JAI 198 Blog Hop

Hello there :) How exciting to be starting the year off! And we are starting it in style at Just Add Ink with a blog hop and we want you to join in the fun. You may have arrived from Jodene's blog (I loved her clever gift card holder!) or you might be starting here. The blog hop works as a circuit so please do click through the rest of the JAI team to see the exciting ideas everyone has come up with for the challenge this week.

The challenge this week is to Just Add either the SU! circle or label card thinlets or the envelope punch board. (You can still play along if you don't have any of these by making your own flip/swing card from scratch - its a little more work than using the thinlets but totally doable!! Here's a link to a Splitcoasters tutorial.)

And here is what I came up with using the SU! circle card thinlet die - closed.

 Opening up

 Open all the way

This was made for my lovely little Miss who turns 9 very soon indeed. For that age its hard to go wrong with a combo of pink + purple + butterflies - so here you can see it in spades - with a good dash of sparkle to top it off. I wasn't sure adding a spiral pop up to the inside would work but I had to try - and with a little fiddling it did. Miss almost 9 has had a sneak peek of it and loved it.

I can tell you I had fun playing with my circle card thinlet for the first time! It makes creating a flip/swing card so easy - the only fiddly bit was cutting the layers to fit - but if you layer less than me (not hard to do - lol!) it will take less time.

Do continue on with the blog hop now and check out the fabulous project that Louise has in store for you. Just click on the blog hop button below (or Louises' name above) and that will take you straight to Lousie's blog.

Hope you can join us for our first challenge for 2014.
Thanks for visiting,
Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Papillion Potpouri, Banner Greetings, Background Basics: Medallion
Cardstock: Winter Wisteria, Melon Mambo, Blushing Bride, Whisper White
Ink: Melon Mambo, Winter Wisteria
Accessories: Circle card thinlet dies, Elegant Butterfly, Bitty Butterfly punches, Standard circle nestabilities (Spellbinder), By the Number dies (PTI), Silver glimmer paper, Flirtaceous DSP (R), Jewels - rhinestone, Dimensionals, Double sided tape

JAI 119 Just add a sketch

Well hello there,

I have been flat out working on swaps for the upcoming SU! Convention here in Australia - 6 days to go!! you can't half tell that I'm excited can you :) I'm really looking forward to catching up with my fellow Just Add Ink DT members and seeing other old friends. Not to mention the excited buzz, the sneak peeks, the inspiration. I did say I was excited didn't I ;)

Ok enough babble this weeks challenge at Just Add Ink is a sketch challenge. Here it is.

And here is what I made of it. 

I started by flipping the sketch. The thought crossed my mind to use foliage to represent one of the elements of the sketch. So I pulled out Fabulous Florets and stamped and cut layers of foliage and flowers. Since I was going with a blue/pink colour scheme I inked the flowers in Pretty in Pink first then rock and rolling the edges in Marina Mist. I also couldn't resist using some of the new pleated satin ribbon - just gorgeous! All the white space on the top just made me uneasy so I added some subtle patterning and misting. I carried through the foliage and background to the inside and finished off the flowers with some subtle sparkle. Very hard to capture in photos!

Do check out the rest of the DT they have produced some wonderful examples of how this great sketch can be interpreted.

Thanks for visiting :)
Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Fabulous Florets, Teeny Tiny Sentiments, Grid (Kaiser)

Cardstock: Marina Mist, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White

Ink: Marina Mist, Pretty in Pink

Accessories: Modern Label, Word Window, 21/2" circle punches, Circle nestability (Spellbinder), Flirtaceous DSP, Spritzer tool, Pleated Blushing Bride satin ribbon, Marina Mist wide grosgrain (R), Blue rhinestones (Kaiser), Atiyou Spica clear glitter pen, Dimensionals, Double sided tape (X Press)

JAI 101 - just add a sketch

Hello there,

welcome back for a new Just Add Ink challenge. This week we have sketch challenge for you and here it is - a nice square one.

 I just happened to be browsing the local craft store and saw some scrapbook frames that were just perfect for making some wall art for my kids rooms and they were square - perfect. Here is what I made for my Miss.

A close up of the gold shimmer

And a close up of one of my favourite bits - I tried stamping on the frame and wrapping it around

I really started from scratch with this, as the frame was a raw pine one and I've got to say it was quite fun! So first I painted it with hot pink acrylic paint (which not surprisingly we had in the house) then once that layer had dried I coated it a couple of times with white acrylic paint. Then once that dried (being summer it didn't take all that long for each layer to dry) I sanded the frame, trying to get a gentle distressed look and also aiming to get some of the pink to show through. Once that was all done I stamped the swirl onto the frame, wrapping it around the sides. Then I sprayed the frame with gold shimmer - liberally ;) After that was all dry then sprayed the frame with sealer, and as the final touch added some rhinestones. Now for the inside. I knew I wanted a big butterfly to be centre element of the sketch and I wanted a substantial one. So I die cut a chipboard one and also one in DSP, glued them together and then embossed. I then sponged the edges of the butterfly with Pretty in Pink and just a touch of Melon Mambo to accent the edges. Made some antenna out of jewelery wire and added some buttons and then more gold shimmer for the butterfly! Underneath the butterfly I have a scalloped square of text DSP (the only bit my daughter did not like but I was equally adamant that it would stay). That was layered over more patterned DSP, I sponged the edges of both layers with PIP and MM again. Ok last thing was to add a sentiment - my little Miss and I both agreed that "follow your dreams" was a good one. Now I just need to make one for my little boyo - I thinking a space theme for his I think.

Right I was up wayyyyy too late last night so I need get to bed - and I have certainly babbled on enough ;0 so many thanks for visiting!! and if you can give the sketch a try. Oh and don't forget the JAI scrapbooking challenge that runs till the last Friday of the month.

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Elements of Style, Fillable Frames #3

Cardstock: Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo, Very Vanilla

Ink: Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo

Accessories: Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die, Scallop square duo Bigz die, Elegant Bouquet embossing folder, Flirtaceous DSP, First Edition DSP, Designer Label, Modern Label punches, 1" circle punch, Jewels - rhinestones, Gold smooch spray, chipboard, Razeberry Fizz vintage buttons (PaperTrey Inc), jewelery wire, Acrylic paint, Tombow multi, daubers, Dimensionals, Double sided tape.

JAI 93 - just add a colour combo

Hello there :)

welcome back for another Just Add Ink challenge. This week we have a colour combo (and yep umm I did come up with this one!).  Here are the colours.

The first thing that popped into my head was gelato icecream. So what flavours? Well Mambo would have to be watermelon, the celery - perhaps pistacio or lime - but I must admit - Pool Party had me stumped - not to many foods appears on your plate blue!! Any suggestions? But in the end I went with flowers as I had a new (free!! ) flower set - Fabulous Florets (prize patrol at Regionals yah :) - just calling my name to play with it. So here is the outcome.

I coudn't resist rock and rolling again - it adds such a great random shading effect. So first up I inked up my solid flower in Pool Party and then rock and rolled in Melon Mambo - alot of times. Then I trimmed out a whole bunch of different layers for each flower (alot of times - lol - its a good idea to do this watching tv! but the end effect is worth it). I also stamped and trimmed out one foliage spray for layering as well. The layers were piled up on dimensionals, and once they were finally placed I also went around each petal with a glitter pen which if you catch the light the right way really adds a lovely sparkle.  The rest of the card is pretty straightforward using a recent Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge sketch (#133) as its starting point. So Mambo base, then Pool Party mat, then DSP (old and new), I zigzagged around all that to add some subtlish detail (subtle cause the thread was white and mostly disappears). The flowers are framed with a Blossom Spellbinder diecut and the sentiment was added on a flag ended banner - Melon Mambo embossed (more new stuff to play with :) A few hot pink pearls finished off the front and the inside was finished off to match.

I certainly enjoyed playing with some new stamping stuff and this gelato rainbow of colours. Thanks for visiting and I hope you get the chance to play along this week :) and don't forget to check out the rest of the design team!

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Fabulous Florets, Curly Cute

Cardstock: Melon Mambo, Pool Party, Whisper White

Ink: Melon Mambo, Pool Party, Certainly Celery, Versamark

Accessories: Flirtaceous DSP, Fall Flowers DSP (R), Melon Mambo scalloped dotty grosgrain, Melon Mambo embossing powder, Blossom and circle nestabilities (Spellbinder), Doubled ended banner die (PaperTrey Inc), Pink pearls (Kaiser), Spica glitter pen, sewing machine, Double sided tape (X Press), Dimensionals