Happy Snappy Birthday for JAI #360

Happy Friday and welcome! This week has flown by and we've had fun playing with some new sneak peak products ahead of the next SU Catalogue release - now just two weeks away :-)

And it's also time for a new challenge at Just Add Ink! This week we have a lovely clean and simple sketch from Narelle for us all to play with. The design team have created a fabulous array of cards as always to inspire you so I hope you can take a moment to pop on over and take a look and join us :-)

For my card, I've gone with a mix of a retiring Hostess set with a new In Colour to create a bright and vibrant birthday card for a friend who has a flair for photography and art in general so hope he likes this :-)  It doesn't look quite so psychedelic in real life -  the overcast weather this week has made taking photos a little challenging - might be a good excuse for a new camera for moi too :-)

The background  is water coloured and I deliberately kept the brush strokes bold and resisted the usual need to blend as I was after a more striking and graphic effect for this masculine card. The other elements are quite simple,  both the camera and sentiment are embossed to add a little shine and there is some Wink and sparkle hiding in the background too.

I combined two sentiments on the Bermuda circle - the original from the Pun Intended and added the "Happy" from Sunshine Wishes with a little masking as am sure there will be some happy snaps of the birthday :-)

Card stock: Basic Black: Real Red, Bermuda Bay, Silver Foil
Designer Series Paper: Pop of Pink
Ink: Bermuda Bay, Lemon Lime Twist, Versamark
Stamps: Pun Intended (Retiring Hostess), Sunshine Wishes
Accessories: Black EP, White EP, Brights Enamel Shapes, Clear Wink of Stella
Non SU: Watercolor card stock (Tim Holtz)

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you can take a moment to pop on over to Just Add Ink and see the fabulous cards the design team have made to inspire you and I look forward to seeing what you will create with this fun sketch too!

Happy stamping until next time,

Jan

Awesome Newsflash for JAI #328

Hello and happy Friday :-) This week a friend and I had the pleasure of a day trip to Castlemaine (in the country) to have a catch up with a mutual friend stationed there.  And whilst it was a beautiful day there was an obvious temperature difference and most of the trees were still bare - Spring had yet to arrive! Strange how an hour and a half's drive can make that much difference. The company and food was lovely though and we all had a delightful time :-)

We have a new challenge for you at Just Add Ink too. Tina has suggested a great letter challenge and it's sure to be popular! That's right it's... Just Add..."P". So we would love you to add anything beginning with "P" as the main focus of your projects this week. That could be polka dots or pussycats, pinks or pine cones or pandas... So I hope you can take a moment and pop on over to see what the rest of the design team have made to inspire you :-)

 I've gone with Photography and made a masculine card using the Pun Intended and Playful Backgrounds stamps along with a splash of Peekaboo Peach. For masculine cards I usually like to keep the design rather clean and white so this is stepping out of my comfort zone a little but then that is what is great about challenges - they help us grow as crafters :-)

The tone on tone bubble background seems to soften the otherwise rather bold colour combo...and with that idea in mind I've added some vellum under the camera and kept the embellsihments simple.


 Card stock: Basic Black, Dapper Denim, Peekaboo Peach, Vellum
Ink: Versamark, Dapper  Denim
Stamps: Pun Intended, Playful Backgrounds
Accessories: Big Shot, Sunburst Thinlits, Circle Framelits (retired), White EP, In Colour and Metallic Enamel Shapes.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you can take a moment to pop on over to Just Add Ink and and see the fabulous creations our lovely team have made to inspire you and I look forward to seeing what you will make starting with "P" this week too!

Happy stamping until next time,

Jan