JAI #346 Choose Two

Hello there,
well the icky sticky weather has continued - and so has my search for air conditioning ;) On the positive side I can say that the heat makes glue dry really quickly (more on that below). So this week at Just Add Ink we want you to Just Choose Two. See what Nikki has picked for us this time.

And here is what I came up with.

Where this ended up was not where I started but sometimes you just need to let things go the way they want! I did like the combination of ombre embossing (I used a rolling pin to get the partial pressure so the hearts only embossed on the bottom half of the front panel) and ombre colour behind the detail of the floral thinlet. I gave the detailed die cut some substance by cutting three layers and glueing them together. Then I covered the entire surface with glue leaving it to dry to a shiny glossing coating. Hanging the 'U' from the love sentiment was a quirky touch that just appealed to me so I added it in (and I liked that it draws your eye down to the embossed hearts too).

You can have a lot of fun with the Choose two challenges - do go check out the rest of the design team for some great ideas, then come back and share your take on the challenge!

Thanks for visiting,
Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Cardstock: Real Red, Basic Black, Whisper White
Ink: Real Red
Accessories: Detailed Floral Thinlets, Heart Collection Framelits (R), Sunshine Wishes Thinlets, Happy Heart embossing folder, Headline alphabet die (PaperTrey Ink), Red glimmer paper, Neutrals DSP stack, Sponge brayer, Metallics thread - silver, Fine Tip Glue Pen, Dimensionals, Tear and Tape

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JAI 201 Just add a colour combo

Hello there,
has February crept up and caught you by surprise? Well just in case it has we have a challenge lined up that will help you get that Valentines Day card made on time! This week at Just Add Ink our challenge is to Just Add a Colour Combo. Here's the colours.

And this is the card I made for my hubby - for our anniversary rather than Valentine's Day.

It was sooo hard to restrain myself from adding more to this - but I always have to remind myself when I'm making guy cards to go easy on the fussy details. So I kept the detail in this one limited to the soft layered hearts, a tiny wee sparkly heart and a small twine bow.

Thanks for visiting and do check out the rest of the DT for fab colour combo inspiration.
Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Hearts a Flutter, Pure Innocence Flower Girl (My Favorite Things), Love Lives Here Holiday (PaperTrey Ink), Confetti Garland Borders (PTI)
Cardstock: Island Indigo, Pool Party, Whisper White
Ink: Pool Party, Sahara Sand, Real Red
Accessories: Banner punch, Hearts collection framelits, Owl builder punch, Linen/Canvas impression plate, Red Glimmer paper, Piercing mat and tool, Cherry Cobler bakers twine, Dimensionals, Double sided tape (X Press)

JAI 167 Just add fabric

Well hello there :)
I'm still catching up on sleep as I write this from a fabulous few days spent at the SU! South Pacific convention. I had such a lovely time catching up with the rest of the JAI girls there, and some other special friends (waving hi to Di, Sam and Kelly!!!). The convention itself was stuffed full of fabulous creative inspiration - I have so many ideas - I just have to find time to play with them now! But it was a real delight to come home to hugemongeous cuddles from my two munchkins :)

Anyway on to this weeks Just Add Ink challenge - and it's a fun one. We want you to Just Add Fabric. A few weeks ago I had a wedding card to make for a special crafting friend and so I pulled out some fabric, heart framelits and went to work. 

I got to put an idea I saw presented, by Marelle Taylor at the Sydney SU! regionals last year, into play for this card. Marelle presented a christmas card where she filled the ornament punch shape with fabric then stuffed it with cotton wool. So I took that concept and plumped up my central fabric heart by adding cotton wool stuffing behind it. Next I added a sparkly wedding text heart then the top layer - embossed and distressed honeycomb. The finishing touch was a sentiment banner. It's simple but I hope a little special!

Thanks for visiting, do check out the rest of the DT for fun and fabulous Just Add Fabric ideas!

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Wedding Words, Bountiful Banners (Papertrey Ink)
Cardstock: Whisper White, Primrose Petals coredination
Ink: Pink Pirouette, Real Red, Primrose Petals, Versamark
Accessories: Honeycomb embossing folder, Hearts Collection framelits, Bountiful Banners die (PTI), 1/2" circle punch, More Amore Designer Fabric, Iridescent Ice embossing powder, Heat gun, Sanding paper, Cotton wool ball,  Sticky strip, Dimensionals, Double sided tape (X Press)

JAI 155 Just add a sketch

Hello there,
welcome back for a new Just Add Ink challenge. This week we have a sketch for you.

I had one of those eureka moments when I was thinking about this sketch. I wanted to make an anniversary card for my DH (we clocked up a significant anniversary this year). I also wanted to play with letters and negatives and I suddenly realised I could make the tabs in the sketch work with the whole idea of an arrow (love=heart=arrow!!!). This is how it all turned out.

It was just shear luck that the placement of the U on the BigZ die was in just the right place that I could cut it out as a negative at the bottom of my DSP panel - sometimes you do get lucky :). I let the letters do the talking on this one just adding lots of subtle detail (impressing/embossing texture onto much of the layers).

Do go check out the rest of the DT for some fabulous inspiration for this great sketch!!

Thanks for visiting,

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: none

Cardstock: Real Red, Whisper White, Basic Black

Ink: None

Accessories: Typeset Alphabet BigZ, Timeless Type Alphabet Sizzlet (R), Heart Collection Framelits, Fashionable Hearts Embosslits, Linen and Canvas Impression plate (PaperTrey Ink), Get to the Point die (PTI), Summer Smooches DSP, Pure Poppy vintage button (PTI), Charcoal bakers twine (The Twinery), Double sided tape (X Press), Dimensionals

JAI 152 Just add hearts

Hello there,

this week at Just Add Ink we have a thematic challenge for you that ties in with Valentine day which is rapidly approaching. The challenge is to Just Add Hearts. Now a few weeks back I made a mobile for my little boyo and of course I had to make one for my Miss 8 (birthday festivities scheduled this weekend!!). Combine that with the acquisition of new heart dies (I can't imagine why it took me so long to buy some!!) and some great inspiration from Betsy Veldman (see her post here) and this is what I came up with.

A close up of the dangling "tails" and rosette heart.

Another view of the group together.

I based my mobile design on Betsy's ones, using the large hearts and adding the button/bead detail as she did but I took it a step further and added tails. The feature for my central mobile is a heart shaped rosette an idea I picked up via pinterest from here.  For the ones on either side I made longer tails of smaller hearts. The good thing about the bead/buttons detail (aside from looking good ;) is that they add the weight to keep holding everything down.

It was a fun project to put together and gets the thumbs up from my daughter, she even joined in to do some of the button and the bead stringing which was a fun thing to do together.

Thanks for visiting and do check out all the fabulous heart ideas from the rest of the DT.

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Mixed Medley (R)

Cardstock: Whisper White, Regal Rose

Ink: Taken with Teal (R)

Accessories: Heart Collection Framelits, Loves Me DSP (R), Silver glimmer paper, 1 1/4" and 1 3/4" scallop circle punches, 3/4 " and 1 3/8" circle punches, Itty Bitty shapes pack, Adorning Accents embossing folder, Calypso Coral baker's twine, Jewels - rhinestone, assorted buttons (Hawaiian Shores and Hibiscus Burst PaperTrey Ink), assorted beads (craft shop), Hot glue gun, Crystal effects, Tombow multi, Dimensionals