you made my day

final card using my "design feature" paper

 this is a gate fold card

i made the background with flowers and sequins

i used a heart punch cut in half to make the bikini and added some butchers twine to them

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just add ink #252 just add sketch

my final week here at just add ink 

hope i have inspired some of you to take out your punches and use them :)

this week's inspiration is a sketch

quite unusual i must say

initially i was inspired to do an invader zim card

but figured he may be a bit too obscure for most of you lol

so went with my second inspiration of a fishing card

 here is my take on this week's sketch

 i used a variety of oval and circle punches to make this card.

i also went through all my blue and green leftover pieces of card and used them to get all the different colours

 the fishlips are the heart punch and the eye is the ornament punch

 inside i kept the theme going with the leftover punched out bits and using the same sentiment.

 my fish hook is a paperclip and i added some sequins to add some bling

here you can see the many many layers i have made!!!

thanks for joining me this month at just add ink

i have loved being part of the team :)

if you want to see more of what i do please subscribe to my blog

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just add ink #250 just add inspiration

another awesome challenge from the just add ink team

this time it was an inspiration challenge

 when i saw this all i could think of was a high tea with friends and copious amounts of tea and biscuits and china tea cups

 this is what i came up with

a card in a box using the from my heart stamp set from stampin up

i have also used some beautiful pink ribbons and lace and the gorgeous rosettes

punches used include the small butterfly and a border punch

 the cups were stamped in black and pink pirouette ink and fussy cut

 i cut around the from my heart stamp and utilised different aspects of it in different ways for the inside of the card in a box

 the front of the card with some bling and pearls

 the view from up top so you can see the mechanics of it

 the back of the card where you can write your greeting

a view from the side using spots from the kinda eclectic stamp set

hope this inspires you this week

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just add ink #249 just add sketch

wow!

this is pretty cool!

a guest designer for february at just add ink!!

welcome welcome welcome

here is the sketch and inspiration for this weeks challenge

here is my take on this months sketch

i love a bit of colour in my cards

(actually it should really be LOVE!!)

so i couldn't resist adding a bit to this sketch

even though i tried to be more subtle by using watercolour pencils 

 to make my card i used a hexagon punch as a stencil and drew the shapes onto watercolour paper.

then i coloured them in with watercolour pencils-a different colour per hexagon

and used an aqua painter to blend them together.

to make the lines i used stampin up's rows of tiny pearls

the butterfly was made using the swallowtail stamp and stamping with versamark onto vellum and then embossing with white embossing powder.

all i did next was punch out the middle of the butterfly, added some glitter, bling and silver cord

hope you like

and see you next week!!!!

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simple christmas card

love the blendabilities from stampin up

they are fab for colouring in details in cards

here is patridge in a pear tree stamp coloured in with a dash of bling.

all this colouring in is making me forget my punch art

oh no......

peacock bling

love peacocks

love su blendabilities

love bling

 see the bling!!!!!

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ta da!!

...and just like that life is back to normal

i know it has been a long time between posts but moving countries and technology have been leading me on a merry little dance

but i am back!!

you missed me riiiight?!!

so what better that to restart my blogging by participating in a just add ink challenge

the challenge this week was a sketch and this what i came up with

this is the front

 and here is the inside

cheers ears adn thanks for looking

i have to apologize....

for the over abundance of flowers and bling this week...

it seems i was over whelmed by something that forced me to use as much 

bling and flowers as i could possibly fit on a card!!!!!!

 actually this is a sketch challenge entry for just add ink this week...believe it or not.

this was the sketch

and if you look carefully i do have 3 flowers on the left and 

something on the right and 

a bit of writing down the bottom

it's just that it is all flowery and blingy!!

why you ask?

weeeeellllllll

i have a confession to make...

i am a hoarder :>

i hoard craft supplies

i am really really REALLY bad at not using my stash

so i thought it was a wise decision to attack my big box of flowers and do somethingn with them

hence this card!!

so...what have i used?

stamp set is best yet

butterfly is beautiful butterflies die

(yes leonie i ended up buying my own because i really can't keep borrowing yours lol)

glitter is pink supernova

ink is orchid and pink passion

oh and did i mention how much i love this diamond fold???

cheers ears

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

ok

i have a confession to make

i bought the sticky cuts ages ago before they got retired and have only just now opened the darn packet

rofl

i just never got around to using them

oops-my bad!

so on my weekend away i took them with me vowing and declaring to sue them come hell or high water

and i did! 

go me go me go me

 so here is miss 3 with her bestest buddy at dance class

with BLING and some tasteful trim and retired dsp-pink flamingo?

see how sparkley it is

oooooooooooo pretty!!

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tag.......... you're it!!

I am part of a Christmas tag swap and have been having some fun making these little cuties. So easy and so much fun. I started off with the traditional colours but then branched out to pink...well being a girl and all...gotta have some pink...oh and some bling too :> cheers ears There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs. ~Bill Vaughan