Colour INKspiration #70 Birthdays

Hello Hello

Welcome to the first Colour INKspiration Challenge for 2020. To kick off the New Year and celebrate 3 years of Colour INKspiration Challenges we have a fun Birthday themed Blog Hop! And to spice things up a little more each Design Team member was able to chose three of their favourite colours to use in combination with the Birthday Theme for this Blog Hop.

My gorgeous friend and fellow Colour INKer, Leonie Stuart, chose this colour combination and seeing I loved it so much I decided to use it too - Thanks, Leonie xx

I have a couple of cards to share with you today. To achieve the majority of my chosen colour combination I have used cardstock scraps in Night of Navy and Melon Mambo.

The first card has a background made up of four strips of card stock, two each of Melon Mambo and Night of Navy. The floral bouquet image from the Bloom & Grow Stamp Set has been stamped in Night of Navy ink, fussy cut and adhered under the heat embossed sentiment.

The second card has a diagonally striped panel made from Melon Mambo and Night of Navy card stock. This panel was cut down and adhered to the Tile embossed card front. The image from Free As A Bird has been stamped in Night of Navy ink, fussy cut and then adhered over the striped panel with dimensionals.

I have used the sentiment "celebrate today" which is part of a kit called Kerchief and can be earned FREE with any AUD$90 purchase during Sale-a-bration.

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. This challenge runs for a month giving you up till the 10th of Feb to 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. 

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.

That is all from me today. Be sure to follow the Colour INKspiration Blog Hop all the way through for loads of inspiring ideas and projects using this fortnights Colour Combination. Up next in the Colour INKspiration Challenge #70 Blog Hop is the lovely Elizabeth Gross with her amazing creation.

Until next time, stay awesome and stay crafty

Full Blog Hop Participant List

1. Bronwyn Eastley

2. Patrice Easton

3. Nicole Wilson

4. Narelle Farrugia

5. Lou Kitzelman

6. Jackie Noble

7. Julia Quinn

8. Chloe Evans

9. Denita Wright-Smee

10. Kelly Kent

11. Vicki Boucher 

12. Jan Clothier  

13. Cathy Pinchbeck  

14. Leonie Stuart  

15. Nikki Spencer  

16. Rose Packer  

17. Tanya Bell  

18. Rebecca Scurr  

19. Monique Fielder  

20. Jackie Aitken

21. Elizabeth Gross

22. Rachel Palmieri

Be Inspired Blog Hop - Happy Mail

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to the Be Inspired Design Team Blog Hop for June. You are currently visiting Jackie Aitken in Western Australia. If you are following the hop, you may have arrived here having just visited Janneke de Jong. If you are just joining us, grab a comfy seat and be sure to hop all the way through for amazing idea's and inspiring projects shared by the Be Inspired Design Team using this month's theme HAPPY MAIL

I have a couple of projects to share with you today, a Folder card, Pillow Box and a mini Calendar Easel Card. 

All three Happy Mail items have been created using the same products with the Bloom n Grow stamped image being the major focal point. Stampin' Blends were used to colour the images with a few highlights added using a white gel pen.

Sticking to a blue and neutral toned colour combination, I decided to use the Seaside Spray 2019 In Colour DSP, swapping the DSP patterns for each project.  Folder Cards are simple to create, eliminate the need for an envelope and is a great way to showcase all the stunning DSP's Stampin' Up! have to offer in this years Annual Catalogue.

The inside of the card contains a stamped and die cut sentiment from the Forever Lovely Stamp set along with the stamped floral cluster image from Bloom n Grow, which has been cut in half and  tucked underneath.

When I was deciding what to create for this Hop I took inspiration from an item I was given at Auckland Onstage in April. I received the most amazing swaps at this event, one that really tickled my fancy was an Easel Calendar which I have on my desk. It was made by the super talented Nicola Duffield. You can find the little tear off monthly mini calendars on ebay.

To create the next item, I used one of the Kraft Pillow Boxes as a template. Gently undo a box and trace the box onto any coloured card stock using a pencil, then using snips, cut out the traced shape. Next, place pillow box over card stock and use a scoring tool to trace over the score lines. Fold score lines and glue together.  I chose to make this one from Sahara Sand to coordinate with the Calendar and Folder Card. 

That's it from me, crafty friends. Thanks so much for stopping by today. The Be Inspired Design Team appreciate the time you have invested to visit our blogs today, Thank You. Up next in this months Be Inspired Blog Hop is my super talented friend and fellow Artisan Design Team member, Manuela Geiswinkler.

Participant Blog List

Louise Sharp

Tanya Rees

Janneke de Jong

Jackie Aitken - that's Me!

Manuela Geiswinkler

Carolynn Sander

Brian King

Emma Goddard

Stesha Bloodhart

Until next time, stay awesome and stay crafty,

Just Add Ink #461 - Add Inspiration

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenge #461. We have a gorgeous inspiration picture for you to play along with. I love these kind of challenges as everyone interprets the picture so differently and the creations can be so varied.

To play along simply use the inspiration picture as your guide and go bonkers. I am often attracted to colour over anything else and before I even saw this was a street scene, I was immediately drawn to the yellow tones leaves on the trees.

My card uses a colour combination of Daffodil Delight, Soft Sea Foam and Smokey Slate. I did originally want to use Silver Foil as well but it didn't fit the look I was after for the final creation.

I haven't made this style or a floating frame card for months and wanted to show how the often overlooked little stamps can do a fabulous job with this technique. You just need press n seal and some patience lol.

The images from Bloom n Grow stamp set and Butterfly Gala were all stamped with Memento ink and coloured using Stampin' Blends. All images excluding the butterfly were fussy cut (I used the punch for the butterfly). I decided I wanted a more free flowing look over a framed look so left the layout as is. Once all the pieces were in place, I stamped the sentiment in the center and finished the card with a few pearl embellishments dotted between the die cuts.

That's all from me today, crafty friends. 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 creation 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 will upload it to our challenge entry blog for you.

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