Christmas Words for CI#198

Happy Sunday everyone and welcome!! 
It's been our hottest day in Melbourne since March and it's still quite a warm evening. We see the Christmas decorations are out in the shopping centres with signs announcing that "Santa will arrive in 6 days!" So that was all the inspiration I needed to come home and get to work on another Christmas card! 

  Colour Inkspiration is a fortnightly Facebook based Colour Challenge. I saw the current colour combination but I confess I didn't check it again until I had completed my card today. Which means that instead of Very Vanilla, I've used Basic White, my standard go-to so I hope that is ok? 

The embossed image is the lovely Christmas Words Hybrid EF. It's such a versatile product that I adore as it's so textural and I'll be using it with it's matching die a lot in an upcoming class.

I already had the ribbon on my desk. Usually I will tie a bow - but this time I wanted to give a "No Tie" method a go. So I layered the ribbon onto itself and used some silver trim around the middle to pull it tight and secured it with glue dots. I'll have to have a few more goes before I decide if its easier and speedier than tying or not.

Thanks for taking the time to come and visit and see my entry for Colour Inkspiration this week.

Do pop on over to Facebook and check out the design teams and other entrants projects and there is still time for you to join in too.

Card stock: Pool Party, Coastal Cabana, Real Red, Basic White, Silver Glimmer

Ink: Versamark

Stamps: Christmas Classics (retired)

Accessories: Die Cutting machine, Christmas Words Hybrid EF, Christmas Classics Dies, Stitched Nested Essential Dies, Brights Enamel Dots, Metallic Sequins assortment, Silver Trim, Silver EP, Pool Party Ribbon

'Til next time,

Jan

 

Decorative Trees for JAI #726

Happy Friday!  It's a long weekend here in Melbourne, yes Tuesday is the running of the Melbourne Cup - the race that stops a nation as is often said here. Or perhaps it's an extra day to craft for you? For me, we are moving house! After four years in an area we haven't loved, we are able to move to a property that is better suited both in how it will meet our needs for the future and definitely closer to the area that we would like to be in - so we are excited!

This week at Just Add Ink , Kerry Parkinson has given us this fabulous collage of Inspiration photos. 
Our design team have all enjoyed the many different textures and colours in the different photos.

I hope that you are able to pop on over to the JAI blog and we'd love you to join us.

For my card, I was inspired by the different trees and branches, the plaid and the colours of rusty orange, copper and green. 
The fabulous Decorative Trees Bundle has so many options - so many dies to create fun textures and pretty overlays.

The white plaid layer is placed over an ombre ink layer of Peach Pie.

Gold and Green glimmer was placed over card stock layers.

And the sentiment is from Christmas Classics, one of last years favourite sets. 

Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing what you create with this fun and beautiful Photo Inspiration challenge over at Just Add Ink this week.

'Til next time,

Jan

Christmas Ornament for JAI #683

 

Welcome everyone to another happy Friday! Christmas is only 11 days away and I'm sure if celebrating it is something you are looking to do, then you will be busy! It is quite a crazy busy time of year - especially for us card makers. So I hope that you are getting through your list of things to do and staying safe and well. 

This week at Just Add Ink  we have a fun challenge that we hope that will help you with all the Christmas preparations that you may be doing. There are such a variety of amazing projects both cards and 3D that I hope that you can pop over to the JAI blog to see. We'd love to see you join us!

I chose Trees and Ornaments to create my card. Whilst there are no actual trees on my card, there is wood in the Woodgrain EF on the background and there are of course the lovely tree leaves!

The lovely Handcrafted Elements dies hasn't quite made it into my craft room yet. A lovely friend sent me white die cut of the Ornament and I love how detailed it is. 

To turn it into silver, it is quite easy! Just emboss the whole die cut by covering it with Versamark ink and dip it in Silver Embossing Powder - at least twice. It is a way that you can change any piece of card to a metallic look. Just be careful how you hold it near the heat tool as it gets very hot!

This simple card is on it's way to a recipient now and I hope that she likes it. 

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope that you enjoyed how I made this card and I'd love to see what sort of project that you would like to make for this challenge over at the JAI blog.

Card stock: Pretty Peacock, Basic White, Glimmer Paper Assortment Pack (retired).

Inks: Versamark

Stamps: Christmas Classics

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Woodgrain 3D EF, Silver EP, Christmas Classics Dies, Metallic Sequins Assortment

I'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has spent time reading my posts and writing comments both here and on other Social Media. Thank you! It is so lovely to recieve a little encouragement along the way whether we are new or not so in our crafting journey and I am very grateful for all of this throughout the year. I hope that you all have a happy and safe Christmas and a wonderful start to the New Year! 

'Til next time,

Jan

Merry Christmas Wreath for JAI #679

 

Happy Friday everyone and thanks for coming to see my creations! How amazing is it that Christmas is just 5 weeks away! I hope you are on your way to being as prepared as you need to be.

This week at Just Add Ink  we have a soft and pretty colour challenge for you that was chosen by Di! 

Our design team have created a lovely array of cards to show you how you could use these colours for many themes of cards. So I hope that you can take a moment to pop on over and take a peek as we'd love to see you join us.

I decided to use the colours to create a Christmas wreath. I had just received the lovely Christmas Classics and the Joy of Noel bundles. Usually when I order, I have a first card partially in mind and I knew that I wanted to create a wreath with it these. And I also love to create Christmas cards with non- traditional colours. 

And no, it's not very Clean and Simple but as I started to add layers of texture, I felt to keep going and soon the colours and layers just seemed to need each other as I went along. 

I hope that you might be inspired to join us at Just Add Ink  with this pretty Colour Challenge and I look forward to seeing what you might create this week. 

Card Stock: Basic White, Pool Party, Gold Foil

Stamps: Joy of Noel, Christmas Classics

Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Blends: Claypso Coral, and Copics

Accessories: Die cutting machine, Joy of Noel and Christmas Classics Dies, Linen Thread, Sequins Assortment.

'Til next time,

Jan