Happy Saturday and St. Patricks Day!

Are you crafting in green today for St. Patricks Day? Hi, Janelle Stollfus today with a project I was hoping would have a bit of the Irish luck!

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I decided to challenge myself by starting my card base with a shade of green in honor of today's holiday. I wasn't sure if I could layer colors over the top of it and boy did I have fun!

Here's my supplies and what I did.

Supplies:

• Itoh Peonies
• Simple Sentiments 1b (notshown)
• Ken Oliver Color Bursts Bright Set

Plus:

• Waterproof Black Ink Pad
• Distress Oxide Ink Pads (shown) or Gouache Paint - pink, purple and yellow
• Watercolor Paper
• Paintbrushes
• White Paint (not shown)
• Black Pen Fine

Instructions:

1. In a plastic palette or non-porous tray use Phthalo Green and a little Lemon Yellow Color Burst along with water to make a liquid watercolor.
2. Spread all over watercolor paper with brush and let dry. If desired, lift color off with paper towel while wet.
3. Stamp Itoh Poppies with waterproof black ink onto green watercolor paper.
4. With oxide inks or gouache paint (add white gouache for same effect as oxide inks) color flowers leaving areas of green exposed.
5. Use white paint to splatter drops around center flower. Use a torn paper or crumpled paper towel to cover center of paper for a mask. Let paint dry.
6. Use a water loaded paint brush to dilute white paint and use to highlight edges of paper. Let dry.
7. Stamp a sentiment with the words Happy and Day on leftover green paper. Trim and glue onto peonies background.
8. Draw a border around background and sentiment words with undiluted white paint. When dry repeat with black pen for scribbling line detail.
9. Glue onto white card base.

Thank you for stopping by today! Remember to use code TJ10Janelle when shopping at Technique Junkies for 10% off!

TJ Inkspirations: Embossed Patina Texture with Nuvo Mousse

The vintage look of patina - the greenish color of aged copper -- is a beautiful look for vintage stamping projects. Today we recreate that patina look with 2 colors of Nuvo Embellishment Mousse on black paper. This is a very easy technique using just a few products - but with gorgeous results. This week only take 10% off of ALL Nuvo products with the code 10NUVO. Add the code at checkout for your discount. The coupon code expires 3-23-18. Here is the stamp used today: God Bless America Pennant Patina Texture using Nuvo Mousse Here is the artwork from the video: Embossed Patina Nuvo Mousse  and the video: Textural Patina with Nuvo Embellishment Mousse I hope you are a little inkspired by today's issue. See you next week! Sincerely, Pat Huntoon Technique Junkies LLC

Happy Easter

Hello friends! Hope you all are having a great day! 

Today I am sharing a super cute card, perfect for Easter!!

Isn't this bunny so adorably cute?!

This project was super easy and fun to make. First, I started stamping the Little Bunny on a piece of watercolor paper in Spiced Chai Ink, then I watercolored the background and die-cut the piece.

Then, I stamped the Gingham background piece on a piece of watercolor paper in Versamark Watermark and white embossing powder. After that I used Wild Honey and Worn Lipstick Distress Inks to color the background, then die-cut the piece. Stamped the Happy Easter sentiment on a piece of vellum.

Added the panel to a white card base, embellished with a red bow.

I used the fun sketch from this month's challenge, you can find the details here

And remember you can get these and more stamps with a 10% off using my discount code  TJ10Giovana

Hope you like my card!

Have a fantastic day!

You are Capable of More Than You Know

I thought it would be fun to create some hybrid cards using the fabulous new sentiments from Wisdom of Oz (set of 7 stamps).

Remember, if you go shopping, use my discount code TJ10Stephanie for 10% off your purchase.

I searched online for some of the more common photographs (used repeatedly on multiple pages) for my cards.

For the beautiful good witch, I pulled the pink and blue from the photo and accented with some iridescent sequins.

For Dorothy's red shoes, I had to pull out some red sequin accents.

For my third card, I embossed some green paper to pull out the pattern in the image.

I love all of these quotes in this set and the encouragement they give.

Stephanie Severin

Ingenious Inkling

How to construct a mixed media project

Hello fellow stampers.  Beth Norman here with some mixed media.  I had a ton of fun making this as it is far from my norm.  I dabbled in mixed media when I spent years working on altered books.  Boy, was that fun!  On any of these stamps, or any other stamps and supplies you can use my code TJ10Beth to receive 10% off your order.  Have you seen the new Color Bursts by Ken Oliver?  You can get them at 10% off as well.  Go wild with your mixed media!

Stamps:  Love Harlequin, Big Flourish, Paint Rings, Be Silly, Rose Doodles
Stencil:  A Colorful Life Stencils

Start by stamping on white tissue paper.  On my tissue I used Love Harlequin and Big Flourish.

Use Modge Podge to adhere your tissue paper to your cardstock.  Place Modge Podge on the cardstock to prevent the ink from bleeding.

Colour entire surface with Gelatos.

Burnish Gelatos with your finger.

Optional:  Place a stencil over any open area and spritz with water.  This will leave a pattern.  I ended up taping my stencil down which is not shown in this photo.

I got some water on my tissue, so I tore pages from a book to cover up the smudging.

Take a stencil and paint light layers of colour using paint over top of your stencil.

Next, I added Paint Rings background stamp to my piece

Finish as desired.

New Technique Junkies Sketch Challenge!

Today is the start of a new challenge! 

You will have a whole month to complete the challenge. Enter as many times as you wish using the link
list at the bottom of the post for a chance to win a $25 Technique Junkies Gift Certificate!

You have until April 15th to enter. Winner will be announced April 16th.

A few simple rules.

You must use Technique Junkies stamps to be chosen to win a prize.

If you don't have any Technique Junkies stamps feel free to play along and link
your project but you will not be in the drawing for a prize.

You must use the challenge technique/theme or sketch in your project (that's the challenge!)

No linking old projects. Projects must be new.

Please list Technique Junkies stamps with links in your project posts.

Please link directly to your project (not a general blog).

If you have a problem linking to the challenge contact Jeanne

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This month's challenge is a sketch!

Feel free to flip the sketch, create layers with stamps, or textures. 

Here is my card using She is Fierce and Flower Doodles. 

I used Color Burst to make my background on watercolor paper and stamped the Flower Doodles 

background  on top in black in with my MISTI. Because the paper is textured the MISTI works wonderfully 

to get a nice solid image because you can stamp as many times as it takes to get good coverage. 

Want to save 10%?

Use code TJ10Jeanne at Technique Junkies!

Have a great day! Jeanne

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Spring ATC Challenge Winner!

Thank you to everyone that entered our challenge!

Look for a new challenge later today!!!

The winner of our Spring ATC Challenge:

Aimeslee Winans

Please contact Jeanne for prize information within 7 days.

Check out Aimeslee's fun ATC!!!

Have a great day!