Your Compass

A lovely embossed panel and a large die cut heart, and a few punched hearts make up this card.  The bottom half (beneath the ribbon banner) was painted with Shimmering Bliss Dazzle Topper Spray.
I stamped and heat embossed with white detail embossing powder the Technique Junkies Stamp Heart Compass.

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Have a marvelous day and get inky!

In My Prayers

I hope you're having a pleasant Sunday.  I have another card for you today, featuring the Floral Framed Sentiments 
set.  

I love these flower borders for coloring, but thought I'd try something different with my card today.  I chose soft pink card stock, and stamped one side of the floral border in Ranger Archival watering can ink about 2/3 of the way down the card front. I used my Misti to get a good image and precise placement.

I used some patterned paper from my stash to create some borders on my card front.  I also added some strips of gray card stock to give it more interest.

I stamped the In My Prayers verse along the top in the same watering can ink, again using my Misti to stamp it a couple of times to get the density I wanted.

I added a few Nuvo Jewel drops for some accents.

For the inside of my card, I stamped the other border image, and added strips of the same pp and card stock.  I like bringing the theme to the inside of my card.  I feel it gives it a more finished look.

I hope you have had a chance to see the February new stamps release, and were able to hop along with the design team for some inspiration.  If not, you can check out their projects HERE.

If you are going shopping in the Technique Junkies store, you can get 10% off with my code, TJ10Lynda. 

Are you inspired by this amazing  Floral Framed Sentiments set?  The flowers are lovely colored, as well as just stamped in a single color as I've done here.  And the phrases in the set are beautifully written.
                                                              

Have a great Sunday!

Blessings,
 

Stole My Heart

Hello Junkies! 

It's Ceal, here to share one last Valentines card with you before the day is actually here. 

For my card I used the You Stole My Heart stamp along with the Love Harlequin background stamp.

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To create it, I started with a top folding white card base and a panel of Bristol smooth cut down a quarter of an inch smaller.  I created the ink distressed background using distress oxide ink and water and allowed it to dry completely. I have found that distress inks are a lot easier to blend on bristol.

Next I stamped the Love Harlequin background with Versamark ink and then embossed it using Pink Champagne embossing powder. I stamped the puppy image on another white piece of cardstock ad colored it using Copic markers, nd then die cut it out with a circle die. 

To finish the card I added some touches that are hard to see in the photo. I added glossy accents to the heart headband and Midas Touch by Nuvo to the ends of the arrows and the bow.

Floral Frame

I hope you enjoyed the new release last Friday and are as excited about these new stamps as I am. I can't seem to get enough of the Floral Framed set. And since all these great new stamps are on sale only until February 8th, you better hurry and get your orders in so you can save 15%! There is no need for a special code, the sale price will automatically be entered at checkout.

If you like to color, this is a very therapeutic stamp! There are two floral borders which can be used in a multitude of ways. And the set comes with four different sentiments!

I stamped the Floral Framed Sentiments (SS101) using Memento Ink (Peanut Brittle). I then colored the image with colored pencils and gamsol, and added a little twinkle to the sentiment with a gold gel pen. The image was then cut and trimmed to fit on a vertical A2 card. 

The panel behind was created with a We R Memory Keepers 3D embossing folder (Geometric). The pieces were attached to the A2 card base, and a few gems from Little Things by Lucy's Cards were added.

I love this gentle floral for a get well card. If you like this set, too, remember that you can save 15% only until February 8th. And if you have a wish list of other stamps on the Technique Junkies site, you can save 10% by using the code below.

Happy stamping!

Til next time,
Keepin' it inky!

Joy

Hello fellow Junkies.  This is the first of my New Years Resolutions: to make Christmas cards earlier.  I made 8 of these beauties.  I used Houndstooth Check, Big Flourish and Joy stamps which you can receive at 10% off simply by using TJ10Beth.

I have owned this Poinsettia die for many years and finally cracked it open.  Do you do the same thing?

I had so much fun heat embossing my Big Flourish with gold embossing powder.  It adds a whimsical feel to my card.

Are you making your Christmas cards early too?

Thanks for stopping by!

Be Frisky

Happy Monday!

My card uses Advice From a Cat and a stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called Layered Mum. It made an interesting background for the cat sprayed with Shimmering Bliss in Miami Vice and Mixed Metals! 

This stamp is part of the new release which is 15% off until the 8th. Don't forget if you are ordering today you can get  an additional 10% off by using the code TJ10Jeanne at Technique Junkies. Yep! That's 25% off all the new released stamps. You can see all of the February Release HERE

Here is a closer look.

Hope you enjoyed my project!

Layering with Stencils

Good Morning!!!!

Hope all of you experiencing this horrible blast of winter are enjoying a little reprieve from the cold. Sounds like some of your temperatures south of the border were a lot cooler than even up here in Chilly Canada!!! It's warming up here a touch, so I'm hopeful I can get back to enjoying longer walks.

I'm having all sorts of trouble with my Mac. I think it's on a slow burn, so I apologize for the quality of the photo this morning. I'll get the post up and then try to upload the better photograph I took, that doesn't seem to want to save to drop box.....ugh

Today I created this Sympathy card for my Aunt using the Vintage Botanical Japanese Stamp

I also used one of the beautiful sentiments from the with Sympathy set.

I masked off a circle and created a background with baby blue ink

Then I stamped the Maple leaves.
I added some colours to the centre with red and orange ink and did an overall watercolour wash with Vintage photo. Next, I layered the Messy Diamond Grid Stencil and  more baby blue ink
I then layered a grunge dot stencil over top of that and sprayed some Harvest Sunset Shimmering Bliss. I've got a video of the process, but of course with doing my first video, I didn't figure out the editing until this morning. It should be up on my blog later today!!!!

Lastly, I added the sentiment and then a little more stencilling along the side with the simple mosaic stencil!!!!

Hope you have an amazing day!!!

--Vicki~~