TJ Inkspirations

This week I have a tutorial on my computer -- but alas, I have no voice. I have a cold that has robbed my voice box of reliable sound. Snce the cold has been with me for a week, I haven't been able to edit the video I had filmed (and trust me, it needs editing!). So instead, today I did something different.  I have a video for you, but I don't talk!  As you may have seen, we had our January 2018 release on Monday, with 15 new stamps. I decided to combine all of the beautiful artwork from the Technique Junkies Design Team in one quick video so that you can see them all in one place, and hopefully get inspired! The work is gorgeous and I hope it stirs your creative muse. I would love to hear your feedback about this video, and whether you would like to see one each month when we release stamps. I want to hear from you! Before I show you the video, note that all of the January 2018 New Release stamps are 15% off through Monday January 8th. Simply add them to your shopping cart and they will be automatically discounted at checkout. Want something that is not in the sale? You can still take 10% off everything else by grabbing a code off of one of the TJ designers blogs (and all of them are listed below). I have also been remiss in introducing the new Technique Junkies Design Team! These ladies are fabulous. I have a link to each of their blogs below. If you have a chance, take a look at their artwork - they are amazing! But first, here is the video showing you the artwork : Technique Junkies New Release Artwork Samles 2018 Technique Junkies Design Team I am so proud to have these ladies on my team. Please click on their names to visit their blogs and to view their fabulous work: Jeanne Streiff, Design Team Manager Janelle Stollfus Lee Ann Barrett Lynda Pleckhan Ceal Pritchett Stephanie Severin Cheri Weston Judy Jackson Ro Donner Beth Norman Giovana Smith Pat Huntoon

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

Birthdays and donuts

Hello friends! Hope you all are having a great day! Giovana here today with a birthday card and much better it this one includes donuts!! This fun stamp is from our brand new release and it's called "Birthdays and donuts"

This card was super easy to make, here are the details:

• Make a card base from white cardstock. A2 size. Top folded.
• Die-cut a couple of background layers in Gold and Ocean Blue Cardstock.
• Stamp image on a piece of cardstock in Jet Black Ink sing your MISTI, clean your stamp without removing it from your MISTI, then ink the stamp in Versamark Watermark and add clear embossing powder, heat set.  (This way your image will be a bit shinier)
• Add color to image, I used Sparkle markers to give a shiny glittery look, sadly the picture didn't catch that.
• Die-cut panel, then adhere them to card base with foam adhesive.

Remember the new release has an instant discount of 15% OFF until January 8th!
Of course you can get other stamps from the Technique Junkies store and use my 10% off code TJ10Giovana

Hope you like this project!
Have a fantastic day!

Butter my Butt

When I first saw the Butter my Butt Set of 8 Stamps, I could almost hear each one being said out-loud by one of my relatives (usually with a southern accent ... at least as from as far south as southern Missouri where I grew-up).

Remember, if you go shopping, all of these new stamps are 15% off until January 8th (and you can use my discount code TJ10Stephanie for 10% off you regularly priced items).

The first sentiment is something my step-mom said to us at least once a week (what can I say, there were four of us kids, and we were a handful) ... I'm pretty sure each time she said it, it was likely well deserved.

I thought the sentiments from this set paired perfectly with vintage images.  My background is some Gel Press deli paper.

This one features another Gel Press print with a picture of some cute kittens having breakfast ... you know there is some gossiping going on with those eggs ... Just Sayin'.

This vintage picture is of two women buying some "Canned Joy" at the grocery store ... if only it were that easy ... because we all know this sentiment is true.

Have fun shopping all of the fun new release stamps.

Stephanie from 

Ingenious Inkling

Remix of Inky Borders

Happy New Year!  Beth Norman here with a tutorial which is a spin off of October 2012's Inky Borders.  I just love the way this turned out, mainly because I'm so in love with the newly released Kitty Duo and Love Harlequin which are 15% off until January 8th.  My sentiment, A Good Friend, is not on sale but if you use my code below, you will receive 10% off your order. I have girlfriends that are celebrating their birthdays this month and thought I'd make several of these cards to give to them for their birthdays.  It's a quick, and easy technique.

Supplies:  5 1/4" x 4" cardstock, 2 to 3 stamp pads, 2 to 3 sponges, Post-It notes, Decorative stamp such as a background stamp, Silhouette image, Black ink pad, sentiment (optional--not shown in photo).

Place your Post-It notes on the upper third of your card.  I left 2" white space.

Sponge on coloured ink until your white space is entirely covered

White space is entirely covered

Using your decorative stamp, stamp over top of your sponged area

Stamp out your silhouette stamp as normal.  If you own a Misti, now is the time to pull it out.  What an awesome tool to get excellent coverage.  I stamped my image out twice to get a crisp black image.

Next, add your (optional) sentiment.  Once again, I used my Misti for exact placement of my sentiment.  I stamped out my sentiment twice to obtain a crisp dark image.

You are now ready to complete your card with matting and embellishments if you wish.

Technique Junkies January New Release Hop and Discount!

Happy January Release Day!

We have 15 new stamps in the Technique Junkies line! 

See our hop list before for some sweet inspiration from our Design Team!

All of the January 2018 New Release stamps are 15% off through January 8th!

We can all use a little bargain, right? No codes needed, just put them in

your shopping cart and the discount will be applied at checkout.

Want an additional 10% off non release stamps? 

Use code code TJ10Jeanne

Hop List:

TJ Blog - you are here!

Giovana Smith

Ceal Pritchett

Jeanne Streiff

Lee Ann Barrett

Cheri Weston

Stephanie Severin

Janelle Stollfus

Ro Donner

Judy Jackson

Beth Norman

Lynda Pleckan

Pat Huntoon

See some new faces in our hop?

Please welcome Ceal Pritchett, Lee Ann Barrett, Stephanie Severin, 

Janelle Stollfus and Lynda Plecken to the Technique Junkies team!

I used I Woof You and I've Had My Coffee for my 1st card.

My next card uses Birthdays & Donuts

For an additional 10% off non release items

Use code code TJ10Jeanne

Have a great day!!!

Celebrate in Style!

Hello, Hello!

Amazing how fast December goes, isn't it?!?  I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas as we are now counting down to the new year.  And where did 2017 go??  2017 brought lots of new experiences for me and I hope that 2018 is the same.  Do you celebrate the New Year?  I used to like to stay up 'til the proverbial ball drop, but now I prefer my ZZZs!  You can usually find me 'celebrating' the new year at my craft desk!
Today's card uses the super fun Technique Junkies Darling Blooms stamp~

These flowers give me a bit of a 'flower child 60's' feel, and that is how I decided to color them- kind of wild!  I colored selected blooms with colored pencils on kraft cardstock.  The black background makes the colors pop.  The floral panel was fussy cut along the top edge and then popped up with dimensional tape.  The sentiment strip was stamped with the Celebrate in Style sentiment.
I hope you celebrate in style tonight as we ring in 2018!

Thanks for stopping by!  Happy New Year!

Lee Ann
www.greytpapercrafts.blogspot.com

One Last Christmas Card

Hello Junkies!

It's Ceal, here to share with you today. I just had to make one last Christmas card before the year ended, after all we only have 360 days to make our cards right? I need to have started yesterday in order to get done it seems. I am still working on holiday cards to send out, I think I am down to 15 so that is a plus.

To make this card I started with a white top folding card base and a white panel cut down with a stitched die. I used the Christmas Trees set of 6 and did some 2nd generation stamping for the trees at the bottom of the panel. To create the cloudy sky I just sponged a little Broken China Distress ink across the top of the panel. Next I stamped the Santa in Moonlight in Black and colored in the moon with Copic markers. To finish the card I added the greeting Merry Christmas 2 and attached the panel to the card base.