JAI #473: Just Choose Two

Hi!

Yay, time for the new Just Add Ink challenge! This week Nikki has challenged us to Just Choose Two.

Which two will you choose? I went for Metallics and Washi on my card. Ada had been invited to a birthday party for one of her besties, and the request for the card was a particular movie franchise set in space that was popular in the 70's, but has seen a resurgence in the past decade or so. Luckily, I had just the stamps thanks to Kindred Stamps.

The stamp set is called Galactic Adventures: The Sequel and features a mix of characters from both the original movies (the best ones!) and the contemporary movies.

Now, you may be looking at my card and thinking - where's the washi? Would you believe that the entire space background is washi??? It is! It's from Altenew and is called Galaxy Washi Tape. It's super wide, so that it fills the width of the card. The image is the Milky Way, and it's perfect for any space themed cards.

My little robot didn't take much to colour. I mostly used a gold and silver sharpie maker, with a touch of blue. Done! The letters were cut from Golf Foil and then run through my Big Shot using the Subtle Embossing Folder. I used a punched vellum circle to ground the elements without covering the cool Galaxy Washi too much.

Ada chose the image and sentiment for the inside. She likes joking around with her friend, so she thought it was very suitable!

Time to pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you can see the rest of this week's Design Team cards. We've all had a lot of fun choosing our two - which two will you choose?

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #427: Just Add K

Hi!

Welcome to a new week's challenge at Just Add Ink. This week it's one of my alphabet challenges, this time using the letter K. It took a bit of thinking to work out what I was going to do. Ideas I came up with and discarded were a kaleidoscope card, a kite card and the kangaroo from Animal Outing. I just wasn't happy with any of them - but there's a list of ideas for you!

In the end I used a stamp set from Kindred Stamps for my K element. Kindred does some fantastic pop culture sets. This card was made a few weeks ago for my kids to give to my hubby for Father's Day. It snuck up on me this year - I thought it was a week later than it actually was. Oops! Luckily for my pop culture loving hubby, I had just the right stamps.

There's a little bit of a not-so-secret K on this card, and if you're scratching your head at the sentiment, then you probably wouldn't get the K reference either. The character this stamp set is based on is from a very famous movie franchise, and he, very shockingly, kills his father. Don't worry if you didn't get it, my hubby and kids did, so that's what really matters I guess!

The background was done with Brushos on some retired Naturals Ivory cardstock. It handles the water very well without warping too much. I used some of the blue and yellow powders. Once is dried I heat embossed a Neat & Tangled stamp called Time Warp over the top using Silver Embossing powder. It's such a cool, spacey looking background, don't you think?

Maybe the image on the inside will help you to work out which movie franchise the character is from? How awesome is the Labeler Alphabet stamp set for creating custom sentiments? It's a bit of extra work, but the results are worth it.

What K ideas do you have for this week's challenge? You can see what the rest of the team did this week over at the Just Add Ink blog. Don't forget to link up your card when you're done!

Bye for now,

Tina