JAI 108 - Just add a colour combo

Hello there,

well this week at Just Add Ink we have a colour challenge for you. Its a lovely combo - but I must admit I struggled with it. But that probably has something to do with lack of sleep caused by my beloved children taking turns to throw up (in the middle of the night of course) off and on over the course of the last couple of weeks. Urghhh! I'll leave the level of detail there shall I! Ok here are the colours.

Nice huh!!

This all started with a flower - a flower that I liked but was just...too....darn...big...to work....on...a card!! (insert groan of frustration). After beating my forehead on my craft table (metaphorically) I gave up the idea of a card and decided to embrace the idea of topping a box with the flower. So whipped out some textured Early Expresso and my Petal Cone die and in the time it takes to say 1,2,3 had a nifty little take away lunch box sticky striped together, wrapped with ribbon and embellished with that BIG flower ;) But I was nagged by the thought that a gift box needs to have a little gift card to go with it. So came about the matching little card. In the end I was just glad I found a good use for the flower that started it all off ;) There are some fabulous ideas by the rest of the DT so do go check them out. I'm off to bed to catch up on some of that sleep I've been missing out on!!

Thanks for visiting,

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Pick a petal (R), Tiny Tags, Background Basics Polka Dot I (PaperTrey Inc), Grid (Kaiser)

Cardstock: Early Expresso (textured), Pool Party, Island Indigo, Confetti White

Ink: Pool Party, Island Indigo, Early Expresso

Accessories: Swirls and scribbles sizzlet, Petal Cone BigZL die, Beautiful Blooms die #3 (PaperTrey Inc), Ocean Tides vintage buttons (PTI), Early Expresso twine, Scalloped Ribbon border punch, Tombow multi, dimensionals, Sticky Strip, SNAIL adhesive, Double sided tape (X Press)

JAI 31 - just add a colour combo

Happy Friday everyone :),

this is my week off from the Just Add Ink DT but as usual I couldn't resist playing along, as the colour challenge this week sparked my imagination. Here's the colour combo.

The first idea I came up with thinking about these colours was a cupcake! May'be it was the Chocolate Chip as most cakes, especially if my DH has anything to say about it, are chocolate in this house. Now I've never made a cupcake card so I Googled it and perused a few blogs and found some templates - saw some wonderful tasty creations. But after all that I decided to try and make my own template. Here's the result.


As my starting point I used a tent topper card format, you can find a tutorial for it on Splitcoasters here. So to start I cut a Choc Chip base 4 1/8" wide and 9 " long, then folded over giving you a card base of 4 1/2". Then I just decided how much I wanted to taper the bottom in and used my cutter to trim the sides. Moving on to the Kraft layer I cut a strip of Kraft 3" high and about 9 " long. First using Real Red ink I stamped solid spots randomly over it, then I scored every 2/8". Once that was done I folded it up and down accordian style. I adhered it to the base using a mix of sticky strip and Tombow. Before I fixed the upper portion I tied choc chip grosgrain over the top, adding the little tags wth some linen thread. For the cupcake top I started by punching 6 (1 3/8 ") circles from post it notes then laying them out on some choc chip cardstock, making sure that the final dimensions was proportional to the bottom and would still allow the card to fit into a standard envelope. Using the outside of the circles as a guide I trimmed around the edges, then using that as a guide I cut my actual top out of Real Red DSP from Sweet Slumber. Next I dry embossed a swirl pattern onto the top and adhered the cupcake topper to the card. Now I had that in place I could trim the top corners of the base to match the curves of the topper. The final touch was to add lots of Dazzling Diamonds to all the swirl ridges on the cupcake top and just finish off the inside to match.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you get to enjoy a sweet treat this weekend :)

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Pick a Petal, Teeny Tiny Sentiments, Tiny Tags, Party Hearty
Cardstock: Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Ink: Real Red, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: 1 3/8" circle punch, Medium Jewelery Tag punch, Sweet Slumber DSP, Swirls Cuttlebug folder, Two Way Glue Pen, Dazzling Diamonds, Wide Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon, Linen Thread, Tombow, SNAIL adhesive, Sticky Strip, Double Sided tape

Passionate Pink Petals

Hi there,

apologies have got to be brief
kids not in bed yet
BUT - I saw the Just Add Ink sketch challenge and I really liked it and I had a last minute birthday card to make.

So here it is - minus all the usual blurb - and the recipe but I will come back on the weekend and edit that in.

Thanks for visiting,

Kim

Edited (only took me two weeks to get there !) to add :

Recipe: All SU unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Pick a Petals, Think Happy Thoughts
Cardstock: Pink Passion, Taken with Teal, Whisper White
Ink: Pink Passion, Taken with Teal, Tempting Turquoise
Accessories: Chunky Sprinkles (Crystal Iris), Tombow multi, Ice Rhinestone brad, Scallop circle punch, 1 3/8 and 1 ¼ circle punches, Numbers Cuttlebug folder, Petals and Paisley DSP (R), Flirty Ribbon Original (R)

I did have one question about how I got the chunky sprinkles onto the petals - very easy. Just squeeze a thin bead of Tombow multi around the edge of the petal, sprinkle over the sprinkles and then gently press in. Leave for a few minutes to dry then gently shake off the excess sprinkles.

Thanks for your patience :)

Kim

Bold and Bright Mojo to start the year

Hello there,

It has been a long time since I’ve managed to squeeze in the time to do a Mojo Monday sketch challenge but once I got the idea in my head I had to get it out on to paper. There were two design criteria for the card, the Mojo sketch (#120) see it below and the customer’s requirements, the customer in this case being my soon to be five year old baby girl. This is in fact going to be her birthday card. The customer’s requirements – well lots of pink and lots of sparkle (bling to you and me ;).

Since I knew I was going to use pink I headed straight for Pink Passion and layered that Pixie Pink. To back off all that pink and add some texture I added a white layer that was cuttlebuged with a swirl pattern. For the big circle element in the sketch I wanted to make a flower using Pick-a-Petal. So I stamped the polka dot petals in Pink Passion (of course), to bling them up I used tombow to add crystal iris chunky sprinkles around the edges of each petal. To break up all that pink I added a chipboard flower in green. First I pressed it into my Green Galore ink pad, once that was dry I smooshed it into my Versamark pad, added Heat and stick powder, heated that and then finally added the Old Olive superfine glitter. A large white brad (from our past Spring mini) went in the middle and in the middle of that I added a hot pink rhinestone!

As per the sketch I added a scalloped panel at the bottom, also in Pink Passion, with some nice dotty Pixie pink DSP from the Petal Party scrap kit. The last panel was a Green Galore layered with some more dotty DSP this time from the Kaleidoscope DSP. The ribbon element of the sketch took some pondering as SU has no hot pink ribbon!!! Finally and to be honest in the middle of the night the thought came to me to use the wavy happy birthday from Stem Sayings. So that what I did and I liked the result. Finally some more pink rhinestones finish it off.

I haven’t run it by the customer yet but I’m pretty sure the big pink flower, bling and more pink will get the thumbs up and probably a big hug for Mum too.

The inside is just finished off with a little DSP some more petals and a bit of bling too.

Thanks for visiting.

Kim

Recipe: All SU unless noted otherwise
Stamps: Pick-a-Petal, Stem Sayings
Cardstock: Pink Passion, Pixie Pink, Whisper White, Green Galore
Ink: Pink Passion, Green Galore, Versamark
Accessories: Cuttlebug swirl folder, Scallop edge punch, Crystal Iris Chunky sprinkles, Olive superfine glitter, chipboard flower (On Board So Tweet), Kaleidoscope DSP, Petal Party Simply Scrappin Kit, Large white brad (R), Pink rhinestones (Kaiser), Tombow adhesive, dimensionals, SNAIL adhesive, double sided tape.

Paisley Petals

Hi there,

Makeesha set a colour challenge this week (sorry I can only get it to link to the whole blog today ? not the actually post). Here are the colours she picked.

I'm not quite sure why any more but for some reason I decided to go back to my Pick a Petal set - perhaps because its been all of three weeks since I've used it. On pondering - possibly in the middle of the night as we are still up every night with a coughing Mr 1 the thought occured to me to kiss the Paisley stamp onto the solid block petal - so thats what I did. Almost by accident I kissed the same spot and got the same flower motif - and that decided me to try repeating that on all the petals. You could almost say this card is a homage to a couple of our retiring backgrounds - Paisley and Linen, which actually only came into my possession yesterday afternoon - fresh from my retiring list order.

I have a very grumbly Mr 1 at my feet so I'm going to have to try to wrap this up quick. A couple of points to note - the petals are all clear embossed - very hard to see in the photos and the Linen background is also over sprayed on the edges with red marker using the colour spritzer tool.

The end of the petals are also up on double thick dimensionals as you can see below which really lifts them off the card.

Finally the is how I finished off the inside.



Recipe:
Stamps: Pick a Petal, Paisley, Linen, So Many Sayings
Card Stock: Real red, Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, Whisper White
Ink: Real Red, Blue Bayou, Versamark
Accessories: Word window punch, 1" circle punch, Double thick dimensionals (from Kmart), 1" clear round button, Tombow Multi, Snail adhesive, clear embossing powder, Heat Gun, Scallop edge punch, Colour Spritzer tool and Real Red marker, Piercing tool, Clear Kaiser rhinestones

Kristina Werner Colour Challenge # 39

Hi there,

when I first saw the colours for the latest colour challenge - I was gobsmacked - it certainly wasn't a combo that I thought came to me naturally. First I had an idea of trying to combine the last Mojo Monday sketch with the challenge and I also also had a simpler idea. I decided to go with the simpler idea first - just as well because my almost one year baby boy started to throw up at 9 pm last night and didn't stop for a couple of hours. So it was a late night - of NOT card making. However I did manage to finish my simple version this morning. I still have Pick-a-petal in my head, so I mulled over the colured petals matted on black, blacked stamped petals matted on colour but in the end the version I liked best was black stamped onto coloured card. So here it is - very simple - but I kind of like it.

Card recipe:
Stamps: Pick a petal, Short and sweet
Card stock: Whispher White, So Saffron, Green Galore, Real Red, Black
Ink: Basic Black, Real Red
Accessories: Wide Real red grosgrain ribbon, Real red and black brads, Mat pack and piercing tool, Dimensionals, Snail adhesive

See you soon.

Kim

Makeesha's Colour Challenge #3

Hi there,

well this was a challenge - chocolate chip, ruby red , blue bayou and very vanilla. The colours seemed very masculine but Makeesha, who does some awesome work, proved they can be "girly". So I decided to take the tough road and do a girl card with lots of chocolate chip. I must admit I was really pleased with the result especially as its a bit different from the cards I've made before. Here it is:

I decided to make the background chocolate chip but I wanted the brighter colours to really stand out, so I stamped the polka dot petal in Ruby Red on Very Vanilla and then cut the petals out with a large rim of vanilla. The centre of the flower I stamped with blue bayou to tie in the the blue top and bottom. The petals and centre are all up on dimensionals, the centre a double layer. I scalloped the blue bayou at the botton, used the word window punch to cut out a window for the sentiment, added some blue bayou ribbon, then paper pierced all around the edge, a double row down the chocolate chip sides. Oh and added two pewter in the top corners.

Card recipe (all SU):
Card stock: Chocolate chip, ruby red, blue bayou and very vanilla
Ink: Chocolate chip, ruby red and blue bayou
Stamps: Pick a petal, and Short and sweet
Accessories: Dimensionals, Pewter brads, Word window punch ( can't live without this - thanks for letting me borrow it Sam), Blue bayou double stitched ribbon, mat pack and piercing tool, glue dot, scallop edge punch.

Thanks for looking,

Kim