JAI 772: Colour & Inspiration

 Hi!

Welcome to the new Just Add Ink Challenge. We have changed to fortnightly challenges to give you more time to play along with us. This fortnight we have a fun Inspiration and Colour palette for you to play with.

This was a tricky one for me, as it screams Halloween, but I don't usually make and send Halloween cards. The witches hats on the cupcakes made me think of witches and wizards, and knowing my collection of pop culture stamps, you can probably guess where that led.

I started with the Witches & Wizards No 2 paper pack from Echo Park Paper Co. Both the background paper (which features witches hats and pumpkins) and the sentiment panel are from the pack. I love it when cards come together that easily!

The young wizard is from a Kindred Stamps set, called Wizard Friends. I coloured him with my Stampin' Blend markers and popped him up over the sentiment panel. To add a bit of bling, I dotted a small amount of glitter glue to the sparkles on the sentiment panel.

On the inside I used more stamps from the Wizard Friends set to decorate the inner. 

Thanks for stopping by my blog. We'd love for you to play along with us. You can pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of the Design Team cards. You'll also be able to link up your card to the challenge gallery using Mr Linky. Don't forget that you now have two weeks to get your entry in,

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 771: Choose Two Or More

 Hi!

Thanks for joining us here at Just Add Ink! We're so excited to share with you the first challenge of our new format and hope you'll embrace the changes and have a ton of fun creating.

For challenge # 771 we have expanded our regular Choose Two to now be Choose Two or More! You can use as many of the listed options as you like to feature on your projects, as long as it's at least two, and don't forget to tell us in your post which ones you chose. You'll also have more time to create as we've moved from a weekly to bi-weekly (every two weeks) challenge!

This week, Jan has suggested this list of fun things to choose from - pets, plaid, plants, pretties, pens or patterned paper. I have a little secret: I hate plaid! Funnily enough, it features prominently on my card. LOL! I guess because it's more at the gingham end of the scale it's a little more appealing to me.

Plaid paper nicely covers two of the categories to choose from, but I also decided to throw in some pretties with the use of some Glimmer Paper. I cropped it using the Build A Stage dies from Kindred Stamps.

I coloured my dancer, from Hair Hopper by Scrappy Boy Stamps, with my Stampin' Blends, but decided to add some plaid to her outfit. I stamped her lower half onto some of the Plaid DSP, fussy cut the skirt, and glued it over the skirt on the full image.

I decided to include the beau of the beauty on the front on the inside of my card. Isn't he a cutie? I toyed with the idea of making his tie plaid in the same way as I did her skirt, but discarded that idea pretty quickly as being way too fiddly!

Which two (or more!) will you choose? We'd love to know, and to see your card. You can add it to our Linky over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll also find the rest of the Design Team's cards. Don't forget that you now have two weeks in which to pay along.

Bye for now,

Tina