You are the World

Hello friends!! Giovana here today with a card using a lot of heat embossing, one of my very first favorite techniques, easy, elegant and fast to make.

Mother's Day is coming soon and I have the perfect card to give to your mom, mother-in-law or your favorite mom/friend in the world.

Let me show the details:

* Stamp the Love Harlequin on a piece of watercolor paper in  Versamark Watermark Ink. Then add white embossing powder and heat set.

* After that, using a sponge applicator add Wilted Violet Distress Oxide and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink all around the image, clean your image with a paper towel to make the white heat embossing pop.

* Die-cut panel and adhere it to a white card base with foam adhesive.

* Stamp sentiment from You are the World set in Purple ink on a piece of gold cardstock. Die-cut piece.

* Stamp flowers on vellum in Versamark Watermark Ink, add gold embossing powder and heat set. Fussy cut the flowers and add them behind the sentiment. Die-cut a white square and add it behind the sentiment. Add to card base with foam adhesive.

* Add pearls.

You can get these sets with a 10% off using my code TJ10Giovana

Hope you like my project.

Have an amazing day!

Bunny & Books

I love finding inspiration at The Library Challenge.  I love books, and I am particularly drawn to the art work found on book covers (I often did choose my books by their covers).

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

This week's Library Challenge is to make a card inspired by the lovely cover of Watership Down by Richard Adams.

I knew I wanted to incorporate the adorable new Technique Junkies Little Bunny Stamp together with the Stop and Smell the Flowers Sentiment.

I also knew I wanted to use the current Technique Junkies Sketch Challenge (You have until April 15th to link-up your sketch cards).

Since it's a library challenge, I started with the Technique Junkies Books Background inked in three shades of Color Burst Ink (Turquoise, Fuchsia & Orchid), which I thought brought in the glow of the sky on the book cover.

Next I stamped the TJ ATC Library Card in Kraft Ink and then stamped my Little Bunny using Chocolate Truffle ink.

I finished by attaching my TJ Stop and Smell the Flowers sentiment using foam tape for dimension.

Can't wait to see what you create with this month's sketch. 

Stephanie Severin

Ingenious Inkling

Everything will be OK

Hello friends and fellow bloggers. It's Beth Norman here to tell you Technique Junkies is having their very first Sketch Challenge and we hope you will join along.  Here, I used Faith, Hope & Love background by heat embossing with white embossing powder.  My sentiment is Everything will be OK.  These stamps, as well as all Technique Junkie products (except for new releases from the 1st to the 9th of each month), are on sale for 10% off if you use my code TJ10Beth.

Did you know Technique Junkies has a Facebook Group?  It is a great place to share your artwork. 

Hope to see you there.

Get a Bigger Bow

Hi! Jeanne here today! 

I like to mix and match stamps and sentiments. 

Today I have a fun mixup using Birthday Cat along with the sentiment from Bigger Bow.

 I  think it would be a perfect card to cheer someone up that's having a bad day. 

I started by stamping the Birthday Cat. I put a bit of tape on the hat portion before I inked the stamp and then removed the tape before stamping. The blank portion is covered by the bow. Easy masking trick. I watercolored the cat and background & then stamped just the phrase portion of Bigger Bow.

Want to save 10%?

Use code TJ10Jeanne at Technique Junkies!

Have a great day! Jeanne

Perfect Atoms

Hello Junkies! 

It's Ceal, with you day sharing this card using one of our March releases, 

Perfect Atoms. You can save 10% on this set and your entire order using my code TJ10Ceal and who doesn't like saving money?

I am so ready for spring, we just got done with snow and more is on the way so to lift my spirits I am using spring colors and papers on my card. 

To make my card I started with a white top folding card base and some plaid patterned paper by Lawn Fawn. I colored the birds using Chameleon pens. To keep it CAS with lots of white space I only added the patterned paper to the corner of my card.

TJ Inkspirations: Glitter Marker Colored Glimmer Paste

I had an epiphany this week, and this video tutorial is the result. I had a "what if..." moment, and I just knew in my heart that it would work. Oh Man, did it ever! Today I present the gorgeous look of using  Nuvo Glimmer Paste to cover  background paper, and then using Glitter Markers to color the image right over the paste. The result is Glittery, Glimmery, Shimmery - just spectacular in person. Not only that, but it isn't messy and it is EASY. What could be better? Here are the stamps used today: S701 Itoh Peonies Glitter Marker Coloring on Glimmer Paste Here is the artwork from the video: Embossed Patina Nuvo Mousse  and the video: Glitter Marker Colored Glimmer Paste I hope you are a little inkspired by today's issue. See you next week! Sincerely, Pat Huntoon Technique Junkies LLC

Butterfly Collage

Hello lovely peeps!   Welcome!  Lynda Joy here with more inspiration for you from our Technique Junkies March New Stamp Release.

For my card today, I chose this beautiful Big Butterfly Collage stamp.  I love 'whole card' stamps like this, and this one is a beauty!  
I inked it up with Tim Holtz distress ink in Antique Linen, using my Misti.  This way I could see the image and where all the components were.  I then used Tombow markers on the stamp to place color on the individual areas.  I used a paintbrush with water to pull out the color, then overstamped again with the Misti.  I continued in this fashion until I reached my desired look.

When I took it out of the Misti, I used distress ink around the edges, and added some colored pencil highlights and shading here and there.  Some embroidery thread and beads along the edge, and sequins on the card finish it off.

I hope you will stop by our TJ Facebook Group .  There are lots of ideas and inspiration there from my Design Team comrades.  We would love to see some of your cards or projects there.

Don't forget, use my code, TJ10Lynda to get 10% off your purchase at Technique Junkies! 

I appreciate your encouraging comments and feedback!

Blessings,