Karen McAlpine with you today! Welcome to Day 24 of the Thirty Days of Christmas Event with Technique Junkies!
The Design Junkies have lots of ideas for holiday cards and to get you in the mood for the season,
The Technique Junkies will be celebrating the Holidays with ............
The Thirty Days of Christmas
When: November 15 - December 15The Design Team will be sharing Christmas/Holiday projects using Technique Junkie Stamps. All Christmas stamps will be on sale during the event--
25% off!!
On my day 24 projects, I used TJ stamps (which are 25% off) and a non- Christmas stamp. See all The Christmas Sale stamps here
Make It:
Inside of the Card:
Change up!!
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas Chicken !!?? Now, I know you have a bird or chicken lover on you card giving list. They will love this little Christmas Chicken card. And, this card also shows how you can use non-Holiday stamps to make holiday cards.
Stamp this sweet little chicken with red ink and pair with red and green papers. Stamp the sentiment from the Red or White Christmas stamp; cut out and layer with green CS. Tie ribbon in bow.
I hope you are enjoying all the Technique Junkies' Holiday projects! Don't forget to grab you favorite stamps while the 25% sale is on. See you again soon!!
Karen McAlpine
Dreaming and Creating
Materials List:
Stamps: Christmas Ornaments Trio Set (25% off) from Technique Junkies
Ink: Archival Cobalt and Black
CS: white and navy
Metallic Marker
Twinkling H2O's watercolor paints
Paint brush
Silver and navy ribbon
- Make a card from navy CS
- Stamp three of the hanging ornaments with Cobalt Archival ink on white CS
- Dip a wet brush into the watercolor paints and add splotches of color to the background-- the ornaments will not smear because they were stamped with Archival ink.
- Add dots with a metallic marker and run the maker along the edges
- Add stamped piece to card
- Stamp Merry Christmas (also included in the Ornament Trio stamp set)with black ink in lower corner
- Tie ribbon into three bows and add one to top of each ornament
Change up!!
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas Chicken !!?? Now, I know you have a bird or chicken lover on you card giving list. They will love this little Christmas Chicken card. And, this card also shows how you can use non-Holiday stamps to make holiday cards.
Materials List:
Stamps: Chicken and Red or White Christmas (sentiment) both from Technique Junkies
Ink: Red
CS: white, red, green
DP: MME Found Christmas pad
Snowflake ribbon
Stamp this sweet little chicken with red ink and pair with red and green papers. Stamp the sentiment from the Red or White Christmas stamp; cut out and layer with green CS. Tie ribbon in bow.
I hope you are enjoying all the Technique Junkies' Holiday projects! Don't forget to grab you favorite stamps while the 25% sale is on. See you again soon!!
Karen McAlpine
Dreaming and Creating
2 comments:
I love the one with the chicken! Such a clever use of a not-so-holiday-ish stamp to make a holiday card. Very cool.
As a chicken mama, I love the chicken card. The ornament cards are nice, also. Thanks for sharing. I'm adding to my wish list. :-)
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