JAI #249: Just Add A Sketch

Hi!

Ooh, these Fridays are rolling around so quickly! I can't believe my children are finishing their second week at school - where is the time going?

We have a sketch challenge this week at Just Add Ink, designed by me!  I quite enjoy designing sketches, and then seeing how others interpret them.

Hexagons are so much fun to play with, but I decided to take a less literal approach to the sketch.

This card was made with someone specific in mind,  I knew she was a fan of neutrals with splashes of green and orange, so that's where I started from.

I think that sunburst from Kinda Eclectic is becoming one of my most used stamps! It's fab for adding just that little extra something to a card.

So there you have it!  What do you see in my sketch?  The Design Team at Just Add Ink have interpreted it in many beautiful ways - can't wait to see what you do with it!

Bye for now,

Tina

Sweet Sorbet Watercolouring

Hi!

I know Sale-A-Bration is long gone, but I found 2 projects in my "To Blog" folder that I must have missed before now.  I thought I'd show them to you anyway, as I really love both projects.  Today's one is a card using the Sweet Sorbet paper.

This card was made as a sample for my Stamping Ladies, who had asked me to show them a watercolour wash background.  We achieved the look by simply brushing some ink over watercolour paper using an Aqua Painter.  So easy but so effective!

I realised just as I presented the card to the group that I'd stamped the watercolour panel upside down!  I used Summer Starfruit, Pistachio Pudding and Crisp Cantaloupe for the watercolouring and I'd intended to have the Summer Starfruit section at the top as a contrast to the Crisp Cantaloupe flower.  Oh well, I think it still looks good.

I like using a little snippet of the DSP from the front in the inside of the card.  In this case I used some of the ribbon too.

Bye for now,

Tina

A Quick Card Today!

Hi!

 

A quick and simple card for you today.  I made it early on when the current Annual Catalogue was released. I love the Wildflower Meadow bundle - it's great to have on hand for simple, fast and effective cards.

 

I combined Crumb Cake with Baked Brown Sugar for this card - they work beautifully together for a tonal effect.

Sorry, I didn't photograph the inside before I wrote in it!!

Stamps: Wildflower Meadow, Label Love
Ink: Baked Brown Sugar
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Baked Brown Sugar, Crumb Cake
Other: Big Shot, Wildflower Meadow Embossing Folder, Artisan Label Punch, Crumb Cake Seam Binding Ribbon, Dimensionals

Bye for now,

Tina

A Christmas Gift

Hi!

Last month for my Holiday Catalogue launch I decided to prepare a 3D item for my guests to make. With Christmas not too far away a little Post-It Note Holder was the perfect project.

These were quite easy to put together, once we'd sorted out all the pieces.  I like my layers so there were quite a few!

I kept the stamp on the front fairly occasion-neutral so that if my guests wanted to give this away on an occasion other than Christmas it was still possible.

We also stamped on the first Post-It Note, but of course that's not the sample I photographed!!

I think I'll be making lots more of these for the kid's teachers at the end of the year.  Teachers always need more Post-It Notes!

Stamps: Label Love
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive
DSP/Cardstock: Season Of Style DSP Stack, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Very Vanilla
Other: Artisan Label Punch, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding Ribbon, Sticky Strip, Simply Scored Scoring Tool, Dimensionals, Post-It Notes, Pencil

Bye for now,

Tina

More Blown Ink Cards

Hi!

In my last post I showed you a couple of blown ink cards that I'd made as samples for a Children's Cards Class.  I was having so much fun playing with ink blowing that I decided to make a couple more.

For these cards I stuck to one colour of ink for the blown bits. I think I used Rose Red paired with Daffodil Delight (it was a long time ago!!).

I used the new Label Love stamp for the sentiment and the retired slot punch to create holes to fed the ribbon through.

The cards were made for my twin nieces, who were turning 7.  One likes pink and the other likes yellow, hence the colour schemes for the cards.

The Daffodil Delight ink takes longer to absorb into the cardstock, so the splatters were a bit bigger.

Here they are side by side.  They were so much fun to make.

Stamps: Label Love
Ink: Daffodil Delight, Rose Red
Cardstock: Daffodil Delight, Rose Red, Whisper White
Other: Artisan Label Punch, Slot Punch (retired), Rose Red Seam Binding, Daffodil Delight Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Dimensionals, Straw

Bye for now,

Tina

Wildflower Meadow in Pool Party

Hi!

Wildflower Meadow and it's coordinating embossing folder weren't items from the new catalogue that initially got my attention.  Upon closer examination I realised just how versatile the pair could be.

For this card I kept the stamping and embossing fairly simple. Pool Party ink on Pool Party DSP gives a lovely, subtle background which I enhanced by embossing over the stamping.

Pearls for the centre of the flowers add a lovely finishing touch.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #173: Just Add Water

Hi!

Straight into it today, as it's school holidays and the kids are demanding my attention!

 

 The challenge this week at Just Add Ink is to add water.  It was inspired by a water bottle at the recent Convention! You can see the pics and read the story on the Just Add Ink blog.

For my card I decided to use water in a technique rather than as an image on the card. I used the faux watercolour technique, where you ink up your stamp, mist it with a little water and then stamp.  The edges of the stamp go a little blurry and give a watercolour like effect.

You can see the blurriness and also the loss of detail in the flowers that occurs as a result of the misting.  It's a lovely effect, beautiful on female cards. To get the two colours on the sentiment I stamped it in each colour and trimmed the centre bit from the Always Artichoke image before layering it over the Perfect Plum image.

Not hard to tell who got this card!  I was a bit lot late in sending my mum her Mother's Day card. Luckily for me she's a forgiving type.

Stamps: Wildflower Meadow, Label Love, For My Family (retired)
Ink: Island Indigo, Perfect Plum, Always Artichoke
Cardstock: Whisper White, Perfect Plum, Always Artichoke
Other: Always Artichoke Seam Binding Ribbon (retired), Artisan Label Punch, Basic Jewel Pearls, Dimensionals

Bye for now,

Tina