TJ Inkspirations - White Emboss Resist Colorations

I have been working a long time with the Art Anthology Colorations sprays, and it is no secret that I love them. They have so many beautiful applications and the colors are sublime. My favorite technique to use with them is resist. Today I am showing you how beautiful they are with a white embossed resist. The backgrounds I am using are from the new October Release stamps, which are still 15% off through end-of-day on October 8th. One of the questions I am asked frequently is whether the Art Anthology sprays come in kits...well now they do! Art Anthology has created 3 kits exclusively for Technique Junkies - each kit has 5 colors of sprays plus a bottle of Fairy Dust.  In my opinion, each kit gives you the opportunity to create beautiful projects with a nice selection of tone-matching colors. You can choose from Bright, Vintage and Royal Kits. And just for the next week, you can use the code sprays at checkout to receive 10% off the kits. Here are the stamps used in this email: Arabesque Background   Texture Stars Turn on the Light The Greatest Story - Previously Released Colorations White Resist This technique starts with just a white-embossed background stamp: The Colorations sprays are added, then wiped off the embossing when the whole piece is covered with color: I recommend embossing and spraying more than one piece at a time (it minimizes the spraying "mess": Theses pieces can air-dry, or be dried with a heat tool: Arabesque_ Greatest Story Texture Stars - Turn on the Light I hope you are a little inkspired by today's issue. See you next week! Sincerely, Pat Huntoon Technique Junkies LLC

Present this coupon for a $2.00 discount on any order over $25.00 in the Technique Junkies Booth.  This coupon MAY be combined with other show specials.  One $2.00 coupon per customer.  Additional Show Specials: Buy 5 Stamps, get 6th Free (lowest priced stamp) Purchase any combination of 6: Stencils, Art Anthology Colorations Sprays, Nuvo Mousse and/or Nuvo Embellishments, receive 10% off those products

GIve Thanks: Using MISTI to Heat Emboss over your Prismacolor Pencil colored images

Hi everyone.  It's Chris here today, sharing a card made with one of the new October release stamps, Give Thanks.

Today I used Prismacolor pencils on kraft cardstock to create my colored image, and heat embossed in gold after coloring.

Give Thanks

To create this card, I used my MISTI stamping tool.  First I stamped the image onto my kraft cardstock panel with kraft ink.  I left my stamp set up in my MISTI so I could restamp after coloring.

I used Prismacolor pencils to color within the kraft stamped lines, taking care to use a good variety of colors and intensity of color so that the contrast would show through after heat embossing.

I tried to create highlights with color since the size of the images would not lend terribly well to just variation of pressure.

Once I was happy with my coloring, I simply reinserted my card panel into the corner of my MISTI and stamped exactly over the kraft ink, using Versamark ink.  I then added gold embossing powder and heated with my pre-heated heat gun.  I love how the gold looks on the pumpkins!  It really highlights this gorgeous image.

The panel was then trimmed using a scalloped die, and added to a charcoal brown card base.

This Give Thanks stamp as well as all of the new October release stamps are still 15% off through October 8th!

IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS

Hi there Junkies!!!!  

Did you get a chance to hop along with us on Sunday and see all the awesome creations using the new October release stamps?  I hope you did and if so, did you grab the 15% discount offered on them?  You have until October 8 to purchase any or all of the new release stamps at 15%.  Just put them in your cart and the calculations are done for you.  No code to enter.  But hurry....

I'm using one of the new stamps in my post today.  It's called "Give Thanks" and what a lovely Thanksgiving card it makes.  

I stamped it on kraft cs with VersaMark Ink and then heat embossed it with white ep.  I then sponged some Distress Oxide Inks over it and wiped the ink off the embossing.  Before the sponged inks dried, I sprinkled water over the panel which gave it that bokah look.  I colored the image with Prisma color pencils and then accented with with my Wink of Stella clear pen.  I framed it with a die frame and orange cs that I've had forevah....Such a fun card to create.  

To give you more enabling, you can purchase lots of stamps from the Technique Junkies store and get a full 10% off the whole shebang by using my personal code (the new October release is excluded).  So go shopping and have some fun.  

I hope you found some inspiration here today.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  

Technique Junkies October Release and Blog Hop!

Happy October Release Day!

We have 15 new stamps in the Technique Junkies line! 

See our hop list before for some sweet inspiration from our Design Team!

All of the October 2017 New Release stamps are 15% off through October 8th!

We can all use a little bargain, right? No codes needed, just put them in

your shopping cart and the discount will be applied at checkout.

Here are some projects from Jeanne to get the party started! 

My first project uses Textured Stars Background and Most Girls. I used a couple colors directly on the Textured Stars Background stamp and stamped a few times with my MISTI to roughly blend the colors. The girl (Most Girls) was stamped in black and I used a Nuvo Glitter marker on her dress for a little sparkle.

My next project uses Olive Branch Background and Knife in my Purse.
OK.. I really love that sentiment!!!! 
I made my background on a Gel Press plate and then stamps 
and watercolored the branches and berries.

Hop List:

Design Junkies Blog (you are here)

Lanette Erickson

Cheri Weston

Kathy Stacy

Jeanne Streiff

Ro Donner

Beth Norman

Vicki Garrett

Giovana Smith

Chris Dayton

Pat Huntoon

Have a great day!

Autumn Splendor

Good Morning!!!!

These cards reflect my favourite season-Autumn

I created this background using a Watercolor block technique and the Autumn Stamp Set

Quick and Easy, but quite striking if I don't say so myself!!!!

For this card, I stamped the Beautiful Autumn Stamp set

I stamped the image in Brown, Watercolored the leaves and added a touch of gold glitter!!!!!

Hope your Autumn day is wonderful!

--Vicki~~

TJ Inkspiration: Coffee Stain Background with Distress Oxide Inks

It is incredible to me that we are so close to the end of September.  On Sunday, October 1st, we will be celebrating our monthly stamp release with a blog hop, so I hope you will join us for that. On this Friday, though, I have a short (very short - less than 3 minutes) video showing you how to use Distress Oxide inks and a stencil to create a fun background that mimics coffee cup stains on a piece of wood furniture. We are only using two stamps for this video: Coffee Kitty And on of the sentiments from this set: Typewriter Set Coffee Stained Background This is the simple little card I made using the technique in the video: Simply Framed - Autumn And here is the video tutorial: Coffee Stained Background with Distress Oxide Inks

I hope you are a little inkspired by today's issue. See you next week!   Sincerely,   Pat Huntoon Technique Junkies LLC

Best wishes

Hello friends! Giovana here today sharing with you a holiday card, this sentiment is perfect in case you were late sending Christmas cards, this sentiment will save you!! {wink, wink}

This card was super easy to put together, here I use one of the sentiments from "Gift of Christmas" set.

• For this project you will need a piece of Coastal blue cardstock, Snow acetate and a snowy die-cut (or you can hand cut a snowy hill)

• Stamp the sentiment on the die-cut , then ink all the edges of the little houses with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. 

• Adhere panels on a white card base, add a gold snowflake and your card is done!!

Easy peasy, right?
If you like this sentiment or more stamps , get them HERE, also don't forget to add this code to your shopping cart and get a 10% off (excludes September release)

Hope you like it.

Have a fantastic day!