Christmas Celebration - Just Add Ink Challenge #775

Welcome back to another Just Add Ink challenge! This time around we're challenged to...

Can I interest anyone in an Elf Cocktail or Clausmopolitan?

Looks like a great way to celebrate! I don't think I can even remember the last time I had a cocktail of any kind, though I did have a mocktail when seeing Wicked: For Good recently, which was delicious. The green elf cocktail is witchy enough to pass for Elphaba, don't you think? (It is made from a Halloween set, after all, lol)

I did some white-on-white heat embossing on my background for added interest, coloured all the bits with distress inks and just layered everything up. Tons of fun!

Materials used:

• stamps - Christmas background (My Favorite Things), Overlapping Merry Additions (Waffle Flower)
• dies -  Olive Martinis, Christmas Cocktails, Boos Cocktails (all Spellbinders)
• distress inks - lumberjack plaid, aged mahogany, mowed lawn, rustic wilderness
• other - Dimensionals, MISTI, white embossing powder, heat tool, blending brushes, clear acrylic dots, craft foam

With so many kinds of celebration, we hope you'll have the chance to create and join our challenge. There's plenty more samples to see from my team mates over on the Just Add Ink blog.

Entering in the Christmas Kickstart challenge #105 and the Paper Players challenge #766 (left vertical row of white, Christmas and die cuts).

  

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry

Shake It Up on your Birthday! - Just Add Ink Challenge #751

Welcome! This week the challenge at Just Add Ink is to...

I made a birthday cocktail shaker.

The cocktail glass is made up of 6 layers, 4 of them for height as the die was too thin to use dimensional tape. For the background I already had an embossed piece on hand, so I sprayed it with oxides then once dry, ran a white pigment ink pad over random areas and distressed the edges. 

Materials used:

• dies - Olive Martinis, Christmas Cocktails (Spellbinders)
• Betterpress plate and die set - Cheers Sentiments (Spellbinders)
• distress inks - salvaged patina, peacock feathers
• distress oxide sprays - salvaged patina, kitsch flamingo, saltwater taffy
• other - Big Shot, sea level Sparkletz (Buttons Galore & More), glacier jewels (Pinkfresh), craft foam, acetate transparency, distressed tile 3D embossing folder (Stampin' Up), distressing tool

Check out more shaker cards over on the Just Add Ink blog and share your own creations in our gallery.

I'm entering this in the current Festive Friday challenge, with my picks being something shiny (silver foil card used for the glass and mat plus some gems), acetate window (for the shaker part), glass, drink themed sentiment. 

Thanks for dropping in.

Cheers

Kerry

The Card Concept Challenge - Fresh New Year

Hello and welcome! I hope you enjoyed a happy festive season. Are you psyched for a whole new year? While it did have its occasional good points, I, for one, am very glad to see the back of 2021. Two stars out of ten, do not recommend. But at least finally, after months of planning and preparation, I am now happily ensconced in my new abode and thoroughly enjoying being back crafting, so let's get right to it!  

For challenge #166, our theme is Fresh New Year and hopefully you'll find something here to inspire you to create.

Pink champagne anyone? I just love the beautiful colours of black, white, pink and gold so used those on my simple layered card and was also inspired by the striped table covering to use clean bold lines and text. 

Of course I added some sparkle to the bubbly but it's too overcast today for it to show in the photos. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Celebration (Darkroom Door), Christmastime 2 (Tim Holtz)
• card - basic white, basic black, brushed gold
• distress oxide inks - black soot, kitsch flamingo
• other - blending brush, clear Wink of Stella, tiny rhinestones, MISTI, craft foam, Dimensionals, clear embossing powder, heat tool

My fellow team mates have plenty of new year goodness to share, so do pop over to the Card Concept blog and have a look at their creations. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry