Inspired Just For You for CI #197

Happy Thursday everyone and a very warm welcome to you!! I am very honoured and was indeed a little nervous to be invited to be a Guest Designer for the fabulous Colour Inkspiration Challenges. It is very special indeed and I am very grateful!

This week's Colour Inkspiration Challenge is with these elegant colours - Misty Moonlight, Night of Navy and Crumb Cake. You can also use, Black, white, Vanilla and metallics if you would like. You can find the Challenge on Facebook  (follow the link above) and I encourage you to check out all the designers cards and see what other entrants have created there too.

I thought this was a beautiful and elegant colour combination and so chose the Inspired Imperfections bundle to use for this challenge. 

The vase image is stamped on Misty Moonlight card stock with the same colour ink. Whilst all the other blues used are Night of Navy.

The white layer is embossed using the Joined Together EF and the EF was also used on some Gold Foil which was then cut out and added to it. 

To create the flowers, I used some white card stock and the Country Flower Dies. Then alternating flowers were coloured with Night Of Navy Blends. It is a quick and easy way of creating the card stock colour you want which is especially good when just needing small pieces like these. 

Crumb Cake was used for the frame and sentiment strip and the flower branches and that is the last Challenge Colour to be included. 

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope that you check out this week's  Colour Inkspiration Challenge and consider joining in too! There is plenty of time for you to join us as the challenge lasts for two weeks!

Card stock: Night Of Navy, Misty Moonlight, Crumb Cake, Gold Foil, Basic White

Inks: Misty Moonlight, Versamark

Blends: Night of Navy

Stamps: Inspiring Imperfections, Charming Sentiments (Retired)

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Inspiring Imperfections Dies, Joined together EF, Country Flowers Dies, Crumb Cake Twine ( Essentials Pack), Night of Navy Ribbon, Gold Faceted Gems

'Til next time,

Jan

 

Inspired Imperfections for JAI #769

Happy Friday and welcome back! It's the first weekend of School Holidays here in Victoria and Spring has sprung with lots of trees in bloom and the usual suspects of daffodils and jonquils are all enjoying the increased light and occasional increase in temperatures. 

This week at Just Add Ink we have a Choose Two Challenge for you from Di Barnes. She would like us to Choose Two out of Numbers, Words or Neutral Colours.  The design team as always have created an array of cards for you featuring all different ways to use two of these three options. We would love you to join us! Don't forget to let us know which two options you have chosen in your post!

For my card, I chose Words and Neutral colours. Which for me was Basic White and Basic Black, Crumb Cake and a touch of gold for a warmer lift. Neutrals are not my go to colours - I prefer bright colours, so this was a true challenge for me.

The beautiful Inspired Imperfections bundle seemed perfect for this challenge as has a number of images and die cut embellishments to help make a thank you car a bit special.

The vase itself is embossed using Black EP and the little flower with Gold EP - both give an extra textural touch. The greeting is from the retired Memorial Blooms bundle and is embossed with White EP.

This card is designed to be simple to create, but elegant and so I also created another card using slightly more colourful colours - Secret Sea and Cloud Cover but you will need to come back to see that later as it didn't quite fit the perimeters of this challenge!

Thanks for popping by today! I hope that you can pop on over to Just Add Ink and see all the cards the design team have created to inspire you and I look forward to seeing what you will create for this challenge!

'Til next time,

Jan

 

Kintsugi Birthday Sketch #763

Happy Friday and welcome back! It's the first Friday in August which means that Winter is over two thirds done and dusted here in the Southern Hemisphere. The wattle is flowering and Spring is on it's way!

It's a new challenge week at Just Add Ink and Tristan has given us this fabulous Sketch for us to use in our projects. Our design team have all created an array of projects, all with different styles and focal points and so I hope that you can pop on over to the JAI blog  and we'd love you to join us!

For my card, I decided to flip the sketch to Portrait so as to accomodate some flowers in this vase cut from the Kintsugi Inspirations DSP. The flowers are stamped using Smoky Slate ink, stamped off and water coloured using my old favourite colour, Melon Mambo using just a tiny bit of water so as not to make the ink run.

 The background is also from the same DSP pack and the white pieces that are the sketch elements, are embossed using the Joined Together EF which is also part of the suite. 

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope that you might pop on over to Just Add Ink and join us in this challenge. I look forward to seeing what you create using this week's sketch.

Card stock: Marina Mist, Basic White

Inks: Smoky Slate, Versamark

Designer Series Paper: Kintsugi Inspirations

Stamps: Inspiring Imperfections, Charming Sentiments

Accessories: Die Cutting machine, Stitched Rectange dies, Imperfections Dies, Sentiment silhouettes Dies, Gold EP, Joining Imperfections EF, Gold twine, Metallic sequins

'Til next time,

Jan

 

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