There is Always Hope

Hello fellow stampers.  This is Beth Norman and I'm sharing a technique that always intimidated me, and boy was I wrong.  So wrong, that I plan on making ten more of these babies for my sister.

The technique I used is called Diagonal Images Background and is from the February 2014 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter.

Stamps:  Stylized Roses
              Always Hope

Have a super week!

Diagonal Images Backgound: Trees

Here is another take on the diagonal images background

technique with Club Scrap Trees stamps,because today

there is a blog hop of this March kit. You can start hopping

from the Club Scrap Create Blog HERE.

For this card I used a rectegular background

stamp and light green ink and decorated that stamp

with leaves in dark green ink.

So you see you can even do this technique without

 a stamp with all lines around it. You find this technique 

Feb/March 2014 issue.

Of course I could not trow away the cut offs

and used them to decorate the inside of the card.

Happy Spring

and a creative day!

Diagonal Images by Judy Jackson

Last weekend was the Heirloom Stamp show in Allentown, PA.  I helped our fearless leader, Pat Huntoon, in her booth for the Technique Junkie newsletter and stamps.  Doing this is a lot of fun!  I am always amazed at how many folks have never heard of the Technique Junkie newsletter.  Afterward, of course I had to have some new stamps!   Pat encouraged me to try to use this stamp set of Funky Kitties.  It was not a problem as my daughter loves cats. She has four of them!   I also got this frame stamp.  I created a mask so that my kitties would stamp inside the frame.  Every frame has a different arrangement of kitties. All of the stamp used are from Technique Junkie Stamps. http://www.stampcamp.com/  Check them out.  Lots of wonderful images here.

Most of us tend to stamp our stamps in the same orientation all the time.  It is good for us and good or our brain to use our tools in different ways -- helps to keep our brains working you know!  I enjoy this technique (from the current newsletter) for that very reason -- it forces me to look at my stamps in ways I haven't thought of before. 

What stamps you have that you could make work in this orientation -- diagonally -- that you never thought of before?

Happy stamping today! 

Judy Jackson