Just Add Ink #711 Inspiration

Hello there,
IT challenges have me running late for this week's new challenge at Just Add Ink which started last Friday. This week I suggested an inspiration challenge. Use the colours, patterns or objects in the photo below to inspire the main elements of your project. Here's the picture.

This is how my card turned out.

The Just Add Ink DT have lots of fabulous projects to show you so please go check them and then come back and join in the challenge.

Thanks for visiting,

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Delivering Cheer (R)

Dies: Stitched Rectangles (R)

Cardstock: Basic White, Real Red

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Versamark

Accessories: Gingerbread & Peppermint DSP (R), Red Glimmer, Blends (Real Red, Garden Green, Granny Apple Green, Light and Medium Combo's), Red pearls (R), Cherry Cobler twine (R), Black embossing powder, Heat tool, Die cutting machine, Wink of Stella,  Dimensionals, Tear and Tape

Just Add Ink #684 Colour

 

Hello there,

well with Christmas almost upon us. We have one more challenge for you this week at Just Add Ink. Rochelle has asked us all to add traditional Christmas colours.

I make a gift card holder for each of the nieces and nephews each year for Christmas. This week was the perfect challenge to make them. They are always same, same but different, so each one gets something just a little bit individualised. Here's how they turned out this year. 

The holders were very simple, a strip of card stock, scored twice. One side folded over and adhered just on the edges to make a pocket for the gift card, then the remaining side folds to close it. To keep them closed I made belly bands embellished with shiny sprigs, snowflakes and ribbon.

The Just Add Ink DT have a some gorgeous projects to show you, so please go check them out, and then share yours! Thanks so much for joining us this year we love seeing all the projects you share with us! 

This challenge will run for two weeks, so you can also share your projects after Christmas when you have more time. It will close on January 3rd. There will be no winner's post for this challenge just the opportunity to share your work and inspire others.

The Just Add Ink team will be back next year with our annual blog hop on January 19, 2024. Till then wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Thanks for visiting,
Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Many, mostly retired.

Dies: Stitched Shapes (R) and a whole lot of other retired dies.

Cardstock: Basic White, Real Red, Old Olive

Ink: Versamark

Accessories: DSP (R), Gold foil, Gold shimmer paper, Gold embossing powder, Heat Tool, Ribbon (R), Dimensionals, Tear and tape, Die cutting machine

Just Add Ink #682 Sketch

 

Hello, 

time for a new challenge at Just Add Ink. This week Tina is asking us to Just Add a Sketch. Here it is.

I decided to bring you a very non-traditional Christmas card filled with a rainbow of bright colour.

Once the colouring was done, and the image fussy cut out, this was quite quick to put together.

All the background needed was a splatter of white paint and Wink of Stella, a strip of glimmer paper layered with ribbon and twine through the middle to reflect the sketch, a scatter of sequins and it was done!

The Just Add Ink DT have lots of great projects to show you so please go check them and then come back and join in the challenge.

Thanks for visiting,

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Festive and Fun, Penguin Place (R)

Dies: Stitched Rectangles (R) 

Cardstock: Basic White, Granny Apple Green, Crushed Curry

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories:  Blends (A whole bunch that included Natural tones, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Highland Heather, Azure Afternoon, Balmy Blue), Glimmer paper (R), SU! Pattern paper (R), Die cutting machine, Parakeet Party baker's twine, Pastel adhesive backed sequins, Wink of Stella, White gouache, Dimensionals, Tear and Tape

Just Add Ink #680 Alcohol

 

Hello, 
time for a new challenge at Just Add Ink. This week Kerry is giving us something different and asking us to....

It has been a while since I've done any colouring, so I seized my chance to pull out my alcohol markers - SU! Blends - and play with the very cute Festive and Fun stamp set.

This pretty much turned out as I envisioned :) which was to have the pile of presents as bright pops of colour against the 'sky'. Once the colouring was done the rest was die cutting and a bit of fussy cutting. 

The Just Add Ink design team have plenty of fun and fabulous projects for you so please go check them out and then come back and join in the challenge.

Thanks for visiting,

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Festive and Fun

Dies: Snowfall Vertical, Stitched Snow Drifts, Stitched Fishtail Flag STAX (My Favorite Things) 

Cardstock: Thick Basic White, Basic White, Balmy Blue

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories:  Blends (Grey Granite, Natural Tones, Granny Apple Green, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red,Highland Heather, Azure Afternoon, Balmy Blue, Basic Gray), Glimmer paper (R), Die cutting machine, Subtle embossing folder (R), Wink of Stella, Dimensionals, Tear and Tape

Just Add Ink #678 Choose Two

 

Hello there,

this week at Just Add Ink its time for a Choose Two challenge from Nikki.

Pick two of the above options and feature them in your project. I decided to go with Brights and Foliage and make a non-traditional coloured Christmas card.

The main effort for this card was in 1) the stamping 2) using a fine line marker to outline the stamped images and 3) fussy cutting all the foliage pieces out. That was definitely a job to do while watching a movie one night! To assemble, I die cut a foliage design into the background and heat embossed the sentiment, then layered the multicoloured foliage to radiate out from around the sentiment.

The Just Add Ink design team have plenty of lovely projects for you so please go check them out and then come back and join in the challenge.

Thanks for visiting,

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Joy to You, Christmas Season (R)

Dies:  Stitched Greenery (R) Stitched Rectangles (R)

Cardstock: Thick Basic White, Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Poppy Parade, Melon Mambo, Granny Apple Green, Azure Afternoon

Ink: Versamark, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Poppy Parade, Melon Mambo, Granny Apple Green, Azure Afternoon

Accessories: Black emboss powder, Heat tool, Memento 0.3m marker,  Red gems (R), Die cutting machine, Dimensionals, Tear and Tape 

Just Add Ink #674 Colour

 

Hello there,

time for a new challenge over at Just Add Ink and this week Rochelle has a bold colour combination for us to play with. Here it is.

I decided to see if I could get the colours to work for a Christmas card - I think I succeeded!

I played around with graduations of colour for this project. For the sentiment panel I used reinkers to layer strips of colour on a wet wipe and them used that as an ink pad for the large sentiment. On the background mat I used a snowflake stencil and blended Berry Burst and Pretty Peacock ink over a Fresh Freesia base. When I started I honestly wasn't sure if this mix of colours was going to work but by the end I was feeling pretty happy with how it turned out. The gold accents add that essential bit of Christmas bling.

The Just Add Ink design team have plenty of colour inspired projects for you so please go check them out and then come back and join in the challenge.

Thanks for visiting,

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Joy to You

Dies: Radiating Stitches, Stitched Rectangles (R)

Cardstock: Basic White, Fresh Freesia, Berry Burst, Gold foil

Ink: Berry Burst, Fresh Freesia, Pretty Peacock

Accessories:  Abundant Beauty Decorative mask, Festive pearls, Gold cord, Die cutting machine, Subtle embossing folder (R), Dimensionals, Tear and Tape 

Just Add Ink #666 Inspiration

Hello there,

it's time for the new challenge from Just Add Ink and this week Jan has an inspiration challenge for us. It definitely has a winter vibe but you don't have to go with that theme. Just use the colours, objects or patterns from the inspiration picture below and feature them in your project.

I, however, did go with a wintery vibe. I took several elements from the inspiration picture - colours, the snowy tree background, lots of white to contrast with bright colours. 

This project was all about die cutting - lots and lots of trees - and ink blending to add pops of colour. I added texture in a couple of ways. First by dry embossing all the trees with a subtle texture and then by adding splatters to the ink blended elements.

The Just Add Ink design team have plenty of fabulous projects for you so please go check them out and then come back and join in the challenge.

Thanks for visiting,

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Peaceful Deer

Dies: Pine Wood (R)

Cardstock: Thick Basic White, Basic White, Azure Afternoon

Ink: Melon Mambo, Bubble Bath, Berry Burst, Azure Afternoon, Blueberry Bushell, Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories:  Wink of Stella, White gouache (not SU!), Blending brushes, 1 3/4" inch circle punch (R), Die cutting machine, Subtle embossing folder (R), Dimensionals, Tear and Tape, Multipurpose glue, Metallic sequins (R)

 

Just Add Ink #660 Die cut inlay

Hello there,

being July with decidedly depths of winter weather it felt very appropriate to make a start on Christmas cards. This week's Just Add Ink challenge from Kerry turned out to be perfect for it.

This is what I came up with.

I started with a blended splattered background then ran it through my die cutting machine with the retired Blizzard die. Then ran the die through again with a panel of silver glimmer paper. The next bit was sticky but fun - inlaying all the glimmer snowflakes pieces into the blended background. Lastly, I coloured up my yeti, and a little present, and die cut the sentiment sign and adhered them to the card.

As a bonus I'm left with a die cut silver glimmer panel and coloured snowflakes - which could be another card or used separately.

The Just Add Ink DT have plenty of fabulous projects to show you so please go check them out and then come back and join in the challenge.

Thanks for visiting,

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Yeti to Party (R)

Dies: Stitched Rectangles (R), Blizzard (R) 

Cardstock: Thick Basic White, Basic White, Basic Black, Blueberry Bushel

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Blueberry Bushel, Azure Afternoon, Highland Heather, Orchid Oasis

Accessories:  Silver glimmer paper (R), SU Blends (Smoky Slate, Blueberry Bushel, Orchid Oasis), Blending Brushes, Wink of Stella, Multipurpose Glue, Big shot die cutting machine (R), Dimensionals, Tear and Tape, White Gouache

 

Just Add Ink #635 Inspiration

 

Hello there,

December never fails to go past at lightening speed and so I find myself at my last post for the year, and as you can expect it's a Christmas project. I used this week's Just Add Ink's Inspiration challenge, from Nikki, to guide this year's gift card holders for family. Here's the inspiration picture.

And here's how they turned out.

I started by pulling out every shade of green, purple, and red-purple and mixing and matching till I was happy with each separate combo. Step two was a whole lot of die cutting, and little dry embossing. Then to add a fun whimsical Christmas touch I coloured some little Christmas characters.

The Just Add Ink DT have lots of fabulous projects to show you so please go check them out and then show us yours.

With Christmas imminent we are running this challenge for two weeks until 4 January 2023.

This will be my last post for this year. I'll be back Jan 20, 2023 when the Just Add Ink team will kick off the new year with our annual blog hop.

Till then thanks for visiting, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Cottage Wreaths, Peaceful Deer, Tiny Treats: Christmas (PaperTrey Ink)

Dies: Stitched Shapes (R), Gift Card Envelope and Trims Thinlits dies (R), Country Wreaths, Give it a Whirl

Cardstock: Basic White, Blackberry Bliss, Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, Gorgeous grape, Highland Heather, Mint Macaron, Pear Pizzazz, Granny Apple Green, Old Olive, Just Jade, Mossy Meadow, Soft Succulent, Shaded Spruce

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)

Accessories: Copic markers, Timber 3D embossing folder, Basic Rhinestones, Wink of Stella, Dimensionals, Tear and Tape, Big Shot die cutting machine (R).

Just Add Ink #633 Colour

 

Hello there,

another week closer to Christmas and another Christmas card coming your way - that's probably not a surprise. This week at Just Add Ink we have a colour challenge for you, suggested by me ;) Your can use it for a Christmas project as I have, or for whatever purpose that works for you. Here are the colours.

And this is what I came up with.

This was pretty much all about the watercolouring. I black heat embossed the large poinsettia twice, so that I could cut out the central ring of petals and mount them up on top of the base layer. I used several layers of colour to build up the colour and once dry added little silver pearls to the centre. A simple watercolored background splattered with white gouache, and sentiment finished off the front. For the inside I added one more watercolored poinsietta.

It's only getting busier at this time of year so something simple was definitely the way to go this week.

The JAI design team have lots of lovely projects to inspire you so please go check them out and then come back and join in the challenge.

Thanks for visiting,

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Joyful Christmas (R)

Dies: Stitched Rectangles

Cardstock: Basic White, Sweet Sorbet, Bermuda Bay, Basic Gray

Ink: Sweet Sorbet, Bermuda Bay, Basic Gray, Versamark

Accessories: Black, and White embossing powder, Heat Tool, Red and Green adhesive backed pearls, Watercolor paper, Aquapainter, White gouache, Dimensionals, Tear and Tape, Big Shot die cutting machine (R). 

Just Add Ink #631 Sketch

Hello there,

this week at Just Add Ink Tina has a sketch challenge for us. I was a bit stumped how to interpret the wavy elements at first but then I had one of those light bulb moments. Here's the sketch.

And this is how it turned out.

Embossing - both dry and heat - and fussy cutting were the main elements to this project. The fussy cutting was very fussy but well worth the effort in the end and I think the three rows of Christmas lights definitely captured the essence of the sketch.

The Just Add Ink DT have lots of fabulous projects showcasing how they used the sketch so please go check them out and then come back and join in the challenge.

Thanks for visiting,

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Holiday Lights (PaperTrey Ink)

Dies: Stitched Shapes (R)

Cardstock: Thick Basic White, Basic White, Basic Black 

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Melon Mambo, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Pacific point, Gorgeous Grape

Accessories: Evergreen Forest embossing folder (R), Starburst punch (R), Silver and Clear embossing powder, Heat tool, Paper snips, Dimensionals, Tear and Tape