30 Days of Christmas, Day 7

Good morning, Junkies and welcome to Day 7 of the 30 Days of Christmas inspiration. We will be bringing you creative holiday inspiration during October and into November. Today, for your viewing pleasure, I've created a Christmas card with an unexpected background.

Using the P002 Bricks, Dark and P003 Bricks, Light background stamps with Stazon Midi ink in reds (St. Valentine and Claret, respectively), I created this background. I then sprayed the card with Sandcastle Colorations from Art Anthology to fill in the 'mortar' with the cream color. I wrote a bit of the poem from 'Twas the Night Before Christmas" in the mortar lines with a red pen. It says, "And laying his finger aside of his nose and giving a nod, up the chimney he rose."

The sentiment is from the newly released SS046 Winter Wonderland Sayings sentiments stamp set, which I layered with cardstock to fit right inside a 'brick'.

A nice card for the men in your life, for a new home owner or the brick masons!

Remember that all of the Christmas stamps, including the one used here, are 20% off on www.techniquejunkies.com by using the work Christmas at checkout. I don't think it applies to the Bricks, but you can always contact Pat if you'd like to recreate this card for your Christmas cards!

Until then, be merry!

SL

30 Days of Christmas, Day 6

Good morning Junkies and welcome to Day 6 of the 30 Days of Christmas.  We will be bringing you 30 Days of Christmas joy and inspiration during October and into November.  Today, for your viewing pleasure, I've created a 2-page journal spread.

I used several of Technique Junkies Christmas stamps to create this two-page spread.  

For the left side, I stamped Star Power with metallic silver ink until the entire page was covered.  I then embossed the stars using silver embossing powder.  Once the embossing powder cooled, I sprayed Art Anthology Timeless and Silk Tie Colorations, blotting between applications until I had the color I was going for.  Since the embossing resists the sprays, all I had to do was wipe over them with a baby wipe.  I then stamped Hope and Peace from the Christmas Word Set of 4 with Deep Rose ink, cut them out, and applied them to my page.  I then sprinkled snowflake confetti all over.

For the right side, I stamped Star Power over half the page with metallic silver ink and then embossed with silver embossing powder.  I again sprayed with Art Anthology Timeless and Silk Tie Colorations, this time concentrating Timeless near the bottom of the page to simulate sunset.  I stamped Whimsical Winter twice: once using Sooty Blue ink for the bottom and the second time using Dusty Lime for the trees.  I cut them out and added them to my page.  To simulate snow, I ran a line of Frosted Lace Stickles along the bottoms of each of the trees' sections and then I scattered more snow confetti across the page.  Finally, I edged both pages using a red Sharpie.

I hope you enjoy this spread and that it gets you in the mood for Christmas.  

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

  

Marilyn

30 Days of Christmas, Day 5 - by Judy Jackson

Perhaps by now, you are noticing that the Technique Junkie Design Team members are showing lots of Christmas cards!  Christmas is a wonderful season with many celebrations.

My card today features the Technique Junkie Stamps Merry Christmas stamp - http://techniquejunkies.com/merry-christmas/ .  I used pieces of background paper discontinued several years ago. But it goes with this stamp perfectly!

I embossed the image with Detail Gold embossing powder.  Then I colored in the letters carefully with a deep green Copic marker.  I added some red rhinestones for bling. Then I cut out some layers with Spellbinder dies.  I edged two layers with a Krylon gold pen.  And I was done!

How are you coming on your Christmas cards?    In my reorganization of my stamping supplies, I found a lot of Christmas cards from previous years.   So I am going to use those to save me some time this year. I will still need tomake about 20 or 30 more cards.

Have a really fun stamping day!

30 Days of Christmas, Day 4!

What says Christmas Sweets more than Peppermint Swirl?
That swirl is what we are featuring today for out 30 Days of Christmas Card. This card uses the new Peppermint Swirl Background Stamp with the Merry Christmas Sentiment for your creative inspiration.

To make this card, the Peppermint Swirl image was stamped with VersaMark, then covered with Stamp and Stick Powder, and heat embossed. Red glitter was burnished and heated into it to set it. The sentiment was colored with markers and a gold glitter pen before being layered onto the Peppermint Swirl and the background cardstock layers.

Remember that all of the Christmas stamps, including the two used here, are 20% off on www.techniquejunkies.com by using the work Christmas at checkout.
Enjoy your day!

30 Days of Christmas, Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 of the 30 Days of Christmas! Today I have a card that uses two of the new Christmas Stamps this year, Winter Foliage and Merry Christmas 2.

To create this card, I stamped the Winter Foliage stamp on White Vellum, and heat embossed it with a pearlized white embossing powder. Then, working on the back side of the vellum (the non-embossed side), I colored the foliage, branches and berries using markers.  The finished piece was matted on the card stock, and the sentiment was added to the front.

I hope you have enjoyed today's card! Remember that all of the Technique Junkies Christmas Stamps are 20% off through October 31st; simply use the word Christmas at checkout.
Have a great day!

30 Days of Christmas - Day 2

Welcome to the 30 Days of Christmas!  Every day between yesterday, October 15th, and November 13th, the Technique Junkie Design Team and I will be celebrating all things Christmas!  We have a slew of cards, scrapbook pages and projects to inspire your creativity this holiday season. The fun happens on the Design Team blog. The artwork for each day will be posted there, or there will be a link to a designer's blog with that day's post. If you don't follow that blog, now is a great time: techniquejunkies.blogpost.com Have no fear, though, I will post the links to the week's Christmas inspirational artwork in this email every week this month AND I will have a new project for you here, too! If you missed Day 1, you can find Jerri's project here: http://techniquejunkies.blogspot.com/2015/10/30-days-of-christmas.html Now for the best part:  Now for the best part:  All Christmas Stamps are 20% off through October 31st!* Simply use the word Christmas at checkout to receive your discount.   *Discount not applicable to wholesale orders. For today's card, I wanted to create a textural, colorful backdrop for my focal image. It's been a while since I whipped out my embossing folders and much to my delight, I still love them as much as I used to! I started by embossing, coloring and coloring the Angel of Ascension stamp for the focal image. To create the textural background, I sprayed plain white cardstock with Timeless, Peacock Feathers, Concord, and Waimea BayColorations Sprays (by Art Anthology).  After spraying randomly, I used a paper twoel to remove the excess spray, heat dryed the paper, then embossed it with an elegant swirl embossing folder.   In order to make the texture really pop, I applied white ink to a finger sponge dabber, and rubbed it over the raised areas on the embossed piece. Since I used the embossing folder to dboss te swirls (they are lower than the rest of the card), the swirled areas retain their color while the plain areas are more subtle.    For the sentiment across the top of the card, I thought the title of the Hark the Herald music background was perfect! It is so much fun to use pieces and parts from other stamps in unique ways. I simply gold embossed the title and colored the letters with a marker. To make the angel "fly," I used pop dots over the back, making sure to place the pop-dots on the small areas of the angel so that nothing flattened when on the card.

I hope you are a little inkspired by today's card!  Pat

30 Days of Christmas!

Happy Thursday Junkies!
Jerri here to kick off Technique Junkies 30 Days of Christmas.  That's right, check in daily at the  Technique Junkies Design Blog  for 30 days of  inspiration, from now through November 12th.

I am in LOVE with the new stamp called Wood.  I used it twice on this card.  First I stamped Wood on a piece of cardstock in green.  Once stamped,  I cut the stamped image into tree shapes.  I used a Sizzix die but of course you could use any die cutting machine. 

 Once I had the tree shapes cut out, I rubbed some brown on the edges to add some interest and give them the rustic feel I was going for.

Using the same Wood stamp,  I stamped the background in brown on a piece of lined cardstock.

I used texture paste along the bottom to create snow. Before the paste dried, I applied some glitter to give the card some sparkle.   

Once the snow was dry, I cut out a border in red polka dot and glued it to the edges of the card.  The trees were then added using pop dots.   

I hope you enjoyed my card.  Have a wonderful rest of your week.

Have a Wonderful Day!

Jerri