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Blogger's Challenge #53: Resist

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This week's Blogger's Challenge was to use any resist technique. That sounds pretty simple, doesn't it? This challenge has been rolling around in my head forever...I actually thought about it all week long. I just couldn't decide what to do...

Now Friday rolls around and I am backed into a corner. I have only 45 minutes left in my day to make the card and post it to blogger.... So what's a stamper to do? I just grabbed the stamps that were already strewn on my messy desk, and started with those. This Joseph's Coat/Emerging Color card came out of the mix. Both are really old techniques from the TJ Newsletter... Although this card is funky, I really like it! I'm sure it pales in comparison to my other BC partner's artwork, though.

To make the background, I brayered two colors of ink over a matte white cardstock randomly. Then I stamped the medallion with VersaMark, Clear Embossed it, and let it cool. Then I brayered burgundy ink over all that, and wiped the excess ink off the medallions. A few dots of Silver Stickles, and the background was done!

I hope you enjoy my "because it was on my desk" resist card...if you have a few minutes, take a look at the other cards from the rest of the BC players (in my left sidebar).

All stamps, Stampin' Up!; the Silver medallions are from Club Scrap.


Wonderful Wednesday Giveaway - Innovative Stamp Creations

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This week's Wonderful Wednesday Giveaway caused me to take a moment and think about what inspires me. You see, the stamps for this week's giveaway are from Innovative Stamp Creations, and the artist for the stamps is Cindy Roland! I consider BOTH Betsy Griffin from ISC and Cindy inspirational and I am thrilled to be able to offer these stamps for the giveaway.


The card I made for the sample uses the Color Collage Technique from the April 2008 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter. The cool thing about using this technique with these stamps is that Cindy Roland was the originator of the Color Collage Technique!


This inspirational 4-1/2" x 8" sheet of rubber is called "Thoughtfulness." It is one of the new stamp sheets offered by ISC. Did you know that if you buy any of the Background Series from ISC, you will always receive a complimentary set of stamps? Some ideas for you: Batik Flowers, WoodGrain & Artsy Victorian - both woodgrain and artsy Victorian were also used on the card above, too. Oh, and Betsy also has the 15% off all Grungeboard, and 30% off all DreamKutz on her site right now, too.
Want to know how to win?
ANYONE can enter this give away.One entry per person, per give away, please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Sunday, June 29th. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. A good way to do this is like so: phuntoon at optonline dot net -- it will help protect your privacy! I will have a random number generator pick one number from the comments to select one winner. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed. Enter today -- good luck! I have blog give aways every Wednesday -- come play!

Congratulations to Mary Garvey, the winner of this giveaway!

More about BOGO...

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It was pointed out to me that I had posted the " Buy One, Get One Half Off" (BOGO) information to the e-group, but I had not posted it to my blog. You do NOT need to be a current Technique Junkie Subscriber to take advantage of this sale.

Here is the pricing for the sale � if you are interested, let me know what you would like and I will send an invoice from PayPal, you can send a check to the address below, or I can take a credit card through email (send the credit card number and the expiration date in two separate emails, along with your complete address on the second).

A list of what is in each newsletter and CD is here.

First, for paper:
Buy any two years: $27.00 (normally $36.00)
Buy any 4 years: $54.00 (normally: $72.00)
Buy all back issues from 10-02 to 12-07: 70.00 (normally $96.00)

Now, for the CDs
Here is the pricing for the CDs:
Buy any two: $22.40 (regularly $27.95 for subscribers)
Buy Four: $44.80 (regularly $54.00 for subscribers)
If you wanted all 5, I would offer them to you for they would be $55.75 (normally $66.00)

My newsletter mailing address is:
Pat Huntoon
Technique Junkie Newsletter
PO Box 16547
Stamford CT 06905

My PayPal address is HERE

Thanks! This offer ends June 30th, so take advantage of it today!

Thanks, ladies, for your support! The sale is now over.

Wonderful Wednesday Giveaway - Rare Images

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Rare Images, indeed! Nancy Judd, Technique Junkie designer and stamper extraordinaire, is the maker of this fine piece of rubber. Nancy was looking for good dog and cat stamps and couldn't find any that she was happy with. So what is any self-respecting designer/stamper/TJ-er to do? Why, you make your own stamps! At least, that is what Nancy did. I am thrilled to offer these stamps from Rare Images for the Wonderful Wednesday Giveaway this week.


The winner of this Rare Images stamp sheet will receive the 8-1/2" x 11" sheet above that is filled with dog, cat and mice images. If you would like to purchase the stamps directly, go to Nancy's Blog and click on the sheet in the right column -- it will take you to her store.


In addition to these great stamps, the winner of the giveaway will receive the card above. The dog is colored using the Marker Water Coloring Technique from the June 2008 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter. (You thought I used my Copics to color him, didn't you? Look at that! Regular ol' markers -- if you subscribed, you would know the trick to doing this...) The purple/green/gold background was made using a technique called Faux Handmade Paper, also from the June issue. Finally, all of those pieces are layered on a piece of Textured Pearl Ex from the December 2006 issue of the Newsletter.



Okay, want to know how the stamps and cards could be yours?
ANYONE can enter this give away.One entry per person, per give away, please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Sunday, June 22nd. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. A good way to do this is like so: phuntoon at optonline dot net -- it will help protect your privacy! I will have a random number generator pick one number from the comments to select one winner. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed. Enter today -- good luck! I have blog give aways every Wednesday -- come play!

The winner of these stamps is Sandi Figura!

Congratulations to Shirley Wilson!

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Congratulations to Shirley Wilson, the winner of the I Brake for Stamps Giveaway on my blog last week. Check in Wednesday for more giveaways and YOUR chance to win!

Blogger's Challenge #51 - Color Combination

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Today's Blogger's Challenge was to use the color combination of Green, Pink and Turquoise. While I was tempted to grab some flowers, I have been drawn to these cool stamps from Starving Artistamps all week long.

I just kept thinking that I wanted to turn these Doodle Factory: Urban stamps into something girly. Cool, hip, phun and phunky girly. Hence my creation today!

Originally I had hand-wrritten "Girlz-Rool" in the banner, but I didn't like the way it looked, so I stamped this saying from Close To My Heart. In any case, I colored it all with Copic Markers, I am working on perfecting my technique in using them, so bear with me. Heck, I even dug out a cloud stencil!

Check out the entries from the other BC players, listed in my sidebar.
Hope you have a phun weekend!

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