Celebrate - Just Add Ink Challenge #703

This week's challenge with Just Add Ink is so versatile you'll want to jump right into your crafting supplies!

Pretty hard to resist, right? I chose balloons and bright colours for a celebration card suitable for a number of occasions - birthday, anniversary, job promotion, etc.

I began with stencilling the balloons using distress inks, two shades of each colour. Once that was done I die cut the stitched border then added the confetti and streamers using gold pigment ink - pigment ink sits over the top of dye ink easily. The gold has a lovely subtle sheen and certainly adds to the celebratory atmosphere! 

Materials used:

• card - basic white, brushed metallic gold, vellum, gorgeous grape
• distress inks - squeezed lemonade, mustard seed, salvaged patina, peacock feathers, kitsch flamingo, picked raspberry, wilted violet, villainous potion
• other - balloon/confetti/streamers stencil (stash), blending brushes, golden glitz pigment ink (Delicata), slimline stiched rectangle die, Big Shot, celebrate die

Which two options would you choose? If you create, be sure to share it with us over on the Just Add Ink blog, we'd love to have you!

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

Entered in Just Us Girls stencil week challenge.

Pick a Number

It's time for another challenge over on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog, where I'm Guest Designer for this month. 

This week we're challenging you to PICK A NUMBER. 

Of course you can interpret that in many ways, but I chose to pick one specific number because my youngest turned a quarter of a century old just a couple of weeks ago. Naturally a card was needed! Here it is:

I used Tim Holtz/Sizzix 'Celebrate' dies for the cake and streamers, Tim's 'Holiday Script' stencil for my background (cos you can guarantee Christmas stuff has the number 25 somewhere, lol) and distress inks. The 'Postale' die set was used for the small number 'candles' and a Label Sticker for the sentiment. 

The same products were used to add a small decoration to the edge of the envelope:

Materials used:

• card - lemon lime twist, basic white, vellum, lemon lolly, coastal cabana, watercolour
• dies - Celebrate, Postale (both Tim Holtz/Sizzix)
• stencil - Holiday Script (Tim Holtz)
• distress inks - salvaged patina, peacock feathers, squeezed lemonade, ripe persimmon, twisted citron, weathered wood, hickory smoke, antique linen, vintage photo
• other - Big Shot, blending brushes, foam mounting tape, Dimensionals, sponge dauber, envelope, mini rhinestones

As always, the kind folks at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a fabulous US$25 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp store - all you have to do is take out your crafting supplies, make something following this week's prompt, and link up at the bottom of the Challenge Blog post. You can join up to 5 times, giving you 5 chances to win! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance. 

I hope you'll check out what the design team made and be inspired to get our your crafting tools and create. Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry

The Passage of Time - CAS on Friday Challenge #221

 

Welcome to the last CAS on Friday challenge for 2021! To ring out the old year and welcome in the new, our theme for challenge #221 is HAPPY NEW YEAR.

I've gone with classic colours of black, white and gold for my new year card:

Materials used:

• stamps - Clocks (Paper Rose), Celebration (Darkroom Door)
• card - basic black, basic white
• other - stitched rectangle die, Big Shot, Stamparatus, gold embossing powder, heat tool, sequins in gold, black and clear, Dimensionals, craft foam

If you're looking for some time away from the madness of the holidays over the next week or so, why not head to your craft space and make a card to join us, we'd love you to take part. And you can find more inspiration on the CASOF blog.

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry

Hang In There - CAS on Friday Challenge #213

Welcome to another clean and simple challenge with CAS on Friday. Our theme for challenge #213 is BALLOONS and here's my card:

I couldn't resist this cute little guy hanging around, lol. 

Materials used:

• digital image - Flying High (Tiddlyinks)
• card - basic white, coastal cabana
• Copic markers
• T1,2,4
• R32,22,24,83,85,56
• G00, BG11,34
• B0000,000,00
• other - stitched rectangle die, Alphanumeric Tiny Type Lower dies, Big Shot, craft foam, white gel pen

We'd love you to join in our challenge and create a balloon themed card, but meanwhile pop over to the CASOF blog to see what my fellow team members created to inspire you.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry