Saleabration Butterflies for JAI #447

Happy Friday folks and welcome! We've had a rather busy week - thankfully the temperature has cooled somewhat in the last few days which has made it much easier to get around, pup in tow. Today and next Friday we are giving a talk to classes at the local Primary school on Working Dogs in the community and how they (the kids) can help as they see us around. Sally, my Assistance Dog will love giving them all kisses at the end for sure 😜

It's time for a new challenge at Just Add Ink and this week the lovely Narelle has designed this fabulous clean and simple sketch for us all to use in our projects. As always, the teamies have created an amazing array of cards to inspire you so I hope you can take a moment to check them out and we'd love to have you join us.

This time I kept pretty close to the sketch using the banners to add texture and bling . The black and white DSP is from the Botanical Butterfly pack available for free during Saleabration. I fussy cut and coloured two with Blends and Wink of Stella and layered them for the main pop of colour. 

CAS with a touch of bling is my favourite style to make and so after a few weeks of creating bright cards, this one was a joy to make and came together very quickly. It's lovely to have a card turn out pretty much how you envisage it. 😊

The first banner is also a SAB item - the fabulous Lovely Lipstick Foil, has to be one of my favourite freebies of all time 😀followed by the White flax ribbon and Black Sequin Trim.

Card stock: Basic Black, Powder Pink, Lovely Lipstick Foil, (SAB), Gold Foil

Designer Series Paper: Botanical Butterfly DSP (SAB)

Inks: Versamark, Blends - Calypso Coral and Lovely Lipstick packs

Stamps: Well Said

Accessories: Well Written Framelits, Wonderful Floral Framelits , Wink of Stella, White EP, White Flax Ribbon, Black Sequin Trim

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you can take a moment to pop on over to Just Add Ink and see all the amazing inspiration from our lovely design team and I look forward to seeing what you will create with this fabulous clean and simple sketch too. 

Happy stamping until next time,

Jan

An Epic Head Phone Adventure for JAI # 397

It's Friday again at last and what a busy week it has been!! So we are looking forward to the weekend and spending some time in between the garden and the craft room. The Summer veggies have finished and despite it being February, the weather seems a lot more like Autumn already with some crisp mornings....so what veggies should we be planting next?? That is one of the big decisions for the weekend so it should be fun :-)

This week at Just Add Ink we have one of Tina's popular letter challenges - to "Just Add....H". That can be anything starting with the letter "H" as the main focus of your project. Our lovely design team have had such fun with this one and you will be blown away with the many ways they've added "H" this week so I hope you can pop on over and be inspired to join us!

This is the second of two cards I made for this week :-) The Head phones were Heat embossed in Clear and then it was time to play with Brusho looking for a vibrant kind of retro rainbow fit for a teen and music enthusiast...it didn't quite turn out as Austin Powers as I first had in mind but that is probably just as well LOL :-)

Placing the layers to either side of the base card and adding some black sequin "chains" keeps it masculine whilst adding a touch of bling. 

And here is the other"H" themed card for this week - a little more feminine and features a shaker of "hugs".  The stamped background uses images from the Lovely Inside and Outside bundle and the sequins with the clear background add a fun and rather unexpected element.

Card stock: Whisper White (thick and standard), Real Red, Bermuda Bay, Gold Foil, Window Sheet

Inks: Versamark, Momento Tuxedo Black, Dapper Denim, Pool Party, Lemon Lime Twist, Powder Pink, Melon Mambo

Stamps: Epic Celebrations, Lovely Inside and Out

Accessories: Big Shot, Brusho, White EP, Clear EP, Black Sequin Trim, Metallic Sequins Assortment, Lovely Words Thinlits, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Irridescent Sequins and Brights Sequins Assortments.

Non SU: Water color paper (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 what all the team have to inspire you and I look forward to seeing what "H" element you will choose to headline your project this week :-)

Happy stamping until next time,

Jan

More birthday Sneek peeks

What a lovely day it has been here in Melbourne - mostly sunny and a comfortable 23 degrees! Though we are thinking of those in South Australia and Queensland today where  some areas are sweltering through a  48-50 degree (Celsius!!) day. I doubt the Air con will cope with that sort of heat….hang in there guys!

In the meantime here is a card inspired by the sketch this week at the Paper Craft Crew.

Again I was keen to use some of the new Saleabration items so that did limit me to ONE stamp set for now LOL!!

It was great that I actually had the label framelits from the Sketch too so had to use them!! The card base is Raspberry Ripple followed by Whisper White embossed with the Dcorativel Dots EF both the EF and the greeting are some of the items available for FREE during Saleabration which I seem to be getting quite a bit of use out of already:-) The Chevrons are punched from Pool Party card stock and raised on Dimensionals and the butterflies replace the circles from the sketch.

Card stock: Raspberry Riple, Whisper White, Pool Party

Ink: Raspberry Ripple, Summer Starfruit, Calypso coral, 

Stamps: See Ya Later *, Papillon Potpourri, Hello Lovely

Accessories: Big Shot, Label Framelits, Raspberry ripple Ribbon, Elegant and Bitty Butterfly punches, Chevron Border punch, Basic Rhinestones, Decorative Dots EF*

*Saleabration item.

Happy stamping until next time.

Jan

Summer Birthday and JAI #195

These last couple of weeks I have been focused on finsihing Christmas cards and have missed being able to take part in many card Challenges! But they are all done now - all 57 of them, phew! So now it's time for a card inspired by the Colour Challenge this week at Just Add Ink.

My first challenge was that I don't actually have any Soft Sky or Blushing Bride in ink or card stock - so I have used Pool Party instead of the Sky :-) 

And here too is a first look at some of the upcoming Salebration free items!!

The card base is Whisper White, the next layer of white is stamped with Positively Chevron in Calypso Coral ink and then partially covered with the same colour card using the Decorative Dots EF. This is then added with some dimensionals to the Pool Party layer.

The greeting is from the fun Saleabration set See Ya Later and is cut out and layered using the Oval Framelits. The butterflies are from the familiar Papillon Potpourri set and the button is made from Simply Pressed Clay using the button molds filled with Dazzling Diamonds.

Card Stock: Whisper White, Calypso Coral So Safron, Pool Party

Ink: Calypso Coral, Pool Party, So Safron

Stamps: See Ya Later *, Papillon Potpourri, Positively Chevron

Accessories: Big Shot, Oval Framelits, Decorative Dots EF*, Elegant and Bitty Butterfly punches, Basic Rhinestones, Simply Pressed Clay, Bakers Twine

* Saleabration item

So fabulous to have all the Christmas cards done in time for posting (via the Post office ) and look forward to sharing in some more challenges soon.

Happy stamping until next time,

Jan