JAI 760: Just Add Colour

Hi!

Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week we have a colour combo for you, suggested to us by Tristan. 

I don't know about you, but my first thought when looking at it was Christmas, but I'm just not ready to make any Christmas cards just yet! It did bring to mind this retired set of dies, called Tree Lot Dies.

I decided to use the dies, along with the Hello Sweetums Mountains Of Fun Dies, to create a fun scene. I realised that I needed blue for a day time sky, but as it wasn't part of the colour challenge, I had to think a bit more.

I decided to use black so that I could add some Gold Foil stars and call it a night time scene! There's also Gold Foil on the caravan, but it was very difficult to photograph in the sun. The sentiment is from Beautiful World, cropped with a Tasteful Labels Die.

I cheated a little on the inside, and used some Balmy Blue ink to add to my scene. Black ink would have just looked weird!

Please jump on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design Team cards for your inspiration. You can also add your card to our Linky when you're ready to enter the challenge. We'd love to see what you create.

Bye for now,

Tina

FMS 544

 Hi!

I had a bit of time up my sleeve this weekend, so I thought that I'd play along with Freshly Made Sketches. Here's their current sketch.

EDIT: How exciting, my card was selected by Jen B as a Princess of Clean!

I play the Bass Clarinet in a concert band, and we have been learning some of the movements from The Lord Of The Rings: Symphony No 1, so naturally I have been reading the books, which lead to watching the movies. Of course, I have to colour while watching, which lead to this card!

The wizard is from Size Doesn't Matter, by Kindred Stamps. The little traveller is also a Kindred Stamps image, but from a set called The Journey Prequel, as is the sentiment. Both were coloured with my Copic markers.

The mountains are a Hello Sweetums Die, called Mountains Of Fun. I coloured behind them using some Wild Honey Distress Oxide and a blending brush.

On the inside I used a third Kindred Stamps set, called Forrest Elves. This time the Distress Oxide used was Salty Ocean.

Now I'm off to play, read, watch and colour some more! 

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 554: Just Add G

 Hi!

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