JAI 678: Just Choose Two

 Hi!

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

 Hi!

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