TJ Inkspiration: Coffee Stain Background with Distress Oxide Inks

It is incredible to me that we are so close to the end of September.  On Sunday, October 1st, we will be celebrating our monthly stamp release with a blog hop, so I hope you will join us for that. On this Friday, though, I have a short (very short - less than 3 minutes) video showing you how to use Distress Oxide inks and a stencil to create a fun background that mimics coffee cup stains on a piece of wood furniture. We are only using two stamps for this video: Coffee Kitty And on of the sentiments from this set: Typewriter Set Coffee Stained Background This is the simple little card I made using the technique in the video: Simply Framed - Autumn And here is the video tutorial: Coffee Stained Background with Distress Oxide Inks

I hope you are a little inkspired by today's issue. See you next week!   Sincerely,   Pat Huntoon Technique Junkies LLC

Best wishes

Hello friends! Giovana here today sharing with you a holiday card, this sentiment is perfect in case you were late sending Christmas cards, this sentiment will save you!! {wink, wink}

This card was super easy to put together, here I use one of the sentiments from "Gift of Christmas" set.

• For this project you will need a piece of Coastal blue cardstock, Snow acetate and a snowy die-cut (or you can hand cut a snowy hill)

• Stamp the sentiment on the die-cut , then ink all the edges of the little houses with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. 

• Adhere panels on a white card base, add a gold snowflake and your card is done!!

Easy peasy, right?
If you like this sentiment or more stamps , get them HERE, also don't forget to add this code to your shopping cart and get a 10% off (excludes September release)

Hope you like it.

Have a fantastic day!

Foiled Pinecone

Hello, Junkies!

The Crafty Nurse here with some Autumn splendor using gold foiling.  I have a great kit from Indigo Blu, but any sticky glue and foil will do.

Stamps: Pinecone #SD821 and Autumn Set of 6

Supplies: A Colorful Life's "Square Fade Stencil", Delicata Gold Ink, My Favorite Things Flag Die, Flitter Glu, Tricolor foil, Distress Ink.

I love an interesting background and often just try things to see how they work.  The base layer of cardstock is colored using extra Distress ink I "mopped up" from my craft mat using a baby wipe and pouncing it on card stock.  The next layer is the gorgeous Delicata Gold ink on black card stock using the very detailed Autumn Set of 6 set. For the focal image, I started with more of the mopped up ink then over that I stenciled the Square Fade stencil using a light touch and making sure to heat set.  I then stamped the pine cone using Flitterglu and foiled.

We hope to see you in the Facebook group and participating in our monthly challenge over at the Design Team Blog. 

Happy Inking!!

The Crafty Nurse

Hi fellow Junkies.  Beth Norman here with a new-to-me split style of card.  I love the song Amazing Grace and because it is a song, I incorporated Treble Clef, small with Amazing Grace. 

I plan on making more of these in a variety of colours to send to my sister.  She is always after me to give her cards as she uses them all and is almost out of them. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Best Box of Crayons

Happy Monday!

Jeanne here today with a water colored Fall card using the beautiful Autumn Set (set of 6 stamps!). This is such a versatile set. I'm sure I'll be using it year round. 

Use coupon code TJ10Jeanne for a 10% discount!!!

Have a great day!

Jeanne

Stocking up!

Hello Everyone!

Today I thought I would share a couple thank you cards. I Always like to have thank you cards on hand, because usually when you need one you don't have time to make one! :)

So because I am running low I decided I would stock up a bit.  Here you can see three of the cards that I created....

Technique Junkies Stamps Used: Being You & Coral

Technique Junkies Stamps Used: Being You & Seagrass Mat

Technique Junkies Stamps Used: Being You & French Text


I used the same technique for each card.....

First I stamped and matted my verse.

Next I using a large background stamp, I triple stamped the image with 3 different Distress Oxide Inks and Water.

Then I heat embossed the same image with a pearl embossing powder.

Finally I added a bit of twine & bling and my cards are ready to go!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

TJ Inkspirations: Simply Framed Technique Featuring Nuvo Glitter Markers

 Today's tutorial brings back an old favorite from the Technique Junkie Newsletter: Simply Framed.  This is a one-layer (really, a no-layer) technique which is timeless (I published the original technique nearly 10 years ago!). 

To set off the images in the technique, I am using Nuvo Glitter Markers. While I was making the video for this, I got a little carried away with tips...so this video ended up being a little longer than I would like, but trust me, there are some very good tips in it!

Here are the stamps I used in the video:

Autumn, Set of 6

Simply Framed Technique

Here are the finished cards for the technique. The first is the one from the video - far simpler than the second, but I did that so you didn't have to watch me color a thousand leaves:

Note the difference in the doodling around the frame. The first has a ton of doodling, making it more elaborate and whimsical; the second is more elegant with just a hint of doodling.

And here is the video:

Simply Framed Tutorial featuring Nuvo Glitter Markers

I hope you were a little Inkspired by today's video. See you next week!

Pat Huntoon