Friday, 15 August 2025

JAI764 Choose Two challenge - Wildflower birthday paper-thanks

Quick and easy card using Wildflower Birthday and Thoughtful Journey papers. Card by Diane Barnes - colourmehappy - Stampin Up demonstrator in Australia. stampin up card ideas - card challenges

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a Choose Two challenge with the options of including pearls, patterned paper, or pastels in a project. Easy choices for me - how can you resist using patterned paper, and pastels are some of my favourite shades. I chose to combine two different patterned papers - Wildflower Birthday and Thoughtful Journey to create a quick and easy card. Here's how it turned out.
 
 Quick and easy card using Wildflower Birthday and Thoughtful Journey papers. Card by Diane Barnes - colourmehappy - Stampin Up demonstrator in Australia. stampin up card ideas - card challenges

This card came together very quickly as the papers made it very easy. All the main elements are die cut pieces from the Wildflower Birthday paper pack. I started with the large bouquet with lovely foiling, then realised that two of the other individual flowers were the same shape, so I layered them on top for some depth. I placed the bouquet onto a striped and gold tag and stamped a label piece.

You know I love matchy matchy so I was going to use another print from Wildflower Birthday on the base, but then I thought of the Thoughtful Journey paper I used on my last challenge card. I liked how the blended ink paper looked behind the image so embossed it with the retired Subtle folder and adhered it to a white base. The base is not a standard size - it's 14cm wide. 

Quick and easy card using Wildflower Birthday and Thoughtful Journey papers. Card by Diane Barnes - colourmehappy - Stampin Up demonstrator in Australia. stampin up card ideas - card challenges

The thanks sentiment is from Simply Said, and is stamped in Night of Navy. The only stamping on rthe card. I finished off with some pretty glass centres for the flowers and Wink of Stella - very pretty IRL.

Inside I used an off-cut of the background paper and some more die cut shapes. 

Quick and easy card using Wildflower Birthday and Thoughtful Journey papers. Card by Diane Barnes - colourmehappy - Stampin Up demonstrator in Australia. stampin up card ideas - card challenges

So that's my quick, easy but very pretty Choose Two challenge project. I hope it gives you some ideas to try. Head to the Just Add Ink blog to see lots more inspiration for the challenge.
 
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Diane

 

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