Hi all,
it has been a busy busy week so I'm going to keep it simple. This week at Just Add Ink we have a new challenge for you and this week Narelle has asked us to Just Add a Sketch. I was late with a birthday card for my nephew so you'll notice a change from the current Christmas programming ;) Here's the sketch.
I rotated the sketch and then flipped it as well, which made it the perfect canvas for my space themed card.
I went with a watercolour galaxy background and then using the sketch elements added my punch art BB8 droid as the main feature, and to make it extra special and fun for a ten year old added a wobbler so his "head" wobbles. I CASED the droid punch art from this pin by carriestamps. Unfortunately it doesn't link back to the actual droid post so I just pulled out all my circle punches and played with them till I had everything in the right proportions.
That's it from me today, but do go check out the rest of the Just Add Ink DT's projects they are always stunning and then come back and join in the challenge!
Thanks for visiting,
Kim
Hello there,
I am plunging, swimming, sweating (it's hot again!) heading full steam towards Christmas. The Christmas decorations aren't up yet but it's only a matter of time now! Somewhat scarily only a handful of Christmas cards are complete - but I was able to add another one using this week's Just Add Ink challenge to Just Add a Colour Combo. It's bright and cheerful perfect for the festive season.
I originally started with a white embossed panel behind my Christmas tree shaker but I was having white space issues again and re did the panel brayering the upper half in turquoise graduating the colour. I was much happier with that! Then I embossed it graduating the embossing so it faded out towards the bottom too. Lots of fun star confetti fill up the shaker, ribbon and a banner finish it all off.
I had fun making this (except for the bit where my fingers got stuck to the adhesive and in the process of un-sticking myself ended up with my confetti all stuck to it - grrr!! But in the end fingers and confetti were both unstuck and the shaker was sealed up.) Hope you can join us! Don't forget to check out the rest of the DT for some great colour inspiration!
Thanks for visiting,
Kim
Recipe: All SU! unless noted
Stamps: Many Merry Stars
Cardstock: Tempting Turquoise, Real Red, Strawberry Slush, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White, Silver foil, Silver glimmer
Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Wild Wasabi, Strawberry Slush, Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Accessories: Shaker Shapes Tree die, Star die and Circle die (PaperTrey Ink), Bountiful Banner die (PTI), Lucky Stars embossing folder, Adhesive foam sheet (PTI), Real Red stitched grosgrain ribbon (R), Brayer, Jewels - rhinestone, Double sided tape (X Press)
Hello there,
I've had a lovely week this week. It's been warm and that has meant cups of tea in the garden and the school holidays has meant time to have cups of tea in the garden :) The deal I made with the kids was that I'll take them out for activities in the morning and the afternoon we'd be at home and they'd have to occupy themselves. What are you going to be doing Mum? they asked. Stamp was my answer!! Cause I'm on holiday too - lol!
This week we have a very useful challenge at Just Add Ink - it's Just add Baby. One of the girls on the JAI DT is expecting her first bub very soon (how exciting!!) and to celebrate we decided a baby challenge was the perfect thing :) So please join us and show us your baby projects.
Since we don't know if bub is going to be a boy or girl I made one of each.
Here's the girl version
And the boy version
As you can see they both follow the same plan but I just changed up the colours and decorative details on each. The concept started with knowing I wanted to do an emboss resist effect with the big scale sentiment. I've been pulling out a watercolour paper a bit recently and it's been fun to combine it with reinkers and seeing how it all turns out! I carried the themes through to the inside using the new SU! stencils to created the sponged spotty/starry patterns.
Do check out the rest of the JAI DT for lots of baby inspiration! Hope you can join us.
Thanks for visiting,
Kim
Recipe: All SU! unless noted otherwise
Stamps: Big News
Cardstock: Soft Sky, Early Expresso, Blushing Bride, Rose Red, Very Vanilla
Ink: Island Indigo, Lost Lagoon, Soft Sky, Early Expresso, Rose Red, Crisp Cantaloupe, Blushing Bride, Versamark
Accessories: Watercolor paper, Apothecary Accents framelits, Starburst framelits, Large Polka Dot and Lucky Stars embossing folders, Hearts and Stars and Dots and Stripes stencils, Early Expresso and Gold baker's twine, Gold sequin trim, 2013-15 In color sequin assortment, White and Gold embossing powder,Tombow multi, Dimensionals, Double sided tape (X Press)
