I just received my comp copy of Card Creations Volume Six and its always just such a rush to see your work in print! Even my kids yelled "That one is YOURS Mom!" Ahhh well trained children.
I'm also going to offer up a $30 gift certificate to either Gina K Designs, or My Favorite Things to the winner as well as my extra copy of "Card Creations Volume Six". The winner will be selected at random and will be announced the winner Saturday night so that the winner can celebrate with their little shopping spree on Sunday. If your profile isn't linked up, be sure to include your email address so I can let you know if you are the winner!
Here's all you need to do to win... tell me your favorite technique. Markers, watercoloring, embossing etc. Give me the scoop! (don't forget your email address so I can find you if you're the winner, I always feel badly when the prize gets redrawn because I can't FIND you!)
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Oh, fun! Happy Birthday! My favorite technique to to probably use my COPICs with different colors and the colorless blender. Very fun!
Happy 30th birthday! This is a great giveaway to celebrate your milestone birthday (once again).
At first I wasn't sure if I'd like it but now I can't stop embossing. To me cards just seems way more finished and fancy with images and words that are embossed. Love it.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Happy Birthday!! Thanks so much for the chance to win! My fave techniques are definitely colouring with copics as well as distressing.
Oh, to be thirty again!!!! (Considering my oldest DS is now 30, I can't get away with this any longer!!! LOL!!!)
I hope you have a wonderful birthday!!!
One of my favorite techniques is using the Prismacolor Pencils and the Keh-i-noor pencils with the OMS (I just got my pencils and am having a blast playing), and also trying to master the Copics!!
Happy Birthday!
I think my favorite technique changes from week to week. Heat embossing is generally up there though. I love how it's so quick and simple (even if a little messy)and it helps with so many other techniques.
Again, have a happy birthday!
At first let me send you some merry birthday wishes :)
How to decide what's my favorite technique as I'm new at cardmaking .. I haven' decided yet.. I'm using Tria markers quite a lot, but also like using water brush with acrilics.
Embosing I haven't tried yet :) Maybe I'll like it most :)
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Joanne! Hope you'll be celebrating in a very special way!
My favorite technique? Probably one one I tend to overuse ... Paper Piercing.
Happy Birthday and congratulations on being published. I can't imagine any magazine not wanting your stuff.
I LOVE watercolouring, with just about any medium, but I also love paper piecing. I'm one of the strange people who actually likes cutting things out. :)
Happy Birthday to You!!! It would have to be copics and my pencils. I love using both of them. The other thing is nesties - they just add the perfect touch to a card. Have fun celebrating 30 again! Thanks for a chance to win. :)
Happy Birthday. My favorite technique is doing anything with ribbon, is that a technique? But I love to add ribbon to my cards.
Thanks
Heidi McDonough
hhmcdonough@yahoo.com
Oh Happy Birthday!! I refuse to say how many times I've turned 30!! LOL
My favorite technique is still my prismas and OMS........but I'm really loving my Copics.....just need more practice!!
Happy 30th birthday! My favorite technique is using my tombow markers on water coloring paper and blending it with a water marker. I love the look it gives.
Thanks for the opportunity to win this blog candy!!!
Happy 30th birthday (again)! Hope it's a great one. I think my favorite technique is probably embosing both wet and dry. Love that extra special texture it gives to the card. Love dry embossing the edge of my card stock with my nestablities and running cuttlebug embosing folders through my bigkick.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Whee, happy BD! Well, I like heat embossing even though I haven't done much lately... am looking forward to receiving my Copics and am hoping I can get proficient enough soon enough to make that my fave technique!
Happy "30th"!!! I'm really not much of a technique girl but if I had to pick one I would say embossing. I really love the look I just don't do it enough!!!
Happy Birthday!! :) Right now my favorite technique is Copic markers, just because they are so new to me. Thanks for the blog candy!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! don't you love turning 30? ;)
thank you for being generous on your bday!
my favorite technique is paper piecing... it gives a whole new dimension to stamping!
Copic markers, hands down! What did we do before them?
Happy Birthday!!!! My favorite coloring technique is colored pencils and OMS, my favorite general technique is sponging. Thank you for the chance to win.
Happy B-day!! My favorite technique is colored pencil and OMS. I also love dry embossing any way I can do it! Thanks for the chance to win.
sandie994@sbcglobal.net
My favorite technique is heat embossing. It adds such a professional and beautiful look to any project- it just demonstrates that you took extra time.
Thanks for the chance. Oh, and Happy 30!
Happy birthday!!
My favorite technique is heat embossing - I overuse it, but I can't help it!
I love to emboss - both heat and dry embossing. My favorite tools are my heat gun and my Big Shot and cb folders! ~chris
Happy Birthday!
My favourite technique seems to change frequently depending on my mood - but presently it is heat embossing!
Happy Birthday! Woohoo 30 is awesome, why not do it again? LOL
I love paper layering more than anything with my stamps. No matter what other techniques I use, I use a lot of paper... often torn.
Happy Thirty Again Birthday! I love all kinds of techniques, but my favorite has to be embossing. I love heat and dry embossing and just love the cuttlebug folders. Count me in on this sweet celebration candy. I can use all the help I can get for my MOJO, and to have money to spend at one of these great stamping store. WOW you totally ROCK at thiry again. Thanks so much for a chance.
Hope this is your best 30th birthday yet!!! Congrats on the publication and thanks for sharing the fabulous blog candy!
I'm much too fickle to have a favorite technique, but every time I make a card using poppin' pastels, I think, "Gosh, I forgot how great this looks; I should use it more often." But then of course I put my pastels away and forget about them for another month or two :-).
Happy , Happy Birthday !
I've not been stamping long but I love using the Prisma pencils and OMS. Love my Cuttlebug embossing folders too!
Thanks for the chance!
I kind of go in phases. Right now it seems like I am doing a lot of embossing. I also like to use chalk.
Happy Birthday!
pscole3467@gmail.com
Happy Birthday! (times 30 +??)
My favorite technique (challenge as I practice) is color with prisma pencils & OMS Fun! Fun!
bam7679@sbcglobal.net
Happy Birthday!
I'm "plenty-9" myself! One of my favorite techniques is Brazen Brilliance...haven't done it in a while but it sure is purdy!
heat embossing
happy birthday!!!!!
bmcbroom at gmail.com
Happy Birthday! Right now (I'm a beginning stamper) I'm just using colored pencils and odorless mineral spirits and love it. Thanks for the chance to win! Enjoy your birthday!
jogarcellano at gmail dot com
Happy Birthday! What a fun candy! I think that my favorite technique is coloring.. and I love any type of coloring..pencils, markers, watercolor - you name it. I love finely detailed images.
Thanks for a chance to win!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOANNE! Love your new blog layout! Will it change with the seasons? My favorite stamping technique is watercoloring. I think it offers a really neat effect to stamped images. Thanks for the chance to win!
Happy 30-again birthday!! My favorite technique this week is glittering! (is that a word??)
Lisa H.
Happy Birthday! :-) And what a great way to celebrate with a publication and sharing some stamping joy! You're too sweet! :-)
My favorite technique to use is probably paper piecing. I'm not so good at the coloring and paper piecing is almost like paper dolls - which I *loved* as a child. :-)
Happy birthday again and congrats on the pub! Thanks for sharing the love and the chance to win!
~Belinda (belinda.chang [at] gmail [dot] com
Happy (again) 30th birthday! It's hard to pick a favorite technique when the addiction runs oh so deep. I'll just say I'm partial to using my markers and learning to use Copics is only enabling the need for a fix! My e-mail (since I don't know where it goes... is shecop@charter.net)
Happy Birthday!!!
I have dabbled with stamping some but recently have done a little more. I purchased some water color pencils and was nervous about trying them, but it was actually easier than what I thought...not that I am an expert...lol.
Thank you for the giveaway!
Karen~
karen_dobbs64 at yahoo dot com
Happy Birthday! My favorite two techniques of the moment are embossing w/my CB and paper piecing. Thanks for the chance to win such terrific blog candy.
Happy 30 again! LOL! You nut! Hope its a wonderful day for you, maybe even be an aunt again on that day?
My favorite technique is sponging, and I cannot do it !! I love the cards with sponging on them, they always catch my eye!
Happy 30th Birthday (again, lol!!) I hope you have a great day!!
I love to paper peice my cards, it just makes them so fun!! And I also can't live without my copics.
Happy Birthday! My favorite two techniques are embossing w/my CB and coloring with my bic markers. Thanks for the chance to win such yumm-o blog candy.
Happy 30th, again!!! I love embossing, the effect just can't be beat!
Thanks for a chance to win!
Lori
lorifranklin@verizon.net
HAppy Birthday! And, I completely understand- I shudder to admit how many times I have turned 30!!
annejillian@gmail.com, btw....
Happy Bday! My favorite technique is just to color... watercolors or prisma w/oms. I don't have time to do much else anymore, it seems!!
When is your birthday?! Surely I have it around here somewhere... dang. I'll find it. Better late than never, of course! And favorite technique? Well, you know I love to color, but technique? HEAT EMBOSSING! I love watching that powder melt and turn into ... glossy sophistication! And I LOVE you, too, birthday girl and fabulous friend! XOXO!
Happy Birthday! My favorite is chalking -it's really the first technique I learned and is still fun.
Happy Birthday! Thanks for giving US the opportunity to get something on your birthday! I really like to color, with anything! I have some copics and those are fun, but sometimes I prefer the look of watercoloring with my chalks and blender pen, or my pencils.
HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! What a better way to celebrate than to see your work in print. That would be awesome!!!!
My favorite technique (or at least the one I reach for the most) is Gamsol technique. Love the way the colors blend so nicely. Thanks for a terrific chance to win! :) Kel
Happy 30th, again! I hope it's a good one!
My fav technique is coloring with anything. Lately it's my Prismacolors, probably becauseI don't have any Copics yet.
Not really a technique, per se, but my fav thing to do for inspiration is to use sketch challenges in creating my cards. Does that count?!
Happy birthday!
My new favourite technique is the Cuttlebug "smoosh". Basically you ink your embossing folder and then put the paper in and run it through. Just be sure to test if the ink washes off easily!
Happy Birthday Joanne! My favorite technique is coloring with my Copics!
Enjoy your birthday!
thirty again is fabulous! thanks for the chance to win an awesome prize. Have a great Birthday! I guess my favorite technique is paper piecing. I love to color, but I love to piece together an image with my favorite papers.
Happy 30th Birthday!! I love my Copics, they are my favorite thing right now!
Happy happy birthday - again. I think my favorite technique has to be blending with my Copic markers. I just love how they look on a card!
wsdanielson@cox.net
Happy Birthday! I think my favorite technique would have to be any embossing. Winning something of Gina K's would be awesome! Thanks for the chance!
iebyrne@yahoo.com
My favorite technique is to use the Cuttlebug to make embossed backgrounds. It is so easy (and I love anything easy) to do and it adds so much to the card.
(ladybugb919@yahoo.com)
My favorite new technique is coloring images. I started out with prismacolor pencils and have recently picked up a few copics. I am hoping to practing and really develop my "talent" of coloring. LOL! Congrats on getting published and thanks for sharing your goodies!
Happy Birthday!
I don't know if I really have a favorite technique... I guess I usually use my copics to color and I love to have everything layered/matted. Well, I guess I do have a favorite technique or two. :-)
Thanks for a great birthday giveaway!
Happy birthday!
My all-time favorite technique (probably because it's one I can do without messing up!) is polished stone. It's so pretty and elegant with so little work. :)
Happy Birthday, Joanne! My all time favorite technique is dry embossing. I used to always use the light table and templates but now mostly use the cuttlebug since they've made it soooo easy!
Enjoy your day!
Jennifer
mjbatchelor@sbcglobal.net
Happy Anniversary of your 30th Birthday!! ;-) I love your blog ... your creativity is so inspiring!! My "go-to" technique is watercoloring from the lids of my ink pads. I love heat embossing, as well.
Thanx for the chance to win!!
Happy Birthday! I love your site and check it daily although I do not comment. You are very talented. I would love to do some shopping at someone else's exspense. Pick me please!!
Happy 30th Birthday! Hope you have a wonderful day.
My favourite technique right now is polished stone. I love how each background is totally different even though you are using the same colours!
Happy Birthday to you!
Favorite technique - I have lots actually. But right now I seem to be stuck on tearing and layering paper.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Tough choice. If you'd asked me a few months ago, I'd say watercoloring. But I've become a copic convert...I just love that markers can look so professional!
My favorite technique is coloring with pencils and blending with OMS. I love the smoothness of the colors when they're blended. Thanks for letting us celebrate your birthday with you! Hope you have a happy one :)
MelissaS
schabelml AT gmail DOT com
Happy Birthday!
My favorite technique to use is actually just using Nestabilities. They make me so happy, and they look wonderful on every card.
Happy Birthday and thanks for the chance to win :) I think my favorite technique is dry embossing with the Cuttlebug folders. I love how it dresses up a card. mritzen@shaw.ca
Happy Birthday! I'll be turning 30 again this year, too!
Favorite technique? You want us to choose just one? I can't. I am in love with three and possibly even a little obsessed. Heat embossing, sponging and coloring with my Koh-i-noor pencils are my faves.
I love embossing, but want to get my hands on some Copics so I can do some great coloring!
peanut.heather@yahoo.com
I seem to use my embossing folders the most, but have just begun paper piecing and LOVE that technique -- such fun -- goes back many a year to my paperdoll days ;-) Love your work -- it's inspiring! kpmartin@bwmail.us
I like to use my watercolors lately. Happy 30 again. I just celbrated 25 again.
snyderkh@msn.com Kathy
I love to water color it can be soft or bold to match my mood and my card! I Enjoy your blog, am a new subscriber. Happy "Thirty Something" I past 30 so long ago there is no fibbing.
Paper piercing! I love it!
Hope you have a fabulous birthday Joanne! Thanks for the chance to win!
Ooh, Happy Birthday!! Thirty was so much fun-and to keep doing it over and over again, what could be better! My favorite technique is and always will be distressing. I can't seem to complete anything without sanding, inking, fraying, or crumpling. Especially the inking, ah, my favorite!!! Happy happy!!
hAPPY BIRTHDAY JOANNE!!
My favorite techinique is paper piecing! Have a wonderful celebration!
Happy Birthday!! You stick with 30! I found an age I like and I'm sticking with 32!LOL!
One of my favorite technique is using Prisma pencils and OMS.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 30...what a beautiful number that one is. Here's wishing you a great year. My favorite technique is embossing. After all these years and hundreds of cards, I still get a big kick watching the powder turn to gloss. Just like magic. Who would ever guess that the technique that you only found on Hallmark's would be accessible to everyone. yum@hawaii.rr.com
Happy Birthday! I would have to say my blender pen with ink is my favorite coloring technique! Thanks for the sweet treat!
p7eggycATaol.com is my email
Peggy
Since I love my Cuttlebug, I'd have to say dry embossing is my favorite technique right now.......but, OH!, I love 'em all, don't you? Watercolors, sponging, heat embossing, etc, etc, etc......LOVE this craft!
Happy birthday! I didn't like turning 30 either!
I love to use my SU watercolor crayons....BUT...I just bought the Peerless Watercolors at GinaK's store today so you never know, I might be won over to them, LOL!
parkerpra at yahoo dot com
Happy Birthday to YOU! My favorite technique is watercoloring for sure. Congrats on your published work and thanks for shariig.
Happy Birthday, Joanne! I love coloring, especially with watercolor.
Wow, 30 again!! Amazing how that happens! LOL Happy Birthday!
My favorite technique at the moment would have to be a combination of colouring and cutting. I love to have the vibrancy of copics, and love to cut and layer pieces!
Hope you have a wonderful birthday!
Kim P.
Happy Birthday!!! I like staying 30 myself! :o)
My favorite technique is paper piecing...but I also love to water color. It is hard to narrow down to just one!
Thanks for the chance to win.
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Anyway, congrats on the birthday and on all you've achieved in your 30 (um, yeah only 30 years)! It is fun watching your talent grow and grow on here...
As for technique, I love markers and paper piercing. (if you can believe it!)
Happy B-day. I love embossing of any kind. It seems to bring life to a card. Congrats on your work in the magazine.
Kathy Brown
kabstampup@yahoo.com
Happy, happy birthday!! Does tying ribbon count as a technique?! lol! That's mine!
Happpy Birthday again - I was lucky to see you yesterday. My favorite technique is what you taught me about layering.
I love watercolor pencils and would love to try copics!
bunnybx at gmail . com
Happy birthday~~~I hated my 30th birthday, so I'm not sure why I would repeat it!! But if you want to, I'll help you celebrate~thanks for the chance to win a gift certificate! So sweet~
Happy Birthday! Thirty is such a lovely age that I have high hopes for its multiples as well. I'm looking forward to seeing it again 10 years from now.
Technique? hm..... I do love making up my own custom glossy sheets with sponge and ink but...Well lately it's dry embossing with my trusty stylus and Classy Brass both current and years past. Then along came the Sizzix machine and cuttlebug folders...and soon the Big Shot will reach my studio but even so my love affair with stylus and light box will continue and as long as the electricity holds out I'll continue to warm my fingers over my trusty light box with stylus in hand.
Thanks for sharing your journey with stamps inks and everything in between. - Jean
jlfstudio@charter.net
Joanne, Happy Birthday to you! I love to heat emboss. The end results change the image just so. When I started stamping, that was pretty much how all stamping was done. Enjoy your birthday! Congratulation to your sister, love new babies!!
Tina P (tmp1984atverizondotnet)
I like the masking technique - looks so neat and makes everyone wonder "how did she do that?"!
Happy Birthday to you!!
Sandy Kay
bobbiesue32@hotmail.com
My favorite other than the cuttlebug of course is prisma pencils and gamsol
Happy 30th birthday (again) and love your blog candy! My fave technique is clear embossing and then sponging! Always fun to try something new!
sandyh502001 at yahoo dot com
Happy Birthday! Embossing, for sure! I get a little thrill every time that heat hits the embossing powder and transforms my image into something amazing. LOL :)
ljatwood at gmail dot com
Happy Birthday ! Hope it's a great one. Love your blog. I love to heat emboss with powders.
Claudia
scfranson@charter.net
www.claudiafranson.blogspot.com
I guess it would be heat embossing for me. I know it's old but I still get turned on when I heat that image and it turns on the charm!
Mary
www.primitiveseasons.blogspot.com
Happy Birthday. I love coloring with my Stampin' Up watercolor crayons. They always give me perfectly blended results.
Thanks for the chance to win.
slbest@comcast.net
Happy birthday! My faorite thing has been plain paper piecing, since I love to mix&match patterns. But I just got a cuttlebug and those embossing folders are addicting! So 2 faves now :D.
jessicakerr1@yahoo.com
Happy, Happy Birthday!!! Oh, to see thirty again! Maybe I will in nineteen years from now when I will be triple thirty in age. LOL I love to dry emboss using my Cuttlebug.
It's so funny that you are 30 again!!! I have been 38 years old since my daughter was 3!!! She is 9 years old and in on the "joke" now. She even puts it on my birthday cake!!!
My favorite technique is an oldy but goody: Prisma pencils and Gamsol with blending stumps. I love to color!!!
thanks, Sandra (strent@mail.com)
Happy Birthday! You are only as old as you feel... which makes me quite young indeed! I enjoy using colored pencils.
Swedie
Happy Birthday!!!My favorite technique right now is dry embossing with the Cuttlebug...Thanks....Kathy Hering...
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!! Aren't birthdays GREAT?!
Looks like I am lucky poster #110!! whoooo whoooo lol!
I love to heat emboss and dry emboss with the cuttlebug. So fast and easy!
Thanks for the op to win your YUMMY blog candy!!
Char in So Cal
scrampaddict {at} cox {dot} net
Happy 30th (again) birthday !! There are so many wonderful techniques out there, but I really believe mine is chalking - I really do enjoy how it makes the picture look soft; however, I have just started using copic markers and once I master them do believe it will be my favorite technique.
Have a great day
Janet
jgbagnall@gmail.com
Happy Birthday! I really enjoy water coloring with twinkling H20s. I'm hoping to master copics, but no time to really play.
Happy 30th - when I met you I figured you were only 25!!
Lately my favourite technique would be either Pencils & mineral spirits OR colouring with my copics
Your Canadian Fan :)
Happy Birthday!! My favorite technique is embossing. I love it, I usually have to stop myself or else I go overboard! Layering comes in close second ;)
Leslie R.
Have a very Merry Birthday!!!!!!
Hmmm....I'm really enjoying learing to color with copics and bic mark its.
Happy Birthday! Hope your day is extra special and your year is great too!
I started stamping because I was drawn to the look heat embossing gave to cards. Love that shiny, raised look! I just started paper piecing. It somehow reminds me of cutting out paper dolls as a little girl and playing for hours with them!
dkrodahl@wiktel.com
Happy "30th"! My favorite techniqe seems to change by the month but currently I enjoy paper piecing and heat embossing. Thanks for the chance to win some candy. jmniffer
Happy Birthday!
Dry embossing with the Cuttlebug folders and using the Nestabilities is easy and fast. I have just started using Prismacolor Pencils and OMS. I really like how this works!
Have a great day!
marian_berggren@tricounty.k12.mn.us
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
I didn't think would like it, but I love coloring with pencils now. I'm so glad I decided to try some Koh-i-noor and OMS.
Happy Birthday! I haven't seen 30 in a looooong time. The card magazine looks wonderful as usual. I can't wait to see it in real life.
Have a very happy birthday! Congrats on the upcoming birth of your niece, also! My favorite technique right now is Koh-i-noor pencils with OMS and blending stumps. Have a great weekend! So many special events!
Happy Birthday! My favorite technique is either embossing or coloring with copics!
becky(at)lakeshorestamper(dot)com
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