Autumn is...

Hello friends! Giovana here today, sharing a fun Autumn card, for this project I used the new Autumn set.
Let me show you how I did it:

• Start stamping the leaves on White cardstock in Memento Rich Cocoa, then color them with markers, here I used Spectrum Noir LG1, LG2, LG3, TN1, TN2, TN3.

• Cut out all the leaves and distress ink all the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

• Stamp the leaves on the card front using your MISTI, used fall color inks.

• Stamp sentiment on a piece of gold cardstock in Black Ink, add strips of gold cardstock to each side.

• Adhere sentiment on card front, then add leaves to each side.

Here is the card, as a final touch I added baker's twine and clear dew drops.

You can get this set and more from the September release HERE, and if you find any other stamp you like (except September release), you can use this code and get 10% off!!

Hope you like it!
Have a great day!

Distressed Collage

Hello, Junkies!

The Crafty Nurse here some mid-week inspiration using a few of the September release stamps.  

Stamps: Star Collage #S772, Good Night SDX105, and Rustic Pine #SD838 

Supplies: Distress Embossing Powder, Tim Holtz Star Stencil, Lawn Fawn Die, MISTI

We hope to see you in the Facebook group and participating in our monthly challenge over at the Design Team Blog. 

Happy Inking!!

The Crafty Nurse

Bleach Blocking Technique Challenge WINNER!!!

Thank you to everyone that entered our challenge!

Look for a new challenge later today!!!

The winner of our Bleach Blocking Technique Challenge:

Mary GW

Please contact Jeanne for prize information within 7 days.

Check out Mary's fun card!!!

Have a great day!

Crazy cool birds!

Hello All Lanette Here!

I just wanted to share a quick crazy card featuring a couple of crazy birds!

Technique Junkies Stamps Used: 

Your Kind of Crazy

Here is a better look at these crazy sweet birds!

Your Kind of Crazy

Thank you so much for stopping by today! 

I hope that I have inspired you in some way!

Art Journaling for the holidays!

Hi everyone!
It's Chris here today, and I'm sharing my art journal page that I used one of my new September release stamps on.

I love this new Too Grown Up sentiment stamp.  It's such a great size and font!

I thought this sentiment would be perfect in my art journal.  So I had to try it.

Too Grown Up

First I coated my pages with a thin layer of gesso.

Then I painted a night sky and trees using acrylic paints.  I added a bit of water to thin the white paint, then spattered my snowflakes from a wide flat brush by holding it several inches away from my pages, and tapping that brush with the handle of another to "shake" out droplets.  I let my pages dry overnight.

I used my Memory MISTI, the really large one, to stamp the sentiment twice with Versamark ink and coated with white embossing powder.  I was quite nervous about heat embossing the Too Grown Up sentiment to my painted page.  I was afraid the acrylic paint would bubble.  But I let my heat gun get really hot, then embossed quickly and I had no problems!

And I loved my finish pages!  So much so, that I decided to make another similar project as a gift!

I used basically the same process, only on a 11" x 14" piece of 300# Arches watercolor paper.  The gesso coated the paper well, so I could paint on the surface with no absorption of the acrylic into the paper.

Hooray for me!  One gift done!

That's it for me!

Just a reminder though!  The new September Technique Junkies stamps are still 15% off through tomorrow, September 8th!  

Have a great day!

Chris

Technique Junkies September Blog Hop Winners!

Winner's were randomly chosen from Lydia and Vicki's blogs

And the winners are..

Beverly S.September 4, 2017 at 11:39 AM

Beautiful work as always but oh my I LOVE your Christmas kitty card! That image looks just like one of my fur babies.....only he is not wearing a Santa hat. ;) Techinique Junkies is a new stamp company I have just "discovered." Glad I did!

Karen D.September 3, 2017 at 10:51 AM

love these cards....very inspiring!!!
tfs, Karen

Please contact Jeanne within 7 days for your gift certificate information! 

Have a great day!

HOLLY BIRD IN WATERCOLOR MARKERS

Hello Junkies!  

Did you get to join in our our new release hop for September?  It was fabulous and two people won a $100.00 gift certificate.  Congratulations to those winners!

Don't forget you have until Friday, September 8th to get 15% off any and/or all of the new  Technique Junkies September stamps so, if you haven't already done your shopping, don't miss this great discount opportunity.  

I painted this fabulous "Holly Bird" stamp with Distress Markers after being inspired by this video by Jill Foster.  It took some time, but I really love the results. 

After the stamping and painting, I fussy cut along the edge of the leaves and then backed it with some gold cs.  Then the whole layer was mounted with dimentional tape and adhered to a base layer of teal colored cs.   

The sentiment is from another new set called "Gifts of Christmas, Set of 5" which I stamped with VersaMark and heat embossed with white ep.  

I hope you found some inspiration here and if you'd like a little more enabling, and would like to purchase any other Technique Junkies stamps (excluding those from the September release), please use my coupon code at check out and save yourself 10%.  

Thanks for stopping by...have a crafty week.