JAI 666: Just Add Inspiration

 Hi!

Hooray for Friday - it's been a long week, as Hudson has been home sick with a cold again. It feels like only a few weeks since the last cold! Oh well, winter has to be over soon, doesn't it?

Speaking of winter, Just Add Ink are using this fun, snowy Inspiration Photo to challenge your card making this week. Jan found the image for us, and it's inspired a whole lot of creativity amongst the Design Team. Hopefully it will spark something in you, too.

I went with the sky and the snow as the key focus for my card. I pulled out my old sponge rollers to ink up some Whisper White cardstock with Balmy Blue and Blueberry Bushel inks. From that point on, I think what could go wrong, went wrong on my card! The first was that I accidentally debossed the inked panel rather than emboss. Whoops!

I then decided to make the card sparkly by misting some shimmer paint/isocol over the card. Unfortunately the first mister I used came out in a stream, not a mist! I ended up with splatters through the inked panel. I kinda like the look though, even if it wasn't what I was initially going for.

The final oops was my sentiments. It's from a big Concord & 9th stamp set, called Mix & Match Holiday Sentiments. No matter what I try, I just can't get it inked up evenly. It will just have to do!

We'd love for you to play along with us this week. Maybe you're in the heat of summer and dreaming of a cooler winter. Maybe you're dreaming of summer while shivering through a cold winter! Or perhaps, like me, you're keen to get started on our Christmas card making. Pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll see the rest of this week's Design Team cards. You can also link up your card to enter the challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 633: Just Add Colour

 Hi!

Hooray for Friday and the new Just Add Ink challenge! This week, Kim has suggested a fabulous colour combination to guide our creativity!

I have finished making all of my Christmas cards for this year, but an extra never hurts, right? I thought that this combo would make for a fun, modern Christmas card, and I had just the right stamp set in mind.

I've had Concord & 9th's Mix & Match Holiday Sentiments stamp wet for a while, but it has not been inked until now! It's a big stamp with a lot of different Christmassy words that, like the name suggests, you mix and match to create phrases. It's a lot of fun!

The hardest part is arranging them into the tree shape. Sweet Sorbet and Bermuda Bay look fantastic arranged like this. I snuck the Basic Grey in by using it as the tree trunk and with the twine bow.

I had LOTS of extra words, so I was easily able to create another sentiment for the inside of my card with the leftovers. In fact, I reckon I could make another 2-3 cards with the rest of the words I have stamped. What a bonus for time-poor stampers at this time of year. Now I just need to track down the matching die to make things even easier!

Thanks for stopping by. We'd love for you to play along with our Colour Combo challenge. Just 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 the challenge when you're ready. We'd love to see what you create.

Bye for now,

Tina