JAI 772: Colour & Inspiration

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Welcome to the new Just Add Ink Challenge. We have changed to fortnightly challenges to give you more time to play along with us. This fortnight we have a fun Inspiration and Colour palette for you to play with.

This was a tricky one for me, as it screams Halloween, but I don't usually make and send Halloween cards. The witches hats on the cupcakes made me think of witches and wizards, and knowing my collection of pop culture stamps, you can probably guess where that led.

I started with the Witches & Wizards No 2 paper pack from Echo Park Paper Co. Both the background paper (which features witches hats and pumpkins) and the sentiment panel are from the pack. I love it when cards come together that easily!

The young wizard is from a Kindred Stamps set, called Wizard Friends. I coloured him with my Stampin' Blend markers and popped him up over the sentiment panel. To add a bit of bling, I dotted a small amount of glitter glue to the sparkles on the sentiment panel.

On the inside I used more stamps from the Wizard Friends set to decorate the inner. 

Thanks for stopping by my blog. We'd love for you to play along with us. You can pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of the Design Team cards. You'll also be able to link up your card to the challenge gallery using Mr Linky. Don't forget that you now have two weeks to get your entry in,

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 771: Choose Two Or More

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Thanks for joining us here at Just Add Ink! We're so excited to share with you the first challenge of our new format and hope you'll embrace the changes and have a ton of fun creating.

For challenge # 771 we have expanded our regular Choose Two to now be Choose Two or More! You can use as many of the listed options as you like to feature on your projects, as long as it's at least two, and don't forget to tell us in your post which ones you chose. You'll also have more time to create as we've moved from a weekly to bi-weekly (every two weeks) challenge!

This week, Jan has suggested this list of fun things to choose from - pets, plaid, plants, pretties, pens or patterned paper. I have a little secret: I hate plaid! Funnily enough, it features prominently on my card. LOL! I guess because it's more at the gingham end of the scale it's a little more appealing to me.

Plaid paper nicely covers two of the categories to choose from, but I also decided to throw in some pretties with the use of some Glimmer Paper. I cropped it using the Build A Stage dies from Kindred Stamps.

I coloured my dancer, from Hair Hopper by Scrappy Boy Stamps, with my Stampin' Blends, but decided to add some plaid to her outfit. I stamped her lower half onto some of the Plaid DSP, fussy cut the skirt, and glued it over the skirt on the full image.

I decided to include the beau of the beauty on the front on the inside of my card. Isn't he a cutie? I toyed with the idea of making his tie plaid in the same way as I did her skirt, but discarded that idea pretty quickly as being way too fiddly!

Which two (or more!) will you choose? We'd love to know, and to see your card. You can add it to our Linky over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll also find the rest of the Design Team's cards. Don't forget that you now have two weeks in which to pay along.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 758: Just Add A Sketch

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Thanks ever so much for joining me for the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week Kim has designed a fun sketch to inspire our creativity.

I love using circles on cards, and that wee little bow? So sweet! I wanted to make a sewing themed card for a friend, so I went hunting through my extensive paper stash for some suitable paper. This gingham print from the Country Gingham DSP pack was the perfect choice.

The paper colour is Sweet Sorbet, thankfully I had some coordinating cardstock in my stash too. A layer of Whisper White under the DSP gave it a lovely pop.

The stamp set that I used is from Kindred Stamps, called National Sewing Machine Day. It's a great choice for a sewing themed thank you card! I used my Stylish Shapes Dies to crop the banners and the stitched circle. The solid circle is from the long retired Circles Collection Framelits.

The inside uses another sentiment from the Sewing Machine stamp set, a strip of left over DSP and some sweet die cuts from the Quilt Builder Framelits dies. I love it when different products from different companies work so well together!

That's all from me for this week, but we'd love to see what you make. You can see the rest of the Design Team cards over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also add your card to our Linky.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 754: Just Choose Two

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Welcome to the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week Kim has suggested the we Just Choose Two to add to our card.

That's a tough choice! I'm not much of a flower person, so I decided to go for the other two options - a Die Cut and some Ribbon.

I had a dig through my dies and came across this Legendary Word die, by Sweet Stamp Shop. Perfect! And speaking of perfect, this stamp set, Legendary by Kindred Stamps, was a great choice to pair with it. I enjoyed colouring the young man with my Stampin' Blends.

Cam you see the sparkly ribbon laying underneath the die cut? The card is so CAS that I used it there to give the word a little touch of oomph. I also used my Blending Brush to add a little Balmy Blue ink under my legendary lad to give him a bit of a boost, too.

I couldn't use one legendary character without the other, so she's made an appearance on the inside.

We'd love to see which two you'll choose. You can see the rest of the Design Team cards, and add your card to the Linky over on the Just Add Ink blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 727: Just Add A Sketch

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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 725: Just Add Stencilling

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Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week, Lou has suggested that we Just Add Stencilling to our cards. Fun!

It's been a while since I used any of my stencils, so I dusted off the box that I store them in and started digging. At first I thought that I might use a moon stencil, but then I rediscovered my Warp Speed stencil, from Altenew. Bingo!

I love how it creates a focal point at the centre of the card. I inked it up using Salty Ocean Distress Oxide and a blending brush. I had to make sure to ink from all angles so that the shapes came out cleanly. I then added a couple of Stitched Stars die cuts, cropped from Silver and Gold foil, to further highlight the focal point.

My wonderful superhero is from a Kindred Stamps set, called Wonderful. Isn't she fabulous? I coloured her with my Stampin' Blends and a couple of metallic markers. The sentiment from the stamp set was a great way to finish off the card.

I left the inside fairly plain, with just a gold foil star. This way the card could be used for several different occasions.

We'd love for you to-lay along this week. Stencils are a fun and inexpensive way to add interest to a card, I think. I can't wait to see what you make. You can see what the rest of the Design Team have created this week over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also add your stencilled card to our Linky.

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 672: Just Add A Sketch

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Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink Challenge. This week, Nikki has a fun sketch for us to be inspired by.

It's a good one, with lots of open space and room for interpretation. I recently received the Perfect Catch box from Kindred Stamps, and I knew straight away that I wanted to use the Video Game Die for my card.

My hubby has been nagging me that I haven't made him a birthday card yet - it was back at the start of August. Whoops! I could use the excuse that I was waiting for this die to arrive, right?

I used my Fine Tip Glue to add a glossy layer to the buttons and the screen frame on the card. It adds lovely texture and dimension to the card. It's something that he will appreciate.

The background papers that I used were from the Bright & Beautiful DSP pack. I thought that the stars were a great choice. The stamped sentiments were also from the Perfect Catch box. I love the funky font, and Rob will like the sentiments that I chose for him!

That's all from me, but please head 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 our Linky, so that you can add your card to our challenge. I can't wait to see what you do with it.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 662: Just Add A Sketch

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Welcome back to the new Just Add Ink challenge. It's such a great way to kick off the weekend! This week we have a Sketch Challenge for you, designed by Lou.

My card was a bit of an accident - I started making a card for my daughter's 18th birthday, and then realised that it fitted the sketch perfectly!

This style of card is called a Bay Window Card, as the front of it folds out to look like the shape of a bay window. Of course, you then cut a window into the front to reveal the inside of your card. My daughter recently purchased a very popular video game, and so I designed the card to look like a bit of a portal opening to the world in the game - hence the space paper and the game controller as the window.

Here's the card folded flat, to show you both how it fits the sketch, and that it can easily be sent in the post. Luckily I was just able to hand the card to Ada!

Here is the inside of the card, showing the main character of the game and the world that he is running around in, getting up to all kinds of adventures. I coloured him with my Watercolour Pencils to suit the look of the DSP better than Copics would.

And here's the back of the card, where I wrote my message to Ada. This character is one of the key characters in the game

There's lots of inspiration on how to use this sketch over on the Just Add Ink blog. The Design Team ave done a wonderful job with it. Now, we'd like to see what YOU will do with it! Just add your card to our Linky when you've made it.

Bye for now,

Tina