Sending Kintsugi Love #JAI #757

It is definitely feeling like Winter this week in Melbourne! We have had hail and black ice in the city and the nearest snow fields received another 10cm of snow overnight alone. Perfect timing to spend the weekend warm and dry inside and crafting!

This week at Just Add Ink we have a gorgeous Inspiration Photo Challenge from my friend, Lou. 

Inspiration photos are great challenges because you can take as much or as little from what appeals to you. Our design team have created a fabulous array of cards to show you all sorts of things that appealed to us and we would love you to join us!

My card was inspired by the blue and white patterns, the frames and the use of foliage in the Inspiration Photo.

The Inspiring Imperfections Suite is based on the Japanese art of Kintsugi - "is a Japanese art form that involves repairing broken pottery by mending the cracks with lacquer dusted or mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. Rather than disguising the damage, kintsugi highlights the breaks, transforming them into a unique and beautiful part of the object's history. "

I love the idea of beauty being created through trials and growth. And I also love the patterns in the stamp set and in the DSP.

 and the co -ordinating DSP. The vase is stamped in Misty Moonlight and then the gold overlay is from a matching Die Cut using Gold Foil card stock.

The base layer of DSP features blooms in Misty Moonlight with gold foil accents and is very pretty in real life.

And the White layer in between these, is embossed using the EF that also comes with the suite. The EF is particularly interesting as when embossed in gold, parts can be paper pieced onto white or coloured card stock for a very unique look.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you can pop on over to Just Add Ink where you'll find the Linky to enter this week's #757 Challenge. I look forward to seeing what you inspired you to create from this week's Photo Inspiration too!

Card stock: Misty Moonlight, Basic White, Gold Foil

DSP: Kintsugi Impressions Specialty DSP

Stamps: Inspiring Imperfections, Country Flowers (Retired)

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Rectangle Framelits (retired), Inspiring Imperfections Dies, Memorable Blooms Dies, Country Flowers Dies (Retired), Joined Together EF, White EP, Gold Twine, 

White Cord (from my stash)

'Til next time,

Jan

 

 

Rearranged Beauty for JAI #755

 

Happy Friday and welcome back! It's the beginning of Winter here in Melbourne, Australia and what a chilly one it is too! Though I must say that seeing the sunshine against blue skies is a lovely sight even though there is not much warmth in it at the moment!

And this week at Just Add Ink we have a cool Colour Challenge for you from Kerry.

The design team have created a variety of themed cards to inspire you so I hope that you can pop on over to the blog and join us.

For my card this week, I turned to the Layers of Beauty bundle and Masks for the focal image of my card. And then after colouring them, I decided to cut the image apart and use it in two pieces for a change. 

What you probably can't see is that underneath the top layer of the image, is another die cut of the image using Smoky Slate for a tiny contrast / outline.

The background uses a Mask from the Artistic Mix masks to create an ombre effect. And the sentiment is embossed with Silver EP to accentuate the use of the greys. 

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope that you can pop by the Just Add Ink blog and see all the other cards from the design team and I look forward to seeing what card you might make for this challenge.

Card stock: Smoky Slate, Lemon Lolly, Basic White,

Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Lemon Lolly, Balmy Blue, Marina Mist, Smoky Slate

Stamps: Layers of Beauty, Artistically Inked

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Layers of Beauty Masks and Dies, Artistic Mix Masks, Silver EP, Metallic Sequins.

'Til next time,

Jan