Warm Wishes - Just Add Ink Challenge #776

It's time once again to Choose Two or More items to create with for the new Just Add Ink challenge.

I actually managed to incorporate all six options on my wintery Christmas card!

It occurred to me that snowmen would not want to hang their stockings by a fire (for obvious reasons, lol), so I figured they'd put them on the tree instead. Here are Chilly and Freezy doing just that. 

All the snow aspects - the ground, snowmen and snow on the tree - were given a  liberal spray with shimmer mist and I also used sparkle texture paste for the falling snow. Here's a better look at that shimmer:

Materials used:

• dies - stitched circle, Chilly and Freezy (Tim Holtz), Snowcapped tree (Waffle Flower), Fireside (Tim Holtz)
• other - blending brushes, shimmer mist, MISTI, foam squares, sparkle texture paste (Tim Holtz), Copic markers, distress inks, black rhinestones, speckles stencil (Tim Holtz), Big Shot, thick white bakers twine, Subsentiments Snow diecut (Waffle Flower)

I hope you'll pick two or more things from the list to create with and join our challenge. Check out the Just Add Ink blog to see which options my team mates chose.

Entering this card in the following challenges:

• Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge of Anything Christmas/Holidays
• Christmas Kickstart challenge of Anything Christmassy
• Double D challenges of Santa and/or Snowman
• The Four Seasons challenge of Anything Goes Winter

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

JAI #667 - Just Add a Sketch

Welcome to another challenge with Just Add Ink. This week we have a sketch to jet start your creativity.

Although we're at the tail end of winter now, I made my card on a cold and blustery day where it seemed very fitting, lol. Meet Chilly and Freezy!

I started with my background, blending three shades of blue oxide inks then using a snowflake stencil and volume paste. While that dried I cut and assembled my snowmen, colouring their attire using Copic markers (and discovered it's so much easier for those small, fiddly pieces!). Once it was dry I ran my background piece through the Big Shot to emboss the stitched border rather than cut it - this matches the sketch and adds a bit of visual interest without actually creating another layer. The slide dies were coloured with one of the same blue inks as the background and I added rub-ons before splattering everything with white paint to add to the snowy effect. I took some creative license and left off the sentiment strip because to be honest, I just didn't have anything that looked good there and I didn't really need it because of the writing on the slides.

Materials used:

• card - basic white (SU), silver Winter Deco sheets (Tim Holtz)
• distress oxide inks - tumbled glass, stormy sky, faded jeans
• Tim Holtz dies - Specimen, Chilly & Freezy
• other - blending brushes, Dimensionals, craft foam, volume paste (Stamperia), snowflake stencil (SU), picket fence distress paint, paintbrush, black rhinestones, Copic markers, Big Shot, black marker, stitched rectangle die, Remnant Rubs Christmas (Tim Holtz)

Be sure to check out what the rest of the team created to inspire you over on the Just Add Ink blog. And, of course, we'd love to see your own project in our gallery.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry