Fruity Birthday for JAI #730

Happy Friday and welcome!! It's the last weekend in November and hard to believe that Christmas is almost here for another year. It's been a busy year for us, especially the last few weeks as we've been moving house but we are grateful for a lovely home just in time for what seems like is going to be a hot Summer! 

At Just Add Ink this week, Tristan has asked us to "Just Add...Fruit" So we look forward to seeing all the yummy projects that you will create using fruit this week. Our design team have all used a variety of fruits although summer berries do seem to have featured! I hope that you can pop on over and join us.

I chose to use the Something for Everything Ephemera Packs from the Main Catalogue. There are a few fruits to choose from and I decided on adding the strawberry and blueberries to some cake. 

Sentiments are from the Saying Something Ephemera pack. And the background DSP is from the Full of Life DSP which has similar tones to it.

The Ephemera packs have a lot of different images and themes covered and I am glad that I have them - especially for this challenge! 

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope that you can pop on over to Just Add Ink and I look forward to seeing what fruits you choose to add to your projects this week!

Card stock: Basic White, Basic Black

DSP: Full of Life

Ephemera Packs: Something For Everything, Saying Something.

'Til next time,

Jan

 

Merry and Bright for JAI #728

Happy Friday and welcome! It's been a busy couple of weeks for our household. Our cute and courageous little foster dog, Pocky, lost his fight with kidney disease and the time came to say goodbye. Then we also said goodbye to our home of the last four years and moved to a different area, closer to where we know and love and a newish property that meets our needs and we have lovely neighbours. So we are very happy.

This week at Just Add Ink, we have this cute Choose Two Challenge out of Pens, Pencils or Patterned Paper. Our design team have created some incredibly beautiful cards to inspire you where to start with this fun challenge. I hope that you can take a moment and hop on over to JAI and take a peek!

For my card this week, I chose Pens and Patterned Paper. 
I stamped the outline of the Decorative Trees stamp and then coloured it with Copics and Blends before stamping the inside, detailed image using Shaded Spruce. This not only meets the challenge brief but adds detail and a bit of movement to the image.

The red lights and gold star are attached and then the tree is layered over a white circle from the Spotlight of Nature dies. This just helps the tree stand out against the patterned paper chosen for the background. 

The sentiment is a mixture of one of the sayings from the set - the word "merry" was covered so that it wasn't inked with Versamark and then embossed. And then the word Bright was die cut using the fun Peace and Joy dies that are now retired. I love being able to make slightly older sets relevant by using newer stamps with them.

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope that you are inspired to join us for this week's challenge over at Just Add Ink. I can't wait to see which Two out of the Choose Two options of Pens, Pencils and Patterned Paper that you choose to craft with and what you choose to create!

Card stock: Basic White, Basic Black, Red Glimmer, Gold Glimmer

Designer Series Paper: Joy of Christmas (retired)

Inks: Versamark, Momento Tuxedo Black, Shaded Spruce

Stamps: Decorative Trees, Peace and Joy (retired)

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Decorative Trees Dies, Metallic Sequin Assortment (retired), White EP

'Til next time,

Jan

Decorative Trees for JAI #726

Happy Friday!  It's a long weekend here in Melbourne, yes Tuesday is the running of the Melbourne Cup - the race that stops a nation as is often said here. Or perhaps it's an extra day to craft for you? For me, we are moving house! After four years in an area we haven't loved, we are able to move to a property that is better suited both in how it will meet our needs for the future and definitely closer to the area that we would like to be in - so we are excited!

This week at Just Add Ink , Kerry Parkinson has given us this fabulous collage of Inspiration photos. 
Our design team have all enjoyed the many different textures and colours in the different photos.

I hope that you are able to pop on over to the JAI blog and we'd love you to join us.

For my card, I was inspired by the different trees and branches, the plaid and the colours of rusty orange, copper and green. 
The fabulous Decorative Trees Bundle has so many options - so many dies to create fun textures and pretty overlays.

The white plaid layer is placed over an ombre ink layer of Peach Pie.

Gold and Green glimmer was placed over card stock layers.

And the sentiment is from Christmas Classics, one of last years favourite sets. 

Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing what you create with this fun and beautiful Photo Inspiration challenge over at Just Add Ink this week.

'Til next time,

Jan