You Are A Flamingo!

In a Flock of Pigeons!

Hey, TJ'ers! Welcome Back! It's Ro today and I have a couple of projects I'm excited to share with you!

The first one is a card using another of the new January releases: Left Unsupervised (SD780).

I took a piece of watercolor paper and stamped and embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder. I then did a basic color wash on the background using Kuretake watercolors. The piece was then trimmed down and adhered to a piece of black cardstock. I added some dazzled stickers as a border. 

Be sure to check out all the new January releases if you haven't already! So.Much.Fun!

My second project was something just for ME! I have been hooked on my Happy Planner and am engaging it to keep my crazy brain on track. It seems to be working. As a Designer with deadlines, I have a special section just for Technique Junkies where I keep all my notes pertaining to this wonderful company. Since I had the perfect motivational stamp in my arsenal, and since I am a HUGE fan of Flamingos (just ask anyone who camps with me!), I felt the calling to make myself a tabbed divider for my planner. So I grabbed my Flamingo (SD659) stamp and went to work.

I traced one of the monthly tabs onto a heavy sheet of black cardstock. Then I did a little surgery on my stamp...I cut it apart - flamingo and words! I wanted to do the Flamingo in pink (natch!) and the words in white. 

So rather than fussing with getting my embossing powder in the right place, I severed the stamp and stamped the bird and added the pink embossing powder, then I stamped the sentiment and added the white embossing powder. Voila! I punched it and inserted into my planner. I am in LOVE with it! I think I will laminate it so I can protect it for the long haul.

Look outside the box when you are using your stamps. They are not just for cards! I'm always looking for new things to stamp on (i.e. scrapbook pages, journals, notes, planners, frames, etc.!)

Hope you enjoyed my projects. Do something for YOURself today!

Til next time,

Keepin' it inky!

Dimensional Effects With Inks

Hey there Junkies!!! 

I'm here with a really fun technique for you to try.  I don't know if it's been done before, however, it "just happened" at my craft table as I was stamping today and I loved the results.  

I started with a piece of Valentine designer paper from a 6x6 "American Crafts" pad I bought for $2.50 at AC Moore (I think). It's hard for me to pass up a deal on paper.

Anyway, I put the paper in my MISTI and using this new background stamp from Technique Junkies January Release, called "Love Overlay", I first stamped it with a dye ink called "Raspberry Jam" by Hero Arts. Without moving my stamp, I cleaned it and then moved the paper over to the left about 1/8". This time I stamped with Memento Black Tuxedo ink. Once more, I cleaned the stamp, after making sure the ink was dry, I then brushed anti static powder over the paper, moved the paper over another 1/8".  This time I used VersaMark ink and after stamping with it, I sprinkled Ranger Queens Gold ep over the paper and heat embossed it.  Next I used a stitched frame die to cut out the image and then sponged Distress Inks, Picked Raspberry, Worn Lipstick and Spun Sugar on the panel.  

I adhered it to a card layer of "Eggplant" cs (by GKD).  I absolutely loved how that bg stamp showed itself off with this technique.  It looks so dimensional but it's only one layer!  

To finish the card, I die cut the word "Love" several time in the "eggplant" cs (A Savvy Stamp Die) and in gold paper.  I layered them one on top of the other and layered that against a banner die from MFT, also cut in "eggplant" cs. 

I hope you grab yourself some crafting time today....it's fun there! 

   

Happy Valentine's Day!

This is a pretty and fun Valentine's card.    I used 3 Technique Junkie stamps:  Love Heart - http://techniquejunkies.com/love-heart/, Love Overlay - http://techniquejunkies.com/love-overlay/, and Happy Valentine's Day - http://techniquejunkies.com/happy-valentines-day/.  and on the Happy Valentine's Day stamp I only inked the words and a small section of the flourish from the "H."

The Love Overlay stamp was inked in red and then I  used a die to cut the half-circle swirl for a spinner card.  The Love Heart stamp was inked with Versamark, and  then  the image was heat embossed with detail gold embossing powder. The punched out heart with Love Heart stamp is raised up and attached to penny to make it spin in the die cut track. ``

The entire card is mounted on red card stock for the base card.

Have you created your Valentine cards yet?   Remember all of the Technique Junkie January release stamps  are on sale for 15% off through January 9, 2017!   You can see all of the new releases here: http://techniquejunkies.com/january-2017-release/. 

Have a great day, and get inky!

Judy Jackson

TJ Inksiprations: Multi-Coloring with the MISTI

Today's tutorial is fast and easy. As you may have guessed by now, the MISTI is one of my favorite tools, and I am always playing with ways to use it. This is just one of those many ways.

The stamps I am using today are all from the January 2017 Release. Remember that all of the January New Release stamps are 15% off through midnight on January 9th. Make sure you take care of the discount before it's gone!

 The MISTI is great for adding multiple colors to one image:

To start, I placed the Love Script stamp in the MISTI and stamped the image with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink.

 

Keeping the paper in place (and tacked down with the magnets, I lifted the hinged top and added a darker ink (Aged Mahogany Distress Ink) to the outer edges of the stamp.

Then the image was stamped again, over the first, adding the color to the edges of the image.

To create the bottles and sentiment, the images were placed in the MISTI and stamped with Aged Mahogany and Worn Lipstick inks. The selected areas of the images were highlighted with ink and markers and restamped:

Hearts, Hearts, and more Hearts

Happy New Year Junkies!!

The Crafty Nurse for my first post of 2017.  I don't know about you, but I plan on making 2017 a year of creativity.  Creativity is so restorative for me and a great way to fit in some intentional creativity is to make cards.  They are small, completed quickly and so very much appreciated by your recipient.

As a jumpstart to more creativity in your life, I sure hope you will take the time to join us for the January 2017 Blog Hop.  Pat is offering 15% off all January release stamps over in the Technique Junkies store until January 9th so you only have a few days left to pick up some stamps to make a card for your sweetie this Valentines Day.

For my card today I'm sharing a little love and hopefully a little inspiration for your love-filled creativity.  I began by heat embossing the new release stamp "Messy Love #S744" in Ranger's Red Pepper embossing powder on black card stock.  With my background done I then prepared a piece of card stock with a few shades of Art Anthology Dimensional Paint's in Red Velvet, Mi Bella, and Cotton Candy, which I applied in an ombre fashion.  Once that was dry, I stamped last years release called "Happy Valentine's Day" #SD661" using Black Stazon Ink.  I finished off with some "faux" stitching and called her done!

The Design Team and I would like to thank you for your comments both here and on our personal blogs.  It really means so much to us throughout the year.  We'd love to hear from you about what you'd all like to see from our posts here on the TJ Design Team Blog for this 2017 year.

Happy New Year!!
The Crafty Nurse

Woodland Watercolor

Happy New Year!  Did you see all of the new stamps for January?  Did you catch yesterday's blog hop?  If you didn't then why not go back to yesterday's post and start the hop from the beginning.  There is beautiful talent on our Design Team and boy did they do their best stuff. 

While perusing Pinterest I came across this card which is the inspiration for today's tutorial.  The two stamps I used were SD621 Winds of Change and Age Spots which is on clearance for only $2.25, so when you're buying your stamps, why not throw this stamp into your cart too?

I hope my card inspires you to try your hand at this technique.  Try different embossing folders for different effects. Now onto the tutorial:

Supplies:  Woodland Textured embossing folder  (from SU), a variety of 3 to 4 inks, water spritzer, waterbase marker such as SU or Tombow, Age Spots stamp

Add ink to your stamp and stamp out your image in a variety of places on your embossing folder

Continue by adding a second color of ink

Continue to add ink until you are happy with the coverage

If you are using the Woodland Textured embossing folder then draw the brown lines that are on the birch trees

Lightly spritz your embossing folder with water

Place your cardstock into the embossing machine and run it through two to three times

Your piece is now ready to finish as desired. 

Thank you for popping in. 

It's a New Year - with New Stamps!

Happy New Year!
Today I am proud to kick off the first stamp release of 2017 with a Blog Hop. We are introducing 15 new stamps to the Technique Junkies line, and the TJ Design Team has tons of inspiration for you to view to start the new year off right!

All January 2017 New Release stamps are 15% off through January 9th. We can all use a little bargain now, right? No codes needed, just put them in your shopping cart and the discount will be applied at checkout.

Design Team Blog: http://techniquejunkies.blogspot.com
Lanette Erickson: http://stacksofscraps.blogspot.com 

Cheri Weston: http://stampnboomer.blogspot.com
Kathy Stacy: https://craftynurse4u.wordpress.com

Ro Donner: http://rodonner.blogspot.com/
Beth Norman: http://www.sunflowers-dragonflies.ca
Pam DeChellis: http://journeyawakensthesoul.blogspot.com/
Judy Jackson: http://judysstampart.blogspot.com
Pat Huntoon: http://patstamps.blogspot.com

Ready for some inspiration?

Our first fun card uses the By Us focal image, layered over the Love Script background. So much fun! I have a few girlfriends that fit the sentiment of this card PERFECTLY.

The second card today uses the Being Yours focal image over the Love Overlay background stamp. I used a Red Wink of Stella Glitter Pen to highlight the words.  I love these two stamps together -- I think it really works!
Okay, onward with with hop - make sure you shop after to get your 15% discount, too! Next up is Lanette's blog - have fun!
See you on the back end...
Pat Huntoon