Sunflower Wishes

 Hey there, friends!

It’s creative team member Walter back on the Blank Page Muse blog today.  The sunflower is a definite symbol of summer and early fall.  I’ve always enjoyed them - they stand so tall basking in the sun and gently swaying in the breeze.  They also happened to be a favorite flower of my mom.  She always enjoyed a sunflower bouquet; they always made her smile.  Today’s card, Sunflower Wishes, was inspired by her and is dedicated to the memory of her.

Sunflower Wishes was made with the following items:

• Butterfly Breezes Clear Stamp Set from Blank Page Muse
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The gold embossed sentiment really stands out and shines against the purple card stock, as does the gold butterflies.

The butterfly sits so nicely on the sunflower and serves of a reminder that those we lose are always around us.

You may learn more about my creative process on my blog.

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Admit One!

 Hi Stamping Fans!

Today I am sharing some tags made with some leftover "masterboard" card. I made this at an art journal class I attended here in Australia - I love making background papers with paint, stencils and stamps!

I used stamps available in store on this piece of card - there are so many great little stamps to choose!

And the focal images n the tags are some fabulous vintage style stamps - perfect for small projects and adding interest to anything!

Here are links to a few I used but really there are endless choices in the stores:

Diamond Border by Pam Bray

Background Grunge Set by Pam Bray

Ornate Medallions by Michelle Frae Cummins

And for the focal images these vintage style stamps:

Photobooth Girl in Dotted Dress

Photobooth Portrait of a Woman

Admit One Ticket Stubs

Spare 38 39 40 41 Pattern Art

We would love to see what you create so remember to tag us on social media or make sure you have joined our Facebook group so you can share your creations and we can get some inspiration from you!

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So many fab stamps to choose from!

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A Vintage Note

Hello, friends!

It's creative team member Walter on the I Brake for Stamps blog today.  I'm a fan of vintage items and design, especially things like old photos, newsprint, magazines, etc.  I have a lot of fun thinking about how to take stamps or dies and turn them into something that looks older and aged, and that's exactly what I did for my latest creative team design, A Vintage Note.

Here's what I used to make this card:

• Just Messy Floral Sheet from I Brake for Stamps
• Handwriting stamp from Hero Arts Mix Textures Stamp Set
• Spellbinders Deckled Edge Dies
  
• Sizzix Embossing Ink
• Ranger Vintage Pearl Embossing Powder
• Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo
• Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stains: Antique Linen, Tattered Rose, Victorian Velvet, Bundled Sage

I love the look of the embossed colored roses against the ivory card stock, grunge, and separate rose.

 And the light writing adds just a little bit of additional interesting detail.

I hope that you enjoy A Vintage Note and learning a little more about my inspiration for it.  You may learn more about my creative process on my blog.

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Journal Ephemera!

 Hi Stamping Fans!

Hope you are all getting in some creative time! I've been busy working in my journals which seems to be my go to creative outlet at the moment!

So today I am sharing some quick little word and image ephemera for adding to your journal pages or you could also use them on cards and tags - whatever you want!

All supplies available in store:

Colour me Perfect Art Doll by Pam Bray

Whatever is Good Dreamer Art Doll by Pam Bray

Butterfly Breezes Set

Special Day Sentiments by Pam Bray

Masquerade Paper Pad by Pam Bray

Cyan Consortium Paper Pad by Pam Bray

I've used word stamps and small image stamps from the clear stamp sets - any words and small stamps will word from any of the huge range of stamps available in both stores!

I love the 6 x 6 paper pads by Pam Bray - I cut strips and layered them on double sided sticky paper - makes it quick and easy and less mess than glue! Plus when you cut out your pieces you can just peel off the backing and stick straight on your project!

Hope you have fun with this quick little project! We would love to see what you create so remember to tag us on social media or make sure you have joined our Facebook group so you can share 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!

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Introducing Our New Design and Creative Stamping Team!

 Hello! We are so happy you are here today! We're so happy to have you meet our new Creative Team!

 Say Hi to the fabulous-amazing-inspiring

Blank Page Muse & I Brake for Stamps

Design and Creative Stamping Team!

Michelle Frae Cummings

Michelle is a rubber stamp designer for Blank Page Muse, 
and team leader for both the Blank Page Muse and I Brake for Stamps blogs.

Michelle is a mixed media artist who loves to sew, make jewelry, paint and make shrines. 

Michelle works as a Middle School campus supervisor, teaches art workshops, 
 and is a professional face and body painter. 

When not creating, Michelle loves to visit  flea markets,  look for sea glass on the beach,

and travel.

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Sharon Rogers

Sharon is the Aussie member on the team! She loves creating mixed media projects in art journals incorporating rubber stamps and stencils from BPM & IBFS. She also loves decorating tags, ATC's and index cards. She likes to think outside the box at times and has fun with new products and designs.

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Chris Pozzi

Chris is an avid crafter, stamper, and scrapbooker.  Chris hasn’t met many crafts she doesn’t love! Chris is a full time working Mom of 3 grown children and a Grandma to 1!

Chris is thrilled to be staying with Blank Page Muse Stamps and I Brake for Stamps for another term and excited to see what new and exciting things are coming!  

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Steph Ackerman

Steph has been creating ever since she was a child.
She enjoys the creative process and always makes sure to spend time creating every day.
Steph loves creating cards, mixed media projects, off the page and altered projects.

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Walter Zemrock

As a rescue dog dad living in the suburbs of Boston, MA,
Walter is a finance professional by day and avid paper crafter by night.
Paper crafting is a meditative yet creative way for him to take a break from days filled with spreadsheets and analysis. Walters’s favorite crafting style is working with vintage and floral elements to create cards, journals, and mixed media projects.

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Sue Wisniewski

Sue has been stamping for over 25 years.
She is a self taught stamper that has taken classes from some of her favorite artists in our field. Sue started stamping on clothes with big solid stamps,
then moved onto making cards, and has never looked back.
Sue especially likes to create cards that shake, spin, or pop!
Aside from making cards, tags and bookmarks,
Sue also enjoys making Folios or Treasure junk journals

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Maria Giselle M. Batan

Maria has been a paper crafter since 2006. Starting with scrapbooking, then venturing into cardmaking and paper-made giveaways. She is a practical crafter who tries her best to first make use of what she has, but also likes to try new things, especially craft items that are innovative. Maria welcomes the challenge of creating new items based on themes or random materials.

Maria is blissfully married for 22 years now to a very supportive husband, is a loving mother to 4 boys whose age ranges from 22 to 11.
Maria is also an ICU RN for 28 years which she considers as her secondary job to crafting.  

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Karen Letchworth

In some way or the other, Karen has been crafting most of her life. It all started at a very young age when her  Grandmother and Aunt taught her proficiently in hand embroidery.  Her hubby of 38+ years is a retired Police Officer and Karen is a retired Office Manager for the County.  My blog is where she shares all of her art.  She looks forward to meeting new friends and to taking some of my older blog friends with me on her new creative journey. 

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Lyneen Jesse

Lyneen has lived in Bremerton, WA 24 years with her awesome husband and their terribly spoiled schnauzer Lilly. Currently she works part-time in a local scrapbook store where she also teaches classes.  
Lyneen's earliest memories of creating, include making gifts with her mom, sisters and brother. Since her father was an architect, she would doodle buildings with columns like those in his BIG books.  Later she started scrapbooking with what she had before there were beautiful papers and ephemera. Give her an idea and she will come up with a way to create it.
She can work magic from almost nothing. Her  studio is filled with everything imaginable from hardware store finds to the stacks of paper, stamps, vintage photos and postcards, flowers and chipboard, tools mediums and to much more that she has “collected” over the years!
She enjoys stamping, scrapbooking, mixed media, altered art, collecting vintage treasures and photography.

We are excited to show you how you can incorporate
rubber stamping into a variety of mixed media designs!

This includes categories like: art journaling, scrapbooks, jewelry, fabric art, collage, mixed mediums  and more!

 We will provide inspiration for you to use in your everyday life, home, office and gift giving idea's!

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Creating a Beautiful Watercolor Embossed Card

 Greetings Chris here today and  I am super excited to share this beautiful watercolor embossed card I created using the Numbers and Flower stamp sheet from I Brake for Stamps. 

This set is so pretty and has so many possibilities. Numbers, flowers and butterflies Oh my! 

I really wanted the flowers to be my focus of my card, so after stamping my image onto my card,  I heat embossed it using clear embossing powder.  I then spread distress inks on my table and placed my stamped image on top of the inks.  I did add some water to help the inks move around and blend!  

You can see how the image just pops off the page.  To finish my card I matted the stamped image onto coordinating paper and added a simple greeting. 

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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Happy Birthday Pixie

  Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today.

Today I am using some amazing products from Blank Page Muse and I Brake for Stamps.

Blank Page Muse Stamp:  Pixie Dust

Fairy Short Hair Standing

Blank Page Muse Pattern Paper:  Tattered & Worn 6"x6" Pattern Paper

I Brake for Stamps:  Happy Birthday Text Background

The Happy Birthday Text Background stamp is perfect for creating backgrounds.

Wrap with ribbon and add it to pattern paper.  

Pair it with a sweet fairy.

Details can be found on my blog.

Thanks for stopping by.

Steph

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Celebrate Summer with Flamingo Love

 Hi there, crafty friends!

It’s Creative Team member Walter back on the blog today with you today.  Where has this Summer gone?  I feel like life has been so busy lately that the days just flew by.  In thinking about how to celebrate these last weeks of the season, I thought it would be fun to celebrate them with some flamingos and florals.  Lucky for us, Blank Page Muse has the perfect red rubber stamp set to create such a celebration.

My design, Flamingo Love, was made with the following products:

• Flamingo Row Red Rubber Stamps

How cute and fun are these two love birds and the heart that they form with their beaks?!  Flamingos always remind me of warm weather, and these tropical looking flowers look like they belong at a Labor Day picnic.  I hope that you enjoy them!

You may learn more about my creative process on my blog.

Please visit the links below for more inspiration, creativity, and stamping fun with The Blank Page Muse and I Brake for Stamps:

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

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Thanks for spending some time with me here today.  See you again soon!

Wish it, Dream it, DO IT!

 Hi Stamping & Crafting Fans

Hope you have all made time for stamping and creating this month!

I have another mixed media creation to share today in one of my journals.

I've used washi tape to make a background - I've used this technique before on my journal pages - washi and gesso vertically on the page in strips - this time I've used the washi horizontally after watching my local lady (where I go for classes!) create a journal page using washi.

Stamps and stencils used:

Fashionista Half Sheet

Small Diamonds Pattern Stamp

Cat Bowl Half Circle Stencil designed by Donna Gray

Cross Stitch X Stencil designed by Stephanie Eaton

***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!

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

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

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

Instagram Shop-  https://www.instagram.com/blankpagemuse/

Instagram Blog-  https://www.instagram.com/blankpagemuseblog/

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