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Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

 Hi!!!!!

Welcome to the Coffee Lovers' Blog Hop!

Today I am showcasing the wonderful Coffee Girl and I paired her with a sentiment from Coffee Quotes, set of 12. I used macchiato ink with the ACLD Coffee Beans stencil for the background. My girl was done up in oranges, browns and yellow using Zigg watercolor brush markers and die cut with a fancy die. Macchiato was sponged around the edges. Some fun ribbon used to finish it off.

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You should definitely participate in the hop as there are fabulous prizes!!!

Pam

It's Your Day !!

Deb here and for my post today, I'm using stamps from the September Release.  A friend of mine has a son who turns 16 on Halloween and I made this card for him... I didn't want it to be too "girly" so I toned down the colors.

• I stamped Halloween Background on white cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.
• The stamped panel was trimmed and then matted with a piece of blue-gray cardstock.
• I colored the stamped image with my COPIC markers.
• A piece of orange striped patterned paper was adhered to a Kraft card base.
• The sentiment - It's Your Day - was stamped on white cardstock with Memento Love Letter ink. It is from the Bold Birthday Wishes set of 9 sentiments - also from the September Release.
• After adhering the Halloween panel to the card front, I placed the sentiment in the lower right corner.
• Several colored rhinestones were paced on the sentiment and the stamped panel.

I hope you like this card as much as I do  - it was fun creating it .. Thank you for stopping by. Check out the stamps I used on this card along with the October Release .You can save 10% on your purchases with my code - TJ10Deb . It's time to get started on your holiday stamping !!I hope you are enjoying some beautiful Autumn weather wherever you are . I'll be back soon with more creativity !!

                     Happy Winter Wishes

Can you believe it’s time to start on holiday and winter cards?  I’m one of those people that get started late. I’m working on fixing that!

This card was made using the Happy Winter Wishes set of 3 and the Zen trees background stamp. 

I took a look at the color wheel and decided on the split complimentary colors:

1) Blue-green (peacock)

2) Yellow-Green (Lime)

3) Red

The one thing I did different than a regular layered card is before I glued down the background piece with the zen trees - I cut up from the bottom on the left side.  I simply followed the side of the tree and cut to where I needed.  I thought tucking the layered front piece behind one of the zen trees gave this a little something extra.  I hope you’ll give it a try.

If you decide to go shopping be sure to use discount code TJ10AJ to save 10% off of your purchases.

Happy Stamping!

~ AJ

Sweet Halloween Wishes

Happy (almost) Halloween Junkies!

One of my favorite things about Halloween it giver us freedom to use colors that we might normally shy away from like florescent orange, green, or yellow.   In truth, we probably don't have a lot of use for those in our everyday crafting.   I'm not going to lie... I was a little exciting to sit down and have a play with this neglected colors.   To enhance the brightness of the end result.  I went over the white background with a light grey to dull it a bit.  I think it helped make the brights look brighter. 

Materials:

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Halloween Background

Paper:

card stock from stampin up

Ink:

Versa clair: Amazon

Other:

Bearly Art Glue:(detail glue)

Tacky Glue

I used watercolors to color this background

Ornaments Aglow

Hello. Jeanette here. I'm so excited to be here, sharing another Christmas card made using a background stamp from the most recent release at Technique Junkies. 

The stamp is called Doodle Ornaments - check it out HERE. This truly is one of my favorite stamps in this release. 

I used two panels of the image, one in its entirety which I blended yellow ink into the center. The other one I colored three of the ornaments and then fussy cut them. I used foam dots to raise the colored ornaments up off of the other panel.

Thanks for stopping by today!

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If you'd like to see other cards I've made using Technique Junkies stamps/products, you'll find them on my blog - HERE.

Happy Hedgehog

    Hedgehog and Beauty are not two words that are usually paired, but who couldn't love this spiny fellow?!  I stamped him in Early Espresso on Crumb Cake cardstock and added some white gel pen accents, especially to his quills.  I masked him and added Worn Leaves as a background and superimposed the sentiment from the Contemporary Inspiration set.  Good advice, and GREAT stamps to own!  Get them all at TechniqueJunkies.com and use my code TJ10FAITH for 10% off your order!