JAI 788: Colour and Inspiration

 Hi!

Hello, and welcome to another challenge from Just Add Ink. This fortnight we have a Colour & Inspiration Challenge, suggested to us by Nikki.

It's a wet, windy, cold evening here in Adelaide as I write this post, and the cat snuggled up in a blanket is the perfect image to describe where I'd like to be. Although, being human, I'd like a cup of tea and a good book with me as I snuggle!

I'm definitely a blue girl, so this colour scheme was right up my alley. I don't have any suitable cat themed things in my stash, so I decided to go with birds instead. I fussy cut these birds from a sheet of Flight & Airy DSP. The backing DSP is also from the same pack. The watercolour effect is so pretty!

I'm not sure why I chose to make a sympathy card. I (fortunately) don't have need for one at the moment, but it never hurst to have a few in the stash, just in case. The sentiment is from Heal Your Heart, cropped with a Tasteful Labels die. I layered it over a Layering Ovals diecut, that I embossed with my Subtle DTIEF. It's hard to see in the photo!

The inside of the card includes both another bird and another sentiment from the supplies that I mentioned that I used on the front of the card.

What will you take inspiration from in this fortnight's challenge? You can see what the rest of the Design Team have created over on the Just Add Ink blog. You can also find our challenge gallery there when you're ready to link up your card.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 760: Just Add Colour

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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

JAI 744: Just Choose Two

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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 733: Just Choose Two

 Hi!

Welcome to the final Just Add Ink challenge for 2024. Wow, I can't believe that the year is almost over!

Our Choose Two challenge was suggested to us by Kerry, and is a great one for those last minute Christmas cards, tags and gifts that we all seem to need!

I had a bit of a dig through my retired Christmas stash, and found the remnants of the Santa's Workshop Memories & More Card Pack. I loved this card with the cute stack of elves, and couldn't resist using it. The silver glitter highlights on their crowns, the tree and the star are adorable!

To add Santa into the mix, I cropped some Whisper White cardstock using a Tasteful Labels Die. If you look closely, you can see the embossed edge around the shape. The Santa sticker was popped up on the top half of the label, and the bottom half features stamped sentiments from the Joy To The World Paper Pumpkin Kit.

The inside sentiment, from the same stamp set, is one of my all time favourite Christmas stamps. I love both the wording and the font. I finished it off with a glittery Santa hat from the M&M kit. All in all, a quick and easy card!

We'd love to see which two that you choose for the 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 for entering your card. The challenge will run for two weeks, and is just for fun - the DT won't be choosing winners this time.

Have a wonderful Christmas, and we will see you in the New Year!

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 725: Just Add Stencilling

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Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week, Lou has suggested that we Just Add Stencilling to our cards. Fun!

It's been a while since I used any of my stencils, so I dusted off the box that I store them in and started digging. At first I thought that I might use a moon stencil, but then I rediscovered my Warp Speed stencil, from Altenew. Bingo!

I love how it creates a focal point at the centre of the card. I inked it up using Salty Ocean Distress Oxide and a blending brush. I had to make sure to ink from all angles so that the shapes came out cleanly. I then added a couple of Stitched Stars die cuts, cropped from Silver and Gold foil, to further highlight the focal point.

My wonderful superhero is from a Kindred Stamps set, called Wonderful. Isn't she fabulous? I coloured her with my Stampin' Blends and a couple of metallic markers. The sentiment from the stamp set was a great way to finish off the card.

I left the inside fairly plain, with just a gold foil star. This way the card could be used for several different occasions.

We'd love for you to-lay along this week. Stencils are a fun and inexpensive way to add interest to a card, I think. I can't wait to see what you make. You can see what the rest of the Design Team have created this week over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also add your stencilled card to our Linky.

Bye for now,

Tina

Bron's Birthday Blog Hop - May

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I'm once again celebrating Bron Eastley's 60th Birthday with another blog hop. This month we are going back to the 60's for a retro themed hop. I did not make my appearance into this world until the mid-70's, so I had to think hard about what I could make. In the end I turned to the movies, and discovered that a childhood favourite was made in the 60's - 1964, to be exact.

The image I used is called British Nanny, from Scrappy Boy Stamps. I got it as a freebie in last year's Kit and Clowder Advent Calendar. I coloured her with my Copics, and then popped her up over my background. I'm not sure about the sentiment yet - I may end up changing it.

It was tricky to get a decent photo of the background, but it was the Coastal Cabana Foil from the Blues Foil pack from Stampin' Up!. I embossed it using Altenew's Cloudy Day 3D Embossing Folder. Hopefully it looks like she's floating around in the sky!

The retired SU set, Under My Umbrella was a great choice for the inside of my card. No sentiment yet - I'll add something when I make up my mind about the sentiment on the front of the card!

The next stop on your way around Bron's Birthday Blog Hop in May is Monica Formosa. I can't wait to see what she, and the rest of the group, make!

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: So Saffron

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Thanks for joining me for So Saffron week of the Colour Creations Blog Hops. So Saffron is in the Subtles colour family, and is a lovely, soft yellow. Having said that, I paired it with black and white for a gorgeously bold card.

I used my retiring Blossoms In Bloom bundle for the card, cutting the top layer from Whisper White (with Adhesive Sheet attached) and the second layer from So Saffron. Black Mini Stampin' Dimensionals pop the two layers up over the Basic Black background.

The resting Tasteful Labels dies were used to crop the sentiment, with the gorgeous Glitter Organdy ribbon layered underneath. The Black version of the ribbon is retiring (sob!), but the White will carry over (yay!).

I used the top layer die again to crop a piece of So Saffron for the inside. Using Adhesive Sheets on these delicate die cuts makes them so much easier to adhere to the layer underneath!

That's all from me tonight, but please do continue on your way around our blog hop. Just keep jumping until you get back to where you started. The next stop along the way is my lovely friend, and fellow South Aussie, Andrea Sargent. I'm sure she'll have a visual treat for your eyes!

As always, if you run into problems with links, Cathy Proctor is the person to know! Pop on over to her blog to get yourself sorted out.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 356: Heart & Home Colours

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Oh, boy! Where did that weekend go? But happily, the end of the weekend means that it's time for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop.

This week we are asking you to CASE the colours of the Heart & Home DSP. You can see a list of them in the graphic above.  I chose to sort of CASE the piece of DSP that you can see under the SU logo in the graphic. I liked the white design over the Fresh Freesia base.

I started with a card front sized piece of Freesia cardstock which I embossed with the Tasteful Textile 3DEF. I then used a Blending Brush to ink the edges with coordinating ink. It was very hard to photograph - but it really makes the flowers pop off the background.

I cropped both layers of the Many Layered Blossoms Dies from Whisper White card. I first adhered a piece of Adhesive Sheet to the back of the card that I cropped the finer layer from - it makes it much easier to stick down to the bottom layer. The whole piece was popped up on Dimensionals. A Tasteful Labels die was used to crop the Peaceful Moments sentiment.

I cropped a smaller piece of the fine layer of Blossoms for the inside of the card. You can hopefully see that I've applied some Freesia ink first.

We'd love for you to play along with our challenges each week. It's as easy as making an appropriate card and then uploading a photo to our Facebook Group.

Once again, I am the last stop on the Blog Hop if you joined us from the start in the Facebook group. If you joined part way through, please keep hopping until you get back to where you started. The net stop is my fabulous friend, Rachel Palmieri, who has a very sweet card for you to see.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 355: Sale-A-Bration Catalogue

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I don't know about you, but my weekend has vanished in a blink! LOL, I guess that's what happens when you get stuck into a good book! The end of the weekend means the start of the new CASEing The Catty Challenge, so it can't be all bad.

This week we are asking you to CASE a project from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue.

I chose this sweet little card, as I really loved the butterflies stamped over the inked cardstock. Aren't they pretty? I don't tend to make smaller cards, and so I decided to switch to a full sized card, and once I started switching things up my card came out very differently to the original.

So it still has butterflies and orange, and has the same die-cut label and white trim, bit otherwise not much is the same. I got a bit lazy with the inked cardstock and decided to stamp on some DSP from the Expressions In Ink SDSP pack using my Butterfly Brilliance stamp set.

The sentiment is from A Good Man - I found that I don't have many sentiments that are suitable for the vertical label from the Tasteful Labels Dies. A few sequins finished off the front of the card.

I don't want to add more butterflies to the inside, so I satisfied myself with a left over strip of the Expressions SDSP and another sentiment from A Good Man.

We'd love for you to play along with us this week while we CASE the SAB Catalogue. All you need to do is add a photo of your card to our Facebook group. Too easy!

Have you finished our Blog Hop? I'm the last stop this week, but if you started somewhere in the middle, then please keep on going until you get to where you started. The first blog this week is Julia Quinn's blog, with her delightful 3D card.

Bye for now,

Tina