Just Add Ink #555 Dressed Up Colours

 

Welcome to Friday and to you!! It's the end of a rather busy week in my world and we are ready to enjoy the forecast milder weather. What are your plans for the weekend? 

This week at Just Add Ink we have a super pretty Colour Combo for you from Rachael! The design team all loved working with these gorgeous and girly colours and we hope that you do too!

I used this week's colour combo to make an Easel card for friend's special birthday. This is the front of the card and how it lies flat for folding. It uses the fab Dressed to Impress bundle and the "mirror" is made using the Ornate Garden Suite that recently retired.

And standing tall we have some more shoes, flowers and of course the special milestone birthday.

To create the background of both the Pool Party and Majenta layers, I used the larger scribble stamp in the set and first, second and third generation stamping.

Both pairs of shoes and the flowers are coloured with Blends. 

The numbers are 3 layers high and act as the stoppers to keep the card standing tall.

Card stock: Pool Party, Just Jade, Silver Foil, Silver Glimmer, Whisper White

Inks: Majenta Madness, Pool Party, Blends: Majenta Madness, Just Jade, Versamark

Stamps: Dressed To Impress, 

Accessories: Die Cutting machine, Ornate Style Dies, All Dressed Up Dies, Number of Years, Shimmery Black EP

Thanks for stopping by today to see my card! I look forward to seeing what you will create with this pretty and girly colour combo for this week's challenge.

Til next time,

Jan

Just Add Ink #508 Just Add "F"

Happy Friday everyone and welcome!! Here in Victoria it is the start of the Queen's Birthday holiday weekend. With Social restrictions easing slightly it's a great time to get out and enjoy the Winter sunshine or to spend at the crafting table! 

This week at Just Add Ink we have one of Tina's popular Alphabet challenges and this week it's to Add the letter "F" to our projects. Our design team have created such fabulous cards to inspire you so I hope that you can pop on over have a peek and we'd love you to join us!

For my card this week, I decided on Flowers and Frames and was inspired by a lovely card by Jennifer McGuire.  I started by white embossing the Ornate Garden image twice on water color paper and used Zig Markers and a Water Brush to colour the images. The stitched squares are cut so as to make the image appear wider so as to give the appearance of a background stamp. 

To create a shadow frame around the "birthday" die I used a trick from my fellow JAI teamie and an Artisan Design Team member, Rochelle Blok who suggests tracing around the metal die and fussy cutting to create a shadow effect. It seems now I look at the photo that my hand might have moved whilst tracing -oops! It shows I guess that whilst we all try to do our best, mistakes happen.

The Happy is embossed with the sadly retiring Black Sparkle EP and is super sparkly in real life.

Card Stock: Daffodil Delight, Basic Black, Whisper White

Ink: Versamark

Stamps: Ornate Garden, Well Said

Accessories: Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Well Worded Dies, White EP, Black Shimmery EP.

Non SU: Zig Watercolor Markers, Water color Paper (TH, Ranger), Rhinestones (Craft store)

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you can take a moment to pop on over to Just Add Ink and see the design team inspiration and I look forward to see what "F" elements you choose to add to your projects this week.

Til next time,

Jan

 

JAI #505 Hang In There

Happy Friday to you and welcome! It's been another week in Isolation here in Victoria and the restrictions haven't changed that much yet. It's a good excuse to spend some time crafting if one is ever needed. 😀

It's a new challenge week at Just Add Ink  and Chantell has suggested a very timely theme challenge - to Just Add Thinking of You. In these uncertain times when so many people's lives have changed and there is a lot of concern both financially and health wise, it is a great way to send kind thoughts especially when you can't meet up in person. The design team have created some truly fabulous projects to inspire you and I hope you can take a moment to pop on over to the main blog and take a peek and of course, we'd love you to join us!

I have created a card with a friend in mind and used the new Ornate Style bundle for the floral spray and the vellum background frame. The sentiment is from the Share Sunshine PDF and it is with intended irony that the layers are angled like they are just hanging on....after all, we want to bring a smile to someone's face!

Blends brought this image to life and I paired it with a single vellum frame in an effort to keep it  Clean and Simple (CAS) and give a modern twist to this vintage inspired bundle.

Card stock: Whisper White (thick and standard), Gold Foil, Vellum,

Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black 

Blends: Old Olive combo, Lovely Lipstick combo, Balmy Blue Combo, dark Calypso Coral and light Petal Pink.

Accessories: Die cutting Machine, Ornate Layers Dies, Subtle EF, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Metallic Sequins Assortment.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you can pop on over to Just Add Ink and see what the design team have created to inspire you and I look forward to seeing what you will create with this great theme too! 

Til next time,

Jan

Social Stamping - Families

Hello and welcome! We are hopping again over at Social Stamping where the lovely Kelly has set the theme of "Family." With everyone keeping Social Distancing regulations most of us are missing family catch ups and hugs. Tomorrow in Australia and New Zealand it is Mother's Day - one of the biggest family days of the years so instead of catching up in person maybe we can send some handmade love in the form of a card instead. No, it will never be the same but it is a good start.

You may have arrived here from the lovey Liz Gross and her stunning projects or you can start the hop here by clicking the Next button at the bottom of each blog post.

For my card I have not made a Mother's Day card,  instead I've made a card for one of my sisters. She has a beautiful garden full of flowers she can pick throughout the Summer months and so hopefully she will like this.

I am more of a Clean and Simple style lover rather than ornate and vintage so I tried to create a white on white look with the different frames around the bouquet to keep it fresh. Blends were used for colouring and a good splash of Wink Of Stella sparkle is one of the  finishing touches.

The sentiment panel was cut with the Stitched Rectangles - a set that compliments these ornate dies and it's trimmed down further by using the side of a longer rectangle to continue the stitched effect.
I've already decided I need to CASE myself here and just swap the Blue and Petal Pink flowers around -it is a good when just occasionally you can inspire yourself. 😁

Next you're off to see the fabulous projects that Michelle Strazds has created for you. Enjoy your hopping around the different blogs and I hope this encourages you to make a card for family members too!

Card stock: Whisper White (thick and standard) Basic Black

Designer Series Paper: Ornate Garden Specialty

Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black, Versamark

Blends: Balmy Blue, Daffodil Delight, Lovely Lipstick, Old Olive, Calypso Coral (light), Petal Pink (dark)
Accessories: Die cutting machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Ornate Layers Dies, White EP

Til next time,
Jan