Fern & Flora Flowers and Circles for JAI #792

We're almost through the coldest part of Winter here in Australia and the flowers in the garden are starting to grow again. Bulbs are starting to push up from the soil and the Wattle, a native tree is beginning to bloom. Spring is coming soon and I can't wait! I have not been very well this Winter and I am looking forward to warmer days.

This week at Just Add Ink we have Choose Two Challenge from Tristan. She would like you to Just Add Two or more of  Gingham, Circles, Flowers or Sequins. The design team have created cards with mixtures of combinations of these and we hope that you will enjoy playing along with us!

I have a special card for you today that I made for a lovely young person celebrating a special birthday. This is how the card appears when you bring it out of the envelope.
For the Challenge elements,  I have used Flowers and Circles for my Choose Two items.
This card design is from Sue Campfield and she calls this design a Tuck and Reveal Fun Fold Card. I am guessing the name is because you Tuck the left side of the card in behind, in this case, the back of the circles to close it and the Reveal comes later when you open it.
I followed along with Sue's fabulous Youtube demo of this card from her blog but changed the dimensions slightly, just to lengthen the card to suit the C6 Envelopes we use here in Australia. 

And here is the "Reveal!" When the card is opened, both the  3D tower and the raised square box element pop up. This design is perfect for a special occasion!

I chose to use the gorgeous Moonlit Flora DSP. The recipient is a lover of pink and I thought to mix the moody green with the little berry flowers paper with the pop of the berry diamonds for a contrast - and a berry surprise when opening!  And whilst there is a room to address and sign the card here, there is a place for a message on the back.

The recipient can display the card without the message needing to be obvious.

The design in the circle was inspired by the DSP itself. The stamped floral spray is coloured with Blends and has some berry stamped leaves behind it and then the layers of different green, die cut leaves. I adore the amount of texture that is in these leaves and flowers. As someone with vision impaired friends and as a volunteer who has held card making classes for vision impaired people, I am always on the lookout for products that you can touch and note the texture.  And these are some of the most detailed leaves I've found. I love the variety of the die cut leaves...some of them make me a little homesick for NZ too. 

So my card has Circles and Flowers - and almost gingham in the pink - added. Which items out of Gingham, Flowers, Circles or Sequins might you add for our Just Add Ink challenge this fortnight? 
You have until 7pm on Wednesday 26th August to enter your project and we'd love to see it!

Card stock: Secret Sea, Basic White, Silver Foil, Pretty Peacock, Granny Apple Green, Berry Burst.

DSP: Moonlit Flora 

Inks: Berry Burst, Momento Tuxedo Black, 

Blends: Berry Burst, Old Olive, Shaded Spruce

Stamps: Fern & Flora, Artistically Inked

Accessories: Die cutting machine, Spotlight On Nature Dies, Large Number Dies (retired), Fern & Flora, Silver ribbon, rhinestones.

Thanks for stopping by!

'Til next time,

Jan

 

JAI #637 Birthday Sketch

 

Happy Friday everyone and hope you are just about ready for school term time to begin for the year! 
It's a long weekend here in Australia and many families are coming back from a trip away or even a short, weekend break before the school year starts again next week. 

I hope you all enjoyed our Just Add Ink Blog Hop last week?! I loved seeing the entries pile in and hope we will have more of the same with this rather fun sketch this week from Tina! 

Our lovely design team created a wonderful array of cards with different themes and colours. So beautiful.

I needed to create a pink 21st card and had been saving the beautiful Expressions of Ink DSP for just such an occasion. I added the DSP pieces to card stock and then cut these too to give added dimension.

The gold foil 21 and the white die cuts aim to add to the elegance factor. The "st" created from cutting individual letters from the "thanks" word in the Well Worded set.

Card stock: Basic White thick and standard, Gold Foil, Vellum

DSP: Expressions of Ink

Accessories: Die cutting machine, Stitched Shapes Dies, Large Numbers dies, Well Worded dies

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope that you have been inspired and I look forward to seeing what you will create with this fun sketch at Just Add Ink this week.

Happy New Year 2019!!!!

A very Happy New Year to you and welcome back! I hope that you had a beautiful Christmas and a wonderful start to 2019 so far! Here we are in the midst of Summer - so that means school holidays and long hot days and occasional early morning trips to the beach. And currently, Melbourne is in the midst of a heat wave as we host the Australian Open (Tennis).
So before we get back into the fun Just Add Ink challenge routine (which starts with a fab Blog Hop this Friday!) I thought I'd share the last of the Christmas and New Year cards I made this Season. I purchased the Dashing Deer set only in December and surprised myself by how handy it turned out to be 😀

For the very last (but possibly my favourite) of the Christmas card designs, is this one. Very clean and simple and lets the metallic infused DSP and embossed sentiment be the bling.

Same idea but different, was the first of the Happy New Year cards. Traditionally, I don't make these but did find I needed a few this year.

To centre the numbers, I used my grid paper and measured but found using some twine as a "level" really helped too 😊

I also wanted to create some New Year cards with a fireworks theme so for these, I turned to Brusho.
Sprinkling a little of the crystals and then hitting them with a spray of water created great effects.

The colours move and partially blend and raising the numbers on white die cuts helps them be distinctive.

I love how unpredictable each Brusho attempt is - you never quite know how it is going to work out. This one has a real sense of movement and I teamed it with a black sentiment to add to a masculine look.

Well, I hope you have enjoyed seeing the last of the Seasonal cards for 2018 and I and look forward to sharing some new creations and challenges with you soon.

Happy stamping til next time,

Jan