City Night Stroll

Hi weekend crafters! Janelle here today with a post just in time to inspire a night out on the town for Mother's Day!

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My featured stamp today is from the May release called City Watercolors, and if you click the link below, you can see a fantastic array of ideas on the product website page. There are so many ways to color this scene!

Supplies:

• City Watercolors Stamp
• Life is Beautiful Stamp
• Waterproof Black Ink Pad
• Watermark Embossing Ink Pad
• Watercolor Paper
• Black, white and gray cardstock
• Watercolors
• Gouache or other waterbased opaque white
• Paintbrushes
• Tape (optional)
• Flat Surface

I decided to try and create a night scene as soon as I spotted the street lights in the image. So I grabbed blues, grays, reds, yellows, greens and violet watercolor markers and started along my path.

Tips: Start watercolors diluted with water and do washes getting more saturated with color as shadows are accented. And try shadows fade upward because the city lights are brighter towards the ground.

Here is a line up of colors I used with Winsor and Newton markers. 

Sky - Payne's Gray, Indigo Prussian Blue Hue, and Dioxazine Violet. 

Tip: Start with a light gray wash around the street lights so they can be colored with yellow.

Lights - Gamboge Hue and Cadmium Yellow Pale Hue. 

Reds - Alizarin Crimson Hue and Fired Brick Red for brick and street lights, even a car, and clothing.

Green and Violet accents - Sap Green, Phthalo Green, and Dioxazine Violet. 

Tip: Change your saturated colors shades with black. If you don't have black, which is boring anyway, mix complementary colors (to make a gray orange, blue or yellow and violet plus a little white if you have it) to get a rich gray color.

To complete the sky and highlight the beams on the street lights use gouache in white and Lemon Yellow. The sentiment is embossed on gray paper with embossing ink and white embossing powder.

Thank you for stopping by today! Have a great weekend and remember you can get 10% off your order of regular priced items at Technique Junkies. Use code TJ10Janelle.

TJ Inkspirations: Life, Beer, and Masked Images

One of the new stamps released in May is a fun image called "Life and Beer." Today's tutorial uses the Beer Mug from the stamp and a favorite from last year called Sudsy Stuff to create a border of masked mugs in one layer on the center of the card. Even better, the whole thing sparkles. I used the Nuvo Glitter Gloss Aqua Pens to add a fine shimmer over the colored stamped mugs.  It is easy -- and fun! Before we get to the video, I just want to remind you that we are having a second release in May -- next week, on Tuesday, May 15 - to celebrate the release of 15 New stamps from the fabulous Rita Barakat. I have seen much of the artwork - so gorgeous, and you won't want to miss it! Life, Beer and Stamped Images Here is the artwork from the video:   And a close up of the glimmer:   One more example:     Enjoy today's video~! Life Beer and Masked Images

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

Advice from an owl

Hello friends! Giovana here today with a fun shaker card! For this card I used a brand new set "You are a Hoot" and "Gingham".

First, I stamped the cute owls on white cardstock in Memento Tuxedo Black, colored them with alcohol markers and then added little details with Nuvo Markers, then fussy cut them out, after that I added Clear Laquer to the owl glasses.

I stamped the Gingham background on a piece of pink cardstock in red ink using my MISTI for perfect coverage, then stamped it again in Versamark Watermark ink and added clear embossing powder, then trimmed the imaged and die-cut an oval window, adhered a piece of transparency, added foam adhesive behind the panel and around the oval window to create the shaker. 

The sentiment was stamped in red ink, then added gold sequins on the middle of the sentiment, then added the gingham panel on top. Panels were added to a white card base.

Added a little white bow to embellish the card and voila!

 

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Hope you like it!

Have a fantastic day!

Bodacious Butterflies

I don't know about you, but I am just LOVING this springtime weather. The sunshine, the warmth, the birds, the flowers. And the butterflies....

So I thought I would add some springtime butterflies to a card. Along with one of the newly released stamps. 

This striking card was easily created using the Misti and some masks. To use masks, stamp your forefront image, then mask it and stamp around it. Very simple. The stamps used were Audicity (May release) and Butterfly 2. I used colored pencils to color and added a little twinkle with some Wink of Stella. 

Audacity, Butterfly 2

Some sequins and a few Nuvo Crystal Drops added just the right amount of pizazz. 

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Til next time,
Keepin' it inky!

Stencil Rings & Eat Cake

I thought the new Stencil Rings Stamp would be perfect to try with my new Vicky Boutin Art Crayons.  

Remember, if you want to add any of these Technique Junkies stamps to your collection, use my discount code TJ10Stephanie at checkout for 10% off your purchase.

I used my MISTI and colored the stamp the first time with various shades of blue and stamped it on watercolor paper (if you don't have these crayons, the technique will also work with Gelatos and Markers).  I overlapped the coloring to get a nice blend.

I misted the stamp with water and then stamped.  I did a second misting since there was still a lot of color on the stamp, and stamped a second time.

Love the fun water-colory look.  I paired my background with the super-fun to Inside Out Live Forever (Set of 10) stamp set.  The other background is made by sprinkling Color Burst Powders on watercolor paper and spraying with water (you can get the full Color Burst Collection in the Technique Junkies store & use my coupon for a discount).

I also thought the Inside Out Live Forever Sentiment paired perfectly with the fun Birthday Cat who looks like he's taken this pair of sentiments to heart.

I stamped the second sentiment on the inside of the card together with a strip of the Color Burst painted paper.

For my second card, I used the green crayons with the same Stencil Rings Stamp, again overlapping my coloring for blending.

A few spritzes of water and stamped it using my MISTI.

Even though the Inside Out Live Forever stamps are made to go on the outside & inside of the card, I also think they work well to include both sentiments on the front like I did with this design.

I stamped the tequila glass from Technique Junkies Call the Girls and trimmed it to use as the embellishment on my design.  I used a light green marker to color the lime.

Remember, share your creations using Technique Junkies products in our Technique Junkies Facebook Group.

Stephanie Severin

Ingenious Inkling

GET YOUR HAPPY ON

Hey there Junkies!!! 

Did you get to hop along with the May stamps release?  There are 15 new stamps added to the Technique Junkies store and you can get them all (or any) at 15% off today only.  It's the last day for the new release discount.  So, if you were thinking of grabbing them...don't miss out on the 15% discount.  All you have to do is select your stamps, put them in your shopping cart and that's it.  The discount will automatically be applied.  

Pick up any other stamps you might like from the store and get a 10% discount by using my discount code - TJ10CHERI.

"Happy On", one of the new stamps from this new release and it gives me the giggles!  What a fun stamp to use for any card celebrating something wonderful and happy; birthdays, retirements, good news....almost every happy occasion.  I paired my card with the incredibley fun "Here We Go Round in Circles".  For a fun sparkle, I added small dots around the stamped circles using a gold Nuvo Glitter Pen.  

Don't forget to grab "Happy On" or any of the other May Stamps for a 15% discount and any other stamps you'd like from the store with my 10% discount (just add my code at checkout).

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Hats off to Dad

Hello, Beth Norman here with two masculine cards which are perfect for Father's Day.  Did you know that you can get 10% off of these stamps, and any other product in our store just by using the code TJ10Beth?  Yup, everyone loves a steal of a deal.

For my background I used Hats Off and my sentiment uses Hats off to Dad.

I made a second version, using a lighter background.

Which is your favourite?