JAI 744 choose two challenge - Butterfly Rainbow

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week's challenge was set by me, to choose two of elements from either rainbows, flowers, or shimmer. I couldn't resist creating a rainbow as they're one of the things that always makes me smile. Another favourite is butterflies so they made it onto the card too. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 742 inspiration challenge - leafy get well

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. I'm away at the annual Stampin' Up! Onstage event in Brisbane so I'll have to keep this post brief. This week is a photo inspiration challenge featuring a tropical garden scene that I'd love to be able to relax in.  I chose to focus on the tropical plants, furniture, and colours in the image using the Country Flowers stamps and dies bundle. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 740 colour challenge - beach day birthday

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a colour challenge to use Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Pretty in Pink and white in a project. The inclusion of pink and red together was a bit of a puzzle but I thought a beach theme could work. I teamed the Beach Day stamps and dies with some striped papers, and this is how it turned out.

JAI 738 sketch challenge - Beautiful Butterflies window card

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a sketch challenge and I do enjoy a sketch. I thought it would be fun to one of the sketch squares a window so that's where I started. The Beautiful Butterflies stamps and dies bundle came out again, teamed with some Floral and Gingham vellum. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 736 Just add bling - Beautiful Butterflies milestone birthday

 

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a Just Add challenge and we have to add a touch of bling. Easy peasy! I mixed and matched some new goodies from the Jan - April Mini catalogue with other supplies to make a birthday card with a surprise inside for a dear friend's milestone birthday. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 734 Just add something new blog hop - 4 Wildflower Birthday cards

Welcome to a new year of Just Add Ink challenges and a fun full team blog hop to celebrate. You may have arrived from the lovely Ann Alexander's blog or some other way. In any case, hello and I hope you enjoy my projects.

This challenge and hop theme is to Just Add Something New. I'm fortunate to have some beautiful Stampin' Up! goodies from the new Wildflower Birthday suite so I've chosen to use it to make some birthday cards - we all need lots of them, right?  I've also been playing around with an idea to use a simple layout to make multiple cards with different looks using folds or cuts. So take a look at 4 different cards with the same layout used in different ways.

 

30 Christmas Cards - A Little Bit Festive

Hello and welcome! Wishing you all a belated Happy Christmas. I thought you might like to see some of the cards I sent to friends and family this year, so today I'm sharing a set of 30 cards I designed using the A Little Bit Festive paper and die cut pack.

This pack is a fun and very economical way to make easy, individual Christmas cards. The pack is only $17.50 a pack in Aus. I teamed it with basic cardstock, stamped sentiments, some embossing folders, and my favourite basic die shapes, to create a set of 30 cards. Of course they'll still look great if you keep it simple with just card, ink and paper.

This could be a great way to make a start on cards for 2025 so you're not running as late as me this year. Many of the key elements are now Last Chance items and some are discounted too.

JAI 733 Choose Two challenge - Reindeer Christmas

Hello & welcome to a new week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a Choose Two challenge to include two of these three elements, elves, reindeer, or Santa on a project. I love reindeers for Christmas and have so many choices, but not a Santa or elf in sight.
I went back to the long retired Santa’s Sleigh stamps and dies so that while Santa is away delivering gifts, his sleigh and reindeer are here on the card. I added my favourite sentiments from Peaceful Season and pretty papers and the card was done. Here’s how it turned out.

JAI 731 Inspiration challenge - Peaceful Season Floral Christmas

Hello & welcome to a new week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This time we have a beautiful Christmassy decor image. Yay! Who doesn't need more Christmas cards. I mixed and matched the all year round useful Country Flowers stamps and dies with the Peaceful Season stamps and dies.
Here's how it turned out.

JAI 729 colour challenge - Bright Enduring Beauty

Hello & welcome to a new week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This time we have a colour challenge with four beautiful colours that together make one bold, bright combo - Petunia Pop, Gorgeous Grape, Granny Apple Green, and Azure Afternoon. What to do? More stamping and stencil fun with Enduring Beauty sounded good. Here's how it turned out.