January Love - 2 Cards

Today I am sharing 2 Valentines I made for some of my grandchildren  - I have 8!  I am using the new Valentine Heart Border to create my cards for my grandchildren.  So you see this border stamp from time to time this month.    I used markers on the heart border.  I had the stamp in my stamping platform  and it made it easy to assembly line fashion stamp the border on every panel for the fronts of the cards.  I was also able to add more ink and stamp over the image in exactly the same place until I was satisfied with the stamped image.

For the above card I also used Life Complete.  For the card below I used Love Harlequin for the background.  I also used Life Complete for the focal greeting.  It is bordered by red glitter paper.  

Technique Junkies has a lot of Valentine stamps.  Many are good for grandchildren and many are good for the "love of your life."  So if you have  not begun your Valentines - please take a look!  

 Now, please remember you can get 25% off if you want all of the new January stamps and you can click on this link to see that! But if your budget is such you can't get them all, choose your favorites and be sure to buy them through January 8 and you will get an automatic 15% off! Then you can gain another 10% off by using the code TJ10Judy.

Have a great day, and be sure to take some time and get inky!!

Chill Skates

 

Hi Junkies!  It's Holly posting today.  Did you see the new January 2021 release stamps from Technique Junkies on Friday?  Aren't they fabulous??  I'm using another one of those new stamps today.  This Skating background stamp is gorgeous, and I had fun playing around with it.  For this card, I randomly dabbed some Wilted Violet and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide inks all over the Skating stamp.  Then I used my brayer to blend the inks and spread them out to the edges.  That's how you get all those different variations of color all over the background stamp.  I love how the edges seem a little frosty.  The sentiment is from the Let's Chill set and I stamped it with the Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink and cut it out with a circle die.

All of the January 2021 release stamps are on sale until January 8.  Be sure to use my code, TJ10Holly, for an additional 10% off for a total of 25% off all of the new release stamps.  Have fun shopping!

 

TJ January 2021 New Release and discount!

Happy New Year from all of us at Technique Junkies! Many warm wishes for a safe, healthy and prosperous 2021. 

Today is the 1st of the month, and we have a new stamp release for you! Our release features 14 new stamps full of fun! As usual, you can pick your favorites from the January 2021 New Stamp Category for 15% off through January 8th 2021, too.

Our design team has come together to highlight their favorites and inspire you. A list of participating designers with links to their artwork is below. Check out their work! It is wonderful, as usual.

Here is a peek at what the new release holds:

Did you know that you can get the entire bundle of stamps for only $94.80? Normally $126.80 - save $31.60! Get the Bundle HERE.

Ready for some inspiration?

First, I used the Skating Background with the newest Inside Out Set: I Love Snow and the Small Snowflakes Set:

Next, the It Takes a Village Stamp:

And my personal favorite from the new Release - Paris Winter Watercolors:

And this from Nancy May - using the new Dogs Books and Coffee Stamp:

Ready for more? Here are the links to all of the designers:

TJ Blog (You are Here) Ro Donner

Holly Brown Lynda Pleckan Patti Gilliam Beth Norman-Roberts Pat Huntoon Judy Jackson

Thanks for stopping by today! Make sure to pick up your favorites and save 15% by January 8th.

Pat Huntoon

Happy Birthday

Hello fellow stampers!  Who says you have to use Gnome for Christmas, just for Christmas.  Stretch your imagination and think of other ways you can use your stamps.  Gnome for Christmas is a set that can easily be used for other occasions.  It's like getting two sets of stamps for the price of one.

Back in October, this card was sent to Pat Huntoon for her birthday.  The gnome was coloured with Prismacolor pencil crayons and OMS.  

Take a look at your stamps and see how you can stretch them out.  You'll surprise yourself!

 

Create Joy

Greetings!  Lynda Joy here, with the blog post for today.  My card features one of my favorite collage stamps in the TJ line, and one of my favorite background techniques.

TJ Stamps Links:

Big Butterfly Collage 

Create Joy 

 

How I made my card:

• 
  I created a background on coated card stock, using a rainbow stamp
  pad and an acrylic brayer.  To do this, I ran the acrylic brayer along the stamp pad several times to really coat it with ink, then ran it onto the paper panel several times.  
• I repeated until I achieved the desired effects.  Because the brayer is acrylic, not rubber, it skips and drags in spots along the panel, which creates the unique look of the background.  The paper is coated and very smooth and similar to photo paper, without the shine.  Paper is key to this technique.  I have done it with glossy paper, and the look is similar, but with a high gloss finish.
  
• I black embossed the Big Butterfly Collage onto the background panel, then attached it to an A2 card front.
• On a small scrap of the panel, I black embossed the Create Joy  verse, and added that to the card with foam tape.

When I create backgrounds with a specific technique, I usually like to create several, since I have all the supplies out.  That way, when I need a card, I can just use one of the pre-made backgrounds, and stamp on it.  It makes for an easy, quick card.  And these collage stamps are perfect for this technique.

 

Thanks so much for visiting.  See you on Friday with the January release
samples.  Here's my code, TJ10Lynda for a 10% discount at the TJ store.

 

Blessings,

 

Good friends

hello Everyone!

It's Ceal, here to share a card using one of my favorite Technique Junkies sets.  There are two things I love to use on a card and they are butterflies and snowflakes.  I used the Snowflakes set of 9. This set has six beautiful snowflakes and 3 sentiments, one of  which i didn't used that says a snowflake is winter's butterfly. 

You can save 10% on this set and your entire order by using my code TJ10

 

For complete details on how I made this card head over to my blog, Simply Beautiful. 

Warmest Holiday Wishes

Hi there, and Merry Christmas Eve from all of us at Technique Junkies!

It's my day to share with you here, and I'd like to feature a fun card that I created, using Gnomies Forever , Christmas Tree Sextuplet, and a sentiment from Gnome for Christmas.

This is a box card, and seemed like a perfect fit for these sweet gnomes! Using Copic markers, the images  were colored for Christmas. I found some buffalo check designer paper on Etsy, and printed out what I needed for the box. Someone VERY special received this for Christmas!

Here is a photo of the trees and their background, which was created with some Distress Oxide Inks, Ink Blending Brushes, and the Cloud Edger Stencil. If you don't have this stencil, you really need it! Be sure to watch Pat Huntoon's videos - she even has one that uses the stencil to do camouflage!

Here's a shot showing the card folded flat for mailing. (Due to the overhang of the tree, this will be mailed in a larger than A2 envelope).

Technique Junkies products make such beautiful cards!  

So glad you stopped by today!

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

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.