JAI #453: Just Choose Two

Hi!

Can you believe it's Friday again? I'm back from New Zealand and ready to get stuck back into all things Stampin' Up! I just need to get over the jet lag first! LOL. In the meantime, the new Just Add Ink challenge is ready to kick off. This week Jan has challenged us to Choose Two to add to our cards.

I have to admit that I groaned when I saw this challenge, as it's naturally geared towards Easter, and I don't usually make Easter cards. I decided by choosing bunnies and flowers I could make a card that could be used as a baby card instead. Hooray!

I ended up absolutely loving this card! I pulled out my retired Garden Girl stamp set for the images, and my Stamparatus to make the wreath part of the card. I was so thrilled with how it turned out. The gingham was a late addition to the card, but Im so glad I thought to add it - perfect for either a baby or Easter card.

The images were all stamped on Shimmery White cardstock in Memento ink and then coloured with my Watercolour pencils. While you wouldn't usually use Memento with water, my blending medium was Wink Of Stella, which is alcohol based. This means the ink won't run when I blend the pencils. Hopefully you can see how super glittery the image ends up when you use WOS on Glimmer Paper!

Another cute little bunny graces the inside. I masked him off and stamped some flowers behind and coloured them the same was as the ones on the front, using Wink Of Stella to blend the pencil. Did you notice there are no sentiments at all on the card? I will add them later when I decide what to do with the card.

Don't forget to pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you can link your card up for this week's challenge. You can also see the rest of the Design Team cards.

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH March Blog Hop: Easter

Hi!

Welcome to another Art With Heart team Blog Hop.

Tonight the Art with Heart team are sharing creative Easter projects. Don’t forget, Sale-A-Bration has just over a week left for us to earn free product with purchase. It is also a fabulous time to join Stampin’ Up! - just ask any of the girls on the hop for more details.

I don't really make Easter cards, but I do like to send a little something with Hudson to school to give to his school mates each year. He goes to a special school that only has 26 students, so it's not a huge task. Having said that, I do like to keep it simple!

I have used the Tutti-Frutti Cards & Envelopes Sale-A-Bration choice from the first round as the base for my chocolate treat holder. I started by trimming a 3.5cm strip from one card base and then scoring it to fit around the Freddo Frog chocolate that sits inside. I've provided a template at the end of the post so that you know where to score the strip.

From the side you can see that the base of the treat holder is a W for a little stability. It also helps to hold the chocolate in place. The Stitched Shapes Circle is held to the front with a Dimensional, and provides a little slot for the top tab to slide into. You can see the open top in the next photo.

Here you can see that I've stapled the chocolate to the back of the treat holder. I didn't want to add a belly band to each one, so this was a quick and easy way to hold the chocolate in place. Let's face it, the kids just want to rip into the chocolate, so I wanted to make it quick and easy to get to!

Here's my template. Cutting the strip 3.5cm wide means that you can get 4 of these from one card base without any waste. The kit is American sizes, so you may need to adjust a bit if you're using a different sized card base. The score line third from the left is the one that comes pre-done on the card base.

To finish, here's a closer look at the cute bunny from Garden Girl. I stamped him on Shimmery White cardstock using Momento ink. He's coloured using my Melon Mambo and Early Espresso Watercolour Pencils and then blended with Wink Of Stella. I typed the name on my typewriter, just for a bit of old school fun!

That's it for me - well, not really, as I still have another 24 of these to make! For you though, it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the very talented Ros Davidson.  

Bye for now,

Tina

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the participants below:

Monika O'Neill 
Sharon Davern 
Caroline Manwaring
Tina Gillespie
Ros Davidson
Rachel Woollard
Rebecca Jacovou
Catherine Proctor
Kathryn Mangelsdorf
Fiona Ryan
Judy May 

JAI #381: Just Choose Two

Hi!

Welcome to a new challenge!

This week Jan has set the challenge for us at Just Add Ink, and it's a Just Choose Two week.

As you can see, you need to choose two from embossing paste, colouring and sequins. Now, if you had of asked me a couple of weeks ago, I would have said I'd most likely go for the paste and colouring, but to my surprise, I went for sequins instead of the paste.

I actually started this card with the intent of using it in last night's Art With Heart blog hop, but somewhere along the way I realised it would be better for this week's JAI challenge.

I started with a piece of the garden themed Just Add Colour SDSP. I was only going to colour a few bits and pieces of the design with my watercolour pencils, but before I knew it, I'd coloured the whole piece. It was far too busy to use sit the girl from Garden Girl on top, so I decided to tone down the SDSP with vellum. I decided to stitch it down, and then thought that I may as week go the whole hog and turn it into a shaker card by adding sequins under the vellum.

I really loved colouring the girl from Garden Girl, but I think this little bit on the inside is my favourite part. I recently made a similar scene for an ATC swap I hosted, and thought that a simpler version of it would be a great way to finish off the inside.

You canopy on over to see what the rest of the DT at Just Add Ink have made for the Just Choose Two challenge. They re all fabulous, as usual!

Bye for now,

Tina