JULY AddINKtive Design Team Projects

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to this months AddINKtive Design Team Projects. As a Design Team member, I have the priviledge of using any of the wonderful tutorials that are available to purchase from the AddINKtive Designs Store - including my own lol.

Our talented and supportive leader - Bronwyn Eastley created the most stunning camera card recently. I knew as soon as I saw it that this would make the perfect card for my sister, Michelle, who happens to be a qualified photographer.

You can find the tutorial for the Camera Box Card with slider here. I have omitted the Happy Birthday insert from the original design as this is being posted to New Zealand and thought it safer to have a fold out album attached to the back of the card.

The film negative strip is from a retired Stampin' Up! stamp set but the tutorial offers alternative suggestions if you do not have this set in your collection.

The base of the Camera Card is easily constructed with the Tutorial instructions and an Envelope Punch Board. The exterior of the card is Black and Silver Foil cardstock with a few rhinestone embellishments mimicking buttons.

I masked each individual panel of the negative strip and stamped images from various stamp sets - High Tide, Mediterranean Moments, Water Front and Animal Outing. Some panels were sponged and stamped, other were stamped and coloured using Stampin' Blends.

The back of the card holds the fold out. I made it a fairly sizeable space to allow loads of room for writing messages from the whole family. The top portion of the fold out was partially die cut with the Stitched Season Framelits as I wanted some of the white card underneath to be showing.

I have decorated the fold out using the Tropical Chic stamp and coordinating dies along with a Gold Glitter "M".

The inside panels have been die cut using the "x" stitched thinlit from Stitched Labels - randomly cutting lines over all three panels.

The Birthday cake image from Cake Soiree has been Gold Heat Embossed and watercoloured in the same purple/pink tones as the front of the fold out. Gold Foil card has used for the cake stand and bow, with a white heat embossed sentiment for the sentiment. A couple of little stitched hearts were added to the bottom with mini dimensionals.

The second card uses my Pocket Card Tutorial for the base, which you can find here.

I have kept this one pretty simple using soft subtle colours and a water coloured front. The Subtle embossing folder has been used to create the background from Soft Sea Foam cardstock. The large image from Floral Frames stamp has been white heat embossed, water coloured and then die cut with the large Stitched frame from the limited edition Stitched Seasons Framelits.

The Chase Your Dream Thinlits were used to die cut the 'die catcher' circle and vellum feathers. The inside has a Soft Sea Foam die cut (created using the Stitched Season Framelits) along with the pull tab (created using the Circle Tab Punch) also from Soft Sea Foam with a Gold Foil stitched heart added to the tab.

That's all from me today folks. I am knee deep in the middle of a massive project and had better start cleaning up what is normally a perfectly clean craft room so that I am somewhat productive this afternoon (I cant work in mess) so until next time, stay awesome, stay organised and stay crafty.

Colour INKspiration #38 - Framelits

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to Colour INKspiration #38. You are currently visiting Jackie Aitken in Western Australia. If you are following the hop you may have arrived here from Kiama, NSW, having just visited my super talented friend Denita Wright-Smee.

Stampin' Up! ® has just had a major colour revamp so to start off the new catalogue year at Colour INKspiration we've decided to feature a Colour Collection for the first challenge each month (2nd Wednesday) until we have showcased them all! The second challenge in the month (4th Wednesday) will be a Pinterest inspired pic as per usual just to mix it up a bit. This month we are playing with the brights COLLECTION and you can choose any 3 colours from that range for your challenge project. We are also changing the rules about what else you can add to the mix; essentially just the Basics - Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Basic Black as well as metallics.

We have an absolutely gorgeous colour combination for this fortnights challenge - Berry Burst, Powder Pink, Gray Granite, Black and Whisper White.

My card is basically made up of a lot of white space with hints of colour and a few die cuts. I have used the Chase Your Dreams Framelits, Tropical Thinlits and Foliage Frame Framelits to die cut Black, White, Powder Pink, Gray Granite and Berry Burst card stock.

The Whisper White card front has been splattered with black ink and then embossed with the Subtle Embossing Folder. A die cut dream catcher and square stitched frame were adhered to the base with dabs of Tombow before adhering the foliage die cuts. A Baker Twine Bow has been added over the Stitched Heart with a glue dot.

A stitched heart creating using the Stitched Labels Framelits, hides the ends of the die cuts and under this I also attached the swing tag sentiment.

The card front has a strip of Black card adhered along the left hand edge. A panel of Berry Burst card was tucked under the card front on an angle and adhered to the card base before adhering the card front.

INKspired to join the challenge? It's so easy. Firstly, get some INKspiration by hopping around to see what all of the Colour INKspiration Crew have to show you. Then you have 12 days from today to make and upload your creation to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group. You don't have to have a blog to participate but if you do you can link back to your post. Make sure you use all of the challenge colours. Not a member of the Facebook group yet? Just click here and ask to join Colour INKspiration, add the group to your favourites and share it with your crafty friends so they can join in the fun too. We can't wait to see what you create with these gorgeous colours.

Up Next in this fortnights Colour INKspiration Blog Hop is our Guest Designer, Jan Clothier with her super stunning project. Thanks for stopping by today, we appreciate the time you have invested to hop with us today x

Floral Frames with Tropical Chic

Good Day Crafty Friends,

A quick post today as I just wanted to share a couple of cards I thought I had shared already but on checking back through my Pinterest account, it seems I haven't.

The Floral Frames Bundle has so many elements. The stamp set and coordinating dies are gorgeous, I love the fonts of the sentiments and the framelits have stunning foliage dies.

The first card uses the large floral frame decorative framelit. I have die cut it from Whisper White card and attached to a card front that has been embossed with the Basket Weave Embossing Folder. The Frangipani flower, from Tropical Chic stamp set has been inked in Melon Mambo and Pineapple Punch. The stamped foliage is from Jar of Love stamp set and the Lemon Lime Twist die cut leaves were created using one of the many dies from Foliage Frames.

The second card was kept nice and simple with a subtle embossed background created using the Softly Falling Embossing Folder. The large floral frame image was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Ink and coloured using stamping blends. The extra black foliage from Jar of Love was fussy cut and tucked behind the frame.

The third card again uses the large floral die cut from Whisper White card. The Frangipani flowers were inked in Pineapple Punch and then the centre sponged with Flirty Flamingo ink. The background has been embossed with the Pinewood Planks embossing folder and then a panel of Wood Textures DSP. A strip of Pineapple Punch card was adhered to the Wood Textures DSP to coordinate with the matt layer under the card front.

These cards were all very easy and fast to create thanks to the wonderful Floral Foliage Frames bundle and some embossing folders.

Until next time, stay awesome, stay organised and stay crafty

There are only a few days left to take advantage of the amazing Stampin' Up! ink pad promotion. If you have ever thought about joining Stampin' Up!, now is the time. Not only do you get all the normal joining benefits, until the end of July 2018 you also get a set of 10 Ink Pads for FREE. Join now and remain a demonstrator until Jan 2019 without paying another cent. If you are interested in this amazing opportunity but have further questions, feel free to email me here and I will be happy to answer any queries you may have.

Colour Your Season Samples

Good Day Crafty Friends,

I have another quick post today, sharing a few more creations with the new Limited Edition Colour Your Season Bundle.

There are a few different images in the stamp set - christmas holly, falling leaves, a large floral image, a bell and some foliage. There is also six sentiments that can be used for various occasions - Thank You, Congrats, Wishing You All the Best are a few examples.

Using the Bell image for a wedding card.

The large floral image has been stamped multiple times, fussy cut and coloured using Stampin' Blends. After colouring, I have added dots to the inside edge of every petal, you can do this to any stamped image, altering its appearance and often giving it depth.

Heat Embossed Leaves and then water coloured using Daffodil Delight, Grapefruit Grove and Flirty Flamingo inks.

These two cards were stamped and die cut using the Stitched Square Framelits. The landscape version has had the entire stamped image die cut and adhered to a card base with dimensionals and tombow, altering the height of each panel randomly. The tent fold version has had the large floral image stamped onto the card front along with the sentiment. On a separate peice of card, the image has been stamped and coloured and then die cut using three different sized framelits. Die cuts have been adhered over stamped image with mini dimensionals.

I have shared this one previously, no line water colouring. Not a hard technique, just requires patience - loads of patience lol but the results are always worth the time invested.

There are only a few days left to take advantage of the amazing Stampin' Up! ink pad promotion. If you have ever thought about joining Stampin' Up!, now is the time. Not only do you get all the normal joining benefits, until the end of July 2018 you also get a set of 10 Ink Pads for FREE. Join now and remain a demonstrator until Jan 2019 without paying another cent. If you are interested in this amazing opportunity but have further questions, feel free to email me here and I will be happy to answer any queries you may have.

Just Add Ink #418 - Colour Challenge - Blended Seasons

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to this week’s Just Add Ink Challenge. We have an absolutely gorgeous colour challenge for you to play along with - Blushing Bride, Soft Sea Foam and Daffodil Delight.

Soft Sea Foam has to be one of my favourite of the new revamped colours - such a soft and subtle shade. I am also loving the new Blended Seasons Stamp set and couldn’t help myself and had to use it again for this week’s challenge. 

Onto Shimmery White card, I have stamped the large floral image several times and fussy cut. Using Daffodil Delight and Blushing Bride inks, with a small,  dryish paint brush I have coloured the lower and top portions of the petals, leaving a white ring that extends all the way around each flower. The leave were coloured with Soft Sea Foam.

A whisper white card front was cut to 3/4 of the width of the Soft Sea Foam card base and then embossed with the Subtle embossing Folder. Strips of Gold Glitter card (thicker strip on the right hand side) were adhered to the embossed card front before adhering to card base with foam strips.

Before adhering the fussy cut flowers and leaves were adhered along the right hand edge with Tombow, half a Pearlised Doily and Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon were tucked under the heat embossed sentiment. A few iridescent sequins were added to finish the card.

After taking the photo I actually cut the pink flower buds and relocated them on an angle so they wouldn't get crushed when it was posted.

Love the stamp set I have used in this card? This limited edition bundle will be available to purchase from your Stampin' Up! Demonstrator from 1-31 August 2018. If you live in Australia and purchase the stamp set or bundle from my Online store during the sales period,  I will send you the PDF instructions to create the eight cards shown in the picture below for FREE.

Be sure to stop by all the Just Add Ink Design Team members blogs for more inspiration using this weeks challenge colours. We would love for you and your crafty friends to play along, if you have a blog you can add your card to the Just Add Ink gallery here. Don't have your own blog? No problem! Just send us an email to just-add-ink@hotmail.com with a photo attachment. We'll upload it to our challenge entry blog.

Until next time, stay awesome, stay organised and stay crafty