JAI #223 : SKETCH CHALLENGE

This week at Just Add Ink, Tina has come up with a sketch challenge for us.

 I'm ALWAYS challenged by anything circular in design, so this was a good one to stretch me out of my comfort zone!

With a nephew's birthday coming up, and a desire to use my yummy new Typeset Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up!, I took this opportunity to make a masculine birthday card.  Although it doesn't show very clearly in the photo, I did cut my DSP into sections (it's adhered to Very Vanilla card).

Stamps: Amazing Birthday, Perfect Pennants, Starburst Sayings

Card: Basic Black, Bermuda Bay, Very Vanilla

DSP: Typeset Designer Series Paper

Ink: Bermuda Bay stampin' pad and marker, Basic Black marker, Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad

Other: Circles Collection framelits, Starburst framelits, Brights candy dot, Candy Dots brad bases, Banners framelits, Silver baker's twine, Paper-piercing tool and Stampin' pierce mat, paper snips

 

 

Make sure you check out the rest of the Design Team's creations.  We'd love for you to play along with us this week.

 

 

 



JAI #220: JUST ADD A SKETCH, WITH STAMPIN' UP! MOONLIGHT DSP

My love affair with Stampin' Up!'s new Moonlight Designer Series Paper continues.  It is the star of my card for this week's Just Add Ink challenge - a sketch provided by Kim.

Here's the sketch to use as a starting point for a card, scrapbook page, or other papercraft project:

** It's the last challenge of the month, so this week is our "Guest Designer"challenge; if you are interested, all you need do is play along with this week's challenge!

 (The details: For the last challenge of each month, we will be offering the "TOP PICK" for that week, the opportunity to join us as a "Guest Designer" for the last challenge the following month....If this sounds like something you would like to do, get creating and come join us at Just Add Ink.) **


I've used my favourite paper of the moment, and the colours contained in it - Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey and Sahara Sand.  I'm pretty pleased with the sentiment panel I created.  Using one of the very cool stamps from the new Work of Art stamp set, I 'stamped off' each colour to lessen the vibrancy, then stamped the sentiment over the top in Staz-On ink.

Stamps: Starburst Sayings, Work of Art (available 1st July), Lots of Thanks

Card: Hello Honey, Blackberry Bliss, Whisper White

DSP: Moonlight Designer Series Paper stack

Ink: Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey and Sahara Sand stampin' pads, Jet Black Staz-On inkpad

Other: Starburst framelits, Circles Collection framelits, Itty Bitty Accents punch pack (available 1st July), Basic Rhinestones, Blendabilities (Daffodil Delight and Rich Razzleberry - darkest of each collection - to colour the rhinestones), White Baker's Twine, sponge dauber, glue dots, multipurpose liquid glue

 

 

The rest of the Just Add Ink Design Team have some fabulous creations using this sketch, so be sure to check them out.  We'd love for you to play along with us.

 

 



STAMPIN' UP! HEXAGON HIVE & STARBURST SAYINGS

On the weekend I had a play with a couple of new-to-me products.  Well, not so new - but unused.  I am such a 'collector' of Stampin' Up! products, and lately have been rather guilty of buying but not using a number of things.  I get a lot of enjoyment from having a craft room set up with so many supplies that it's like going shopping in my own personal shop! LOL.

I used Stampin' Up!'s beautiful coaster board (thinner than chipboard, but sturdier than cardstock) with the Hexagon Hive thinlits die; it cut beautifully.  I'd bought, but not inked up, the Tape It stamp set, so that formed the starting point of my card.  My Color Coach suggested I use Chocolate Chip, Calypso Coral and Wild Wasabi together - and I love it!  Here's what I came up with; a masculine card, which (as you may know) is my favourite kind of card to make:

Stamps: Tape It, Starburst Sayings

Card: Wild Wasabi, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Coaster Board

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Calypso Coral, Wild Wasabi, Crumb Cake

Other: Starburst framelits, Hexagon Hive thinlits die, Basics Glimmer brad, Finishing Touches edgelits die, Stripes embossing folder, sponge dauber

 

 

 



JAI #204: OH, HAPPY DAY

This week's Just Add Ink challenge is to use this gorgeous colour combination on your papercraft project:

 

Once I'd decided on Pistachio Pudding as the feature colour of my card, I had a bit of trouble working out how to incorporate Crumb Cake - unheard of, as it's my all-time favourite neutral!  I focussed on Pistachio Pudding with gold accents, and ended up sponging around the edges of everything with Crumb Cake ink.  I think the card I made would work well for an engagement or wedding.

 

 

 

 

Stamps: Starburst Sayings, Delicate Doilies

Card: Very Vanilla, Pistachio Pudding Core'dinations

Ink: Pistachio Pudding and Crumb Cake stampin' pads, Versamark inkpad

Other: Gold stampin' emboss powder, Starburst framelits, Circles framelits, 1" Circle punch, Basic Pearls, Gold Sequin Trim, Pistachio Pudding stretch ruffle trim, Beautifully Baroque embossing folder, sponge dauber, sticky strip, sanding block

 

 

Make sure you check out the rest of the Design Team samples - just stunning.  We hope you'll play along with us!