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.

JAI 727 sketch challenge - Reindeer Fun accordion fold card

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a sketch challenge. I'm focused on growing my Christmas card stash so that set my project theme. I created a fun fold called an accordion card with super cute reindeers from the Reindeer Days sticker sheet, Here's how it turned out.

JAI 725 Just add stencilling - Floral thank you

Hello & welcome to a fun Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week's challenge is to add stencilling. I chose to use the beautiful floral image in the Enduring Beauty range of stamps, dies and stencils with a sentiment from Layering Leaves. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 723 Choose two challenge - Reindeer Fun Christmas

Hello & welcome to a fun Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week's challenge is to Choose Two elements to use from the 3 available options - circle, trees, and ink blending. I chose circle and trees, though I did sneak in a little ink blending too. I need to get started on my Christmas card and wanted to play with some of my new mini favourites so I did some mix and matching with the new Reindeer Fun stamp set and dies bundle, Decorative Trees dies, and Peaceful Season dies (both sets also bundled). Here's how it turned out.

JAI 721 inspiration challenge - Neutral Layers of Beauty

Hello & welcome to my newest Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week we have a photo inspiration challenge. I chose to use the neutral-vintage colour palette of the photos, plus the roses, grid and book shapes with the Layers of Beauty stamps, dies, and stencils to create my card. And I only used 2 colours plus white on the card. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 719 colour challenge - Changing Leaves thank you

Hello & welcome to my Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week we have a colour challenge with a beautiful pinky-purple transition of Fresh Freesia, Petunia Pop, Berry Burst, plus Shaded Spruce.
I used the Changing Leaves stamp set, dies and embossing folder bundle, and Everyday Greetings stamp set, both of which are Online Exclusives, and botanical paper prints from the Colour Collection packs. Here's how it turned out.