Mono Die Baby by Ann Clack

Ann Clack here!  This week has been very crazy but my daughter-in-law's sister's baby shower was a welcome relief.  I made this card for her.  The colors that she has chosen to be her most favorite for the little girl (due in about three weeks) is mostly brown with pink highlights.  The animal she likes is butterflies.  So, I quickly threw this together and she really loved it.  It uses the mono die technique from the February 2010 issue of the Technique Junkie newsletter.  I hope you enjoy it as well.  In retrospect, I could have used a few more dies but I was just out of time!

Try That Technique: Polished Mulberry

Try That Technique! Stampers who have the June 2003 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter will find Polished Mulberry, which you can see on my card.

Diana and I challenged each other, once again, to Try That Technique. We hope you join in on the fun too.

If you are a TJ member, submit your card on our Yahoo Group or if you are not a current member, link up your card here for your chance to have your card on the TJ Yahoo Group home page for the week, and with your name in highlights too!

Congratulations Barbara Washington. You are this week's winner and will find your card on the homepage. Thank you for playing.

The background was fun to make, as I do love to get my hands inky, which is why I have a special shirt to use when I work with any liquid product. This shirt came about totally unexpectedly as Donnie pointed out the large ink spot while we were out for supper. Imagine my red face! That will teach me to work unprotected.

Stamp Credit:

Stamp is I Brake for Stamps and is called Large Christmas Femme.

Happy Stamping friends,
Beth

Vintage Wallpaper by Judy Jackson

I chose this shell collage Cuttlebug embossing folder to use with this technique. I wondered how it would work for this super technique! Terrific. I layered some clear vellum over the top at an angle -- then I tied the bow. I attached the clear vellum with two colored brads. I added sentiment stamped on colored vellum and clear embossed. I laid that over the clear vellum. The different layers add texture and interest to the card. The card would be fine without the layers but I think it just brings it up a notch in added detail.

I love the Technique Junkie newsletter -- it enables me to learn new techniques that can spark my own creativity. I love it when someone say to me, "How did you do this?"

Stamp credits: Impression Obsession and Stampington and Company.

I hope you are having a wonderful week and are able to get in some stamping time!

Judy Jackson

Scrunchie.....another old favorite

It's Evelyn here....with a funky favorite technique:  Scrunchie.  It appeared in the November 2007 newsletter.     This past week, I recycled magazines and catalogs and saved several great glossy covers and pages from the Coldwater Creek catalog. There were also some beautiful red and black butterflies on a New Yorker cover, which I used  for this card.    The stamped image is from Diva Impressions, an unmounted I "found" in my mess of unmounteds.    (No one else has that problem, surely!!) 

Evelyn Spikes

Antique Wallpaper with Beth

Happy 4th of July to our American Readers. This is Beth here with my first attempt at Antique Wallpaper from the most recent issue. It is so much fun and I can tell it will be one I use a lot.

My image comes from Stamp Barn in Canada.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Beaded Box

Happy Saturday and Happy July 4th weekend!! It's Kathie McGuire here with a 3-D project to share with you.

I made this box for my best friend because she was out of town on vacation for 8 days and my papercrafting room just wasn't the same without her. I decided to make her a "Welcome Home" present and chose this project because she loves boxes.

I made the panels on the lower portion of this box using the Metallic Echo technique from 2/06. I morphed it quite a bit so the technique is pretty faint in the background, but I still like it. I ended up adding some metallic acrylic paints to the cardstock panels because I thought it needed a little more "flash".

The lid is covered with a beaded applique which I'm sure was inteneded for a jacket or blouse, but when my friend and I saw it in a fabric store we thought it would make a great addition to a box top. I added some silver round bead and small coordinating seed type beads on the sides of the box by putting a drop of Crystal Effects where I wanted it and then pushing the beads into it.

I'm so thankful for the opportunity to learn new techniques through the TJ group. The techniques are such an asset to me when I'm making one-of-a-kind gifts.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

~Kathie

Try That Technique: Brazen Brilliance

Here we are at Thursday again (opps, I didn't prepost properly), and Diana Enns and I (Beth Norman) are challenging you to play along with us. This week's challenge is to use Brazen Brilliance from April 2004.

As you can see, the results are very pretty. It allows you to pick out some of your favourite stamps and colours.

Each week I randomly pick a participant where your card will go on the Yahoo group main page for one week. How exciting is that?
Congratulations Trish O'Bin, you are last week's winner.

To enter this challenge, link up to this post telling me you posted a card, and/or post to the yahoo group. The more times you enter, the better your chances are to be randomly picked by Random.Org.

Teaser: Next week's card comes from 2003.