Thursday, October 31, 2013

Just Add Ink 188 - Winners!

Happy Thursday evening everyone!

Time to share our winner and top picks for this past weeks JAI challenge - Just Add Grunge

The entries this week certainly proved you can grunge up any card and it looks great and is a lot of fun too!

Voting was not easy as we had some truly gorgeous grunged up cards but there has to be one winner so our top pick for this week was Julie Gearinger with this stunning card.




Here's what some of the Design Team had to say....

Love the vivid colour of the main panel against the background

That background is "grunged" to perfection.  Fabulous!

Congratulations!


Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honorable Mentions for this week go to -




Love the halloween grunge theme and the design of the card

Geri has used fabulous colours and perfect amount of grunge for her cool Halloween card!




Carolyn has combined these pretty colours and created a perfectly grungy card!

Such a pretty colour combination, and inspired use of stamps - love 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, October 25, 2013

Just Add Ink 188 - Grunge

Hello Lovelies are you ready for the next Just Add Ink challenge?
Get your ink, stamps and paper ready to challenge yourself by adding Grunge to your next creation!!!

What is Grunge???
Here are a few definitions:
1. Dirt or rubbish
2. A style of rock music featuring a distorted guitar sound
3. A deliberate untidy and uncoordinated fashion style

Here is one example



So make what you like of the definitions and show us how you interpret it!

This week the Design Team have provided some amazing inspiration to get us in the grungy mood!




and our Guest Design Team Member for this month...

Rhonda Fawcett



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, October 24, 2013

Just Add Ink 187 Winners!

Firstly, the Just Add Ink Design Team members would like to send their thoughts and prayers to every person who has been affected by the current fire situation in New South Wales, Australia. We hope that you and your families are all safe.
A big thank you to all the amazing people who have put their lives on the line to save our lives, property, pets and wildlife.


Wow didn't we receive some lovely entries this week!  What a fun sketch Paula designed for us all to get creative with.


The winner this week is Arielle with her Halloween themed card.



Here's what some of the Design Team had to say......

"Super cute, cheery Halloween card"

"Ariele's Halloween  card is super cute! Love the mix of web stamps and sentiment and the non-scary spider is adorable!"

"A super cute CAS card.  Love the spider!"


Congratulations!


Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honorable Mentions for this week go to -

Jan


"Great masculine card! Love the placement of the bike"


"Fabulous 'guy' card, and clever take on the sketch"


Marlene


"Great take on this sketch - unique"

"Wonderful negative take on the sketch"


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, October 18, 2013

JAI 187 Sketch challenge

Hello there and welcome to this weeks Just Add Ink challenge - a great sketch from Paula - her first which is pretty exciting! 

We hope the challenge inspires you  - it certainly did inspire the DT!  We would love you to join in the fun, as we love seeing how you interpret the challenges each week.

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




























and Guest Designer Rhonda Fawcett



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, October 17, 2013

Just Add Ink #186 - Winners

Happy Thursday evening everyone!

Time to share our winner and top picks for this past weeks JAI challenge - Just Add Inspiration

Inspiration challenges give you the freedom to express your ideas in so many different ways which is a lot of fun! We certainly enjoyed seeing the different ideas everyone took from Delys' wreath inspiration photo but there was one entry that really caught the DT's attention.

Our top pick for this week was Roz with this stunning wreath.




Here's what some of the Design Team had to say....

Amazeballs!  I love that she thought outside the square and included sentimental objects that might never have seen the light of day in such a unique way.  Very, very clever.

Such a unique wreath, made with treasured objects; love it!

Such a wonderfully unique project.

Congratulations!


Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honorable Mentions for this week go to -




Such a pretty, delicate card.  I LOVE the use of a Christmas stamp for a girly birthday card!

Beautiful soft colours and a great alternative use of the wreath.

Sweet & dainty! great alternate use of a Christmas image.




I really like this wreath of presents on this modern Christmas card

Such a cheery & fun take on this weeks challenge..Love the colours!

Fabulous take on this weeks inspiration pic!


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, October 11, 2013

JAI # 186 Inspiration Challenge

Hi Stampers!

Welcome to the next Just Add Ink Challenge......
Inspiration comes from many places.  I take mine from all kinds of things such as nature, things I see when I am out shopping, colors that I like or another persons worked.
This Challenge falls into the Inspiration category.  Delys has given us this wonderful Inspirational Photo to inspire us this week: 


JAI 186 inspiration photo challenge 

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


JAI #186 Christine
JAI 186

JAI186 - Jodene (Card 2)


JAI 186 Kim



JAI #186


JAI #186 Paula



JAI 186 Tina



JAI # 186 Chantell


and our Guest Design Team Member for this month...
Rhonda Fawcett

RhondaJAI186




So come and join us in this Just Add Inspiration Challenge! 

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, October 10, 2013

Just Add Ink # 185 Winners!

Good afternoon everyone!

Thank you to everyone who played along this week, we loved seeing all your beautiful projects from our colour combo challenge - they were all truly amazing!

Our winner this week is ...


With this gorgeous card ..

Here's what some of the Design Team had to say......

 "Stunning. A beautiful take on this weeks challenge"

 "Great use of colour and that text frame is a lovely way to make a feature panel"

 "Beautifully put-together card, using the challenge colours to perfection"

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog:

 Honorable Mentions for this week go to -


JAI 185

 "Terrific composition; love all the elements, and their placement"

 "a contemporary way to combine the challenge colours"





 "I love the effect she has achieved with her stamping. Very striking.comment"

 "gorgeous background effect"

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


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


Thanks for playing at Just Add Ink!