Be Inspired August Blog Hop

Hello Crafty Friends

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

I am a huge fan of embossing folders and adore how you can transform the look of an ordinary piece of card stock into something truly stunning that has texture, simply with one pass through my Big Shot machine. In saying that, I love heat embossing even more! I was hooked the very first time I heat embossed something and it still buzzes me out today. 

Today's card uses both types of embossing, - dry and heat. Starting with a Thick Whisper White card base, to this another layer of Whisper White which has been embossed using the Scripty 3D Embossing Folder. This is such a pretty and versatile Embossing Folder as sometimes I find patterns can be restricting. The cursive font is gorgeous and you can actually read the script!

Layers of Granny Apple Green and Coastal Cabana card stock have been adhered using Multipurpose Liquid Glue. The Shimmery White card front has been die cut using the Rectangle Stitched dies as were the Apple and Cabana layers. 

Using the leaf image, I have white heat embossed the Shimmery card stock and then given it a light wash of Coastal Cabana ink using an Aqua Painter. The stamped images have been coloured using Stampin' Blends, fussy cut and then adhered around the die cut sentiment with mini dimensionals. A couple of Artisan Pearl Embellishments were adhered to the centre of the flowers to finish the 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 super talented Cathy Caines.

Blog Hop Participant List

Louise Sharp

Nadine Hößrich

Tanya Rees

Monica Gale

Jackie Aitken - That's Me 

Cathy Caines

Brian King

Stesha Bloodhart

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.

Remarkable You Magnolia's

Good Day Crafty Friends    

It was Mother's Day here in Australia recently and I got to spend a few hours in my craft room creating.

One of the cards I completed during my "time out" uses the Magnolia flower image from the Remarkable You stamp set.

On Shimmery White card stock I stamped and masked the Magnolia's going up my card front on an angle. The images were stamped in Archival Black ink and coloured using an aqua painter with Powder Pink and Berry Burst inks.

I then lightly water coloured the remainder of the card front with Tempting Turquoise before fussy cutting around the top edge of the stamped flowers.

On a separate card base I stamped the sentiment then adhered the fussy cut card front with foam strips (I like these as they are higher than dimensionals and thin enough to fit into the fiddle cuts)

 

Hope you are inspired to get into your crafty space and try some masking and water colouring, or simply crafting and enjoying some "you time". Till next time, stay crafty x