Peace & Comfort in Floralsthing of you, technique junkies

Happy Day! My share for this Wednesday is the Pretty Line Floral paired with a sentiment from the new Peace & Comfort, set of 6. I stamped this on watercolor paper using my Misti to get a good, crisp image. Next, I watercolored the image and for interest, I added splatters in black to main image panel..as well as the scalloped oval die cut. The sentiment is on dimensional. Simple and easy to do and it makes a lovely creation letting someone know you're thinking of them.

~Pam

 

Underneath the Moon with Tutorial

 Hello all, 

I have a love/hate relationship with embossing powder.  It can be challenging to get a clear image without flecks all over.  Well... What if you want the flecks?  Check out this technique where I turn the flecks into stars on my evening sky card. You can see the video here

Stamps: 

Under the Moon: Use Code TJ10Chris to save 10%

Check out Full supply list on www.purplelakestamps.com

Wine Surprise Card

Hi Junkies!  It is Chris here to share some stamping fun with you today. 

I'm in love with this month's release. This is one of my favorite stamps. I cut it apart to add to its versatility. Check out the video to see how I hid a gift card in the design. This is a design that can easily modified to fit your favorite stamp!

You can watch video here

Measurements and Materials can be found on my Blog

Materials: STAMPS: use code TJ10Chris to save 10% wine stamp:

You can watch video

You can watch video here
You could use copic  R56 to color wine. 

A Wisteria Miss You

Hi! Pam here on the blog today and I am showcasing the new release, Wisteria Background and my sentiment is from Four Little Sentiments. I stamped the image onto watercolor paper and then watercolored the image. Once dry, I ran through the brick embossing folder. I distressed the red mat layer under image. 

Please feel free to use my code TJ10Pam and head over to Technique Junkies for all crafty goodness!

Happy Wednesday!

Pam

 

Technique Junkies - Wisteria Background

Hello! Tracy Shultz, The Hopeful Crafter, here to share a card created with the new Wisteria Background Stamp. I also used The Dream, Hope, Wish, Wonder (set of 4) Stamp Set. All new stamps are 15% off through April 8.  Save 10% on everything else with my code: TJ10Tracy

I created my card using Catherine Pooler inks as watercolors. I die cut the panel with a loopy edge rectangle die. I also cut the background mat layer (using pattern paper) with the same die. I stamped the Hope, Wish, Dream and Wonder sentiments using Drive In Ink (Purple) by Catherine Pooler. Technique Junkies now carries Catherine Pooler Inks.

This is a photo of the entire new release.  

In case you are like me and you want it all, there is the "Gotta Have it All" bundle:

                                                                                     

Thank you for visiting!

                                                                                                                                                                                                            

All is Calm as we head into December!

 

Greetings TJ fans! I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. I did and now I am excited for Christmas and getting together for some family time! My card today is with the Bird and Poinsettia Border from the Oct 2021 release and the All is Calm sentiment. I began my stamping my image on watercolor paper using my Misti to make sure I got a really good image. Next, I set about watercoloring the image. Once dry, I sprayed gold Shimmering Bliss. I then embossed the entire image, matted in red and stamped the sentiment on watercolor paper, too with some gold shimmering mist. The sentiment is mounted on dimensionals. I love this stamp. Love the bird!

Technique Junkies is having their annual Inventory reduction sale starting today. Everything in the inventory reduction category will be 35% off -PLUS you can use my code on the sale items ( TJ10Pam), along with everything else. The sale starts today and will run through December15. Here is the link for the 

Inventory Reduction Sale Check it out!

Zinnias With Monarch

Hey everyone! Jessie here again today to share some awesome inspiration with you!

The May new release launched yesterday, so today I have a pretty project using one of those stamps to share with you. 

I used the Zinnias with Monarch to create this fun little card. You know how we buy these super cool products, use them a few times then forget about them. Well that is what happened here. Years ago I purchased the Mega flakes, its like scraps of gold leaf and different colours of leaf. I used it a few times then forgot I had them. Well, I was cleaning the studio and found them, and was like hmmm this would make a really cool Technique Junkies card! And here we are. 

So I started off by "stamping" the image with glue then adding the flake, you can't see the beauty of the flakes on the straight on shot, so you get this neat angled one too! after that I just added some simple light washes of watercolour. To finish it off I used the Wildly Capable sentiment (masking off the flowers on the side). 

Thanks for stopping by,
Hugs
Jessie

Dahlias

Hey everyone, Jessie here with you all today! For my first ever Technique Junkies post! I am super thrilled to be on this team, and getting to play with so many wonderful stamps!

I am kicking things off with Dahlias (S811). You will learn I have a love of all floral stamps ever!! So in my true fashion I stamped them out and took my watercolours to them.

I tried multiple... and I mean tons of sentiments to put on the front of this little gem, but honestly she felt like one of those cards where all it needs is a message written inside!

I can not wait to show you what I have in store for my next post!

Caladium Card Set

One of my favorite new stamps from the January 2019 release is the Caladium Background stamp ... remember if you use my discount code TJ10Stephanie, you get 10% off your order at the Technique Junkies Store.

I tried the stamp using a variety of techniques ... and they all worked ... so I ended-up creating a gift set of cards.

If you google pictures of Caladiums, you will see all sorts of varieties.  This pot contains Five different varieties of the gorgeous plant.

For the first background, I stamped the Caladiums with Green Ink on White Cardstock and then used watercolor paints on the leaves to get the variation in pink hues.

After framing with green cardstock, I added a wrap of sheer ribbon before mounting on the pink cardstock base.  The sentiment is from the new Let's Pawty Stamp Set.

Next I tried stamping in Green on Pink Cardstock and adding accents of darker pink.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is another one of the stamps from the new Let's Pawty Set.

Another Green ink on white cardstock with watercolor paint for the leaves ... another thing I love about this stamp is that it works in any orientation.  This time I added another wrap of pink sheer ribbon and a sentiment from Technique Junkies Grand Greetings.

And for my final card in the set, I used a lighter green ink on pink cardstock with darker pink highlights.

This card just felt like Spring with a wrap of green ribbon, so I finished with the Technique Junkies Happy Easter Sentiment stamped in darker green ink directly on the background.

I hope I've given you some inspiration for ways to create variations with the stamp background for a great gift card set ... everyone loves having a stash of homemade cards to send.

Colorful Paint Rings using MISTI, Distress Inks and Color Burst Powders

Good Morning!  Chris here today, sharing a colorful card using the new background stamp, Paint Rings and the greeting stamp, Stay Humble.

Today I started ,my card with a panel of Canson cold press watercolor paper.  I've recently been having lots of fun using Color Burst powders to paint with, so this is where I began my card.  I added a small area water to the center of my panel and using a wet brush to pick up turquoise Color Burst powder from a craft mat, dropped into my wet panel.  I used a heat gun to dry the panel and added more color twice, building up color slowly, and controlling the area.

I let this dry fully then stamped the Stay Humble greeting with Versafine Ink.

I then did a bit of selective inking using my MISTI.  I placed my panel of cold press watercolor paper and the Linen Dots background stamp in my MISTI and using Distress ink cubes, I selectively inking and repeatedly stamping small areas of the background stamp with Distress ink.  Often I had to double stamp to get the intensity of color and coverage that I wanted on the textured paper.    I used a number of bright colors of ink moving throughout the panel, grouping them by area or size of the rings.

I loved the colorful look of the paint but wanted a bit more intense color, so I added a bit of matching Color Burst using that same painting technique of picking up powders with a brush.  I made sure to "color outside the lines" just bit too to add to the painty-ness!

When dry, I trimmed the panel to 4.25" x 5.5" and adhered it to a card base with liquid glue and pressing it under a book to dry flat.

Dreams of a Watercolored Mermaid

The Crafty Nurse "swimming" by to share some mid-week inspiration using stamps from the Technique Junkies June release. You still have a few days to receive 15% percent off this great release over at the Technique Junkies store.

The background for my card is from Sensational Stencils CD called Distress Stain Dip.  I changed it up to use Distress Paint instead of stains in the colors Broken China, Mermaid Lagoon and Wild Honey.  I added a wave texture using a Tim Holtz Stencil then added additional distress ink around the edges.

For the focal image, I stamped "Mermaid on Rock" onto 140lb. watercolor paper with Archival Ink.  I colored my mermaid using Windsor Newton Watercolor markers and added highlights with prismacolor pencils.  Adding pencils over watercolor is a great way to add depth to your coloring.

Stamps:

• Mermaid on Rock #SD805
• Wild Sea Air #SD698

We would love for you to join our monthly challenges for a chance to win prizes.  Don't forget to share your work over at the Facebook group.  We love to see your cards and projects.

Enjoy your day!!

The Crafty Nurse

Woodland Watercolor

Happy New Year!  Did you see all of the new stamps for January?  Did you catch yesterday's blog hop?  If you didn't then why not go back to yesterday's post and start the hop from the beginning.  There is beautiful talent on our Design Team and boy did they do their best stuff. 

While perusing Pinterest I came across this card which is the inspiration for today's tutorial.  The two stamps I used were SD621 Winds of Change and Age Spots which is on clearance for only $2.25, so when you're buying your stamps, why not throw this stamp into your cart too?

I hope my card inspires you to try your hand at this technique.  Try different embossing folders for different effects. Now onto the tutorial:

Supplies:  Woodland Textured embossing folder  (from SU), a variety of 3 to 4 inks, water spritzer, waterbase marker such as SU or Tombow, Age Spots stamp

Add ink to your stamp and stamp out your image in a variety of places on your embossing folder

Continue by adding a second color of ink

Continue to add ink until you are happy with the coverage

If you are using the Woodland Textured embossing folder then draw the brown lines that are on the birch trees

Lightly spritz your embossing folder with water

Place your cardstock into the embossing machine and run it through two to three times

Your piece is now ready to finish as desired. 

Thank you for popping in. 

Stand Tall

Hi there fellow stampers.  Beth Norman here with a popular stamp called Stand Tall.

To create my card I used watercolor paper, and  started by inking my stamp with VersaMark and heat embossing with white embossing powder.  Next, I tapped out some Colorbursts onto the watercolor paper then spritzed with water.

To create my corners, I had extra watercolor paper that I sprinkled with Colorbursts and spritzed water.  Using my Cricut corner die, I cut out four corners and glued the corners onto my card front. 

This was a fun technique that can be used with Bisters or any other watercolor pigment powders.

Thanks for stopping by!

Watercolor Christmas

Hello Junkies!

I hope you are enjoying the holiday release as much as I am.  Today I took a stab and creating a watercolor scene with the gorgeous "Christmas Trees" set of 6 stamps just released.  I started by masking off the bottom of the watercolor card stock by tearing painters tape and adhering it on an angle.  I then applied water and dropped blues, greens, yellows, and grays then allowed that to dry. I like to start light, then build up the colors.

Once the background was created I stamped two of the Christmas Tree stamps using Staz-on Midnight Blue.  Using a waterproof ink allows you to go back and add deeper colors.  I then removed the tape, applied gray to create snow and stamped the "Joy" sentiment, also in this holiday release. To finish, I added some gems and splattered the top portion of the card with green watercolor.

If you haven't had a chance to check out the holiday stamps, please stop by the Technique Junkies website so you don't miss the new goodies. 

Until the next time,

The Crafty Nurse

Kitty Profile by Judy Jackson

Good day fellow stampers.  Don't you just love getting new stamps and new fun things to play with?  I do for sure.   So I am sharing a card made with a new stamp for Technique Junkie Stamps.  And if you are a cat lover -- well, you will surely love this new stamp as well!

This new stamp,  Kitty Profile, features the face of this lovely kitty.   It is stamped on watercolor paper with black pigment ink and embossed with black detail embossing powder. First I applied water first to the watercolor paper with a spray bottle. Then I added just swirls of water color paint through the water. That is how the various colors are achieved.  I dried the paper with my heat gun before stamping and embossing.  To color the eyes I used some Smooch paints and applied it the green with my aqua pen. Since it was painted over the yellows and oranges already on the paper, it gave the green a different look.

I stamped congratulations on vellum and tore it a bit. I was able to put the vellum through my X Xyron sticker maker to allow it to be adhered to the background.  A row of rhinestones, layering the focal image, and I was finished. 

Kitty Profile  - #S625 - http://techniquejunkies.com/cats/ 

Holidays 1 Flourish - #SS041 - http://techniquejunkies.com/words-and-sentiments/?sort=featured&page=4

Have a wonderful day!  Get inky! 

Judy Jackson

Time to Nest

 

Hi, it's Gini, and I'm excited to share my first blog post with you today on the Technique Junkies blog!  I love trying new techniques and of course, adore beautiful stamps - so this is the perfect place for me.

I used two different stamps for my background - Burlap Flowers and Fat Smudged Lines.  I had fun with some embossing techniques, including a variation of the Outlined Resist Tutorial from the Bodacious Background Stamps CD.  

My focal image, Nesting Bird, was colored with Spectrum Aqua markers.  I then cut the image and used foam adhesive to apply it to the card.

The sentiment is from the very fun Mae West Sentiments (from the Palettini Collection).

 

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a bright and beautiful day.