JAI 597: Just Choose Two

 Hi!

Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink challenge. I've missed creating for JAI over the past couple of weeks, as my whole family contracted COVID. We are mostly over it all now, so I was ready to pick up my stamps and ink pads again!

This week Annie has challenged us to Choose Two to add to our cards. I don't naturally gravitate towards flowers, so for me it had to be Paper and Pattern.

I really hadn't played much with the SAB DSP, Sunshine & Rainbows, before it retired, so I pulled it out for my card today. I really needed the happiness that the paper brings! Polka dots (my Pattern element) always make me feel happy, and when they are in gorgeous, bright colours, the happiness is multiplied.

My Paper element is the rainbow and the clouds. The rainbow was fussy cut from the DSP, and the could were cropped using the Cloud Punch. In exciting news, the Cloud Punch is carrying over to the upcoming Annual Catalogue - hooray!!

Speaking of hooray, the two sentiments that I have used on my card are from the new Light The Candles card kit. The kit is cute, but I mostly purchased it for the stamps - I think that they are a great font and sayings for young kid's cards.

We'd love to see which two you choose for our challenge. I'm always interested to see which options people gravitate towards. You can see what the Design team chose over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll also find the linky for our challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

A Super Card For A Super Kid

Hi!

Today I have a card I made for a friend of Hudson's. His 13th Birthday party was on the weekend, and we all had a fabulous time rollerskating. A lot of 13 year old kids are into super heroes, and I hoped this particular kid was no different!

The design of this card was CASEd from my good friend Chloe Evans. She's an amazing crafter and has been doing a heap of videos lately. I always try to watch when she does her Facebook Lives, but she also has a great YouTube channel. If you like watching paper crafting videos, I do suggest you check her out! Chloe posted a few cards she'd made using the brayered strip across the card. I couldn't wait to CASE, as I adored the cards she made.

It was very easy to do - I just masked off the section I wanted to colour using sticky notes and my grid paper as a guide and then brayered Daffodil Delight ink at one end and Pacific Point at the other. I flicked some water over the top and then stamped the sentiment once it had dried. My stripe is a little wider than Chloe's, but I needed mine wider to fit my sentiment.

How cool are these stamps? They are from a retired Kindred Stamps set called You're Super. I coloured this dude with my Watercolour Pencils and Blender Pen.

Most of the inside sentiment is also from the You're Super set, but the numbers are from a Stampin' Up! set called Family Party. Have you noticed it in the catalogue? It's not one that jumps out as a must have, but it's definitely one worth adding to your collection. It covers a wide range of family members, so that you can make a birthday card for anyone of any age. Go check it out!

Bye for now,

Tina