Country Flowers Birthday for JAI #716

 

Happy Friday and welcome! It's officially almost the last week of Winter here in Australia and down in Melbourne it has been particularly chilly. The coldest winter in 24 or 28 years! But we seem to be enjoying the early signs of Spring this week with warmer and longer days but still crisp overnight. It has been lovely to see the flowers start to bloom and some bird calls we haven't heard in a while. Hopefully you can spend some time in the garden in between your craft room as I'm sure you might like to join in this challenge!

This week at Just Add Ink we have this pretty Inspiration Photo for you from Kim.  You can take as much or as little as you choose from photo challenges and there is lots to love about this one. There are the beautiful colours, the textures and of course the beautiful image itself - the gorgeous steps and those cute little flower pots. 

So I hope that you can pop on over to the JAI blog and see all the cards from the design team and other entrants and we'd love you to join us!

For my card I just couldn't go past those gorgeous little flower pots of roses on all the steps. So I finally broke open the pretty Country Flowers bundle. Truth be told, when I saw this Challenge I knew that I wanted to use this set and for me, the start of every card is which stamp set so that was the hardest part decided. 

The flowers were coloured using a mixture of Blends and Copics and the flower pot too. Then the pretty and die cut leaves were added. 

The Country Lace DSP has beautiful patterns and these sheets are in similar tones to the Challenge photo and they fit in well here. I was a little tired by the time of stamping the sentiment and it is a touch lower than I wanted. But it was too late to move the DSP by then...one day I will learn to stop sooner and come back the next day. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope that you can pop on over to Just Add Ink and I look forward to seeing what you create for this pretty challenge.

Card stock: Basic White Thick and standard, Pool Party.

DSP: Country Lace

Inks: Tuxedo Momento Black, Blends and Copics

Stamps: Country Flowers, Friends for Life

Accessories: Die cutting Machine, Country Flowers dies, Basic Rhinestones

'Til next time,

Jan

 

Birthday Shopping for JAI #714

 

Happy Friday folks and welcome! Its incredible to believe that we are in the final month of Winter. It sure has been a cold one here in Melbourne this year! This coming weekend there promises to be some warmer temperatures in the outlook. But just in case it doesn't go to plan or you find yourself inside this weekend, it can always be warm in the craft room right?!

This week at Just Add Ink we have a bold and I dare say Fall (if you're in the Northern Hemisphere) inspired Colour Challenge for you from Kerry. The design team all created a variety of themed cards for you so I hope that you can take a moment and pop on over and join us!

My card uses another new stamp set from the relatively new Stampin Up catalog called Attention Shoppers. I had an idea that my first card would be a trolley full of plants....simulating a nursery store we have here in Australia...but it hasn't quite turned out that way but that card is on my list to make!

In the midst of putting this card together, it seemed to start to rain and so I dropped the trolley pieces and raced out to the washing line. I saved the washing but then spent the best part of the next hour searching for and giving up on and creating another set of trolley wheels. And then just as I gave up, I found the wheels stuck to my jumper sleeve so pulled off the ones seen above and replaced them!

Even the Happy Birthday sign is thrown into the trolley here! 😂

I hope that you have a fun weekend and perhaps if you go to the plant nursery you can fill your real trolley with plants a bit like I had intended to do this week! And if not, then you can come over to Just Add Ink and fill up a card trolley instead.                                                                                                                        It won't be long with Spring only 3 weeks away - woohoo!!

'Til next time,

Jan