Hi!


Phew, what a whirlwind week I've had! On Stage in Brisbane was fabulous - so many fun and exciting new products on the way, so watch this space! The best part, though, was catching up with so many of the Just Add Ink girls, including some past members. We had a lovely dinner one night, with over 20 of us laughing and sharing our love of stamping.




Isn't it lovely? My aunt and uncle recently moved into a new house, so I immediately thought of making them a happy housewarming card. I don't own any house stamps, but I did have the MDS version of a retired stamp set, so I fired up the computer, had a play and pressed print. Easy!



I used my Copics to colour the house, but that mean trying to guess some of the equivalent colours. Well, I thought it would involve guess work, until I found this clever chart by Judy May.



The only colour I didn't have a close match to was Mint Macaron. The house probably looks a bit too much like Pool Party. The rest were pretty close though!



I hope you have fun with this colour challenge - I know I did! Pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog too see what the rest of the Design Team have done with it.


Bye for now,


Tina

Hi!


I didn't think I'd be able to play along with this week's Just Add Ink Challenge, but here I am!



Last week I had surgery on my ankle, and I've been stuck in bed ever since. I haven't been able to get up and stamp, but Thursday lunchtime I had the brainwave to use My Digital Studio to create something for the challenge. This, I could do from bed on my laptop!




I love this photo of my Nana on a go cart. The smile on her face is so big - she was clearly having the best time! She passed away in July and I miss her so much, but photos like this of of her remind me that she lived a wonderful life, and that makes me happy. The fact that I snuggled up under the blanket she crocheted me while I made this layout also made me happy.


Thanks for stopping by! You can see what the rest of the Design Team made using the colour combo over at the Just Add Ink blog.


Bye for now,


Tina

Hi!

This week at Just Add Ink we are challenging you to add Eggs or Ovals to your papercrafting.  While at this time of year it is a chance for you to show us your Easter crafting, it doesn't have to be Easter related - any eggs or ovals are fine, as long as they are a feature on your card.


I don't usually make Easter cards, so I don't have any Easter stamp sets.  It was an easy problem to solve though, I just browsed through my My Digital Studio downloads until I found something suitable.  This little cutie came from the Eggstra Spectacular Stamp Brush set.


I coloured the images with my Blendabilites.  I think the little sheep is so very super cute!


With a little bit of digital cropping and pasting I created the rows of Easter Eggs to liven up the inside of the card.

So what will you do with ovals or eggs? Pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog to see what the other Design Team members have created this week.

Bye for now,

Tina

Hi!

Welcome back to another Memory Keeping With PLxSU Blog Hop.  The Design Team are a group of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from all around the world who love the combination of Project Life and Stampin' Up!  This month's theme is a commonly scrapped theme, which is made much easier and faster with the use of Project Life.  We are scrapping with a Travel theme this month!


Rob and I are not be travellers - our one and only overseas trip was to Paris 3 years ago.  We are unlikely to ever go on a trip like this again, but it's nice to dream sometimes! The top left photo was taken from the airplane window.  I love that it's above the clouds, and the title can have many different meanings.


I was originally going to write some pros and cons on this card, but in the end I decided that it worked better using the card to print the adventure definition onto.  It's one of the stamps from the Travel Log download in MDS that I simply resized to suit and printed on to the card.  Easy!


OK, so the above card from the Happiness Is Project Life Card Kit was a bit of a no-brainer to include on the layout!


The journalling is really the crux of this layout - if we ever get the chance to travel again do we go back to Paris and explore the city at a more leisurely pace and fall even more in love with Paris? Or do we go somewhere completely new and have a different adventure? Hopefully sometime in the future we will have to solve this dilemma, but until then we will keep dreaming!

You can see the other Design Team Travel themed layouts on their blogs.  For lots of PLxSU inspiration you can join our Facebook group.

Hi!

Today I have a hybrid card for you.  Hybrid simply means that part of the card was created digitally and printed, and the rest of the card was made using 'traditional' card making methods.


In this case the digital element is the hexagon background.  It's one that I have in my My Digital Studio library of downloads.  It's part of the Lemonade Stand download.  I simply created a 6x4 inch canvas in MDS, selected, positioned and resized the image and then printed it.  I then coloured random hexagons with my Blendability markers.  Easy!


The hard part was actually finishing the card!  I didn't want to cover too much of the background I'd spent so much time working on.  I ended up using the 'yay' diecut from the Circle Flip Card Thinlits and then a retired stamp to finish the sentiment.


I finished off the inside with the cake stamp from the Big Day Sale-A-Bration stamp set.  It's such a great set for making Birthday cards!

Bye for now,

Tina

Hi!

I've had a little burst of scrapping lately, mostly back to the more traditional 12x12 instead of Project Life.  It's been a while since I've done any 12x12 and I'm really enjoying it.


Rob took the kids Trick or Treating last week.  They really enjoy the dressing up part of it.  Ada plans her outfit for weeks, while Alex just throws something together at the last minute!  Lucky he and Rob had built a 'Steve' head (from Minecraft) for a birthday party earlier in the year, so it wasn't too difficult for him to put together his outfit.


The house is from the Set Holiday Homes.  You can purchase it as a Photopolymer set out of the current Holiday Catalogue, or you can do as I did and purchase the MDS download.  I opted for the download as I wanted the flexibility of being able to resize the images.  In this case I printed the house at approximately 3 1/2 inches by 4 1/2 inches, printed it and then coloured it with my Blendabilities.


I did a lot of soft collage stamping in the background of my layout.  I deliberately used softer colours so that I didn't take too much focus away from the photos and the house.  A bit different from more traditional Halloween colours, but I love the effect.  I used Soft Sky, Crumb Cake and Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie.

Bye for now,

Tina

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I think the I Am Me DSP has well and truly been my favourite DSP in this catalogue.  I really love the combination of colours and patterns in the paper.  I used it to make this mini album, which I made for a Secret Santa gift last Christmas.  I think the recipient was fairly easily able to work out that I'd made it, so I'm safe to post it on my blog.


I made a chipboard cover for the album, which I covered using some of the I Am Me DSP.  I left the front blank so that a photo could be adhered there if desired.


I made a double page for each member of the family, but half of the pages had flaps to lift, so there ended up being 4 pages for each family member.


I also left some space at the front for some family photos.


I die cut each family member's name for their page and added some matts for photos.  All they need to do is trim the photos to size and adhere them in place.  Easy!


Under each flap I designed an "All About Me" page in My Digital Studio for each family member.  You can see the types of questions I had on the page.  I changed them for the adults, things like their workplace instead of school.

I hope the family had fun putting the rest of the album together.  I thought it would be a great memento of this particular point in time that they could look back on in years to come.

Bye for now,

Tina

Hi!

Woo Hoo!  It's Friday again!  Time for another Just Add Ink Challenge.

This week Chantell has designed a great sketch for us to use. I really loved it, as it leaves quite a bit of room to play. I decided to do a layout, and as I hadn't had a play with My Digital Studio for a while I decided to do a digital layout.  I found the Star Wars graphic on the internet, as well as the font for the text.  The font is called Star Jedi.


The photos were taken at a library "May The 4th" event that Rob took the kids to.  For those that aren't Star Wars fans, it's a play on the line "May the Force be with you" from the movies and is celebrated worldwide on the 4th of May.  Alex using his new dressing gown to dress up as a Sith Lord, and Ada and I threw together her Padme outfit in about 5 minutes!  The other characters are from a group called the 501st Regiment.  They attend a heap of Star Wars and other themed events, especially children's and charity events.

I used a Basic Black base for the layout, and then added a star burst overlay on top in Daffodil Delight.  I was going for the warp speed look with the stars turning into streaks as the Millennium Falcon speeds through space.  I was quite pleased with the look.

I hope you can play along with us at Just Add Ink this week.  It's a great sketch to play with!

Bye for now,

Tina

oh, PS: This is my 67th layout this year :)

Hi!

Here we go with another Just Add Ink Scrapbooking Challenge.


This month Delys has challenged us to Just Add The Date.  This can mean what ever you like, as long as it's to do with a date.  As I'd been browsing Pinterest I'd seen some family word art designs, so this challenge seemed a perfect time to try my hand at making one.


I used My Digital Studio to create this print.  It's 6x8 and just printed as a photo and then framed.


It's a bit hard to photograph with the glass reflecting everything!  Here's the jpeg file I created.


Isn't it a neat idea?  The Established date is our wedding day, and then the kid's birthdays follow. I've wrapped this up for Rob and it's under our Christmas Tree.  I'm sure he will love it!  I already have an order for another one from my sister - thankfully MDS makes it easy to alter so it will take me no time at all to customise it for her.

I hope you can play along with us at Just Add Ink this month.  Which date will you choose?

Bye for now,

Tina

Hi!

On Monday I posted a grungy Father's Day card that I'd made.  Today I have a very different Father's Day card that was made as a sample for another workshop I ran on the same weekend.  The request there was also for a Father's Day card.


The colour combination for this card came from the Colour Coach.  Not a combo I would have thought of myself, but I really love it! Bermuda Bay, Tangerine Tango, Smoky Slate and Whisper White.


Once again I used My Digital Studio for the sentiment, but this time I used my Bermuda Bay inkpad and a Blender Pen to colour it to match my card.


It's such a happy, cheerful card.  I used stars because I think that our Dads are stars.

Stamps: Simply Stars, Sassy Salutations
Ink: Bermuda Bay, Tangerine Tango
Cardstock: Bermuda Bay, Tangerine Tango, Smoky Slate, Whisper White
Other: Dimensionals, Blender Pen, My Digital Studio

Bye for now,

Tina

Hi!

Today I have a card for you that I made for a party I did recently.  The request from the hostess was male cards, and as Father's Day was only a week away at that time I decided to do a Father's Day card with the group.


The card was CASEd from this card. I really loved the card, and it was easy to change it to be a Father's Day card.


Some of the Epic Day DSP that I punched with the Hexagon Punch wasn't quite grungy enough, so I stamped over the top with the medium splotches stamp from Gorgeous Grunge.


I don't have any Father's Day stamps except the one from Teeny Tiny Sentiments, which is cute but not the right look or size for this card. MDS to the rescue!  I searched the stamps in My Digital Studio and found the one I used.  I just sized it to requirements and printed it onto some Crumb Cake cardstock.  Easy!

Stamps: Gorgeous Grunge, ABC-123 Sketch Alphabet and Numbers
Ink: Crumb Cake, Baked Brown Sugar
DSP/Cardstock: Epic Day DSP, Crumb Cake
Other: Hexagon Punch, Paper Snips, Sponge Daubers, Dimensionals, My Digital Studio

I'll be back later in the week with another Father's Day card.

Bye for now,

Tina

Hi!

I know, I'm really late with this layout, but I thought I'd post it anyway.



I love the convenience of being able to scrap with any photos you have on your computer, and not having to wait until you've been to the shop to print some off!  These photos were of my kids having a wonderful time in these inflatable balls that you get into and then roll around in a pool.  They had an awesome time!

I hope you have time to play along - there's only 10 or so days left to get your entry in over at Just Add Ink.

Bye for now,

Tina

Hi!

How exciting - time for the first Just Add Ink Challenge with the new catalogue.


This week we have decided to use the new Annual Catalogue front cover to inspire our crafting.


I struggled for a while to decide what I was going to do for my project when I got a sudden bolt of inspiration.  I hope you can see how the catalogue inspired me!

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Oops! I'm a bit late with this post, but better late than never!


Wouldn't you love to sit down to eat at that table? A real feast for the senses!  I chose to complete another My Digital Studio layout for this challenge.  I love how convenient is - I don't have to find time to go and print some photos to scrap.


The straight Baker's Twine, the bow and the button were all separate elements. It was easy to layer the three elements to get the arrangement in the layout.  The hardest part was lining up the bow on the button but I think I did a pretty good job of it.

My Digital Studio Elements: Family Reunion Stamp, Cottage Wall DSP, Rich Razzleberry Baker's Twine Straight and Bow, Rich Razzleberry Button

I hope you can play along with us at Just Add Ink this month.  You can scrap a traditional layout or a digital layout, just use the colours in Ruthy's photo as your inspiration. Can't wait to see what you come up with.

Bye for now,

Tina

Hi!


Woo Hoo! Friday again!  I missed joining in the Just Add Ink Challenge last week, so I'm super excited to be back this week. Mae has designed a fantastic sketch to inspire us all this week.  I loved it and knew immediately what I wanted to use it for.


We had been out bowling during the school holidays with the kids and so I created a MDS layout using some photos I took on the day.


I used a page from the Bookstagram Photo Book as the basis for my page. It was really easy to click and drag the photos into the squares and then customise the page to suit the photos.

I hope you can play along this week at Just Add Ink.

Bye for now,

Tina

Hi!


How much fun is this - the new Just Add Ink Scrapbooking Challenge starts just after My Digital Studio is introduced to the South Pacific market? I couldn't wait to let loose on the new challenge using MDS. I selected the challenge this week and it's all about siblings! There are so many ways you could interpret this theme - it's all up to you.


I chose to scrap some photos of my eldest two children and my desperation to get a nice photo of them together. I love that they (mostly!) get along so well and have a fairly close relationship. I just wish they'd let me photograph it!!!


Do you agree with my journalling? Sometimes you get what you want, only to find that what you had was better!  I love that I finally got a nice photo of them together, but I absolutely love the main photo. It shows more of their true relationship, especially that Ada can be a pesky little sister, but that Alex loves her anyway.