Welcome to the Technique By Design Blog Hop!

Hi! Judy Jackson here!  Welcome to the Technique by Design Blog Hop for the October-November Technique Junkie Newsletter! There are wonderful projects for you to enjoy and to inspire you on this blog hop.

I chose this gorgeous single rose from Class Act stamps to feature as the focal image. I water colored the rose and added a few highlights with a red marker. My word stamp in the lower panel is from a stamp set called Our Family Tree by Mark's Finest Papers. The metal embellishment uses a technique called Smooched Metal from the October TJ Newsletter.

The design and measurements for this Technique by Design sketch are located on page 6 in the TJ Newsletter.

Make sure you hop through the rest of the Design Team member's blogs (a list is below). Lots of eye candy for you there! Then create a card using the design sketch and follow Pat Huntoon's directions for entering the contest. You will need to send her a scan or photo of your  card using the Technique by Design challenge or share it with the TJ Yahoo group. The prize is terrific!

Jane - www.janesaddiction.typepad.com

Donna - http://deesstudio.blogspot.com
Hetty - http://craftchaos.blogspot.com
Beth - http://sunflowers-dragonflies.ca/blog

Kimm - http://artfulsentimentsbykimm.blogspot.com/

Cathy - http://www.artfulobservations.com/
Chris www.chrissyd723.blogspot.com 

Nancy -http://creativewishes.blogspot.com/

Pat - http://patstamps.blogspot.com/

Because October is the eighth anniversary of the Technique Junkie Newsletter, the prize is extra special: one lucky winner will be TJ Subscriber for Life: all back issues/cds to fill in the collection of whoever wins PLUS all of the projects, issues and CDs for as long as the newsletter is published. Make sure to check out the official rules on Pat's Blog.

Enjoy your week - I hope you find some time to create. - Judy Jackson

Abalone Technique

The Abalone technique appeared in the October/November, 2010 TJ Newsletter. It gives your image a gorgeous shimmer using Pearl Ex! On this card I used Stampin' Up Sense of Time images with blue, lavendar & gold Pearl Ex on Basic Black cardstock with an Eggplant Envy and Not Quite Navy cardstock mat. The greeting is from the same set, Sense of Time, matted with the Scallop Circle Punch accented with a strip of matching punched Dotted Scallop Ribbon.

Sanded C'Ordinations

Hi Friends! Kathie McGuire here on the first stamping Saturday of the month!!! Are you stamping today? If not, I hope my little book project will inspire you to get out your sanding blocks and join me.

You're seeing the front cover of a mini-book project. To add interest, I used the Sanded C'Ordinations technique from the 4/10 TJ Newsletter on the die cut flowers. It's such a great way to add another dimension to an otherwise single color die cut! And it's fast and easy too!

This book has lots of little pages which hold tags. You can see some of the tags peeking out above the top edge of the book along with the many fibers that I added.

I hope you'll try Sanded C'Ordinations soon and thanks for stopping by today!

Wonderful Texture Duet by Judy Jackson

The Texture Duet technique in the October TJ newsletter is such a great way to use more than one embossing folder. The top folder is one of Time Holtz's alterations embossing folders. The bottom one is called Vintage Wallpaper and is from Stampin' Up. I sponged over the embossed areas with a dark blue to highlight those areas.

I found this rubber stamp with the image of a Rubber Stamper years ago. I have used it on a variety of things -- but mainly those things were all for me: ways to keep track of my tools and inks and things like that. I have never used it on a card before now. The image is by Delafield Stamp Company which is now closed. I added glitter to her sweater, her tool box, and a couple of other things. I used my glitter pen to outline the shelves and the pens and the brushes.

The reason for all this glitter (besides liking it that is!) is the verse below my stamping lady. This sentiment rubber stamp is from Victorine Originals (2278-D ~ Ink on My fingers). I was recently given this stamp and as soon as I saw it, I knew it was the perfect saying to use with my stamping lady! I could hardly wait to team these two stamps together. I own another stamp from this company -- there are some great images and verses on their website. (I love their mermaid!) How many times I have had people come up to me and ask if I knew I had glitter on my face?

Some friends (and their hubbies!) who have visited my home have said to me "You have a problem!" after seeing my stamp room. I admit I have a storage problem. I am now in the process of unmounting nearly all of my wood mounted stamps -- in order to create more space for stamps and other tools! I have a small stamp room. I always trying to think of another way to somehow create MORE room for stuff in my stamp room. It is about 10x11. Almost all of the walls are now covered in either shelves, rods to store punches, gutters to hold rolls of ribbon, drawers, racks, cupboards, etc. etc. etc. My craft table sits in the middle of the room.

Not only does my face have glitter -- but the rug can have a certain shimmer and glimmer if you look at it just right -- or maybe "just wrong!" My fingers nearly always have ink on them - I get ink on my wrists, my arms, but I usually avoid ink on my clothes! I have a desk mat under my stamp table so I don't get ink on the rug! I am also sure that stampers can identify with this sentiment.

So go forth -- get ink on your fingers and glitter on your face and in your hair! Have a GREAT time!

Judy Jackson

Worn Wallpaper meets Halloween by Judy Jackson

I don't often make Halloween cards but I love this SU set called Greeting Card Kids. Isn't this little girl sweet looking?

Last fall I bought a small paper stack of Halloween background paper made by Recollections. There are only a few sheets of each design. So I made four cards using different background designer papers. I knew these papers would be wonderful using the super easy technique called Worn Wallpaper from the current newsletter.

I used a background stamp called Sanded from Stampin' Up. It really did work to make the designer paper look worn out!

The little girl on the pumpkin for each card was watercolored and then sponged around the edges with green ink first and then the dark purple. I used scraps of the background paper as an extra layer behind the focal image of the little girl. It just adds some interest plus it also ties in some of the other colors used on the card. Each card is different and that is just fine!

I hope you have some time this week to do some stamping!

Judy Jackson

Ann's Polished Stone through the Window

When you read this I'll be enjoying the last day of a week long retreat at the beach for stamping.  I know I'll be in heaven.  This is a card I made for one of the techniques I'm teaching in my Alcohol Inks class.  The image is from Rubberstampave.  Kathy has such awesome cowboy stamps!!  I also used the torn frames for the layer around the sentiment.  Enjoy!! 

New Home

Here is Hetty  and I made this card for my daughter, who has her own little appartment this month. For the card I used an old tutorial, but so much fun! It is the "Hidden Slider" from Feb/ March 2005.

It is such a fun way of making a card that i had forgotten about, but looking through all the techniques I thought this is it and it is absolutely not complicate to do. Just follow the instructions. If you are a member of Technique Junkies you can find and see it here:

http://www.techniquejunkies.com/tutorials_artwork/SOP_February05/hidden-slider-tutorial.html

I made this card with clear stamps from Sweet 'n Sassy (colored with copics) and papers from Papertemptress. The house is made with the cricut (ZooBalloo) and I used a cuttlebug folder to make the bricks on the house (cuttlebug highlight). Also the behind the house you see the use of a cuttlebug embossing folder.