JAI 644: Just Add Colour

 Hi!

Hooray for Friday's and a new Just Add Ink challenge. This week we have a bright and happy colour combo, selected by Kerry.

Isn't it great? I decided to give a stamp set and die combo that I found at an op shop a go! I thought that the balloon stamps and the colour combo were a fabulous mix.

The stamps and dies are from Gemini by Crafter's Companion and are called Balloon Sentiments - Party. I started by stamping and die cutting the party balloons in the three colours, and then chopped them up to mix and match. I die cut an additional shape in Whisper White and used that to line up the chopped up image. 

I used a Basic Black marker to hand-draw the crazy ribbons on the balloons. I was going for a curly look, but I think I just ended up with crazy, LOL!

For the inside, I used stamps from the Let's Party Treat Packaging kit. The DSP is from the Dandy Designs SAB papers.

As always, the Design team has done a magnificent job with Kerry's colour combo. What do you think you'll do with it? You can see the rest of the Design Team cards over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also link up your card once you've finished making it. I can't wait to see how you use the colours.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Pear Pizzazz

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Welcome to my blog for the new Colour Creations blog hop. This week it's Pear Pizzazz's turn to get some time in the spotlight. It's a lighter green from the Subtles colour family.

This week I went for a softer colour combo from Brain King as my inspiration. Evening Evergreen is a lovely, rich colour to match with Pear Pizzazz and Pale Papaya. I'd been recently sorting out eat kits that I had, and the combo made me think of the chameleon in the Let's Party Treat Packaging Kit stamp set.

I started by stamping him in Evening Evergreen and then colouring him with my Pear Pizzazz Stampin' Write Marker. The eyelid and the mosquito on top were coloured with my Pale Papaya Stampin' Blends. Now that I had hm coloured and fussy cut, I had to decide what to do with him!

Pale Papaya makes me think of a sunset, so I cropped a circle using a Stylish Shapes Die and inked half the circle with Papaya, and the other half with Evergreen. I popped it over a background of Stitched Greenery, with a few Forever Flourishing leaves peeking out from underneath. The banner sentiment finishes off the front nicely.

I chose to use one of the birds on the inside of my card. He's stamped and coloured the same way as the chameleon on the front.

Please keep on jumping around the blog hop tonight to see the rest of the Pear Pizzazz magic from the rest of the talented group hopping tonight. Just keep on hopping until you get back to where you started, with the lovely Kate Morgan up next.

If you run into any issues with links along the way, please head on over to Catherine Proctor's blog. She does a wonderful job of keeping us all organised each week.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 613: Just Add Colour

 Hi!

Hello again! Friday means that it's Just Add Ink challenge time! This week we have a colour combo for you, suggested by Nikki.

I love the mix of the two softer colours with the richer Starry Sky. I went for something a little different, and used Starry Sky as my background, hoping that the lighter Mint Macaron and Fresh Freesia would pop against the deep blue.

I think it works! I used my new Concord & 9th dies, Love You More Than, to crop the flowers. The dies layer over the top of each other to give a more dimensional flower. You can see this a little more clearly in the closer photo below.

The sentiment is from the Let's Party Treat Packaging Kit. I love the fonts in the kit stamp set.

Here's one final tulip for the inside of the card. The colours look so different against a white background rather than Starry Sky.

That's all for me for this week, but your job is just starting! Pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design Team cards. You'll also be able to link up your card for our challenge. What will you do with our colours?

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Crushed Curry

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Welcome to another Wednesday night on my blog, and the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are all creating with Crushed Curry, which appears to be a not-very-popular colour amongst the AWH Team. What do you think? Like it, dislike it, or a bit 'whatever' about it? I probably fall into the latter group. It's not a colour I automatically reach for when I need a yellow, but I don't completely dislike it either.

Having said that, I did use a minimal amount on my card! To be fair - I used a minimal amount of black, too! I used the circles dies in my Stitched Shapes Dies to crop the three circles, and then chopped each one in half. You could use the Layering Circles Dies just as easily to create the same look.

Because the card is so plain, I jazzed it up with some Black Shimmer Paper. It's so much fun to work with! The sentiment is from one of the new kits that Stampin' Up! have released, called Let's Party Treat Packaging Kit. I mostly got the kit for the cute critter stamps, but I absolutely love the fonts and the sentiments, too.

I'm not sure if I like the inside of my card. I wanted to try something a little different, but I think that the colours make it look like crime scene tape! LOL! Maybe I need to try it again with a different colour.

Thanks for joining me once again, but please do continue your way around our Blog Hop. The next stop is my lovely friend, Di Furniss. I always love what she makes!

As always, our wonderful host is the lovely Catherine, so if you find a broken link, or just wish to see the full list of participants for tonight's Hop, just pop on over to her blog.

Bye for now,

Tina