JAI #245: Just Add Inspiration

Hi!

Here we are again with another Friday (which just about has to be the second best day of the week. Saturday's the best, being the first day of the weekend!) so it's time for another Just Add Ink Challenge. This week the lovely Nikki has put together an inspiration board of pictures to inspire our creativity,

Isn't it pretty?  I love all of the soft neutrals with the touches of gold throughout.  So peaceful and calming.

By coincidence, I have used the same colours two weeks in a row on my JAI cards! Oh well, other than the colours they are very different cards, so it doesn't matter too much I guess.

I stamped the full wreath stamp with Crumb Cake ink and then stamped over the top with the highlight wreath stamp in Crumb Cake also.  I was very impressed with how well I managed to line up the two stamps!  The berries were then stamped in Early Espresso.

I think I said last week how much I like the snowflake paper from the Trim The Tree DSP Stack.  I couldn't resist adding a strip of it to the inside of the card.

I hope you can find time to play along this week, we'd love to see your cards over at Just Add Ink.

Bye for now,

Tina

A Baby Card

Hi!

A couple of weeks ago I posted a little series of cards all based on the same design. You can see the previous post here.  Today I have the last of the cards for you. This card was a commissioned card, made to be given to a couple to congratulate them on the news that they were to become great grandparents.

You can see the changes I made to this one - I used one of the Apothecary Accents Framelits instead of an oval. The main panel is matted by cutting two more labels and cutting them in pieces to be able to extend the shape outwards. A fantastic trick when your Framelits aren't nesting like the ovals.

I rolled the Baby Tees wheel in the background and then stamped the sentiment over the top. I stamped it off once first to reduce the intensity of the colour, which is Island Indigo.

Love, love, love the All In The Family stamp set for making cards like these easy to personalise a little more.

 

Stamps: Sassy Salutations, All In The Family, Baby Tees Jumbo Wheel

Ink: So Saffron, Island Indigo

DSP/Cardstock: Tea For Two DSP, So Saffron,  Very Vanilla

Other: Big Shot, Apothecary Accents Framelits, Primrose Petals Stitched Satin Ribbon, Paper Snips, Dimensionals

 

Bye for now,

 

Tina

New Baby Card

Hi!

Today I have a card for you that uses a product that is being reconfigured: watercolour paper.  Stampin' Up! are discontinuing the smaller sized sheets and changing the pack to larger sized sheets.  The card I made was a commission from a friend.  She wanted me to use the All In The Family stamp set to represent the family on the front of the card.  The family consisted of mum, dad, 2 sisters, a cat and 2 dogs and the new baby girl.  Hmmmm.  I didn't fancy trying to stamp all that on the front of a card and make it look good.  After all, most people keep the cards as a keepsake.  So I put the thinking cap on and decided I'd make it look a bit like the Brady Bunch - you know the grid where they are all smiling and waving to each other from their own box?

I stamped each family member in Stazon ink on some watercolour paper and then coloured them with my ink pads and blender pen.  The sentiment panel is stamped on plain cardstock.  The base colours are Pear Pizzazz and Blushing Bride.  I can't remember the other colours I used on the people.

I have since been told that the recipient loves the card so much she is framing it for the baby's nursery.

Catch you later,

Tina

Curly Cute Baby Card

Hi!

I've had two cousins recently have baby girls which required me to make cards for them. I've had the idea for this one in my head for a few days, just churning away in the background.  This was the first idea I had, but I also had some ideas for variations.  Hopefully the others will turn out as nicely as this one.

The initial idea I had was the graduated pink sentiment.  I hope you can see them all - the top 2 are quite pale!  In order the pinks are: Pretty In Pink, Blushing Bride, Regal Rose, Melon Mambo and Rose Red.  In hindsight I should have swapped the first two pinks around - next time!

The baby was stamped in Crumb Cake and coloured with Melon Mambo and Pretty In Pink.  The variations I'm planning will be to this part of the card, but you'll have to wait and see for those!

Stamps: Curly Cute, All In The Family
Ink: Pretty In Pink, Blushing Bride, Regal Rose, Melon Mambo, Rose Red, Crumb Cake
Card Stock: Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Regal Rose
Other: Scallop Circle Punch, Circle Punches, Dimensionals, Stamp Positioner, Blender Pen, 1/2" Melon Mambo Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon (retired)

Catch you later,

Tina

Stamp A Memory Challenge #5

Hi!

The current challenge over at Stamp A Memory was set by Sue Madex. She asked us:

Do you have a famous quote that means a lot to you? Or perhaps a funny quote from a family member or friend that you'd like to record? I've got scribbled down quotes from my two munchkins that always make me laugh.

Include a quote on your layout for this challenge.

The quote that immediately popped into my head was something my children ask me regularly - 'Can you see me with your mummy eyes?' I'll explain soon!

The quote has a lot of meaning to me and my family, and I was really keen to incorporate it into a layout but I had one fairly major problem. How do you photograph something that doesn't really exist? It came down to having to do a layout with no photos! Eeek! I thought about this a lot more and decided I would try a progressive layout. I thought this would be a good way to fill my page despite the lack of photos.

Here is the first part of the page: a 6 inch layout with the quote included. Can you see me with your mummy eyes?



Next, I incorporated the 6 inch layout into an A4 layout. I have never scrapped in this size, so I found it a bit tricky to get my head around.



The journalling reads:
I can't remember exactly how it began, but it was probably after one of the children got in trouble for doing something they thought I couldn't see. My answer to how I could see them was MUMMY EYES. Now I get all kinds of questions - what are they made of, where are they, and how do they work? But the question I get asked most often? Can you see me with your mummy eyes?

You see? Mummy eyes are how I know what my children are up to even when I can't see them. All mummies have mummy eyes!

Here is the final 12x12 layout:



I kept the final layer fairly simple, as the flowers in the A4 layer were quite busy.

Here is a close up of the flowers. They are popping up everywhere lately! I made the 3 large ones and then decided to make 3 smaller ones to fill in some of the gaps around the large ones. I used the largest flower in the Boho Blossoms punch for the smaller flowers. They look a bit like lotuses (sp?) because they are fairly spiky.




Cardstock/DSP: Garden Green, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Sweet Always DSP, Hostess Patterns Pack II DSP
Stamp sets: All In The Family, Jumbo Outline Alphabet, Short Order Alphabet, Always
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green, Rose Red, Ballet Blue, Stazon, Rose Red Marker
Other: Scallop Circle Punch, Scallop Border Punch, Boho Blossoms Punch, Curly Label Punch, Pumpkin Pie 1/4" Grosgrain ribbon, Brocade Blue 5/8" Grosgrain ribbon, Blender Pen, white brads and buttons (both non SU)

Thanks for hanging in 'til the end of this post!

Catch you later

Tina

All In The Family

Hi!

I just thought I'd quickly pop in with my second 'guest designer' - my 4 year old daughter, Ada. She decided she wanted to make a card using my stamps and ink pads, specifically All In The Family and Chocolate Chip. Both obviously tickled her fancy!



I reckon she did a pretty good job! I didn't help her at all. I was quite impressed that she worked out that she needed 2 different arms. She also did a good job of lining up all the different parts even though they are pretty far apart. She asked me for the 'neck part' at one point, so that must have been the reason she left such a big gap.

Catch you later, hopefully at the Blog Hop if not before!

Tina