Just Add Ink: January 2013

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Just Add Ink #150 Winners

Hi everyone,

It was great to see the different entries this week taking inspiration from our sketch and by popular choice from the Design Team our winner for this week is...

Louise Sharp

Some comments from the DT about Louise's entry:

"Love the simple style and elegance!"

"Love the colours, layers and clean crisp card."

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honorable Mentions for this week go to (tie between three) -

Heather Mills
"Great background, and handmade ricrac, on an adorable card."

Carolyn Lindenmayer
"Great twist on the sketch, and I love the banner and chalkboard feature panel."

Kerri Bowen
"I love the retro almost vintage feel to this card."

Be sure to click on their names and leave them some lovely comments.

Don't forget to come back at midnight to check out our next challenge!

Thanks for playing at Just Add Ink!

Friday, January 25, 2013

JAI 150-Sketch Challenge

Well back to our normal programming as such and this week we have a gorgeous sketch from Mae.

Here is the sketch for this week's challenge.

I love what the design team have come up with to inspire you this week.

We love comments as do you (I'm sure) so come visit our blogs and show some comment love.

Patrice Easton

So we hope you play along with us this week and look forward to seeing your gorgeous designs with our sketch.

JUST ADD INK RULES

Create a card, layout or 3D project using our challenge as inspiration.
Link your post, NOT your whole blog back here.
Your project must be new, created for this challenge and combined with no more than 5 other challenges.
Please mention JUST ADD INK in your blog post and provide a link so others can come and join in the fun too.
Please DO NOT use your challenge entry as self promotion. We are here to have fun and encourage creativity.
We reserve the right to remove links that do not comply with the above guidelines.
The challenge closes each Wednesday at 10.00 pm (AEST) Australian Eastern Standard Time.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Just Add Ink 149 Winners

Hello everyone

We would like to say a huge Thank you to everyone that followed our Big Shot Blog Hop this week and left so many wonderful comments for us. We really appreciate the extra effort it takes and it's always nice to hear feedback.

It was so much fun for the Design Team to kick start the year with such a fun challenge and we appreciate those of you that found the time to play along also.

This weeks winner is Sharnee Torrents with this fun Big Shot project, congratulations Sharnee.

"Such a bright and happy birthday card that anyone would love to receive - love it"

"Just delightful! Lovely, ice creamy, colours, and such a fun kid's card"

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog:

Click here if you need help adding the badge to your blog

Honorable Mentions for this week go to -

Louise
"I love the simplicity of this idea with the DSP behind the die cut, great CAS design"

Sandra
"The gorgeous colouring of the images is given centre stage thanks to a simple design"

Be sure to click on their names and leave them some lovely comments.

Don't forget to come back at midnight to check out our next challenge!

Thanks for playing at Just Add Ink!

Friday, January 18, 2013

A New Year and a JAI Blog Hop!

Well welcome back to our regular weekly challenges!

We have a Big Shot Blog Hop for Challenge #149 and its a pearler! Instead of posting the pics of each of our members' projects involved in this blog hop..we will be starting with Mae and then going on a blog hop around the Design Team. If you get lost along the way, come back here and click on the next link down the bottom of this post.

The challenge of course this week is, to use the Big Shot or any diecut machine on your card, scrapbooking page or box/project etc.

And here's what the Design Team came up with ...

So off we go on the first Blog Hop Journey to Mae Collins.

Click on the Big shot badge to go to the next blog.

Here is our Big Shot Blog Hop order if you get lost.

Mae

Delys

Nikki

Christine

Tina

Chantell

Jodene

Patrice

Kim

Trish

Narelle

JUST ADD INK RULES

Create a card, layout or 3D project using our challenge as inspiration.
Link your post, NOT your whole blog back here.
Your project must be new, created for this challenge and combined with no more than 5 other challenges.
Please mention JUST ADD INK in your blog post and provide a link so others can come and join in the fun too.
Please DO NOT use your challenge entry as self promotion. We are here to have fun and encourage creativity.
We reserve the right to remove links that do not comply with the above guidelines.
The challenge closes each Wednesday at 10.00 pm (AEST) Australian Eastern Standard Time.

Id like to apologise to Bronwyn Eastley and Helen Heil for deleting their submissions during this challenge. It was a mistake on my part and I apologise profusely to you both of you for deleting your gorgeous submissions! We hope you will join us again for our challenges girls!

Friday, January 11, 2013

Design Team Inspiration "2012" - Our Picks.

As the New Year is well underway and our first Challenge for "2013" is coming up next week with a "BIG SHOT BLOG HOP", we thought it would be fun to share with you our favourite projects from "2012".

Patrice Easton

We hope you enjoy our trip down memory lane and look forward to seeing you next week, when our "Just Add Ink" Challenges resume.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

JAI Scrap #12 - 2012 in review challenge

Welcome to a new year! Hopefully 2013 will be a fantastic year for us all. With the new year fresh in our minds, we would like you to look back on 2012 and scrap your year in review!

I often do this as its a concise review of your year..much like the blurb you write on your Christmas cards really!

So here is what the Scrapbooking Design Team have come up with to inspire you. Both Tina and I chose the same piece of paper but look how different they are!

Tina Gillespie

Delys Cram

Ruth Clarke

So hope you can play along with us at JAI this month for our January scrapbooking challenge.

JUST ADD INK RULES

Create a Layout (scrapbooking page) using our challenge as inspiration.
Link your post, NOT your whole blog back here.
Your project must be new, created for this challenge and combined with3 or less challengesif you like.
Please mention JUST ADD INK in your blog post and provide a link so others can come and join in the fun too.
Please DO NOT use your challenge entry as a way of advertising products/tutorials etc. which are for sale. We're here to have fun and encourage creativity.
We reserve the right to remove links that do not comply with the above guidelines.
The challenge closes on the 31st January 2013 at 10.00 pm (AEST) Australian Eastern Standard Time. For the US submitters this means the day before!

JAI Scrap # 11 Winner

Just before I announce January's scrap challenge, we thought wed better vote on last months Scrap challenge and pick a winner. Only 4 entries (not surprising being the busy season) but beautiful entries none the less.

So our winner for December was this gorgeous little Mini album is from TantiK

Here is your winners badge to display on your blog!

Ill be back shortly to let you know our January challenge!

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Inspiration Post -Gift Cards

Happy New Year All ..this is our third year that we have been running for Just Add Ink and we appreciate all the support and comments from you all!

We are currently having some time off our challenges but will be have some tutorials and inspirational blog posts to fill in while we have some time off. We will be back on the 19th for our first challenge for 2013.

This week Kim and I have a few gift cards to show you. Gift cards can be right through the year from weddings, birthdays to Christmas or just as a thank you gift. Gift cards are often the most asked for item when I do markets and shows ..a quick and easy item to make ..just check out Kims Christmas one below..isn't it just the cutest? Ill be doing one of these for sure next year for Christmas..(my mantra is start now?..um maybe not as still getting over Christmas lol)

Kim has a tutorial for this on her blog here.

For my Gift cards, I did my first one originally for a show but did some extras for my team and for the Just Add Ink girls (but put some post it notes inside for them..shhh they may not have got them yet) ..it ended up being a rounded Santa with the post it notes inside..perfect! The inspiration for this gift card holder was from here. I used the tasteful trim die, silver glimmer paper, small square punch, scallop circle punch and Bring on the cake Stamp set.

Ive also being having a play with some 2013 Saleabration items and came up with this easy to do gift card holder. This is where I got the tutorial for this cute gift card holder here. All you need is the word window punch and a small circle, a few scores and voila done..took me no more that 10 minutes to do.

Check back on Sunday for our January Scrapbook challenge and our winner for December.