JAI 727: Just Add A Sketch

 Hi!

Welcome to the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week it's one of my favourite types of challenges - a Sketch challenge!

There's a lot of scope to play with this one! I went digging through my pop culture stamps and decided to use a bunch of stamps that haven't seen daylight for a while.

I started with the two characters from Kindred Stamps Science Geeks stamp set. I coloured them with Copics. It's been a while since I really played with Copics - I must get back into it again! The sentiment is from the same set.

I popped them up over a Silver Foil die cut. It's from Uniquely Creative, and is called Orbital Dies. The DSP is from the Full Of Life pack.

I had a tiny little slither of DSP left from the front of the card, so instead of tossing it, I decided to use it under this catch phrase sentiment. It fit so nicely! The stamp is from The Ink Road's Bazinga stamp set.

This was such a fun card to make. I hope that you have fun making your card for the challenge, too. We'd love to see what you make. You can pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll see what the rest of the Design Team made for the challenge. You can also link your card via Linky.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 723: Just Choose Two

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Welcome to the new Just Add Ink Challenge. This week it's a Choose Two challenge, suggested to us by Kim.

I purchased a new stamp set last week from Scrappy Boy Stamps, called Summer Fling. I just had to use it, but was a little stumped on how to include two of either circles, trees or ink blending with the images. I had intended to ink blend behind the circle die cut on my card, but got distracted and glued it down before I blended. Oops! Trees it was!

Can you guess the fandom that the people are from? The sentiment might be a bit of a giveaway if they don't! It's one of my all-time favourite movies. I coloured them with my Copic markers and then popped them up over the circle, die cut from my Everyday Details Dies. The sentiment was also cropped using a rectangular die from the same set.

As I mentioned earlier, I had forgotten to ink blend, so I had to add trees. I remembered that the man lives in a cabin on the edge of the woods, so I used my Snow Front (cabin) and Waterfront (trees) stamp sets to add those details to the card. Easy!

The inside of the card might give you one final clue to the fandom, if you haven't already worked it out. Hehe, I couldn't resist adding the watermelon!

That's all from me, but please jump on over to the Just Add Ink blog so that you can see what the rest of the Design Team have made. You can also add your card to our Linky when you're ready to enter the challenge. Which two will you choose?

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 707: Just Add A Sketch

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Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink Challenge. This week we have a sketch for you, designed by Kim.

I quite like that the only design element is the half circle on the side, although I did flip my half circle to the other side of the card. Once I'd worked out which stamp set that I wanted to use, it made more sense.

I used Unsinkable, from Kindred Stamps. I coloured the glamorous lady using mix of Stampin' Blends and Copics. Her dress is coloured with Fresh Freesia and Misty Moonlight, and her hair is using the E 13 - 18 Copic markers. I layered her over some retires Waves Of The Ocean DSP, and swished a little Wink Of Stella over her dress - a fancy dress needs a bit of sparkle!

I couldn't resist using a wood print from Wood Textures DSP as the half circle element, cropped with the largest circular Everyday Details Die. I thought that using the wood print tied in nicely with the sentiment.

The other half of the couple is on the inside of the card. He was much easier to colour! I think that I will put this card away for my next wedding anniversary, however that's not until April, so hopefully I don't forget about it in the meantime!

We'd love to see what you do with the sketch this week. You can see what the Design Team did over on the Just Add Ink blog. You can also add your card to the Linky when you are ready. We can't wait to see what you make!

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 688: Just Choose Two

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Welcome to another week of Just Add Ink challenges. This week we have a fabulous Choose Two challenge for you, suggested to us by Lou.

We'd like you to Choose Two of Sequins, Stars or Stitching to add to your card. I immediately thought of my Stitched Stars dies, which meant that I got my two in one go!

I've been doing a bit of rearranging in my craft space and picked up the Showtime Limited Edition kit from Kindred Stamps. I thought that this little piggy was the perfect choice to go with sequins, stars and stitching. I coloured her with my Comic markers and popped her up over the foil Stitched Stars die cuts on top of some Expressions In Ink SDSP.

I love the swirly star die cut on the front of the card, especially as you end up with five stars that can be used to decorate there rest of your card. I used three on the front and the final two to jazz up the inside of my card.

We'd love to see which two elements you choose from our challenge this week. You can see what the Design Team chose over on the Just Add Ink blog. You can also find our Linky when you're ready to enter your card in the challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 674: Just Add Colour

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Welcome to the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week we have a colour challenge for you, suggested to us by Rochelle.

The first thing that came to mind was flowers, and the addition of Gold made me think of Christmas. In the end, I went a completely different direction!

How cute is this combi image? It's a digi stamp from Indulgy that I must have received as a freebie. I printed it on some Blending card and then coloured it with a mix of Stampin' Blends and Copics in the challenge colours. I had a gold marker that I used for the headlights, number plate and the logo on the front of the van.

The rest of the card was a bit of a mish-mash of bits and pieces in the challenge colours. I loved the striped ombre paper from the Bright & Beautiful DSP pack, and then I layered some cropped and embossed ovals over the top.

I had the foresight to print a smaller version of the van for the inside of my card. Usually, I forget and then can't be bothered to fire up my laptop and printer again. I coloured it in the same colours as the front. The sentiments that I used are from a retired SU set, called Driving By. I thought it worked well with the image!

That's all from me for now, but pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design Team cards. You'll also find the Linky for the challenge for when you're ready to add your card. What do you think you'll do with the colours?

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 655: Just Add Music

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Hello Friday, and the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week's theme - to Just Add Music - is right up my alley! Did you know that I play the Bass Clarinet in my local concert band? It's a lot of fun 😁

I decided to dig through my pop culture stamps for inspiration, and quickly found a Subway Art background stamp from Ink Road Stamps that suited the theme perfectly.

The stamp is called Subway Art: Fairytale, and is made up of a whole lot of lyrics from songs from fairytale-ish movies. I stamped it onto Azure Afternoon cardstock using coordinating ink, and then again onto Whisper White so that I could use one of the lyrics as my sentiment. Are you singing along in your head? I am!

The girl is from a Kindred Stamps digi stamp set, called Little Town Life. I just printed her off and coloured her with my Copic Markers.

On the inside of my card I used a physical stamp from the matching Little Town Life stamp set and again coloured her with my Copics. She certainly had an amazing adventure!

We'd love for you to play along with us this week. The Design Team have created some fabulous cards (as always) for the challenge. We'd love to see how you will interpret our music theme. Just add your card to our linky on the Just Add Ink blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 650: Just Add Large Letters Or Numbers

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Welcome to Friday and the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week Lou is challenging us to add either large letters or large numbers to our cards.

This was an easy one for me, as my oldest had his 20th birthday recently. He's just gotten into Dungeons and Dragons, and so I had the idea to make a card featuring a dice.

Conveniently, D&D is played using a 20-sided dice, so it worked out nicely that for his 20th birthday I could use a D20 on his card. I just found a free image on the internet and printed it onto Thick Whisper White cardstock. It's big - about 5 inches wide and 6 inches tall. I coloured it with three different Copics from the R20's to give it dimension.

I also managed to include Large Letters on my card using my Alphabet A La Mode dies. The letters were adhered flat using Adhesive Sheet, but in hind sight I should have used Adhesive Foam, which would have eliminated the need for the popped up star. Oh well!

We'd love to see which option you choose - letters or numbers? Or will you use both like me? You can see what the rest of the Design team has chosen over on the Just Add Ink blog. You can also link up your card to enter our challenge over on the blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 648: Just Choose Two

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Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week it's my suggestion for the challenge. I didn't think it was a tricky one, but it certainly challenged the Design Team. Like always, they rose to the occasion, and I hope you will too.

I've suggested a Choose Two challenge - choose two of water, wall or garden to add to your card. I know that I had an idea of what I was going to make when I made the suggestion, but that idea was long gone by the time I had to make my card. Oops! 

I found the bubble bath stamp during a deep dive into my stamp collection. It's called Bubble Bath Day and is by Kindred Stamps. That worked perfectly for the 'water' part of the challenge. The bath mat was hand-drawn, and then the scene was coloured with my Copic markers.

Now for the wall part of the card - I just used a ruler and marker to draw the lines for the skirting boards and tiles on the wall. LOL, it was only later that I realised that tiled walls don't usually have skirting boards. It's very hard to see in the photos, but I added a little bit of grey to some of the corners of the tiles to add a little shading and dimension. The flower from Simply Fabulous added a few feature tiles to the wall, and broke up the grid a bit.

By the time I get to the inside of my cards, I'm rarely in the mood to colour a full image, so I often just stamp a small section to colour. Lazy, or clever? I'll let you decide, LOL!

That's all from me, but there's lots more inspiration from the Design Team over on the Just Add Ink blog. I hope that you've got some ideas swirling already, and that you can join our challenge by linking up your card on the blog. Which two will you choose?

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 638: Just Choose Two

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Welcome back to my blog for the new Just Add Ink challenge. I love Fridays and the new challenge! This week Di has challenged us to a Choose Two project.

The choices are Candles, Cake or Celebration. As soon as I saw this challenge, I knew the exact stamp I wanted to use - the 'CEL-E-BRATE' stamp I used for my background. It's from a retired Kindred Stamps set, called Time Traveller.

I stamped it down my card using my Stamparatus and the step-stamping technique. The celebrate die cut is from a retired Stampin' Up! die set, called Celebrate You. I was so excited about the 'celebrate' elements of my card, I nearly forgot to choose the second. A few candles, from Ink Road Stamp's Belated stamp set, fit the bill!

My robot (hopefully you can hear him saying celebrate in his particular voice!), is from another Kindred Stamps set, called It's About Time. I struggled with which colours to use on him, but finally settled on red and grey.

I decided to go with another villain from the series on the inside, despite this image not looking very villainous! She goes well with the sentiment, and both are from the Time Traveler set. I'm sure the someone who loves this fandom will love the card!

That's all from me for this week's challenge, but your job is just beginning! Jump on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find lots more inspiration from the Design Team. Then you can choose your two elements, and get stamping! Link your card over on the JAI blog when you're done. 

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 636: Just Add Your Favourite

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Welcome back to another wonderful year of Just Add Ink challenges. As we do every year, we kick off the new challenges with a blog hop. Hopefully you've either started the hop here, or arrived from Tristan Dawes' blog. Either way, just keep on hopping until you get back to where you started.

For this challenge we are asking you to Just Add Your Favourite.... whatever you'd like! It could be your favourite colour, theme, stamp set - your imagination is the limit. I recently purchased a new stamp set that is based on one of my all-time favourite movies, The Sound of Music. It's from Scrappy Boy Stamps, and is called Climb Every Mountain.

I decided to recreate the iconic opening scene, and thought that a Bridge Fold Card would give my card the perfect dimension for the scene. I started by masking a horizon line and then stamping the mountains across the width of the card. These were ink using a blending brush and lots of masking. While the masks were in place, I also inked the sky using a template made from the cloud line die from the Basics Borders Dies. The trees are from Snowfront. The grass was also masked and inked. I splattered gold ink over the top, trying to get the look of flowers in the grass.

Maria was coloured using my Copic markers, as were the Edelweiss blooms.

The mountain part of the scene was recreated on the back of the card, where a message can be written to the recipient.

That's all from me and my favourite movie. Hmm, now I feel like watching it! While I go do that, please do keep going around our hop by jumping on over to Fiona Bradley's blog. I love her take on the favourite theme!

When you've finished hopping, get creating! You can link your card up for our challenge over on the Just Add Ink blog. So long, farewell!

Bye for now,

Tina

World Cardmaking Day Blog Hop

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To celebrate World Card Making Day, I am participating in Kathryn's Blog Hop of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from All Around the World to share a card that I have made today (or recently). She has also challenged us to post it within a week to someone special, as we all forget sometimes to send cards that we make and they just sit in a box.

I've slightly cheated with my card, in that the recipient already has it! I was asked to make a card for a lot of people to sign that was for the conductor of a development band. She unfortunately had to step down, and we wanted to acknowledge her hard work over the years. I don't like making oversized cards, so I try to look for cards that open up to allow for many people to sign. The closed card is 6 inches square.

The design is based upon a tutorial I found on Lisa's Stamp Studio website for a Diagonal Explosion Card. Her original was 4 inches square, so I played around with the measurements to make it just that little bit bigger. The photo above shows it half way open.

And here it is, fully open. Lots of space for people to write on! I knew that the recipient was a fan of this singing bookworm and the house full of magical objects, so I was sure to include them on the card. I coloured them with my Copic markers.

It's time now to jump on over to the next hopper, Elizabeth Gross. We'd love for you to hop your way around all of the blogs tonight, so just keep on going until you get back to where you started.

Bye for now,

Tina