JAI 84 - just add white and one other colour

Hello there,
well today I have the first in a string of more CAS guy cards. I have a lot of family birthdays through Sept/Oct not to mention Father's Day last weekend, and that made this week's Just Add Ink challenge just perfect. This week we want you to add white and one other colour (your choice on which).

I was rather purist and literally used just one colour - Pacific Point. Here's the result.

I had to make a Father's day card for my FIL, and I used two things as a starting point, first he has a flying affinity and second a sweet tooth. So a balloon filled with something sweet (Malteasers - not rabbit poo - as suggested by my DH!! - that didn't stop him from finishing off the packet I might add) seemed perfect. The card is pretty straightforward - lattice embossing in the background, sponged clouds, as a background for the balloon. A pull door so you can get at the goodies without pulling the card apart.

Reportedly my FIL liked the card and enjoyed eating the Malteasers. I tried to fit 5 in the balloon but just couldn't find 5 small enough to do - so I had to settle with four. I will admit to eating some of the rejects as well - another benefit of making a sweet treat card - lol!

Thanks for visiting :)

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: A Little Treat, Something Sweet, Everyday Button Bits (PaperTrey Inc), Father's Day stamp (local craft shop)

Cardstock: Pacific Point, Whisper White

Ink: Pacific Point, Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Sweet treat cups, 1 3/4" circle punch, Round Tab punch, Scallop circle punch, Lattice embossing folder, Double sided tape, Dimensionals

Just add Ink 53 - Just add inspiration

Hello there,

welcome back to another Just Add Ink challenge. Our challenge this week just brings a smile to my face because it feels so happy, its......an inspiration challenge using the photo below and to add bright bursts of colour.

Flowers obviously spring to mind, especially this time of year down under - that combined with upcoming birthday festivities - did I mention that Miss almost Six's birthday is in one more sleep?? :) With both of those in mind I remembered a fabulous project a lovely SU! friend of mine (Di Barnes) posted last year and decided to have go at that. To be honest I was tempted to do a straight CASE of Di's project (you can see it here) as I thought it was gorgeous (and I even had the Bloom die cuts) But in the end I decided to do my spin on it - so what am I going on about - think sweet treat flower wands!



I started by punching out a 1 3/4" circle and using dotto to stick that down to some Whisper White cardstock, then I inked up my large petal and stamped around the punched circle. (This was my solution for mimimising cutting instead of each individual petal I cut out the whole flower). For the large petals I discovered it was best to stamp a couple of mm's out from the punched circle. For the smaller petal it was best to stamp as close to the edge of the punched circle. After stamping three large petal circles in Daffodil Delight and three in Melon Mambo, and small petals circle in Daffodil Deight, Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie and Orchid Opulence I trimmed them out from the larger sheet of cardstock. Now the 1 3/4" circle punch has no trouble reaching into the middle of the smaller petal flower but couldn't reach into the middle of the larger petal circle (My solution was to use a 1 3/4 circle die I had to cut the middle out).

OK now it was time to assemble, I placed a large petal flower over a sweet treat cup (I usually add a bit of Tombow on the cup rim so that my flower would stay in place), then used my piercing tool to make a hole, then pushed a wooden skewer up into the sweet treat cup. Having added dimensionals to the back of the smaller petal flower I then add that to the sweet treat cup (over the skewer). All there is to do then is to tie on a long length of green ribbon (for leaves), fill the cup with something yummy and colourful (Smarties) and then adhere another die cut circle over the back of the cup to keep the sweets in. Now my next challenge will be to come up with a boys alternative - I'm thinking stars....

The flowers wands definitely met with approval from my Miss almost 6 so it looks like they will be part of the party loot.

Thanks for visiting and don't forget if you have time why don't you join in the challenge too this week.

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Something Sweet, A Little Treat
Cardstock: Whisper White
Ink: Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo, Orchid Opulence (R)
Accessories: Sweet Treat cups, wooden skewers, 1 3/4" circle punch, 1 3/4" circle die (PaperTrey Inc - Limitless Layers 1 3/4"), Circle nestabilities, Tombow, Dimensionals, Green satin ribbon (craft store)

JAI 36 - just add a sketch

Hi there,

this week at Just Add Ink we have a great sketch challenge for you to work with. Here is the sketch.

Now I started with a completely different idea - even had the card two thirds done and then was seized with a new idea that I just HAD to make to see how it would come out. Which one are you going to see? Well I was kind of happy with how the second one turned out so here it is.





My idea out of the blue was to have a balloon floating across some of the map pattern DSP from the new Newsprint pack - add an arrow saying "Party This Way" and end result - a fun somewhat quirky card. It brings a smile to my face anyway :)
So I started with a Pacific Point base layered that with Vanilla and then added some of the map patterned DSP. Then I stamped the balloon basket and the Party sign in Pacific Point on Vanilla, and trimmed them out. To make the balloon I stamped the party balloon from Party This Way, again and again (masking) till I got a big enough balloon to punch out. I added a little ruffled Pacific Point flower with a rhinestone and rhinestones to the basket to finish it off. As per the sketch I also added a scalloped panel on the LHS, layered as per the base. That panel was finished off with some White Taffeta, dyed with Pacific Point, tied in a bow with rhinestone.
The inside was just finished off very simply to match.

Thanks for visiting, and why don't you have a go at the sketch too and then link your creation back to Just Add Ink - we'd love to see it!

Kim

Recipe: All SU!
Stamps: Party This Way, A Little Treat
Cardstock: Pacific Point, Very Vanilla
Ink: Pacific Point
Accessories: Newsprint DSP, 1 3/4"circle punch, Scallop border punch, Boho Blossom punch, Rhinestones, White Taffeta ribbon, SNAIL adhesive, Double sided tape, Dimensionals

Hop to it for an ESAD Mothers Day Blog Hop

Good Morning everyone!
I hope you’re ready for the ESAD Blog Hop! Better go grab yourself a cuppa as you’ll be hopping for a while!

What is ESAD you say?
ESAD stands for Extra Special Australian (and New Zealand) Demonstrators and it is an online group just for Australian and New Zealand demonstrators for Stampin’ Up!
We so love what we do and not only do we love to share it with our customers, friends and wonderful blog visitors but we share our love for what we do with each other as Demonstrators. We run swaps, challenges, tutorials, product know how and cyberstamps and we are always there to help and support each other when its needed.
So if you are a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand then please feel free to click here to join our wonderful group.

OK lets get started. I put together a few little things using alot of the lucious new goodies in the new SU! Autumn/ Winter mini catalogue. First up a little bird house into which you can tuck a little gift.

I have CASEd this idea from the talented Jo Wimbourne in the UK. She even included a tutorial on her blog running you through how to construct it. I wanted to use the new Cottage Wall DSP so I started off making the bird house base from Orchid Opulence, then added a roof of Old Olive, decorated with Cottage Wall roofing, sponged on the scalloped edges with Old Olive. Special little embellishment touches include stamping the window sheet with the little flower from Cheep Talk in White Stazon. Of course I used the new bird punch to decorate the front. (So fun to use) Old Olive for the branch, the bird in Rich Razzleberry, with a white layer to highlight it and its wing in DSP to match the roof. Lastly another flower inked in Orchid Opulence and rock and rolled in Razzleberry with an Old Olive brad. The final touch a little library clip to hold the roof on with a knot of the new dotty Razzleberry ribbon. The bird house is just the right size to tuck in some buttons or perhaps chocolate coated coffee beans. Hmmm which one will it be?

To go with the bird house I made a fun card using the new scallop circle die. I just love how simple it is to cut some folded cardstock with the die - and you have a card just like magic!!




Once again I started with an Orchid Opulence base, cut the card with my scallop die, then tucked the front into the new SU! Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder. OK next step was to stamp six petals with the new A Little Treat set in Rich Razzleberry. Then punch a 1 3/4 inch circle in the card front so I could slip through a sweet treat cup. I partially filled the cup with a selection of beads, raided with permission from my Miss 5's bead collection. I sealed up the back, with some Whisper White stamped with little Orchid and Razzleberry flowers, covered over on the inside with a larger circle of Orchid Opulence to blend in the front. Ok back to the front, I SNAILed the six petals into place evenly around the sweet treat cup. To give the flower some ompf I also stamped six of the little leaves from the set in Old Olive, slipped their ends into the 1 3/4 inch circle punch so I could fit them around the cup on the petal intersections, mounted up on dimensionals. Some Old Olive ribbon tied round near the fold with a little sentiment tag fastened on finish off the front.
I have one last piece - a little bag I made using the scallop circle die and the new Vintage Vogue set. I'm rather proud of this one as I came up with the idea of how to make it myself (although I'm sure it must have been done before).

This time I used the new in colour Melon Mambo (so very nice). I started by cutting some folded MM with the scallop circle die, then I scored and folded the cardstock two scallops in from either side of the original fold. Into this cradle of sorts I inserted a little box of Pumpkin Pie just small enough that you can't see it round the scalloped sides. (Well unless you look side on ;) Before I sticky striped everything together I rolled the Mambo cardstock with Mambo ink using the Very Vintage wheel. It has a gorgeous vintage pattern but I figure that is no reason to not use it with bright colours too. The handle is an A4 length of Mambo scalloped down both sides and also rolled with Very Vintage. I attached that to the sides using the round tab punch, a pumpkin flower and a Designer flower brad. Lastly I decorated the front with flowers and leaves from Vintage Vogue stamped in Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo and Old Olive.

I hope you liked my SU! Autumn/Winter mini inspired Mother's Day projects.

If you've enjoyed the ESAD hop so far then please continue.

You should have come from Kelly and the next hopper to visit is Jan. There are 16 of us in the todays hop and don't forget if you leave a comment on every post then email Sharlene stampwithsharlene@hotmail.com and let her know as we have blog candy on offer.

Thanks for visiting, please come again.
Kim

Sharelene Meyer www.magpiecreates.com
Kelly Nelson www.Kellysstampinspot.wordpress.com
Kim Badelt www.kimsstampingspot.blogspot.com
Jan McAnulty www.cardcaperswithjan.wordpress.com
Megan Mcdonald www.megan-finishingtouches.blogspot.com
Narelle Hodges www.stampwithnarelle.blogspot.com
Kristine Thompson www.inkspotcreations.com
Kylie Swain www.kraftykylie.typepad.com/blossom_designs
Rachel Jackson www.havefunstamping.blogspot.com
Nicky Adamson www.nickyadamson.blogspot.com
Kari Hughes www.karigail.wordpress.com
Vicki Were www.stmpinvickistyle.blogspot.com
Clare McLlhatton www.craftycowcreations.blogspot.com
Lisa Bullock www.daffyscrapper.wordpress.com
Wendy Todd www.stampwithwendy.com.au
Jenny Humphreys www.stampinbytheseatofmypants.blogspot.com
Recipes
Birdhouse
Stamps:Cheep Talk
Cardstock: Orchid Opulence, Old Olive, Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry
Ink: White Stazon, Old Olive
Accessories: Cottage Wall DSP, Scallop border punch, sponge dauber, Clips assortment, Rich Razzleberry Polka Dotted Grosgrain ribbon, Two Step Bird punch, Window Sheet, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, SNAIL adhesive, Tombow
Scallop Card
Stamps: A Little Treat, Teeny Tiny Sentiments, Cheep talk
Cardstock: Orchid opulence, Whisper White, Old Olive
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive
Accessories: Scallop Circle BigZ die, SU! Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, narrow Old Olive grosgrain ribbon, Circle Scissors Plus, Medium Jewelery tag, Sweet treat cup, beads (local craft shop), embroidery thread, Dimensionals, SNAIL adhesive, Dotto
Scallop Bag
Stamps: Vintage Vogue, Very Vintage
Cardstock: Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White
Ink: Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive
Accessories: Scallop Circle BigZ die, Scallop edge border punch, Flower designer brads, Round Tab punch, Sticky Strip, Dimensionals, SNAIL adhesive