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At Just Add Ink this week we have a photo to inspire you.

If you live in Hobart like me, this looks absolutely idyllic. I think we’ve had rain, sleet, snow, gale force winds and temperatures under 10degrees every day for more than a week now!  It feels like it will never end!

So I wasn’t really in a “warm” mood when I created this but I was definitely inspired by the photo.  The sea, the sky and the leaves and flowers trailing over the railing were my inspiration.

I decided to make a Joy Fold card.  Chantelle made a great card and tutorial for the JAI blog hop and I used her instructions but made my front panel slightly smaller.  I have made a joy fold before but haven’t for a long time.  It was great how that blog hop encouraged me to try new folds and rediscover old ones.

I finally bought the Elegant Lines embossing folder last week and decided it would work perfectly with the water theme.  It is very pretty and I’m happy with my purchase!  The main panel is sponged onto glossy white cardstock and stamped with stazon.  On the white I have clear embossed the same swirly leaf pattern from Vintage vogue and I rock and rolled the flowers from that set with PIP and rose red.

Ingredients :

Stamps : Vintage vogue, punch bunch

Card : white glossy, black, white, baja

Ink : stazon, versamark, pip, rose red, NQN

Other :  white brads, big shot, elegant lines, glue dots, clear ep, circle punch, scallop trim border punch, sponges

 

Please check out what the rest of the design team came up with this week and I hope you’ll be inspired to make a “warm” card too.

Kathy

Explosion Purse

 

I was asked to be a Guest Design Team member for April at Just Add Ink. 

What an amazing honour!  The Design Team are all so talented and they have great challenges each and every week.  I am very excited to be a part of the team (for a month anyway)!

This weeks challenge is Just Add a Box or a Bag.

I found this little bag over on Brenda Quintana’s blog.  It’s called an Explosion Purse.  It’s a wonderful design and it’s easy to make too! Bonus!

 

This is my cute and simple version.

Ingredients :

Stamps : Punch Bunch

Card : Perfect plum 12”, regal rose, white, brights dsp stack

Ink : Melon mambo

Other : big shot, top note, scallop square punch, cropadile, turquoise ribbon (ret.), sticky strip, velcro dot.

 

And this is my Classy “stepped-up” version.

 

I like the other one, it’s cute. But I love how this one turned out!  I embossed a stamp from Elements of Style with silver embossing powder on black card.  It did take quite a while to emboss the whole sheet, but it was worth it, (it looks so luxurious!)  I also used shimmery white card and embossed it in the big shot using the Square Lattice folder and cut it using the top note die.  I trimmed this down so that it would have an edging of Rich Razzleberry and I used some Razzleberry satin ribbon for the handle and an Antique brad added that extra special touch.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps :  Elements of style

Card : black 12”, shimmery white, razzleberry

Ink  : versamark

Other : silver embossing powder, razzleberry satin ribbon, antique brad, big shot, top note, square lattice folder, cropadile, sticky strip, velcro dot

 

Brenda has instructions for the purse on her blog Qbees quest if you’d like to give it a try.  She is so clever! 

And make sure to head over to Just Add Ink and check out all the wonderful bags and boxes the rest of the design team have to show you too.

 

Kathy