Bandana Technique

Hello friends. It's Beth Norman here and happy that summer has finally arrived to southern Ontario, Canada.  The air conditioning is on and got to go to the beach for the first time this year; the weather has been too cold and rainy.  I know my Texas and Idaho pen friends have been enjoying the heat for quite some time.

I found some inspiration on Pinterest for creating my Dragonfly card when I couldn't sleep and was up at 3:30 surfing the internet and stamping.  My cards also remind me of two previous cards I made using the Bandana Technique which can be found on the CD Simple and Easy Inking Techniques.

Technique Junkie Stamps Used:

Big Floursh

Dragonfly, set of 2

Find Our Way

I rubbed ink all over my 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" cardstock with a sponge and stamped out my images with VersaFine and then added the white highlights.  

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great week!

Life is a Song

Hi, it's Gini and I've got a card to share with you today that uses a couple of the new release stamps for July from Technique Junkies. I stamped the background using the Peonies background stamp. I colored the flowers with Pan Pastels, for a soft look.  The sentiment, Life is a Song, was stamped and then die cut.

Thanks for stopping by!

Bug

 

Hello!  It's Robin Redd, here with you today.

I made this card using the following two stamps:

S611 Barbed Wire, new July release stamp!

  

This is a nice, large background stamp with sharp, clean detail.

And, SD048 Van Gogh's Bug

  

I chose pretty papers and colors to go with these stamps.  

I liked the way the papers contrast with the sharp lines of the stamp designs.

 

How would you design a card with these stamps?  I'd love to see what you would do.

Serenity

{jane bosi}

It's Thursday and, who couldn't use a little Serenity....now?  LOL!!  Always such a good joke!  I was in a bit of a water color phase and made this water colored splattered background piece.  I was also in the mood for playing around with some of the new distress inks--coral, pistachio and lagoon--such pretty colors!

I chose the Serenity Butterfly stamp to create both a back ground pattern and embellishment to finish things off.

Yes.  I'm still in my sequin phase.  #itsnotgoingtoendanytimesoon

TTFN & Don't forget to be awesome!  Jane 

Peerless Watercolors: Organization

Hi!

Today I wanted to share a tip about how I store and use my Peerless Watercolors.

The watercolors come embedded on fabric paper and ready to use. You just touch your waterbrush to the surface and paint activates and is ready-to-use. There are two sizes:

• the original package has 15 colors on approx. 2 3/4" x 6 1/2" pieces.
• the bonus package has 40 additional colors on approx. 2 1/4" x 2 1/2" pieces.

I have two storage methods. I put the full package in a portable set of page protectors sleeves. The picture below shows an option like this, from ScrapRack, called the Divine Nine. The pockets are 4x4 and 4x6 in size.

The pages come in a 10-pack - which will accommodate every one of the available colors, with room to grow.

You can put them into a 12" x 12" binder, or simply attach the pages to a keyring and fold it up, in half, width-wise. Super portable!  I have a slightly different page configuration which is no longer available - but the Divine Nine works just as well.

I painted a little swatch of each color on a small label and attached it to the inside of the pocket.

A great feature of these protectors is that each pocket has a flap to hold in the sheets and keep wet paint from transferring to other colors. It also keeps them from getting dusty. I just lift up the flap, touch my waterbrush to the sheet and let the flap close back onto the swatch. It doesn't waste a drop.

But now that they are out of their original packaging, you may be wondering, how do I know which color is which? I made a standard address mailing label sheet with the paint names on it so that I can list the colors I use in a project. And I'm sharing it with you! Click here to download the PDF file. It is formatted for a 3 column x 10 row (30 per sheet) mailing label.

Now perhaps you caught that the long pockets are about 1/2" too short for the long pieces in the Original pack? That's where my second storage method comes into play - the even-more-portable palette! I cut of the 2 3/4" x 1/2" pieces and attach them to the front page(s) of my sketch book with removable tape.

So now that I've shared how they are organized, I'll share a watercolored stamp image - the P009 Sunflower Centers stamp image. I stamped the image onto hot press watercolor paper using Stazon Midi in Cloudy Sky (gray) ink and colored away using Peerless Watercolors and a waterbrush. The colors are so vibrant!

How do your organize your Peerless Watercolors?

Sally Lynn MacDonald

www.SallyLynnMacDonald.com

Palettini Collection, designed exclusively for Technique Junkies

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Comfort of God

Hello fellow Technique Junkies.  It's Beth Norman here with a sympathy card for you.  I used the lovely With Sympathy set of 5 stamps from July's release, so this stamp is hot off the press.

This is the first card I made in my new apartment.  Even with all the packing, move and unpacking, I managed to post weekly, much to my surprise.

Do you recognize this gorgeous flower?  It comes from the Flourished Floral stamp.  You may recall that I used this image for this card.  After colouring 16 Flourished Floral stamped images for a custom order, I had withdrawals and just had to colour up this flower again, but this time I fussy cut the flower from the image you see below.



Have a great week.  I hope I inspired you. 

Bee Strong

Good morning Junkies!  I've got a couple of really quick and easy projects for you today.

For this Fat Book page, I first sprayed a 4x4 piece of watercolor paper with Art Anthology Sandcastle Colorations.  I then stenciled with gold embossing paste and the Art Anthology Beehive Stencil.  Next, I stamped Botanical Bee (one of the new July Releases) onto a piece of multi-media paper, colored it with Art Anthology Lemon Tart Velvet and Splashed Sorbet and then fussy-cut it out.  The sentiment is included in the stamp set and was stamped on the same multi-media paper as the bee and given a spray of Art Anthology Glorious.  Lastly, I embossed the edges with Scattered Straw embossing powder and then glued down some microbeads (I wish you cold see the sparkle).

Here's a really easy but nice ATC.  Spray an ATC card with Art Anthology Heart Colorations.  Next, stamp Stargazers with black ink, going over the black areas with a Pitt Pen if you don't think the black is dark enough.  Instant flower color!  The sentiment is Seeds of Today and was stamped on a piece of multi-media paper and given a light spritz of heart which was immediately blotted so it would be very light.  Both Stargazers and Seeds of Today are new releases for July.

Don't forget to visit the Technique Junkies store for some really great stamps!

That's it for today.  Thank you for stopping by.

Until later......................

Marilyn