You are Capable of More Than You Know

I thought it would be fun to create some hybrid cards using the fabulous new sentiments from Wisdom of Oz (set of 7 stamps).

Remember, if you go shopping, use my discount code TJ10Stephanie for 10% off your purchase.

I searched online for some of the more common photographs (used repeatedly on multiple pages) for my cards.

For the beautiful good witch, I pulled the pink and blue from the photo and accented with some iridescent sequins.

For Dorothy's red shoes, I had to pull out some red sequin accents.

For my third card, I embossed some green paper to pull out the pattern in the image.

I love all of these quotes in this set and the encouragement they give.

Stephanie Severin

Ingenious Inkling

How to construct a mixed media project

Hello fellow stampers.  Beth Norman here with some mixed media.  I had a ton of fun making this as it is far from my norm.  I dabbled in mixed media when I spent years working on altered books.  Boy, was that fun!  On any of these stamps, or any other stamps and supplies you can use my code TJ10Beth to receive 10% off your order.  Have you seen the new Color Bursts by Ken Oliver?  You can get them at 10% off as well.  Go wild with your mixed media!

Stamps:  Love Harlequin, Big Flourish, Paint Rings, Be Silly, Rose Doodles
Stencil:  A Colorful Life Stencils

Start by stamping on white tissue paper.  On my tissue I used Love Harlequin and Big Flourish.

Use Modge Podge to adhere your tissue paper to your cardstock.  Place Modge Podge on the cardstock to prevent the ink from bleeding.

Colour entire surface with Gelatos.

Burnish Gelatos with your finger.

Optional:  Place a stencil over any open area and spritz with water.  This will leave a pattern.  I ended up taping my stencil down which is not shown in this photo.

I got some water on my tissue, so I tore pages from a book to cover up the smudging.

Take a stencil and paint light layers of colour using paint over top of your stencil.

Next, I added Paint Rings background stamp to my piece

Finish as desired.

New Technique Junkies Sketch Challenge!

Today is the start of a new challenge! 

You will have a whole month to complete the challenge. Enter as many times as you wish using the link
list at the bottom of the post for a chance to win a $25 Technique Junkies Gift Certificate!

You have until April 15th to enter. Winner will be announced April 16th.

A few simple rules.

You must use Technique Junkies stamps to be chosen to win a prize.

If you don't have any Technique Junkies stamps feel free to play along and link
your project but you will not be in the drawing for a prize.

You must use the challenge technique/theme or sketch in your project (that's the challenge!)

No linking old projects. Projects must be new.

Please list Technique Junkies stamps with links in your project posts.

Please link directly to your project (not a general blog).

If you have a problem linking to the challenge contact Jeanne

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This month's challenge is a sketch!

Feel free to flip the sketch, create layers with stamps, or textures. 

Here is my card using She is Fierce and Flower Doodles. 

I used Color Burst to make my background on watercolor paper and stamped the Flower Doodles 

background  on top in black in with my MISTI. Because the paper is textured the MISTI works wonderfully 

to get a nice solid image because you can stamp as many times as it takes to get good coverage. 

Want to save 10%?

Use code TJ10Jeanne at Technique Junkies!

Have a great day! Jeanne

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Spring ATC Challenge Winner!

Thank you to everyone that entered our challenge!

Look for a new challenge later today!!!

The winner of our Spring ATC Challenge:

Aimeslee Winans

Please contact Jeanne for prize information within 7 days.

Check out Aimeslee's fun ATC!!!

Have a great day!

Atomic Love

Hello Everyone!
Did you spring forward last night?  I don't know about you, but I am pretty excited about getting that extra hour of daylight in the evening!
Despite springing forward, it still feels like winter here in St Louis.  With our more recent cold snap, I have been crafting, crafting, crafting!  This brand new 'Perfect Atoms' Stamp is so fun!  It really lends itself to bright, vibrant colors!  If you haven't picked up your new release goodies yet, you can shop and get this fabulous image-well, your entire order- for 10% off with code TJ10LeeAnn.

Most of the card is done with Copics.  The image is colored with Copics and the poppy red strips of paper are actually Copic colored and texturized with burlap and alcohol.
But, I have gotten ahead of myself.  I started by masking off the frame of the image.  You probably don't even notice that a word is missing from the sentiment as well.  I masked off the word 'You' so that I could use my large 'You' die cut.  The die cut is 3 layers glued together and the top layer is sparkly with Wink of Stella.

That's it for me; I hope I have inspired you to craft, craft, craft!

Thanks for visiting!

Lee Ann Barrett
greytpapercrafts.blogspot.com

Advise from a Dog

Hello Junkies!

It's Ceal, back to share with you a card using one of our new releases Advise From a Dog.

You can save 10% off on this stamp and your entire order at Technique Junkies by using code TJ10Ceal

I am a dog person, any other dog peeps out there? My husband and daughters are highly allergic to cats so we became dog people. We have a little Shih Tzu named Willis and he is definitely spoiled now that we are empty nesters.  I can hear Willis giving this advise especially love unconditionally, just think how peaceful the world would be if we loved people for who they are. 

To make my card I started with a top folding Crumb Cake base and a white panel cut down with a stitched die. I used a paw print stencil and one distress ink for the background. After I fished the background, I used the Mini Misti to stamp the image and colored it with Copic Markers. 

I have included my code for you to save 10% down at the bottom of this post.

More Than You Know

Hello!  Lynda Joy here.  Today is the last day to take advantage of the 15% off the Technique Junkies' March new release stamps!   There are some real beauties in this release, so you don't want to miss this opportunity to save some money.  Be sure to check out the above link to see them all.  If you add other non-release stamps to your order, just use my code TJ10Lynda to get 10% off of those.

For my card today, I used these stamps:
Little Bunny  - this adorable little critter is so cute!
Wisdom of Oz - the verse - comes in a set of 7 verses!
Flourished Floral - I used just the swirl portion of this lovely stamp.

I also used a Tim Holtz die for the background, and stitched circle Spellbinders dies for the circle and rectangle.  For inks, I used Ranger Archival for the bunny and verse, and the brown swirls, and ColorBox white pigment ink for the white swirls.  I brushed some distress ink along the borders.

It's fun to use colored card stock sometimes.  It gives us more mileage on our stamps, because they look so different.  I will post another card featuring this adorable little guy in a garden of spring flowers on a white card later in the month on our TJ Facebook Group.

Make it a great day...join us for the Spring ATC Challenge.  You have until March 11th to enter.  Who knows, you may just win a $25 gift certificate to the Technique Junkies store for your entry!

So....what are your favorite stamps from this release?  Leave a comment and let us know.  And if you do succomb to ordering just a few, stop by our Technique Junkies Facebook Group to show us your projects.  

Blessings!