JAI 758: Just Add A Sketch

 Hi!

Thanks ever so much for joining me for the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week Kim has designed a fun sketch to inspire our creativity.

I love using circles on cards, and that wee little bow? So sweet! I wanted to make a sewing themed card for a friend, so I went hunting through my extensive paper stash for some suitable paper. This gingham print from the Country Gingham DSP pack was the perfect choice.

The paper colour is Sweet Sorbet, thankfully I had some coordinating cardstock in my stash too. A layer of Whisper White under the DSP gave it a lovely pop.

The stamp set that I used is from Kindred Stamps, called National Sewing Machine Day. It's a great choice for a sewing themed thank you card! I used my Stylish Shapes Dies to crop the banners and the stitched circle. The solid circle is from the long retired Circles Collection Framelits.

The inside uses another sentiment from the Sewing Machine stamp set, a strip of left over DSP and some sweet die cuts from the Quilt Builder Framelits dies. I love it when different products from different companies work so well together!

That's all from me for this week, but we'd love to see what you make. You can see the rest of the Design Team cards over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also add your card to our Linky.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 754: Just Choose Two

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Welcome to the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week Kim has suggested the we Just Choose Two to add to our card.

That's a tough choice! I'm not much of a flower person, so I decided to go for the other two options - a Die Cut and some Ribbon.

I had a dig through my dies and came across this Legendary Word die, by Sweet Stamp Shop. Perfect! And speaking of perfect, this stamp set, Legendary by Kindred Stamps, was a great choice to pair with it. I enjoyed colouring the young man with my Stampin' Blends.

Cam you see the sparkly ribbon laying underneath the die cut? The card is so CAS that I used it there to give the word a little touch of oomph. I also used my Blending Brush to add a little Balmy Blue ink under my legendary lad to give him a bit of a boost, too.

I couldn't use one legendary character without the other, so she's made an appearance on the inside.

We'd love to see which two you'll choose. You can see the rest of the Design Team cards, and add your card to the Linky over on the Just Add Ink blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 752: Just Add Inspiration

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Welcome to the new Just Add Ink Challenge. This week we have an Inspiration Photo to spark your creativity, suggested to us by Jo.

It's a cute vintage car, and the flowers in the back scream 'wedding' to me. Do you agree? Having said that, I instantly thought of a cute stamp I had that I thought worked well. To me, the stamp and the inspo photo both have flowers in unexpected or unusual places.

The stamp is called Basics: Floral Coffee Mug, and is from Ink Road Stamps. I stamped it using Memento ink, and then coloured it with colours pulled from the Inspiration Photo - Mint Macaron, Petal Pink, Daffodil Delight, Cinnamon Cider and Just Jade Stampin' Blends.

The sentiment is from Attention Shoppers, and the DSP is Mint Macaron gingham. It's one of my favourite ever SU colours, and the car was close enough in colour to justify using it on my card.

On the inside I stamped the main image again in second generation Mint Macaron ink, with another sentiment from Attention Shoppers. I accidentally cut the Whisper White cardstock too small, but I think it looks ok - just a larger border on the inside!

We'd love to see what inspires you from the Inspiration Photo. Will it be the car, the colours, or maybe the flowers? You can see what the Design Team made over on the Just Add Ink blog. You can also link up your card when you're ready.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 750: Just Add Colour

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Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week we have a colour challenge for you, suggested to us by Lou.

Isn't it lovely and fresh? The three In Colours pair so beautifully with Basic Black. I remembered that I had a pack of DSP in my stash that had B&W designs on one side, and colour on the other - Pattern Party DSP.

I do love a good B&W stripe! I added it to the Pretty In Pink card base. The cute little stamp that I've used in the background is from the Light The Candles card kit. I added a small Rhinestone to the centres of each for a little added pizzazz.

The main sentiment is from Happy Little Things. It's a fun two step stamp set with a lot of words and phrases to mix and match. Yay for not having to colour in the sentiment! And doesn't the Summer Splash ribbon pop against the stripes?

Speaking of stripes, I had a little offcut, so it was put to good use in the inside of the card.

We'd love to see what you do with these colours. You can see what the rest of the Design Team have made over on the Just Add Ink blog. You can also link up your card to our challenge gallery when you're ready.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 746: Just Add Swirls

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Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week Nikki has challenged us to Just Add Swirls to our cards.

There are so many different ways to interpret this challenge. In the end I decided that I would pull out an old favourite stamp set, and add a swirling dancer to my card.

To add an extra bit of movement, and another swirl, I die cut the swirling stars from my Stitched Stars dies in Bubble Bath cardstock to the background of the card.

The swirling dancer, from Born To Shine, was coloured with my Melon Mambo (and a few other) Stampin' Blends and popped up over the top.

The Bubble Bath stars came from the swirl of stars on the front. I don't like wasting perfectly good offcuts, so they were put to work on the front and inside of the card, along with sentiments from Born To Shine.

We'd love to see which swirls you will add to your card. You can see what the Design Team have made over at the Just Add Ink blog, where you will also find our Linky so that you can add your card to the challenge album.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 744: Just Choose Two

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Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink Challenge. This week it's a Choose Two challenge, suggested to us by Di.

Hmmm, what to do? I'd recently purchased the Gnomes For Summer Thin Cuts, and thought that I could put him at the end of a rainbow with a pot of gold, but that's a leprechaun, not a gnome! I was determined to use him, though, so I gave him a background of rainbow paper.

Isn't he cute? I had lots of fun choosing different colours of card stock and Glimmer paper to use on him. I cheated a little by colouring his feet, hand and nose with my Ivory Stampin' Blend. How fun is the sentiment? I thought that it suited the theme of the challenge perfectly. It's from and Altenew set, called Crafty Life.

The sun is cropped using a Uniquely Creative die, called Stitched Sun. I thought that it went perfectly with the sun in the rainbow paper. It's a retired pack, called Sunshine & Rainbows.

I used an offcut on the inside, along with another sentiment from the Crafty Life set - again, it worked very nicely with the challenge theme!

We'd love to see which two that you choose for our Choose Two challenge. You can see what the rest of the Design Team chose over on the Just Add Ink blog. You'll also find our Linky so that you can add your card to our challenge gallery.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 742L Just Add Inspiration

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It's once again time for the new Just Add Ink challenge. Yay! This week we have an Inspiration 

Photo challenge, suggested to us by Nikki.

Oh, how I wish that I had a lovely space like this at my home! I am a complete black thumb, and my garden is not faring well in the near-drought conditions we are currently experiencing in South Australia.

I was inspired by the lush green leaves, and the pops of colour in the cushions. The cushions actually have birds on them, but I decided to add colour with a digi stamp from Stamp Anniething, called Springtime Girl. She was coloured in pinks, purples, browns and blues to match some of the colours in the photo.

It's difficult to see, but the Leaf Collection background, stamped in Garden Green, was cropped with one of the new Textured Notes Dies. They are going to be fun dies to play with! The 'celebrate' sentiment is from Simply Said, I just masked off the 'let's' part of it. I popped a scrap of Vellum behind the girl to help her pop out from the leafy background.

More leaves and another Simply Said sentiment complete the inside of the card.

We'd love to see what grabs you attention from the Inspiration Photo. You can see what the rest of the Design Team have made over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also add your card to our Linky.

Bye for now,

Tina