How to Make a Waterfall Card

Today I have a waterfall card tutorial for you.  It's an old technique which I'm bringing to the foreground.  When I saw my background, called Farm Animals, I wanted to pair it with a variety of farm-related stamps.

Typically, this card requires an extreme amount of photos.  Wanting to stay with my personal "10 photos or less" you will see my completed embossing, stamping, and inking throughout this tutorial.

Paired with Farm Animals, is Chicken Wire 2, and funky chickens Keep Chickens-set of 13.

1- Standard card 5 ½” x 4 ¼” (yellow mat)
1- 1” x 4 ¼ “ Brad Strip (black, embossed with gold Chicken Wire 2)
1- 5 ½” x 4 ¼” Layering Piece (black)
1- 5 ¼” x 4” Layering Piece (green/blue bg stamped with Farm Animals)
1- 1 ¾” x 8 ½” Waterfall Strip (black)
3- 2¼” x 2 ¼” Squares (black)
3- 2″ x 2″ Squares (White stamped with Keep Chickens)
1- Tab (yellow with gold embossed Chicken Wire 2)

Score the waterfall strip at 1 ¾, 2 ¾, and 3 ¾. There will be an area of 4 ¾ remaining

On your unscored portion of your tab, decorate and or stamp as desired.  Add tab along the right hand side of your long strip.  If you do not have a tab, you can hole punch and use ribbon or string.

To further explain my background and images I took this photo to show you a close up of them.  For my background I stamped out Farm Animals with black Momento and let dry overnight.  You can use a heat gun to speed up drying time, but I tend to let everything air dry naturally.  Using Shimmering Bliss "Miami Vice", I gave a light spray to my stamped background before I added my mattings and card front.

My funky chickens called Keep Chickens was stamped out on my white 2" x 2" squares, and coloured with Prismacolor coloured pencils.  Using my blending brushes, I blended a coordinating ink around the edges.  These brushes are the bomb!  Not only for the flawless blending results but in price.  These brushes sell for double the cost on many websites.

My small strip was heat embossed in gold using Chicken Wire 2.  Adhere that strip to the card front.  From the bottom of the strip, to the bottom of the yellow outside edge, is 1".

Turn your tab strip over and adhere your first image just a little to the right of the score line.  If you put it right on the score line, the waterfall will not be as effective.

Add your second image just to the right of the score line.

Add your third image just to the right of the score line.

Using glue dots or Redline tape, add your strong adhesive to the top of the long strip on the underside of the long strip where I added my 2" squares.  WARNING:  A strong adhesive has to be used, or this waterfall technique will fall apart and not work.  Tape runner is not strong enough.

Taking the strip in hand, draw upwards and press the edge where you added strong adhesive, down on the right hand side of your strip (here it is where I stamped Chicken Wire 2).

Your waterfall card is now ready to use.  Have fun!!

Put Your Tail in the Air

Happy Monday! 

I have a card to share today using Tail in the Air from the April release. 

Isn't he cute?

Did you hear about the Technique Junkies #WWDB challenge?

  The theme this week is Thank You. 

Full details about the challenge, how you can join, and be eligible to win one of four $50 gift certificates (one for each week of the four week challenge), can be found on Pat's post HERE.   

Tail in the Air

Hope you enjoyed my project!

Thank You Bouquet

Hello!  Lynda Joy here, with a card featuring a lovely bouquet stamp from the April release.  

Technique Junkies stamps:
Milk Bottle Bouquet 
You're In My Prayers 

I stamped the bouquet onto white card stock, and lightly stenciled a background with a stencil from my stash.

I white embossed the verse, and added it with foam tape, layered the pieces, and added to a pink A2 card front.  

Inside:

I hand wrote the thank you verse.

I am using this card for my day three card for the Technique Junkies WWDB challenge.  The theme this week is Thank you, and I know the perfect mail person (our is a lovely young lady) who deserves a big thank you!

Full details about this challenge, how you can join, and be eligible to win one of four $50 gift certificates (one for each week of the four week challenge), can be found on Pat's post HERE.   

And here is the card with my matching envelope:

 
Don't forget to use my code, TJ10Lynda, for 10% off your entire purchase at the Technique Junkies store!

Thanks for your lovely comments!

Blessings,

Mother's Day Bouquet

Hello everyone. 

It's Ceal, here to share a card with you today featuring the Milk Bottle Bouquet. It's from the April release and its perfect for a Thinking of you, Get Well or Mother's day card. 

You can save 10% on this stamp and your entire order by using my code TJ10Ceal at the checkout. 

To create this card I started with a white top folding card and repeatedly stamped the greeting Happy Mother's Day in a soft gray for the background. 

I stamped the bouquet image on a piece of white cardstock and colored it using Copic markers, and then cut it out and added a thin black mat to it. 

TJ Inkspiration: What We Do Best (and a video)

With the ongoing stay-at-home orders across our nation, it is imperative that all of us do our best whatever our personal situation. For some, it means working from home; others are home schooling, and even more are essential workers going into work outside of the home. As papercrafters, we need to do OUR part and contribute our talents the best we can. So this week, I am thrilled to announce a new challenge: What We Do Best (WWDB). Our challenge will run for four weeks starting today, with each of the four weeks featuring a different theme. Each week, you can make one or more cards with envelopes using Technique Junkies stamps within a weekly theme. Simply post them to the Technique Junkies FaceBook group OR email them directly to me.   Each week, one of the challenge cards will be selected RANDOMLY and will win a $50.00 gift certificate to the Technique Junkies online store!   That is $50.00 PER WEEK that we will be giving away with this challenge! Here are the "rules" and the themes: 1. Create a card using Technique Junkies Stamps or Foils. Please, no other companies' stamps on your creations. Dies, stencils and other embellishments are welcomed, but kindly remember that it is a company-sponsored challenge. 2. You must include a decorated envelope with your card entry. 3. Email your card to phuntoon@optonline.net OR post to the Technique Junkies Facebook Group with the following hashtag: #WWDB.  4. You may post a different card every day. Cards that have been posted to the Technique Junkies FaceBook group prior to the start of the challenge may not be used in this challenge. Each card posted must be made by the poster and only be posted once during the contest. 5. One submitted entry (card) will be selected randomly at the end of the week, and a $50.00 gift certificate winner will be announced on this email and to the FaceBook group on the following Friday. Here are the themes: Week One: 4/17 - 4/23: Thank you card: Thank a nurse, doctor, police officer, first responder, mailman, store clerk or other essential worker. Entries MUST include a decorated envelope. We don't just want to make cards, we want to send them out! Week Two: 4/24 - 4/30 Get Well Card: Must also include a decorated envelope. Week Three: 5/1 - 5/7: Thinking of you card: Think shut-ins and other people struggling with the situation. Again, you need to include a decorated envelope. Week Four 5/8 - 5/14 Encouragement card: Pretty broad spectrum here - but inspiration, thinking of you, thank you, all encompassed here, too. Again, an envelope is necessary. I can't wait to see what you make! I would never challenge you and not play along! Today I have a pretty Cherry Blossom Thank you Card using Aladine Pigment Inks to paint the blossoms.  I have a little tutorial for you, too!  First, here is my card: Liquid Ink Colored Cherry Blossoms And I loved coloring the Cherry Blossoms so much that I decorated the inside, too! I am planning on sending my card to a very special nurse I know! Okay, now for the fun part! Watch as I paint with the pretty Liquid Pigment Inks:  Liquid Pigment Ink Painting

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

April 16, 2020

Hi there!

It's my day to post on the Technique Junkies Design blog, and I wanted to share a card using one of the April new release stamps, 'Tail in the Air'. 

Isn't he just the cutest ever? I actually stamped this image first on the white focal panel, then on patterned paper, fussy cutting it. I adhered the image with dimensional foam dots, and decided it needed more dimention, so stamped once more and popped up just the head.

The Ribbon Tab Border Technique from the December 2012/January 2013 issue of the Technique Junkies Newsletter was used to give this cute dude a bit of sass!

Don't forget!!! You can always 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 stamps this month! 

Thanks for stopping by,

Patti J.

Just Keep Swimming

These times are unique. Something future generations will study in their history lessons. We are all in this together, though, so I have a message for everyone: Just Keep Swimming. Things will get better.

That message inspired the card I have to share with you today. Just Keep Swimming is one of my favorite stamps sets and I always break out a smile when I use it.  I paired it with a newer stamp called Raining Confetti. To me, it reminded me of the bubbles in the ocean. What do you think? Fun, right?

To create the card, I started with a piece of white cardstock cut slightly smaller than an A2 card (4.25" x 5.5"). I stamped Raining Confetti using Versamark Ink, then embossed it with white embossing powder. Using the TJ Ink Blending Brushes, I used four shades of blue and created an ombre effect, with the lightest color at the top to the darkest color at the bottom. 

On a separate piece of cardstock, I stamped the Just Keep Swimming stamp in black ink, then cut apart the pieces. (I admit, I'm not a fussy cutting fan so I used my Brother Scan-N-Cut to do the job for me. Shhh! Don't tell!)

I used colored pencils to color in the fish I chose to use, then a gamsol loaded marker to blend the colors. A little glossy accent on the eyes finished off the adorable fish faces.

All the elements were then adhered to my bubble background. That piece was then adhered to my A2 card base. Using a glitter marker from the Kaisercraft Gel Pen Set (I absolutely adore this set and use it every chance I get!), I added a border.

And there you have it! A super fun card with a super applicable message. JUST KEEP SWIMMING.

If you like the products I used today, save 10% with your order by entering the code "TJ10Ro" at checkout. That code never expires!

RAINING CONFETTI

JUST KEEP SWIMMING

We will all get through this together. For me, crafting is my boredom buster and my therapist. Hopefully, you have gotten a little inspiration today. 

Stay safe, everyone!

Til next time,
Keepin' it inky!