JAI 166 Colour Challenge

This fortnight sees a colour challenge from me ..for Just Add Ink and I had a hard time making my card with it lol ..I guess its because I have NO time to sit and create at the moment. Anyway, heres the colour combo

and heres the card I came up with using these colours. The stamping over the 19 is using the Epic Day rotary stamp. The paper is from the Print Poetry paper stack (mini). The window framelit is all up on dimensionals. Do go and check out what the rest of the design team have come up with. We hope to see lots of SU demos next week at the SU South Pacific Convention..cant wait to go! Have swaps, classes, trainings and last minute things to do before then ..not to mention work my day job and sleep!

No rest for the wicked thats for sure!

 

JAI Scrap # 17

Weve had a wild night overnight with a huge thunder and lightning really really really close by …resulting in no power..really! lol

Anyway all good now and lovely fine day to scrap the day away ..or maybe I should be doing housework..nah!

This months scrapbooking challenge is courtesy of Ruthy who gave us this photo for our inspiration

 

Heres what I came up with. I have used the fun flowers die to make most of my flowers using a few techniques, our new crepe paper and canvas sheet.  Love both of these items and have just ordered some more for a class or two to teach this LO.

Heres a close up.

I have a hidden journalling tag behind the photos which is in a little ripped pocket.  The Chipboard letters are from my stash but everything else is SU. This Layout is actually about my teenage daughters mood swings. Thankfully these seem to be happening less and less now! (big grin!)

Do hope you can join us this month ..check out what Ruthy and Tina have done here.

JAI 164 Sketch Challenge

Yep been a bit quiet around here .. my mojo went awol for a bit but hopefully its back now thanks to our Just Add Ink sketch Challenge this week courtesy of Mae. Heres the sketch

and this is what I came up with using Pretty in Pink, Real Red and Crumb Cake.

 

The stamp set is Secret Garden which has a matching framelit!

Hope you come and play with our challenge this week!

 

JAI Scrap #16- Just Add Siblings

Hmmm.. March came and went in a hurry didnt it? So Aprils here and this months scrapbooking theme at Just Add Ink is to just add siblings. My kids no longer want to have their photo together (being teens) so I had to resort to scrapping my hubby and his brother..which is really good to do actually! Its not often I get to scrap photos of Hubby!

Ive been playing around with MDS lately and using it mainly for my blog and facebook headers but Ive had a little play with some LOs.

This one is a hybrid Layout which is digital and traditional scrapping.

Basically what I did was use an 8×8 custom LO (just used several stamps digitally) in MDS and then printed it out and adhered it to Basic Black cardstock . Added the button, bakers twine, stamp (brother) and the mini brads. You cant quite see that Ive mitred the corners.  The one below you can.  So hope you have a go with our challenge this week. You can scrap traditionally as always or if digi is your thing then lets see those entries too!

 

JAI 160 Inspirational Photo Challenge

This week we have an inspirational photo challenge that Trish found for us.

Lots of ways you could use this..colour, coffee, knitting, grass and nature..to name a few!

Heres what I came up with.

Bad lighting on this one as it was raining (yay for the rain as we need it). I embossed the very vanilla and crumb cake piece and then decided to use my new stamp set (Countryside) and watercoloured the wheelbarrow.

So hope you play along with us at JAI this week. Do go and check out what the other design team girls have come up with here

Have a lovely weekend!

 

JAI 158 Sketch Challenge

This week at Just add Ink we have a sketch challenge courtesy of Mae.

and this is what I came up with using the crepe paper out of our seasonal mini catalogue and Tea Time DSP.

 

 

I need to make lots of thank you cards at the moment for all the wonderful helpers I had at my Creative Escape Retreat in Ohope. So Id better get going on them today while I have the day off work! Yay for  a day of crafting!

 

JAI Scrap #15 Sketch Challenge

Phew just found my SD memory card for my camera ..had taken it out for printing and then didnt put it back in. Anyway here is my LO for this months challenge over at Just Add Ink. This months challenge is from Tina who gave us this sketch to work with..

Here is what I came up with ..as per usual my daughter is my subject for this one!

I’m not sure if you can see but I used my mat pack on the journalling doily to give me some lines to write.  Paper is Tea Time DSP and Ive used doilies, artisan kit lace, mini brads, lucky limeade bakers twine, rhinetones, Typeset alpha dies, mat pack  and stamp set is For my family.

Hope you all come and play with us this month using this fabulous sketch from Tina!

JAI 156 Colour Challenge

Hi ..this week at Just Add Ink, we have a colour challenge courtesy of Christine and what a challenge it was for me this week! Everything I did ended up in the bin..just one of those weeks ya know!! If anyone’s seen my mojo please send it back home! Here’s the colour combo

Anyway,  this is what I came up with finally..not that happy about it but haven’t got time to redo. I think the doily would have been better opened out and under the framelits but Id already stuck it down with glue! Sigh..never mind!

 

Do check out the gorgeous creations of the other Design Team girls here

Have a good week!

 

JAI 152 – Just Add Hearts

Well this close to Valentines ..and its a chance to bust out those heart stamps and give us a card, box or Layout with some hearts on it!

I’m not much into Valentines myself but instead, I used this for a friend who has had a major health scare this past fortnight. Its frightening how quickly one minute you are fine and the next minute you are facing major surgery and major recovery!

So this card is for Kirsty..may you recover well!

For this card I used the Real red Coredination CS, More Amore DSP (heart), My Little Valentine paper (I used the envelope), Artisan embellishment kit (doily heart and lace) and The Honeycomb Embossing Folder. Stamp sets: A little Greeting, Hearts a flutter (Occasions Mini) and Patterned Occasions (SAB set)

Get well soon Kirsty!

Do check out what the other girls have done on the Just Add Ink Design Team here  and hope you join us this week!

JAI Scrap #14 Lace and Ephemera

Now this challenge is right up my alley as love using lace and ephemera on my LOs..just didn’t have a lot of time this week to do this challenge justice! My daughter just loves it to bits really so that makes it all worthwhile!  Ive used our new pool party Coredination cardstock for my base and got a bit carried away with sanding it back lol. The edges were distressed too (cropped out) with our new distressing tool. Ive used a few items from the Artisan Embellishment kit here along with More Amore specialty paper, lace tape, Hung up paper clips and our pink pirouette two toned ribbon. I got a kiss and a hug when my Daughter read the journalling ..which I handwrote (shocking I know, for me, as I normally only computer journal as I hate my handwriting!)

Do check out what Tina and Ruthy have done for there challenge Layouts here and we hope you play along with us this month for our Just Add Ink scrapbooking challenge.