Just add your favourite animal

 The Just Add Ink challenge is to add my favourite animal. Well that’s a hard task for someone who’s an animal lover like me. 

I love fancy fold cards and found the Triple Floating Diamond card tutorials on YouTube. I made a prototype out of plain paper first but it’s not a hard card to make so I really didn’t have to. 

I grew up on a small farm and every spring we had plenty of baby animals but by far my favourite were the lambs. 

So sheep it is!  I used a Sale a Bration set from SU Counting Sheep. 

These sheep make me smile.  I also used this fancy fold  with the Flowing Flowers set.  I used our little bird Tinsel as my inspiration with her many colours.

Tinsel

While I’m on the subject of animals. My friend recently lost both her elderly cats so I made her a sympathy card. 

She then asked me to make a thank you card for her vet. 

A sketch of inspiration

 This week I wanted to make a card for someone I’ve never met and was lacking inspiration. So I turned to trusty Just Add Ink. This weeks JAI challenge #573 is Just Add a sketch. 

I decided to turn the sketch around because I thought it suited the card better.

This donkey looks so happy. 

Just Add Colour….

This weeks  Just Add Ink  challenge is add colour. Polished Pink, Pale Papaya and Basic Black. I don’t have those colours but that has never stoped me when a card idea comes along. Using this colour combo as inspiration I decided to make a sunset card for someone in love.  Not a conventional wedding card, but perfect for someone who loves flamingos.

I used Mellon Mumbo, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie and Basic Black.

Shake it up baby now!

I absolutely love shaker cards so when I saw this weeks  JAI challenge # 561 Just Add Shaker I couldn’t resist Normally I do a shaker card with a large area for the shaker area but this time I decided to do something a little different. I used Stampin Up’s Hey chick stamp set. These chickens seem so cheeky and make me smile whenever I make a card with them.

I thought it would be fun to look into their tummies to see the bird food they’re pecking at.

Sketch! JAI challenge # 558

 

I’m just about to finish my holiday  (Staycation), so I’m getting in some more carding. 

I’ve enjoyed another Just Add Ink challenge. This time it’s a sketch change. I love the Pretty Perennials stamp set from Stampin Up, So I combined the two. 

Just Add Inspiration. JAI Challenge #557

 I’m on holiday this week so to the craft table I go!  

I wanted to make a house warming card for a friend and started to play around with the Stampin Up,  Forever Fern stamp set. 

This weeks Just Add Ink challenge is perfect “Inspiration” for this card. 

Here’s what I came up with.

I pinched a gold ring from gold card.  I’ve just been given the gold leaf so had a little fun with that.  I ended up covered in it, I had so much fun!  I couldn’t believe when I went into my friends house and my card matched her colour scheme.

Steampunk .... Steam what??

 This weeks Just Add Ink challenge #546 is Just Add Steampunk.

I have to be honest I had no idea what steampunk was and had to Google it!  At first I was thinking Oh no way,  then I decided well it is a challenge and challenges are meant to take you out of your comfort zone now and again.  I'm still not sure if my card is Steampunk but here it is anyway.  I really like how it turned out.

I added Champagne coloured gemstones in the centre of each flower

I Didn't have anything much cog related so I found some images and used my Brother Scan and Cut machine (which I'm still working out how to use) to make the cogs I added.