Another Side Step Christmas Card

Hello TJer's!! Kathie McGuire here on your stamping Saturday with ANOTHER Side Step card. Why so many posts from me using this same technique??? It's one of my favorite techniques of all times...and so I used it for Christmas cards this year. Hence, the seemingly never-ending collection (I'm nearing the end, though).

I want to mention in this post that my Christmas cards were made almost entirely from scraps and bits and pieces and odds and ends from my craft room "stash". The Side Step card is just perfect for helping you use what you've got among your stamping supplies. Remember that you can still purchase the fabulous Fancy Folds and Motion CD from Technique Junkies. Not only does it have a great tutorial for this card, but dozens and dozens and dozens (and probably more than that!) of other great projects!!

The Christmas tree is from Stampin' Up! and I'm unsure of the sentiment. I added some stickles to the pre-printed base and a decorative snowflake button to the ribbon. Fun and easy!

Hope you've enjoyed the project and thanks for stopping by!

Good morning stampers. This is Beth Norman posting for the Try That Technique challenge. This week's challenge is Mini Kissing from the 2008 CD and is a bonus technique. This technique is a lot of fun and so easy to do.

Each week a winning card is selected to be on the Technique Junkie homepage for a week. How can you win? Simply submit a card, using the Mini Kissing technique, and post it to our Yahoo group. It's that simple.

Congratulations to Juliet Arrighi. She is the winner for the Level Up technique from the August 2010 issue. Juliet, your card is now on our Yahoo Group home page.

A little millefiori in the morning...

Millefiori is so easy! My "million flowers" card uses all smARTworks stamps. The technique is from the February 2011 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter.  Isn't it cheerful? 

Have a great day!

Glimmered Texture Valentine by Judy Jackson

A lovely Valentine given to my hubby - thus I waited to post this until after he had opened it.. The musical score was embossed and highlighted to create a subtle background for my Valentine. the heart is embossed and then painted with Twinkling H2Os. An antique button, some gilded red ribbon, gold cording, some lace, and pearls add the perfect accents for a Valentine card.

Red card stock layered with gold card stock provide the base for the card.

Celebrating Valentine's Day with those we love is so important! Hoping your day was great!

Judy Jackson

Distressed Color Block Kids by Judy Jackson

Two shades of blue Distress Ink were used to create this focal image. The girls stamp is from Smartworks. I distress a scrap of background paper to place under the focal image. Metallic bronze text weight paper (available from Paper Temptress) provides a border around the focal image and the flourish. I also used the Neutral Shadows technique on the swirl peaking out from the focal image. A tiny bit of lace and some "bling" finish off the card.

I sure hope you are staying warm on this Valentine's Day.

Be creative today!

Judy Jackson

Hammered Hardware

Hello, Junkies...Donna here.  I'm sorry to be a little late posting today, but sometimes the plan just doesn't come together.  I'm sure you know what I mean.  I sat down yesterday to make a card for today's post and nothing seemed to work out.  Colors didn't work together, techniques came out less than perfect (gasp!), and my designs fell flat.  So what did I do?  I set everything down and stepped away from my table.  Today, I went back in there and finished up the very same card I had been working on yesterday with no problems.  Go figure!

So here's my card, better late than never.  The technique I chose to highlight this time is Hammered Hardware from the Dec 2006 newsletter.  Instead of hardware, though, I made a hammered frame.  It doesn't show up as well in my photo, but in real life, the gold frame is nicely dented and distressed.  The technique called for Ranger Perfect Ink Refresher, which I didn't have so I used a two-way glue pen instead.  It worked out well but I think my Perfect Pearls stuck more than they would have with the Ink Refresher.  No matter--I still love the way this looks and will do it again for sure.

The stamps I used on this are brand new from Starving Artistamps.

 

Until next time,

Hetty's Valentine Goodie Box

How about this Goodie Box for your Valentine?

It is a new tutorial from the latest TJ newsletter and

 it is the one that is not in your newletter

 but a special one that you can find online

 if you are a member of the Technique Junkies.

You can find the tutorial here:

http://www.techniquejunkies.com/tutorials_artwork/0211/goodie-box-tutorial.html

You can think of different goodies inside the box.

If your love lights up your live,

you can add candles, maybe scented ones.

and there is a pocket for your message too!

Stamps and sentiments are all by Club Scrap.

As you see here the candles in the box

can be replaced by chocolate (see below),

which is more what my DH loves.

If you add a accetate window to the opening

of the box, you can add anything you want.

Of course this is not only a gift idea for Valentine,

how about Easter eggs in the box,

a birthday present,

candles for Christmas

wedding candies

little baby socks fit perfectly

well......this is a nice gift box for all

kinds of occasions.

Have a creative day!