Just Add Ink #86 - Sketch Challenge

This week at Just Add Ink, we have a Sketch Challenge for you......and I said to the girls on the Design Team that this card was like delivering a baby! It was hard work, took a long time but I am so proud with what I made! LOL!

My (current) favourite stamp set (Elements Of Style) has made an appearance (yet again!)....I just love it!

I used my trusty old blender pens to colour and I certainly wasn't overly particular with my colouring - a dab here and a dab here and hey presto!

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Just Add Ink #84 - Colour Challenge

Hello!
Here is my card I made for this week's Just Add Ink Colour Challenge. The colours were:
I just couldn't resist pink and white - one of my all-time favourite colour combos

Make sure you pop over to Just Add Ink if you haven't already to see what the rest of the Design Team have used for their "colour of choice"!

cardstock: textured regal rose, basic white
stamps: friends 24-7
boho blossom punch, bling brad, dimensionals, lace punch, sponge daubers, spritzers

Baja and Chocolate Birthday Elements

A wonderful friend had a birthday just the other day - and I was so very blessed to spend some of the day with her!

We went on a roadtrip together to Hobart so she could attend Tasmania's SU Regionals and I wanted to give her a little something to spend on herself - either for crafty supplies or just something special for her - so I whipped up this card that has a "money/giftcard pocket" on the inside fold. A friend was making some of these cute little flowers the other day, so I decided to give it a go, adding my own touch of sponge-daubing the edges a little.Now, I know for a fact that this wonderful person loves brown/s and blue/s together, so I have chosen to use BAJA BREEZE and CHOCOLATE CHIP and CONFETTI CREAM and of course, my current favourite stamp set, Elements of Style.

PS...You can visit this wonderful friends blog here!

Just Add Ink #80

Sketch time over at Just Add Ink!

You may have already seen a similar flower on my previous post, but as I warned, I LOVE THEM! So so so easy to make and so so so pretty!!!!!
You can see how I made mine here.
Oh - and I would tell you what I stamped on the tag, but I unfortunately don't have the card here at the moment and I can't remember what I stamped on it!!!! How professional is that!
But I can tell you that I painted the tag with Crackle Paint - and then rubbed some Night Of Navy ink into the cracks, to give it an "aged effect".

Just Add Ink # 79 - Just Add Tearing

This week's challenge at Just Add Ink is actually on my 'off week', but I made this card recently for a special person and realised it had some tearing so I thought "why not!" (apologies, Blogger is playing up and I can't link to JAI - but you can easily pop by by going to www.just-add-ink.blogspot.com).

FLOWER
1. I made the flower by tearing 3 circles of cardstock (3 x sizes).....I crumbled up the pieces so they were really soft and pliable. (I used Red Riding Hood Red)
2. Next, I cut 4-5 slits into them to make petals.
3. Using a sponge dauber, I inked the edges in a darker shade.
4. I then used a skewer (or something similar) to roll the edges.
5. Misting with silver glimmermist, gives a nice silvery shine as well as helping hold the flower in shape.
6. I adhered each layer with a strip of good old sticky strip.

Too easy!!!! You can't go wrong I reckon!

Heads up - you may be seeing these flowers appear regularly on my creations for a while - I just LOVE them!

Just Add Ink #78 - Colour Challenge

It's a Colour Challenge again at Just Add Ink this week, I branched out from my usual card-entry and made something a little different! I needed a gift-card holder for a birthday, so I whipped up one of Lauren Meaders "Cash Or Charge" little creations!
As you can see, the blue tab at the top pulls up which pulls out a sheet with the giftcard adhered to it. (I have propped this giftcard holder up for the photo - it doesn't stand by itself). It is 11cm wide and 8cm high. (I was going to add link to where you can purchase this template, but blogger is playing up again and won't let me hyperlink or anything!!!)
cardstock: sahara sand, certainy celery
ink: chocolate chip, night of navy, certainly celery
chocolate chip DSP, sponge dauber, twine, tag punch, round tab extra-large
stamps: in the stars, happy memories

Just Add Ink #76 - Inspiration Photo

It's been a few months since I've designed for Just Add Ink.....but I'm so happy to be back! Yah!!!
I have enjoyed my little break, keeping busy with studying and the usual mummy stuff but I am so looking forward to dusting off my sets and reinking them again!

For my first week back on duty, we have an Inspiration Photo challenge....and what a glorious pic it is! Who wouldn't want to be there right now, instead of shivering away in the middle of our winter! I know I would almost give anything to be waking up to this view!

My card didn't end up as bright as I wanted - as I could only use the re-inkers that I had.
To create the background, I used GLOSSY CARD, ISOCOL and RE-INKERS.
Step #1: In a small container, I mixed Isocol and a few drops of re-inker.
Step #2: Using a cotton wool ball, I soaked one in the coloured isocol and rubbed it over the glossy to obtain the look I wanted. I waited a min or two and then went over it a few times. Step #3: I then added a few more drops to darken Isocol and use that over the top of what I had already put on the glossy. I would've loved more colours to create more depth.
Step #4: I suggest you wait until the isocol has completely dried before stamping using Stazon on. Of course I couldn't wait and when the Stazon stamped it did tend to blur a little!

stamps: SU elements of style, verve sentiment
cardstock: basic black, silver, glossy white
ink: black stazon, baja breeze re-inker, blue bayou re-inker and kiwi kiss re-inker
hodgepodge hardware, black velvet ribbon, dimensionals

Hey Jude

OMG how cute is this!!!!!

Talking Twin Babies - PART 2 - OFFICIAL VIDEO

This just cracks me up!!! It makes me smile so I wanted to share it with you too!
x Tania

Just Add Ink #71

HONEY - I'M HOME!!!!!!!!!!
It's been a while, but I finally, finally found some mojo this week! Maybe it was the break. Maybe it was school holidays and having some extra time - who knows - but I think it might be back and I'm not complaining!!!
I spent the day today sorting out my craft room - emptying containers full of all sorts of things that I once thought I'd use and just re-organising - and it felt SOOOOO good!!! Im going to sleep well tonight knowing it's done.
Anyway, earlier in the week I decided to enter this weeks Just Add Ink Challenge - which was Just Add Black and White. I CASE'd this idea from one of the Stampin Up catelogues - I've been using them as my "muse" this week...why not! Everything in the catalogues is just so yummy!



stamps: kimono kids
cardstock: textured basic black, whisper white
ink: basic black
silver string, wooden pegs, dot embossing