Just Add Ink #479 Colour Combination

Hello Crafty Friends

Welcome to Just Add Ink Challenge #479. This week we are playing with a fabulously pretty colour combination: Coastal Cabana, Pear Pizzaz and Whisper White.

I must confess this is not the card I originally created for this challenge.....that card is possibly in the post! Yep, its gone and no photo's were taken.......so I quickly whipped up this clean and simple creation using left over bits n pieces that didn't make it onto other projects.

At this time of year the majority of my paper crafting projects are Christmas themed. With loads of unused die cuts floating around my workspace, I decided to add the challenge colours to a few and chuck them together for this non traditional Christmas Wreath with a summery floral touch.

Pear Pizzaz ink has been applied to the wreath using an Aqua Painter. I did the same to the "tis the Season" die cut with Coastal Cabana ink, applying more ink to the bottom of the die cut to create an ombre effect.  The die cut started to "bend" a little so I dried it with a heat tool and ran it through the big shot using the "Subtle" embossing folder to flatten it out.

The flowers from Free As A Bird Stamp set have been stamped in Staz On and then coloured with Coastal Cabana ink.  Once dry, I curled them a little and then attached to the wreath. Before adhering the die cut sentiment to the wreath I attached a vellum circle.

I have embossed the Whisper White card front using the Mosaic 3D Embossing Folder, attached strips of Coastal Cabana card to the top and bottom and then adhered it to the card base which has a strip of Pear Pizzaz DSP along the bottom.

To finish the card I added a few bluish coloured sequins and then quickly ran downstairs and photographed it for this blog post before I lost this one too! Lol

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.

Just Add Ink #471 - Inspiration

Hellllooooo Crafty Friends,

Hope you are having a great day. I am happy to be back in the craft room after taking a break from all things crafty and blogging this month. And just in time too, with a new Holiday Catalogue packed full of delightfulness and boxes of goodies being delivered to my door, I was super excited to get in and get crafting.

This weeks Just Add Ink Inspiration Challenge has the most gorgeous colour palette which I found to be the perfect starting point after my little hiatus. I love the ombre colours and decided to use these for this week's creation.

Using an Aqua Painter, I applied Pretty Peacock, Seaside Spray, Purple Posy, Gorgeous Grape and Rich Razzleberry inks to Shimmery White card stock. Once dry this was die cut using a Stitched Rectangle die as was the Black and White striped DSP that has been tucked behind.

Silver Glimmer Paper sits behind the Whisper White card front which has been adhered to the card base using dimensionals.

Black die cut trees created with the new Snow Globe Scene Dies and white heat embossed sentiments kept the card front nice and simple. A few coordinating coloured sequins were added to a couple of the water coloured panels, silver metallic thread was tucked behind the die cut trees and viola my creation is done.

That's all for today, crafty friends. Be sure to stop by all the Just Add Ink Design Team members blogs for more inspiration using this weeks Just Add Inspiration Challenge.

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.

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.

Just Add Ink #459 Colour Combo

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenge #459.  We have a delightful colour combination for you to play along with - Blushing Bride, Poppy Parade, Coastal Cabana and Bermuda Bay.

I am not a big user of any forms of red tones - think it has something to do with the wool jumper that was part of my high school uniform lol so I found this colour combination particularly difficult. I have discovered if I dislike a colour my opinion of an entire project is affected.

However, after playing around with my ink pads, I discovered the four colours went well together, and having a light and dark of the same colour actually made it perfect for flowers. I decided to use the Daisy Lane Stamp Set that was given to attendees at Onstage in April to create a clean and simple card.

The flowers were stamped in the challenge colours and fussy cut. To an embossed card front, I adhered the fussy cut flowers in circle with dimensionals. A small sentiment and pink and white bakers twine was added as it was just a tad to simple for my liking, and then at the very last minute I remembered I have loads of embellishments that are retiring next week that I need to use, so added a couple of sequins.

Now, I did create another card, which was created first, but the poppy parade ink is only visible on the inside of the card so thought I better be a good girl and make a card that features all the challenge colours on the front of the card.

I used the same images from the Daisy Lane stamp set as used in the card shown above, which will be available to purchase with the release of the new 2019-2020 Annual Catalogue from June 4th. I love stitching detail and had the die cut heart left over from another project that I thought worked wonderfully behind the flowers. A few pearl embellishments were added as I think they look smashing against the Sahara Sand card front and almost matches the polka dots in the ribbon.

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.

Just Add Ink #449 - Add Colour

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to this week's Just Add Ink challenge. Jo has chosen a stunning colour combination for this week's theme - Lovely Lipstick, Gorgeous Grape and Bermuda Bay. 

I am a fan of all three colours individually but when it came to combining them I really struggled. My Lovely Lipstick ink pad was way too juicy for the stamps I originally chose to use for this challenge. After many binned attempts I decided to go with something completely different - lots of white space with dabs of colour.

I had some embossing paste left over from my recent Technique's workshop, and before it dried up on me like my last lot, I decided to emboss a heap of Whisper White card fronts. 

I have used the large Doily die cut from the Dear Doily Bundle to create a stencil for this card, spreading plain white embossing paste over the inner portion of the die cut. Once dry, I chopped the card front down and slipped in some striped Bermuda Bay DSP - lined with a strip of Gorgeous Grape before adhering to the card base.

A stitched die cut circle has been attached with foam strips over the embossing paste and then the floral cluster image from Climbing Roses and heat embossed sentiment added to the raised circle die cut with Tombow Multi Purpose Adhesive.

While I had things out on my desk, I grabbed another embossed card front and added the pieces that didn't make it onto the first card. The brick wall stencil was used to create this card front, to which, strips of Bermuda Bay and Gorgeous Grape DSP have been added. I just adore these paper packs and really need to get more in case they don't make the next Annual Catalogue.

A few Gorgeous Grape Glitter Enamel Dots have been added to finish off the card. I am on a Birthday Card making mission this year, so have stamped the inside with a Birthday sentiment making this card 88/200. I am close to my target of 100 before June. I just need to be sure to send some before I donate them all lol.

That's all for today, crafty friends. Be sure to stop by all the Just Add Ink Design Team members blogs for more inspiration using this weeks Just Add Ink embossing challenge theme.

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.

Colour INKspiration #50

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to the Colour INKspiration Challenge #50 Blog Hop. I am so excited as this is the first Colour INKspiration challenge for me in a few months and there are loads of new and awesome changes since I last hopped. New Design Team members - yipeeee! The more talented faces the merrier I say! And thanks to our very amazing DT crew member Rose, we have a new look with a gorgeous colourful banner and new watermarks. Thanks, Rose!!

This fortnight we have an absolutely gorgeous inspiration picture and colour combination for you to play along with - Blueberry Bushel, Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana, Sahara Sand and Mango Melody. 

When I first glanced at these colours I was a little stumped as to what stamp set I should use as so many in my collection are floral and none were speaking to me when I browsed the shelves for some inspiration. I decided to revert to card stock which I often do when playing along with colour challenges. Panels of Blueberry Bushel, Bermuda Bay, Sahara Sand and Mango Melody card stock have been adhered to a whisper white card front which was then adhered to a tent fold Thick Whisper White card base.

Once I had the card front sorted, I decided I would ink up a florally type stamp set after all! Today's card features the stunning Needle & Thread Stamp Set and coordinating framelit dies. I just adore the realistic embroidery images this stamp set produces and couldn't wait to get it inky again for this challenge.

The Needlepoint Elements Framelit Dies has a gorgeous embossing die, which I have used over the four coloured panels for an added bit of interest before adhering the clustered stamped elements.

The images from the Needle & Thread Stamp Set have been stamped in Coastal Cabana, Blueberry Bushel, and Mango Melody inks and adhered to the card front with mini dimensionals and foam strips. I personally think a slight variation in height of the stamped images provides added interest to this fairly clean and simple design. 

To finish the card a few Coastal Cabana Glitter Enamel Dots have been added plus a little Silver/Whisper White Bakers Twine bow just below the white heat embossed "Thank You".  Nothing too bold or distracting, just something to draw the eye to the embossed detail on the card front and the sentiment.

That is all from me today and I am the lucky last hopper in today's Blog Hop. 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. You can also use Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Basic Black as well as Metallic s. 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.

If you have missed any of the creative and inspirational idea's shared in today's hop, be sure to head back to the beginning and start with Rebecca Scurr by clicking on the next button below.

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

You can find all the products used to create the card shared in today's post in the product list below. If you live in Australia, you can click on the images to be taken directly to my online store. Happy Shopping x

Product List

Needle & Thread Photopolymer Stamp Set [148724] $37.00	Needlepoint Elements Framelits Dies [148541] $52.00
Big Shot [143263] $159.00	Heat Tool [129056] $50.00
White Stampin' Emboss Powder [109132] $8.75	Versamark Pad [102283] $15.75
Stamparatus [148187] $85.00	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock [140490] $13.50
Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay [131286] $14.75	Sahara Sand A4 Card Stock [121695] $14.75
Mango Melody A4 Cardstock [147013] $14.75	Blueberry Bushel A4 Cardstock [146991] $14.75
Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad [147097] $13.00	Mango Melody Classic Stampin' Pad [147093] $13.00
Blueberry Bushel Classic Stampin' Pad [147138] $13.00	Glitter Enamel Dots [146934] $12.25
Silver Baker’S Twine [145569] $7.00