JAI48 - Just add a sketch

Hi there,

how is everyone coping with the lead up to Christmas - kind of crazy and leaving you breathless!! - yep I know the feeling. This week we have a sketch challenge for you at Just Add Ink but so you might find the time for it we have it running for two weeks. Here's the sketch.


Now for some reason I struggled with this sketch - I think perhaps its because it didn't seem to have a clear focal point - so in the end I kind of made my own. I'm still not 100% happy with the overall outcome. Here it is so you can see for yourselves.



For a change - I didn't make a Christmas card - I needed one for a baby girl. So I started with a Riding Hood Red base and then added a Regal Rose mat. For the top layer I used some old DSP patterns in pinks, I also did some (occaisionally wobbly) ziz zag stitching around this layer. Next I stamped one of my baby Tee's onto some matching DSP. Trimmed it out, and layered on some white trimmed out sections. I coloured the star on the Tee with a Ruby Red marker (I still haven't updated my markers - soon I hope!!) then added some crystal effects and sprinkled over Dazzling Diamonds. The baby Tee was "hung" off the sentiment that I stamped directly onto the DSP. It dawned on me when I was making this that with a clear mount stamp you can, to a certain degree adjust the shape. So I pressed mine down in a bowed shape onto the acrylic block. The main hazard is possibly getting some side imprints from the crumpled up edges of the stamp - hence the little butterflies flying above ;) I anchored my sentiment banner with buttons and then added a labelled tag to each. For something different I just added a few folds to my ribbon running along the bottom. The large scallops for the bottom border I created by chopping apart a couple of punched fancy flowers. I saw this idea somewhere in the last few months but I didn't tag it and can't remember who posted it - my apologies. The inside was finished off to match. This one is already winging its way to the UK.

Thanks for visiting and if you can snatch a momment in the lead up to Christmas or perhaps have some chill time after why don't you have a play with the sketch and link your creation back to Just Add Ink.

Kim

Recipe: All SU!
Stamps: Baby Tees, Curly Cute, Tiny Tags
Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Regal Rose, Whisper White
Ink: Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip and Ruby Red markers
Accessories: Button Bouquet (R), Fire Rhinestone, Ruby Red brad (R), Berry Bliss and Sweet Always DSP, Beautiful Wings embosslit, Medium Jewelery Tag, Fancy Flower punch, Scallop border punch, Pretty in Pink satin ribbon, Embroidery thread, Crystal effects, Dazzling Diamonds, Double sided tape, Dimensionals

JAI 40 - just add a colour combo

Hi all,

well I'm back after a little break - life has just been plain busy! This week we have a lovely colour challenge for you at Just Add Ink. Here is the colour combo.


Now when I first turned my mind to these colours they said baby to me. Probably the pastel shades - of course I could have been influenced by my recent aquistion of the Baby Tees jumbo wheel. Before I actually got to the stamping I actually demounted my wheel and cut the little Tees into individual stamps (mounting them on Ezi Mount)- I pinched this idea from Renee van Stralen.



OK having adjusted my hardware it was time to stamp. As I wanted to colour the Tees I used Black Stazon. So I stamped three different Tees onto Whisper White. I decided to use Bashful Blue and Pear Pizzazz as the main colours and Blushing Bride and Sahara Sand as accents. So of the three Tees on my washing line two are Bashful blue and one is Pear green. I used an aquapainter to pick up ink for colouring. Once they were coloured I trimmed them out. Then mounted on dimensionals above a whisper White layer that I had sponged clouds onto. The little hangers the Tees are on are hooked onto a linen thread washing line hanging from large Bashful Blue buttons. I coudn't resist adding some Tiny Tags to my little Tees, just like when you buy a new ones from the shops. Although - ahemm usually I would recommend taking the tags off before washing so I plead artistic licence for this ;). I finished off the scene by adding some Pear grass and a little Blushing Bride flower - oh and adding crystal effects to the elephant, star and duckies on the Tees. This whole image panel was mounted onto a layer of Sahara Sand and then adhered to a Bashful Blue base. I stamped all around the edge of the base layer with a little alphabet stamp (from the hostess set Cute by the Inch).

I got to admit I was really pleased with how this turned out and I even had a spare Tee left over which I used to finish off the inside. So why don't you give the colour combo a try and link your creation back to Just Add Ink this week - we'd love to see it :)

Thanks for visiting,
Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Baby Tees, Tiny Tags, Cute by the Inch
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Pear Pizzazz, Blushing Bride, Sahara Sand, Whisper White
Ink: Bashful Blue, Pear Pizzazz, Blushing Bride, Sahara Sand
Accessories: Bashful Blue buttons (R), Bashful Blue brad, Linen Thread, Aquapainter, Scallop circle punch, Boho Blossom punch, Medium Jewelery Tag punch, Crystal Effects, Sponge, Dimensionals, Double Sided tape, Tombow