Just Add Ink #552 Inspiration

 

Hello there,

this week at Just Add Ink Nikki has asked us to Just Add Inspiration. Use elements in the inspiration picture below in your project - it could be the colours, patterns, or an object, just make them a main feature. 

Flowers were a no brainer for me, but yellow was going out of my comfort zone, it's not really a colour I gravitate to. But then that's what challenges are all about. So yellow flowers was where I headed. Here's the result.

I actually turned out pretty happy with my yellow roses. To get some size variation I used flowers from two sets. The big blooms from So Much Love, were very fine lined so to match the line weight with my smaller blooms I went over all the lines with a 0.3 mm marker. The door and its panel pattern inspired the border frame I added to my card, and I added the cloudy sky just because I liked it (and I rediscover my cloud stencil ;). My blooms were all coloured in with alcohol markers, trimmed out and swished with Wink of Stella. I added a sprinkle of yellow gems to finish it all off.

The Just Add Ink DT have, as always, lots 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: So Much Love, Bloom and Grow, Dressed to Impress

Dies: Stitched Rectangles

Cardstock: Thick Basic White, Basic White, Basic Black

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Balmy Blue

Accessories: Blends (Shaded Spruce, Just Jade, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie), White 1/4" crinkle seam binding, Wink of Stella, Blending Brushes, Cloud stencil (MFT), Rainbow Gems (Lucy's), Fine Tip glue pen, Dimensionals, Tear and Tape, Big Shot die cut machine (R)

Just Add Ink #548 Sketch

 

Hello all,

this week at Just Add Ink we are asking you to Just Add a Sketch from Jan. I decided to dual purpose my project - it would get me ahead for Mother's Day (coming up here in early May) and also give some love to a neglected flower set from 2020. I do love flowers sets and can never resist acquiring one, two...or perhaps more new ones. Here's the sketch.

This is what I came up with.

My interpretation of the sketch is a bit loose particularly in the layering of the elements, but basically the red rose = the central rounded square, the circle = the lattice behind the rose, and the twine and sentiment = long central horizontal element.

I kept the background and colour palette simple, as I wanted all the attention on the rose. Colouring the rose red certainly achieves that aim! This was really all about the colours and colouring - an ink brayered, stamped and splattered background and the flower coloured with SU! Blends. The die cut lattice grounds the rose and adds in some detail.

Wink of Stella on the rose and some gems finished the project off.

The Just Add Ink team always have lots 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: So Much Love, Dressed to Impress

Dies: Stitched Rectangles, Rose Trellis thinlets (R)

Cardstock: Thick Whisper White (R), Whisper White (R), Pool Party

Ink: Pool Party, Tuxedo Black (Memento)

Accessories: Blends (Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Granny Apple green, Shaded Spruce), Big Shot die cutting machine (R), Paper Snips, White Baker's twine (R), Flower for Every Season Gems, Wink of Stella, Fine Tip glue pen, Dimensionals, Tear and Tape, White Gel pen (Sakura)

Just Add Ink #546 Steampunk

 

Hello there,

we have a bit of a different challenge for you this week at Just Add Ink. Chantell is asking us to Just Add Steampunk. No idea what that is? Then search up images and you'll see it's characterised by a vintage, victorian, mechanical vibe. Some of the costumes are stunning and very detailed!

Anyway my take on steampunk was to add the mechanical element, make it a bit worn and dark. This is how it turned out.

I die cut my gears in card stock, then embossed with mix of silver and copper embossing powder, to give a tarnished, rusted feel to the gears. I brayered an ombre background and then tone on tone stencilled a brick pattern over to add to the industrial feel. I'm imagining a pile of rusted gears leaning up against a old brick wall. Growing over that pile of gears I had to add flowers. The flower images were quite fine lined so I used a fine tip black marker to thicken the petal lines. Finally, I coloured the flowers, swished over Wink of Stella and a scatter of copper sequins. Trying to find a way to make steampunk work for me was a challenge but I enjoyed it and really liked how it turned out.

The Just Add Ink DT have fabulous steampunk 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: Dressed to Impress, Art Gallery

Dies: Garage Gears, Floral Gallery

Cardstock: Thick Whisper White (R), Whisper White (R), Pretty Peacock, Basic Gray

Ink: Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay, Pretty Peacock, Tuxedo Black (Memento), Versamark

Accessories: Blends (Mint Macaron, Just Jade, Bermuda Bay), Silver and Copper (R) embossing powder, Heat Tool, Sponge brayer, Brick stencil (R), Wink of Stella, Metallic sequins (R), Fine tip glue, Dimensionals, Tear and Tape

Colour INKspiration #71

Hello there,

not too many flowers in our garden right now as its been ravaged by heat, repeatedly, and also a massive hailstorm - golf ball size, once! Luckily I can always create my own. So for this week's Colour INKspiration #71 challenge I pulled out some new flowers dies from SU!

This week at Colour INKspiration Jackie selected a photo with a lovely soft colour palette. It has a very rustic feel and the colours are Highland Heather, Pool Party, Grey Granite and Pear Pizzazz. Here's the inspiration picture. 

Here's how my card turned out.

Tip: Add ink to the same coloured card stock to get two tones.

When you have a restricted colour palette it's always handy to remember that if you add the ink to the same shade of card stock you will end up with a darker shade and that was how I got the two shades for my poppies and their leaves. First, I die cut all the pieces, then I laid out all the detail layers and brayered the matching ink over them. Then I glued all my layers together and arranged the leaves and poppies in a loose wreath. Glimmer paper, shimmery crystal effects and sequins add all those important sparkle elements to finish off the card.

You can join in the challenge over at the  Colour INKspiration challenge page on Facebook, just click the link to be redirected and ask to join the group, that way you can load your projects directly to the Facebook group.

Thanks for visiting,
Kim

Project Recipe:

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Product List

Poppy Moments Dies $64.00	Stitched Shapes Dies $50.00	Stitched Labels Dies $57.00	Dressed To Impress Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) $31.00	Gray Granite A4 Cardstock $15.25
Pool Party A4 Card Stock $15.25	Highland Heather A4 Cardstock $15.25	Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz $15.25	Whisper White A4 Card Stock $17.00	Basic Black A4 Card Stock $15.25
Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad $13.00	Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad $13.00	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad $13.00	Versamark Pad $16.50	Sponge Brayers $14.00
White Stampin' Emboss Powder $10.50	Embossing Buddy $10.00	Heat Tool $50.00	Shimmery Crystal Effects $8.75	Peaceful Poppies Sequins $12.25
Multipurpose Liquid Glue $7.00	Fine-Tip Glue Pen $12.00	Stampin' Dimensionals $6.00	Tear & Tape Adhesive $11.50

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