Wednesday Technique Challenge

This week Diana Enns challenged me to create a card using the Faux Paper Aging technique from the March 2004 issue.  I am so pleased with the results, and so pleased I tried this technique because I often want an aged background, and don’t know what technique to try.

This Stampin’ Up train set hasn’t been inked up much, so I thought it was time as it goes so nice with the aged paper.

So, if you’re a Technique Junkie subscriber and have the March 2004 issue, you can play along and post your card to the Yahoo group.

Wisped Frames Challenge

Okay you Junkies, it’s time to play in the weekly challenge that Diana and I are sending out to you.  This week we challenge you to use the Wisped Frames technique as seen in the February edition of the Technique Junkie Newsletter.  Diana made two adorable spring cards for you so please hop on over.  It looks like Diana and I were both thinking of spring, and who wouldn’t at this time of year.  My card uses one of the many spring images from Twisted Papers.

My card not only uses the Wisped Frames technique, but the Mono Dies technique as well.  These techniques, and hundreds of others, can be found in the Technique Junkie Newsletter.  If you subscribe, tell Pat that Beth sent you.

Image:  Twisted Papers; Ribbon, Bo Bunny; Cardstock:  Cool Carribbean by Stampin’ Up; Pink cardstock is Bazzill; Branch and flower die cut, Stampin’ Up; Sentiment, Stampin’ Up; Flowers from Hobby Lobby wedding isle.

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Stringing You Along

A while ago I submitted the idea to Pat and shot the Stringing You Along technique for the Technique Junkie Newsletter.  This technique really pops with my Tim Holtz stamp.  It almost looks like tie-die, eh?!  My yummy background is the Faux Designer Paper technique, also from the Technique Junkie Newsletter.  Lots of hand stitching was added around the edges and on the buttons.

Do you favour flowers or buttons on your cards?

Tim Holtz stamp comes from Croppinsville.

Happy New Year

Happy Chineese New Year

Donnie and I had a wonderful time with our friends at our local Chinese Restaurant to celebrate Chinese New Years.  I chose red as my background on this Brayered Brilliance (recent issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter) because I learned, through reading 7 Chinese historical novels over the past year, that red is a very important colour in Chinese society.

Lisa See writes a variety of wonder history Chinese fiction.  I love to read books that intertwine fiction with historial facts.  I read all of Lisa’s books last year, and moved on to other authors of historical Chinese history.

Love mystery?  Then read Dragon Bones, Flower Net and Interior.  Lisa’s other two books may not appeal to many, but they did to me.

I read close to 50 books last year, and have already finished off four of Iris Johanson’s books this month.   She writes action packed thrillers that grab my attention in the first paragraph of the book.  Currently, I’m into “Sail” by James Patterson.  Oh my gosh, this is such an excellent book.

What are your top three must-reads?

Stamps are from Stampin’ Up

Herringbone Technique

Good morning. Today Diana Enns and I are challenging each other to create a card using a narrow cuttlebug folder, and then turning those pieces of paper into a Herringbone card.

When I saw Diana’s black Technique Junkie Herringbone card, I thought I was looking at designer paper.     It was only through an e-mail to Diana that I learned it was indeed a handmade background using one of her cuttlebug narrow folders.  Talk about creative thinking!

My card was made using the Organic folder.   Flowers, from SU Fifth Avenue Floral, were watercoloured.   Diana made a wonderful card and you can see it by visiting her blog Crafts and Adventures from the Enns’.

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