Love Is In The Air

We are fast approaching Valentine's Day and Technique Junkies has come out with some great stamps for this loved occassion.

It's The Crafty Nurse here today with a card celebrating love using some of the January Release Technique Junkies stamps. 

My card today features the January Release sentiment, "Life Complete SDX069" stamped in Versafine Onyx Black Ink and clear heat embossed.  The background technique used is "Distress Stain Dip from the Artistic Effects CD" using Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon, and Squeezed Lemonade.  I then used a Simon Says Stamp heart die and alternated card stock for the center pieces.

I hope this provides a little inspiration for you to create a love card for your sweetie.

Bye, Bye for now,

The Crafty Nurse

Happy Birthday Advice

Hello there stampers.  It's Beth Norman here with two alike, yet different, cards using the Happy Birthday Advice stamp which is a January release so it's hot off the press.  Isn't it the neatest birthday stamp?

I used the shaving cream technique to create my background.  Doesn't it look like yummy icing on a cupcake?  Rather than using reinkers, I used Dylusions spray.

My card uses all of the same products, but in the bottom card I used different coloured brads, reversed the direction of the sentiment and used different Washi tape.

Greetings Inky Friends!

Tonya here with a couple more stamps from the January NEW Release!

       First I sprayed watercolor paper with Art Anthology Sprays using Timeless, Grass and Ink Spot. I dried the piece with a heat tool and then misted the Falling Checks stamp with water using the water as my "ink" to stamp onto the sprayed piece. This reacted by lifting some of the colored spray off the paper and leaving a ghosted image. For the images I used the adorable Geek Chic set 

and heat embossed them in black.! 

     Next up I used the new Happy Valentine's Day stamp and colored it in using alcohol markers. I masked the Kitty Lovers behind the heart so it looks like they are sitting on it. For the background I used the Vortex background stamp and I heavily applied gelatos to it. I sprayed the stamp with water and pressed it onto watercolor paper. This was my second print too with lots of color still on it!  I tied it off with FSJ's Sweet Berry Crimped Ribbon.

Valentine's Day is near and both sets would be great for the tech-y geek or kitty-lover in your life!

I'll be back on February 1st with more new releases!!

Happy Creating!! ~ TONYA :)

People Will Stare

{jane bosi}

The January stamp release from Technique Junkies includes this photo stamp image of Marilyn Monroe.  She's easily one of the most recognizable people of all time.  I wanted to create a project that captured some of her spunkiness.  By combining the Kisses background and the People Will Stare sentiment, I think I've hit my mark!

For my project, I started by creating a background using the Back To Back technique.  You'll find this technique and 29 others on the Bodacious Backgrounds CD available exclusively in the Technique Junkies store.  Images used are Circus Stars and Lipstick Kisses. To finish things off, I added one of my favorite kitchy sentiments, People Will Stare.

Make It Worth Their While ;)  Jane

Bookworms

Good morning Junkies!  Hope your new year is off to a wonderful start.  For your viewing pleasure, I have a tag that can also be used as a bookmark (what I'm considering using it for anyway).

I started out by saturating my tag with Art Anthology Peacock Feathers Colorations.  Just spray a puddle on your mat and drag the tag through it until it's covered.  I then used a baby wipe to add the white "clouds".  Next, I stamped Birds on A Fence in black Versafine ink (my fave) and embossed it with clear embossing powder.  I then stamped a quote from the Bookworms set at the top left of the tag.  I finished it off with some blue and black fiber.

Nice and simple.  Anything I tried to add just detracted from the tag.

Until later..................

Marilyn

Dogs Are Family Too

I clearly remember our family having dogs as I was growing up.  And all three of my siblings have or had dogs in their household as adults.  My husband and  I never had dogs in our family -- primarily due to allergies on my part.  I remember so well our dogs riding in either the front seat or the seat and often they had heads sticking out the open window with their tongues hanging out!  So this card is in memory of all the dogs our family had while I was growing up. 

I used Memento sepia ink so I could use my Copic markers to color the truck and the dog. I used my Copics to color the trunks of the trees and used a finger dauber to sponge ink on the leaves of the trees.

Background papers that reminded me of road trips are on a few layers.   And I slanted the focal image to show off some of those papers.  A few rustic type brads and the card is done!  

I used this Technique Junkie stamps: Lets Roll - http://techniquejunkies.com/lets-roll/. 

Perfect Companions

Happy Saturday Junkies!  Pam here today to share with you one of my favorite January new releases: Perfect Companions. For those of you that know me you know I LOVE dogs and have three of my own Nathan, Tanner and Charleston. So when I saw this stamp release I was ecstatic!

I am making these into a set of note cards for our vet and our dog sitter!! Fun little gifts of appreciation.

Thanks for joining me today and stayed tuned here on the Design Team blog for more great inspiration from our super talented design team!

Embrace Imperfection!

Pam