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Thursday 25 October 2018

JAI #432 - Bows & Bling - First Frost

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to this weeks Just Add Ink Challenge. Patrice has challenged us to choose two from Buttons, Bows or Bling. Say that ten times really fast lol.


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I am on a little card creating vacation at the moment (while I learn a new hobby, more on that soon) But managed to whip up this little beauty from bits and pieces left over from previous projects.

Do you have a container full of stamped images and dies cuts that didn't make the cut on previous projects? Whenever I add a new stamp set to my collection  I like to stamp loads of images all at once so that when I am designing I don't have to stop what I am doing to get my fingers all inky. If the item I am playing around is not the right colour I will re stamp it at a later stage, but I find it handy to have die cuts when planning card designs.


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I chose Bling and Bows as my two elements for this weeks challenge teamed with the images from the First Frost stamp set. 


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The flowers were stamped in Highland Heather and Blushing Bride with the foliage in Sahara Sand and Pear Pizzazz. Before adhering the floral cluster to the torn whisper white card front, I stamped the sentiment in Memento Tuxedo ink.

The Sahara Sand panel has been embossed with the Pinewood Planks Embossing Folder then adhered to a Thick Whisper White Card Base.


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Natural Linen Twine has been added behind the Floral cluster and a bow in the front. A few clear Rhinestones were added to finish the card.

Be sure to stop by all the Just Add Ink Design Team members blogs for more inspiration with this weeks Just Add Texture challenge . 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.



Thanks for stopping by today. Until next time, stay awesome and stay crafty 








Tuesday 23 October 2018

Santa's Workshop Pocket Card - AddINKtive Designs

Hello Crafty Friends,


Hope you are having a great day. I have a super cute Pocket Card to share with you today, which has been created with the Santa's Workshop Memories and More card pack. 

I absolutely love making Pocket Cards, they are interactive, have two surfaces to decorate and are perfect for posting. You can find the tutorial for this style of Pocket Card over at AddINKtive Designs here. Just change out the DSP aspect and replace with this adorable M&M card.


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The Pocket Card base was created from Basic Black cardstock using the tutorial mentioned above. To the Pocket Base, the large Santa card was trimmed down slightly and adhered with Tombow. Using one of the smaller Memories and More cards, die cut the large detailed framelit from the Stitched Labels Framelits.

The insert has been decorated with a strip of Pool Party card stock under a thin panel of Washi Tape. The sentiment from the First Frost stamp set has been inked in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and a little Elf adhered with mini dimensionals.

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I also decorated one of the gable boxes with some elements from the Santa's Workshop Memories & More card pack. The gable boxes are simply stunning and with a little shredded paper and a snack bottle of Doterra Oil, they make the perfect quick and easy gifts for family and friends.

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Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you get to spend some time in your crafty space this week(end). We have rain predicted here so you can guess where I will be.

Until next time, stay awesome and stay crafty




Wednesday 17 October 2018

Sincerely Santa Outside the Project Kit

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Hope you are having a great week. I have had the most wonderful mini vacation, recharging the batteries while spending some quality time with my better half. Before we left I did have time to play with the goodies that arrived in my BBB.

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One of gorgeous items that I reached for first was the Sincerly Santa Project Kit (dang you, you fine looking tin....you know I only brought this kit for the Tin!!) However, once I opened it and started to unpack the goodies from within, it began to feel like the Tardis, there was so much crafting goodness in one little tin, I began to get excited at all the options - ribbons, embellishments galore and sparkly stuff.

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I didn't get the coordinating stamp set (why, oh why?) thinking I could manage by pulling a sentiment from other Christmas themed stamp sets.

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I decorated one of the Bakers Boxes and filled it with completed tags. Seeing, I am keeping the Tin, I am making a few of these to gift to friends and family with tags inside.

The tags below have been altered to the instructions given with the Kit. I like to swap and change things around a bit, seen here with the three different tags below.

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Below is a product list with all the items used to create these Christmas Gift Tags. Click on the product images to be taken to my Online Store.




Product List
Sunday 14 October 2018

Stamping Sunday Blog Hop - First Frost Stamp Set

Good Day Crafty Friends,



Welcome to October's Stamping Sunday Blog Hop. This month we are featuring the stunning First Frost Stamp Set. This was one of the first sets to hit my wish list when the Holiday Catalogue was released, I absolutely adore the water colour washed images.

For this months challenge I created a gift box and a couple of cards. All the cards have a whisper white card base. The Gift Box has a Blushing Bride base with a Whisper White Lid.

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The Gift Box Lid has been stamped in Highland Heather, Soft Sea Foam, Flirty Flamingo, Blushing Bride and Melon Mambo.

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The first card has panels of Soft Sea Foam, Powder Pink and Tropical Escape DSP. The images from Floral Frames have been stamped with Memento Tuxedo onto Whisper White and die cut. These have been mixed with the images from the First Frost stamp set and sentiment from Painted Glass.

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The second card has a card front that uses a similar floral display as the Gift Box, stamped in similar colours just more vividly by stamping the images a few times using my Stamparatus.

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The centered panel has been raised using white fun foam and then adhered to the card base with Tombow. This allows a little bit of wiggle room, as I eyeball everything when it comes to placement, and I find things with height can be deceiving when trying to get them straight.

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The third card is bright and colourful one. I have a whole pack of these gorgeous Coloured Doilies that I wanted to needed to stop hoarding and start using. The inspiration for this card was the Coastal Cabana Doily. I started by cutting one in half and adding bits and pieces until I was happy. A layer of Coastal Cabana card has been used to break up the white layers and coordinate with the doily.

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The sentiment from Follow Your Dreams stamp set has been adhered with foam strips for lots of height. To finish the card, a few Grapefruit Grove Faceted Dots have been added.

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The last card was fairly quick and simple and probably my favourite of the four. The card front is a piece of whisper white card ripped on an angle and stamped with the sentiment from Floral Frames. A piece of Sahara Sand card was embossed with the Pinewood Planks embossing folder and adhered to the whisper white card base with Tombow.

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The two flowers from First Frost stamp set were inked in Berry Burst and Melon Mambo. The rest of the images have been stamped in Soft Sea Foam and Memento Tuxedo inks. The floral elements were adhered to a banner created from Sahara Sand card with dimensionals. To finish the card some Linen Twine was added and a few Share What You Love Artisan Pearls.

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The Gift Box is a fantastic size, this one holds a mini tea cup candle and its saucer with room for some choccies around the sides.

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Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to follow the hop all the way through for some creative and inspiring ideas using the Stitched All Around Bundle. A participant list has been provided below, just in case there are any hiccups along the Blog Hop journey.

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


Friday 12 October 2018

Tags & Tidings Gift Tags 11 & 12

Good Day Crafty Friends,

I have the close ups of the final two designs of from my collection of Christmas Tags created with the Tags & Tidings stamp set, to share with you today.


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These designs are little 2"x 2" square note cards and have been kept clean and simple with some texture added to the card fronts with embossing folders. Just some hints of Silver have been added with Silver Foil and Silver Glimmer card stock and Silver Edged ribbon.

Design 11
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Design 12

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Below is a product list with all the items used to create these tags. Click on the product images below to be taken to my Online Store.



Product List
Big Shot
[143263]
$159.00
Heat Tool
[129056]
$50.00