30 Days of Christmas - Day 25

Welcome! Can you believe that it is Day 25 of the 30 Days of Christmas already? I hope you have taken the time this month to enjoy the holiday inspiration. Also, I hope you've had the opportunity to take advantage of the 20% discount on all Technique Junkies Christmas Stamps. All Christmas Stamps are 20% off until 11/13 by using the word Christmas as the coupon code at checkout.
This card -- it is so beautiful in person -- is one of the Christmas cards I will be sending this year (I get bored making more than 20 at a time,so I make several designs a year!). The shimmer on this is incredible.

To create my dove, I stamped the Christmas Dove stamp on plain white cardstock using StazOn. I painted the dove with Vegas Gold Sorbet Paint from Art Anthology, and dried it with a heat tool (it only took 30 seconds or so to dry -- it is a very fast drying paint!). Then I sprayed over the painted piece with Wild Orchid, Juicy, Ink Spot and Peacock Feathers Art Anthology Colorations - none of which are considered Christmas Colors, I simply used a paper towel to pat off the dove, then let it dry and layered it onto the other cardstock pieces.  This card took me less than 10 minutes to make!

What I love most about this is that so many of you have purchased the Vegas Gold paint and Colorations from our booth at trade shows this year. How much fun is it to have another way to use the paints?

I hope you are inspired by today's creations.  Go create something!

30 Days of Christmas - Day 24

Hello!  Robin Redd here with you today! 

This card shows how you can use a basic alphabet stamp set from Technique Junkies to make a Christmas card.  Pair up the alphabet stamps with holiday patterned paper or even just holiday colored cardstock and you've got a festive card!

I used....

#SA059 Outline Grunge Upper Alphabet with Numbers and

SS01A Simple Sentiments

Show me a card that you made using non-holiday stamps.

Until next time...

30 Days of Christmas Day 22

Hello Junkies Pam here today for Day 22 of the 30 days of Christmas! It seems very strange to be making Christmas projects, especially "chilly" ones like the canvas panel I made for Day 22 considering it has been in the 70s here in Massachusetts this week!  But I am definitely not complaining!

For today's project I decided to think outside the box and stretch my stamps a bit.  I made a wintry canvas panel using the background stamp Star Power. 

This stamp is so versatile for some amazing winter sky backgrounds.  It is used very subtly in this canvas panel but just really "pops".

After inking the canvas panel directly with Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink, Star Power was stamped in a repeating pattern onto the canvas with Hero Arts Unicorn White Ink.

Over the top of the entire panel- texture paste was applied using The Crafter's Workshop Large snowflakes stencil and then dusted with some Distress glitter before it dried.

I wanted to share something other than a card and show the versatility of the TJ stamps-using them here in a mixed media project!

Thanks for joining me today and stay warm : )!

30 Days of Christmas, Day 21

Hi! So glad you are here. Today we continue with Day 21 of the 30 Days of Christmas, and we are lucky today - there are 3 posts dedicated to our Christmas inspiration!  One is my post, here, and then two of the TJ designers, Kathy and Judy, both have dedicated Christmas Posts featuring Technique Junkies Christmas stamps. You can find them here:

Judy Jackson: http://judysstampart.blogspot.com/ and
Kathy Stacey: https://craftynurse4u.wordpress.com/

Today I am featuring the Folk Art stamp:

To create this card,I sprayed 2 plain white pieces of A2 cardstock with several colors of Art Anthology Coloration Sprays: Timeless, Valentine, and Grass. After the pieces dried, I stamped the Folk Art background over one, and cut it out an Ornament Die. The die was layered onto a red piece of cardstock, then black. That piece was layered over the second spraed cardstock piece before being adhered to the white card base.  Finally, I added the ribbon and used my stamp positioner to stamp the JOY stamp on the card.

I hope you have enjoyed our Christmas inspiration today! Remember, all Technique Junkies Christmas stamps are 20% off through November 13th by using the word Christmas as the coupon code at checkout.

30 Days of Christmas - Day 20

Good morning everyone!  For Day 20 of the 30 Days of Christmas, I made a Christmas card.  Not my usual project, but I wanted to mix and match several of the stamps and decided this would be a great way to do it.

I stamped two of the Christmas trees from the Christmas Trees Set of 6 set using Dusty Lime and Snowy Evergreen ink, one underneath the other.  I then trimmed the panel and set it to the side.  Next I stamped "JOY" from the Christmas Words set with Tomato Sauce ink on another piece of mixed media paper and trimmed.  I glued them down to a sheet of Authentique Christmas scrapbook paper, trimmed, and then adhered to my cardstock.

We here at Technique Junkies hope you are enjoying our 30 Days of Christmas.  Stay tuned for more great projects!

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

Marilyn

30 Days of Christmas Day 19 - Technique Junkie Stamps!!!

I have yet another Christmas card for you today!  If you are like me, then you know it is good to make Christmas cards easy to  mass produce, and easy to mail without extra postage. 

This card fits this description.   I dry embossed a silver card stock panel, then I stamped the Technique Junkie Stamps  Ornament  stamp http://techniquejunkies.com/ornament-1/ in the middle of the frame..  It still didn't look finished so i used a deep purple Copic marker on only the embossed area.  However, I will confess that the marker slipped at times and got on the silver panel where I did not want it. So I used my Copic blender pen (or more accurately an alcohol remover pen).  to remove those few stray purple marks. 

 I chose the purple marker because I had a purple embossing powder for the ornament. So this card uses sort of non-traditional colors. 

I sure you are enjoying seeing al of these Christmas cards!  Have a wonderfully inky day!



November Release Day - It's a Hop!

Welcome! Today is November 1st, and it is time for the final Technique Junkies new stamp release of 2015. To celebrate the 13 new stamps being released today, The TJ design team has a Blog Hop featuring the new stamps. All of the November released stamps are 15% off through November 8th, too! Your discount will be applied at checkout.

And don't fear, we haven't forgotten about the 30 Days of Christmas -- it is featured on my blog, using the new stamps with a tutorial, at the end of the hop.

The hop starts here -- and I have two cards for you featuring one of the new background stamps called The Bridge.  I prepared the stamp in two different ways -- the first using Copics to color:

For the sentiment, I used a stamp from the TJ line called The Open Road. I cut the first line of the stamp apart to get the words I wanted : )

For the second Bridge example, I used a combination of markers and Art Anthology paints and sprays to color the background. The sentiment is from the Einstein Quotes set:

I wanted a "twilight" look on the second -- I think I achieved it, don't you?

Okay, enough from me -- at least until the end of the hop! Here is the lineup:

Design Team Blog http://techniquejunkies.blogspot.com (You are here)

Pam DeChellis http://journeyawakensthesoul.blogspot.com (GO HERE NEXT)

Gini Williams Cagle: http://ginicagle.blogspot.com

Beth Norman http://sunflowers-dragonflies.ca/blog

Jane Bosi http://janembosi.blogspot.com

Jerri Jones http://www.abushelandahug.blogspot.com

Judy Jackson  http://judysstampart.blogspot.com

Marilyn Hughes http://DollsEtc.blogspot.com

Robin Redd  http://robinredd.typepad.com/reddrobinstudios/

Kathy Stacy http://craftynurse4u.wordpress.com

Pat Huntoon http://patstamps.blogspot.com

I hope you enjoy the hop!