Memorable Birthday for JAI #741

Happy Friday and welcome! This is a busy weekend for many in Australia. It is a long weekend here in Victoria, with the Moomba Festival and holiday on Monday. And Cyclone Alfred is preparing to strike Queensland -  the most populated South Eastern areas.

Wherever you are this weekend, in Australia or overseas, I hope that you, your family and your household are safe and hopefully, your home is too. 

Maybe you might be able to do some crafting as a way of keeping occupied and calm whilst at home before the storm arrives? Hopefully you will find the challenge below enables you to take part even if you have reduced supplies available.

At Just Add Ink this week, the lovely Lou has suggested we Just Add... Simple and Elegant. They are terms that are relative to your own style. But generally, Simple suggests an uncluttered space and Elegant can mean gold and silver and often female cards. I hope that this theme helps those in QLD that are away from their usual space, to still be able to take part. You can see all the design team cards and find the link to join in the challenge on the Just Add Ink blog and I look forward to seeing what you can create for this challenge.

The beautiful Memorable Blooms bundle has recently arrived in my craft room and is very elegant, I think! So using it for this challenge was an easy choice. 

I had a couple of colour options but decided that a White-On-White approach was what I wanted to explore for this challenge. To add texture, the Crochet EF was used after first die cutting the Hexagon opening.

Next, the larger floral image was stamped using Momento Ink on Thick White card stock and then water coloured. 

Yes, I know we usually use Stazon Ink for water colouring  and water colouring parper! But the theme for this Challenge is "Simple" and so I went for a simple technique and using simple supplies. It was done carefully, monitoring the amount of water the Water Painter tip used by blotting on paper towel where necessary. Once the initial, light colouring of the flowers and leaves was dry, a second round of colour was applied using even less water and the same blotting technique.

The way the Hexagon dies with this bundle create a delicate border on each cut side is really beautiful - and seemed so perfect for this challenge. Unfortunately, if you want to keep the border die as I did, and to add in the white die cut image, you need to add something to hold all these pieces in place.

 I die cut a hexagon from Window Sheet to do this: adhesive was added to the back of the white die cut image as it was centred and then to the front of the corners of the Window sheet. This meant the Crochet embossed card front could be perfectly laid upon it as though the die cut is inlaid. Then the Crochet and acetate are added to a layer of Thick card stock before being attached to the card front. 
Then the simple sentiment was added along with the ribbon and sequin details to continue the elegance. 

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you can take a moment to pop on over to Just Add Ink and see the design team cards and all the amazing entrants too and I look forward to seeing what you create for this Challenge.

Card Stock: Basic White, thick and standard. Basic Black, Window SheetInks: Momento Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Petunia Pop, Summer Splash

Stamps: Memorable Blooms, Artistically Inked (retired)

Accessories: Memorable Blooms Dies, Crochet EF, Water Painter,White EP, Pool Party ribbon, Silver Trim, Metallic Sequin Assortment.

'Til next time,

Jan