Jan's Creative Corner: January 2025

Friday, 17 January 2025

Just Add Ink Blog Hop #734 Just Add Something New

Hello!! Happy New Year and WELCOME to the first Just Add Ink Challenge for 2025!!

As is custom at JAI, we are starting the year with a Blog Hop featuring the whole design team.

So if you have gotten to me, then you are doing well and nearing the end of the happy hop we have for you!

You may have come from the lovely Kerry Parkinson's blog and her fabulous Scrapbook pages or you may be starting here. I hope that you are able to grab a cuppa and sit for a few minutes and enjoy all the creativity we have for you. We hope to inspire you to new heights and that you will be keen to join in the challenge with us this week and hopefully throughout the year as well.

This week's Just Add Ink Challenge is to Just Add....Something New!! That could be a new stamp set or other crafty purchase. But it is not limited to that. You may want to add a new technique or colour combo that you've tried for the first time. Whatever Something New is for you, we would love to see it! Just pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog to see all the DT cards and also all the challenge entrants and there you can enter your own creation!

My card this week is a combination of two new things - I tried the fun new Friendly Seagulls Saleabration stamp set plus I also tried this 3D card fold which is new to me. So, two New Somethings from me.

The card fold I saw thanks to a FB live by Mitosu crafts. And the boys mention in their post that their version was inspired by Fiona Whitten.

Above is the card lying flat for posting and it was so much fun to make for me!

I don't actually have this stamp set yet. A lovely friend sent me some stamped images and I used almost all of them on this card - including fussy cutting the tiny fish - but I digress!

I came to Australia 25 years ago this week from New Zealand. When I first got off the plane, my accent was pretty strong. Every day, nursing and Dr colleagues at the hospital I worked at, would ask me to "say fish and chips" and burst out laughing at my "fush and chups" answer! It made me so terrified to go to an actual Fish and Chip Shop and speak to order that I couldn't for 2 whole years!!

When I saw this stamp set, it also reminded me of a NZ whale cartoon that went viral a few years ago too...so I was very keen to play with it. 😍

And here is the card when the recipient opens it and sets it up - it's interactive!

What was the right hand side on the front of the card is also the stand up pillar - or wooden post - for the inside of the card.

This little seagull is so super cute with his beak full of chips! Yes, in New Zealand and Australia, but especially in NZ, we don't really say fries - exception maybe for those of a large franchise .... but we usually say chips. Or chups, according to the Aussies LOL!

The card design required a piece of card along the bottom third for the post to stand up vertically against and so I created a wooden "pier" to help feature more "chips" and the hungry seagull's friend. Let alone those individually coloured and fussy cut little fishes!! Yes, it can be done!

So thanks so much for joining us on the Just Add Ink Blop Hop today!! I hope that you have enjoyed my fun little card as much as I did making it.

Next you are off to the wonderful Tina Gillespie and you will love her gorgeous card for this hop! I hope that you enjoy all the Design Team cards this week and I look forward to seeing the gallery full of all sorts of Something New creations!