Wisteria Love

 

In my first month on the Dirty Dozen the challenge was Diamonds and Pearls.

This is one of the cards I made for it and it showcases one of the in colours that is staying Wisteria Wonder.  Yay!

 

For the background I scored a diamond pattern and then used the very vintage wheel over the top. I then sponged crumb cake over the piece to highlight the diamonds.
The butterflies are stamped with stazon onto vellum, coloured from behind and cut out.

Ingredients :

Stamps : Very Vintage wheel, Kindness Matters, Field Flowers

Card : crumb cake, vanilla, vellum card

Ink : stazon, wisteria, crumb cake

Other :  big shot, framed tulips ef, two tags die, crumb cake seam binding, square punch, cropadile, jumbo brad, pearls, crumb cake marker

Kathy

Kind Poppies

 

This week at still addINKtive we have a sketch and colour combo for you.

You may choose to do either colour, sketch or both!

 

Bronwyn designed a very pretty circular sketch which I have been inspired by but I have made mine a square card instead.

 

 

I haven’t used my copics for quite a while now and I was really having withdrawals!  So I thought I would use copics similar to the stampin up colours in the challenge and colour the poppies.  I love this stamp, it is so beautiful and lots of fun to colour. 

I also stamped the Kindness Matters butterfly onto vellum, coloured it from behind with a marker and cut it out.

Ingredients:

Stamps : Pleasant Poppies, Kindness Matters

Card : sahara sand, black, x-press it, vellum card

Ink : white, sahara sand, pip marker, copics

Other : pip satin ribbon (ret.), linen thread, vintage faceted button, white pen, big shot, fancy fan ef

 

Please take a look at what the rest of the design team have created this week and we’d love it if you would play along with our challenge too.

Kathy

First Challenge

 

Today is our very first challenge at stilladdINKtive. Yay !

Bronwyn has put so much time and effort in behind the scenes to get our new challenge blog up and running. She has done a wonderful job! Thank You Bron. Please take a look and we’d love it if you’d play along with us too.

Each first and third week of the month we will have a sketch and colour challenge for you.  The stilladdINKtive team will be combining them and you can do that too or you can choose just to do the sketch or you may prefer just to take inspiration from our colours.  It’s up to you.

Here is our first challenge :

I used some of my most favourite sets on this card plus a new one which is coming out very soon in the sale-a-bration catalogue.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : en francais, field flowers, kindness matters, pretty petites

Card : crumb cake, plum, vanilla, white, watercolour, shimmer white

Ink : baja, wasabi, plum, stazon, crumb cake

Other : petite curly label punch

 

I used watercolour paper for the butterflies. I used a blender pen with baja and plum ink on the larger one but with the small one I decided to try using plum reinker with an aqua painter instead.  And Wow what a difference in colour.  So it is still plum as the flowers and other butterfly are but it is just so much darker.  Anyway I liked the contrast of it.  It’s great using the watercolour paper with the butterflies because you can lift their wings up really high without damaging them at all.

Please click here to see what our fabulous and very talented stilladdINKtive team have created for this challenge. You will be inspired :)

 

Kathy

Happy Nature

 

This week at JAI we have a photo for inspiration.

I was inspired by the colours of the crates on the wall.  I thought they were close to wisteria wonder and pool party.  I was also inspired by their rectangular shapes and that they were housing a collection of sorts.

The photo inspired me to use my grid technique again.  If you’d like to see a tutorial on how it’s done just click here.

Ingredients :

Stamps : en Francais, French foliage, perfectly penned, kindness matters, nature walk

Card : black, crumb cake, white

Ink : stazon, pool party, NQN, wisteria, eggplant, crumb cake

Other : Nothing (AMAZING!)

 

Please take a look at what the rest of the design team have come up with this week and let the photo inspire you to create something beautiful.

 

Kathy

Vellum elements

 

We have a colour challenge at Just Add Ink this week.

I decided to use these colours with vellum.

I thought these flowers from elements of style might look pretty dry embossed and so I decided to give that technique a try with this week’s colour combo.

I stamped the image onto vellum card with stazon and then dry embossed the flowers from behind with a stylus to make them white and give them dimension.

The butterflies are coloured with a saffron marker and cut out and placed on top with glue dots.  The “for you” is stamped on the vellum and I have simply placed a white circle behind it to make it stand out more.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : elements of style. kindness matters,

Card : vellum card, white, saffron, brights dsp stack

Ink : stazon

Other : daffodil taffeta ribbon, circle punch, saffron marker, white brads, stylus

 

 

This is a close up to try to show the dimension the flowers have, it’s a bit hard to capture it but it does look pretty.

The rest of the design team have come up with some gorgeous yellow and white cards so please take a look and give this challenge a try yourself.

 

Kathy

Vellum style

 

This week at Just Add Ink the challenge is to Just Add Mother’s Day.

The main panel is vellum stamped with stazon using a stamp from Elements of Style. I have then attached that over a piece of pink pirouette cardstock.  The butterflies are stamped onto shimmery white and coloured with pip and razzleberry using a blender pen and adhered with glue dots.

We made this card at my club last weekend. I was showing the ladies lots of different ways to use vellum and they liked the cards and enjoyed using it.  But then one of them asked if I had any Mother’s Day sentiments for this card.  So it obviously didn’t look “Mother’s Dayish” enough for her but I hope it passes as one for our JAI challenge anyway :)

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Elements of style, oval all, kindness matters

Card : shimmery white, black, pink pirouette, vellum card

Ink : stazon, pip, razzleberry

Other : oval punch, oval scallop punch, brads, blender pen, razzleberry satin ribbon, white pen, big shot, polka dot folder

 

Please take a look at what the rest of the design team have created this week and show us your Mother’s Day designs.

 

Kathy

Just French Butterflies

 

I got some very exciting news!

I was asked to be a guest designer for April at Freshly Made Sketches.  I felt so honoured to be invited and I can’t wait to play along with their fabulous designers this month!  :)

Here’s this week’s sketch:

 

I found it to be a tough initiation to the team and ended up flipping it.

 

 

I stamped En Francais with baja onto vanilla card and then over stamped it with the butterflies from Kindness Matters.  One of these has been coloured with markers, cut out and Popped up.  I added some dazzling diamonds to it as well.  I liked the writing in baja (although I think I pretty much like anything in that colour)!

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Kindness Matters, Just Believe, en Francais

Card : vanilla, suede, mocha morning dsp, ret. dsp

Ink : baja, crumb cake, suede, stazon, daffodil and calypso coral markers

Other : vanilla satin ribbon, dazzling diamonds, window punch, modern label punch, pearls

 

Please take a look at what the Freshly Made Sketches design team have created this week, there is lots to inspire you. 

 

Kathy

Wedding Flower

If you’ve been following my blog you’ll know that last week I was asked to make a wedding card for one of the teachers at school. I was happy with how it turned out but then I was asked a couple of days ago to make another wedding card for the same person.   That made it hard because I have no wedding sets and I didn’t want to use the set I used last time (Always) again.

So I started looking at challenges for some much-needed inspiration today.
I found a great sketch of Rita’s at Freshly Made Sketches. 



And The Paper Players have a theme challenge this week which is Spring and that means flowers and butterflies to me.

So I decided to combine the two challenges and this is what I came up with:





I made a big paper flower again using very vanilla and spritzed it with champagne shimmer mist. I made another crumpled double bow too (thanks Ann).  I  clear embossed the butterfly from Kindness Matters and coloured them  with a blender pen and baja and river rock. I  have bent up their wings and attached them with mini glue dots.


Ingredients :
Stamps : Kindness Matters, Tiny tags, Cheer and Wishes
Card : vanilla, baja, suede, river rock
Ink : suede, versamark, crumb cake, baja, river rock
Other : tag punch, big shot, polka dot ef, lattice ef, swirls scribbles, island floral, 5 petal flower punch, fancy flower punch, antique brad, lace, crumb cake seam binding, blender pen, champagne shimmer mist/alcohol, clear ep, linen thread


Hopefully the person I made this for will be happy with the card.  I may just have to invest in a wedding set, it would make things so much simpler!


Kathy

Butterfly Field

 

This week at Just Add Ink our challenge is to case a member of our design team, Nikki Spencer.

Nikki has made so many gorgeous cards that it was a bit hard to choose one actually.  But this is definitely one of my favourites.

It is just so pretty and stylish isn’t it!

Well here is my case:

 

 

I went with the flowers and butterflies theme like Nikki did and used a similar colour combo in a way, although none of the same colours are actually used.

It’s quite a clean and simple card, just right for a thank you card I think.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : field flowers, french foliage, kindness matters, perfectly penned

Card : white, confetti white,crumb cake, island indigo

Ink : stazon, island indigo, pool party, daffodil delight, calypso coral, crumb cake

Other : blender pen, mat pack, white pen, linen thread, corner rounder punch

 

Please take a look at the rest of Nikki’s fabulous creations and try casing her for our challenge this week.

 

Kathy

Pumpkin Field

 

This is the last of my Field Flowers cards using this weeks Just Add Ink sketch.

I loved how this one turned out as well.

 

 

I did something a little different to this one.  I stamped the flower in pumpkin and then black but then I decided to colour the centre of the flower in a saffron marker.  After that I made dots on top of the saffron using a white gel pen.

I brayered on celery then olive at the bottom and saffron, mustard and cajun at the top.  The outside of the circle was then sponged with cajun.

I just popped the centre flower up with dimensionals on this card.  Each one I did differently to see which way I like best.  The first card had no dimensionals, the second had 2 and this one 1.  And I still can’t decide which one looked best!  I guess that means it doesn’t matter either way. :)

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : field flowers, kindness matters

Card : black, pumpkin, white, daffodil, neutrals dsp stack

Ink : pumpkin, stazon, celery, olive, saffron, mustard, cajun, saffron marker

Other : big shot, square scallop die, nesties, brayer, white pen

 

It’s wonderful when you find a great sketch isn’t it?  I’m sure I’ll be making more of these cards and using this sketch again.

I’d love to know which card was your favourite?

 

Kathy

Butterfly friends

 

This week at Just Add Ink we have a fantastic colour challenge.

I was excited to give this colour combo a try because Pool Party is one of my new favourite colours.

Even though these colours are really quite bright, I decided to try making a “subtle” card with them.

 

The background piece is the elements of style flower embossed in white and I used the emboss resist technique again and sponged pool party and crumb cake over the top of it.  Then I sprayed it with vanilla shimmer smooch spritz, although you can’t really see the effect of that much in the photo.

I used crumb cake on the Friendly words wheel and then stamped the kindness matters over the top with stazon.  I also stamped the middle butterfly onto calypso coral and cut it out and popped it on top.

I attached the friends tiny tag with a pin from vintage trinkets and added one of the little buttons to the card too. They were another birthday present (Yes, more … I am lucky aren’t I!)

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : kindness matters, friendly words, elements of style, tiny tags

Card : crumb cake, white, calypso coral, pool party

Ink :  crumb cake, stazon, versamark, pool party

Other : white ep, crumb cake taffeta, vanilla shimmer smooch spritz, vintage trinkets, scallop trim border punch

 

Please check out JAI to see what the rest of the design team have come up with this week and give these colours a try yourself.

 

Kathy

Birthday Butterflies

 

Today was my last day of holidays and I was determined to make another card with some more of my new toys.

I used the brilliant sketch at Freshly Made Sketches again. I have only just made their deadline, but I loved it so much I wanted to try it again.  Thanks for a great sketch Lesley, I’m sure it is one I will use often.

I am also entering this card into the challenge at The Paper Players this week.  It is a Clean and Simple challenge to use animals or plants and I’ve used both!

My Razzleberry Foliage card got a “Cut Above Award” from The Paper Players last week.  It was a real honour to have been chosen. Thanks so much for all your kind comments :)

 

 

I used the emboss resist technique again on this card with Pool Party ink and I white embossed the flower from Just Believe.  The butterflies were stamped onto pool party and so saffron card using stazon and then cut out.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : perfectly penned, kindness matters, just believe

Card : pool party, white, crumb cake, so saffron

Ink : stazon, versamark, pool party, crumb cake

Other : square punch, glue dots, white embossing powder

 

This card is using more of my new birthday goodies.  Didn’t I do well this year!  My daughter bought me the butterfly which is from a set called Kindness Matters.  I already own a lot of butterflies, because I love them, but this one is my new favourite :)

The Perfectly Penned was actually a present I bought for myself, because, well, I just had to have it :)

Kathy