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!

Challenge 196 - Just Add your Christmas project

There are only 5 days till Christmas and the last Just Add Ink challenge for the year so it's the perfect opportunity for you to show us your Christmas project!

The design team have come up with some fabulous Christmas projects but we'd really love to see yours too.  Christmas projects can include things like gifts, decorations or you can even share your Christmas day dining table setup.

The challenge will run for 2 weeks so you've got time to get your entries in over this busy period.

Here is what the Design Team have created this week to provide you with some inspiration...

Chantell Randall

Delys Cram

Jodene Tripp

Kim Badelt

Nikki Spencer

Paula Dobson

Tina Gillespie

Trish Rayfield

Pop over to the Design Team's blogs to get the details for each project.

Don't forget you've got a little bit of extra time to get your entries in as this challenge will finish on Wednesday 1 January 2014.

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.

The JAI design team thanks you for sharing your beautiful creations with us in 2013 and we wish you a very merry Christmas!!

JAI 195 - Winners

We definitely must be in the Christmas crazy period because we didn't get many entries this week but that doesn't mean that we didn't have a fantastic bunch to pick from!

Our design team had a tough time choosing the winner this week but there was one winner and that person is......

Karren J

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

"Love the contrast of the pastel chevrons and black framed swirly sentiment"

"Fabulous card! I adore the chevrons (especially the blinged out one) and how she's made the challenge colours work!"

"Awesome card! Such fun use of the challenge colours"

Congratulations!

Here is your badge to wear on your blog.

Honorable Mentions for this week go to -

Alyson

"Love all the little details and embellishments"

"Beautiful use of the colours and such lovely collage layering"

"A piece of art with all these layers and embellishments"

Jan

"Wonderfully eclectic mix of embossed dots, chevrons and butterflies"

"Another great layout - and I the boldness of this birthday card"

"Love this card - it's so striking!"

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 # 195 Colour challenge

Hello and welcome to this weeks Just Add Ink challenge. 

This weeks colour challenge is a lovely combo - fresh, festive with a summery feel. We have also included an inspiration picture to go along with the colours. Feel free to use the colours alone or combine them with inspiration from the picture.

We hope the challenge inspires you and you can find time to join in the fun in this busy time in the lead up to Christmas.

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

Christine Blain

Kim Badelt

Louise Sharp

Mae Collins

Narelle Farrugia

Nikki Spencer

Paula Dobson

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.

JAI Scrap #23 Winners

Apologies for the delayed posting of the November's winner - its a crazy time of year but it won;t be long till we get to put our feet up!

We loved the entries we got for the "Just add Me" challenge but there can only be one winner.

Our winner for this month is...

Toni

Here's a few comments from the design team....

"Beautiful layout, and I love the way she interpreted the theme of the challenge"

"Love the soft colours and lovely details, a special way to capture your day"

 Here's your winners badge to put on your blog

Honourable Mention to ..

Kim



 "I love they way she's scrapped all the different sides of herself"

"Such a lovely way to capture all of the wonderful things that make you, you"

Thanks everyone for playing along with this months challenge!