Friday 22 December 2023

JAI 684 colour challenge - Fun fold Christmas Tree cards

 
Hello and welcome to my last Just Add Ink challenge share for 2023, and very appropriately it's a Christmas challenge using 'traditional Christmas colours', red, green, and gold.
I'm sharing two versions of an easy fun fold card. This design is called a square column card, similar to this card I shared a couple of weeks ago, and it were adapted from this fab card shared by Rachael Tessman.

My cards were part of my November Christmas card class and feature some of my fave Christmas stamp and die sets of this year - Merriest Trees, the Snowflake Sky embossing folder, and Joy of Christmas paper. Take a look at the finished cards.

Thursday 14 December 2023

Festive Tags Kit step up to 15 Christmas cards

15 Handmade Christmas cards using Stampin Up Festive Tags Kit. Cards made by Diane Barnes - Independent Demonstrator in Sydney Australia. CAS cards - quick and easy cards - stampinupcards - colourmehappy - cardmaking15 Handmade Christmas cards using Stampin Up Festive Tags Kit. Cards made by Diane Barnes - Independent Demonstrator in Sydney Australia. CAS cards - quick and easy cards - stampinupcards - colourmehappy - cardmaking

Hello and welcome! Today I have 15 fun cards to share with you made with the fabulous Festive Tags kit. The kit was designed by Stampin' Up! to make 15 beautiful tags but it was really easy turning them into Christmas cards instead.

I loved the colours and images included, so over a weekend I played with the pieces in the kit and made 15 different cards. I added only cardstock (and some embossing with the Snowflake Sky 3d embossing folder).

I hope this idea will be helpful l to anyone like me who's still making Christmas cards, or  any super organised people prepping for next Christmas.
Take a look at how they turned out.
 

Friday 8 December 2023

JAI 682 sketch challenge - Dainty flowers 80th birthday fun fold card

80th birthday fun fold square column card using Stampin' Up! Dainty Flowers paper, Go to Greetings stamp set, Wishes All Round dies, Deckled rectangles dies. Card by Diane Barnes - Independent Demonstrator in Sydney Australia - colour me happy - stampinupcards - fun fold cards - stamping - cardmaking

Hello and welcome to another project share from me. This week's Just Add Ink challenge is a sketch and I do love a good sketch. This worked well for a special milestone birthday card for a very special woman.
She loves her garden so of course I wanted to make something pretty and floral. I remembered I had some gorgeous (though retired) Dainty Flowers patterned paper that would be perfect for it so I used it for the whole card, fun fold and all. Take a look.