March 19, 2023

Happy Sunday!

I am sharing two fun cards today on the Technique Junkies blog. 

 The first day of spring is tomorrow! So ya'll know how much I loved working with this great new background stamp All About Spring.  Here is my first card:

To create this card, I used my Misti, so that each time I stamped, the placement was accurate. I began with the top section. I masked off the lower section of the stamp, and inked up the upper section with pink ink. I removed the mask, and made my first stamp. The next section was done the same way, except for masking off the upper and lower sections, and stamping only the 3 green lines. This process was repeated for the lower section. The word 'Spring' was stamped onto a piece of cardstock, trimmed closely, matted with a matching orange border & popped up using dimensional foam. Note: I did re-stamp a flower in yellow, and pop it up over top of the green stamped flower.

Here is my next card:

To create this card, I grabbed up a Kraft card base, and a focal panel piece, also in Kraft. Using the beautiful new Pretty Line Florals background stamp, I stamped the background with Versamark ink, so it is a pretty, soft, tone on tone.  Next, using Catherine Pooler's Midnight Ink, I stamped the gorgeous new sentiment No Greater Love. The focal panel was matted with a black panel, and adhered to the card base. Quick and easy!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Food for thought: Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Hugs and smiles,

Patti J.

Get Well Soon

Hello there!

I'm sharing two beautiful cards today that I have created with new stamps, from Technique Junkies.

Here is my first card.  This card features a brand new stamp Japanese Crane, and an older sentiment from the Simple Sentiments Set 2, Style b.  I stamped the image and sentiment using Catherine Pooler's Twilight Ink. The focal panel was trimmed, matted on gray cardstock, and layered over the card base, and a piece of pretty patterned paper.

In this shot, I laid the card at an angle, to show the pretty gold shine on the designer paper. The image and paper goes together beautifully!

Next up, is a card that I created with another new stamp that I love, Praying Hands. This lovely image could be used for so many occasions! The image was stamped with Catherine Poolers Over Coffee Ink, as was the sentiment, Difficult Time. (This set of 2 sympathy sentiments is wonderful, and stamps beautifully, and is ONLY $5.95 for both stamps!!!) The focal panel was adhered over top of a crinkled brown cardstock, then adhered to the card base.

These were both easy cards to create!

I hope you're all well, and I'm so glad you stopped by my blog today!

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Be sure to head over to the Technique Junkies store and do a little crafty shopping!

Hugs and smiles,

Patti J.

Santa's Gift

It's the first Monday of the month - that means it's time for another challenge at Jan's Digital Stamps!

I chose to work with a fun Christmas set called Santa's Gift. This set is on sale, and has some fun images, and some beautiful sentiments. I thought it would be fun to do a very simple card, highlighting a wonderful sentiment.

Here's what I made:

Check out the rest of the design team's great cards, and play along in the challenge! You have until 12:00 noon p.m EST Sunday, 02 January 2022 to enter your project into the challenge.  December winners will be announced on or before Wednesday, 05 January 2022.

See you soon - thanks for stopping by!

Patti J.