Beautiful Faces

Over the past year, Technique Junkies has released several stamps in the Palettini line that have been very popular, featuring large faces. We have taken several of these faces from the Let's Face It stamps and brought them to you in a smaller format, in a set called Beautiful Faces. Along with the faces, I added sentiments: "You Are", "Beautiful," "Strong" and "Special."

The idea is to put the words together to create a whole sentiment like I have in the example above. I think they are so much more versatile that way. If you were at the hop earlier this week, you might have noticed that I used some of these sentiments on the cards in the hop, too,

The background in this example uses the Falling Flowers Background stamp. I colored this with Copic Markers, and placed black gems over the flowers.

Have a great day!

Fishing Guy

I made this with the first Palettini Stamp that came off the press back in September last year to see how the Wasted Stamp looked -- and I promptly forgot about this card! I am happy to share it with you today, since we are getting closer to Father's Day.

This card uses the Fishing Guy stamp, colored with Pastel Pencils, layered over Wasted (Palettini). On the bottom, I stamped "Go Fish" with the Small Realistic Letter Tiles, Upper Case. I love these little tiles - so useful for creating my own phrases!

All stamps are Technique Junkies Stamps, of course.

Have a great day today!

May Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the hop! If you have come from Jeri's blog, you are in the right place.  I hope you have enjoyed all of the gorgeous artwork!  If this is your first stop, I urge you to start at the beginning on the Design Team Blog (http://techniquejunkies.blogspot.com). The designers have outdone themselves.

Today we are celebrating the May Stamp releases on www.techniquejunkies.com!  We have 35 new stamps, including 11 new stamps from the Palettini line. We are so excited about these new stamps, and we want to share the excitement with a GREAT discount. From now through next Friday, take 15% off all May Release stamps! To find them, click on New Stamps, then May Releases on the sidebar. I hope you love them as much as I do!

The card above uses the Rose Urn (P028) Stamp from the Palettini Line. I colored it with pastel pencils, and added a little shading with distress inks to age the piece a bit. I toyed with adding a sentiment, then decided that this makes a great note card for almost any occasion,

The second card here, which was featured in the TJ Inspirations email (if you are not receiving the email, contact me on phuntoon@optonline.net and I will add you). I used the new Winning Hand Stamp from the Palettini line, along with the Old Card Players stamp (SDX060). The Wasted Background (P020) seemed perfect for this card, along with the Diamonds (S278) cards as an accent.

I hope you have enjoyed the hop -- and I hope you love the new stamps as much as I do!!
  Go save 15% on the new stamps!

Another Vintage Balloon Collage Stamp...

Today's card uses the Palettini Vintage Balloon Collage stamp from Technique Junkies with the Frosted Dylusions Technique. The full Frosted Dylusions Tutorial in on the Shimmer, Glimmer, Sparkle and Shine CD ($14.95, Technique Junkies).

Love how this turned out!

Collage Stamps - 4 Ways

Are you getting the TJ Inkspirations email? Every Friday I send an email with tips, techniques, tutorials and ideas. It's free! If you are not receiving it, send me an email (phuntoon@optonline.net) with your current email address and I will add you to the list.

This week I show how to use Collage stamps creatively, using the same stamp 4 ways.  Over the next few days, watch this blog for the 4 cards I made using the tutorials (the thumbnails were pretty small in the email).

Today I am showing the Deconstructed Collage Card (From the Simple and Easy Inking CD). Details for making this card are on the email HERE.
TJ Inkspirations - Creative Collage Coloring http://conta.cc/1MOJ4nw

All of the TJ Palettini Collage Stamps are on sale this week for 10% off, too. They are HERE.  Get your collage on!