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A good friend of mine came and did some card making this afternoon. Grace made an Icecream Cone Card from the Petal Cone Die . She has 'hijacked' my blog so she can enter her card in the Just Add Ink Colour Challenge this week - Grace - JAI 91 JAI 91 Colour Combo The Inside Project Recipe: Stamp Sets: Tagtastic (Hostess), Button Buddies, Teeny Tiny Sentiments Card Stock: Crumb Cake, Whisper White Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Versa Mark Accessories: Petal Cone Die, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, 2010/11 In Color DSP (Blushing Bride), Cherry Cobbler Embossing Powder and Seam Binding, Circle Ice Rhinestone Brad, XL Tag Punch, Dimensional (All products, Stampin' Up!) Thanks for stopping by ... on behalf of Grace PS: Instructions for Grace's Icecream Cone Card can be found HERE . CONGRATULATIONS, Grace, on your HONOURABLE MENTION .

This week at Just Add Ink I have put together a very simple colour combo for you for our 91st challenge. The colours are so sweet and feminine that I decided to make a cupcake card for a friend's birthday. JAI 91 - Sugar Cupcake JAI 91 - Colour Comb0 Chocolate Chip was the 'neutral of choice' for my DT sample. This card involved some heat and dry embossing, fussy cutting with paper piecing, die cutting, sponging, adding some shine with Silver Smooch Spritz and colouring in with copic markers (still on my 'L's'). Here's the 'original' card that I made for the challenge but decided it didn't quite make the 'cut'. It is an easel card made from th e Fun Flowers Die using Sahara Sand as my neutral of choice. It's back to the drawing board on that one! This card is embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder and finished off with an Antique Brad . I hope the colours inspire you to join in with the challenge this week. Why...

Rain or Shine It's Friday and that means another awesome challenge at Just Add Ink . This time I have a sketch for you and I decided to stick pretty close to the layout. JAI 90 - Sketch It's been 5 weeks since I have ventured into my craft room to stamp (hence the lack of posts for October). I spent most of the September holiday break making my challenge cards for JAI and scheduling the posts. Life has been super busy with about 4 weekends away out of the last 6 and working 4 days a week. It was so nice to finally get back into my clean and newly arranged craft room to create. Hopefully I will have time to work on a couple of tutorials that I have in my head and share those with you soon. Project Recipe: Stamps: Rain or Shine (Unity Stamp Co.), Retro Remix (SU) Card Stock: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Vellum (SU) X-Press It Blending Card Ink: Chocolate Chip, Cherry Cobbler (SU), Memento Tuxedo Black and a selection of Copic Markers Accessories: White Gel Pen...

Delys has given us a great inspiration photo for our 89th challenge at Just Add Ink . Here's what I was inspired to create - I wish I could say that I created the gorgeous background with my trusty brayer and inks but I 'cheated' and stamped over the top of a photo. It's a photo of a beautiful sunrise at Swansea, on the East Coast of Tasmania, with a stamp from Just Believe stamped over the top in Basic Black Ink. I did a series of similar cards a while back using different silhouette stamps which you can see HERE . The Inspiration So ... the challenge is to make a paper craft project using the above photo for inspiration. I hope you can join in with the fun and link up your own entry over at Just Add Ink . While you're there, don't forget to check out the beautiful projects from the rest of the Design Team. Happy stamping and enjoy your weekend,

There's a 'fantabulous' challenge at Just Add Ink this week to add a die cut to your paper craft project. I chose to use ... Petite Pocket Two Tags ... to make a matching gift card for another 'Lucky Owl' that I made from some paisley denim material. JAI 88 - Add a Die Cut (or two) Paisley Denim 'Lucky' Owl with Matching Petite Pocket The tag needed to be trimmed a bit so it could fit inside the pocket. I'm so glad I kept my Paisley Background Stamp as it was just right for adding some extra detail to the tag. I also pressed the little owl from Fox and Friends against the Paisley stamp (kissing technique) to make the pattern on the owl. The colours that I used for this project are Cherry Cobbler and Not Quite Navy . The idea was inspired by a beautiful project that Sophie Zadeh demonstrated at Hobart Regionals using the Petite Pocket Die and a piece of denim from a much loved pair of jeans (see above). The Pocket ... ... the Tag ... and the Owl. D...