JAI #222: Just Add Colour

Hi!

It's Friday so I'm here with the new Just Add Ink Challenge.  This week we have a gorgeous colour combination for you courtesy of Mae.

It took me a little while to think of what to do with this card, but once I got an idea it came together pretty quickly.  I used a lot of retired product on this card - some recently retired, some has been retired for a while.

I started with the DSP on the base.  It's from the long retired Twitterpated DSP - a favourite of mine.  I didn't have enough to cover the entire front so I trimmed it into four pieces.  To soften the gaps I covered the bottom one with the retired Flower Trim and the top ones with the leaf die cuts.

I was a little worried that the Bermuda Bay would be too strong a colour for the rest of the card so I stamped it off once before I stamped on the card.

I liked the leaves so I added a few more to the inside to finish it off.

I hope you can play along with us at Just Add Ink this week - it's a great colour combination.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI Scrap #18: Just Add Milestones.

Hi!

I have been busy scrapping again, just in time for the new Just Add Ink Scrapping Challenge.

This month Ruthy has challenged us to scrap a milestone.  A milestone can be defined as an important event in your life.  I have chosen my Grandma turning 100 as the milestone I scrapped.  She's pretty amazing - these pictures were taken over a year ago and she is now 101!

I chose to scrap a double page as I had too many photos for just one page.  The three square photos were taken at her party.  Sadly she was unable to attend her own party as she was unwell.  The photos on the right side of the layout are the following day when we were able to talk to her through the window of the nursing home.  We all sang Happy Birthday and blew her kisses.

This photo was taken a week later.  We were able to travel back to see her when she was well and able to have visitors.  She's such a remarkable woman and someone I really admire.

 You can see that in the top corner I stamped the large flourish from Flowering Flourishes using the Illuminate Inkpad.  I stamped the same image in each of the corners for a subtle little lift.

This is one of my favourite bits of the layout. At her party I was asked to make a speech with only about 10 minutes notice.  My sisters helped me come up with some points to make and I scribbled them on a scrap of paper.  The scroll is that scrap of paper.

Stamps: Flowering Flourishes
Ink: Illuminate, Lucky Limeade, So Saffron, Pretty In Pink
DSP/Cardstock: Tea For Two DSP, So Saffron, Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade
Other: Big Shot, Typeset Alpha Dies, Tasteful Trims Die, Little Leaves Sizzlit, Petals A Plenty Embossing Folder, Soda Pop Tops, Paper Doilies, Early Espresso Baker's Twine, Crystal Effects, Vanilla Flower Trim

I hope you can find time to play along with us this month at Just Add Ink.

Bye for now,

Tina

Just Add Tania Gould!

Hi!

The team at Just Add Ink have come up with a new challenge - to CASE a card from a selected Design Team member, in this case Tania Gould.  So off I popped to look through her blog for inspiration, and boy did I find some!  Tania is one very clever papercrafter.  The card I finally settled on to CASE was this card.  I loved the 3D flower she'd made, and since I wanted to have a go at a similar flower it was the perfect card to CASE.  Here's my version.

I love these flowers, but a bit of forward planning is necessary to make them.  You need to wet the cardstock, and so you have to wait for them to dry before you can use them on a project.  You can find the tutorial for making them here on Joanne Leddy's blog.

A bit hard to see because it's stamped in Pink Pirouette, but the greeting is from Happiest Birthday Wishes.

Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes (Hostess), Perfect Punches
Ink: Pink Pirouette, Marina Mist
DSP/Cardstock: Beau Chateau DSP, Marina Mist, Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla
Other: Big Shot, Little Leaves Die, Lots Of Tags Die, Large Oval Punch, Fancy Flower Punch, 5-Petal Flower Punch, Boho Blossoms Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Pink Circle Rhinestone Brad, Basic Jewels Pearl, Sponge Daubers

Catch you later,

Tina

Just Add Ink 94

Hi!

I needed to make a wedding card today, so I decided to use the sketch at Just Add Ink.  I love the sketch for the challenge, but it just wasn't quite working for me.  I have tried to stay fairly true to the sketch, but I ended up changing it a little.  I hope it's still OK for the challenge!

I changed the sketch from a circle to a square and flipped the elements of the sketch.

The rolled roses are so elegant on a wedding card.  I knew the colour scheme of the wedding was red, black and white so I used those colours with a touch of silver.

The inside I left fairly plain so I could write a message to the bride and groom.

Stamps: A Word For You, Well Scripted (retired)
Ink: Versamark, Real Red
Cardstock: Real Red, Basic Black, Whisper White, Brushed Silver, Old Olive
Other: Big Shot, Little Leaves Sizzlit, Paper Snips, Half Back Pearls (retired Pretties Kit), Dimensionals, Silver Embossing Powder

Catch you later,

Tina

Cleland Wildlife Park Layout 3

Hi!

Today's layout of our trip to Cleland Wildlife Park shows the Koala enclosure.  The Koalas were quite awake when we saw them and I got quite a few lovely photos of them munching on eucalypt leaves.  I think my favourite photo though is of the Koala curled up asleep in the fork of a tree.  It's pretty amazing that they don't just fall out of the tree when they sleep!

My layout is straight, it just photographed crooked!

I used my Little Leaves Sizzlit to create a subtle little border of leaves along the bottom of the layout.

DSP/Cardstock: Woodland Walk DSP, Very Vanilla, Wild Wasabi
Other: Big Shot, Timeless Type Alphabet Dies, Little Leaves Sizzlit, 1/4" Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon (retired), Anchored Rub Ons (retired)

Catch you later,

Tina