JAI 729: Just Add Colour

 Hi!

Thanks for once again joining me for the new Just Add Ink Challenge. This week we have a super bright, happy colour combo for you, suggested to us by Kim.

Isn't it fun? There are so many possibilities with this combo. I decided to use a sweet little stamp set that I got as a freebie several years ago, but have never used. It's from Hello Sweetums, and is called Snail Mail.

I started by cropping the Whisper White cardstock using my Paper Rose Studio Nesting Arches die. I turned it into a tag by simply stapling a short length of Petunia Pop ribbon to the top.

The snail was coloured using my Watercolour Pencils. I had to use my Pacific Point pencil instead of Azure Afternoon, and Rich Razzleberry instead of Petunia Pop. You can see in the photo the glitter over the coloured areas - I used my Clear Wink Of Stella pen to blend the pencil and smooth out any pencil lines.

I used my Simply Said stamp set for the sentiments on the front and inside. The DSP is from my Dandy Designs pack.

It was a fun card to make, and to play with the colours. What will you do with them? You can see the rest of the Design Team cards over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also find the Linky so that you can enter the challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 654: 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 Rochelle.

I really love it! The bright colours are a little bit Summery (as I sit here on a miserable rainy day in late Autumn) and a little bit retro. I had some arch dies that I hadn't played with yet, and thought they'd go well with a retro theme. We used to have curtains with an arched pattern when I was a little kid in the late 70's.

The arched Dies are from Paper Rose, and are called Nesting Arches. I used the largest three to cut cardstock in the challenge colours and then layered them up over some Whisper White cardstock embossed using the Timber 3DEF.

The sentiment is from a Clearly Besotted stamp set, called Bedtime Story. It has a marvellous range of sentiments, all book-related. Speaking of books, I used my WaffleFlower Layered Books Dies to create the book for the front of my card.

I used the smaller version of the book and another arch and Clearly Besotted sentiment on the inside of my card. I like this sentiment - I definitely do not like being disturbed when I am engrossed in a book!

I realised today that the challenge colours were very similar to the block I just finished sewing in my current quilt. It you remove the pinks, you're just left with lime green, aqua, yellow, black and white.

Isn't it funny how hobbies can sometimes intersect? If you're interested, the quilt is Galaxy by Lilabelle Lane, and is English Paper Pieced using Tula Pink fabrics.

That's all from for now - I'm off to sew the next block in my quilt! Hopefully you're off to check out the Just Add Ink blog for more Design Team inspiration before making your card and adding it to our Linky for the challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 580: Just Add Colour

 Hi!

Oh, yay! It's the new Just Add Ink challenge dropping, just in time for the weekend. I hope you have some crafty plans that include making a card for our challenge!

It's a Colour Challenge this week, with the combo selected by Rochelle. To me, it's a very Aussie bush combo, so I used a stamp set from Paper Rose called Flowering Gum on my card.

I had received this stamped image as a part of a kit for a colouring class I attended recently. I hadn't got around to colouring it yet, so I pulled it out of the kit to use for this challenge. The colours work beautifully, don't you think? I mounted it on a retired Gold Foil card base to pull in the Gold from the combo. I also splattered some Vegas Gold Shimmer paint over the top.

The gold splatter was an attempt to abstractly replicate the warty growths that are sometimes on gum leaves. I'm to sure that it translated well, but I like the effect! The sentiment I used is from a My Favourite Things set, called Sun-Lovin' Santa. 

That's all from me for this challenge, but I do hope that you're able to play along with us. You can see the rest of the Design Team's cards over on the Just Add Ink blog. You can also link up your card when you're ready. I'm interested to see what you make with this combo.

Bye for now,

Tina