Colour Inkspiration #218 Boxes of Joy

 

It's a long weekend in Melbourne as Friday was a holiday in honour of the Footy Final and the weather was cold outside so it was the perfect time to head for the craft room.

At Colour Inkspiration this week, they have a combo with a Winter warmer feel.

And it made me think of perhaps doing something Christmas related.

I had bought the Box of Joy stamp set recently and mainly because of the "Spoiler alert: it's not a pony" sentiment as 2 of my teenage nieces are horse mad and this saying made me smile! But in the process of deciding what colour of card stock to use as the box...I realised I had used all 3 colours and so decided to use them all for this week's challenge.

All three of the little boxes are made using last year's Jolly Delivery dies and embossed using the Plaid EF.

This image from Unbridled Beauty was my starting point and I wanted the fun sentiment to be a highlight so it is embossed in white on red card. 

I also have a teenage nephew and he is car mad....though the ironic thing here is that I am the only family member with a VW! 😂 A retired set for the image but the new set provides the sentiment again here. Black satin ribbon beneath the red & white twine helps give that black tie masculine look.

And last but not least is this adult - or maybe not - chocolate themed gift box. 

The sweet images are also from the Box of Joy and are coloured with Blends and fussy cut. I forgot to show the back of the boxes - each has the smallest round Spotlight on Nature used as a white piece of card and a small gold circle over the locking circle used to keep te box closed.

Thanks for popping by and I hope that you like my entry for CI #218 and this encourages you to create your own project for this great challenge!

Card stock: Real Red, Basic Black, Pecan Pie, Basic White, Gold Foil

Inks: Pecan Pie, Momento Tuxedo Black, Versamark

Stamps: Box of Joy. (Current). Unbridled Beauty, Jolly Delivery and Home for Christmas are all retired.

Accessories : Die cutting machine, Perennial Postage Dies, Spotlight on Nature dies, Plaid EF, Jolly Delivery Dies, White EP, Red grograin ribbon, Black satin ribbon, Red & White twine.

"Til next time,

Jan

Koookaburra Flys away with the Star JAI #795

 

Happy Friday and welcome to what in Melbourne, is a long weekend to celebrate the AFL footy final. Something many of us here in Victoria raise eyebrows about. But this year, will be interesting - Sunshine for the holiday on Friday and for Sunday but game day- rain and apparently during the game! Perhaps the weather is responding to neither of the teams being local?? Or perhaps it could be to give those of us not particularly interested in the game a reason to be in our craft rooms. 😉 Perhaps I could support the team with longest odds whilst I make a card and maybe you might join me? 😀

This week at Just Add Ink  we have one of our regular challenges - to Just Add Stencils, Dies or both. And from now on, these challenges will have a theme to help spark your creativity. This week the theme is KIDS. Our design team has pulled out all the stops, lots a of dies and a few stencils too to help give you some starting points and we'd love you to join us and add your entry over on the Just Add Ink blog. You have until Wednesday 30 September so lots of time to plan your creation.

For my card....I took this and kind of hopped with it! I used lots of dies to create my Aussie Christmas scene card. You will know the old Nursery rhyme, Hey Diddle Diddle -where the dish ran away with the spoon. Well, let me give you an Aussie version - where the Kooka(burra) flew away with the star! 😂

Firstly, the kangaroo and joey and the cheeky little kookaburra are all from the Joyful Christmas stamp set. Unfortunately there are no dies with this set - and no NZ animals which I do find rather sad as a Kiwi myself....but we'll save that for another day.

For the background, I've used the wonderful Christmas Words Hybrid EF which has both the EF to emboss all these words and then a matching die to cut them all out - which was used to cut out the sentiment after I coloured it using Blends. You do have to move quickly if colouring so the ink doesn't spread off the letters.

Then the Tree and all it's decorations are from the retired Decorative Trees Bundle. Here the base tree is water coloured on regular card stock and then the some Red foil is used to create a tinsel effect and then there are the foil baubels and the glimmer star  and tree base are all cut using dies from this set. 

This card I will use to send to family members and / or friends with kids as the roo and joey seems a real family friendly image to me and whilst it might be going out on a bit of a tree limb for this challenge I hope it is something the kids enjoy.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you might like to join us at Just Add Ink for this challenge and I look forward to seeing what Kid friendly Die and /or Stencil creations you might make this fortnight!

Card stock: Shaded Spruce, Basic White, Gold Foil, Gold Glimmer

Designer Series Paper : Joy of Christmas (long retired), 

Stamps: Joyful Friends

Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black, Shaded Spruce, Blends.

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Christmas Words Hybrid EF, Decorative Trees Bundle, Water Brush, Wink of Stella, Red and white twine

'Til next time,

Jan

Joyful Koala for JAI #794

Happy Friday and welcome! Here in Melbourne, Spring has officially sprung! And the garden is listening with the jonquils and daffodils and blossoms all beginning to bloom! So it is a very pretty time walking past the neighbour's gardens to the dog park this time of year.

At Just Add Ink  this week we have a Clean & Simple Sketch for you from me! So I hope that you like working with it. Our design team have all created beautiful projects to inspire you and we really hope that you will join us. You have until Wednesday 23 September to enter your project - card or scrap layout - over at the Just Add Ink blog.

September 1 is also the day the SU Catalog with Christmas products has now been released and so I chose to create an Aussie themed Christmas card for this sketch. 

This beautiful koala in a wreath of gum leaves is a gorgeous image and this is the first time I've coloured it up, I am the only member of my close family living "over here" so this will be winging it over the water to NZ. 

Of course we need a little bling and there is some Silver Glimmer paper behind the sentiment and Wink of Stella all over the koala image.

The leaf from the Ferns & Flora Dies could be a eucalyptus leaf and so is added on the lower circle - to give the koala the energy to make it "across the ditch" as we say. 😅

I've been here in Australia over 25 years now and that is almost half my life....it wasn't my original plan but I suspect many people have made plans that change as time goes on too!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope that you can pop on over to Just Add Ink and see all the projects from the design team and entrants and I'd love to see your creation too!

Card stock: Basic White, Coastal Cabana, Grey Granite, Peaceful Pine,

Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black, Peaceful Pine

Stamps: Joyful Friends

Accessories: Die cutting machine, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Postage Stamp Dies, Plaid EF, White Twine, Metallic Sequins collection.

These days I'm mostly a hobby Demo but I'm thinking about running some small number classes for people able to come to me in the run up to  Christmas. So if you'd be interested, please leave me a comment either here or on my Insta @mcqueenjan or via the SU Demo search and I'll be in touch.

'Til next time,

Jan