Technique of the Week - Tissued Watercolors

Hi Junkies, Tricia here again with this week's technique of the week.  Hopefully you kept your tissue from last weeks technique of the week because we challenge you to use it for this week's technique of the week - Tissued Watercolors.  I actually used 2 different pieces to make this background.

Stamps:  Gina K Designs (colored it with copics)

I hope you have a crafty day!

Throwback Saturday - Double Emboss & Cut

I made this card for my girlfriends daughter who graduated college.  I used my copics to color her dress and to color my flowers to match.  The background is done with the Double Emboss and Cut technique from the October 2011.  I love this technique...it gives such a great effect to your spellbinder die cuts.  I have to remember to use it more.

All papers are from Gina K Designs.  I used my various dies.  I quilled the roses and lilies.  Stamps are from Saturated Canary, Stampin Up! and Gina K Designs.

Pop on over to my blog for more pictures.  www.thepassionatestamper.blogspot.com

Have A Crafty Day!

Tricia

Crinkled Retirement

Hi, Bloggers!  Ann Clack here with the Technique of the week, Crinkled Watercolors with a little Out of the Box technique as well.    The Crinkled Watercolors was such a fun technique!  It is fast and easy.  If you haven't had a chance to try it yet, don't delay!  I made this card for a friend who retired.  I hope that you enjoy! 

Crinkled Watercolors by Judy Jackson

 I hope you had a wonderful July 4th celebrating freedom in the USA -- that is if you are an American.

The technique I have to show you today is called Crinkled Watercolors from the current newsletter.  This technique is one of those when in utilizing this technique you will actually create TWO backgrounds.  That is always a plus in book! So this week I will show two cards made from this part of the "doubled technique."  Next week I will show you the next cards made from the "left overs" of today's technique.  I hope that intrigues you!

The stamp credits for this card are Hero Arts, and I think some are from Stampsmith.  However, they are unmounted stamps I do not remember who made them. The "Everything has a story" stamp is from Impression Obsession.  

The stamp credits for this card are Paper Bag Studios, Stampers Anonymous, and Impression Obsession.  This focal image started it's existence as an ATC for a swap.

Come back next week  to see the next two cards from the "left over" part from this technique!

What are you creating today?

Judy Jackson

Gesso Off

 

This technique is from the 10/2009 newsletter. I am having fun going back into the archives so to speak and trying the techniques that I have long forgotten

 

 

This card was really a joy to make as it comes to life as you go along.

The stamps used are from Sizzix, PSX and Technique Junkies.

 

It appears that I need to clean the glass on my scanner, LOL! I haven't had use of my desktop in several days. We are having some serious dust storms which they have recently named haboobs. I didn't think I was going to be able to post my card at all. I gave it one last try before going to bed and got lucky.

 

I hope you find some inspiration here and try some of the oldies but goodies.

I will be back next week with the TOTW.

 

Wishing you all well,

Jackie K



TOTW - Crinkled Watercolors

Hi Junkies, its that time again, the Technique of the Week.  I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.  I love being able to try all the techniques and I really anticipate who will join in each week with their lovely creations.

This week we are featuring "Crinkled Watercolors".  This fast became one of my favorites and I know it will be one that I continue to use...maybe in some Christmas card (which I need to start soon) LOL...Maybe a Christmas in July will come to Try That Technique...who knows...stay tuned.

Well I digress...here is this weeks card.  My mom needed a card for my cousins wedding last weekend so I colored up this sweet image from Stampin Up!  My cousin and his new wife love to ride and they are not frilly people so I thought this CAS card would do the trick.  I colored the image with copics and watercolored the background with my copic refills to match my background.

The sentiment is from Stampabilities and is cut out using a spellbinders die.  I added a little flair with a stencil and my airbrush (which I believe is another TJ Newsletter technique :))

Well that's all for me. Hope you have a crafty week!

Embossed Color Pencils by Judy Jackson

I love to water color. I love to watercolor with lots of different mediums.  In fact, using watercolor pencils was how I was first introduced to stamping.  Bingo, it was an immediate love!  And back then I was taught to use a damp Q-tip to dampen the color from the watercolor pencils and in that way to spread the color around. So primitive and yet it caught my eye!  Watercolor pencils are just a very easy way to learn how to watercolor.  And a good water brush is essential for this -- although you just might get hooked using a Q-tip! 

This technique, Embossed Color Pencils, from the current newsletter  is just about perfect to enhance the look of watercolor pencils, regular colored pencils, Prisma color pencils, or any other color pencils you might have.  For each of the cards I have to share with you, only a portion of the colored image is embossed.  Unfortunately, these embossed sections don't show up very well in the scans.

I have four cards to share with you  -  see if you can tell which part is embossed.  I will tell you at the end of my post which parts are embossed.  See if you can guess correctly.

All images are from Sweet and Sassy Stamps.  Can you tell which parts are embossed?

The focal image stamp is from Stampin' Up. Can you tell which part is embossed?

Stamp credits go to Stampin' Up and Inkadinkadoo. This one is a Father's Day card.  I realize I am sharing this after Father's Day but I did not want dear hubby to accidentally see this post first.  It would also make a wonderful birthday card. Can you tell which part is embossed?

Stamp credits belong to Stampin' Up and Technique Junkie Stamps - http://www.stampcamp.com/quotationsets2.html . http://www.stampcamp.com/quotationsets2.html.  I also used the Antique Glimmers technique on the paper behind the focal image.

Have you used your colored pencils in a while? If not, now is a good time to use them!  I really like taking stamping images, watercolor pencils, and a good water brush with me when I travel.  So if I have "down time" - waiting time in a airport or on a plane - I can still be productive.   Then I have a bunch of focal images ready to be used -- or put in my "card parts" drawer!

Will you be getting inky today?

Judy Jackson

Card parts which were embossed:
1. The bridge and the rocks are embossed
2. The pitcher and the pears are embossed
3. The truck body but not the windows or the tires is embossed
4. Only the flowers are embossed, not the leaves