Brayered Brilliance with Beth

Attention please. Her Royal Highness wants you to be Queen for the Day. So sit back, put up your feet, and order supper in.

My Artistic Outpost image was bought at Croppinsville. Background is Brayered Brilliance from the February 2010 edition.

Don't forget about our Try That Technique weekly challenge. Details are in the post below.

Beth

Recipe Swap Card

Here is Hetty, showing you  a delicous card I made for a recipe swap I am in. I just got these great dies from Creative Cuts & More that look like an apron and have a pocket to insert a recipe card. I have used the Stenciled Collage technique (from August 2008) to decorate the apron. Stencil and stamps are from Club Scrap. As the recipe is a Dutch Pancake with strawberries and whipped cream (yummie!! mail me if you want it!) I attached a little strawberry to the apron on a winecharm wire. The template for the strawberry can be found HERE and goes with instructions.

Faux Metal with Judy jackson

There are times when I go to create a card that stamps, tools, and techniques just seem to say, "Hey, we will work well together!" That happend with this card. Does it ever happen when you are creating?

I read the technique, then as I looked through my embossing folders I immediately thought of this Fleur d'lis stamp from Club Scrap. After I had completed the faux metal embossed panel, and had adhered all of the parts together I still thought it needed something. It needed something that would give the card the glimmer and shine of metal. I grabbed my little mini mister with white Perfect Pearls home made glimmer spray. Voila! This was the perfect accent! It is masculine -- yet has a soft touch with the silver organdy ribbon.

Have a creative week!

Judy Jackson

Chalk It Up

Good Morning, Junkies! Jane Bosi, here, sharing a card featuring the Pulled Pastels (February 2010) technique. I especially love techniques that bring new life to supplies I otherwise would neglect. Pastels....not my favorite, but this technique alone convinces me that I need to keep them close by!

My image is an awesome silhouette stamp from Whipper Snapper Designs called "Cow Girl."

Now, it's your turn! Go ahead and give it a try!

TTFN, Jane

Outside The Lines

Hello Weekend TJ'ers! It's Kathie McGuire here on your papercrafting Saturday to share a technique from 12/09 called Coloring Outside The Lines. I morphed it a tad by coloring in my image, but the COTL technique is something that I love to add. To me, it makes my image a bit more complete without the interference of a busy background. It always reminds me of a little "glow" around my image. I like it!

This card and gift box set was made for a friend who lost a dear little furry friend just recently. She adored this dog, so I thought this would help ease a bit of the pain of the death of her companion. Although the gift box doesn't have a TJ technique, I thought you might enjoy seeing the whole project. My friend told me that she put her dog's collar in the box and has it on her desk along with the card. I think papercrafting is one of most wonderful ways to give a personalized gift to someone in need of a little cheer, don't you? And TJ techniques have helped me in so many ways to make my projects more special.

The image is colored with Prisma colored pencils and blended with Gamsol.

Thanks for looking; I hope you've enjoyed the project.

Kathie

Stencilled Collage

It's Beth here with Try That Technique. Each week I post a new technique that Diana Enns and I challenge each other to use, and this week we challenge each other, and you, to do Stencilled Collage from the August 2008 issue.

I'm back on my feet, and am behind the wheel, and ready to see all of your work. One of you will be the lucky winner of having your card on the Technique Junkie Yahoo group homepage for the week. Everyone has a fair chance to win.

Please leave a comment and tell me that you have a card on your blog, or if you submitted it to the TJ Yahoo group. I don't want to miss out on seeing your work.

Happy stamping Junkies!

Symphony of Sanded Core'dinations by Judy Jackson

New things are always so much fun, aren't they? I could hardly wait until the new embossing folders from Sizzix and Tim Holtz came out! When the first one arrived in my mail box I had to use it right away! It just so happened that I had also purchased a packet of the whitewashed Core'dination card stock while I was away a few weeks ago.

I discovered something about these embossing folders that is important and I want to share it with you. When you place your card stock in the folder and run it through your embossing machine you will discover these are actually "debossing" folders and the design that you may want to sand is not the side of the card stock you think it might be. They emboss - or deboss - beautifully but you have to think carefully about which side you want to sand.

When I sanded this side I thought i must make a card with this! It is so pretty. I couldn't even wait to make a focal point and I went digging through ATCs that I had made and saved. I found this ATC and thought the colors went well with the sanded card stock. I tried some stamped vellum to add to the right hand side and took it off. I decided a ribbon and a few more pearls tied to the bow was just the right touch!

The stamp is by Impression Obsession and it water colors wonderfully. The stamp is much larger than an ATC so I remember placing the card stock on the stamp carefully to get the right part of the stamp for the focal image on the ATC.

Have a great week!

Judy Jackson