Buffalo Plaid Birthday in Green

I was playing around with this Buffalo Plaid stencil from A Colorful Life Designs, and it is the perfect background for masculine cards.  I stenciled it with a dark green ink onto some kraft cardstock and I love how it looks on the kraft paper versus a stark white paper.  I used the same green ink to stamp the tree and the birthday sentiment.  Now I have a birthday card ready for a certain guy later on this summer.  Yay!

Check out the stencils from A Colorful Life Designs.  Use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% off your order at any time.  Have fun shopping!

WWDB Amazing Birds in Oxides

Good morning, Junkies!  It's Holly posting today, and I'm sharing this pastel creation that I made for this week's WWDB (What We Do Best) challenge.  This week we are making encouragement cards for the challenge, and the sentiments in the Modern Encouragements set are perfect for this.

I started by inking up the Bird and Letter Collage stamp with three different colors of Distress Oxide inks.  You have to be a little brave and not worry about getting other colors on your ink pads when you do this.  I just randomly dabbed some pink here, then some blue there and some green (actually Old Paper) there.  Some of the colors did cross over and get onto the ink pads, but I don't mind.  I figure I can always reink them if they get too muddy.  While I had the Bird and Letter Collage stamp out, I inked it up again with the Old Paper Distress Oxide ink and pressed it an angle onto my envelope.  

Since the image looked a little aged, I thought it would be nice to add some soft beige sponging around the piece.  I sponged some Antique Linen Oxide on first, and then some Walnut Stain Oxide.  The sentiment from the Modern Encouragements set was stamped with Pinecone Versafine Clair ink and I inked the edges of the paper with the Pinecone ink.  Then I pulled out my distress tool (remember those??) and roughed up the edges for that aged, distressed look.

Come play along in our #WWDB challenge over on the Technique Junkies Facebook page.  Just made an encouragement card using Technique Junkies stamps and decorate an envelope to go with it.  Use the hashtag #WWDB so we can find your card.  You could win $50 from Technique Junkies just for playing along!  

You Are Mermazing

I absolutely love this brand new Mermazing stencil from A Colorful Life Designs. Isn't that awesome? I sprayed the background with two colors of shimmer spray (Miami Vice and Harvest Sunset Shimmering Bliss from Technique Junkies) and then mixed two colors of shimmery colored glaze to spread over the Mermazing stencil. I used a little bit of Leaf Green and some Ocean Poppy Paper Glaze from Picket Fence Studios and mixed them together before I applied it to the stencil. I'm in love with this Mermazing stencil, and there are so many people I can mail this card to. I better get busy making 50 more of these, huh?

If you haven't seen the fabulous new May stencil release from A Colorful Life Designs, check it out here. Use this code, HollyFan10, to save money when you go shopping.

Technique Junkies New Stamp Release May 2020

Welcome to the May 2020 Technique Junkies blog hop! This release is filled with a wonderful variety of stamps, and we can't wait to show you what we created with them. 

All of the May 2020 New Release stamps are 15% off through May 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.

How about an additional 10% off at Technique Junkies?

That’s 25% off the new May 2020 release!

Use code TJ10Holly

For my first card today, I stamped the cute new A Little Black Cat with permanent black ink.  I stamped it again on a sticky note and made a mask to cover up the kitty.  Then I placed the Paws stencil from A Colorful Life Designs over the bottom half of the card and very softly brushed some pale blue ink through the stencil.

The next five cards were a joy to create.  I used the new Forget Me Nots background stamp on all of them, matching the color of the ink to the color of the cardstock.  Then I used a darker shade of the respective colors to stamp the sentiments from the new Five Fab Phrases set.  This sentiment set is a definite MUST HAVE for your stamping collection.  Look at all the different greetings I was able to use on these five cards.

Want to see more gorgeous artwork from the Technique Junkies team?  Here is the blog hop lineup:

Technique Junkies Blog
Pat Huntoon
Beth Norman-Roberts
Ceal Pritchett
Giovana Smith
Holly Brown
Jeanne Streiff
Judy Jackson
Ro Donner
Lynda Pleckan
Patti Gilliam

Don't forget, you can save an extra 10% on the May 2020 release stamps by using my code - TJ10Holly.  Which new stamps are on your wish list??

Get Well Bouquet in Blue

This week we are focusing on get well cards for the WWDB (What We Do Best) challenge over on the Technique Junkies Facebook group.  I stamped the beautiful new Milk Bottle Bouquet stamp with blue ink and then brushed the same blue ink all over the edges with an ink blending brush.  The sentiment is from the Floral Framed Sentiments set, and I stamped it with the same blue ink.  For my envelope, I inked up the bouquet with the blue ink, but I stamped it off on scratch paper first before pressing it down on my envelope.  

Come join us in the WWDB challenges!  You could win $50 just for playing along!

Colorful Batik Butterfly Collage

Good morning!  I'm here to share this colorful batik butterfly collage card with y'all today.  This Butterfly Collage with Text is from the new April release over at Technique Junkies, and it's a gorgeous background stamp.  After I stamped it with black ink, I placed the Primitive Batik stencil over it and used the ink blending brushes to apply green, blue, and pink ink all over.  You can see where some of the colors blended together to make a fun pop of turquoise or a purple hue.

This was a fun and easy card to create.  What colors would you use with this Butterfly Collage with Text stamp and the Primitive Batik stencil??  

Technique Junkies April 2020 release blog hop

Welcome to the April 2020 Technique Junkies blog hop! This release is filled with a wonderful variety of stamps, and we can't wait to show you what we created with them. 

All of the April 2020 New Release stamps are 15% off through April 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.

How about an additional 10% off at Technique Junkies?

That’s 25% off the new April 2020 release!

Use code TJ10Holly

For my first card today, I stamped the beautiful new Milk Bottle Bouquet with Versamark, covered it with white embossing powder, and heated it with a heat tool.  Since we are coming up on Mother's Day in May, I thought it would be perfect to add the Happy Mother's Day sentiment to this card.

This next card was an experiment and I loved it so much, I am going to set aside some time to make a dozen more.  First, I stamped the fabulous new Butterfly Collage with Text using some permanent black ink onto white cardstock.  Next, I pulled out my much neglected Distress Stains (remember those??) and picked three coordinating colors.  Here, I used Tumbled Glass, Milled Lavender, and Dusty Concord.  A word of warning - the Dusty Concord is no longer purple.  It actually changed color in the years that it was sitting in a dark cool place, and it is now a deep denim blue-ish color.  But the three colors looked great together, and after I added sequins and the purple organdy ribbon, it all came together beautifully.

My last card for today features two new stamps - Lotus Corner and Anything is Possible.  I stamped the Lotus Corner with black Memento ink and colored it with Copic markers.  The sentiment is stamped with the same black ink.  To give this card a feeling of the flowers sitting on water, I placed the Primitive Batik stencil over the flowers and lightly brushed some blue ink through the stencil.

Want to see more gorgeous artwork from the Technique Junkies team?  Here is the blog hop lineup:

Technique Junkies Blog
Pat Huntoon
Beth Norman-Roberts
Ceal Pritchett
Giovana Smith
Holly Brown
Jeanne Streiff
Judy Jackson
Ro Donner
Lynda Pleckan
Carmen Garcia
Patti Gilliam

Don't forget, you can save an extra 10% on the April  2020 release stamps by using my code - TJ10Holly.  Which new stamps are on your wish list??