Keep Calm

Hi fellow stamp artists, it's Beth Norman here with a Joseph's Coat technique card for you.  Recently I did a tutorial on how to do this technique which you can find here.

I fell in love with these two stamps and knew they would look good together.  I used Pom Pom Swag and Behave Yourself from the May release.

Have a great week!

You Are Strong!

Greetings Inky Friends!

I was SO excited to see THIS SET come out in the May Release !  

It's a smaller grouping of 3 large images from

the Let's Face It Series of Palettini stamps.

For the background, I used a technique called

Criss-Crossed Washi from the Washi Tape & Ribbon CD. 

If you're like me and bought (hoarded?!?) lots of Washi tape,

this CD is a MUST HAVE for fun, new ideas!!

The CHEVRON punched pieces uses the awesome PUNCH SYSTEM from Fun Stamper's Journey!

Here are a few more samples using techniques from that CD and lots of TJ Stamps!

 BIRDS and Hope Is the Thing

 Both star cards uses SIMPLE SENTIMENTS

 The card and tea light box sentiments come from the PROVERBS set

and the background on the tealight box is Breath of Nature.

Well I hope you enjoyed this post on the "wonders of washi" and consider adding the CD to your next order!  June is right around the corner which means another New Release Blog Hop!! 
So until then...

Happy Creating!!

oxox ~ Tonya :)

Paris Anniversary

{jane bosi}  Happy Thursday, Junkies!! I have anniversaries on my mind!!  I've recently celebrated my one year anniversary at the best organization ever, 19 years of marriage and am looking forward to helping my parents celebrate 50 years of marriage next month! 

My card today started with the beautiful Paletinni backgroud, Le Tour Eiffel, and a piece of water color paper.  Using the Non Stick Color technique (TJNL June 2011) I added various colors to the background before overstamping with the Love Hands image.  Later, I added the sentiment found in the Simple Sentiments 1a set.

Thanks for stopping by!!  Go on and get inky, now!
TTFN, Jane

Winner of the Mini MISTI

Drumroll Please...
The Winner of the MINI MISTI from last week's MISTI May-nia giveaway from this blog is...Diana Enns! Congratulations, Diana!

Not a winner? You can pick yours up HERE:
http://techniquejunkies.com/products-and-accessories/misti/
And remember you can still enter the rest of the month (on My Sweet Petunia's partner blogs to win) - follow the My Sweet Petunia Blog Every day in May to go to that day's giveaway:
http://blog.mysweetpetunia.com/2016/05/misti-may-nia.html
Have a great day!
Pat Huntoon

Jigsaw Puzzle

Good morning Junkies!  I've been playing around with jigsaw pieces again.  Every now and then I pull a couple out and work toward completing the entire puzzle.  Today I want to share two of the pieces I finished.

Working with such a small, weirdly shaped area does have it's challenges.   Thankfully, Technique Junkies has some sentiment stamps that work perfectly.

I painted the previously gessoed piece with Art Anthology Viridian Sorbet then stenciled that same color through the Dot Matrix stencil.  I stamped Life Full of Love with black ink and then embossed with Lindy's Angel Wing Mauve EP.  I added a wood heart embossed with PK Sparkling Red Rose EP, a wood flourish embossed with Lindy's Madonna Robe Blue Gold EP, and a rose.

For this piece I painted the background with Art Anthology Cayman Sorbet and then stenciled that same color through the Dot Matrix stencil.  I stamped Lock Us Up with black ink and embossed with Lindy's Angel Wing Mauve EP.  All the wood shapes were embossed with Lindy's Silver Moon Turquoise EP.  I also added a little silver trim to this one.

They are simple pieces but I love the tone-on-tone color scheme I used.

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

Marilyn

Be like A Sunflower

When I think of sunflowers I often think of farms and farms make me think of chicken wire.  So I used 2 different Technique Junkie stamps on this card. The background chicken wire is found here - http://techniquejunkies.com/chicken-wire-2/.  And the sunflower stamp can be found here - http://techniquejunkies.com/face-the-sunshine/.


The image is colored in with my Copic markers, Then I went over the petals with the iridescent Smooch paint that has the pink cap/handle.,I used Smooch paint to highlight the letters as well..

I was surprised when the iridescent Smooch paint gave the petal a hint of blue.  But it also worked with others colors I used.

Have a wonderful day -- and get inky!

London Calling!

Greetings Inky Friends!

I'm back to share a couple cards I created using one of the new May sets called London Calling.

I decided to use a really old technique called "One Sheet Wonder" where you stamp a whole bunch of images covering a sheet of 8.5x11 card stock and then cut up those "collaged" pieces to create your projects. I think this set lends itself to collage work really nicely!  I also think it's perfect to create some masculine cards ~ especially with the cute bowler hat and mustache!!

The Birthday Card also uses THIS SENTIMENT!

 And this card uses another May Release called Behave Yourself!

If you haven't already, make sure to pop on over to the TJ website and check out all the great NEW GOODIES!

Until next time....

Happy Creating!!

~Tonya :)
oxoxo