Colour INKspiration CI#17 Blog Hop - Beachy Little Christmas

Hello Crafty Friends,

Welcome to the Colour INKspiration #17 Blog Hop. You are visiting Jackie.  If you are following the blog hop, you would have arrived here from the amazingly talented Bronwyn Eastley. How fantastic is her gorgeous card!

I am so super excited to be taking part in this blog hop as Guest Designer with the talented Colour INKspiration Crew.  Tanya has chosen this weeks inspirational image and stunning colour combination of Flirty Flamingo, Pool Party, Lemon Lime Twist and Tempting Turquoise.

Don't you just love those colours!!  Such a bright and fun colour combination. It instantly made me think of summer - sun loungers, beach towels, beach umbrella's and music festivals. Fun, Fun, Fun! So with that in mind I decided to create a beach themed Christmas card. This is what I came up with, Santa on Boxing Day at the Beach. Watch your toe's, Santa!

I have created a card in a box with the front and side flaps removed. The front of the box has an additional panel  added to create an underwater scene. The panel has an acetate window and was created using the shells and crab images from the Beachy Little Christmas stamp set. They, along with the Palm Trees and Beach Huts, were watercoloured using the fun challenge colours. 

The seaweed are die cuts made using the Eclectic Layering Thinlits. A layer of vellum was cut using the scallop edge thinlit in the Colourful Seasons bundle. The Pool Party background has been embossed using the Softly Falling Embossing Folder.

The Pool Party and Tempting Turquoise waves inside the card, have also been cut using the scalloped edged Thinlit from Colourful Seasons. Santa was stamped in Black Momento and Flirty Flamingo inks and then cut on a slight angle.  The bottom half has been placed under the window sheet on the front panel and the top half has been adhered to the back of the front panel.

A few rhinestone jewels have been added to the Beach Shack door handles and a couple tucked into the sand in the window panel. I used the sentiment "Happy Holidays" from the Fesitve Phrases stamp set ( its the one the Elf is holding, I have cut away the Elf parts carefully and used them to hold the greeting on the back of the card) See Below

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.

Hope you join us and play along.  Up next in the blog hop is the super talented Nikki Spencer and her stunning creation. Enjoy!

Thanks so much for visiting, until next time, stay awesome

Just Add Ink #373 - Just Add Stencils

Hello Crafty Friends,

Hope your day is going well.  Guess what..... It's challenge time over at Just Add Ink. Yipeeeeee!!! This weeks challenge was a fun one for me, I ended up making four totally different cards using the challenge theme - Just Add a Stencil. That's why I love participating in challenges. They encourage me to create outside my comfort zone.

If you don't have a stencil to play along with this weeks challenge, you could always make one. Just use some die's, or punches, to cut shapes from acetate or similar plastic and voila - your very own stencil.

I love stencils and find them fun and easy ways to create unique backgrounds. I chose to use the brick wall stencil from the Pattern Party Decorative Masks.

 

Using Sahara Sand ink, I partially sponged a portion of the whisper white background. I also sponged the Sahara Sand Stitched Oval, so that the brick wall sponging lined up with the background.

The little church has been made using the Hometown Greetings Edgelits. I cut the church away from the rest of the die cut and heat embossed it in gold.  (You could just die cut the church from Gold Foil) 

 

 

The flowers were cut using the Eclectic Layers Thinlits, in Powder Pink, Vellum and Sahara Sand card. A delicate lace doily was tucked behind the Stitched Oval.

 

 

The card front was adhered to a layer of Old Olive, then some linen thread was wrapped around before mounting to fun foam for extra dimension. This was then adhered to the Sahara Sand card base.

The sentiment from Festive Phrases,  was stamped with Crumb Cake ink directly onto the card front.  A linen thread bow and a few rhinestones were added to finish off this rustic wedding card. It is now in the post making its way to rural Queensland for a country themed celebration.

The Just Add Ink Design Team have created some absolutely beautiful projects using this weeks challenge. Make sure to check them out - great inspiration for using stencils and all round stunning cards. Why not join us and play along?!

 

Until next time, stay awesome