JAI 655: Just Add Music

 Hi!

Hello Friday, and the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week's theme - to Just Add Music - is right up my alley! Did you know that I play the Bass Clarinet in my local concert band? It's a lot of fun 😁

I decided to dig through my pop culture stamps for inspiration, and quickly found a Subway Art background stamp from Ink Road Stamps that suited the theme perfectly.

The stamp is called Subway Art: Fairytale, and is made up of a whole lot of lyrics from songs from fairytale-ish movies. I stamped it onto Azure Afternoon cardstock using coordinating ink, and then again onto Whisper White so that I could use one of the lyrics as my sentiment. Are you singing along in your head? I am!

The girl is from a Kindred Stamps digi stamp set, called Little Town Life. I just printed her off and coloured her with my Copic Markers.

On the inside of my card I used a physical stamp from the matching Little Town Life stamp set and again coloured her with my Copics. She certainly had an amazing adventure!

We'd love for you to play along with us this week. The Design Team have created some fabulous cards (as always) for the challenge. We'd love to see how you will interpret our music theme. Just add your card to our linky on the Just Add Ink blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

World Cardmaking Day Blog Hop

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To celebrate World Card Making Day, I am participating in Kathryn's Blog Hop of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from All Around the World to share a card that I have made today (or recently). She has also challenged us to post it within a week to someone special, as we all forget sometimes to send cards that we make and they just sit in a box.

I've slightly cheated with my card, in that the recipient already has it! I was asked to make a card for a lot of people to sign that was for the conductor of a development band. She unfortunately had to step down, and we wanted to acknowledge her hard work over the years. I don't like making oversized cards, so I try to look for cards that open up to allow for many people to sign. The closed card is 6 inches square.

The design is based upon a tutorial I found on Lisa's Stamp Studio website for a Diagonal Explosion Card. Her original was 4 inches square, so I played around with the measurements to make it just that little bit bigger. The photo above shows it half way open.

And here it is, fully open. Lots of space for people to write on! I knew that the recipient was a fan of this singing bookworm and the house full of magical objects, so I was sure to include them on the card. I coloured them with my Copic markers.

It's time now to jump on over to the next hopper, Elizabeth Gross. We'd love for you to hop your way around all of the blogs tonight, so just keep on going until you get back to where you started.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 612: Just Choose Two

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Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink Challenge. I hope that you find time to play along with us, as it's a fun one!

This week, Kim has challenged us to Choose Two of Fur, Clouds or Stitching to add to our cards. Hmm, what a choice! I went for Fur and Clouds.

I also decided to make a fancy fold, so that the castle sat back from the front of the card. This fold is called a Reverse Centre Step card. I love the dimension that it gives my scene. The castle is a digi stamp from Kindred Stamps, called Little Town Life Bonus. As you can imagine, it coordinates with the fur element of my card - the beast on the front. He's from a physical stamp set, called Little Town Life.

The clouds were created using a template cut from the Rainbow Builder Dies and a Blending Brush with my Balmy Blue ink. The grass is a Hello Sweetums Die, called Grass Is Greener.

The images on my card were all coloured using my Copic markers. It's such a relaxing way to unwind from a busy day.

Now it's your turn! Stop on by the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design Team cards. You'll also find our linky for when you've made your card. Which two will you choose?

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 554: Just Add G

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Yay, here's to Friday and a new Just Add Ink challenge! This week it's one of my Alphabet challenges, and we have been given G to play with.

What does that mean? Just that you make a card with something G related - a colour, stamp set, theme, technique, whatever you can think of! Just make sure that you tell us what it is if it isn't very obvious.

I recently purchased a stamp set called Little Town Life from Kindred Stamps, and one of the featured characters suited this challenge perfectly! I have had his very catchy theme song stuck in my head all week - I just may have to watch the movie on the weekend to get rid of that ear worm. He may think that he's everyone's favourite guy, but he is a little full of himself!

The scene behind this grandiose gentleman was created using dies from Hello Sweetums, called Mountains Of Fun and Grass Is Greener. The clouds were from the retired Wiggly Bugs Dies. I chose the greens and grey to go with the G theme of the challenge.

The inside of the card contains another big clue to the name of the guy on the front! Hmmm, can you think of many movies with talking and singing clocks? LOL!

That's all from me for now. Hopefully your mind is whirling with ideas for our Just Add G challenge. I can't wait to see what you make. You can find the rest of this week's Design team cards over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also link up your card.

Bye for now,

Tina