Just Add Ink #691

Hey Everyone

It’s Friday here in Australia, so that means a new challenge at Just Add Ink. This week our challenge is

Stampin’ Up! DSPs are not only for using in the background, they also have pretty images ready to be fussy cut and placed on your projects.

The bird images I’ve fussy cut are from the Flight and Airy DSP. I inked up some leaves from the Gorgeously Made Stamp Set and cut them out. I then took the script background stamp and stamped it randomly in the background. Over this, I took a blending brush and Balmy Blue Ink and shaded over the stamped area.

Because I had a die cut leaf from the Gorgeously Made Dies, I added this also. Nothing like having a full background to my card.

The team at Just Add Ink have created awesome projects, so make sure you head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #614

Hey Everyone

Welcome to our newest sketch for you to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is our fabulous friend and even more fabulous walker Jennifer Brum. Take a look at her really cool sketch filled with circles!

I saw this sketch and thought who is this Jen and what has overcome her with sooooo many circles? She originally started off as not a fan of circle and this sketch doesn’t have a few circles, it has 100 circles!

I decided to replicate the background (sort of) by taking some circle dies and tracing around the centre of them, They felt a little clean, so I took a Watercolor Pencil and added shading to each of them,

I then stamped up some butterflies from the Night of Flight Stamp Set. These butterflies were coloured with all of my yellow blends an fussy cut out. I then stamped up some leaves from the Gorgeously Made Stamp Set and they were also fussy cut out.

The background got a little ink flicked over the circles and some strips of cardstock were added under the sentiment.

The design team have created awesome cards with her sketch. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Just Add Ink #674

Hey Everyone

Our latest challenge at Just Add Ink, is for you to create a project using the following colours:

I didn’t know how much I would love this colour combo until i started creating my card. Usually when I have 4 colours that I don’t know how to combine, i keep a mostly white card and add touches of the colours. But this time, I found it really easy to layer/combine these colours.

I think the Night of Flight Stamp Set and the Gorgeously Made Stamp Set/Dies were made for each other. I stamped my butterflies with Black Memento Ink and coloured the butterflies with a combination of Fresh Freesia, Berry Burst and Pretty Peacock Blends. I then took the retired White Gel Pen and added highlights on my butterflies. They were then fussy cut out.

I took a piece of Basic White Cardstock and diecut the edge of it with the book edge die. To this piece, I then placed it on my trimmer and scored lines into the cardstock. I then took the Light Basic Blend and flicked ink on to it from the Light Basic Black Blend.

I embossed the Pretty Peacock Cardstock to add more texture and roughed up all the edges of each piece of cardstock to give a vintage-y feel.

To add gold to my card, I took a leafy die from the Gorgeously Made Dies and cut two of them. To create length to my gold foil leaf, I cut two of them and joined them together. The join of them has been hidden by the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Global Design Project #412

Hey Everyone

It’s CASE The Designer Challenge at Global Design Project. The gorgeous card we got to CASE is the following gorgeous one from Wilma:

I recently purchased the Autumn Leaves Stamp Set and Autumn Leaves Dies and I thought it work really well with a similar layout to Wilma’s.

I stamped the large leaf from the stamp set, after adding colour with markers, on to Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper. I then added Garden Green and Cinnamon Cider Ink to to the paper and diecut out the smaller leaves with dies.

for the background cardstock, I took the lined dot impression die and embossed the top right hand side and bottom left hand side. I then took Garden Green Ink and a Blending Brush and added colour to each corner. I wasn’t finished there, I added the script stamp from the Gorgeously Made Stamp Set and added stamped it a couple of times so you could see it peaking from under my layers.

I added a diecut label from the Autumn Dies Dies as well as some twig diecuts. I layered my leaves around the label diecut and added a ribbon holder and twine to the side of the card.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #602

Hey Everyone

It’s time for a new sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch designer is Kim Singdahlsen. Kim’s creation are always amazing and I love her attention to detail.

My card features butterflies from the Night of Flight Stamp Set. I am loving these butterflies as they are perfect for colouring and seem to be my go-to at the moment for layering on cards. I just love their artwork!

I’ve given them colour with my Tahitian Tide and Smoky Slate Blends. I then fussy cut them out. I had some leafy diecuts sitting on my desk, so I decided to add them to the card. The set these diecuts are from is called Textured Floral Dies.

I diecut the edge of a piece of Smoky Slate Cardstock with the notebook edge die from the Gorgeously Made Dies and added it under the Basic White Cardstock. On this cardstock I stamped the script stamp from the Gorgeously Made Stamp Set. I added an embossed piece of Pebbled Pathy Cardstock and an offcut piece of Basic Black Cardstock.

An embossed sentiment on Basic Black Cardstock was added as well as some Simply Elegant Trim and some Basic Rhinestones.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Just Add Ink #666

Hey Everyone

It’s time for a new challenge at Just Add Ink. This week is inspiration picture challenge. Have a look at the fab pic we have for you to play along with:

From the inspiration pic, I took the colours as well as flight. I took the following colours – turquoise, pink, black and white.

The flight of my butterflies were taken from the skier. The pretty butterflies I’ve used are from the Night of Flight Stamp Set.

I used the background script stamp from the Gorgeously Made Stamp Set and diecuts from the matching die set.

The team at Just Add Ink have created awesome inspiration for you. Make sure you head over to Just Add Ink and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Global Design Project #405

Hey Everyone

Love my weekends when I can craft, this weekend wasn’t one of them. I did however manage to get one card made. I created this card for the latest colour challenge at Global Design Project.

The card I created features butterflies from the Night of Flight Stamp Set combined with leaves from the Gorgeously Made Stamp Set. The leaves were stamped in Wild Wheat and fussy cut out. The butterflies were shaded with my Wild Wheat and Pebbled Path Blends.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #595

Hey Everyone

We have a new sketch for you all to play along with over at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is the wonderfully talented Amy O’Neill. Make sure you head over to her blog and see her stunning creations.

I’ve found the combo of Wild Wheat and Basic Black is quite striking, so I’ve used this for my card today.Suppose any colour with black comes across as striking.

I’ve used products from the Gorgeously Made Bundle. Really loving the background script stamp.You will probably see it feature on a lot of my cards.

Make sure you check out all the design team cards by heading over to Freshly Made Sketches.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle