Umbrella Days for JAI #765

Happy Friday everyone and welcome back! It's been a busy week in our household and we are definitely enjoying the early peeks of Spring sunshine that we are occasionally getting. I hope that Spring or Autumn is treating you well wherever you are living.

This week at Just Add Ink, we have something special for you. We have two Guest Designers joining us for this challenge. So please give Jolanda and Deb a warm welcome. You can find their projects on the JAI  page.

And this week we have for you a Colour Challenge suggested by me so I hope that you like it. The design team and guests have created a fabulous array of cards to inspire you.

For my card, I turned to the lovely Umbrella Days. An Online Exclusives set that is still available if you're after it. The stamp set has a number of beautiful images and sentiments and the coordinating dies have all sorts of fabulous details - including the puddles, and flowers used here plus even a dog coat!! Yes, will melt the heart of almost every dog owner!

The umbrella has been paper pieced with DSP thanks to one of the dies in the set and the human and dog were coloured with Copics and Blends. The sentiment was embossed with Black EP.                                                                                                  

One of the things I love about this Colour Combo is how Lost Lagoon pairs with Gorgeous Grape. So I used these as my base layers. The Lagoon looks fabulous with the Mini Corrugated EF effect too. It is amazing the difference that one little detail can make! 

        

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope that you can pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog and see all the cards that the design team and guest designers created to inspire you. We'd all love to see what you create with these colours too.

Card stock: Gorgeous Grape, Lost Lagoon, Basic White, Highland Heather

DSP : Retired from my stash.

Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black,   Versamark

Stamps: Umbrella Days

Accessories: Die Cuttiing Machine, Umbrella Days Dies,Stitched Rectangles Dies, Mini Corrugated EF, Black EP, Rhinestones, Wink of Stella.

"Til next time,

Jan 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

 

Kintsugi Birthday Sketch #763

Happy Friday and welcome back! It's the first Friday in August which means that Winter is over two thirds done and dusted here in the Southern Hemisphere. The wattle is flowering and Spring is on it's way!

It's a new challenge week at Just Add Ink and Tristan has given us this fabulous Sketch for us to use in our projects. Our design team have all created an array of projects, all with different styles and focal points and so I hope that you can pop on over to the JAI blog  and we'd love you to join us!

For my card, I decided to flip the sketch to Portrait so as to accomodate some flowers in this vase cut from the Kintsugi Inspirations DSP. The flowers are stamped using Smoky Slate ink, stamped off and water coloured using my old favourite colour, Melon Mambo using just a tiny bit of water so as not to make the ink run.

 The background is also from the same DSP pack and the white pieces that are the sketch elements, are embossed using the Joined Together EF which is also part of the suite. 

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope that you might pop on over to Just Add Ink and join us in this challenge. I look forward to seeing what you create using this week's sketch.

Card stock: Marina Mist, Basic White

Inks: Smoky Slate, Versamark

Designer Series Paper: Kintsugi Inspirations

Stamps: Inspiring Imperfections, Charming Sentiments

Accessories: Die Cutting machine, Stitched Rectange dies, Imperfections Dies, Sentiment silhouettes Dies, Gold EP, Joining Imperfections EF, Gold twine, Metallic sequins

'Til next time,

Jan

 

Let's Prance For JAI #761

Happy Friday and welcome!! Thankfully it is now almost the end of July and Winter is at least 2/3 of the way over - Spring is coming! It is wonderful to see the sun rising a little earlier and setting later. And here in Melbourne, the Wattle is now flowering - which signals the start of allergy season. Hopefully, we'll see the temperature rising a little soon too!

This week at Just Add Ink we have a fun challenge for you from Kerry. She has given us a Christmas in July theme to create with. The design team have all created fun and gorgeous projects to hopefully inspire you so we hope that you might be able to join us by popping over to the JAI blog and using the Linky to enter.

Christmas in July isn't something I have much experience of except for one dinner 25 years ago when I first arrived in Australia.  The other dinner guests introduced me to the "Not Happy Jan!" TV ads that were new and very popular at the time. Such a classic series of ads that have become a part of our everyday speech - especially for those of us called Jan! 😅

For my card, I looked through my past Bits and Pieces container for Christmas ideas and found the blue coloured reindeer. Instantly, I knew a pink one was needed and then came the aqua....next was the background and this card was well on it's way.

To bring it all together, and create the snowy hills, I used a retired die set called Home for Christmas. The final little touch - the Silver Glimmer Christmas tree - is actually from a pine branch from last year's Joy of Noel bundle. 

So delving into my Bits and Pieces container soon had me pulling out all sorts of Christmas sets to complete this fun card!
I hope that you are soon going through your Christmas sets, new and old and look forward to you joining us for this fun challenge at Just Add Ink this week.

'Til next week,

Jan

 

Umbrella Days Sympathy for JAI #759

Happy Friday everyone and welcome back!! It is the end of the first week of School Holidays here in Victoria and a pretty cold and week it has been too! So if you're looking for some crafting inspiration for the weekend, to stay inside, warm and dry you have come to the right place.

This week's Just Add Ink Challenge is to Choose Two out of Trees, Beach or Water and is suggested by Di Barnes. It is a challenge that has produced quite a variety in the style and themes of cards from the Design Team. I look forward to seeing what you might create with it.

For my card, I used ink and brushes to create a beachy background scene and then I added water. This helps to give the look of a damp, rainy scene as well as fulfil the sketch brief. 

The sweet images- including the pretty florals - are from the Online Exclusives set, called Umbrella Together. I needed a pet sympathy card for a friend and these images and sentiment seemed so appropriate. 

It's a stamp set that I hope I will be able to use a bit of during August - where we try to raise money for Guide Dogs Australia by walking every day with a dog. I love how the dies include a cute jacket for the dog - although I chose not to use that for this card.

So these are the two elements that I chose for my card, I look forward to seeing what out of Trees, Beach or Water that you will choose to make for your cards this week at Just Add Ink.

Card Stock: Basic White, Watercolor Paper

Inks: Crumb Cake, Sea Spray, Pool Party, Balmy Blue, Tuxedo Momento Black, Blends, Copics

Stamps: Umbrella Days.

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Umbrella Days Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, 

"Til next time,

Jan

 

Sending Kintsugi Love #JAI #757

It is definitely feeling like Winter this week in Melbourne! We have had hail and black ice in the city and the nearest snow fields received another 10cm of snow overnight alone. Perfect timing to spend the weekend warm and dry inside and crafting!

This week at Just Add Ink we have a gorgeous Inspiration Photo Challenge from my friend, Lou. 

Inspiration photos are great challenges because you can take as much or as little from what appeals to you. Our design team have created a fabulous array of cards to show you all sorts of things that appealed to us and we would love you to join us!

My card was inspired by the blue and white patterns, the frames and the use of foliage in the Inspiration Photo.

The Inspiring Imperfections Suite is based on the Japanese art of Kintsugi - "is a Japanese art form that involves repairing broken pottery by mending the cracks with lacquer dusted or mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. Rather than disguising the damage, kintsugi highlights the breaks, transforming them into a unique and beautiful part of the object's history. "

I love the idea of beauty being created through trials and growth. And I also love the patterns in the stamp set and in the DSP.

 and the co -ordinating DSP. The vase is stamped in Misty Moonlight and then the gold overlay is from a matching Die Cut using Gold Foil card stock.

The base layer of DSP features blooms in Misty Moonlight with gold foil accents and is very pretty in real life.

And the White layer in between these, is embossed using the EF that also comes with the suite. The EF is particularly interesting as when embossed in gold, parts can be paper pieced onto white or coloured card stock for a very unique look.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you can pop on over to Just Add Ink where you'll find the Linky to enter this week's #757 Challenge. I look forward to seeing what you inspired you to create from this week's Photo Inspiration too!

Card stock: Misty Moonlight, Basic White, Gold Foil

DSP: Kintsugi Impressions Specialty DSP

Stamps: Inspiring Imperfections, Country Flowers (Retired)

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Rectangle Framelits (retired), Inspiring Imperfections Dies, Memorable Blooms Dies, Country Flowers Dies (Retired), Joined Together EF, White EP, Gold Twine, 

White Cord (from my stash)

'Til next time,

Jan

 

 

Rearranged Beauty for JAI #755

 

Happy Friday and welcome back! It's the beginning of Winter here in Melbourne, Australia and what a chilly one it is too! Though I must say that seeing the sunshine against blue skies is a lovely sight even though there is not much warmth in it at the moment!

And this week at Just Add Ink we have a cool Colour Challenge for you from Kerry.

The design team have created a variety of themed cards to inspire you so I hope that you can pop on over to the blog and join us.

For my card this week, I turned to the Layers of Beauty bundle and Masks for the focal image of my card. And then after colouring them, I decided to cut the image apart and use it in two pieces for a change. 

What you probably can't see is that underneath the top layer of the image, is another die cut of the image using Smoky Slate for a tiny contrast / outline.

The background uses a Mask from the Artistic Mix masks to create an ombre effect. And the sentiment is embossed with Silver EP to accentuate the use of the greys. 

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope that you can pop by the Just Add Ink blog and see all the other cards from the design team and I look forward to seeing what card you might make for this challenge.

Card stock: Smoky Slate, Lemon Lolly, Basic White,

Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Lemon Lolly, Balmy Blue, Marina Mist, Smoky Slate

Stamps: Layers of Beauty, Artistically Inked

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Layers of Beauty Masks and Dies, Artistic Mix Masks, Silver EP, Metallic Sequins.

'Til next time,

Jan

Attention Shoppers Birthday for JAI #753

Happy Friday to you and it is just a few days before the official start of Winter here in Australia. 

It's been a strange Autumn with devastating drought here in Victoria and fatal floods in NSW and QLD. So I hope that wherever you are, you and your family is safe and able to enjoy seeing some crafty challenges even if for whatever reason, you are not able to participate this time. Hopefully, you can join us soon.

This week at Just Add Ink we have a cute Sketch Challenge for you to use in your projects from Tristan. 
As always, our design team have created a variety of ways of creating this sketch to inspire you.

We hope that you can pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog and see all the inspiration and other entries and we'd love you to join us if you are able.

For my version of this sketch, I created a Window using my Paper Cutter and raised that up and added it over the gorgeous Friends for Life DSP. Then each of the 4 birthday special images from the retiring Attention Shoppers Bundle are coloured and added over a Stitched Rectangle.

In this upright photo, you can see the difference that some Wink of Stella can make - silver sparkles show up especially well over darker colours.

The sentiment is added over some white card that has been run through with the Forever Plaid EF and black and white striped ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you can join us at Just Add Ink as I look forward to seeing how you will use this sketch in your crafting this week!

Card stock: Coastal Cabana, Basic White, Basic Black, Silver Glimmer Paper

DSP: Friends For Life

Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Various Blends and Copics

Stamps: Attention Shoppers

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Stitched Rectangles, Attention Shoppers Dies, Forever Plaid EF, White EP, Wink of Stella, Metallic Sequins Assortment, Well Written Dies

'Til next time,

Jan