AddINKtive Designs - November - Pocket Card

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Hope you are having a fabulous day. I have a slightly different version of my Pocket Card to share with you all today. The base has been constructed using the Envelope Punch Board, just with the top chopped off slightly, creating a squarish version.

The front of the Pocket Card has been decorated to resemble a picket fence covered with flowers. The little fence was created using strips of whisper white card.

The Whisper White insert has had the top portion die cut using the Detailed Floral Thinlits. This panel was then adhered to another piece of Whisper White card exactly the same size and then the outer edge thinlit was used to cut both pieces.

The insert was then stamped with the sentiment from Stitched All Around stamp set in Highland Heather ink to coordinate with the flower adhered to the top left.

The Granny Apple Green die cut foliage has been created with the Petals and More Thinlits. The large die was cut twice and then snipped in several places to spread the pieces over the fence. All the flowers have been adhered with mini dimensionals.

This little pocket card has been created for someone who adores gardening and yes she has a white picket fence covered in Flowers. She also adores anything Watermelon related so I decided to include a handmade soap I created. 

I am totally addicted to Soap Making and am loving the challenge of coordinating my soapy creations with my paper, stamp and ink projects. I have been working with both natural and synthetic colourants to match the Stampin' Up! colour families and came super close to Granny Apple Green and a shade in between Flirty Flamingo and Melon Mambo for the Watermelon Soap Loaf.

How is your Festive Season preparations going? I ask because my next task after publishing this post is drag the Christmas decorations and Trees out. Is your tree up yet? Can you come and do mine lol. At least I can say my Christmas Card stash is almost ready for posting - yipeeeee! I will post photos of my loud, bright and Flamingo inspired Christmas decorations soon x

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

Just Add Ink #424 - Texture - Signs of Santa

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to this weeks Just Add Ink Challenge - Just Add Texture.

I wanted to ink up a new stamp set that just arrived in Crafty HQ - Signs of Santa. I love Christmas but not a huge fan of traditional colours and thought lets see what this stamp set looks like coloured with a palette more up my alley - highland heather, coastal cabana and granny apple green.

Look at those busy little elves. The background has been sponged using Flirty Flamingo and Melon Mambo inks and once dry, whie shimmer paint was dabbed using a scrunched up piece of plastic. The shimmer paint looks ah-mazing in real life, catching the light, it has a striking pearly but opaque glimmer. 

The snowy ground is a piece of whisper white card that I have cut with scissors in a curvy hill shape. The texture is a thick layer of dazzling diamonds applied with Tombow Multipurpose Adhesive.  Left to dry overnight, the cardstock becomes hard and the dazzling diamonds firmly stuck leaving a sparkling, textural layer of glitteryness.

For a tad more texture, a few white glimmer card die cut snowflakes were added. These were created using the Seasonal Layers Thinlits. All the images were stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured using Stampin' Blends. To finish the card, the sentiment from First Frost was stamped in the centre.

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.

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