BRAND NEW CD – Sensational Stencils Blog Hop by Judy Jackson

Good day -- this is Judy Jackson sharing some exciting news with you today!

Do you enjoy using stencils? I do - yet I am not always confident in how to exactly how to most effectively use my stencils to create a WOW card.  My problem is solved!  How you ask?

Well today, the Technique Junkies Newsletter Design Team has another wonderful hop for you!  Pat and the rest of the talented Design Team have so many inspirational projects to share with you from the BRAND NEW CD – Sensational Stencils. This newest edition to the Technique Junkies Specialty CD family includes 40 techniques.  So this is the day for you to break out your stencils and play along!   Which stencil technique will you like the best? 

I get to be the first on the hop -- and I have three cards for you today.

The first card using  the Masked Stencil technique:

This card uses one of my favorite Technique Junkie stamps -- http://www.stampcamp.com/atc2.html .  This was a fun card to make!

The second card uses the Pastel Stick Stencils technique:

I also love this stamp and use it a lot!  You can find it here -- http://www.stampcamp.com/atc1.html.  I used vellum in a couple of places to add some different texture!

My final card uses the Alcohol Stencil technique.  This technique gives a different look:

You can find the butterfly stamps I used on this web page - http://www.stampcamp.com/Butterflies.html .  I enjoyed getting the alcohol inks to work and create the background look I was trying to achieve! 

Here is the information you need to know about this Sensational Stencils CD:
The CD page is HERE:
http://techniquejunkies.com/sensational-stencils-cd.html

The Table of Contents is here:
http://techniquejunkies.com/CD_indexes/1Sensational_Stencils_Index.pdf

You may want to add another specialty CD to your order of the Sensational Stencil CD. Here is a list of the various CDs available from Technique Junkie:
Artistic Effects CD $14.95 USD
Bodacious Background Stamps CD $9.95 USD
Designer Paper Perfection $14.95 USD
Great Gifts CD $14.95 USD
Shimmer Glimmer Sparkle and Shine CD $14.95 USD
3D and Fun Folds CD $17.95 USD
Emboss or Die CD $17.95 USD
Mini Album Mania CD $14.95 USD
Move It Shape It CD Combination $17.95 USD

Every one of the specialty CDs is just wonderful and check full of wonderful tutorials to help you create wonderful cards and projects!

Now to send you on way along the blog hop:  this is the list of blogs to hop along on -- and if you get lost, you can always come back here to find your way.


Judy Jackson - http://techniquejunkies.blogspot.com -- you are here now-----

Tricia O’Bin - http://thepassionatestamper.blogspot.com

Ann Clack - http://createdbyann.blogspot.com

Beth Norman - http://sunflowers-dragonflies.ca/blog

Hetty Sanders - http://craftchaos.blogspot.com

Holly Brown – http://www.glitterstampsandink.blogspot.com

Jane Bosi - http://janembosi.blogspot.com

Jackie Kalchert –    http://jackiekalchert.blogspot.com/ 

Shelly Schmidt - http://shellymc2.blogspot.com/

Pat Huntoon - http://www.patstamps.blogspot.com

I hope you have a wonderful time joining us and looking at the varied "Eye Candy" along the way prepared just for you.  Will you have a favorite card using stencils?  Please let us know with your comments  which is your favorite card created by each designer.  Some designers will show just one and some will show more than one! 

Hop along -- and then order the new Sensational Stencil CD!

Judy Jackson

Colored Stone Silk - TOTW

Happy Sunday Junkies...Tricia here with this weeks Technique of the Week...Colored Stone Silk.

I love coloring an image as I choose and not to have to try to match colors to designer paper.  The background of this card was so easy to do with the Color Stone Silk technique from this months' newsletter.  I colored the image with copics and used my copic refills on the background to match.

Stamps:  Stampin Up!, Saturated Canary

I hope to see what you guys come up with...I know you will love this technique!

Happy Crafting and thanks for stopping by!

Tricia

Silver on Gold

 

 

 

Hello again, Jackie K here with a Silver on Gold card.

 

 

 

  

 

These cards have quite an elegant look and could be used for Anniversary cards, Congratulation cards and many other celebratory type of greetings.

The stamps I have used are from Rouge Redhead Designs and Studio G.

They look complicated but they aren't. Give this technique a try wont you? Don't for get to post your creations to the yahoo group for all of us to admire.

Happy Stamping!

Oldie but Goodie - Out of the Nestie Box

Hi Junkies, Tricia here.  I made this card for my girlfriends birthday using this really cool Saturated Canary digi colored with copics.  I used my distress inks to create a background to match.  I cut her out using the Out of the Nestie Box technique...always a go to technique especially if you are trying to show off as much of the background as possible.

I love this Impression Obsession background stamp which is so versatile I love that I keep going back to it.  Don't you love when you can use your stamps for all different cards?

I hope you have a crafty day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Tricia

TOTW - Silver On Gold

Hi Junkies, Tricia here with this week's technique of the week "Silver On Gold".

This technique is so cool!  I love how the background is so shimmery.  (I wish it was light out so I could take a better pic, it's so much cooler IRL).   I think it would be great on Christmas Cards (I need to start these...lol).

The background stamp I used on this one is from Stampin Up! and the sentiment is from Gina K Designs.  I really didn't want to cover up the background too much so I left it as it is.

I hope you will join us this week and play along...can't wait to see what you create!

Have a crafty day!

Tricia

Technique Junkie Leaf Stamps

There are two seasons of the year that make me think bout leaves.  One is spring, and after winter I am more than ready to see Spring's green leaves.   But Fall or Autumn really makes me think about leaves! Colorful leaves, green leaves, cascades of leaves.  They can be so very, very beautiful.

So I have five cards for you today -- all of them feature leaf stamps from Technique Junkie stamps. All word stamps are also from Technique Junkie stamps. Enjoy!

Get inky today!
Judy Jackson

Reverse Washi Window Birthday card

Hello, Hetty here with a quick and very easy

birthday card with a lot of washi tape and a FREE

digital  subway art stamp from Create with TLC.

I love my washi tape, don't you?!!

And this reversed washi window technique

from the June/July 2014 newsletter is wonderful

for an easy or quick card.

I need some more birthday cards and quick,

so i asked my friend from Create with TLC

if she had a birthday subway art for me and

she did and dit is a freebie today at her and 

my blog as well, 

so hop over for some more inspiration.

Creative greetings!

Background Stained Glass

Good morning friends.  It's Beth Norman here with this week's Technique of the Week, Background Stained Glass.  My lovely background stamp is one of the many background stamps from the Technique Junkies Stamps.  The sentiment is also from the Technique Junkies Stamps.

I stamped out my background stamp and coloured with Copic markers.  The sentiment uses the Whisped Frames technique, one of my go-to techniques.

I've enjoyed seeing the DT members and subscribers have been doing with this technique and hope to see yours soon too.

Have a great week!

Brayered Rub-Ons

 

 

 

Hello again, It's Jackie K  with an example of the Brayered Rub-Ons Technique!

You can find it in this years Feb/Mar Issue.

 

                                          A little early for a Halloween card you may be thinking?

Well, not if you have 12 grandchildren like I do. Mind you, the oldest is 27 years old but he still gets a card as do all the others for every occasion. What are crafty grandmothers for after all?

 

I have not inserted the card yet because for some unknown reason the computer won't put it where I want it so bear with me. I am going to give you the details and then insert the card.

I used colored rub-ons for this card which led me to thinking...you really could use stickers if you had to.

I would tell you the maker of these rub-ons but in my ever effort to be tidy I threw out the packaging before I wrote the details down. I CAN tell you that the ghost that was stamped on vellum is from Stampendous. I have had this stamp for eons and I still smile whenever I use it. I brayered over the card with ColorBox Amber pigment ink.

OK so after wading through all this verbage, I hope you are not disappointed in the card.  Thanks for looking and I will see you in two weeks!

 

 

 

 



TOTW - Background Stained Glass

Happy Sunday!

Tricia here with this weeks technique of the week, Background Stained Glass.

I decided to use this technique to create a lovely backdrop for this sentiment that I love from Stampin Up!  I used a Stampin Up! background stamp as well as Stampin! Markers.

I hope you have a crafty day and we would love to see your creations!!

Tricia