Just Add Ink #582 Inspiration

 

Hello there,

at Just Add Ink there is no mistaking that the new challenge is Christmas themed! This week Rachael is asking us to Just Add Inspiration. It may be Christmas themed but as long as you use either the colours, patterns, textures or objects you can see in the picture to inspire your project then it can be for whatever occasion you need. Here's the inspiration picture.

Here's how my card turned out.

To get the blended colour gradiation on my Christmas trees and greenery I folded several baby wipes to make an ink pad, then added several drops of Granny Apple Green ink, next to drops of Shaded Spruce. When inking up the stamps I tapped them across both inks to get the blended ink effect. After that it was stamping multiples, adding the red accents and lots of fussy cutting. I kept the rest of the card neutral, but with complementary pattern and texture.

The rest of the JAI design team have lots of beautiful Christmas inspiration 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: Peace and Joy (R), Love Lives Here: Holiday (PaperTrey Ink)

Dies: Stitched Rectangles, Stitched Shapes (R)

Ink: Granny Apple Green, Shaded Spruce, Cherry Cobler, Early Espresso, Tuxedo Black (Memento)

Cardstock: Thick Basic White, Basic White, Basic Black,Sahara Sand

Accessories: Subtle embossing folder (R), Paper snips, Dimensionals, Tear and Tape

JAI #285 Just add a colour combo

Hello there,
DH and I had to plan out the big summer school holidays this week. What I realised in the process was that those holidays are only nine weeks away which means Christmas is ten weeks away -eeekkk! I know the time is going to rush past so you'll be seeing a few more Christmas cards from me. Speaking of which the new challenge at Just Add Ink - to Just Add a Colour Combo from Nikki was I thought just perfect for pulling out my favourite angel. Here's the combo.

And here is what I came up with.

First I worked out which colours were going where on my angel. Then I got to add lots of lovely foliage to frame her.  At the last minute I decided to die cut a window out of my Slate woodgrain mat and inset the angel layer rather than layering it on top. Of course I had to add some glimmer (what's an angel without some shimmer!).

So can you see yourself making something with these lovely colours? Do join us this week and share it with us. Don't forget to check out what the rest of the DT did with the colours this week too!

Thanks for visiting,
Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Love Lives Here: Holiday (PaperTrey Ink), Bells and Boughs (PTI)
Cardstock: Mint Macaron, Smokey Slate, Whisper White
Ink: Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron, Night of Navy, Smokey Slate
Accessories: Lots of Labels framelits, Woodgrain embossing folder, Love Lives Here: Holiday dies (PaperTrey Ink), Bells and Boughs die, Doubled ended banner die (PTI), Silver glimmer paper, Blushing Bride embossing powder (R), Winter Frost DSP (R), Jewels - rhinestones, Dimensionals, Tombow multi,  Double sided tape (X Press)

JAI 245 Just add inspiration

Hello there,

I'm wrapping up work this week which is really important because I am still utterly completely disorganised for Christmas, on the crafting make stuff side (like Christmas cards - eek!). However, I am a super organised Mum on the got the kids sorted side so at least that's something!

Every year I pull out my favourite angel stamp and make a special Christmas card, this year this weeks Just Add Ink challenge was just the perfect inspiration for her. This week we want you to Just Add Inspiration. Here's the lovely picture Nikki put together for us.

And here is my angel

The main inspiration I pulled from the photo was the neutral palette. I was going to use snowflakes but decided to go stars instead as I liked the thought of using the stencil to create a backdrop of gold embossed ones.

What inspiration will you find? Hope you can join us.

Thanks for visiting,
Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless noted
Stamps: Love Lives Here: Holiday (PaperTrey Ink), Bells and Boughs (PTI)
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Early Expresso, Whisper White
Ink: Crumb Cake, Early Expresso, Versamark
Accessories: Mega Mat stack 3 (PTI), Love Lives Here: Holiday dies (PTI), Bells and Boughs dies (PTI), Owl builder punch, Hearts and Stars stencil, Gold, Early Espresso and White embossing powder, Gold glimmer paper, Linen thread, Dimensionals, Double sided tape (X Press)

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)

Merry Monday 59 - Tree Tops

 Hello there,
well finally I've made it back to the Merry Monday challenge. The last month has been kind of busy! School holidays to manage and a fun family trip away! Then it was back to work which has been crazy busy and is going to stay that way - for a bit anyway. Anyway in the gaps this week I squeezed in the sketch that Lesley came up with for this week.

My starting point was to make a red/green Christmas card, I've noticed that I have a tendency to lean towards blue! So green and Christmas = christmas tree and the end result is what you see. The Christmas tree has a bit of a distressed/vintage feel so I paired it up with some text DSP, and added some extra layers of ink by stamping and sponging over the top of it. That will be it for me tonight. It's getting late - and if I leave this till the morning I'll miss the challenge. So its good night from me :)

Hope to see you next week, thanks for visiting.
Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless other wise noted
Stamps: Love Lives Here: Holiday
Cardstock: Cherry Cobler, Gumball Green, Very Vanilla
Ink: Cherry Cobler, Wild Wasabi, Gumball Green, Garden Green
Accessories: First Edition DSP, Be of Good Cheer DSP, Classic and Scalloped Oval nestabilities (Spellbinder), Love Lives Here: Holiday die, Silver Glimmer paper, Designer brad (R), Dimensionals, Double sided tape (X Press)

Merry Monday #55 My favourite angel

Hello there,
have you ever on first sight knew you just had to have a certain stamp? Well I felt that way the first time I saw this angel (luckily enough I love the rest of the stamp set too!). This is her first outing this year but I'm sure it won't be the last.  The reason she came out was this weeks Merry Monday challenge is a tic tac toe challenge and one of the squares was angel. I decided to go straight through the middle - die cuts + paper piercing + angel.

Somehow blue seemed to be the way to go so I dug through my DSP stash till I found something that said christmas/angel to me. Add a touch of paper piercing and faux stitching, some shine with embossing and crystal effects and finished it all off with some ribbon and twine. That pretty much sums it up. The next few weeks are going to be busy so not sure I'll get the chance to make any christmas cards. If not once things level out I'll try and add to my stash.

Thanks for visiting,
Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Love Lives Here: Holiday (PaperTrey Ink)
Cardstock: Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobler
Ink: Not Quite Navy, Early Expresso, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobler, Versamark
Accessories: Love Lives Here: holiday dies, Mega Mat Stack 3 die, Linen/Canvas impression plate (PaperTrey Ink), Bella Blue DSP (R), Owl builder punch, 1/2" circle punch, Cherry Cobler embossing powder, Cherry Cobler seam binding, Cherry Cobler bakers twine, white gel pen, Mat and piercing tool, Crystal effects, Dimensionals, Double sided tape (X press)

Merry Monday 46

Hello there,

well I'm back with that guest designer gig ;) I mentioned the other day. I was delighted to be the top pick for Merry Monday #44 and as a result I get to bring you my take on Merry Monday #46. The Merry Monday challenge this week is to make a Christmas card using birds.

The first thing that sprung to my mind was birds = music so I knew I had to introduce some music in there and as I still had some music note DSP in my stash I pulled that out and then softened it by overlaying it with vellum cardstock.

Of course I had to have something for my birds to perch on - and what better for Christmas than a wreath. I embossed mine with Wild Wasabi embossing powder, then hung it up adding a layered bow. I added some border detail and then finished the whole thing off with a sentiment and some little pearls. I'm three Christmas cards up on my stash for this year now :) Don't forget to drop past Merry Monday and check out all the fabulous inspiration from the design team. Have fun with the challenge!

Thanks for visiting,
Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Aviary, Welcome Christmas, Love Lives Here: Holiday (PaperTrey Ink)
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Wild Wasabi, Rose Red, Vellum
Ink: Wild Wasabi, Rose Red, Crumb Cake, Versamark, Basic Black
Accessories: DSP (R), Scalloped dotted ribbon border punch, Rose Red seam binding, wild Wasabi stitched grosgrain, Victoria crochet trim, Wild Wasabi embossing powder, Vintage brad, Jewels - pearls, Double sided tape (X Press), Dimensionals

JAI 105 - Just add a colour combo

Hello there,

not much crafting going on at moment as I was busy last weekend surviving my Mr 4's birthday party - the most hair raising momment was when one of the rocketship cake's thrusters (=sparkler) actually burnt a hole in the tablecloth!!! Now I just need to survive Miss 7's party next weekend and then I can get back to some crafting again. Luckily I prepared for this weeks Just Add Ink challenge ahead of time - this week we have a colour combo for you. Here it is.

Something flowery was my starting point and I used surprisingly less Pool Party that I had originally planned but that was just the way it worked out - funny how some cards evolve on you!

So basically I just started by stamping a background pattern using the leafy foliage and then adding in flowers and finally filling some little spaces with the little Pool Party dots. Once the background was done I added a glittered strip across towards the bottom and then contructed my sentiment focal point. For this I layered a stamped and impressed die cut with a stamped decorative label. Added die cut foliage to either side, embellished those with rhinestones and added some threaded buttons to either side of the sentiment. I was pretty happy with it once it was all done but it did take some fiddling and an intermission of a day or two ;) to think about how to finish it off!

Thanks for visiting - hope you get the chance to play along with us at Just Add Ink this week!

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Four Frames, (Turning a new leaf, Flower Fusion 7, Simple Sunflower, Love Lives Here: Holiday - all PaperTrey Inc)

Cardstock: So Saffron, Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White

Ink: Certainly Celery, Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party, So Saffron, Concord Crush

Accessories: Turning a new leaf dies (PTI), Fillable frame #10 die (PTI), Linen/ Canvas impression plate (PTI), Decorative Label punch, Plum Pudding vintage buttons (PTI), Corner rounder punch, Sticky strip, Dazzling Diamonds, Jewels - rhinestones, Whtie ribbon (craft shop), Dimensionals, Double sided tape (X Press)

JAI 98 - Just add sparkle

Well hello there :)
How is everyone tracking with their Christmas preparations? I'm finally making headway with mine but still have a stack of cards to write and post out.  This week at Just Add Ink we have a very appropriate challenge for the Christmas season - its Just Add Sparkle. I had a special Christmas card in mind for this challenge...here it is.

This one came together pretty quickly once I had the colour combo, I wanted something a little vintage and soft to go with the gorgeous angel die that I planned to use. So first up a Pear Pizzazz base, then a Perfect Plum mat, then the vanilla top mat. I stamped a frame of greenery around the panel, adding Plum and Blushing Bride berries. Then I die cut and stamped my angel, and added a hanger for her. Finishing touches include the sparkle (of course ;) rhinestones "berries" and glass glitter on the wings, and a sentiment - a very appropriate one in my case as the card has already made its way to my parents :)

As usual at the momment I dead knackered so that is from me!! Have a good week and check out the rest of the amazing DT offerings  - they are stunning!

Thanks for visiting,

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Tree Trimmings, Love Lives Here: Holiday (PaperTrey Inc)

Cardstock: Pear Pizzazz, Perfect Plum, Very Vanilla

Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Perfect Plum, Blushing Bride, Early Expresso

Accessories: Love Lives Here" Holiday dies (PaperTrey Inc), Corner Rounder punch, Silver glass glitter, Jewels - rhinestones, Tombow multi, Dimensionals, Double sided tape

JAI 94 - just add a sketch

Hello there :)

well you can tell we are heading into the home stretch heading to Christmas (well it kind of feels that way as things get busier and busier), ah and may'be the predominance of Christmas cards and projects might be a clue too (smile). I have already made lots of Christmas cards this year (mostly finished) - but I just can't seem to stop making them!! So this weeks Just Add Ink sketch challenge - well you can probably guess...is...a...Christmas...card. Here's the sketch.

I did turn this sketch around in my head for a few days, and then at the last minute changed my mind, as you do sometimes. To change things up I went with an alternate red/green combo - Rose Red and Garden Green.

This a real mix of old and new (old favourite scallop die and new stamps). First up I cut a scalloped circle base for the card, added a Garden Green mat, then on the top Whisper White mat I started by stamping a garland of greenery. Embellishing it with some little Rose Red berries and some little sparkly rhinestones. Hanging from the garland are three little Christmas ornaments mounted up on dimensionals. The front was finished off with a sentiment and few extra little embellishing touches - piercing detail on all the scallops and dazzling diamonds on the tiny little heart on the middle ornament. The inside was finished off simply to match.

Thanks for visiting, perhaps you'll get the chance to give the sketch a go and make... a... Christmas... card... (smile).

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Love Lives Here: Holiday (PaperTrey Inc) , Think Big Favorites #8 (PTI)

Cardstock: Rose Red, Garden Green, Whisper White

Ink: Rose Red, Garden Green

Accessories: Scallop Circle BigZ die, Classic Circle nestabilities (Spellbinder), small Star punch (R), 1/2" circle punch, Jewels: Rhinestones, Two way glue pen, Dazzling Diamonds, Dimensionals, Double sided tape (X Press)