JAI 246 Just add giving

Hello there,
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas day spending it with family and friends enjoying some yummy food and company! We were lucky enough to do that :) We have now moved on to the recovery period which involves more eating and spending time with the kids helping them work out, construct, read etc their Christmas presents. It's a time of year I enjoy very much!

We have one final challenge for you all this year at Just Add Ink and it's to Just Add Giving a lovely idea proposed by Mae, a former DT member. We'd really like to see what you made as special gifts for people in your life to thank them for their love, support, friendship and company. 

As the Just Add Ink team will be taking a little summer break till January 23rd this won't be a judged challenge - but we encourage you to share you wonderful projects with other crafters and link up your projects.

I have a fairly simple little project for you today - but then that's what you need in the lead up to Christmas!

A close up

I made quite a few of these delightful little boxes, but kept it fun and fresh for me by making them in a whole range of different colour ways. I was quite astonished with how much chocolate you could actually fit into these! The tag is almost bigger than the boxes but I was still having so much fun playing with my Festival of Trees set and punch that I just had to dress up the boxes.

For a little time on my part and a whole lot of inky fun I also had the added bonus of making people smile when they received one of these!

Go check out what the rest of the DT made as special gifts this year and please do join us in sharing what you made this year!

Happy New Year to you all and I'll see you in 2015 with the Just Add Ink's annual blog hop challenge on January 23rd. 

Thanks for visiting,
Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Festival of Trees
Cardstock: Real Red, Old Olive, Whisper White
Ink: Real Red, Old Olive
Accessories: Curvy Keepsake box thinlets, Scalloped Tag Topper punch, Tree punch, Itty Bitty Accents punch pack, Champagne glimmer paper, Season of Style DSP stack (R), Gold baker's twine, Dimensionals, Double sided tape (X Press)

JAI 204 Just add a colour combo

Hello there, 
we have a great colour combo from Nikki for you at Just Add Ink this week. I love that it includes gold. I'm really enjoying adding touches of gold to my work at the moment as it adds such a lush richness. Here's the colour combo. 

And here is what I came up with.

Ooooooo the sheer delight to play with new stuff - it took a while but I finally managed to get my hands on some new SU! product. In fact I even had this card completed bar the "Oh Happy Day" sentiment panel so I was very happy when my box arrived! (I might note here I made this card a few weeks back as my Feb schedule was kind of crazy - so I'm not as deprived as I sound - lol!). 

You could say I got carried away with gold sequins, but I rather like it, the white polka dots were just calling out for something and I like how they echo the gold circle frame for the sentiment. And to be honest once in a while its kind of fun to get a little carried away ;) A little gold rolled rose and some delightful ruffled ribbon finish it all off. 

This is a lovely soft but rich colour combo so do join us this week and don't forget to visit the rest of the DT for some wonderful ideas.

Thanks for visiting,
Kim 

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Starburst Sayings
Cardstock: Pistachio Pudding, Crumb Cake, Whisper White
Ink: Crumb Cake, Pistachio Pudding, Versamark
Accessories: Starburst framelits dies, In Color DSP stack, Season of Style DSP (R), Gold foil sheet, Pistachio Pudding ruffled stretch trim, Crumb Cake seam binding, Tea Lace paper doily, Gold sequins, sponge, SNAIL adhesive, Tombow mulit, Double sided tape (X Press), Dimensionals

JAI 202 Just add stripes

Hello there,
I'm breathing a sigh of relief here as I have just made it through our main birthday season. My two munchkins are only two weeks apart so this time of year is all about birthdays (with a dash of going back to school). This week's challenge at Just Add Ink was just perfect for making a card for my little Mr 6. This week we want you to Just Add Stripes. 

You might remember a few weeks ago I posted my first circle thinlet card which I made for my daughters birthday. Well I also made one for my boyo. Here it is.

Opening up

Open all the way

The invitations for his party were space themed (done using MDS - first time for me!) so continuing that theme I made him a space card. It had to be similar to his sisters but different too (to cope with the endless sibling rivalry (sigh)). So for his I used a bit of twine strung with a selection of planets, stars and a spaceship - of course! One end pops out of the circle flip side  and the other to the sentiment panel so that when you open it up they dangle across the card - a very fun effect :) Embossing the images and using glimmer paper for the stars adds that subtle (but not too girly) bit of sparkle.

TIP: I used the scallop circle die from the circle thinlet dies, cut it once from red glimmer paper, then rotated it and cut again with the same die to get a more spikey edging. You can do that with any scallop circle punch or die!

Hope you can join us and have some fun adding stripes this week. Do check out the rest of the DT for some fabulous stripey ideas!

Thanks for visiting,
Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Blast Off
Cardstock: Pacific point, Cherry Cobler, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Brushed Silver
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Pacific Point, Versamark
Accessories: Circle card thinlet die,Bitty Banners framelit, Standard circle nestabilities (Spellbinder), By the Numbers die and Super Star borders die (PaperTrey Ink), Season of Style DSP stack, Sycamore Street DSP (R), Blast Off DSP (MDS), Merry Minis punch pack, 1/16" circle punch, Silver, Tangerine Tango and Cherry Cobler embossing powders, Island Indigo bakers twine, Brights candy dots, Double sided tape (X Press), Dimensionals

JAI 196 Just add your Christmas projects

Hello there,
well it won't be long now till Christmas will be upon us - just five sleeps to go! So I'm pretty sure most of us are working to finish off Christmas projects intended as gifts to family, friends and co-workers. So that's what we want you to add this week at Just Add Ink - Just add your Christmas projects. And because we know how crazy busy life is at the moment we are running this challenge for two weeks. 

We have a bunch of teenage nieces and nephews in the family and my go to Christmas present for them for the last few years is a gift card that lets them choose what they like and I just make sure the packaging is something to let them know they are special. Here's how they got packaged up this year.

And a couple of close ups of the two different colour variations.

Many months back a tutorial by Tanya Bell for a gift card holder popped up on my Pinterest feed. I went and had a look and discovered a fab and very easy way to make a great gift card holder using the Pop n Cuts die. Of course you can embellishment them for any occasion - in this case Christmas!

So when you do get a chance to take a breath before or after Christmas do join in and show us what you have been up to. If you want some last minute inspiration check out the rest of the JAI DT right now!

Thanks for visiting and a Merry Christmas to you and all your families. Not quite sure what my blogging schedule is going to be like over the next couple of weeks - I might be back I might not - so take care, have fun and take some time to relax!

Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Festive Flurry, More Merry Messages
Cardstock: Island Indigo, Smokey Slate, Pool Party, Crumb Cake, Real Red, Whisper White
Ink: Versamark, Island Indigo, Real Red
Accessories: Festive Flurry Framelits, Card base Pop n Cuts , Season of Style DSP stack, Winter Frost DSP stack, 1/8" Silver and Real Red taffeta ribbon,  Silver and Red glimmer paper, 1" circle punch, Sticky Strip, Dimensionals, white embossing powder

JAI 193 Just add inspiration

Hello there,

I'm starting to feel caught up in the Christmas rush this week (although I'm not panicking - yet) but as we have our first end of school year event on, AND it's less than four weeks to Christmas (EEEKKK - ok may'be panicking a little) it is very appropriate that the new challenge at Just Add Ink  this week is one perfectly suited to all those Christmas projects we are working on. This week it's an inspiration challenge. Here's the pic. 

And here is what I came up with.

I was so delighted when SU! said they were going to sell this stamp in our market! I just love that it can be 2D and 3D and 3D is the way I went for these Christmas ornaments. I had a lot of fun mixing and matching colours and patterns for this and then adding the bling :) What you can't really tell from the photos is that the ornaments are double sided. TIP: To make them extra sturdy I have an acetate layer sandwiched between the two layers of DSP and I also triple layered dimensionals under the centre of the star to keep it supported.

Hope you can join us this week at Just Add Ink and do check out the rest of the DT for  fabulous and festive star inspired ideas!

Thanks for visiting,
Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Christmas Star
Cardstock: Whisper White, Crumb Cake
Ink: Real Red, Night of Navy, Versamark
Accessories: Season of Style DSP, Silver glimmer paper, White embossing powder, Acetate, Frosted Finishes embellishments, Classic circle nestabilities (Spellbinder), Silver cord (R), Tombow multi, Dimensionals, Hot glue gun

Merry Monday #76

Hello there,
well for the first time in ages I had the time to play along with a Merry Monday challenge. Life has been sooo busy the last couple of months. This week the challenge at Merry Monday was to use a snowman.

Now I don't have many snowmen but did manage to dig one out of my stash and then had fun colouring him with my copics. Here's how he turned out.

I haven't made a tent card in ages! So it was quite fun to put this one together. No picture of the inside this week as I kept it super simple in there as the space is a bit limited - so just some Crumb Cake snowflakes to echo the front. 

Thanks for visiting,
Kim

Recipe: All SU! unless otherwise noted
Stamps: Winter Snow Globe (Papertrey Ink), Holiday Hugs Snowman (My Favorite Things)
Cardstock: Cherry Cobler, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, X Press blending card
Ink: Cherry Cobler, Crumb Cake, Marina Mist
Accessories: Classic Circle nestabilities (Spellbinder), Season of Style DSP, Word Window punch, Itty Bitty Shapes punch, Copic markers, Two way glue pen, Dazzling diamonds, 5/8" organza ribbon, Jewels - rhinestone, Dimensionals, Double sided tape (X Press)