Just Add Ink #440..."Blog Hop"

Hello everyone!!   Welcome to the first "Just Add Ink" challenge for 2019.   

We hope you have enjoyed your Christmas and New Year celebrations and are ready to play along with our 2019 Challenges.

It has become tradition  here at Just Add Ink, to start the New Year with a Blog Hop.   With a new Occasions Catalogue and Sale-a-brations in full swing at the moment, it’s the perfect time of year to "Just Add Something New!"

Adding "Something New" to your projects may be in the form of a new product, stamps, a technique or even something from your craft stash that you have not used before.   Please share details of what your "NEW" is, that makes it much easier for the design team when commenting and voting.

Instead of adding all of the design teams projects to this post, we have added their blog links below so you can follow the hop and leave them some comments as you go.

You can begin the blog hop here by clicking on Jackie’s name, or at any of the other design team members blog posts.   Then, just follow the hop by clicking on the next button that you will find at the bottom of all the design team posts.

Here is what the Design Team have come up with this week to provide you with inspiration...

Jackie Aitken

Kelly Kent

Joanne Stubbings

Tina Gillespie

Lou Kitzelman

Jan McQueen

Rachael Lewsley

Nikki Spencer

Rochelle Blok

Di Barnes

Kim Badelt

Chantell Randall

Denita Wright-Smee

Narelle Farugia

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.
• Colour Challenges: Please use "ONLY" the challenge colours or as close as possible when creating your project. (Black-White-Vanilla & Metallics may also be added)
• Alphabet Challenges: Please comment in your post exactly what your "Alphabet" element is.
• Choose Two Challenges: Please comment in your post which of the "Two" elements you chose.
• 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.

Just Add Ink #439..."Gift Box"

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to our last challenge at Just Add Ink for 2018!

We have loved seeing all your projects for the different challenges throughout the year and we hope that you have been inspired as much as you inspire us! Thank you to everyone who has joined in and we hope that you all enjoy a safe and peaceful Christmas and look forward to seeing you back in 2019 with a fun Blog Hop on January 18.

Well timed for Christmas, Patrice has asked us to Just Add A Gift Box for this challenge that will last for TWO WEEKS - closing on January 2nd. Whilst there won't be any voting by the design team we hope that you will enjoy sharing to inspire each other with all the different boxes you are creating for special gifts this Christmas season and beyond.

Here is what the Design Team have come up with this week to provide you with inspiration...

Lou Kitzelman

Jo Stubbings

Nikki Spencer

Jan McQueen

Di Barnes

Kim Badelt

Narelle Farrugia

Tina Gillespie




Chantell Randall




Rochelle Blok

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.
• Colour Challenges: Please use "ONLY" the challenge colours or as close as possible when creating your project. (Black-White-Vanilla & Metallics may also be added)
• Alphabet Challenges: Please comment in your post exactly what your "Alphabet" element is.
• Choose Two Challenges: Please comment in your post which of the "Two" elements you chose.
• 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.

Just Add Ink #438......Winners!

A big thank you to everyone who took the time in this busy Season to join us for last week's Colour challenge. It was so lovely to pop over to your blogs and see the different third colour you chose to add and to see what themes were the focus in your lovely creations!

For this, the last Winners post of 2018, the Top Pick goes to Christine Dring  for this bright and beautiful Christmas creation. 

Christine Dring

Here is what some of the design team had to say...

Pretty ornaments and subtle sparkle.

The colouring on these beautiful baubles gives a lovely 3D effect.

The prettiest baubles and a lovely light blue to complement the Challenge colours.

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honourable Mentions this week go to -

Ma -Mi

Here's what some of the design team had to say...

 Lovely layers that create great texture.

A gorgeous clean card with lovely textural elements.

Stunning design and each element is perfectly placed.


Cindy Major

Here's what some of the design team had to say...

That koala is totally adorable especially paired up with all those hearts!

Super cute design and lovely balance of colour.

Such an adorable and beautifully coloured and accented design!

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

Thanks for playing at Just Add Ink!

Don't forget to join us tomorrow for our next challenge

Just Add Ink #438..."Colour"

Hello and Happy Friday all!

This week at Just Add Ink we have a fun colour challenge for you from Nikki.  Nikki has selected the first two colours for you but you get to choose your third one! Here are the colours. Enjoy!

Here is what the Design Team have come up with this week to provide you with inspiration...

Nikki Spencer

Denita Wright-Smee

Chantell Randall

Rachael Lewsley

Tina Gillespie

Kim Badelt

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.
• Colour Challenges: Please use "ONLY" the challenge colours or as close as possible when creating your project. (Black-White-Vanilla & Metallics may also be added)
• Alphabet Challenges: Please comment in your post exactly what your "Alphabet" element is.
• Choose Two Challenges: Please comment in your post which of the "Two" elements you chose.
• 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.

Just Add Ink #437...Winners

Hello there,

last weeks Just Add "I" challenge from Tina was one our trickier alphabet challenges so we were thrilled with all the lovely creative entries we got to look at. However, there can only be one winner and this week our winner is Birgit with this classic Christmas card.

Here is what some of the design team had to say...

A really fun, textural and arty card.

Such a fun, cute and beautifully detailed scene.

Delicate colouring brings such life to this sweet Christmas scene!

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honourable Mentions this week go to -

Stempelfrida

Here's what some of the design team had to say...

Adorable Christmas card with the cutest little gnome!

How can you resist that cute gnome Santa!

Stunning colouring and a gorgeous, classic scene.

Ma-Mi

Here's what some of the design team had to say...

Fabulous inking technique, creates a Wow background.

Beautiful rich inky background on her cute card.

I just loved the intense inky background and the glittery snow.

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

Thanks for playing at Just Add Ink!

Don't forget to join us tomorrow for our next challenge

Just Add Ink #437...Just Add "I"

Happy December everyone!

This week here at Just Add Ink, Tina has challenged us to add "I" to our projects! There are loads of options...Icing-Igloos-Islands-Ice-Inky techniques-Iridescent-Icicles-Icecream-Iris fold and the list goes on!
The design team have used some fun "I" elements on their projects to help you with even more ideas, so have fun and don't forget to tell us in your blog post exactly what your "I" element is.

Here is what the Design Team have come up with this week to provide you with inspiration...

Lou Kitzelman

Jo Stubbings

Nikki Spencer

Narelle Farrugia

Tina Gillespie

Rochelle Blok

Jan McQueen

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.
• Colour Challenges: Please use "ONLY" the challenge colours or as close as possible when creating your project. (Black-White-Vanilla & Metallics may also be added)
• Alphabet Challenges: Please comment in your post exactly what your "Alphabet" element is.
• Choose Two Challenges: Please comment in your post which of the "Two" elements you chose.
• 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.

Just Add Ink #436...Winners!

Thanks for joining in with this weeks "Sketch" challenge! 

We had some lovely creative entries and enjoyed popping by your blogs to see how you incorporated the sketch elements into your projects...Thanks for joining us and we hope you will be back again soon for another fun Just Add Ink challenge!

The design team votes have been tallied and our "Top Pick" for this week goes to Julie, with her fabulous black/white reindeer project.

Julie

Here is what some of the design team had to say...

Lovely layers on this funky card.

Fabulous mix of patterns and layers for fun Christmas card.

 Fabulous card!

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honourable Mentions this week go to -

Mo

Here's what some of the design team had to say...

A lovely use of non-traditional Christmas colours and papers.

Beautiful use of the DSP layers. Love the use of the snowflake as the circle element.

 I love that she's used a snowflake for the circle element.


Lauren

Here's what some of the design team had to say...

Such a sweet Christmas card.

Such a sweet card! Love the use of soft colours, and a very cute reindeer! 

Totally adorable use of the sketch!

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

Thanks for playing at Just Add Ink!

Don't forget to join us tomorrow for our next challenge