Ingenious Inkling

Technique Junkies New August Stamps

There is a stamp for every style in the August Release at Technique Junkies ... remember they are all 20% off through August 8th (with an extra 10% off your entire order including new stamps if you use my discount code TJ10Stephanie).

 

 

I started by practicing some of the watercolor skills I learned from Eff Cee on the gorgeous Framed Sunflower using golden yellows, oranges and browns.  When I was done painting, I added orange splatters to finish the design.

 

The sentiment is from Simple Sentiments Set 1b.  I'm linking-up at Watercooler Wednesday where the theme is Anything Goes.

 

Next I did a more free-form watercolor technique using the new Echinecia Stamp.

 

 

I used the colors from these Cheyenne Spirit Coneflowers as my inspiration for my color palette.  I found a scrap of water-colored paper in my stash that was the perfect background.  The sentiment for this card is from Simple Sentiments Set 2b.

 

I'm linking this one up at the Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes Watercolour Challenge (no Ocean, but it takes a lot of water to keep those flowers blooming).

 

I thought the new Prickly Stamp was perfect for paper piecing.  I stamped it on green cardstock, cut it out, and added shading with colored pencils.  I stamped it a second time on wood grain designer paper.

 

I backed it with some hand-marbled paper I made before attaching to a Cactus Green Card Base.  The Prickly Cactus is also perfect for the {Cupcake Inspirations} Challenge this week.

 

 

I'm also entering it in the Anything Goes Challenge at Cute Card Thursday.

My final card features the new Inside Out For the Girls Set.  I could think of someone for each sentiment included in the set.

 

 

I paired this one with some Eyelet Outlet Sneaker & Water Bottle brads and washi tape.  The inside reads:

 

I'm linking this one up at the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Challenge.

Make sure you hop to all of the other Designer's Blogs to see the entire release.

• Technique Junkies Blog https://techniquejunkies.blogspot.com/2019/08/technique-junkies-august-release.html
• Beth Norman-Roberts https://www.sunflowers-dragonflies.ca/blog/62725/technique-junkie…ase-and-discount/
• Ceal Pritchett https://simplybeautifulcreations.blogspot.com/2019/08/technique-junkies-august-release.html
• Giovana Smith https://giovana-believe.blogspot.com/2019/08/technique-junkies-august-release.html
• Holly Brown https://glitterstampsandink.blogspot.com/2019/08/august-2019-technique-junkies-release.html
• Janine Tinklenberg https://www.jantink.com/2019/08/01/mitten-state-stamps-tj-august-release.html
• Jeanne Streiff https://inkypaws.splitcoaststampers.com/2019/08/01/technique-junkies-august-release-discount/
• Judy Jackson - https://judysstampart.blogspot.com/2019/08/awesome-august-new-awesome-stamps.html
• Kia Gibson-Clapper - https://kia-splace.ca/?p=8801
• Lee Ann Barrett https://greytpapercrafts.blogspot.com/2019/08/celebrating-august-technique-junkies.html
• Lynda Pleckan https://paperartscafe.blogspot.com/2019/08/technique-junkies-august-stamp-release.html
• Pat Huntoon https://patstamps.blogspot.com/2019/08/august-2019-new-release.html
• Ro Donner https://rodonner.blogspot.com/2019/08/august-release-from-technique-junkies.html
• Stephanie Severin <<---------- YOU ARE HERE

Baby Baby

I needed a congratulations card for a new Grandma of twins.  I went to my favorite Reverse Confetti Cute as a Button stamp set for the win.

 

 

The layout is from Feeling Sketchy, sentiment is from Reverse Confetti Posted Note Sentiments & the papers are from Reverse Confetti Pattern Play.

 

Embrace the Journey

The theme at the Impression Obsession Challenge is Feathered Friends.

 

 

I thought about some penguins ... but settled on a stork to add to my baby card stash.  I stamped the Impression Obsession Stork in gray and then built my card around him using a paper from My Mind's Eye Cut & Paste - Flair.

 

The sentiment is from Impression Obsession Words for Art and the Sketch is this week's Freshly Made Sketch.  I really like the strip of grey cardstock on the left side of the design ... need to remember to incorporate more of that.  I repeated the circle theme of the paper with some Eyelet Outlet Enamel Dots.

 

Stamping Friends Trifecta

The My Sweet Petunia Design Team is having fun creating with two of our dear friends ... Gina K. Designs and Picket Fence Studios.  Each company will be giving away a $50 gift certificate to one lucky blog commenter from all of the participant blogs.

 

I love Gina K.'s cardstock ... the colors are so vibrant and the card stock is the perfect sturdy weight.  I decided to stamp on three different colors of half sheets using the new Elegant Asters Stamp Set ... I thought it would be fun to have stamping on both the front and back of my folded card.  I used my Memory MISTI, so I could easily stamp off all the edges.

 

 

The first card used Gina K. Designs Sweet Mango Cardstock and the three flowers in the set.  I wanted a tone-on-tone look for each card, so I worked with a monochromatic design.

 

The Memory MISTI allowed me to stamp all three flowers at once, clean them with my Gina K. Designs Tidy Towel (love that thing) and then stamp again.

 

 

After filling my cardstock, I folded it in half and made my first card.  I stamped the large flower and two sets of leaves on Gina K. Designs Sea Glass cardstock and cut them out with the coordinating Dies.

 

 

I added some Eyelet Outlet Bling in the center of my bloom and some enamel dots before finishing with a sentiment from Picket Fence Studios Going to Be Okay.  I just love how her cardstock colors work together.

 

 

Next I decided to stamp with only the leaves in the set on Sea Glass Cardstock.

 

 

Aren't those leaves just beautiful.

 

 

Again I covered the entire half sheet and folded it to make my card.

 

 

I used more die cut leaves together with the Gina K. Designs Wishes Word Die cut from fun foam.  The sentiment is Picket Fence Studios Ways to Say Congrats paired with the tiny BEST Stamp from Gina. K. Designs Mini Wishes Stamp Set.  Love how it all works so well together.

For my final card, I combined the flowers and the leaves, which allowed me to stamp them all together using my Memory MISTI very quickly.  This time I used the yummy Jelly Bean Green Cardstock from Gina. K. Designs.

 

 

Stamping so many images at a time, my half sheet was filled in no time at all.

 

 

Next I stamped the butterfly from the Gina K. Designs Elegant Asters Stamp Set twice on Sea Glass Cardstock and die cut them.  Then I added some adhesive pearls.

 

 

I used more of my Fun Foam with the Gina. K. Designs Hello Word Die and perched my butterflies on several of the flowers ... this card just makes me happy.

I hope you had fun on my creative journey today ... if you don't have any of this yummy cardstock, you should really consider adding some to your stash.

Now it's time to HOP ... remember, three $50 gift certificates up for grabs chosen from commenters on the participant blogs.

Gina Krupsky

My Sweet Petunia

Picket Fence Studios

Karen Hightower

Ilina Crouse

Sheri Gilson

Jeanne Streiff

Cathy Tidwell

Lydia Fiedler

Donna Idlet

Susie Moore

Ceal Pritchett

Lisa Hetrick

Giovana Smith

Mindy Eggen

Stephanie Severin <<---- You Are Here

Rema DeLeeuw

Chris Dayton

Emily Loggans

Heather Ruwe

Arjita Singh

Karen Reategui

Melanie Muenchinger

Angela Bode

Beth Silaika

Jen Timko

Jana Millen

Lisa Henke

Anna Wight

Judy Rozema

Susan Wymer

Hannah Schroepfer

 

Fierce Mind

The theme of the Stock Your Stash Challenge at Reverse Confetti for April is Moms, Dads or Grads.

 

Of course, no Moms, Dads or Grads stamps in my Reverse Confetti Stash, so I had to get creative.  What I do have are Congratulations Stamps & Encouragement Stamps, so I combined sentiments from Reverse Confetti My Tribe and Congratulations for this Graduation Card.

 

I watched this video to figure out how to make my own Mortar Board Hat and added a bit of twine for the tassel.

A New Baby

The theme of the current Impression Obsession Challenge is New Beginnings.

I needed a baby card for my stash, so that seemed like the perfect New Beginning.

 

I have never been a liquid adhesive user ... but after watching several people have success with Gina K. Designs' Connect Glue, I took the dive ... and haven't looked back.  I used it to attach those cursive letters from Impression Obsession's Congrats Word Set and it worked like a charm.

I die cut the four icons from Impression Obsession's Baby Set from Red & Blue cardstock and finished my design.

I'm also joining the Anything Goes Challenge at Cute Card Thursday.

We Didn't Like Him.

Lisa Arana shared a great video in the Unity Stamp Company e-mail today of a Quick Background technique using the MISTI. She challenged us to use the technique and post it in the Unity {show & tell} group on Facebook. 

I realized as I surveyed my Unity inventory that I definitely lean toward Itty Bitty stamps and sentiments, so it was a little challenging to find an image to repeat ... so I got creative with the technique using the Wine & Friends Itty Bitty Stamp.  Using my MISTI made it easy to move the row of glasses around.   I used my Spectrum Noir markers to color the large glass of wine & trio of hearts.

 

I stamped three rows of glasses & finished with a snarky sentiment from Unity Stamp Company She Used to Care. 

 

My Sweet Petunia (MISTI) and Pink & Main

The design teams from My Sweet Petunia and Pink & Main are having a fun Blog Hop today.

This stamp company was new to me, so I had fun choosing from their fabulous stamps and dies ... and I also played with some of their designer papers (they are two-sided ... love that) and Glossy Dots.

First ... I have a long-time love of tiny sentiments, and they have an awesome selection.  And I couldn't resist pairing them with these adorable little Planner Peekers (they are meant for planners, but are perfect for card-making).

I started with the Owl who looked super-serious in those too-big glasses, so I paired him with some "Get It Done!" sentiments.  I used two from the Planner Peekers and one from Get Fit.  My MISTI makes it so easy to get the alignment I want (I started out with them straight, but decided I liked it better a little wonky) and then stamp them all together.

I colored him a dark blue and paired him with the Beach Bum papers (awesome for masculine designs).

I finished with a coordinating wrap of twine.

The Unicorn seemed much less serious, so I paired her with papers from the Rainbow Collection & sentiments from Planner Peekers and Happy Mail (again ... love the tiny sentiments)

I colored my unicorn in shades of Hydrangea Blue with a silver sparkly horn.

This one is also for the Paper Made Bakery Tic Tac Toe Challenge ... where I went with Bold Sentiment, Red & Twine.

For the final in my trio, I re-stamped the Panda directly on my robin egg blue card base.  I was able to line up all of my stamps on my MISTI and stamp it at once (which would be adorable for making sets).  The sentiments are from Happy Mail.

Love this cute little guy.

I used a strip of paper from the Beach Bum Collection & finished with some Eyelet Outlet Enamel Heart stickers.

The next set I fell in love with was the set of Easter Icon Stamps ... I love stamps that can be punched out with a circle punch (again, takes me back to things I fell in love with when I started stamping many years ago).

I decided to find colors that I could pair with those vibrant Rainbow Collection Papers.

So much spring fun ... and of course, perfect coverage when I stamp with my MISTI.   I used a 1 3/4" punch, which left a nice border.

I made another trio of cards with a variation on a theme.

I couldn't resist those sweet little bunnies in jelly bean colors.  I added a sticker sentiment to finish the design.

This card is also for the Here Comes Peter Cottontail Challenge at Shopping Our Stash.

The little check felt like he needed to be yellow, so I paired him with two other Icons stamped in Orange on Yellow Cardstock and attached them with foam tape for dimension ... I added some of those Glossy Dots with the Rainbow Paper.

This one is also inspired by the If You Give a Crafter A Cookie Challenge (aren't those cookies adorable).

For the final design using these stamps, I made a spring card using three stamped butterflies and a sentiment from a tiny extra set that was included with my order called Flower Mouse on a 4" x 8" card base.

I also couldn't resist trying the Coordinating Dies & Stamp sets from Pink & Main ... I chose Congrats ... perfect for babies, weddings, new home, graduation, or any event that deserves a congrats (there is a sentiment for each).

I love that there is a die cut for both an outline and the word to really make the word pop ... It was perfect to use with all of the paper scraps from the Rainbow Paper Collection that I had on my studio table (and do you see ... more awesome tiny sentiments).

I wouldn't resist adding a few more of those fun Glossy Dots to finish.

Keep hopping along for more fun ... we will choose two lucky commenters from the hop to win one of two prizes: a $50 shopping spree at My Sweet Petunia or a $50 shopping spree at www.pinkandmain.com - leave your comments no later than Sunday, March 25th, at 11:59 PM CST and winners will be announced on Tuesday April 3rd, on the PInk & Main and My Sweet Petunia blogs.

Mitsyana Wright

Ilina Crouse

Pam MacKay

Jeanne Streiff

Yolie Burke

Kia Gibson-Clapper

Mindy Eggen

Ceal Pritchett

Pamela Pease

Giovana Smith

Annie WIlliams

Stephanie Severin <---- YOU ARE HERE

Michelle Currie

Susan Wymer

Lydia Fiedler

My Sweet Petunia

Sweet Little One

The February Reverse Confetti Sketch For You To Try comes to the rescue for a needed baby card.

I am also lovin' my new VersaFine Clair Inks (onesies are stamped in VersaFine Clair Cheerful with a single impression ... look at that coverage) and sentiment is stamped in Catherine Pooler Garden Party.  All Stamps are from Reverse Confetti Cute as a Button with coordinating Onesie Confetti Cut Die.

With my dotty background, I'm also joining the Retro Rubber Challenge.  My Reverse Confetti stamps are at least one year and 4 months old (I made my first card with them in October 2016).

 

Crafty Biathlon

I'm playing with some Card Olympics at My Favorite Things while watching the winter sports on television.

This card is for Event #3 - the Crafty Biathlon.

The challenge was to combine a Technique from a list with a Card Type ... I chose Dry Embossing with a Z-Fold Card.

I needed a wedding card, so the Z-Fold is perfect for tucking a check or gift card in the back fold of the card (which was one of the other card types ... sort of like throwing an extra Quadruple Loop into my long program).

I also threw-in a version of Inlaid Die Cutting with my sentiment rectangle (another extra technique), as it fits into the opening on the front of the card.  I put the entire folded card through the embossing folder, so it is covered in snowflakes.

Sentiments are from My Favorite Things LJD Together Forever.

I added another rectangle of white cardstock under the sentiment to write a little message and sign our names.