JAI 684: Just Add Colour

 Hi!

Thanks for joining me for the final Just Add Ink challenge of 2023. We'll be back in the New Year with another year of fun challenges, but we are taking some time off to be with loved ones. For now, though, let't get going with the challenge!

Rochelle has selected a Christmassy colour combination for us this time, handy for all those last minute Christmas cards. Or maybe you're over Christmas and you will make a different card. It doesn't matter, as long as you use the colours.

I chose Evening Evergreen, Real Red to go with the Gold in the combo. Can you spot the Gold on may card? In the bright sunshine it was difficult to capture!

Maybe this angle shows it better. Dasher was het embossed in Gold. Isn't he magnificent?

The stamped sentiments I've used are from Joy To You, and the die cut 'merry' is from the Christmas Greetings Thinlits dies.

This challenge is a non-voting one, meaning that we won't be choosing winners. We'd love for you to play along. There's plenty of time - Linky will be open for three weeks.

I hope that you have a lovely Christmas and New Year, with plenty of time for doing what you love to do. I have a quilt top that is very close to completion, so I will be madly trying to get that done by the end of the year.

Bye for now,

Tina

Heart Of Christmas Week 19

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Welcome back to my blog for the new week of the Heart Of Christmas Blog Hop. It's week 19 this week, which means that my Christmas card stash has over 76 cards. I'm well and truly ready for starting to send them out - apart from the writing on them bit! LOL!! I hope you are well on your way to being organised, too.

This week my cards are based on the January 2021 Sheetload Of Cards template. I combined it with Heartwarming Hugs DSP, Gingerbread Dies and the retired Christmas Greetings Thinlits. I chose to put the Gingerbread baubles on my card, as I had the Red Foil pieces floating around on my desk, and I was sick of shuffling them around! They were left overs from my HOC cards from a month or so ago, and were 'too good' to just chuck out. It was a simple matter of cutting the baubles in Pear Pizzazz (with Adhesive sheet on the back), adhering them to the white cardstock and then piecing the Red Foil bits into the Pear baubles. Fiddly, but I like the effect, so it was worth it.

The insides were completed with a strip of the Heartwarming Hugs DSP and a sentiment from Christmas To Remember.

Here's the four cards together. Do you see my 'whoopsie'? Although, looking at this photo, I think I prefer my whoopsie and wish I'd made all four cards the same way. Oh well!

Please do keep making your way around the Hop. Just jump around to the next blog and keep on jumping until you get back to where you started. The next stop tonight is the lovely Caroline Manwaring. Do you have a whole bunch of her card photos saved to CASE? I do!!

Our Hop Hostess with the mostess this week is Sharon Davern. She's done a great job of keeping us organised for the Hop. If you find a broken link, pop on over to her blog and pick up the trail again there. She's got a list of all tonight's participants on her blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

Heart Of Christmas Week 6

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Welcome to Week 6 of the Heart Of Christmas Blog Hop. Have you been Hopping with us each week? There's been lots of festive inspiration each week, and I'm sure that this week won't be different!

Aren't these papers sooo cute? They are a Sale-A-Bration freebie, called Penguin Playmates DSP. One side is adorable animals playing in the snow, that may or may not be Christmassy, depending on what's on the rest of the card. The other side of the papers are lots of prints - you can see the dotty, pine tree and snowflake paper on my card. The tag was cut using the Tailor Made Tags Dies, and the snowman was fussy cute from the DSP.

I loved the dotty paper so much, I added a strip to the inside of my card. The sentiment is from Christmas To Remember.

As always this year, here are my group of cards. They were made using the December 2019 Sheetload Of Cards template.

That's all from me for this week, but please do continue your way around our Blog Hop until you get back to where you started. Next up tonight is my wonderful friend, Kate. I always love seeing what she's made.

I am hosting tonight's Heart Of Christmas Blog Hop, so at the end of each post you will find a link back to my blog. Pop back here if you find a broken link, and then just click on the next person's name to continue on with the Hop.

Kate Morgan

Rachel Woollard

Catherine Proctor

Michele Taylor

Sharon Davern

Vicki Boucher

Theresa Gerrard

Rosa Leyden

Judy May

Christine Blain

Caroline Manwaring

Ros Davidson

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 329: CASE The Mini Cover

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How can it be the end of the weekend already??? This weekend has just flown by, but all good things must come to an end, and the weekend ends on a high note with the CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop.

This week we are asking you to CASE the cover of the new Mini Catalogue. I sort of CASEd the Kraft card in the middle, but also the cover itself.

The full image of the cover has a thin black line around the cards, so I replicated this with the thin black frame, cropped using two dies from the Stitched Rectangles set. I layered this over a background created using the Stitched Greenery Die, just for some extra interest!

The flower is cut using the Poinsettia Dies - it's really great how they cut and emboss, to give the extra detail in the leaves and petals. The 'merry' is from a long-retired set of SU dies, called Christmas Greetings.

I used the coordinating Poinsettia Petals Stamp set on the inside of my card, with a sentiment from Christmas To Remember.

That's all from me for tonight, but your part in our challenge is just beginning! Pop on over to our Facebook group, where you can upload your card that is inspired by the new Mini Catalogue cover.

Before you dash off, please do continue on with our Blog Hop. Next stop is the wonderful Peta, with her gorgeous Christmas card. Don't miss it!

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 562: Just Add Inspiration

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Thanks for popping in for the new Just Add Ink Challenge. This week Kim has found a fun Christmas Inspiration photo for our challenge. Do you celebrate Christmas in July in your part of the world? I think it's a bit of a Southern Hemisphere thing, so we can have the traditional hot meal when it's cold enough weather to enjoy it! 

The things that struck me in looking at this photo were the expanses of white and the pops of green and red, so that's where I went with my card.

The Red and Green Foil sheets are a part of a pack from last year's Holiday Mini that is making a comeback in this year's Holiday Mini. I purchased them last year, but didn't even crack open the pack! The Stitched Stars dies were used to crop the star, and the 'merry' is from a long-retired set of dies, called Christmas Greetings.

I also cropped the swirly star swoosh from Stitched Stars in white cardstock. I snipped it into two pieces to extend how far it stretched over the background of my card, hiding the join under the star. The whole card front was popped up onto a white card base.

I cropped some extra stars from the left over Red Foil and popped them around the sentiment on the inside, which is from the Joy To The World Paper Pumpkin kit.

To see what the rest of the Design team have created using our Inspiration photo, please head on over to the Just Add Ink Blog. You can also link up your card in our challenge. The hardest part will be working out what inspires you from the photo!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #253: Come To Gather Suite

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Hello, and welcome back to a new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. Did you come here from Rebecca's blog, or start here? It doesn't matter, just keep going until you get back to where you started!

This week we are CASEing a card from the Come To Gather Suite, from the Holiday Catalogue. You can choose any project from pages 46 to 51 to CASE. I couldn't go past this cute little birdie card from page 50. Aren't those birds so adorable?

I don't actually have the Birds Of A Feather stamp set, so I had to improvise, which is certainly the name of the game when CASEing!

I started by stamping the base of my Coastal Cabana card with the little star cluster from So Many Stars. The stars were cut from the coordinating Stitched Stars dies using Real Red and Whisper White card, with Silver Foil. The word 'merry' was cut four times - three Whisper White and one Silver Foil - and then stacked, with the Foil layer on top.

Hopefully you can see that the Coastal Cabana layer that they all sit on was embossed with the Subtle folder. It's a fabulous folder for adding just a little bit of extra oomph to a card.

The inside was finished with another layered star and a sentiment from Greatest Part Of Christmas.

As always, you can join in the fun over in the CASEing The Catty Facebook Group. It's always great seeing how other people interpret different cards.

Before you go, don't forget to finish the Hop! Next up is the lovely Julia.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #470: Just Add No Stamping

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Are you ready for the new Just Add Ink challenge? This week Jo has challenged us to make a card with no stamping. Now that sounds easy, but I actually found it a little difficult!

This challenge means you either have to rely on your artistic talent to create an image or text, Memories And More cards, stickers, or, like me, use dies and DSP.

The DSP I selected is a new one from the upcoming Holiday Catalogue, and is called Night Before Christmas DSP. It's a cute little 6x6 inch stack with heaps of fun Christmassy patterns. I really loved this sheet with the hanging ornaments.

How awesome are the stars? They are also from the upcoming Holiday Catalogue, and are from a set called Stitched Stars Dies. There are 6 layered stitched stars in the set, and a whole lot of other star dies - 23 in all. I used tow of the layering dies to cut the Cherry Cobbler frame, and then the smaller star to cut a Very Vanilla star to fill in the middle of the frame. The Night Of Navy star was left over from another project, and the 'merry' is from an old die set called Christmas Greetings Thinlits. The small star and 'merry' are both coated in another new product - Shimmery Crystal Effects. Another must have!

Here's where I found this challenge to be the hardest - what to do on the inside if I can't stamp a greeting? In the end I used my inner Cherry Cobbler star left over from the front, and another small Night Of Navy star. I guess this inside will just have to have plenty of room to handwrite a message!

Is your mind whirling with ideas for this week's challenge? I hope so! You can see what the rest of the Design Team made over at the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also link up your card for this week's challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

Red Foil Santa's Sleigh Christmas Card

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I have one last Christmas card for you for 2016. This was one I made as a class sample using the Santa's Sleigh bundle.

The card base is just half of an A4 sheet of cardstock, scored and folded in half, and then one half is scored and folded in half again. You can probably see it better in the second photo. A smaller, matted piece is then attached to the front so that it over laps the inside of the card.

The DSP on the front is from the Pop Of Pink SDSP pack. The foil design ties in nicely with the foil sleigh and 'merry'.


Bye for now,


Tina