Friday 15 January 2016

Just Add Ink Challenge # 294 - Blog Hop

Hi everybody and welcome to our first Just Add Ink challenge of 2016!! At Just Add Ink we always like to start the year off with a blog hop to showcase the first challenge of the year. You should have arrived here from the always amazing Jodene's blog.



This year Rochelle has suggested we all 'Just Add Something New'. Now I know that won't be hard for the Stampin Up! demonstrators out there as the new Occasions catalogue and Sale-a-bration promotions have started! If you don't have anything new from SU! please join us using whatever new product you have and be sure to let us know what it is.

To make the blog hop extra special the design team have donated new SU! SAB items as prizes to the winner and two honorable mention participants. Talk about lucky!!

Please note, to be eligible, you must create a "NEW" project using "SOMETHING NEW TO YOU" and leave a comment on all the design team blogs, be or become a JAI blog follower and blog your project exclusively linked to Just Add Ink. Any entrants that link to additional challenges will be disqualified. (The prizes are open to both international and AUS/NZ participants).

We look forward to kicking the year off with a celebration of new crafty goodness and inspiration and hope you will join the challenge with us!!

I was very lucky over the last few weeks to have received a few new stamp sets and papers and couldn't wait to use them. And with Valentines on its way, I thought it would be good to make something lovey-dovey:


I started off by cutting a panel of white CS slightly smaller than my card front and die-cutting a heart from the middle of it. After gluing a piece of acetate to the back of the heart, I cut a piece of patterned paper and adhered to the card front, so it sat behind the heart. Lots of foam tape was added to the back of the heart to form a barrier for the beads/sequins and also around the panel itself for stability. As I wanted to line up the top tip of the heart with the middle heart on the paper, I added my shaker mix to the paper and then pressed the panel down over top.

I then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in gold and fussy cut around it. This was popped up on foam tape and a few more gold sequins were added for a bit more shine. I love the new paper pad this paper came from and the stamp set only arrived a few days ago!!

The heart shaped die is from CAS-ual Fridays. The seed beads are all from The Ton. The pink shaker sequins and gold sequins are from Pretty Pink Posh. The patterned paper is from Crate Paper 'Hello Love' and the sentiment from Honey Bee Stamps 'Beautiful Life'.

You have until next Wednesday January 20th to link your projects to the Just Add Ink challenge. I can't wait to see what new goodies you have in your craft stash and what you create with them!!

Your off now to visit with the fabulous Chantell to see what new goodies she has been playing with!!

Take care
Shona
 







30 comments:

  1. Hi Shona - I am loving this JAI blog hop but I've come to a dead end with Chantell's blog, it's not there, it's gone AWOL! :O I love the subtle and gentle look and feel to 'you are loved' entry to the challenge of 2016, especially the seed beads and shaker confetti which add to the lushness (is that a word?) of the Crate Paper dsp.

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    1. Correction - Chantell's blog is working - the problem was with my tablet!

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  2. Oh I love this card. It is so clean and simple but with a real wow factor. So up to date with the shaker.
    Mary

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  3. I love your choice of paper behind the heart that looks like little confetti hearts. Too cute.

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  4. Love the white space so the shaker part becomes a real feature. Such a sweet card.

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  5. What a gorgeous card, Shona! The shaker is a fabulous feature.

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  6. Oh my, this is a sweet, sweet, sweet card, Shona. The delicate paper design teams so beautifully with the shaker elements & the simple heart outline. Love indeed! Happy blog hop.
    Di :)

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  7. Those sequins and paper look like they were made for each other. The soft colours work wonderfully - another great card!

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  8. Just so sweet and very beautiful Shona...love your wonderful shaker.

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  9. Beautiful! Love the sweet paper behind the die cut heart, and as always your use of white space is inspired. :)

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  10. Fabulous card Shona - I love the colours (and that DSP - lucky you getting all those new things!!!). Kelly x

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  11. All of the products you've used were meant to play together perfectly, Shona! LOve this gorgeousness!
    =]

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  12. Stunning. How did you ever find patterned paper that matched your shaker contents so well. Love this card, it's really so feminine and pretty.

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  13. Beautiful card and love love love the shaker heart box!!! I feel a CASE happening in the near future! ;)

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  14. So beautiful as always Shona! The matching hearts DSP and beads and sequins filling are such a Wow effect and I love how some of the sequel na found their way to the outside too. Xx

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  15. I love all the little pops of gentle colour from those fab little hearts inside the shaker Shona. The gold is a great way to glam it up too! xxx

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  16. How lovely! Your clean and simple design perfectly spotlights the lovely shaker heart and pretty gold sentiment and sequins. Fabulous!

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  17. What a lovely card. I love the soft, delicate colours. Thanks for sharing the instructions. Another for my 'to do' list!

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  18. Such an adorable card and I love how it's got bling but not over the top!

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  19. What a sweet shaker card. The pastel colors are perfect!

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  20. Pretty, pretty, pretty. I love white space (as you know) with the soft pink tones inside your shaker. xxx

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  21. Stunning in simple and elegant Shona style...Love everything about this, but then l love everything you create..:0) xx

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  22. Clean and simple love the soft colours

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  23. Gorgeous colour palette, Shona ... such a deliciously CAS shaker ... so sweet with all those cute hearts! Hugs, Anita :)

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