JAI 762: Just Add Inspiration

 Hi!

Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week it's an Inspiration Challenge, suggested to us by Kim.

Hmm, this one stumped me for a while. Then I thought that the cup had coffee in it, which led me directly to my pop culture collection of stamps.

There's only one thing I think of when I think of coffee! And if you didn't read at least the first part of the sentiment in *that* voice then we can no longer be friends.... joke!! I took the brown and black from the Inspiration Photo, but otherwise, it's all about the coffee.

I did include a cup on the inside!

We'd love to see what you create using our photo as inspiration. Jump on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you can see what the rest of the Design Team have made. It's always interesting to see what catches everyone's eye in the photos. When you're done, you can add your card to our challenge using Linky.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 678: Just Choose Two

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Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week we are doing a Choose Two challenge, suggested to us by Nikki.

Nikki is asking us to Choose Two of Brights, Foliage or Friend to add to our cards. On the Design Team, we are given the list of challenges well in advance (thanks, Kim!), so it was very coincidental that one of this week's choices was Friend, after the recent shock death of Matthew Perry. Friends was a show I watched and loved as a young adult, so I just had to include a Friend on my card.

The stamps that I've used are all from Ink Road Stamps, starting with The One With All The Stamps Icons Vol 2. I used this stamp for the minimalist hair. It's funny how, with so little detail, you know that it's Chandler/Matthew.

The sentiment is from The One With All The Stamps. What more needs to be said? To incorporate the second of my Choose Two elements, I used my Stitched Greenery Die on the Soft Sea Foam background. Nice and subtle!

I thought that this sentiment, from The One Where It's Your Birthday, worked well from the inside. The original quote was when Rachel moved out of Monica's apartment to make room for Chandler, I though that is was more than suitable for this card. I also could't resist adding Chick and Duck, from The One With All The Stamps Icons. I have no idea who will get this card, but it was therapeutic to make it!

We'd love to see which Two you will choose from the three options in this week's challenge. To see what the other Design Team members have chosen, just pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog. You will also find our Linky when you're ready to enter your card in the challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #538: Just Add A Sketch

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Yay, it's Friday, which means it's time for the new Just Add Ink Challenge! This week Patrice has designed a fabulous sketch to guide our creativity.

I started by trying to play around with the new Ice Cream Corner Suite stuff, but I just couldn't make anything work to my satisfaction. Then I remembered some new fun stuff that I'd received from the USA recently. Perfect!

Do you recognise this yellow frame on a purple door? It's from the very iconic TV show, Friends. Oh, how I loved that show! So naturally, I couldn't resist when Ink Road Stamps released a line of stamps and dies. The coffee image was stamped twice - once in Shaded Spruce and again in Memento. I then cropped it with circle punches and layered the black part of the image over the green part to get the two colours.

The Gorgeous Grape cardstock was run through my Big Shot with the Subtle 3DEF - I thought that made it look a little more like the door upon which the frame hangs in the TV show. The sentiment is a die that I've run through the Big Shot with Black cardstock, backed with a piece of White card.

If you never watched Friends, you may not get the lobster reference. Phoebe believed that lobsters mated for life, and so she tells Ross to be patient, because Rachel is his lobster. Phoebe's quirky way of saying they were meant to be together. So guess when this card will be used? I'll give it to Rob for Valentine's Day. We don't usually 'do' Valentine's, but he will like getting the card.

Please head on over to the Just Add Ink Blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design Team cards. You'll also be able to link up your card for our challenge. What will you make with the sketch?

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #467: Just Add A Sketch

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Welcome to the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week Lou has designed a fantastic sketch for us to use. I love a good sketch challenge!

I had a hankering to pull out some of my pop culture stamps to have a play with this sketch. After a flick through, I settled on two stamp sets that coordinate perfectly that are from two of my favourite pop culture companies, Kindred Stamps and The Ink Road Stamps.

Do you recognise the character? He spent a lot of time sipping coffee in New York with his 5 friends. The sentiment, 'how you doin'?' was a pretty iconic pick up line of his! The character is from "The One With The Friend' from Kindred, and the couch and sentiment are from "The One With All The Stamps" from The Ink Road.

I coloured the character and the couch with my Copic markers. I've been playing around a bit with darker shadow lines, and this was a great opportunity to try them out again.

The inside sentiment is also from Kindred. It's a play on the episode titles of the TV show - every single episode name started with "The One Where...", which is also why both the stamp sets have similar names! It's one of my favourite TV shows that I watched every week when it was on TV. I have the boxed set so that I can watch it all again, I just lack the time! Oh well, one day 😊

That's it from me, not it's time to hop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you can see the rest of this week's Design team cards. You can also link up your card and play along in our challenge. If you don't have a blog you can always email us your card and we can link it up for you.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #409: Just Add Eclipse Technique

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Hooray for Friday! Are you as excited as I am? The Royal Wedding is in less than 48 hours!

Let's pass the time waiting by checking out the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week Rachael has challenged us to add the Eclipse Technique to our cards.

The Eclipse technique has been taking the paper crafting world by storm - it's so popular lately! Never heard of it? You basically die cut over the top of a stamped image. Easy!

I just can't resist a lot of pop culture stuff, and when I found these Friends stamps by The Ink Road, they found their way into my shopping cart and in the post to my house. The set is called 'The One With All The Stamps', how cool is that? They are a whole lot of individual stamps that I used to make one big background. I placed the cardstock in my Stamparatus then laid the stamps all over and played until I was happy with the placement. I then used the Stamparatus plate to pick them all up, inked them and stamped all in one go.

To create the Eclipse effect, I die cut the 'friend' (what else?? LOL) from Lovely Words and then cut around the oval using a Stitched Shapes oval. This piece was then popped up using Mini Dimensionals. Can you see your favourite Friends quote on the front? How you doin'?, or Oh My God! would have to be some of the classics, and they are both on there.

I kept my two favourite stamps for the inside. I always longed to catch up with friends and drink a cuppa on that lounge. What about you?

I may have also purchased Pitch, Please from The Ink Road, so keep an eye out for that set in the future!

Now, we are just that little bit closer to watching the wedding of the year, but there's still plenty of time to pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog to check out the rest of the Design Team's cards. Will you craft while you watch the wedding? I will be sipping tea and eating scones with some of my friends. Can't wait!

Bye for now,

Tina