Leaves Turn

Hello, Kia here with you today. 

I am using a new stamp called Modern Foliage for my card today along with the sentiment called Leaves Turn. 

I took inspiration from the trees I see outside my window. The sun is getting lower and as it hits the trees in the late afternoon I see these beautiful colours. 

 Using Oxide inks I did smooshing on watercolour paper using cracked pistachio, peacock feathers, twisted citron and blueprint sketch. I then stamped the leaves on the background using VersaFine Clair ink in Green Oasis and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

I used left over watercolour paper to stamp my sentiment, which is stamped in the green and heat embossed as well. 

For my card base I used peacock feather and cracked pistachio and a small amount of water to allow the ink to move as I smooshed it into my Neenah card base. I then attached the leaf panel along with the sentiment pieces to finish.

Thank you for visiting today. 

Technique Junkies September Release and Discount!

Happy August Release Day!

We have 15 new stamps in the Technique Junkies line!

Be sure to check out the list below for some sweet inspiration from our Design Team! 

All of the September 2019 New Release stamps are 15% off through September 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. 

Use code TJ10Jeanne for an additional 10% off
That's 25% off the new release until September 8th!

My first card uses and Walk Through Fire & Drizzle Dots

My next card uses Sweeter. I used a stencil (from A Colorful Life Designs) and Izink Diamonds paint in Nacre for a little shimmer. 

Here's a closer look so you can see the sparkle

Check out what the Design Team made!

Beth Norman-Roberts

Ceal Pritchett

Giovana Smith

Holly Brown

Janine Tinklenberg

Jeanne Streiff

Judy Jackson

Kia Gibson-Clapper

Lee Ann Barrett

Lynda Pleckan

Pat Huntoon

Ro Donner

Stephanie Severin

Hope you enjoyed my projects!

TJ Inkspirations: Ink Blended Stenciled Backgrounds

First, I must apologize. You haven't heard from me for a few weeks, and my absence is both professional and personal.  From a professional standpoint, the video editing program I have been using suddenly died on me, without hope of recovery, forcing me to learn a new editing program that is more complicated. The good news is that the videos will (should) be better as I master the program in the next few months!  From a personal standpoint, I have traveled every weekend in August (only once for personal reasons, the rest were trade shows) and the remainder of my time in the office has been overwhelmingly hectic. I promise to make up for it!  I have already filmed tutorials for most of September and I am prepping them all for future publication.  Before I get to the video and artwork, I would like to mention that Sunday is September 1st - meaning that we will have 15 new stamps for you.  Wait until you see these! I have a couple in this next release that are my favorite stamps so far...stay tuned for Sunday. You will receive another email from me reminding you of the release celebration (and the discount) Sunday (9/1) morning. Today's video shows you how to use the Ink Blending Brushes with IZINK Dye Inks, Pixie Spray and a Stencil to create a multicolored, blended background. The finished piece I did for the video is below, plus I have included an additional project that uses the technique with one of the new stamps available September 1st.  Live in Color Peacock Feather Stencil And the Sneak Preview (stamp available September 1):   Ready for the video? Ink Blended Stenciled Backgrounds About today's products: Pixie Spray is a light-tack stencil adhesive that will change the way you create with stencils. You can create beautiful, crisp stencil projects without painter's tape. Pixie Spray The 2" x 2" Aladine IZINK Ink Pads are lovely little inks have a beautiful foam pad, and at $2.99 they are priced right, too.  All of the inks are available individually, of course, but if you are a get-it-all kind of person, you might want all 20 of the inks for just $49.99 - 15% off! Aladine IZINK Dye Inks  I blend these inks with Ink Blending Brushes in the video - also new to the TJ Store. They are, by far, the easiest and best way I have ever blended ink. We have the orignal black handled brushes ($24.95), and now we have pretty Rose Gold Handles ($27.95 - 'cause sometimes we just need pretty things!), too! Black Handle Ink Blending Brushes Rose Gold Ink Blending Brushes

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

Sorry, I've been so Prickly

Hello friends!!

Giovana here today using this super fun stamp! 

For this project I used the new "Prickly" stamp.

I used Cactus Green and St. Valentine Stazon Ink to stamp the image on watercolor paper.

Colored the image with watercolors.

Die-cut image using rectangle dies, add image to a scallop orange piece.

Stencil front card using Bubble Stencil.

Embellish with Nuvo drops.

Hope you like it!

You can get this stamp with a 10% discount using my code TJ10Giovana!

Have a wonderful day!

Vintage Floral Collage Thank Yous

I love this gorgeous Vintage Floral Collage Stamp ... it is so lovely and versatile.  Remember, you get 10% off your entire order at the Technique Junkies Store with my discount code TJ10Stephanie.

For the first stamping I used Seedless Preserves and Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide Ink and my MISTI.

Next, I cut it into a 4" circle for this week's Sketch from The Paper Players.

I paired it with coordinating cardstock, a paper flower and the Grunge Thank You Sentiment.  

I had another circle sketch in my feed from Sunday Sketch Challenge, stamped Vintage Floral Collage a second time using Aged Mahogany Distress Ink with some Seedless Preserves.  This time I cut a 3" circle for the sketch.

This time I added a Thank You from Simple Sentiments Style B and finished with some sequins.

I hope you'll look at your background stamps to see how you can highlight sections for some of this week's fun sketch challenges.

Fur Baby

Hello to all, Kia here with you today to share this card using I'll Be Watching You and Fur Baby.

I'll Be Watching You includes another sentiment, but for today I wanted to use Fur Baby, so I masked off the sentiment when stamping in my mini Misti, which I did on white card stock.   

On the card base I did some smooshing using Twisted Citron and Salty Ocean in opposite corners. I wanted a Clean and Simple look, so I wanted to leave white space. As this was done using Neenah card stock I used only one spritz on each puddle to keep the water to a minimum.

I let the card base dry naturally as I find in doing so the card does not distort like it would in using a heat gun.

Using fun foam I attached the dog panel to my card base, then placed the card back in my mini Misti and stamped the sentiment.

 To finish I added a few gumdrops in the blue and greens. 

A simple and easy card to share with you today. 

Thank you for visiting and I will see you next time.

Love and Laughter Floral

Hello stampers!  Today's cards use one stamp called Love and Laughter Floral from Technique Junkies.  As you may know, I do like to make several cards using one stamp, using a different technique, or different colours.  Because I like bright colours I used Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight.  For the card on my left I heat embossed with dark chocolate and my stencil stamp came from A Colourful Life Designs stencil called Garden Gate.

Our new release will be upon us in less than a week, and I'm so excited about this release, so please remember to come back on September 1st for a peak at the new release and big discount on new releases
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As always, if you want to save 10% on your stamps, simply use my code TJ10Beth (excludes clearance items).

Cheers!