Let's Prance For JAI #761

Happy Friday and welcome!! Thankfully it is now almost the end of July and Winter is at least 2/3 of the way over - Spring is coming! It is wonderful to see the sun rising a little earlier and setting later. And here in Melbourne, the Wattle is now flowering - which signals the start of allergy season. Hopefully, we'll see the temperature rising a little soon too!

This week at Just Add Ink we have a fun challenge for you from Kerry. She has given us a Christmas in July theme to create with. The design team have all created fun and gorgeous projects to hopefully inspire you so we hope that you might be able to join us by popping over to the JAI blog and using the Linky to enter.

Christmas in July isn't something I have much experience of except for one dinner 25 years ago when I first arrived in Australia.  The other dinner guests introduced me to the "Not Happy Jan!" TV ads that were new and very popular at the time. Such a classic series of ads that have become a part of our everyday speech - especially for those of us called Jan! 😅

For my card, I looked through my past Bits and Pieces container for Christmas ideas and found the blue coloured reindeer. Instantly, I knew a pink one was needed and then came the aqua....next was the background and this card was well on it's way.

To bring it all together, and create the snowy hills, I used a retired die set called Home for Christmas. The final little touch - the Silver Glimmer Christmas tree - is actually from a pine branch from last year's Joy of Noel bundle. 

So delving into my Bits and Pieces container soon had me pulling out all sorts of Christmas sets to complete this fun card!
I hope that you are soon going through your Christmas sets, new and old and look forward to you joining us for this fun challenge at Just Add Ink this week.

'Til next week,

Jan

 

A Special Pendulum Christmas

Happy Boxing Day everyone!! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas Day full of joy and peace with lots of fun and relaxing moments too. Have you been off to the Sales today or are you waiting for the biggest sale of the year in Saleabration 😀We had a lovely day that started with Midnight Mass and then we had a long lunch with friends and a total of 6 doggies - and yes they all got along beautifully!

As most of you will know, Sally Junior arrived in August from Guide Dogs Victoria and so I wanted a special card for the staff there for Christmas. Sally was given to me as a Companion and we've undergone further training and she's now a registered Assistance Dog so comes with me everywhere I go and she's truly changed my life for the better so I am indeed very grateful.
I found this cute card by Karolyn Loncon and decided to CASE it using mainly Stampin Up products except for the cute doggy which is another gorgeous MFT creation.

It is a pendulum card and the dog's head moves from side to side. Karolyn has a link to YT video on her page that shows how to add the pendulum.

 I did need to make two adjustments to the mechanism - instead of a penny, I used a 5c coin - but same idea. I also didn't have a slider disc so instead used two mini dimensionals on top of one another and rubbed them well with the embossing buddy so they were no longer sticky and it works well 😊
I coloured the dog to be a Golden Lab and then took liberties with the harness lol.

The harness reminded me a little of Sally's working harness so I had to make another didn't I 😀
The background inking is some distress Inks and the doggy image is coloured in a mixture of Copics and Stampin Blends.

And whilst I was on a roll....there is one last one coloured to be a chocolate Lab

for yet more doggy friends....

Such fun but quite detailed though I'm sure they will all be swinging their way through Christmas!

Card Stock: Melon Mambo, Tranquil Tide, Whisper White

Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black, Blends: Lovely Lipstick, Blackberry Bliss and Razzleberry Combos

Stamps: Hearts Come Home

Accessories: Big Shot, Layering Alphabet Edgelits, Irridescent and Metallic Sequins Assortments, Black EP

Non SU:  Deck the Howls by MFT, Copic Markers, Distress ink (Salty Ocean) TH/ Ranger, Watercolor Card stock Ranger

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you are enjoying the Christmas season!!

Happy stamping until next time.

Jan

Joy To The World for JAI #382

Happy Friday everyone and welcome :-) It's been a week where Melbourne's four seasons in one day reputation has been on show once again. We've had everything from thunder storms and rain to a Spring heatwave - and plenty of drama in between. 

But at last it's Friday and we have a new challenge at  Just Add Ink. This week we have a very elegant and pretty colour combination for you from Patrice. You are welcome to add more neutrals or some metallics to complete your projects too and our lovely design team had a lot of fun with this and we hope that you will too :-)

I actually found this to be more of a challenge than I expected and tried several different themes before this one.  Fresh Fig is the only In Colour that I hadn't used until now and I'm sure that was part of it but that is where challenges are good to take you outside of your comfort zone a little  :-)

Whilst the sentiment stamp is all in line, it is easy to seperate the words with masking.

Card stock: Whisper White (thick and standard), Smoky Slate, Basic Black, Fresh Fig, Vellum, Silver Glimmer

Ink: Fresh Fig

Stamps: Home For Christmas

Accessories: Big Shot, Hometown Greetings Thinlits, Starlight thinlits, Silver Faceted Gems, Metallic Sequins Assortment

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you can take a moment to pop on over to Just Add Ink and see all the amazing cards from the design team and I look forward to seeing what you will create with these gorgeous colours too!

Happy stamping until next time,

Jan