Friday 11 October 2024

JAI 723 Choose two challenge - Reindeer Fun Christmas

Handmade Christmas card using Stampin' Up! Reindeer Fun, Decorative Trees, Peaceful Season and Stylish Shapes dies with Take a Bow paper. Card by Diane Barnes - colourmehappy - demonstrator in Sydney Australia- stampinupcards - stampinupcarddieas - christmas cards

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.

Friday 27 September 2024

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.

Friday 13 September 2024

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.

Friday 30 August 2024

JAI 717 sketch challenge - soft Seaside Wishes birthday

Handmade beach-ocean themed card using Stampin Up Seaside Wishes stamps, dies and embossing folder, Country Flowers bundle, Country Birdhouse bundle. Card by Diane Barnes - Independent Demonstrator in Australia - stampinupcards - colourmehappy - die cutting - cardmaking

Hello and welcome! Today I'm sharing my project for this week's Just Add Ink sketch challenge.
The three repeated elements made me think of shapes in my new Seaside Wishes stamp, die and hybrid embossing folder bundle. I used a mostly neutral colour combination of Basic Beige, and white with a touch of Petal Pink and Calypso Coral to make this soft, pretty card.

Friday 16 August 2024

JAI 715 Just add shading-shadows - more roses from Layers of Beauty

Handmade floral card using Stampin Up Layers of Beauty stamp, die and stencil bundle. Card by Diane Barnes - Independent Demonstrator in Sydney Australia - colourmehappy - cardmaking - stencils

Hello and welcome. This week's Just Add Ink challenge is to add shading or shadows. I used stencils from Layers of Beauty stamps, dies and stencils to create a pretty, floral card with lots of stencilled shading. Here's how it turned out.

Friday 2 August 2024

JAI 713 Choose Two - Tune in TV birthday

Handmade TV themed card using Stampin' Up! Tune In stamp and die bundle, Full of Life paper and Country Woods paper. Card by Diane Barnes - Stampin' Up Demonstrator in Sydney Australia - colourmehappy - cardmaking - stamping - die cutting

Hello and welcome to a new project share. This is my Design Team project for this week's Choose Two challenge at Just Add Ink to add heat or dry embossing, or debossing. I chose to use the Tune In stamp set and die bundle to make a fun, colourful window birthday card that features heat embossing and dry embossing. Here's how it turned out.
 

Friday 19 July 2024

JAI 711 inspiration challenge - Merriest Trees in July

Handmade Christmas card using Stampin' Up Merriest Trees stamp set and dies, Snowflake Sky embossing folder, Shining Christmas paper. Card by Diane Barnes - colourmehappy - stampinupcards - cardmaking - stamping
 
Hello and welcome to a new blog post and a new look here at Colour Me Happy. You're still in the right place, just with more pretty butterflies!

My newest project share is for this week's Just Add Ink challenge which is an inspiration challenge featuring a Christmassy image. Perfect for Christmas in July creating.

The Merry Christmas sentiment on the red mug  reminded me of the one in the Merriest Trees stamp set, so that, the coordinating Merriest Trees dies, and the colours in the image gave me my starting point. Here's how my card turned out.

Friday 5 July 2024

JAI 709 colour challenge - Country Birdhouse

Handmade card using Stampin Up Country Birdhouse stamp and die bundle, and coloured with Stampin' Blends markers. Card by Diane Barnes - colourmehappy - stampinupcards - stampinupideas - stamping - cardmakingHandmade card using Stampin Up Country Birdhouse stamp and die bundle, and coloured with Stampin' Blends markers. Card by Diane Barnes - colourmehappy - stampinupcards - stampinupideas - stamping - cardmaking

Hello and welcome. Today I have a new Just Add Ink team project to share with you. This week we have an unusual colour challenge where you can choose to use 3 or 6 of the chosen colours.
I must say this was a puzzling combo for me to start with, but I was drawn to the blues/aquas *no surprise there* and the yellow, and thought they'd work well with the Country Birdhouse stamps and die bundle and my Stampin' Blends markers. In the end I snuck in little bits of the other colours too. Here's how my card turned out.

Monday 1 July 2024

Stampin' Blends Markers Colour Chart - 2024-2025 Update

Stampin Up Stampin Blends Alcohol Marker Colour Chart pdf download 2024-2025
Hello and welcome! Today I'm sharing my 2024 Stampin' Blends™ alcohol marker colour chart update. The colour chart shows all currently available and retired Stampin' Blends markers as of the 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue release in May 2024. This includes five new 2024-2026 In Colors.

Stampin' Blends include light and dark shades of the Stampin' Up! colour. The chart makes it easy to see the full colour spectrum and choose shades to blend together. Take a look at my coloured in chart.

Friday 28 June 2024

JAI 708 choose Two challenge - Enduring Beauty split image

Handmade card using Stampin Up Enduring Beauty, Unbounded Love, and ink blending. Card by Diane Barnes - Independent Demonstrator in Sydney Australia - colourmehappy - stampinupcards - cardmaking - stamping - diecutting

Hello and welcome to another team project share for Just Add Ink. This week is a Choose Two challenge, and we need to include blending, embossing, or white. I chose to use the beautiful, large floral image from Enduring Beauty stamps, dies and stencil sets as my feature.
All three challenge elements are included since it's a given that pretty much all of my cards have some white, and even snuck in two types of embossing. Here's how it turned out.