Life's A Hoot!

Happy weekend! It's Janelle with a hoot and holler for those in the US to have a fun and safe Memorial Day weekend!

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My inspiration for today is a few tips that I use while I'm in the creative process and ones that happened who doesn't want to see more of the new You Are A Hoot Owl stamps!!!! 

Frome left to right in the photo each element has a tip I'd like to share, and I hope they help next time you have a creative block as to what to do.

• Give your layers interest by adding hand drawn elements. My sentiment layer not only has a hand drawn frame it was cut out by hand along the lines.
• When I want to plan a layer of color on a monoprint like the lilac color on the card today, use a piece of paper the size of your finished cut to place underneath the printing plate. Now you'll know where to place the color. In this case, I wanted it just around the edges.
• Pencil a cut line around an image before you cut it out to help keep the distance the same.

Now for how to assemble the card.

Featured Products:

• You Are A Hoot Stamp
• Circles Make Circles Stencil
• Dream Words Stencil
• Northern Lights Nuvo Glitter Marker - Purple Passion 181

Plus:

• White and black cardstock
• Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad (or safe for alcohol markers)
• Acrylic Paint, brayer and monoprint plate (optional)
• Sponge
• Alcohol Markers or coloring medium
• Permanent Black Pen
• Glue
• Foam adhesive

Instructions:

1. Fold in half 8-1/2 by 5-1/2 inch white cardstock for card base.
2. Roll light red paint onto monoprint plate, and place Circles Make Circles stencil down pressing in gently. Remove stencil and set aside. Press white cardstock onto the plate and remove, Set aside. Add darker red paint and roll out with a brayer and press same cardstock onto the plate. Use tip 2 above with lilac paint. Stencil white Dream Words directly on the paper plus more red circles with a sponge. Set aside to dry and then trim to desired size and frame with slightly larger black cardstock. Adhere to card base.
3. Use Nuvo Glitter Marker to add accents on the circles. I made random dots on the circles stenciled.
4. Stamp Owls with black ink on white cardstock and color.
5. Pencil cut lines around owl(s) and trim.
6. Stamp sentiment with black ink, pencil frame, and trace with a permanent black writing pen. 
7. Cut out the sentiment and adhere to card base.
8. Add foam adhesive to back of owls and glue onto card base.

Thank you all for stopping in on the Design Team blog for Technique Junkies!

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TJ Inkspirations: Patriotic Mousse and Paste

Today we are combining Nuvo Mousse and Paste is always a good idea. They can be used together in a variety of ways, and today I am showing you one of the simplest. What better way on this Memorial Day weekend than as a Patriotic card? Simply put, I used Metallic Mousse over a dry embossed background, then topped if off with background and top it off with Moonstone Glimmer Paste. Here are the stamps I used for to finish the card: Patriotic Fragments The sentiment is from here:: Simple Sentiments 3C Patriotic Mousse and Paste Card Here is the artwork from the video: Patriotic Mousse ad Paste Enjoy today's video! Patriotic Nuvo Mousse and Paste

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

A friend like you

Hello friends!! Giovana here today with a super simple and sweet card. Let me tell you a little something about this card. I had in mind something completely different, but my flower didn't turn out the way I wanted, the background was very messy and I was getting ready to toss the piece to the garbage, then I decided to cut out the poppy from Poppy Bouquet and colored it with alcohol markers over the watercolor coloring I did before, then I liked it, hehe.

The oval piece is a leftover from THIS project, were I used the Gingham background, I stamped the sentiment on a piece of black cardstock in versamark watermark ink, then added white embossing powder and heat set, the sentiment is from Friend Like You.

Finally I added pink sequins and pearls.

Remember , you can get all these stamps with a 10% discount using my super duper discount code TJ10Giovana

Hope you like it.

Have a fantastic day!

A Colorful Life Stencil Designs

Did you know that in addition to a huge collection of unique red rubber stamps, the Technique Junkies store also has a fabulous line of Stencils by A Colorful Life?

And remember, if you go shopping at Technique Junkies, use my discount code TJ10Stephanie at checkout for 10% off your purchase.

For today's card, I used Stencils over some of the Gel Press prints from my stash.  I made these using bubble wrap during one of my classes at Creativation.

This stencil is called Rough Edge Circlezz Stencil.  I sponged Blue Print Distress Ink on top of my Gel Press Paper.

To paint my sweet little She Is Fierce Birdie, I used a paint brush that still had some gold paint leftover from my Life and Beer card and Picked Raspberry Distress Ink, which produced a lovely pink shimmer.

For the next card I used the Classic Harlequin Stencil and Picked Raspberry Distress Ink over a gold Gel Press print.  The ink didn't want to stick to the painted background, so I used clear embossing powder over the sponged ink.

The sentiment is from the new fun set of Inside Out Stamps called Live Forever (there are 10 stamps in the set ... such a great deal).

Here's the *snort* inside sentiment and a piece of the Gel Press paper before I added the stencil.

Go check out the pages of awesome stencils in the Technique Junkies Store ... and use my discount code for 10% off your purchase.

Stephanie Severin

Ingenious Inkling

A DUSKY CITYSCAPE

Hello Technique Junkies!!!!

What a busy and exciting month May has been for us!  First, we had the awesome new release of stamps for this month on May 1st, and then last week we rolled out a new line of stamps from Technique Junkies Stamps newest illustrator, Rita Barakat. 

All stamps from the Technique Junkies stores, as well as the new stamps from both releases can be purchased with a full 10% off discount if you use my personal discount code of TJ10Cheri.  Go for a fun filled shopping trip and get yourself some happy mail.  (My discount can also be used on Ken Oliver Colorburst Powders)  

One of the many fab stamps from the new May 2018 release was City Watercolors .  There are so many ways to create with this stamp and my card shows only one.  

Using a white cardstock panel, I stamped the image in a brown dye ink.  I then sponged around it with Distress Oxide Inks which gave the look of a late afternoon sunset.  I used some Chameleon Colortone Pencils to highlight various objects in the scene and then, with a white gel pen, I went around the outside of the buildings and other structures.  This final step gave it a more sketchy look as well as enhancing the stamped image.  This is truly a fun stamp to have in your collection.  

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you found some inspiration.  Here's my discount code one more time and a few reminders.  

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Advice from an Owl

Hi, it's Beth Norman here with my love for owls.  It's no secret that I love my owls and to showcase this wonderful, wonderful stamp set called You are a Hoot, Set of 7, I created a picture frame for my stamp room by stamping all over my mat with the owls and inserted Advice from an Owl as seen below.

You can receive 10% off of this stamp set, or any other product, simply by using my code TJ10Beth. It's that simple. 

 

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