Art Journaling for the holidays!

Hi everyone!
It's Chris here today, and I'm sharing my art journal page that I used one of my new September release stamps on.

I love this new Too Grown Up sentiment stamp.  It's such a great size and font!

I thought this sentiment would be perfect in my art journal.  So I had to try it.

Too Grown Up

First I coated my pages with a thin layer of gesso.

Then I painted a night sky and trees using acrylic paints.  I added a bit of water to thin the white paint, then spattered my snowflakes from a wide flat brush by holding it several inches away from my pages, and tapping that brush with the handle of another to "shake" out droplets.  I let my pages dry overnight.

I used my Memory MISTI, the really large one, to stamp the sentiment twice with Versamark ink and coated with white embossing powder.  I was quite nervous about heat embossing the Too Grown Up sentiment to my painted page.  I was afraid the acrylic paint would bubble.  But I let my heat gun get really hot, then embossed quickly and I had no problems!

And I loved my finish pages!  So much so, that I decided to make another similar project as a gift!

I used basically the same process, only on a 11" x 14" piece of 300# Arches watercolor paper.  The gesso coated the paper well, so I could paint on the surface with no absorption of the acrylic into the paper.

Hooray for me!  One gift done!

That's it for me!

Just a reminder though!  The new September Technique Junkies stamps are still 15% off through tomorrow, September 8th!  

Have a great day!

Chris

Technique Junkies September Blog Hop Winners!

Winner's were randomly chosen from Lydia and Vicki's blogs

And the winners are..

Beverly S.September 4, 2017 at 11:39 AM

Beautiful work as always but oh my I LOVE your Christmas kitty card! That image looks just like one of my fur babies.....only he is not wearing a Santa hat. ;) Techinique Junkies is a new stamp company I have just "discovered." Glad I did!

Karen D.September 3, 2017 at 10:51 AM

love these cards....very inspiring!!!
tfs, Karen

Please contact Jeanne within 7 days for your gift certificate information! 

Have a great day!

HOLLY BIRD IN WATERCOLOR MARKERS

Hello Junkies!  

Did you get to join in our our new release hop for September?  It was fabulous and two people won a $100.00 gift certificate.  Congratulations to those winners!

Don't forget you have until Friday, September 8th to get 15% off any and/or all of the new  Technique Junkies September stamps so, if you haven't already done your shopping, don't miss this great discount opportunity.  

I painted this fabulous "Holly Bird" stamp with Distress Markers after being inspired by this video by Jill Foster.  It took some time, but I really love the results. 

After the stamping and painting, I fussy cut along the edge of the leaves and then backed it with some gold cs.  Then the whole layer was mounted with dimentional tape and adhered to a base layer of teal colored cs.   

The sentiment is from another new set called "Gifts of Christmas, Set of 5" which I stamped with VersaMark and heat embossed with white ep.  

I hope you found some inspiration here and if you'd like a little more enabling, and would like to purchase any other Technique Junkies stamps (excluding those from the September release), please use my coupon code at check out and save yourself 10%.  

Thanks for stopping by...have a crafty week.  

Patchwork Stockings

One of the things I consider when I am designing Christmas cards is how easy will this design be to mass produce?  I mail out about 115 cards every year, and they are all hand made.  I make several designs only because I get bored making the same thing for more than 20 or 30 cards. This card would be easy to mass produce.

I used an embossing folder that creates quite deep embossing. Punched out stockings and ribbon bows create the focal image.

I used one of the five sentiments in the Technique Junkies Gifts of Christmas set - www.techniquejunkies.com/gifts-of-christmas-set-of-5/.  

Please remember that there is a 15% discount on all Technique Junkies September Release stamps, and in addition you can gain a 10 % discount on everything else if you use the code TJ10Judy!

There will be some wonderful prizes during the new release Blog Hop. If you haven't gone through the Blog Hop already -- begin here:  http://techniquejunkies.blogspot.com/2017/09/technique-junkies-september-release-hop.html .   

Technique Junkies will be giving away 2 (yes, two) $100 TJ Gift certificates. To enter, all anyone has to do is to comment on a blog. You may comment on ALL the blogs to get multiple entries. Gift Certificate winners will be chosen on September 5.  So comment away and leave the designers some "love"  on their blogs.  YOU just might be the winner!

Have a great day and get inky!

Judy Jackson

New Stamps and a Fun Technique!

Happy Saturday!

I have a fun card to share today that uses the Bleach Blocking technique that is from

our current challenge. You still have some time to enter so check it out HERE.

If you haven't already hopped for our September Release Hop make sure you do! We have

TWO $100 Technique Junkies Gift Certificates to give away to someone who comments! 

Click HERE for the start of the hop! 

I used the brand new Christmas Dog stamp along with a phrase from

Christmas Ornament Trio for my first project. Isn't he cute? 

My next project uses Skull Frame for a quick and easy Halloween card.

All of the September Release stamps are 15% (no coupon needed) until September 8th. If you need anything outside of the release use coupon code TJ10Jeanne for a 10% discount!!!

Have a great day!

Jeanne

Technique Junkies September Release Hop and GIVEAWAY!

Happy September Release Day!

We have 21 new stamps in the Technique Junkies line! 

We are so thrilled with the new release we decided to do something extra special! 

We will be choosing TWO lucky people who comment on this month's release hop - those two people will each win a $100 Technique Junkies gift certificate!!! 

The more you comment the more chances you have to win, so don't miss a single stop along the hop! Gift Certificate winners will be announced on September 5th.

Only one comment entry per blog please. 

All of the September 2017 New Release stamps are 15% off through September 8th!
We can all use a little bargain, right? No codes needed, just put them in

your shopping cart and the discount will be applied at checkout.

Here are some projects from Jeanne to get the party started! 

My first card uses Christmas Cocktail. I used swiped dye ink and then bleach for my background. The drink image was watercolored, cut out and layered on top. 

My next card uses Rustic Pine and Gifts of Christmas (set of 5). This is another ink and bleach background. This time I used a paintbrush to apply the bleach. Make sure and check out our current challenge HERE for a variation of this technique. 

Now hop on over to our very special Guest Designer...

Lydia Fiedler!!!

Hop List:

Design Junkies Blog (you are here)

Lydia Fiedler

Lanette Erickson

Cheri Weston

Kathy Stacy

Jeanne Streiff

Ro Donner

Beth Norman

Judy Jackson

Vicki Garrett

Giovana Smith

Chris Dayton

Pat Huntoon

Have a great day!

Golden Beauty

The Crafty Nurse here with mid-week inspiration.

Today, I've used the "Vine Beauty" to create a golden beauty.  

My background is gold glitter paste applied through a marque stencil. You can also use translucent embossing paste and apply gold embossing powder over the top.  I then sprayed with Distress Mica Spray in Tarnished Brass.  My "Vine Beauty" is stamped with Delicata Golden Glitz using my MISTI and also sprayed with Mica.  I then hand doodled a frame using the BEST gold marker called, "Extra Fine Point Paint Marker" by Pilot.

We are getting ready for the BIGGEST holiday release yet on September 1st.  Until then, please join us at the Facebook group and over on the Design Team Blog for our challenge.

Happy Inking