JAI 687: Just Add A Sketch

 Hi!

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

CTC 373: CASE An Embossing Project

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Welcome back to the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. Usually, I'd comment on how it's a great way to finish off the weekend, but as it's a long weekend here, there's an extra day to go. Woo hoo!

This week we are asking to to CASE an Embossing Project. It can be any type of embossing (wet, dry, paste) from either of the current catalogues. Flipping through the mini, I found this card to CASE. I think it's really eye catching, how the flowers radiate away from a central point.

You may not have even realised that it's an embossed card - I only worked it out because there is a pot of embossing powder and a heat gun in the photo! When I looked closer, I realised that the flowers are heat embossed using white powder on coloured cardstock. I took a slightly different approach because I wanted two colours, not a colour and white.

I started by stamping my new Rays Of Light background stamp onto Whisper White cardstock using Versamark ink. I had an old pot of Pool Party Embossing Powder, so I used that to heat emboss my card. If you don't have coloured powder, you could stamp the image in Pool Party ink and use Clear powder over the top. I then used a Blending Brush to apply So Saffron ink to the embossed card. I added extra ink to the sun and the outer edges to give the sun a bit of a light halo.

I thought that the cloud shapes were a great addition over the top of the sun rays. The smaller ones are from the retired Wiggly Bugs Dies, and the sentiment is from Under My Umbrella, which is also retired.

I used the offcuts from the front of the card to finish off the inside of my card. It makes it look very fancy!

I hope that you find some time to craft over the Long Weekend. We'd love to see you enter our challenge. Just take a photo of your embossing card and upload it to our Facebook Group. It's that easy!

Please continue on your way around our Blog Hop. The next stop tonight is the lovely Monique Fielder. I wonder what she's got in store for you?

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 554: Just Add G

 Hi!

Yay, here's to Friday and a new Just Add Ink challenge! This week it's one of my Alphabet challenges, and we have been given G to play with.

What does that mean? Just that you make a card with something G related - a colour, stamp set, theme, technique, whatever you can think of! Just make sure that you tell us what it is if it isn't very obvious.

I recently purchased a stamp set called Little Town Life from Kindred Stamps, and one of the featured characters suited this challenge perfectly! I have had his very catchy theme song stuck in my head all week - I just may have to watch the movie on the weekend to get rid of that ear worm. He may think that he's everyone's favourite guy, but he is a little full of himself!

The scene behind this grandiose gentleman was created using dies from Hello Sweetums, called Mountains Of Fun and Grass Is Greener. The clouds were from the retired Wiggly Bugs Dies. I chose the greens and grey to go with the G theme of the challenge.

The inside of the card contains another big clue to the name of the guy on the front! Hmmm, can you think of many movies with talking and singing clocks? LOL!

That's all from me for now. Hopefully your mind is whirling with ideas for our Just Add G challenge. I can't wait to see what you make. You can find the rest of this week's Design team cards over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also link up your card.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #304: Love You Always Suite

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Welcome to the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. It's always fun looking at which catalogue, or part of the catalogue, we are challenged to CASE each week. This week was an extra challenge for me, as I am really not into any of the lovey-dovey stuff!

The Lovely You Always suite is allllll about love! You can choose any project from pages 10-13 to CASE this week. I had to look past the hearts and flowers to find a card to CASE. I liked the layout of this card on page 13.

The angled banner behind the main sentiment was the feature that caught my eye. I love a good banner, but sometimes it's good to shake things up by doing a single diagonal cut, rather than a flagged end. Don't you agree?

I had some Darling Donkeys sitting on my craft desk, ready to be coloured, so that's what I decided to use on my card. To go with the country look of the donkeys I used some of my In Good Taste DSP for the background. I really love the wooden papers!

The grass is from the retired Wiggly Bugs Dies, and the sky was created using a template made from the Rainbow Builder Dies and my Blending Brush with Balmy Blue ink. You may noticed that this frolicking donkey is popped out from the card - he's actually on a wobble spring! The spring happened to be on my desk near the donkeys, so it was the perfect combination for my card. 

You can check out the wobble in the video. However, my phone camera did not pick up all of the wobble - very strange! Still, it's enough to give you the idea. He's having a grand old time leaping through the grass!

And now he's all puffed out! LOL! I thought the sitting donkey was the perfect addition to the inside of my card, along with matching grass and sky. I'm not sure yet who I will give this card to, but hopefully they find it just as fun as I do!

That's all from me for tonight, but please do continue your way around the Blog Hop. We'd also love you to join in the fun by entering our challenge through our Facebook Group. All you need to do is join the group (if you're not already a member), and add a photo of your CASE to the group. Simple!

Next up in the hop is the lovely Rebecca. She must be into the lovey-dovey stuff, as she was doubly inspired by the suite!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #278: CASE Your Favourite Annual Catalogue Project

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It's time once again for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop, which marks the start of our new challenge.

This week we are asking you to CASE your favourite project from the 2020-21 Annual Catalogue. That's a whopping 192 pages (plus covers) of visual artistry to select from!

I ended up choosing this cute Playful Pets card from page 41. I have so many favourites from the catalogue, so I ended up choosing this one with the idea that I could step it up.

The card in the catalogue has a sponged background for the pets. To step it up I chose to use a die cut grass border in two layers. I used my retired Wiggly Bugs Dies, but the Special Day Dies also have a grass border. The pets were fussy cut from the Playful Pets DSP, as I don't own the stamp set. 

It's very subtle, but I used a piece of Window Sheet, cut with a retired cloud die, to create a sponged cloudy sky background for the pets. The banner for the sentiment was cropped using my new Banners Pick a Punch punch. It's definitely a handy punch to own!

I fussy cut another two pets for the inside of my card. These two look like they have just got back from a walk, not like the more energetic pets on the front of the card!

Our challenge is run through our Facebook Group, so if you'd like to play along you need to join the group so that you can post your card there. It's as easy as that! I think the hard part this week will be choosing which card to CASE.

Next you're off to visit Michelle's blog. She's made a pair of super adorable cards using some new August-December Mini Catalogue products.

Bye for now,

Tina