JAI 587: Just Choose Two

 Hi!

Hooray for Friday! Are you ready for the weekend? I sure am! Hopefully weekend means crafty time for you and that you can join in with the new Just Add Ink challenge.

This week Chantell is challenging us to Choose Two to add to our cards. Will you add a fancy edge, a circle or some twine? I chose to add circles and a fancy edge or two to my card.

I certainly have an abundance of circles on my card!! The background is a stamp set from Ink Road Stamps, called Full Circle Vol 3 Heroes. They are all individual stamps, but I used my Stamparatus upside down to stamp them all at once. What do I mean by that? I left the stamps on the backing sheet, laid it on the base of the Stamparatus. My cardstock was adhered to the flap so that I pushed the cardstock onto the stamps rather than the stamps onto the cardstock. It meant that I didn't have to fuss around lining up all 12 stamps, so it was much faster and easier. The stamped image was clear embossed on the cardstock.

While I had the embossing stuff out I also embossed the sentiment, which is from the Heroes stamp set. The superhero was coloured with a mix of Copics, Stampin' Blends and a Silver Metallic marker. I used Silver to match one of my fancy edges - the Silver Foil card base that I used. It's tricky to see the foil, as I photographed the card on a gloomy day.

My other fancy edge is the Stitched Dies I used - rectangles on the front and inside, and the circle on the front. The inside sentiment is from the Kindred Stamps set, called You're Super, as is the dude on the front.

We'd love to see which two you will choose for your card. You can enter our challenge by adding your card to the link on the Just Add Ink blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 536: Just Add A Sketch

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Hello and hooray for Friday! Although, I'm a little sad that the school holidays are nearly over - I like my quiet, lazy days home with the kids! The new Just Add Ink challenge makes me happy, though!

This week Jan has designed this fun sketch for us. I like these really simple ones, as it gives us plenty of scope for playing.

My daughter was invited to a birthday party and needed a card for the Birthday Girl, who is a huge fan of a particular super hero. Easy-peasy when you have a pop-culture stamp collection like mine! I started by embossing a piece of Black Foil with a retired SU Cobwebs 3DEF. The bottom portion of the card was embossed with Subtle 3DEF.

The character is from a Kindred Stamps bonus digital file called You're Extra Super. I coloured him with my Copic markers and layered him on top of a Stitched Shapes Circle. The '16' was cut using the Playful Alphabet Dies. I wanted it to blend into the bottom of the card, but also to stand out, if that makes sense! I used Adhesive Foam to make it pop out, and then coloured the edges of the foam with my Copic marker to help it to blend.

To decorate the inside, I used a stamp from Ink Road Stamps, called Full Circle Vol 3: Heroes for the icon, and another Kindred Stamps set, called Justice Is Served for the sentiment. It's hard to see in the photo, but the black strip across the bottom is more of the Cobwebs-embossed Black Foil. It was too good to not use on the inside!

I hope that you have a great weekend, whatever you are doing! It's going to be wet and miserable here, so I'm hoping to get some quilting done. Before you go off and make some weekend plans, please head on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design team cards. Hopefully you'll be able to make time to join in our challenge - we'd love to see what you create!

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 545: Just Add Shades Of Green

 Hi!

Welcome back to the new Just Add Ink Challenge. This week Lou has suggested that we use shades of green on our cards.

This one was a little tricky for me at first, as green isn't a colour I gravitate to very much. Then I remembered my pop culture stamps and an idea was born!

Who else could I choose but this big guy? He's the perfect character for this week's card. He's from a retired Kindred Stamps set, called You're Super, and I coloured him with my Shaded Spruce, Highland Heather and Basic Black Stampin' Blends. The sentiment is from another retired Kindred Stamps set, called Justice Is Served.

The background of my card was made by smooshing my Shaded Spruce ink pad onto my largest clear block, spritzing it with water and then placing my cardstock on top. I lifted it a few times and repositioned it to cover the whole piece with ink. The blotchy effect is very cool, if I do say so myself!

I used the offcut from the front of the card to matt my writing panel on the inside of my card. The icon image os from an Ink Road Stamps set, called Full Circle Vol 3: Heroes. I love it when stamps from different companies work together perfectly! The sentiment is from You're Super.

That's all from me for tonight, but please do head on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design team cards. I hope that you'll enter our challenge too - do you like green? Which shade (or shades) will you choose to use?

Bye for now,

Tina