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

 

Memorable Shaker for JAI #751

Happy Friday and welcome back! I hope you've had a good week and are ready for a relaxing weekend?

It's time for our next challenge at Just Add Ink and this week's fun Just Add... a Shaker Card is from Kerry.

There are lots of items that can be used to create the shaker elements and lots of images that would be well placed to be used as shaker elements. I hope you enjoy the cards that the design team have created to inspire you and we'd love you to join us!

For my card this week I used the delightful Memorable Blooms bundle. The pretty dies and the window that it creates seemed to be asking for a shaker card! 

To add a little colour on the side, are both a leaves assortment and a small flower spray coloured using Blends and Copics.  Then a combination of Sprinkles were used inside the shaker window itself so that it looked full and shakes freely.

The result with the pink background and floral images is a rather pretty feminine card that is yet to find itself in the post.          

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope that you can pop on over to Just Add Ink and enjoy the inspiration from the design team. We'd love for you to join us this week and to see what sort of Shaker card that you would enjoy making.

Card stock: Basic White, Lost Lagoon

DSP: In Colour (2024-2026)

Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black and Blends and Copics

Stamps: Memorable Blooms Artistically Inked

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Memorable Blooms Dies, Sprinkles (various, retired).

'Til next time,

Jan

 

Shopping for Cake for JAI #749

 

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to the first Friday in May! Here in Australia this coming weekend is our Federal Election but there will still be plenty of time for craft activities I hope and perhaps that will mean you can join in this challenge with us.

This week at Just Add Ink we have a fun Choose Two Challenge suggested by Nikki. She's asking that we choose between Circles, Cakes and Coffee. I hope that you can pop on over to JAI and see all the cards the design team have created to inspire you and we'd love you to join us.

I chose to use Cakes and Circles and you could say, paper plates for my card!

Yes! This is very Clean & Simple card in design but sometimes that is all you need.

The cute cake and sentiment are from the retiring Attention Shoppers Bundle and the Circles (or paper plates!) are from the Spotlight on Nature Dies. I love that these circle dies give you lots of choices of edge details - including these ones that do look perfect for a party! And there are also circles in the background DSP used. 

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope that you can pop on over to Just Add Ink and see all the cards the rest of the Design Team have created and then join us and show us which Two of Circles, Cake or Coffee that you have chosen to use for this challenge. I can't wait to see!

Card stock: Petunia Pop, Basic White

Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black, Blends and Copics

Stamps: Attention Shoppers

Accessories: Die Cutting machine, Spotlight on nature Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Attention Shoppers Dies, White EP, Sequins.

'Til next time,

Jan

Memorial Blooms for JAI #747

 

Happy Friday - Good Friday too - and welcome! I hope that you have a lovely Easter long weekend planned. For us here in Victoria it is also the last weekend of the school holidays and the first half features weather more like Summer. The second half is likely to be raining and an excellent time to be crafting inside!

This week's Just Add Ink challenge is from Kerry and the mix of bunnies, birds and yellow could definitely work for an Easter card or many other theme as you'll see from the cards our Design Team have created to inspire you. I hope that you can pop on over to the JAI blog and take a peek. We'd love to have you join us and you have til Wednesday evening to finish your creation.

I made TWO cards for this challenge using the same main images - Memorable Blooms - and a similar layout for each card. But each is a little different. In two of the Challenge photos there are flowers and so I based my cards on these and the yellows, greys and whites in the photos.

For this first card, the background is created using a small floral spray stamped in Daffodil Delight. 

Whilst the hexagon is filled with a retired grey DSP with white writing. The single large floral spray is coloured and with Copics and Blends, there are two leaves die cuts a twine bow and a Birthday sentiment.

Whereas the second card uses Lemon Lolly as a base, two coloured floral sprays with a plain white background and silver hexagon and a white ribbon bow. 

I created the second card first and it just felt a little busy to me and so I went back to my craft desk the next day and the warmer image with the single spray of flowers was the result. But afterwards I felt both cards related well to this challenge and deserved to see the light of day.

Sadly this lovely bundle is now in the Last Chance section for ordering. I only recently purchased it so I hope that I can get a little more use out of it before it is all gone. It is super elegant and the mix of sentiments and images are beautiful.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you can take a moment to pop on over to Just Add Ink and I look forward to seeing what you create for this challenge.

Card stock: Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lolly, Smoky Slate, Basic Black, Basic White, Silver Foil, 

DSP: (retired long ago)

Inks: Tuxedo Momento Black, Versamark, Daffodil Delight, Blends (and Copics).

Stamps: Memorable Blooms, Artistically Inked

Accessories: Die cutting machine, Stitched Rectangle Framelits, Memorable Blooms Dies, White EP, Metallic Sequins.

'Til next time,

Jan

Layers of Colour for JAI #745

Happy Friday everyone and Happy April too! For those living in Australia, this weekend is the end of Daylight Savings and the start of School Holidays in Victoria and Queensland....such a busy weekend!!
I hope that the extra hour's sleep (unless you live in QLD or other places not doing DS) means that you wake refreshed and keen to join in the challenge with us! 😀

This week at Just Add Ink we have a very pretty Colour Challenge from Kim. It's a colour palette that has so many uses from the upcoming Easter holidays to colouring florals as the design team have shown. I hope that you can take a moment to pop on over to Just Add Ink and check out the blog and we'd love to have you join us.

For my card I chose to use the Layers of Beauty Bundle and Masks, using 3 layers of Petunia Pop and 2 layers of every other colour apart from Smoky Slate to create the floral images. 
The first layer of Petunia especially is very light indeed so that there was room for the other two layers of it on top. 

I must admit that I hadn't really used Soft Sea Foam much before this challenge but I definitely have fallen in love with it now! It reminds me a little of the retired Pear Pizazz that also was lovely to use for leaves.

These soft and pretty colours really pop against a white background and this one has the lovely Crochet EF adding a little texture to it. 

There are some lovely new Frames by SU that are on my Wishlist but for now, this frame was made using Rectangles.

Card stock: Smoky Slate, Petunia Pop, Basic White

Ink: Petunia Pop, Balmy Blue, Soft Sea Foam, Smoky Slate

Stamps: Layers of Beauty, Artistically Inked

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Layers of Beauty Dies, Layers of Beauty Masks, Crochet EF, Stitched Rectangle Framelits, White EP, In colour jewels.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope that you can pop on over to Just Add Ink and see all the cards made by the design team and entrants and I look forward to seeing what you might make for this challenge too!

'Til next time,

Jan

Birthday Shopping for JAI #743

Happy Friday and welcome! It's been a busy week for many - with Stampin Up's Onstage event held last weekend bringing the latest catalogue, colour and online offerings to the world.  In the South Pacific, it was held in Brisbane, just a week after Cyclone Jack passed through Queensland.

This week at Just Add Ink we have this Clean and Sweet Sketch for you designed by Tristan.
Sketches are fabulous because you can use any theme and colour scheme and just drop the images in to meet the sketch design. Our design team had a lot of fun and you'll see a mix of current and even some sneak peeks of new product too. I do hope that you will pop on over the Just Add Ink blog to have a peek and that is also where you will find how to join in with the challenge!

For my card this week, I decided to put the three images for the circles, into a shopping trolley. 
The Attention Shoppers bundle is so fun and I initially thought I'd use three images from the set without the trolley...but in the end, they are coloured brightly against the neutral, silver of the trolley and the trolley does help with the story of the birthday card.

The colour scheme came from the 2024-2026 In Colour Paper Stack - and Shy Shamrock - with us just celebrating St Patrick's Day this week, it seemed the perfect background colour! 

And the white background has added texture thanks to the Cute Crochet EF. My mother used to crochet a lot and I am loving that it has become very popular again, especially with the Millenials and Gen Z'ers. And the sentiment was still on my desk from another project...

Thanks for popping by today. I hope that you can take a moment to pop by Just Add Ink and we'd love to see what you make with this week's fun sketch challenge.

Card stock: Basic White (both Thick and Standard), Basic Black, Silver Foil

Designer Series Paper: In colour 2024-2026

Stamps: Attention Shoppers, Artistically Inked (retired).

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Cute Crochet EF, Attention Shoppers, White EP, Retired Twine.

'Til next week,

Jan