Just Add Ink challenge #244 - Just add a sketch

When you need to get those creative juices flowing quickly there is nothing better than finding a sketch! Then with your recipients fav colours or images you can make a pretty quick card! YAY for Just Add Ink that has a sketch at the moment!!

I needed both a birthday card and a special Christmas card so here's what I made....

The birthday girl LOVES roses and red so that was easy!!

 

The Christmas card is for a "soon to be married" man whom my hubbie is the best man for in January! Well actually it's for his future wife, he's bought the Project Life wedding pack to give to her! HOW wonderful and I said I'd wrap the gift and make a special card!

 

Of course I made a co-ordinating tag too.... it's all about the packaging!!! DONE again with this great sketch!! YAY! Thanks JAI!!

Just Add Ink challenge #238 Add a sketch

 

I happened to have some crafting time on my hands over the long weekend and with some fun challenges to play with and cards needed I jumped in! Just Add Ink ALWAYS have the most wonderful challenges and this week is a simple sketch! YAY! WOW it works in soo many different ways, as you may have noticed I've flipped the sketch on the side and created this simple Christmas card.

Oh how I love that little typed greeting!! It's from the Project Life Hello December Accessory Pack! LOVE!!! And the DSP is currently available in the Mini (page 22) All is Calm Specialty, sooo nice!

I'm super happy with how this card turned out.... considering I've not even used a Christmas stamp! I've not used my Mosaic Madness stamp set much but I get the feeling that I'll be inking it up a lot more for some more Christmas wonder!

Just Add ink #203 add a sketch

There was great need for a special card on Monday for a very lovely friend and as I've said before (and will most likely say again) when needing some inspiration turn to a challenge! JAI had a wonderful sketch to play with so I was off!

 

 

I decided to make it a pop-up card to and with a real feminine touch stamped some blue flowers from the Field flowers set. I also used the Sale-a-bration DSP and added some glitter in the middle of the flowers.
I flipped the sketch on it's side and with some other small embellishments my card was complete! YAY!!!

I hope you get to check out the other great ideas this week over at JAI, they always have some great things going on!

Seize the Sketch #11 Challenge

While looking around for fun challenges to join in on I found this one at Seize a sketch! I was drawn to the stars and needed a card for some friends as it is their wedding anniversary today, the 10th Jan! I also wanted to make a flippy out card similar to one I'd been given in the past (thanks heaps Trish, sooo love that card!) so got out the couples FAV colours (black and red) and started creating! This is what I came up with....

 

I'm enjoying stamping on the inside of cards at the moment! I really like this sentiment, as I believe that all love comes from God and the couple will appreciate that too!

Thanks heaps for popping in and seeing my take on the challenge, I hope to join in again another time!!

Perfectly Rustic's Challenge {new site} #1

My dear Friend Kim (from Wet chook productions) with her fabbo hubbie Colin (see him HERE) had been talking for awhile about getting a challenge site up and running! My wonderful group of Stampin' Up! demonstrator ladies (known as my other "family") is called Perfectly Rustics and so that's the name of this very new, (hugely exciting) challenge site!!!
Jayne, Kim and I are looking forward to creating and putting together lots of ideas and projects to get you inspired and wanting to craft right along with us!!
Even now I'm still in a bit of shock that it's actually happening, I'm designing for a challenge site...... YIPPEE!!!! WOW SOOOO cool!!!! I feel very honored to be asked by Kim to join in and I hope that you will join in too, on the fortnightly challenges that we come up with for you :)
So without further ado, here is my project for our very first challenge, It's a sketch by the very clever Kim that looks like this....

and now for my card that looks like this.....

I've been playing with the new colour combo's with the New Catty starting TODAY!!! (more excitement and Yippee's!!) This one is inspired from the Gingham Garden Suite with the combo of Daffodil delight, Island Indigo, Melon Mambo, Night of Navy, Pear Pizazz and Whisper White.

 

I've stamped the Pleasant Poppies in stazon and water-coloured the image with my Aqua pen, then adding some highlights with the corresponding markers. The sky background is done by first wetting the watercolour paper and then adding the ink, in this case Island Indigo.
Some of the new Washi tape (gingham garden) and the greeting from My friend stamp set and there you have it!
Make sure you check out the other fabbo design team's creations HERE and join in and show us what you can do with this sketch!
Can't wait to pop on over to leave some comment love, until then

Just Add Ink's 70th Challenge

Wow I remember when Just Add Ink first started, I entered the challenge with THIS card back in Jan 2010!!! Now they are celebrating 70 challenges!! That's super awesome ladies! COngrat's to you all!!!! Well I wasn't going to miss out on this milestone so here is the sketch...
I used some of my absolute favourite things in card making!! The deer, polka dot DSP roses, shimmer, lace, small alphabet and then the colours too are my fav... Blushing bride and Cherry Cobler!!! I'm sooo happy with how it turned out and LOVE circle cards, I must do more of them!!

I hope you like and that you too can join in on the festivities over at the super JAI blog!
Smiles Sharnee

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #74

It's not every day you get to make a "get well soon" card, I think it's a nice occasion to send a card and would love to do it more often! Not that I want my dear friends and family to be sick... but... well you know what I mean!!
So when I heard that the wonderful Mr Green (Andrew - Carli's fab hubbie!) was down and out it was time to look for a sketch and make a little cheer him up card!

It's been a good while since I've had time to join in on one of Karen's sketch's so I was sooo excited to see that this week was simple. The set that I used is a really old retired set, but I can't part with it, and the greeting is really cute!! So with a that and some non-stampin up ribbon which actually came in the mail wrapped around a present for Zeke (thanks heaps lovely Ness! We all loved the gifts and the ribbon's too!! Huge hugs and love to you!!) this was the result....

Who would have thought these colours could hang out together!! HE HE!! Still I think it works, do YOU??

Best be off quite time is nearly over, more school work to do!!
Hugs and Smiles
Sharnee :0)

GET WELL
Set: Best bar codes
Card: Soft suede, Baja breeze, Very vanilla and Creamy caramel
Ink: Creamy caramel and Soft suede
Acc: Corner rounder punch, Clips assorted and wonderful ribbon from Ness!

Inkspirations Sketch Challenge #27

How cool is the amount of sketches that are out there at the moment for challenges! This card I made the same morning as my Just add Ink one but as you can see just changed the colours a little. The sketch is from over at Keesh's and WOW OH WOW you should check out her amazing video on making a side wall, and her water colouring.... it's out of this world!!!!
For my card I cracked open a BRAND new set that I bought in from the US, it's been sitting on my shelf patiently waiting to make it's appreance.... well the wait was over!

I even got my white gel pen out and did some FAUX stitching, I'm really happy with how simple it is yet really striking I think with the fun and detailed DSP.
Well that's it for me for today, hopefully I'll be back again soon, it's the last day of holiday's so my normal routine will be back. Not sure how much blogging I'll get in till next weekend.... ummm only time will tell!
Smiles Sharnee :0)

Chocolate Bird
Set: Chic Boutique
Ink: Chocolate chip, certainly celery and old olive
Card: Close to cocoa
Acc: Chocolate chip DSP, white gel pen, scallop oval punch, sponge daubers, sherbet buttons & corner rounder punch

Just Add Ink Challenge #21

I've done it!! It's only been 7 weeks since I last joined the Just Add ink team and played along with their groovy challenges!!
This week it's a sketch and so here is my take on it,

Here is a close up of the sponging I added in the middle and also I "Rock N' Rolled" it on the Rich razzleberry ink pad after inking it up on the Close to Cocoa, just to add some colour on the tips of those lovely petals!
I really love Boho Backgrounds and forget just how cute the words are in that set, so I blew the HUGE amount of dust of them and put the happy fellow's to work!

Thanks so much for calling in, leave a comment and tell me what makes you happy, I'd love to hear from you!

Smiles Sharnee :0)

Wonderful Friend
Set: Boho Background, Medallion
Ink:Close to cocoa & Rich razzelberry
Card: Close to cocoa & Very vanilla
Acc: Chocolate chip DSP, Rich razzelberry ribbon, sponges, Sherbet buttons and linen thread

Inkspirations Colour Challenge #26

Yay I've done it!! Entered a challenge that is! Man it feels like a LOOONNNG time since I've joined in one of these so I'm most excited!
Here are the colours from the wonderful Keesh...

So with a new addition to our friends lives, being in the form of a beautiful little baby girl, a card was surely needed!!

I originally got the idea for a window from HERE which is COMPLETELY AMAZING in EVERY WAY with the absolute talent of the lovely Kristina!!! But of course I didn't have all that, so I had to... well make something else up.
Out comes my square punch, this makes a nice neat frame!
(of course if you look closely, actually probably not too close you can see that it's not neat or really perfect by any means!) To make the curtains I just cut the same size c/s decorated it with the polka dot stamp from Big Bold Birthday and then cut out one side, folded and copied the shape for the other (like you would to make a butterfly!) Score the bottom to create a ledge and there you have it!!!

close up of the window, the card stock bows and the pretty little flowers

My next challenge is to do the sweet Sunday sketch.... let's see how tomorrow goes!
Thanks for the visit!
Smiles Sharnee :0)


Hello Baby
Set: Window Dressing, Big bold birthday and Sweet little sentiments
Ink: Real red, Basic black and Basic grey
Card: Kraft, Whisper white and Basic grey
Acc: Square punch & dimensional

Just Add Ink Challenge #12

Here it is that time of the week again and time for the Just Add Ink challenge! YAY it's a sketch which is kinda cool as I'm really learning to enjoy these.
Sadly though the card I am needing is for a very old (as in we've know them for a long time) friend of the families who have just recently found out that they only have months to live. What's super hard about this particular wonderful man is that he knew my Dad. Soooo to now know that he too will soon pass just makes it all very, very hard.
In saying that what a privilege I have to be able to send them a hand made card, full to overflowing with love, thoughts and prayers for this special family!! That's one of the beauties of craft/card making isn't it, we can show people we care with that little something extra...
here's the sketch
here's my card
and a little closer on that flower! I am enjoying the new DSP from the Autumn mini and the cool techniques of ruffled ribbon and sponging on the sides!!

hugs to you all,
Sharnee :0)

Thinking of You
Set: Bird on a branch
Ink: Old olive
Card: Orchid opulence & Old olive
Acc: Cottage wall DSP, rich razzelberry ribbon, scallop circle punch, 5 petal flower punch, earth element brads, eyelet border punch, markers & sewing machine

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #63

It's been awhile since I've been able to join the lovely Karen over at the sweetest thing but I really wanted to break the drought on the sketch challenges and give this one a go! I ordered a pack of the new DSP Cottage Wall, it has a lovely mix of colours including one of the new in colours Rich Razzelberry, then Old olive and Orchid Opulence. I've never really picked Orchid Opulence to do anything but it's surprised me and I quite like it!! Trust Stampin Up! to come up with great new colour combo's!!
I love the stamp I've chosen here and don't seem to use it enough so it was my challenge to use it with the sketch!


Then here is a close up of the edges, I just simply sponge dauberd them with old olive. It's a really soft effect, unlike just rubbing the sides directly onto the ink pad. (had this idea given to me by the fabulous Carli! HUGE WAVES TO YOU MY DEAR FRIEND!!)

It's been so super wonderful having time to play over the Easter break, hopefully it won't be long before you see me again with another card to post!
Smiles and Hugs
Sharnee :0)

Dear Kind Friend
Set: Occasional greetings & Dreams du Jour
Ink: Old olive, rich razzelberry, Orchid opulence and Chocolate chip
Card: Rich razzelberry and Very vanilla
Acc: Scallop circle punch, Rich razzelberry polka dot ribbon, sewing machine, markers and DSP