Bloggers Challenge - Mother's Day

Bloggers Challenge #46 brings you loads of ideas for last minute creating of your Mother's Day cards.

Both of my cards use the Watercolor Distress Technique from a past issue of the TJNL. On the card with the Iris - after the Iris was stamped, I simply went back and colored in my image with Distress Inks and an aquapainter.

Details:

Stamps - Flourishes Siberian Iris

Ink - Archival Black, Distress Inks Weathered Wood, Peeled Paint, Concord Grape

Card Stock - Eggplant, Black, Vanilla, Celery

Details:

Stamps - Starving Artistamps Silhouette Flowers

Ink - Archival Black, Distress Inks Worn Lipstick, Lavendar, Shabby Shutters, Marigold

Card Stock - Black, Vanilla, Olive, Orange

Wishing you all a lovely Mother's Day

~lisa

Sketch Challenge

This weeks SCS Sketch Challenge is from a card that fellow Blogger Challenge player Lynn created - it's a great sketch, and I can see myself using it again.

Stamps Cornish Heritage Farms

Ink - Black, Distress Inks - Rose, Weathered Wood, Peeled Paint, Brushed Corduroy

Card Stock - Black, Vanilla, Celery, Basic Grey Boxer Designer Paper

Other - Spritz Bottle, Aquapainter, 1/2" Circle Punch

Technique - Watercolor Distress (TJNL)

TechnoStamper Sketch Challenge

Here's the correct card for this weeks TechnoSamper Sketch Challenge....Between having ISP problems since last week, and being woken in the middle of the night, I'm just not all here today...Anyhow - I've used my scraps - same colors and stamps and now here's Sketch 16...Sorry for any confusion.

Details - Stamps Innovative Stamp Creations - Natures Silhouette and Art Frames II. The backgound on the flower panel was created using the Cling & Scrunch Technique (TJNL) with Memories Mist Copper.




Here's MJ's original sketch - if you'd like to play along - please leave your comment on this post, or if you upload to SCS, please use keywork TSSC16.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

ETA.....

Wouldn't you know I'm ahead of myself this week....I posted next weeks sketch - so now you have no excuse not to play next week.


whew....I'm running a bit behind in getting my challenge card done - but I've got it finished! This weeks sketch is a great layout, and I'll be using it again. I've used new images from Innovative Stamp Creations - Natures Silhouette and Art Frames II. The backgound on the flower panel was created using the Cling & Scrunch Technique (TJNL) with Memories Mist Copper.

Sweet Little One

I just had to have this stamp when I saw it at Cornish Heritage Farms - I love the vintage collage look - the stamps lend themselves nicely to many techniques.



Details:
Stamps - Sweet Little One Collage - Cornish Heritage Farms
Ink - Black, Ranger Distress Inks- Rose, Worn Lipstick, Weathered Wood
Card Stock - Watercolor, Cameo Coral, Black
Other - White Gel Pen, Aquapainter
Technique - WC Distress (TJNL)

Details:
Stamps - Sweet Little One Collage - Cornish Heritage Farms
Ink - Black, Ranger Distress Ink - Scattered Straw, Burlap, Corduroy, Black Soot
Card Stock - Vanilla, Black, Close to Cocoa
Technique Burnt Edges - TJNL

TechnoStamper Sketch Challenge - Playtime

This is MJ's sketch #15 over at TechnoStamper. Another great sketch, and yes, I've rotated my sketch again to work with this new image from the Playtime Sheet at Artistic Outpost. The image on this sheet is actually fellow DT member Gerrie Johnnic's DH when he was a boy - isn't that cool!


I used the Watercolor Distress Technique from a past TJNL issue. I wanted a soft look for the image so I used distress inks in Scattered Straw and Distressed Rose. The main image is stamped in Ranger Archival Black. I punched a hole in the top and bottom and added black grosgrain tied in a bow - to follow the sketch layout. Be sure to check out the new plates Adventure and Playtime at Artistic Outpost - on sale for a limited time!









For my 2nd card - I kept my layout rotated. I masked my frame from Artistic Outpost's Playtime sheet, stamping it in black. On this one I cut off the bows on the frame. I used eclipse tape across the bottom and side of my frame so I could stamp my flowers from Bloomin' Beautiful. I colored my flower with Groovy Guava, Certainly Celery and Chocolate Chip. I restamped and colored a small portion of the flower images, and placed them on my main image with dimensionals to give it some depth. (Paper Tole Technique). I added a bit of Chocolate Chip around the frame. My image is layered on Basic Grey's Boxer designer paper, then Groovy Guava card stock.








Here's MJ's original Sketch - if you'd like to play along....

Bloomin' Beautiful - Artsy Dimension

The background piece on this card uses the Artsy Dimension Technique that I wrote for the TJNL...While I had out my dimensional pearls, I decided to use them as my paints for my flower image from Bloomin' Beautiful. To use your dimensional pearls as paints, simply place a drop in a paint well, or on a scrap of paper, dip in your aquapainter, squeeze a tiny bit of water and mix. Use your aquapainter to paint with the pearls. While my pearly paint was still wet, I poured on some clear embossing powder to add some dimension to my flowers. For the vase - I used the Paper Piecing technique and a piece of my Afternoon Tea Designer Series Paper.

Details:

Stamps - Bloomin' Beautiful

Ink - Black Stazon

Card Stock - So Saffron, Black, Ballet Blue, Watercolor

Other - Cuttlebug Folder, Dimensional Pearls - Lettuce, Butterscotch, Denim, Afternoon Tea DSP, Aquapainter, Clear EP, Heat Gun

Altered Bracelet

I recently received some of the Ranger 1" x 1" Memory Frames from Innovative Stamp Creations, and couldn't wait to make something with them. I love the look of the Reinker Splash Technique -TJNL, and thought it would be the perfect technique to use with my images from the Art 4 Frames stamp sheet. (click to enlarge)













I used my Alcohol Reinkers in the following colors - Stonewashed, Wild Plum and Lettuce, to do the Reinker Splash Technique. With my new supplies from Innovative Stamp Creations, I also got some of Rangers Glossy Paper, what a difference the glossy paper from Ranger makes. No more ink blobs on my paper. To finish off my bracelet I added a jewelry clasp.

Color Collage

Here's a fun technique from the April TJNL - Color Collage...A great way to combine a lot of color and a ton of images onto one card. I thought I'd have fun with Stampin' Up! In Colors and used them all on this card.

Details:

All Images - Innovative Stamp Creations
Textures - cracked background
Friendship - small flower, woman's face, small butterfly
Rusty Swirls - large butterfly
Artsy Trinkets - large flower
Assemblage - sentiment

Ink - Wild Wasabi, Blue Bayou, Groovy Guava, Purely Pomegranate, Black, Chocolate Chip, River Rock, Soft Sky

Card Stock - Glossy, Black, Chocolate Chip, Groovy Guava

Technique Time

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Stamps - Artistic Outpost Home and Happiness Sheets

Techniques - (top) Mesh Direct, (left) Createx Creations

Stained Glass

Here's the Easter Card I made for my parents - I'm sharing it today - as it has to go in the mail tomorrow to reach them on time!

I thought the Easter Blessings set would be perfect for that Stained Glass look - so I used the Stained Crystal technique from the 10/03 TJNL to add color to my images. To keep with that stained class look - I used the Floating Acetate technique (02/06 TJNL) for my card base. I recently received some Crystal Clear Card Stock from Flourishes - and I have to say, this has got to be some of the best stuff for making acetate cards! Chocolate Poly Twill is wrapped inside the card and tied onto one of SU's new ribbon slides from the Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware.

Birthday Blog Candy - Artistic Outpost and Bloggers Challenge

Today's the last giveaway in my week long birthday celebration. It's also Friday, which means another Bloggers Challenge. I purposely assigned the theme "birthday" for this weeks challenge - as tomorrow is my actual birthday! Saturday is also my mom's birthday - I know your reading this mom - hope you have a wonderful birthday!

Before I share today's Bloggers Challenge Birthday card - I want to introduce you to today's Birthday Blog Candy sponsor - Artistic Outpost. Artistic Outpost carries unique deeply etched rubber stamps and other sundries. One of my current favorite sheet from Artistic Outpost is Serentiy - but I can't wait to get my hands on the upcoming new releases!

Today's birthday giveaway is the stamp sheet of your choice from Artistic Outpost!


You can check out the Artistic Outpost site here, be sure to stop the by Artistic Outpost Blog too, for gallery submissions by the AO Design Team, and sign up for blog updates! You can also check out the upcoming new AO stamp releases on the blog.


Now on to the Bloggers Challenge Card - I used the Polaroid Cutie - thought she'd be perfect for a birthday card. Since it is a big birthday for me, I decided to go vintage and use the Burnt Edges technique. I added the vintage brads to fill the space on the top right side, and distressed them using my Tim Holtz hammer.

Details:
Stamps - Artistic Outpost Polaroid Cutie
Ink - Archival Black, Ranger Distress Inks
Card Stock - Black, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip
Technique - Burnt Edges 02/07 TJNL
Other - Blending Tool, Tim Holtz Hammer, Vintage Eyelets

How can you enter? To enter the giveaway for Day 5, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter, be sure to tell me your favorite Artistic Outpost stamp sheet, enter by 11:59pm on Sunday, March 16th. Remember to leave your name with your comment, as blogger doesn't recognize "anonymous" comments. I will have the random number generator pick one number from the comments to select the winner. Each Birthday Giveaway is separate, so to be eligible for a specific day you must enter that day's giveaway and post to the correct blog entry. Good Luck! One entry per person, per giveaway, please. Be sure to check back on March 17th, to see if you won today's Birthday Blog Candy giveaway!

Birthday Blog Candy Day 2 - TJNL 5th Edition CD

The countdown to my birthday continues with today's Birthday Blog Candy Giveaway! The giveaway today is the 5th Edition CD from The Technique Junkies Newsletter. If you're looking for techniques, there's no better place then the TJNL!

Here's a few FREE tutorials from the TJNL
Free Milkpaint Tutorial
FREE Watercolor Crayon Tutorials


How can you enter? To enter the giveaway for Day 2, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter, be sure to tell me your favorite technique, enter by 11:59pm on Thursday, March 13th. Remember to leave your name with your comment, as blogger doesn't recognize "anonymous" comments. I will have the random number generator pick one number from the comments to select the winner. Each Birthday Giveaway is separate, so to be eligible for a specific day you must enter that day's giveaway and post to the correct blog entry. Good Luck! One entry per person, per giveaway, please.

Birthday Blog Candy Day 1

I'm celebrating a milestone birthday later this week and thought it would be fun to give my blog readers some presents leading up to my big day! With the help of some generous sponsors, I'll be giving away blog candy for the next 5 days, to celebrate my birthday!

Today's Birthday sponsor is Starving Artistamps . Starving Artistamps offers a great variety of rubber stamps! My current favorite stamp is the Ornate Tooled Leather Background - as I've found lots of uses for this image using a variety of techniques!

Today's birthday giveaway is the Lily and Sunflower sheet from Starving Artistamps!

Here's a sample I've made with one of the images from this sheet

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Details:

Stamps - Starving Artistamps Lily and Sunflower

Ink - Black, Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Pretty in Pink

Card Stock - Black, Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Pretty in Pink
Other - Sponge Dauber, Rub Ons - SU Love & Happiness

Technique - Triple Mosaic 06/06 TJNL

How can you enter? To enter the giveaway for Day 1, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter, be sure to tell me your favorite stamp set from Starving Artistamps , enter by 11:59pm on Wednesday, March 12th. Remember to leave your name with your comment, as blogger doesn't recognize "anonymous" comments. I will have the random number generator pick one number from the comments to select the winner. Each Birthday Giveaway is separate, so to be eligible for a specific day you must enter that day's giveaway and post to the correct blog entry. Good Luck! One entry per person, per giveaway, please.

Be sure to check back on March 13, to see if you won today's giveaway! Even if you don't win you can still save 10% off your purchases at Starving Artistamps - click here for more details!

Mini Masterpiece

One of my current favorite techniques is the Reinker Splash in the 02/07 TJNL, here I teamed up the technique with the Mini Masterpiece sheet from Artistic Outpost. Don't forget to check out the March Special's from Artistic Outpost.

Ornate Tooled Leather

I've been using the versatile Ornate Tooled Leather Background stamp from Starving Artistamps with various techniques from past issues of the TJNL. By changing your techniques, you can really get a lot of use out of your background stamps.

"With Sympathy" uses the Acetate Frost Technique 02/06 TJNL

Tech - Abstract Embossing 04/05 TJNL

Ink - Versamark

EP - Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red

Card Stock - Real Red, Black, Summer Sun

Other - Rub Ons - Anchored

Same Stamp...Different Point of View

I used the Ornate Tooled Leather Background from Starving Artistamps as a background on all of the cards shown here - just switched up the techniques and a few other images - all from Starving Artistamps.












Technique - Magic Pattern 02/08 TJNL
I morphed the technique and used Twinking H20's instead of watercolor crayons
Stamps - Starving Artistamps: Iris, Ornate Tooled Leather Background

Technique Pastel Detailing 12/07 TJNL

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps:

Ornate Tooled Leather Background, Sympathy Set

Burnished Embossing 12/07 TJNL

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps:Ornate Tooled Leather Background, Large Silhouette Flower

StarvingArtistamps Flowers

I just recently received a bunch of the new release flowers from StarvingArtistamps - these images work wonderfully with some of the techniques from the TJNL. On a few of the samples I've also used Basic Grey's Scarlet Letter Designer Paper (purchased from StarvingArtistamps). Click here to see how you can save 10% on your orders from StarvingArtistamps.

Details:

Stamps -StarvingAritstamps - Large Silhouette Flowers FS8

Ink - Old Olive, Rose Red, Chocolate Chip

Card Stock - Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, White

Tech - Cracked Glass 02/08 TJNL

Other - UTEE, Basic Grey Scarlet's Letter DP

Details:

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps - Large Silhouette Flowers FS5

Ink - Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, Lovely Lilac, Cameo Coral

Card Stock - Confetti White, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip

Technique - Warhol TJNL 02/05

Details:

Stamps -StarvingArtistamps - Large Silhouette Flowers FS1

Ink - Black

Card Stock - Black, Chocolate Chip, Summer Sun, Old Olive, Taken with Teal, Pumpkin Pie, Creamy Caramel, Baroque Burgundy

Technique - Warhol 02/05 TJNL

Details:

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps - Iris

Ink - Olive, Lovely Lilac Markers, Versamark

Other - Black EP, Spritz Bottle

Card Stock - Watercolor, Black, Olive, Lovely Lilac

Technique - Marker Wash 10/07 TJNL

Details:

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps - Large Silhouette Flowers FS6

Ink - Rose Red, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip

Card Stock - Black, Artichoke, Confetti, Rose Red

Basic Grey - Scarlet's Letter Designer Paper

Technique - Cracked Glass 02/008 TJNL

Faux Cracked Glass Tutorial

The latest TJNL covers the Cracked Glass Technique. Last year when I was at the annual SU Convention they showed us how to do cracked class without having to wait for it to cool, hence the name Faux Cracked Glass. Here I've done the Faux Cracked Glass using the Cracked Grout Mosaic stamp from StarvingArtistamps.

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On to the how to of the Faux Cracked Glass - apply your UTEE just as if you were doing the cracked glass, but on your last layer, while your UTEE is still warm press a background image into your UTEE, let it sit until cooled, then lift off. (I like to put versamark on my image before I press it into the UTEE that way it's easier to lift off.

Details:

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps - Iris, Cracked Grout Mosaic

Ink - Black, Versamark

Card Stock - White, Black, YoYo Yellow, Garden Green

Other - Watercolor Crayons, UTEE, Heat Gun

Happy Fat Tuesday!

Details:

Stamps - Flourishes Mardi Gras

Ink - Black, White (inplace of Vanilla), Lovely Lilac

Card Stock - Lovely Lilac, Black, Summer Sun, Garden Green
Tech - Vanilla Double 10/05 TJNL

Flourishes - Lace Heart

If your subscriber to the TJNL - then you know the February issue has been mailed. If you're an Ultimate Subscriber you have access to the wonderful techniques in the February issue right now, if your not a subscriber - what are you waiting for? Check out it out here!

I created this card using the Reinker Splash technique in the February `08 issue.

Details:

Stamps - Flourishes Lace Heart

Ink - Black, reinkers

Card Stock - White, Black, Read

Other - Red Grosgrain, EP

Flourishes is one of the many sponsors of the TJNL, be sure to check out the Flourishes giveaway on Pat's blog.