Celebration time at Just Add Ink - your chance to win!

Break out the champers it's time to celebrate!
Here at Just Add Ink we are about to reach a few fantastic milestones!

Coming up this week we have our 200th challenge *squeal*
Our blog has 799 followers and our Facebok page has 499 likes!

To help us celebrate we are offering our 800th blog follower and our 500th facebook liker a little surprise.

So if you're not already a follower of the blog or if you haven't liked our facebook page get onto it NOW! Delys or Trish will be sending you a lovely surprise!

You can follow the blog on the right hand side of the blog page.

Like our Facebook page

Follow us in Instagram (just_add_ink)

Keep up to date with our pins on Pintereset

A big THANK YOU to all our current followers, we appreciate your continued support to help our challenges grow!

Good luck to all our new followers :)

*Update*
Since we hit our target so quickly we'll do the same for the 900th follower and 600th facebook like!!! 

We'll be in contact shortly with these winners:
800th Blog follower - Robyn
500th Facebook like - shelly Miller Germann

Challenge199 Just add a sketch

Hello and welcome to this weeks Just Add Ink challenge. 

The team are all back refreshed and ready to go for 2014 and I can tell you we had a lot of fun with this weeks challenge - this week it's a sketch made just for us by Tina.

We'd love to have you join us this week. Perhaps while you are home with the kids on school holidays or may'be tucked up somewhere warm away from the snowy cold outside. 

We look forward to seeing what you all make of it!

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

Chantell Randall

Christine Blain

Kim Badelt

Mae Collins

Narelle Farrugia

Nikki Spencer

Patrice Easton

Paula Dobson 

Susan Wong

Tina Gillespie

Trish Rayfield

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.

Winner JAI #198

Happy Thursday evening everyone!

Time to share our winner and top picks for our first challenge of 2014  - our annual blog hop. This year the challenge was - Just Add the SU! thinlet card dies or envelope punch board.

We had a fabulous array of beautiful flip cards and some great creative ideas for using the envelope punch board. So thanks so much for joining in and for all the great comments you left for the team on our blogs  - we really appreciated hearing from you!

I can tell you it was a tight race for the top pick this week but in the end we selected Michelle for this stunning card.

Michelle Lupton

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

Beautiful mix of colours make this a standout card!

Striking rainbow colours stand out.

Love the rainbow colours and happy feel to her valentine's card

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honorable Mentions for this week go to -

Kez

Such a fun, bold mini album.  Very clever use of the EPB

Fabulous album that any teen would love

A wonderful project that showcases these SU products

Sharnee Torrents

Love how the bunting carries throughout and pretty colours

Sweet, feminine card.  I love the addition of the banner that is revealed when the card is opened - very festive

I love how she's used bunting on 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!

JAI # 198 Blog Hop

Welcome to 2014, we are starting off the year and our regular weekly challenges with a fabulous Blog Hop.

The Challenge (#198) and Blog Hop Theme is Thinlits Card Dies and the Envelope Punch Board.

To tell you a little about these products.....

Thinlits:

These Dies, cut and score to create the amazing flip/swing cards.  These cards have always been a bit tricky to create - but are now made much easier with the Label Card Thinlit or Circle Card Thinlit.  

Envelope Punch Board:

This great tool creates totally cusomisable envelopes in up to 66 different sizes.  From tiny to long and skinny!  So that means millions of envelopes in any colour or pattern your want.

Now, we realize that not everyone will have the Thinlits or Envelope Punch Board so if you don’t have them you can still join in the challenge by making a flip/swing card of your own.  

Instead of us posting pictures of all the Design Team Members projects this week, we want you to Blog Hop around the Design Team's Blogs.  There are 15 stops along the way (this being # 1).  At each stop, one of the Design Team will show you a Project made using the Thinlits or Envelope Punch Board.
Then you can join our challenge by creating a card, Layout or 3D item and link it up as you normally do.

Click the button below to link to the first Design Team Member, Chantell.

If you get stuck or lost, you can return here to choose the next link on the list below.

Chantell Randall

Christine Blain

Delys Cram

Jodene Tripp

Kim Badelt

Louise Sharp

Mae Collins

Narelle Farrugia

Nikki Spencer

Patrice Easton

Paula Dobson

Susan Wong

Tina Gillespie

Trish Rayfield

So come and join us in this Just Add Ink Blog Hop!

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.

JAI Scrap #24 Winners and news

Hello there scrappers before we announce our winner we have some news for you.

First up the Just Add Ink team is sadly farewelling Ruthy Clarke. Ruthy is a very talented scrapper (and card maker!) and such a delightfully warm and sweet person. I can tell you the team will miss Ruthy but she has taken on some great personal challenges in 2014 and scrapping is going on the back burner for now.

Since Delys and Tina our other scrapping team members also contribute regularly to the weekly Just Add Ink challenges we've made the decision, for now anyway, to stop holding separate Just Add Ink scrap challenges. So #24 is in fact our final challenge! But we would really encourage all the scrappers who've joined us to please check in on the weekly Just Add Ink challenges and join in with a scrap page - we'd love to see your scrap page take on the challenges!

Now finally to wrap up #24. Well it was a busy month for all of us and we only had two entries but we loved both of them! So our top pick winning honours goes to both Sharnee and Karen.

Sharnee

Karen

Here's the winners badge to put on your blogs

Thanks to everyone who has played along with the Just Add Ink scrap challenges over the past couple of years we really enjoyed seeing your stories and the creative ways you scrapped them - we really appreciated you sharing them with us!

Just Add Ink..."2013" A Year in Review!

"Happy New Year Everyone"

Hello JAI  friends, we hope you have all had a lovely Christmas and from all of the Design Team, we wish you a wonderful "2014".....

Some Design Team news..It is with much joy, we welcome back to the JAI team, the lovely and oh so talented Patrice...we have missed her and her beautiful style and are all overjoyed to have her back.

The JAI team are still enjoying some downtime and we will all be back ready to inspire with a "Blog Hop" on January 17th.

This week we want to share with you our favorite projects from "2013" and we would love you to link up and share yours as well. We won't be voting on your projects, but would love to see which one of your creations "You" really love.

Here's the Design Teams faves from "2013"...

Chantell Randall




Christine Blain

Delys Cram




Jodene Tripp

Kim Badelt




Mae Collins

Narelle Farrugia

Nikki Spencer




Patrice Easton




Paula Dobson




Susan Wong

Tina Gillespie

Trish Rayfield

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 #196....Winners!

Hey there everyone, we hope you all survived the Christmas mayhem and enjoyed a very relaxing Christmas with those you love.

We loved seeing all of your great Christmas projects and as always choosing just one is very difficult, but we did and our "Top Pick" for our "Just Add Christmas" challenge with this fabulous project is...

Jay TeeZeHang

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

"One of the loveliest handmade Christmas trees I have seen.  Beautiful! "

"A huge amount of work with beautiful results"

 "Fun, colourful family project that really captures the Christmas spirit"

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honorable Mentions for this week go to -

Sue .T.



 "These coasters are so cool and artsy.  A practical and colourful gift set"

 "Lovely project that will be treasured by the recipient I'm sure"


Deb Fearns

"Great to see MDS put to use in the decorating of her yummy Desert table"

 "Fabulous array of themed MDS projects to dress up Christmas dessert"

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!