Coffee Girl & Twisted Encouragements

 Hi Crafty Friends - 

Today I am sharing the Twisted Encouragements stamp set which is a set of fun, snarky sentiments. I paired this with the Coffee Girl stamp set. 

I was in a groove and decided to make two cards using the same two stamp sets. I paired different pattern paper and they came out super cute. 

Which sentiment is your favorite? I love this breathing technique. It works!! 

The images were colored with alcohol markers. I used A Colorful Life Grunge Dots Stencil. 

Do you cut up your stamps? I don't mind taking the leap and cutting up my stamps. I heat embossed the sentiment and it made the card pop. 

Card #2 - I can't get enough of this sentiment. I have been finding myself having to ignore, mute and block! 

Isn't she cute! Love how this card turned out as I used colors that are outside my norm. I gave the Coffee Girl texture in her hair. Super fun! 

I fussy cut out the image and used 3D foam tape to pop her up.

 I hope you were inspired. Thank you for stopping by and Happy Crafting! Use code TJ10Shalana when you check out!

Meow!

 How iconic - a cat wrapped in Christmas Lights. If you have a naughty cat, this one is for you! Meowy Catmas is a set of two. The background is the Christmas Lights Background. You can found both rubber stamps from Technique Junkies here:

Meowy Catmas: https://techniquejunkies.com/meowy-catmas-set-of-2/

Christmas Lights: https://techniquejunkies.com/christmas-lights/

Pat Huntoon

Meowy Catmas

Deb here with a fun holiday card using the new Meowy Catmas stamp from the October Release. Our cat Pixie loves to "supervise" when we decorate the tree, so my card looks just like her !! There are 10 new holiday stamps/stamp sets in this fun release. You can check them all out HERE .

• I stamped Meowy Catmas on white cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink .
• The stamped image was cut with a Big and Little Chain Rectangle Die.
• I placed colored rhinestones on each of the Christmas lights and colored the ball of twine with an OLO marker.
• A piece of pink snowflake paper was adhered to a white card base.Memento
• The stamped panel was adhered to the snowflake paper with foom tabs..

This was a quick and easy card to make and I actually did make a few for my "crazy cat lady" friends!! Have you started on your holiday cards yet ?? Thanks for stopping by .. Stay creative and enjoy the Fall weather !! It's finally sweater weather here and I am thrilled ...

Meowy Catmas

Here’s a sweet holiday card for your cat lovin’ family and friends - why not make a batch of these kitty cards with just 2 stamps!

What you’ll need:

Mad Mod Lace background stamp

Meowy Catmas stamp

Black ink pad (I used Versa Fine Clair Nocturne)

Abandoned Coral and Citron ink pads (I used distress oxide ink pads. You could substitute red and green)

Blending brushes

Black card stock 4 x 5.25 

White card stock 3.75 x 5 inch and smaller piece for the cat image

Card base (you choose color)

Foam (optional)

Glitter pen for light bulbs (optional)

Colored pencils or markers (to color the cat with the holiday lights)

3 Green gems (or any kind of bling or drops you have in your stash)

Glue/adhesive

Steps:

1) Grab your 3.75 x 5 piece of card stock. With blending brushes I applied Abandoned Coral and Citron in random areas. Don’t overthink this. Simply brush color of one ink in let’s say, three areas, then use the other color to color the rest of the card stock. Don’t leave any white areas. Set aside.

2) Next - Stamp the cat image on a small piece of white card stock, color, then with a blending brush lightly brush around the image with Citron.  Mount on a piece of black card stock. Optional: add foam behind this piece and see what you have in your stash to make those light bulbs sparkle. You might have glitter pens or a type of glaze.

3) Grab that first piece of card stock that you put color on and now let’s stamp the Mad Mod Lace background stamp on it.  (Optional: to make the background stamp look bolder you can heat emboss it with clear embossing powder or restamp it a couple of times)>

4) The Fun part…let’s put it all together. 

- Adhere the background piece to black card stock that is slightly larger then adhere to your base.  (If you don’t like measuring just cut the black card stock slightly larger than your background piece).  

- Add the Meowy Catmas to the front and add your gems.  You’re done! 

Now for some more fun…grab yourself a cup of coffee ☕️ or some other favorite beverage 🍷 and have fun browsing these cute, beautiful, and gorgeous Technique Junkies holiday stamps and enjoy a 10% discount (TJ10AJ) if you decide to go shopping.  It’s just so fun to shop online especially when you can get a discount!

Shop here -> Stencil lovers (A Colorful Life Stencils)  

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Items in the TJ store that are already discounted can be found at these links…

TJ has a mega clearance section that can be found here 

TJ unmounted mega clearance stamps are here

I hope you found a little 🐈 inspiration for some future holiday card making and shopping!

Get a head start on those holiday cards and Meowy Catmas!

~~~~Keep on Stamping~~~~~

                    AJ 

Glitter and Glow with ICE

 I love to use what I have! For today's card, I pulled out my Aladine IZINK Ice yo cover the Doodle Ornament background. It is such a quick and easy way to add color to a background or collage stamp. If you have them, use them!

The sentiment is called Glitter and Glow. Both are part of the October 2024 stamp release, which may be found here:

https://techniquejunkies.com/october-2024-stamp-release/ Pat Huntoon

Spooky Scenes

 BOO!

Did I scare you?  Yeah... probably not.  I'm more of the too cute to spook than creepy halloween type.   I thought when I started out with this card I was going to make a spooky scene.  It turns out I think the cat just likes to cuddle jack-o-lanterns in the cemetery.  It could happen, right?    

As a side note.. the Happy Halloween is supposed to be a paint stroke.  I thought I was going to do it in a festive color like orange or green.  However, It turns out I liked it in black the best.  It thought it looked a little like a tail of a shooting star or comet.  It is Halloween... so anything is possible. 

Materials:

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Happy Halloween

Dies:

Pumkin/Clouds

Paper:

card stock from stampin up

Ink:

Versa clair: Amazon

Other:

Bearly Art Glue:(detail glue)

Tacky Glue

Halloween

Hello. Jeanette here. I'm back again with another blog post featuring stamps from the New Release at Technique Junkies.

Technique Junkies Dancing Skeletons and Shake:

Technique Junkies Halloween Paintstroke and previously released All About Halloween:

Thanks for stopping by today!

If you like saving money - and who doesn't - please use the code TJ10JEANETTE when checking out at Technique Junkies to receive a 10% discount.

If you'd like to see other cards I've made using Technique Junkies stamps/products, you'll find them on my blog - HERE.