Just Add Ink #500....Winners!

A huge thank you to everyone that joined us to share in celebrating our 500th Challenge!!

It was a special challenge for us as a design team and we were in awe of all the stunning creations in the gallery from you all. We are always inspired by each of you and love popping by your sites to see your creativity each week.

The design team votes for this week are in and we are so pleased to announce that this week's Top Pick goes to Jodene with her stunning showcasing of die cut words. Congrats Jodene!

Jodene

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

Beautiful blending and technique...Stunning trio!

So much gorgeous colour matched with striking graphic patterns.

I love the vibrant colours and texture in her cards.

Absolutely beautiful cards with fabulous colouring, the sentiments really pop against all the colour.

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honourable Mentions this week go to -

Ashwini

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

Divine! Love the partial cutting & little touches of gold.

Love the fabulously coloured blooms & touches of gold.

Stunning colouring, a lovely card.

The watercoloring was stunning in it's depth of colour and detail.


Elizabeth

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

A delightful and colourful bouquet

Colourful and happy, inside & out.

 Stunning, colourful floral background. Great focus on the die cut sentiment!

The sweet floral detail and vellum overlay really pop on this CAS style.

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 #500...Blog Hop

Happy Friday all! 

The Just Add Ink team is celebrating another big milestone this week - we have reached our 500th challenge! 

We couldn't have gotten here without you, all our wonderful global participants - so thank you for joining us. We really enjoy seeing your projects and appreciate so much that you share them with us. The design team decided that a great way to celebrate our 500th challenge was with a blog hop. The theme for the blog hop and the challenge this week, suggested by Jan, is Just Add a Die Cut Word. 

To commence hopping click on Denita's link and you can then continue the hop by clicking on the "Next" banner in each design team members post!

Denita Wright-Smee

Lou Kitzelman

Kelly Kent

Tina Gillespie

Nikki Spencer

Joanne Stubbings

Di Barnes

Patrice Easton

Kim Badelt

Rachael Lewsley

Narelle Farrugia

Chantell Randall

Enjoy! We will look forward to seeing your projects.

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 #499...Winners

Hello there,

we loved seeing your projects with the pastel colours of last week's colour challenge. Thanks to all those who played along! This week our winner is Ma-Mi with this stunning C&S design.

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

Her use of the challenge colours just pop against all that white space.

Love the combination of gorgeous graduated colour with the silhouette image.

So striking in it's simplicity.

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honourable Mentions this week go to -

Joanne James

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

Super sweet use of the colours with lovely texture and layers.

A simple beautiful card.

Lovely texture and shine mixed with our delicate colour combination.

Vicki Burdick

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

Such a fresh, beautiful and uplifting card!

A lovely country style card with sweet pastel flowers.

Her flowers are so sweet.

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 #499...Colour!

Hi and Happy Friday everyone!!

It's challenge time again and this week we have a really pretty colour combination for you that includes two of the relatively new colours, Balmy Blue and Highland Heather

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

Narelle Farrugia

Joanne Stubbings

Lou Kitzelman

Nikki Spencer

Di Barnes

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.
• 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 # 498 - Winners!!

Good afternoon all - We hope you are travelling well.

We are certainly doing life differently at the moment.  Many of us have adjusted what and how we do things.   It's great to see how many of us are turning to our craft and creativeness in a time when things can be stressful.

It's always a pleasure to see all your cards and projects.  We also love to see all the different ways you approach the Challenges.  Personally I really enjoyed looking at all the different versions of E.

Our Winner this week is:

Claire

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

"Just the sweetest pastel hued Easter scene!"

"Completely adorable!"

"Absolutely beautiful colour combination for the cutest Easter card"

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honourable Mentions this week go to -

Vicky

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

"Lovely CAS card. Gorgeous colouring and very cute subject!"

"Stunning hand drawn detail"

"A perfect CAS card!"

Vicki

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

"Absolutlely adorable Easter bunnies for your trio of cards"

"Delightful Easter cards, each beautifully individualised"

"The cutest little set of Easter cards ever!"

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 #498...Add "E"

Happy Friday everyone!

We are back with a brand new challenge to share and this week Tina has challenged us to "Add E" to our projects!

This can be done in a number of ways, something starting with E, a technique or fold, colours, images or embellishments or even an occasion starting with E.

With Easter not far away, this is the perfect challenge to create and share your Easter projects too!

Lots of simple ideas and some fabulous inspiration from the team. So please join us and don't forget to link back to back here and clearly state in your blog post what your "E" element is.

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

Rachael Lewsley

Nikki Spencer

Kim Badelt

Kelly Kent

Chantell Randall

Rochelle Blok

Tina Gillespie

Patrice Easton

Denita Wright-Smee

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 #497...Winners!

Welcome to our sketch challenge "Top Pick & HMs" post.

We had some fabulously creative entries this week and loved the variety of ways you all applied it to your projects. So thanks for playing and we hope to see you back for our next challenge tomorrow!

The design team votes are tallied and our "Top Pick" for this week is Donna with her whimsical mermaid project!

Donna



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

Simple but very effective use of the sketch, lovely!

I love how she used circles -cute card!

 Love how Donna carried through the mermaid theme & water elements to fit the sketch.

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog.


Honourable Mentions this week go to -

Amanda

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

Fresh, fun & very creative way to use sketch

A really clever and fun way to use our sketch.

Lovely simple card, beautiful colours!


Robyn

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

Clever use of the sketch!

Beautiful interpretation of the sketch, the flowers are divine!

I love this floral representation of our sketch. Really clever.

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