Social Stamping - Animals

Welcome to another hop at Social Stamping a fabulous idea by the lovely Kelly Kent to enable us to be able to create together whilst so many are stamping alone during Isolation.

This week the theme is "Animals." Be it a pet, a wild animal or a new rescue, animals have all noticed the changes to our lifestyles during this time whilst we all spend more time at home. So many shelters have had an increase in the adoption of cats and dogs as people realise they are such good company especially when they have more time to give - and all our beloved pets will be enjoying having us around more during this time too.

You may have just arrived here from the lovely Peta Stephens and her fabulous projects or you can start the hop and click on the Next button at the bottom of each post to make your way around.

Not great photos today with Melbourne's fog and rainy weather but I created a fun puppy Wedding Card using two retiring sets - my all time favourite, Happy Tails and the versatile Piece of Cake. 

You may notice that the two dogs are facing each other - and there is only one such image in the stamp set. I used the Stamparatus and Silicone Sheet to create a mirror image of the stamp and used Blends and Copics to colour the dogs and flowers on the cake. Some sequins from the Peaceful Poppies complete this CAS card.

This is of course the perfect time to introduce you to my current best furry friend - Sally (Jr). Sally is a special girl who graduated from Guide Dogs Victoria last October as a Companion and with extra training helps me as an Assistance Dog. She enjoys both her work in harness and her play time out of it very much and always asks for her bed to be moved to beside the craft table when I'm making cards and finds it the perfect excuse to sleep the afternoon away! 😀

Next you are off to see the gorgeous projects that Julia Quinn has created to inspire you.

I hope that you enjoy your hopping around blog land and enjoy the coming week.

Card Stock: Whisper White, Gold Foil

Designer Series Paper: Lilly Impressions 

Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black, Versamark 

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Subtles EF, Black Shimmery EP, Peaceful Poppies Sequins Assortment.

Til next time,'

Jan

JAI #475 Just Add...Piece of Cake

 Happy Friday and welcome! The weather is starting to warm up and the days are getting longer...and the allergies are in full swing too. 😆

This week at Just Add Ink Kelly has a fun theme for us - she wants us to Just Add Food to our projects this week. So whether that is popcorn carrots, fruit or cake we would love to see what food you'd like to share with us this week! Our design team has pulled out all the food groups for you so we'd love to see what food you have hiding in your craft room ( on a card lol!) 

This week I decided to go a bit rainbow coloured. The weather is warming up and I am thinking of Summer 😀 I used Distress Inks for the background and the sentiment from Bloom and Grow is embossed using the new Sparkle Black EP. It really has a fabulous shine! The cake images are coloured using Blends and Copics and then all covered with Clear Wink of Stella.

It's funny how pinks can show up slightly differently in different lights and that seems to be what is happening here.

Yes, it's bright and cheery but then so is the weather this week - first time we've hit 20 degrees since April 😀

Card stock: Whisper White

Inks: Versamark, Momento Tuxedo Black, Blends: Calypso Coral, Rococo Rose, Marina Mist, Blackberry Bliss, Lovely Lipstick

Stamps: Piece of Cake, Bloom and Grow

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Cake Builder Punch, Sparkle Black EP

Non SU: Distress Inks (Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade), Sequins- Crystal Reflections by SSS

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you can pop on over to Just Add Ink and see all the fun and gorgeous cards from our design team and I look forward to seeing what food item you will make the main focus of your projects this week.

Happy stamping until next time!

Jan

Wedding Cake for JAI# 456

Happy Friday folks and welcome back! It's a chilly, grey old day here in Melbourne. Perfect thought for anyone needing an excuse to stay inside and get creative. 😊

It's time for our new challenge at Just Add Ink and this fabulous white and pretty Inspiration Photo was suggested by Nikki for us to use in our projects this week. Perfect for Weddings or whatever white or floral project you have to do. The design team have all created such amazing cards to inspire you so I hope you can take a moment to pop on over and take a peek and we'd love you to join us.

So I was inspired by the round shape of the flowers and the gold and white colour palette. I actually had in mind a huge layered wedding cake with this image at the top. But I couldn't quite find circles big enough...so I went with smaller ones lol. In the end there is quite a few stamps and dies used here which kinda shows how many different versions of this card I tried! Mostly, it's about creating an idea I have in mind but sometimes the process itself is what produces the card even after all these years.

White on white seems to be a current design trend and I decided to add the gold from the Photo flower centres and layers of texture to complete this wedding card. 

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

Ink: Versamark

Stamps: Piece of Cake, Painted Glass

Accessories: Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Framelits, Stitched shapes and Layering Circles Framelits,  Well Written Framelits, Wonderful Floral Framelits, Gold EP,  Tufted EF, White Organza Ribbon, Gold Ribbon

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you can take a moment to pop on over to Just Add Ink and see all the gorgeous inspiration from the team and I look forward to seeing what you will create with this pretty Photo Inspiration pic too!

Happy stamping until next time,

Jan

Colourful Piece of Cake for JAI #442

Hi there and welcome back this happy Friday! The kids are back at school this week - I had almost forgotten how the school bells across the road sounded after six weeks 😀It also means the shopping centres are so much calmer places to take a young Assistance Dog. Is it just me or are all the mums, dads and grandmums (and shop assistants lol) also breathing a sigh of relief 😊

Friday also means that it is time for a new challenge at Just Add Ink. This week we have a really fun Sketch designed for us by Kim. Our talented design team have again created amazing cards to inspire you so I hope that you can take a moment to pop on over and see and we'd love you to join us!

For my card I broke open the Piece of Cake bundle to use the cute images and fun sentiments and went for a CAS (Clean and Simple) take on the sketch. The cake image is stamped and then coloured with pencils before being added to the white circle and the same images are stamped in Momento ink onto DSP. There is some added bling - love the Lovely Lipstick Foil behind the black sentiment pieces - that's my favourite SAB product by far 😀

And some vellum over the Lipstick scallop so it's not too matchy - matchy.

Card stock: Whisper White (thick), Lovely Lipstick, Basic Black, Vellum, Silver Foil, Lovely Lipstick Foil (SAB)

Designer Series Paper: How Sweet It Is

Stamps: Piece of Cake

Inks: Lovely Lipstick, Daffodil Delight, Versamark, Momento Tuxedo Black, Watercolor Pencils. 

Accessories: Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Layering Circle Framelits, Cake Builder Punch, White EP, Daffodil Delight Organdy Ribbon (SAB), Happiness Blooms Enamel Dots

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you can pop on over to Just Add Ink and be inspired to join us!

Happy stamping until next time,

Jan