Day 1 of the 30 Days of Christmas!

Today is Day One of our annual 30 Days of Christmas event!

All of the stamps in the Christmas Category on the Technique Junkies website are 20% off from today, October 15, 2018, through Tuesday November 13. To celebrate, the Technique Junkies Design Team will be posting Christmas and Holiday cards every day to ignite your creative muse.

You can start shopping now, HERE.

Ready to get started? Here is the first card, using the Holiday Doodles and Vintage Merry Christmas stamps:

For the sentiment, I inked the Merry Christmas (words) portion of the Vintage Merry Christmas stamp and carefully removed any excess ink off the the other areas of the image before I stamped it with StazOn Jet Black Ink. To color this card, I used 4 of the Nuvo Glitter Markers; Raspberry, Morning Moss, Gold, and Silver, and then used the Nuvo Glitter Accents in Fresh Snowfall sparingly on several of the flourishes. What I love about this stamp is that you do not need to color EVERY flourish and swirl for the stamp to look great!

I hope you enjoy our 30 Days of Christmas -- and are inspired to create your own holiday masterpieces!

Technique Junkies Challenge - Holiday Tags

Today is the start of a new challenge! 

Show us your holiday tags!

You will have a whole month to complete the challenge. 

Enter as many times as you wish using the link

list at the bottom of the post for a chance to win a $25 Technique Junkies Gift Certificate!

You have until December 9th to enter. Winner will be announced 10th.

A few simple rules.

You must use Technique Junkies stamps to be chosen to win a prize.

If you don't have any Technique Junkies stamps feel free to play along and link
your project but you will not be in the drawing for a prize.

You must use the challenge technique/theme or sketch in your project (that's the challenge!)

No linking old projects. Projects must be new.

Please list Technique Junkies stamps with links in your project posts.

Please link directly to your project (not a general blog).

If you have a problem linking to the challenge contact Jeanne

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Want a discount? Use code TJ10Jeanne for 10% off at Technique Junkies!

I used Season's Greetings (set of 6), Season of Joy, Showy Blooms stencil from A Colorful Life Designs, Color Burst (Lemon Yellow and Alizarin Crimson), Shimmering Bliss (Gold) and white acrylic paint for my tag.

I sprinkled Color Burst  (just a teeny bit!) through the Showy Blooms stencil and then used Gold Shimmering Bliss spray (instead of water) to mist the paint.

Shimmery painty fun!

I cut my tag and added some white acrylic paint and let dry completely.

I stamped the tag with Season's Greetings (set of 6) and Season of Joy

Hope you enjoyed my project!

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Hot Colors Challenge Winner!

Thank you to everyone that entered our Hot Colors Challenge!

The winner of the  Challenge is:

April Puzzuoli!

Please contact Jeanne for prize information within 7 days.

Check out April's pretty card using Guitar Music!

Have a great day!

Dreams on Wings and Our Current Challenge

Fall colors are still changing out my window and catching my eye so that's what inspired my card for today. It's Janelle here with a mixed media style sentiment card!

Looking for supplies?

Shop today with code

TJ10Janelle for

10% off!

Remember our current challenge: Use Hot Colors! It's almost over!

This card in real life is full of fall shimmers and so easy to pull together! I tried to stick with the challenge colors, but I'm borderline! I used colors that border between cool and hot. Check out the challenge to see what I mean and play along for a gift certificate. Now here is the supplies and instructions for my card!

Supplies:

• Have Wings Stamp
• Stencil Rings Background Stamp
• Shimmering Bliss Spray in Thulian Pink, Mardi Gras Purple, Harvest Sunset, and Vivid Volt
• Nuvo Glitter Marker Raspberry Tart in Northern Lights Set
• White Cardstock
• Vellum Paper
• Black Permanent Pen
• Black StazOn Ink
• Dimensional Paint (optional)

Instructions:

1. On a sheet of white cardstock spray Shimmering Bliss sprays, let dry.
2. Stamp Stencil Rings Background randomly over the sprayed cardstock.
3. Spray Thulian Pink Shimmering Bliss onto plastic plate or palette and use a paintbrush to randomly fill in some stencil rings. Let dry.
4. Trim a piece to 4 x 5-1/4 inch size and glue to a folded card base (folded 4-1/4  by 5-1/2 inches).
5. Draw border with Raspberry Tart glitter marker on the sprayed background. Add a few black pen marks along the border.
6. Stamp Have Wings with Black StazOn ink and glue onto the sprayed background paper.
7. Glue sentiment onto the card base with a dot of glue in each corner of vellum.
8. Add decorative dots across top and bottom of vellum.

Thanks for stopping by!

Remember to use code TJ10Janelle when shopping at

Technique Junkies online store!

TJ Inksprations: Halloween Happiness!

Halloween spookiness was never so much fun! Today I have a video for you that shows how to make 4 Halloween projects -- all in one 5-minute video! I had a blast creating these 4 diverse projects, using so many different products, each using different stamps and materials, including Shimmering Bliss, Nuvo Mousse and Paste, Stencils Stamps, Inks, and a fun little tag that uses Glow-in-the-dark drops to highlight some ghosts! I put together a Bundle package for you, too, so you can try the Bats card and take 20% off, too! Here is the Bundle for that: Bundle 8 Here is the video this week: Spray and Play Halloween Cards and Tags

I hope you are a little inkspired by today's issue. See you next week! Sincerely, Pat Huntoon Technique Junkies LLC

Merry Christmas Tags!

Hello friends!

Today, I want to share with you some cute Christmas Tags I created using the new Christmas Whimsy Background Stamp!!

I stamped the Christmas Whimsy Background on Pink and Light Green Cardstock in Cherry and Teal Ink, then stamped on top the Textured Newsprint Stamp, in Beige Ink,  it gives more textured to the image.

Then I used tag dies to die-cut the images, also die-cut a bigger tag in solid cardstock color to adhere behind the stamped tag.

Added a die-cut snowflake and button, and a Merry Christmas little tag on top.

You can use my code to save 10%  TJ10Giovana

Hope you like these tags!

Have a wonderful day!

Holiday Doodles Meditation

There are so many design possibilities with the new Holiday Doodles Stamp from Technique Junkies ... and for this week's card, I decided to use my Spectrum Noir markers to color the entire image.

Remember, you can use my code TJ10Stephanie for 10% off the entire store.

I took a little time over a week to finish the project.  After work each night, I spent a little meditative time coloring.  I usually do most of my creating on the weekends, so it was nice to relax with some creativity each night.

My original intention was to just color a portion of the image, but once I got started, I just couldn't stop until it was all filled with color.

I stamped my image in Amalgam Ink on Watercolor Paper and then started coloring with three shades of green.

I picked out areas I knew would be green like the Christmas trees and then picked other areas scattered around the stamp to add more green (I realized later I missed those two holly leaves at the bottom right, so I went back and added more green as I finished).

Next I added three shades of pink-ish red markers.  I started with the Candy Canes and then used the same process for positioning the color across the image.

Now I had to start thinking about how many more colors I wanted to incorporate and what those colors would be (I thought about stopping here, but it seemed a bit too naked).  I looked back through color combinations and chose a golden yellow next.

I loved that there was more distinct contrast between these shades, which added more dimension to the design.

Next I added shades of purple.  I loved how regal & rich the colors of the palette were shaping up to be, and how all the different the pieces of the image were coming to life.

I decided to stick with four colors and went back and filled in the remainder of the image with the prior shades until everything was colored except the stripes on the candy cane.

This entire process brought back fond memories of sitting at my Grandma's dining room table and coloring with her.  She would always sit down with us, pick a page out of the coloring book, and color with us.  I think she found it as therapeutic as I do today.

I cut my image into thirds and mounted it on a black card base.  

I finished with the gorgeous new A Very Merry Christmas Sentiment stamped in Amalgam Ink on a scrap of the Water Color Paper (to match the white of the one candy cane that is peeking out from under the sentiment).

If you like meditative coloring, Holiday Doodles is certainly a stamp you'll want to add to your collection.