JAI 744: Just Choose Two

 Hi!

Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink Challenge. This week it's a Choose Two challenge, suggested to us by Di.

Hmmm, what to do? I'd recently purchased the Gnomes For Summer Thin Cuts, and thought that I could put him at the end of a rainbow with a pot of gold, but that's a leprechaun, not a gnome! I was determined to use him, though, so I gave him a background of rainbow paper.

Isn't he cute? I had lots of fun choosing different colours of card stock and Glimmer paper to use on him. I cheated a little by colouring his feet, hand and nose with my Ivory Stampin' Blend. How fun is the sentiment? I thought that it suited the theme of the challenge perfectly. It's from and Altenew set, called Crafty Life.

The sun is cropped using a Uniquely Creative die, called Stitched Sun. I thought that it went perfectly with the sun in the rainbow paper. It's a retired pack, called Sunshine & Rainbows.

I used an offcut on the inside, along with another sentiment from the Crafty Life set - again, it worked very nicely with the challenge theme!

We'd love to see which two that you choose for our Choose Two challenge. You can see what the rest of the Design Team chose over on the Just Add Ink blog. You'll also find our Linky so that you can add your card to our challenge gallery.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 687: Just Add A Sketch

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Welcome to a new week of Just Add Ink Challenges. This week we have a sketch for you, designed by Kim. I love how the Design Team have shown off the versatility of this sketch!

I needed to make a card for a great nephew, who was turning one. I decided that my Wiggle Worm stamp set and the coordinating Wiggly Bugs dies would be the perfect choice.

I also used some Sunshine & Rainbows DSP on my card. I used the various papers from the pack to create the scene. The die cut grass was a great way to emphasis the line through the middle of the sketch.

I used the leaf as the rectangle element of the sketch, and popped the cute little bug on top. I also couldn't resist adding a toadstool to the sentiment banner.

The left over DSP piece from the grass die cut was used on the inside of my card, along with a few more toadstools. Hopefully my great nephew will love the card.

Jump on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the amazing cards that the Design Team have made for this week's challenge. You can also find the linky to add your card to the challenge gallery. We'd love to see what you do with the sketch.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 669: Just Add Colour

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Welcome to another Just Add Ink challenge. This week it's a Colour Challenge, suggested to us by Annie.

While I'm not usually a fan of Mossy Meadow, I really love it in this combination with Misty Moonlight and Crumb Cake. A very earthy combo that called to me to play along. I hope it calls to you, too!

I started with the background DSP, which is from the retired Sale-A-Bration Sunshine & Rainbows pack. It's a lovely print with a textured look, a step or two up from just plain cardstock.

I recently purchased the Nested Essentials Dies, so I put them to work on this card. I used the smallest banner to crop two pieces of Whisper White card to act as the strip under the elongated hexies. With the banner pieces turned in to be under the rest, you still get the benefit of the fancy edge on your card. The white layer between the two elongated hexies was just hand cut to act as a matt.

My sentiments on both the front and inside of the card were stamped and die cut using the Uniquely Creative Sweet Sentiment stamps and dies. They are such a fabulous bundle for mixing and matching.

We'd love for you to play along with our colour combo this week. Pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design Team cards. Then add your card to our challenge using the Linky at the end of the post. I can't wait to see what you make.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 597: Just Choose Two

 Hi!

Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink challenge. I've missed creating for JAI over the past couple of weeks, as my whole family contracted COVID. We are mostly over it all now, so I was ready to pick up my stamps and ink pads again!

This week Annie has challenged us to Choose Two to add to our cards. I don't naturally gravitate towards flowers, so for me it had to be Paper and Pattern.

I really hadn't played much with the SAB DSP, Sunshine & Rainbows, before it retired, so I pulled it out for my card today. I really needed the happiness that the paper brings! Polka dots (my Pattern element) always make me feel happy, and when they are in gorgeous, bright colours, the happiness is multiplied.

My Paper element is the rainbow and the clouds. The rainbow was fussy cut from the DSP, and the could were cropped using the Cloud Punch. In exciting news, the Cloud Punch is carrying over to the upcoming Annual Catalogue - hooray!!

Speaking of hooray, the two sentiments that I have used on my card are from the new Light The Candles card kit. The kit is cute, but I mostly purchased it for the stamps - I think that they are a great font and sayings for young kid's cards.

We'd love to see which two you choose for our challenge. I'm always interested to see which options people gravitate towards. You can see what the Design team chose over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll also find the linky for our challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

Just Us Girls 616

 Hi!

I thought I'd have another go at the Just Us Girls challenge. This week it's a snowman photo. Hmm. A bit hard to get into that groove when it's been 30°C and humid for most of the week here in South Australia. But a snowman is just a shaped lump of ice, right? The only shaped lump of ice I want in summer is an icy pole! Or a popsicle, for the Americans reading my blog.

I used the same colour combo - Pool Party, Real Red and Smokey Slate - on my card. The icy poles are from the Sweet Ice Cream stamp set, as are the sentiments.

The paper is from the SAB DSP, Sunshine & Rainbows. I've used a side that's more neutral for this card.

Another icy pole finishes off the inside, and now I'm off to raid the freezer to see if I can dig one up to cool me down!

Bye for now,

Tina