Just Add Ink #309 - Inspiration picture

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Happy Friday!

We're just about to start our second long weekend in a row - woohoo!
Last weekend we went camping and had a blast but this weekend we'll be doing a whole lot of relaxing :)   What are your plans for the weekend?

Anywho back to the reason we are here - it's Just Add Ink challenge time.
This week we have a lovely inspiration photo which is at the bottom of my post.

I took things quite literally and created the same grey background, included some chevrons and used the same colours.

I added a layer of vellum which I white embossed onto.  I think this helped make my background of splatters and chevrons quite crisp!


There are quite a few elements in this photo that you could use for inspiration so please link up your card here so I (and the other design team members) can check it out :)

I hope you have a wonderful weekend no matter what you get up too!!

Just Add Ink #307 - Colour combo

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Hello and happy Friday to you all!

We've got a very cool colour combo challenge for you at Just Add Ink this week.

The colours are Delightful Djon, Basic Grey, Smokey Slate and Whisper White!

Well I think summer is over and Autumn is setting in.... it's the coolest day we've had here in Brisbane in a long time! I've finally got a scarf on!

It's been a fairly non eventful week this week so it's been a great time to get my craft on :)



Normally I would have placed my flowers over to the left hand side of this oval however I thought it might make a nice change to put them right in the centre.

There is actually a surprising amount of bling on this card, it's all just very subtle.

I've used wink of stella on the main flower, a splatter of white frost ink in the background and then a few little sequins thrown in! 

Here's the colour combo - 

I hope you find time this week to play along and if you need some inspiration please don't forget to have a look at all the beautiful cards the design team have created on the blog here.

Just Add Ink #305 - Sketch challenge

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We've got a great sketch challenge at Just Add Ink this week!!!

We'd really love to see how you use the sketch and just in case you need a little inspiration, pop over to the Just Add Ink blog and check out what the other design team members have created :)

This is my card -

I've created an open front on my card with the sentiment in the middle which is visible from the front.

The 3 panels of the Birthday Bouquet DSP hold the front of two pieces of the card together.

I really love this DSP!
I find it hard to use it because I want to keep it forever but I've got loads of DSP that I've kept for 'the perfect occasion' and then never used it - any one else do the same??


Here's the sketch for this week -

I hope you all had a lovely break over Easter and you are now refreshed and ready to get crafty!!!

Just Add Ink #303 - Just add E

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This week at Just Add Ink we have an interesting challenge - just add E!
That could be anything that starts with the letter E.... sooooo many possibilities :)


I've gone with the obvious choice for this time of year and added an Easter sentiment to this card.

I've picked an Autumn colour combo of yellow, red and orange for my flowers :)

The sentiment is stamped in a gold!
I really like the layout of this card and think I might make a few more but with a birthday sentiment instead.

It would be super awesome to see what E you add to your card, so don't forget to link up here.


Hope you have a happy Friday.
xo


P.S. BIG shout out to my BFF - I hope you have a wonderful weekend xox

Just Add Ink #301 - just add numbers

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It's challenge day at Just Add Ink and this week we are asking you to add numbers to your creation!!!

To me this challenge was fairly easy at first glance however I wanted to create an extra special card for this this extra special birthday so my card took a little bit of planning and a bit more time than I originally thought.

I wanted the colours to be soft and sweet so I thought this DSP would be perfect.

So to make this an extra special card I decided to make a fancy fold 'lever' card.  I've only ever seen lever cards with a square front so I decided to change it up a little and make a circle instead.

I'm pretty happy with the way it's turned out and the only thing I think I'd change is to add a little more colour to the inside with perhaps a coloured piece of cardstock.

Hopefully the birthday girl will like it :)

You should see the other 'number' creations the design team have come up with and then link up yours here!

Happy crafting.