April 2020 New Artwork Inspiration

We just released the April 2020 stamps at Technique Junkies, and I am proud to share this beautiful video displaying all of the new artwork from the Technique Junkies Design Team. I hope the artwork in this video inspires you! All of the April 2020 New Stamps  are 15% of April 8th, 2020. Simply add them to your shopping cart and the discount will be applied automatically. Ready for inspiration? The video below is a compilation of the Technique Junkies Design Team's artwork using the new March stamps.  Here is  the video: April 2020 New Stamp Release

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

Yellow Brick Road

Hello!

It's my day to post on the Technique Junkies Design blog, and I wanted to share a card using Op Art, and Yellow Brick Road, from the April new releases.  

You can save 15% on all new release stamps until April 8th!

I read a meme on Facebook the other day that said 'who knew when we woke up that Sunday in March, and pushed the clock forward an hour, we'd wake up in the twilight zone'?  I had to laugh out loud, but I have to admit, with everything going on around us, it feels a bit like that's what happened!  

So...with that thought in mind, this card was born!

The background was created by heat embossing with black powder. The sentiment was also heat embossed.

Don't forget!!! You can also save 10% on any order by entering TJ10Patti at checkout.

This was so easy to create! Hope you will give it a try!

Now, be sure to head over to the Technique Junkies store and check out the incredible new release!

Thanks for stopping by,

Patti J.

Technique Junkies April Release and DISCOUNT

Happy April Release!!!

We have new stamps in the Technique Junkies line!

Be sure to check out the list below for some sweet inspiration from our Design Team! 

All of the April 2020 New Release stamps are 15% off through April 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. 

Use code TJ10Jeanne for an additional 10% off

That's 25% off the new release until April 8th!

My first card uses Tried Running

Tried Running

My next card uses Clap

Clap

Check out what the Design Team made!

Pat Huntoon 

Beth Norman-Roberts 

Ceal Pritchett  

Giovana Smith 

Holly Brown 

Jeanne Streiff

Judy Jackson 

Ro Donner  

Lynda Pleckan 

Carmen Garcia 

Patti Gilliam 

Hope you enjoyed my projects!

Live Magically

Happy Tuesday!

Everyone needs a little magic in their life, right?

My card uses stamps from Fairy Garden (set of 10)

Get 10% off! Use code TJ10Jeanne at Technique Junkies. 

Fairy Garden (set of 10)

Beautiful Roses

Old Fashioned Roses is such a beautiful stamp!   I opted not to put a verse on the front so I can use it  for almost any reason: a birthday card, a Mother's Day card,  a get well card, a sympathy card, or just a thinking of you card.

I watercolored it on water color paper.  First I stamped it with Versafine black ink using a stamp platform similar to a MISTI.  Then I watercolored itm, and adhered teeny tiny beads here and there along the edges of flowers or the leaves. Can you see the beads?  I misted it with Dazzle Shimmering Bliss Topper spray.  What a beautiful shimmer!

Do you want to save some money?  Save 10% on your entire Technique Junkies order by using the code TJ10Judy in the coupon box as you check out.

 Here's wishing you a happy day in which you get inky!

Yellow Rose Birthday

Hi Junkies!  It's Holly posting today, and I wanted to share this watercolored roses card with y'all.  I stamped the beautiful new Old Fashioned Roses with a permanent gray ink onto watercolor paper.  After the ink was completely dry, I watercolored the entire piece with some watercolor paints.  

The sentiment, which is from the new You are Old set, was stamped with the same gray ink onto some white cardstock.  I cut this out with a tag die, threaded some yellow ribbon through the holes, and taped the ribbon to the back before attaching the piece to a yellow card base.

Just a reminder that our 25% off sale is continuing through 3-29-20. Simply use the code SAVE25 at checkout. It will work on EVERYTHING in stock in the Technique Junkies Store (retail orders only).

Looking for (and finding!) the Beauty in the Beast

 Sure. These are scary times. Completely unprecedented. Not one of us has ever really entertained the idea we'd actually be quarantined inside our homes, have we?

So, today, I decided I was too tired to really worry about it anymore. 

We stay in the house for a couple of weeks, take a room every other day to "spring clean" (which is why my children aren't speaking to me and that's working out just perfectly) and I craft. 

But today we hit 80 outside. 60 yesterday. 80 today. Welcome to North Carolina and our 7 and 1/2 days of spring. Hello summer.

Anyway, I went outside today and was stunned by the seemingly overnight transformation in my yard. Everything bloomed! Many things bloomed again! 

Right then and there, I decided to find the beauty in the proverbial beast of situation we're in right now. And I did. I encourage you to do the same. Before I get to my last, two March New Release cards, I'll share them with you. 

 My first year fiddling with spring bulbs and WOW! Talk about rewards!

I have NO idea what these pretty flowers are. This is the 7th year they've appeared. I don't do anything but leave them in the pot. And they somehow like me enough to come back. If you know what they are, please share! But they bring me such joy!

Ahhhhh...my "Walking Stick Tree" which is a Filbert Nut Tree. When I prune it, I can usually get takers for these branches. They never die out. In the winter, it's beautiful. In the summer it's covered with ugly, green leaves. But that's ok. I love this tree!

   

    A TULIP! OMG!! I HAVE A TULIP!! FINALLY!!!

And all this from a postage stamp of a yard managed by the worst gardener in known history. Seriously. My philosophy is "stick it in the ground, water it and hope for the best". So find the beauty...it's the only way to drive off the beast that is the abyss of fear, uncertainty and the unknown. We have the choice to fear or fight. We're Americans, damn it! We don't cower before enemies- foreign or domestic-and we certainly aren't going to be destroyed by this. Chin up, people. Choose to live. Choose to be happy. Choose to see the beauty.

We've got faith, family and friends. 

The only thing lacking is craft supplies. Let me help you with that.

Now...March New Releases!

 I can't get enough of the Old Fashioned Roses! I stamped and embossed on patterned paper and using die cuts, I made a bendi frame. As soon as my mother saw this, it got up and walked right on out the door with her.

My second is using Floral Silhouette1 and the sentiment stamp A Sister Just Gets It, I used my Stamparatus to line up the stamp. I used distress markers to color in the flowers, dotting in highlights, basically just goofing off. Then, I misted it with water and stamped. I wanted a little more highlights so I colored which part of the stamp to highlight, misted and stamped. Quickest and easiest cards EVER but really make you look like the most amazing artist ever! I really love that part most of all.

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Stay safe, stay home and stay sane.

If the last part is your biggest challenge, there's always wine.