30 Days of Christmas - Day 20, with a "two-fer"

Hi! Ro Donner here  -- glad to see you back here for the 30 Days of Christmas! Don't forget to load up on your Christmas stamps during the sale and receive 25% off at checkout!

Today we have two posts -- the one you are reading today, Day 20 - and we also have a guest blogger, Lydia Fiedler, of Understand Blue fame, who has a great Christmas Mug Shot piece to show you! After you read this, hop on over to her blog to see her wonderful kitty!

Today's card features an atypical kind of background, which makes the card very whimsical.

Supplies Used:

• Technique Junkies Stamps:  Christmas Trees - Set of 6 (#SS045) and Magic of Christmas (#SD428)
• White A2 Card Base
• Dotted Design Paper
• White Cardstock
• Versamark Ink
• Green and Blue Embossing Powder
• Heat Gun
• Glue
• Embossing Tape

Build It:

• Trim a piece of dotted design paper to slightly smaller than the A2 card and attach to card base.
• Using Versafine Ink and green embossing powder, stamp and emboss two of the Christmas Trees from the set on white cardstock. Trim down the cardstock to the width of the dotted paper, trimming around the trees, and trimming off the bottom so the top of the threes are about 2/3 from the top of the card.
• Cut two more panels for the front layers of "snow".
• On the smallest panel, stamp and emboss the sentiment.
• Attach all layers to the card base using foam tape.

Hope you're inspired by today's card. Be sure to come back tomorrow and see what's new!

Til next time,

Keepin' It Inky.

All is Calm on the 19th day of Christmas

Hello All Lanette Here!

Welcome to day 19th day of our 30 days of Christmas Celebration! I hope that we are inspiring you with lots of Christmas Cheer!

To day I wanted to share a tag that I created using a couple of our fabulous Christmas stamps.

Products Used: Technique Junkies Hillside Pines & All is Calm Stamps, Lindys Stamp Gang Mist, Creative Embellishments Chipboard Snowflakes, Prima Beads, Embossing Powder, Thread, Bo Bunny Pattern Paper, White acrylic paint and a touch of Bling.

Here is a closer look at the stamps I used today...



Hillside Pines

All is Calm

Thank you so much for stopping by today! 

I hope that I have inspired you in some way!

Day 18 - Christmas with an old friend...

Today is day 18 of the 30 Days of Christmas, and I decided to spend it with an old friend.

My old friend is my K-pads! I haven't pulled out Kaleidacolor ink pads in a lonnnnggggg time, but sometimes we just need to reconnect with old friends. Remember how colorful and easy they are to use?

Kaleidacolor pads have always been special to me. My first introduction to stamping involved a K-pad, glossy paper, and a brayer...I have been hooked on stamping every since.

One of the best things about K-pads is their ease of use. They are perfect for Christmas cards -- a fast, easy colorful way to make your cards. I have three different examples here for you -- I have they inspire you to revisit with YOUR old k-pad friends!

And don't forget..ALL stamps in the Christmas category are 25% off through December 14th. Simply place any Christmas stamp in your shopping cart and the 25% discount will be automatically applied to your purchase. No coupon codes required!

Snowflakes in Blues and Greens

Our first look is a study of blues and greens on plain white. Using a brayer, the color was inked over the Snow Swirls background. I used my MISTI - it allowed me to stamp over the areas that didn't stamp as well (um, remember that I said these were OLD friends? They really needed to be reinked!).

 To finish the piece, I added glitter over some of the snowflakes, and Glossy White Nuvo Crystal Drops in the insides of the snowflakes.   The Snowflakes Fall stamp and a trio of punched snowflakes finish the piece.

Desert Heat Foliage

This piece was really out of my comfort zone. The combination of the orange/red background with the green, yellow and glittered foliage made me question my color sense the entire time! When I finished coloring all the the foliage, I realized it really DOES work.

Desert Heat K-Pad was brayered over the Winter Foliage stamp, and the inside foliage was colored with glitter pens.

To make the focal image, the K-pad was brayered over a white piece, then the  Wonderful World sentiment was stamped. Note that I stamped the sentiment with the color turned in the opposite direction from the base piece.

Creole Spice Dove

This was the simplest card of the lot. The Creole Spice Kaleidacolor pad was brayered over the Peace on Earth Dove. Then I simply added Diamond Glaze (i.e. Crystal Effects/Glassy Glaze) over the dove portion. A little matting - and it was done!

I hope you were inspired to bring out YOUR old K-Pad friends! 
Warmest Wishes,
Pat Huntoon

Peace on Earth Day 17 of the 30 Days of Christmas

Good morning Junkies and welcome back for Day 17 of our 30 Days of Christmas! We are over halfway there! Pam here today to share a creative project using some fun "wintry" Technique Junkies stamps.

For today's project I am using the background stamp Star Power in a non-traditional way and the Snowflakes stamp set to make my background. 

The background was created using a stencil mono print with Distress ink and Tim Holtz's Stencil Stripes.  Atop that I stamped a few of the different TJ snowflake stamps in various shades of blue to create the full background effect. 

For the snowflake I used the Background stamp Star power and stamped it onto white card stock with white acrylic paint to create a resist. Over top I applied various colors of blue Distress inks and then used this background sheet to cut out the Tim Holtz Layered snowflake die cut. Such a fun and different use of a stamp and no patterned paper required for this die-cut!

The Peace on Earth sentiment was cut from white card stock using a Tim Holtz thinlits die.  A bit of Wink of Stella was applied to both the snowflake and the sentiment pieces to make them pop.

Thanks for joining me today and I also have another TJ showcase on my blog today so be sure to check it out - journeyawakensthesoul.blogspot.com.

Embrace Imperfection!

Pam 

Welcome to Day 16 of the 30 Days of Christmas!

Welcome back, Inky Friends. It's Ro back to share with you the Technique Junkies Design Team 30 Days of Christmas! Remember, you will receive a 25% discount on all Christmas Stamps until December 15, 2016. The discount will be reflected at check-out.

For today's card, I used one of my favorite background stamps along with one of my favorite color combinations.

Supplies:

• Technique Junkies Stamps:  All Is Calm (#SDX079) and Pinecones (#S673)
• White A2 Card Base
• Red and Black Cardstock
• White Embossing Powder
• Red Striped Twine
• Oval and Oval Scalloped Dies
• Versafine Stamp Pad
• MISTI Stamping Tool
• Heat Gun
• Glue/Tape

Build It:

• On black cardstock, stamp the Pinecone stamp with Versafine Ink. On separate piece of black cardstock, stamp the All Is Calm sentiment with Versafine Ink. Using white embossing powder, heat set both images.
• Trim down the pinecone background and mount to a piece of red cardstock cut slightly bigger than the pinecone panel.
• Using an oval die, cut out the sentiment. Then cut out a red piece of cardstock using a scalloped oval die. Attach the two pieces together.
• Wrap twine three times around matted pinecone panel, staggering where the string overlaps, and secure on the back of the panel.
• Attach the panel onto card base. Then attach sentiment panel onto front of card.

This card is very quick and easy, yet leaves a very striking impression. Using the MISTI, it would be a cinch to mass produce a card such this.

Come back tomorrow for Day 17!!

Til next time,

Keepin' It Inky!

A CHRISTMAS COW JOINS THE 30 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS PARTY

Hello Junkies!!!  It's almost Christmas and I'm here celebrating 30 Days of Christmas with you and my 'bovine' party animal!!!  The celebration goes until December 14.

I used my artistic license to transform the giraffe in this "Safari Santa" stamp 

into a cow!  As a matter of fact, a holstein cow.  I'm sure it was sketched and designed to be a giraffe due to the title, so I hope I don't insult the artist.  I just couldn't help myself.  We live on a farm, and while we don't have livestock (including cows) of our own, each summer my husband's cousin uses our farmland to graze some if his holsteins.  So, I saw a cow in this stamp.  

I used Copic Markers to color this entire image, including the blue sky background.  I don't know if the photo shows the Wink of Stella highlights I put on the hat and furry cuff, but it really gives it a gimmery touch.  After framing it with brushed gold cs using a stitched square frame die, both are from MFT, I mounted that layer on a barn red cs layer I'd embossed to look like a barn.  I then punched out some snowflakes and stars in glitter paper to add as random embellishments.  The sentiment is Merry Christmas 2, which was stamped in VersaMark and then heart embossed with white ep.  

I hope you're finding as much inspiration from the 30 Days of Christmas as I am. And don't miss the 25% off all Christmas Stamps from now until December 14.  

Thanks for stopping by.

Day 14 of 30 Days of Christmas

There is nothing quite like silver and gold that speaks of Christmas to me -- and I suspect to most people.  I chose this lovely card stock color for this card.

Lest you think that Design Team member never mess up on cards -- let me change  your mind!  I "knew" that embossing powder often spread and I knew therefore you can have difficulty getting words to emboss and look good.  That is especially true if the font is small and close together.  I just didn't think that these words were in such a small font, but oh yes they are!  I had stamped them in Versamark and then covered with silver embossing powder.  Oh, it was bad!   I evidently do not have "detail" silver embossing powder!  The words were a total mess.  So I had to start over.

The second time I used Stazon silver metallic ink.  The problem with that ink is that it dries very quickly so you must get the stamp die covered and stamped quickly.  That took me several tries to get a successful image stamped. Then I cleaned it right away with Stazon cleaner.  This ink doesn't come off easily even with Stazon cleaner.  

I am using Technique Junkie Peace on Earth Dove - http://techniquejunkies.com/peace-on-earth-dove/.  Next I reinked with Versamark the area around the dove and the larger block words in the bottom right corner. I covered the ink with detail gold embossing powder and heart embossed.   Then I  "fussy cut" out the dove and used dimensional to pop it up. I did the same the block words at the bottom. 

I layered it on gold and then on the burgundy card stock to complete the card.  

Don't forget all Technique Junkie Christmas stamps are on sale 25% through December 15.

Now to finish the rest of my cards, get presents wrapped and under the tree, and start on Christmas baking!  -- Have a great day and get inky.

Judy Jackson