank Page Muse images!

I used offcuts of patterned papers designed by Pam Bray available in store along with all the fab rubber stamps by various artists!

I had bits and pieces of background papers/tissue papers using BPM stamps so they were perfect.

As you can see I ran the metre long strip through the sewing machine just to doubly secure everything!

I had so much fun - I have some base strips all ready to create even more of these wonderful snippet rolls! Remember you can add stickers, charms, buttons - any embellishments you have to make your strips even more decorated! Or add extras when you cut off "snippets" to use on your creations!

***Remember to us the code BPMSharon at the store for 15% off ***

So many fab stamps to choose from!

Note: you can use the code at either the IBFS Store OR the BPM Store - why not do an order from each and increase your stash!

Pop over to My Blog and you can see all my stamping creations!

And visit our social media sites for more stamping fun!

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Always be You

  Greetings! Today I am excited to share this art journal page I created to remind myself to Always be myself and that I don't have to be perfect!  the page features this amazing stamp set from I Brake for stamps!  

There are  Lots of Art Journal possibilities with this stamp set! 

To recreate this page you will need: 

I Brake for Stamps Half Sheet 152b The Old and New

I Brake for Stamps Art of Chemistry Background

Inks (embossing and archival) , embossing powder, watercolor paper, distress inks, stapler, film strip, water brush, wood stars (or punched out stars) 

Start by stamping your images from I Brake for Stamps Half Sheet 152b The Old and New stamp set onto the water color paper and emboss. 

Stamp I Brake for Stamps Art of Chemistry Background randomly over background. 

Add distress inks over the background as desired. 

Bring your starring lady to life by coloring with water brush and distress inks. 

Add additional distress inks to the background as desired. 

Attach film strip with stapler. 

Add stars to finish your art journal page. 

I hope you are inspired to get creative with your stamps and papers from Blank Page Muse and I Brake For Stamps. 

 

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It's Never Just Black or White!

 HI IBFS Fans!

Today I'm sharing a mixed media art journal page combining products from IBFS and BPM!

To create my journal page background I used a stencil designed by DeadSeaToons and available at the BPM Store along with ink sprays, charcoal pencil & posca pens.

Blocks Pattern Stencil

The main focal image of my page is a stamp available at the IBFS Store which I stamped onto an old book page covered with gesso.

Woman's Head

***Remember to us the code BPMSharon at the store for 15% off ***

So many fab stamps to choose from!

Note: you can use the code at either the IBFS Store OR the BPM Store - why not do an order from each and increase your stash!

Pop over to My Blog and you can see all my stamping creations!

And visit our social media sites for more stamping fun!

I Brake For Stamps -https://ibrakeforstamps.com/ 

The Blank Page Muse- https://blankpagemuse.com/

FB Fan Page-  https://www.facebook.com/groups/blankpagemuse/

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I Brake for Tumbling Leaves

happy new year everyone!!!!

marti here with a new journal page for y'all.  we all do alot of reflecting when the new year hits.  whether it's thinking about how the past year went or how the new year will go.  i am not one for new year's resolutions per se.  i do the resolution, evaluation, new resolution, re-evaluation thing throughout the year.  however, the new year does sort of magnify it.  one thought that washed over me very strongly is that if i live to be 250 years old i don't know if i will have time to delve into all of the things in life i am interested in!  and it sent me into a bit of a panicky feeling for an afternoon.  so i grabbed my journal and some stamps and this is what i have:

 

 of course having interests is a wonderful thing - and probably keeps people going as they get older.  the fact that i am in a position to explore many of them is an enormous privilege too!

i made the paper i used for the body of my house using stamps from two sets - Collage Elements 1 and Floral & Leaves Plate. the leaves tumbling through the clock and watch images was exactly how i felt.  creating this piece of paper to incorporate into my journal work is precisely why i love IBFS images.  endless versatility!

what can YOU create with the fabulous stamp sheets available in the store???