JAI 586: Just Add Summer

 Hi!

Hooray! Welcome back to the Just Add Ink challenges for 2022!! Did you miss us over our Summer break? I hope you're keen and raring to go!

As always, we start the year with a blog hop, and this year the theme is Summer, with the bright and happy inspiration photo as an additional prompt. The lovely Tristan was the stop before mine.

I loved the rainbow of colour in the Inspiration photo, so that's what I went with in my card. The dies are a long-retired SU set, called Rainbow Builder Framelits. I popped them up on a Stitched Rectangles die cut and then used my Manly Moments stamp set for the sentiment. You may know that stamp set as being from the For The Guys Card Kit, but I got it when I was in the USA, and it was the Manly Moments Paper Pumpkin kit.

It's sunny in Summer, right? So I couldn't resist adding a sun to my card. It's from Uniquely Creative, called Stitched Sun Die.

The DSP I've used on the front and inside of my card is the Host pack, Pattern Party. It definitely suits the rainbow of colour theme!

Next up in our Blog Hop is another lovely friend, Denita, with her deliciously summery card!

Once you've finished our blog hop, please do enter our challenge! We'd love to see what you do with our Summer challenge. Just add your card to our Linky over at the Just Add Ink Blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #472: Just Add A Sketch

Hi!

Time for the newJust Add Ink challenge. This week it's a sketch challenge, and it's one designed by me!

I designed this sketch quite a while ago, so I can't even recall what I was thinking when I did it. Usually I already have some idea of the card I want to make and then base the sketch on that.  Oh well!

I recently purchased some Uniquely Creative Stitched Mountain Range Dies, and one of those dies gave the perfect shape for the angled lines in the sketch.

The two front sections of this card fold out to the side to eventually reveal the inside of the card. The first flap was sponge brayered in Granny Apple Green. The trees from Waterfront were stamped along the bottom in Garden Green, then the two shadowy bits were stamped in GAG, the one on the left stamped off first. The sentiment was heat embossed in Silver, and was from an old Paper Pumpkin kit, Manly Moments.

The next flap was sponge brayered in Gray Granite ink, despite it looking brown in the photo! The bottom part was stamped with the speckle stamp from Waterfront in GG ink. I flicked some Whisper White Craft Ink over the top half using my Aqua Painter. I hope it looks like snow to you! The sentiment was done in the same way as the front sentiment, and is from the same PP set.

The background was actually the first part I made! I masked off the mountain line just below where the top flap would lie and then sponge brayered the whole top in So Saffron. I then added a little Pumpkin Pie where the sun was going to sit. I then secured an old SU mask, from the Hooray It's Your Day kit, over the top. I used a sponge dauber to cover the yellow ink with Whisper White Craft Ink, and when it was dry I brayered Pacific Point ink over the top. Finally, I sponged some Blueberry Bushel ink at the edges of the Pacific Point bits to add some depth.

To assemble, I just adhered the flaps on each front section to the back of the sun piece, and then adhered the whole lot to a Basic Black base. There's no back, the writing will be on the hidden bit of the sun panel.

Wow, what a full on card to make, but I find this kind of creativity fun and so it was a real labour of love!

Why not pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you can see the rest of this week's Design team cards, and link up your own for the challenge. What do you see in my sketch?

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #435: Just Add Inspiration

Hi!

Welcome to the new Just Add Ink challenge!

This week we have a gorgeous, wintery picture that Kim found to inspire us. Funnily enough, it's been very cold here in Adelaide, even though Summer is nearly upon us!

On my recent trip to the USA, I was excited to be able to tour Stampin' Up!'s Home Office. It was fascinating to see where it all happens! At the end of the tour, the four of us were gifted a Paper Pumpkin kit, which we were all very excited to receive. Mine just happened to be perfect for this week's challenge!

The kit was called Manly Moments, and featured a card with a mountain/forrest scene. I didn't make the card as designed in the kit, instead I used the components to make a bridge card. I had to add a piece of Mossy Meadow cardstock to make the card base, but otherwise, everything is from the kit.

The original card was wider than the back of the bridge card, so I chopped the card base and wrapped it around the sides of the card. The woodgrain paper is actually the inside of the matching envelope! I added a strip of Mossy Meadow across the middle of the box part of the card and attached the forrest part of the kit. I like how it gives the card an extra bit of dimension.

I love this style of card, because even though it's very dimensional, it folds flat and is the correct size for a standard envelope. Winning!

I didn't want to use more stickers on the back, as I'd have to 'steal' them from another card to allow it. Instead, I stamped the trees from Waterfront and added a spare strip of paper from the envelope. I was so happy with how this card turned out!

The rest of the Design team have done an amazing job with Kim's Inspiration Challenge this week. You can see their cards, and link up your own, over at the Just Add Ink blog.

Bye for now,

Tina