Just Add Ink #552 Inspiration

 

Hello there,

this week at Just Add Ink Nikki has asked us to Just Add Inspiration. Use elements in the inspiration picture below in your project - it could be the colours, patterns, or an object, just make them a main feature. 

Flowers were a no brainer for me, but yellow was going out of my comfort zone, it's not really a colour I gravitate to. But then that's what challenges are all about. So yellow flowers was where I headed. Here's the result.

I actually turned out pretty happy with my yellow roses. To get some size variation I used flowers from two sets. The big blooms from So Much Love, were very fine lined so to match the line weight with my smaller blooms I went over all the lines with a 0.3 mm marker. The door and its panel pattern inspired the border frame I added to my card, and I added the cloudy sky just because I liked it (and I rediscover my cloud stencil ;). My blooms were all coloured in with alcohol markers, trimmed out and swished with Wink of Stella. I added a sprinkle of yellow gems to finish it all off.

The Just Add Ink DT have, as always, lots of fabulous projects to show 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: So Much Love, Bloom and Grow, Dressed to Impress

Dies: Stitched Rectangles

Cardstock: Thick Basic White, Basic White, Basic Black

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Balmy Blue

Accessories: Blends (Shaded Spruce, Just Jade, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie), White 1/4" crinkle seam binding, Wink of Stella, Blending Brushes, Cloud stencil (MFT), Rainbow Gems (Lucy's), Fine Tip glue pen, Dimensionals, Tear and Tape, Big Shot die cut machine (R)

Just Add Ink #548 Sketch

 

Hello all,

this week at Just Add Ink we are asking you to Just Add a Sketch from Jan. I decided to dual purpose my project - it would get me ahead for Mother's Day (coming up here in early May) and also give some love to a neglected flower set from 2020. I do love flowers sets and can never resist acquiring one, two...or perhaps more new ones. Here's the sketch.

This is what I came up with.

My interpretation of the sketch is a bit loose particularly in the layering of the elements, but basically the red rose = the central rounded square, the circle = the lattice behind the rose, and the twine and sentiment = long central horizontal element.

I kept the background and colour palette simple, as I wanted all the attention on the rose. Colouring the rose red certainly achieves that aim! This was really all about the colours and colouring - an ink brayered, stamped and splattered background and the flower coloured with SU! Blends. The die cut lattice grounds the rose and adds in some detail.

Wink of Stella on the rose and some gems finished the project off.

The Just Add Ink team always have lots of fabulous projects to show 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: So Much Love, Dressed to Impress

Dies: Stitched Rectangles, Rose Trellis thinlets (R)

Cardstock: Thick Whisper White (R), Whisper White (R), Pool Party

Ink: Pool Party, Tuxedo Black (Memento)

Accessories: Blends (Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Granny Apple green, Shaded Spruce), Big Shot die cutting machine (R), Paper Snips, White Baker's twine (R), Flower for Every Season Gems, Wink of Stella, Fine Tip glue pen, Dimensionals, Tear and Tape, White Gel pen (Sakura)

Just Add Ink #515 Mixed Media

Hello there,

things are really rather chilly here right now, especially as one our heaters wasn't working this week (thank goodness for hot water bottles is all I can say!) So it's been a good time to snuggle down (with the hot water bottle) and work on my project for this week's Just Add Ink challenge. This week Jan has asked us to Just Add Mixed Media. 

I added quite a few different media's to this card:

watercoloured the background in two layers, then splattered with ink and wink of Stella

cut four layers of the frame and glued them together to create a chipboard thickness element

watercoloured the flowers and added extra depth and details with coloured pencils

added a stencilled shimmery embossing paste design

heat embossed the 'fabulous' sentiment

added twine and faceted gems

To add all these elements did take time as quite a few needed drying time, but it was fun to add and play, although at one point adding pencil to my main flower I thought I'd stuffed it all up but fortunately it turned out well in the end.

Do go and check out the rest of the Just Add Ink DT for some fun and fabulous mixed media projects.

Thanks for visiting,

Kim

Project Recipe:

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Product List 

So Much Love Cling Stamp Set (English) $35.00	All Things Fabulous Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) $38.00	Ornate Layers Dies $64.00	Stitched Rectangles Dies $61.00	Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper $15.75
Whisper White A4 Card Stock $17.00	Rococo Rose A4 Cardstock $15.25	Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock $15.25	Silver Foil Sheets $8.75	Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad $13.00
Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad  $13.00	Rococo Rose Classic Stampin’ Pad $13.00	Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad  $13.00	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad $13.00	Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad  $13.00
Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Ink Refill $6.50	Watercolor Pencils $27.75	Water Painters $21.00	Basic Pattern Decorative Masks $10.00	Shimmery White Embossing Paste $15.75
Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush $11.50	Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder $10.50	Heat Tool $50.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue $7.00	Fine-Tip Glue Pen $12.00
Tear & Tape Adhesive $11.50	Paper Snips $17.00

Retired SU!: Big shot die cutting machine, From my Heart faceted gems