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