America!

Happy Memorial Day!  Today we celebrate and remember those who have fought and died for our freedom!  We do live in an awesome country.

This card is created with a couple of Technique Junkie stamps - Falling Flowers http://techniquejunkies.com/falling-flowers/, and America Beats True - http://techniquejunkies.com/america-beats-true/.

I used red Art Anthology Gel Medium to paint the flower petals. I allowed that to dry well and then sprayed a light blue Art Anthology Colorations spray over the card. Then I quickly wiped off the excess.  Since the  gel medium resists the Coloration spray  the spray wipes up easily off of the red petals.  I mounted it on red then blue stock before adding the embellishments - except for ribbon being tucked around the red layer.

The focal image was colored with Copic markers and a matching blue was sponged on the surrounding areas of Lady Liberty. After this imaged was layered with red and blue card stock, Little white stars were adhered to the center of the flowers and under the word America!

This card shouts patriotism!  Have a great day and get inky!

Inspirational Tag Set

Hello Junkies!
Karen here today to share a set of tags I made using two of the New Releases.  I stamped onto DP and punched edges. And, of course, added lots of pretty ribbon. Take a look.

Materials List:

Stamps: Measure Herself and Falling Flowers both from Technique Junkies

Ink: Regal Rose (Stampin' Up)  and Jet Black Archival

Markers - Memento

CS: pale green

Decorative paper

Corner and Edge Punch

Ribbons

Make It:

• Cut tags from the pale green CS 
• Stamp the Falling Flowers stamp with rose ink on DP
• Cut the DP to fit onto the tags
• Stamp Measure Herself image onto DP
• Color the dress with markers

• Punch the corners and edges of the DP and add to the tags
• Punch holes in the tops of the tags and add the ribbons
• Glue a piece of lace to the side edge of one of the tags

Aren't these fun!!  Love the falling flowers in the background too.  The tags would be cute on a gift bag or tucked inside an envelope with a little note on the back.  Would be a cute bookmark too.  Okay, see you again soon.  Have a great day!
Karen McAlpine
Dreaming and Creating

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