30 Days of Christmas - Day 12

 

Hi, it's Gini and I am here today to share with you my first take on the 30 Days of Christmas Cards! I love kraft and gold together, and thought that the Folk Art Angel would be great to use with this color scheme. I dry embossed the background and heat embossed the angel. The sentiment, Merry Christmas 2, was stamped on the kraft paper.  And what is Christmas without a big festive bow? 

We will have more ways to inspire you for your Christmas season, so check back everyday between now and the 15th of November!

The 30 Days of Christmas, Day 11

Hello Junkies , Pam here today to welcome you  to the 30 Days of Christmas with Technique Junkies - Day 11.  The holiday season is fast approaching so we are sharing some fantastic inspiration for your holiday cards from Oct 15-Nov 13! So be sure to stay tuned here and on the Design Team members blogs for new projects EVERY DAY!

For my holiday inspiration card I used the Ornament 1 stamp (SD640) to create a background for this simple yet elegant Christmas card.  It also features the Merry Christmas 2 stamp as the sentiment!

The ornament stamp has such great detail to it and it just looks gorgeous stamped with Versamark Ink and embossed using Ranger Queen's Gold embossing powder. They just come to life!  I decided to go with a monochromatic piece and use ink sprays for the background and highlight the ornaments themselves with a little bit of darker red water color. 

I hope you are enjoying our fab 30 days of Christmas inspiration! 

Embrace imperfection!

Pam

The 30 Days of Christmas, Day 10

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

Welcome to day 10 of The 30 Days of Christmas.

I made a simple Christmas card, for you, that has a ton of Christmas PUNCH!

I used #SDX065 Merry Christmas 2

and #S652 Winter Foliage.  

With this stamped I used the tone on tone method to stamp the background.  

This simply means I stamped it with a stamp pad that is close to the color of the paper 

you are stamping it on.

To make the trees, simply cut triangles from your choice of cardstock or paper.

You can use ANY (well, just about) embossing folder you have on hand to 'decorate' your trees.

Until next time...

30 Days of Christmas, Day 8

Welcome back to the 30 Days of Christmas! Today is Day 8 and I am pleased to use two of the new stamps from this year's Technique Junkies holiday release. The base of this stamp is the Winter Wonderland Stamp. I colored the top of this stamp with Stormy Sky Distress Ink, and the bottom of the stamp with Iced Spruce Distress Ink using the Direct-to-Stamp method. For texture,there is a dot of Stickles on each of the top snowflakes, and painted Bone Stone Effects Dimensional Medium (Art Anthology) over the snowy areas.

To add more dimension, I re-inked the bottom of the stamp with Iced Spruce ink again and stamped on a second piece of paper. I cut out a few trees and popped them on the base piece:

To finish the card, I used the Winter Wonderland Sayings (Set of 3) along the top, creating banners for each of the words.  I love that I can make these non-denominational, like the card above, or straight-out Christmas Cards by using the Merry Christmas Greeting from the same set. 

Until tomorrow--

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!