JAI#167 - Just Add...Fabric!

This week has flown by or have I slept through it after the excitement, fun and exhaustion of our Stampin' Up! Convention in Brisbane last week? Convention is a great opportunity for many of the Just Add Ink Design Team to get together face-to-face and enjoy each others company as we have become such good friends through this challenge site and Stampin' Up!

It was also good to meet face-to-face many of you lovely followers and weekly challenge participants that went to Convention too! I won't name any of you here as I would be likely to miss someone and I don't want to offend, so waving ~~ to ALL our lovely challenge followers and participants!!

So without further ado here is this week's challenge...

To Just Add...Fabric!

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

Mae Collins

Chantell Randall

Christine Blain

Kim Badelt

Narelle Farrugia

Nikki Spencer

Tina Gillespie

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.

Just Add Ink #166.....Winners!

Afternoon all!.....Thank you to everyone that played along this past fortnight, your entries were all lovely and we appreciate you joining in. We have decided to change the normal Winners post and add in the photos of the "Honorable Mentions" as well. So now you can see at a glance the cards we have chosen and still read the comments left by the Design Team.

This weeks winner is Kez with her lovely embossing.....Congrats Kez, it's a beautiful card!

Kez

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

"Wow - gorgeous!  Love the touches of Lucky Limeade, and the bold embossed images"

"Kez's use of white embossed flowers gives a stunning effect on all that Midnight Muse"

"love the bold white embossed flowers and touch of limeade ribbon"

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honorable Mentions for this week go to -

Karen J



"Love the modern CAS feel to this card, the stars are perfect for the challenge colours"

" Karren's CAS star card is stunning - fabulous use of the challenge colours"

Beth

"Beth's card is absolutely stunning! The hexagons gives such a contemporary look and the eyelet treatment is a lovely touch"

"I love the shapes and layout of 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!

REMINDER: Design Team Search!

Just a reminder to check our earlier post (click here!) on the details for our Design Team Search. Submissions close this Friday, 31 May, at 10pm EST.

Stampin' Up! Convention

Thought we would pop in and share a pic from Stampin' Up!'s Brisbane Convention of some of the Just Add Ink Design Team.

We are having a ball, been very spoilt with SU! new releases...which we can not share just yet!

Looking forward to adding some new faces to the Design Team - see this earlier post for how to apply.

JAI 166 Colour combo challenge

This week's colour combination is from me and I had a hard time doing my own challenge, I tell ya lol. Anyway this week's challenge is for two weeks as most of us on the JAI team will be at the South Pacific Stampin' Up! Convention so we have decided to extend this week's challenge until Wednesday the 29th of May. Don't forget to check out our Design Team Search and if you are going to the South Pacific Convention, we would love to say hi to all our challenge participants.

So here is the colour combo

and here is what the Design Team have come up with this week

Nikki Spencer

Delys Cram

Christine Blain

Jodene Tripp 

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.
• 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 #165...Winners!

Hello!....So sorry about the late post this week people, but due to my poor old laptop retiring unexpectedly this morning, it is much later than usual.

Now the reason for the post...We had so many wonderful "woodgrain" entries this week, it was wonderful to see! As always they made it very difficult for us to choose just one as our "Top Pick"......But this week the title goes to Cathy, with her lovely "Woodgrain" frame!

Cathy

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

 "The woodgrain border Cathy has made is so effective to frame her gorgeous DSP and butterflies"

 "I really like how she has framed her feature panel and the butterflies are beautiful"

"A fantastic idea to create a frame around this sentiment"

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honorable Mentions for this week go to -

Stacey

"The woodgrain background works perfectly with the bright pretty banners"

"Absolutely gorgeous card with so many gorgeous details"

Julie

 "I love the woodgrain texture on the base card, and love how the reds really 'pop' on Julie's creation - gorgeous"

"Love the red woodgrain and the gorgeous red poppies on the panel"

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!

JAI Design Team Search

Are you a keen follower of our challenge blog? Have you a desire to join our Design Team? Then read on...

We are looking to add to our Just Add Ink Design Team!
We have 2 positions available and you can find out more about it below.

Just Add Ink Design Team Submission Guidelines 2013:

1. All Design Team projects must be new and not previously published or shown online.
2. Project submissions should include one card using your usual style and one OTP/3D (off-the-page).
3. You must include with your submission a short blurb about yourself and why you would like to join the team.
4. Send your submissions to: just-add-ink@hotmail.com. Please put "JAI DT Submission" in your subject line and resize your photos to 600x600 or less. All photos should be labelled with your name.
5. Deadline for submissions is Friday, 31 May 2013 at 10.00 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.
6. Australian/New Zealand applicants ONLY at this time as we want to keep the "downunder" feel to our challenge site.
7. While most of us are SU demonstrators, this is not a requirement...however, a lover of SU products is strongly encouraged.
8. You can be on other Design Teams but all JAI posts must only be linked to Just Add Ink, i.e. no other promotion to other DTs/stores etc. This includes any Stampin’ Up! demonstrators. No self-promotion is required from all of our Design Team members on JAI projects. We just want this to be a challenge blog without any links to any business.
9. Our Design Team members are required to have a blog/website and be able to comment on challenge submissions.
10. Design Team members will be required to submit one design each fortnight. You can submit more often but this is the basic requirement.

Any Questions? Just email us at the hotmail address.

Can't wait to see who will be joining our friendly team!

Anyone attending the upcoming Stampin' Up! Convention in Brisbane, and wanting to meet some of us face-to-face, please come up and introduce yourself as quite a few of us will be attending...just look out for the fun-loving noisy group! Although that may be hard amongst almost 700 excited SU! demonstrators!

 

 

JAI#165 - Just Add...Woodgrain

This will be a short introduction to this week's challenge as I am 5 hours away from home and using my brother's computer to upload this post. Which is also why my card will not be uploaded until the weekend as I didn't get a chance to photograph it etc before leaving home this morning to deal with a family situation.

Anyway, the reason you are here is to hopefully join in with our weekly challenge which is to...

Just Add...Woodgrain

It is great to see our regular followers have fun with our weekly challenges and for those new visitors to our little challenge blog join in as well. So join in and show us how you can add woodgrain to your project.

 

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

Mae Collins

Christine Blain

Jodene Tripp

Kim Badelt

Narelle Farrugia

Nikki Spencer

Tina Gillespie

Trish Radacs

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.

Just Add Ink #164.....Winners!

Afternoon all!.....It's time again for our Winners post for this weeks "Just Add Ink Sketch Challenge" and also time for a huge "Thank You" to all of our regulars and a big "Welcome" to the new followers and entries, it's always great to have "New Friends"...:0)

As always, it was so difficult to choose a winner from all of the gorgeous entries we had this week, we loved seeing how you interpreted the sketch in such a variety of way's, so thanks again to all of you for playing at Just Add Ink.

Now, onto why we are here...... This weeks "Winner" is Louise Sharp, with this beautiful blue and white creation! 

Louise Sharp

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

"Absolutely gorgeous.  Love the depth of colour, and the delicate design"

 "I love the softness of this card and how she has used the detail from the stamp set. Beautiful"

"Love the clean, crisp use of blue and white, so soft and pretty"

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honorable Mentions for this week go to -

Clare

"So cute, and inventive.  Love the 'homey' (pardon the pun) look of this card"

"Lots of fun and effort went into making this funky card"

Pam

"Beautiful card! Love the embossed vellum as the card base and the perfect accents she's added"

"Great colours and the Vellum layer works beautifully"

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!

JAI Scrap #17

This months Scrapbooking challenge is an inspirational Photo Challenge courtesy of  Ruthy!

Mays' Challenge is to use this photo as inspiration for your Scrapbooking Layout

 

so heres what the scrapbooking design team came up with..

Tina Gillespie 

Ruth Clarke

Delys Cram

So hope you will come and play this month  using our Challenge as your inspiration.

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 May at 10.00 pm (AEST) Australian Eastern Standard Time. For the US submitters this means the day before for you!

 

JAI Scrap #16 Winners

JAI Scrap # 16 Winners! 

I cant believe its May already! The year is just flying by! We loved all of the Layouts last month but there can only be one winner and

Our winner for April is..

Kerry High

Congratulations Kerry!

Heres a few comments from the team about your beautiful Layout Kerry!

I love all the layers and clusters, and the quote matches the photo perfectly

Love the embellishments and curled edge especially

Gorgeous Layout! 

Heres your winners badge to put on your blog

Honourable Mentions go to ..

Kylie Scott

I love how she's managed to convey the connection between her children

Jacque Williams

Love the colour blocking and how the black and white photo makes this LO pop

Thanks everyone for playing along with us ..and come back at 12 Noon to see Mays' challenge!

JAI 164 Just Add This Sketch

 Hello to another Friday and what a shock to realise that its May ..already!!! Wow the year is going by so quick! 

This weeks Challenge is a Sketch Challenge courtesy of Mae (our Sketch Queen) 

Here is what the Design Team have come up with this week to provide you with inspiration...Lovely to see everyones spin on this challenge..love that this sketch can be for cards, scrapbooking LOs or mixed media even..cant wait to see what you all come up with!

Delys Cram

Jo Eades

Chantell Randall

Christine Blain

Jodene Tripp 

Kim Badelt 

Narelle Farrugia

Nikki Spencer

Tina Gillespie

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.