Red Foil Santa's Sleigh Christmas Card

Hi!


I have one last Christmas card for you for 2016. This was one I made as a class sample using the Santa's Sleigh bundle.

The card base is just half of an A4 sheet of cardstock, scored and folded in half, and then one half is scored and folded in half again. You can probably see it better in the second photo. A smaller, matted piece is then attached to the front so that it over laps the inside of the card.

The DSP on the front is from the Pop Of Pink SDSP pack. The foil design ties in nicely with the foil sleigh and 'merry'.


Bye for now,


Tina

JAI #328: Just Add P

Hi!


Here we are at Friday again, and somehow the week has slipped past yet again!

This week at Just Add Ink it's my turn to set the challenge. It's a letter challenge and this time it's the letter P. Have you caught onto our letter challenges yet? They are soooo easy! Anything relating to the letter P is what you need to create with. A stamp set, a colour, a theme, a technique - anything!

This week I chose the Pop Of Pink Specialty DSP to make a Patchwork card - there's 2 P things already. See how easy it is? If I add in the colour pink and the paper doilies I'm up to 4 P items on my card.

I made this card for my daughter, who is competing in her first ever dance competition as a soloist today. She's only ever competed in a troupe before. I wanted to let her know that no matter what, we are proud of her. Silly me wrote on the inside before I photographed it, so I haven't included a photo. I used some more hexagons to create more of the patchwork in the bottom left corner - you'll just have to imagine it!


What P things will inspire you to create this week? I hope to see you over at the Just Add Ink blog.


Bye for now,


Tina

JAI #321: Just Add Paper Piecing

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Here we go again! It's Friday, which means it's time for the new Just Add Ink challenge. I'm pretty excited about this post for another reason though - it's my 1000th Blog post! I started blogging way back in February 2010, and would you believe that my first real post on my blog was my entry for JAI #2, which was to Just Add Hearts? I sure have learned a lot about card making, photography and blogging since then!

Today we are up to JAI #321 (wow!), which is to Just Add Paper Piecing, suggested by Patrice. Make sure you paper piece, and not paper pierce! Paper piecing is where you stamp an image multiple times on different papers or cardstocks, then cut out the different parts of the image and then piece all of those smaller bits back together to recreate the image. I hope your Paper Snips are sharp!

As it's still school holidays here, I had left my card to the last minute and then got in a bit of a flap about which stamp set to choose. In the end I went for the retired Beautiful Ride, because I wanted to try a multi-coloured Bug. I stamped the image three times - on my base, Whisper White cardstock, on Smokey Slate and again on Real Red. I would have loved to have used Basic Black instead of Smokey Slate, but even in daylight I think my eyes would have struggled snipping the black pieces of the Bug!

After I'd pieced all my pieces together I went over the top with my Clear Wink Of Stella pen because, let's face it, who wouldn't choose a metallic finish paint job on a car? You can see I cheated a little on the tyres and used a Candy Dot on each - it was just too fiddly to cut the tiny circles!

Whoops, I just realised that the inside pic is blurry - maybe just squint a bit and it will look OK!


You can see the rest of the paper pieced (not pierced!) cards that the Design Team have created on the Just Add Ink blog. There's some beauties there this week, just like every week.


Bye for now,


Tina

A Happy Pop Of Pink

Hi!


Where do you get inspiration for your cards? I often look through the catalogue at the cards to get a bit of a spark to start the creative process. Today's card was a CASE of a catalogue card. You can find it on page 84 - it's the one on the left with the pineapple.

I don't have the Pop Of Paradise stamp set that is used on the card, but I certainly didn't let that stop me! I substituted with the Hello You Thinlits and Crazy About You stamp set.

I've made this card at a few classes this month. Some of my ladies wanted a thank you card instead of a birthday card. To do this, we simply stamped the 'you make me' stamp from Crazy About You at the top left of the card instead of the 'birthday' at the bottom. Too easy!

I love this combo of stamps from the new Thoughtful Banners stamp set. A hot pink and black card is certainly worthy of a fabulous birthday!


Bye for now,


Tina

JAI #316: Just Add Stripes

Hi!


How's your Friday going? I must say that I love a quiet Friday at home, where I can gear up for the busyness of the weekend. Hudson is in respite for the weekend, so it's going to be a big 'getting things done' weekend. Hopefully the weather will cooperate!

I'm hoping to sneak in some crafting time, as I have a huge pile of new stuff on my desk waiting to get inky.  How about you? Hopefully you'll find time to play along with our Just Add Stripes challenge at Just Add Ink.

I decided to use a piece of striped DSP from the new Pop Of Pink SDSP pack. It's so cute, and the perfect backdrop for this sweet little girl. She's a LaLa Land stamp, coloured with Copics.

Does my card remind you a little of my JAI card from a few weeks ago? You can see it here. That would be because the cards are for my twin nieces, and they were deliberately designed to match, but not be exactly the same. I hope they like them!

You can see that I made the insides pretty much the same too.


Have a great weekend, hopefully it's one that involves some craft time so you can play along with us at Just Add Ink.


Bye for now,


Tina