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I don’t know how many of you follow Technique Junkies, but I absoluteley love the publications and CD’s.  There is a blog hop every day this week to promote the new 3D and Fun Folds CD.  Some really great prizes when you leave comments.  In support of the 3D and Fun Folds CD  my [...]

Hi all, this is Vickie.  How often have you thought you just had to have a book and rarely use it.  Well this card came from one of those books.  The book is called Interactive Cards by Annie’s Attic.  It is a hinged card and I love the idea.  The base of the card [...]

Hi all, this is Vickie.  This is a sympathy card that I made for a friend.  The gate image and base card are done with Neenah Supersmooth Ivory.  This paper is great to use for colored pencils.  The accent for the main image is Basis Green.  The layer that everything is attached ti is [...]

I have been totally taken by making stamps look like watercolor drawings.  As a person that cannot draw a stick, I love the idea that I can stamp something that resembles a watercolor drawing.  The wonderful HQ Watercolor Cotton Paper takes the color beautifully.  I guess I should explain the process in case some [...]

This card uses the beautiful blue Blumarino Incandescent and the Russo Incandescent.  This is a thank you card for a girl at work.  Her son just took a trip to Washington DC.  I got the picture off the internet and added red stickles for the fireworks. When I added the stickles to the [...]

Hi all, this is Vickie.  I am going to step a little out of my box for this card.  The only thing stamped on it is the tiny tag.  This is a pattern I got from a local stamp store.  The pattern is copyrighted but I thought I could show the pieces [...]

Hi all, this is Vickie.  I recently had  two colored pencil classes with Karen Lockhart.  She showed us a wonderful technique for giving a plain stamp some pattern to it.  I can’t wait to share it.  Here is the image that I started with.  I stamped with Versafine Onyx Black on Cryogen [...]

Hi all, this is Vickie.  I started looking at all the fantastic ribbon I had from Paper Temptress and wondering how I could show it off.  This is what I came up with.

The ribbon I picked for my card is Reversible Satin Ribbon with Stitches in Blue/Green.  Two beautiful colors in one [...]

Hi all.  This is Vickie with my second post.  For this card I used Azalea Mica/Metallic for the background.  I love the rich pink color and the added bonus of beautiful sheen.  I used a technique called Texture Duet from Technique Junkies.  Here you emboss a portion of the cardstock with one folder then [...]