Diagonal Popped Strips

Happy New Year.  I hope you had a nice Christmas and wish you all the best for 2015.

It's Beth Norman here with Diagonal Popped Strips, from the December 2014 issue.  Isn't it pretty with the distressed edging? 

My beautiful background stamp, and sentiment, is from the Technique Junkies Stamps.

Have a good day!

Happy New Year!

{jane bosi}

It's a brand new day, a brand new year!  The possibilities are endless and lay in front of you. What will you do?

For me, the answer is easy!  I will create.  I'll create art, techniques and a life in the process!

I'm using this beautiful Palettini (#P018 Vintage Botanicals Collage) image today for a colorful, easy card!  My watercolor paper background is colored with a collection of beautiful sprays. Once dry, I over stamped this beautiful image. To finish things off, I pulled the Bandana (August 2008) technique out of my arsenal of craftiness!

Go ahead, get your ink on!

TTFN, Jane

Merry Christmas from Judy Jackson

This technique goes back a long ways -- all the way to April 2004!   I still really like the technique.  All the stamps are Technique Junkie stamps and can be found on this web page:
http://www.stampcamp.com/christmas.html .

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas with your family and loved ones.


Judy Jackson
Merry Christmas to all!

JOY

 

 

Hello, Jackie K here with a twist on the Word in a Window technique from the October/November 2014 issue. I wanted to make a Christmas card using this technique but I wanted some glitz and glimmer in the window. So...I used acetate in the window and added some Stickles to the window. I then painted the image with Smoosh paints. IRL this card has a bit of sparkle.

 

I want to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and a prosperous, healthy and creative 2015.

To my fellow design team members, it has be a pleasure and a privilege to work with you this year.

To Pat, thank you for your support, encouragement and generosity throughout the year. It has been an honor to work with you.

I look forward to nurturing these relationships in the coming year!

 

 

 

 



Let's Face It, You're Beautiful and Brilliant!

 

{Jane Bosi}  Who doesn't like to hear THOSE words?  It's all true, my friends!  I made this 5" x 7" canvas to celebrate each and every one of us!

My canvas is prepped with a stencil that bears the words "pretty, cute, gorgeous, divine and glamourous"  I like to build meaning into all of my canvas'.  Sometimes, I do it with book pages or a certain added trinket.  If you look closely, you can see a hint of the words.....it's our mantra and I know it's there!  Now, you do too!

This canvas is full of paint, gesso and lots of Technique Junkie Stamp goodness!  To adorn the edges, in white paint, I've used Layered Doilies (#S558).  The focal image is one of the beautiful images from the Palenttini Collection, called Let's Face It 2 (#P007).  The solidly important verse is called Beautiful and Brilliant (#SD435) and reads:

"she told herself that she was beautiful and brilliant and one day she woke up and finally believed it."

It's my wish for all of you.......believe it!

TTFN, Jane

Outside the Box and Wisped Frames

Hello, Beth Norman here with a card that was inspired by Beth Opel who was published in the Ultimate Handbook for Paper Crafters by Paper Crafts magazine.

I thought this sentiment, "Bee Joyful" would be fitting for this time of year.

My stamps are from the Technique Junkies Stamps.  The Big Bee SD333 was heat embossed in gold, surrounded by the Wisped Frames technique. My cute sentiment is from Bee Quotes S402.

I hope you have a happy holiday season. 

Tie It All Together by Judy Jackson

This is a wonderful technique!  This is a technique that makes you say -- Aha!  I can really sue this technique right now with no fuss and no mess!  I have said before that I have this drawer of stamped parts, backgrounds, etc.  I was able to go to this drawer and  got out pieces of background stuff and just Tie It All Together.

There so many pieces of older techniques on the backgrounds I couldn't begin to tell you what each technique was.  My "drawer of card parts" has a huge variety of pieces.

All of the stamps are from Technique Junkie Stamps. I used these stamps: #SD171
Butterfly #3,  #S423 Wings Quotes, and SDX038 Artist Words Tile.

Have a great day -- and get inky!

Judy Jackson