JAI 770 colour challenge - Layers of Beauty

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a colour challenge of pretty, soft pastels - Bubble Bath, Fresh Freesia and Highland Heather. It's a little bittersweet though, as it's also my last project with the team after just over ten years creating for JAI. Time flies!

I'm so grateful to have been part of this wonderful challenge team. Many thanks to all the JAI team admins who do a huge amount of work to bring the challenges to you, and to all past and present teamies for their friendship, encouragement, and fabulous creations. Thankfully I'll still be able to play along with challenges as I can.

But back to my card. I've used the Layers of Beauty stamp set to create a pretty, floral card for a friend who's going through a really tough time. Here's how it turned out.

 

JAI 758 sketch challenge Peaceful View flip window fun fold

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a sketch with really easy elements and possibilities. The circle element reminded me of another favourite fun fold card with a surprise inside so I used a new background (card sized) stamp called Peaceful View as the basis for my card, turning the sketch upside down to fit the focal area I wanted. 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 708 choose Two challenge - Enduring Beauty split image

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.

JAI 705 Just add a fancy edge - Layers of Beauty celebration

Hello and welcome to my Just Add Ink team share for this week's new challenge, which is to Just Add a Fancy Edge. I am firmly in love with the Layers of Beauty bundle, which include stamps, dies and layering stencils, after using it for last week's class. I mixed up the elements of that card with the curvy die from Around the Bend and some striped paper, and this is how my card turned out.

JAI 680 Just add alcohol challenge - Joy to You Christmas card

Hello and welcome to a new project share for this week's Just Add Ink challenge - Just Add Alcohol.

I wanted to make a Christmas card, because I still need soooo many, but didn't think I had any stamp or dies to fit an alcohol challenge. Then I remembered the Bottled Happiness stamp set. How to turn this everyday image it into a Christmas image? I paired it with the bold and fabulous Joy to You sentiment stamp set, some Christmassy colours, pretty paper (Joy of Christmas) and this is how it turned out

Simple blended Snowflake Christmas - 2 for 1

Hello and welcome. Today I'm sharing two clean and simple Christmas cards featuring heat embossing and ink blending, using the Snow Crystal and Christmas to Remember stamp sets.

A fun thing about these two cards is that they're both made with only one complete snowflake image. This is a definite time saver when you're making lots of Christmas cards. 

JAI 611 sketch challenge - Sending thanks card

Hello & welcome! Today's project share is for this week's Just Add Ink challenge - a sketch challenge suggested by me. Its simplicity gives so many possibilities.

I used elements already on my desk from other creating, including the fabulous Hues of Happiness paper, Sending Smiles stamps and dies bundle and Amazing Year stamp set (both of which I used for last weekend's class too - projects coming soon). Here's how it turned out.

JAI 605 inspiration challenge - wave sympathy card

Hello & welcome to today's project share - a soft and simple water themed sympathy card for this week's Just Add Ink inspiration challenge. How wonderful would it be to be on that beautiful beach.

The Waves of Inspiration stamp set and Waves dies bundle created the beautiful wave that's the focal point of the card, which will send love to family friends who just lost a loved one.

JAI 597 choose two challenge - Inspired by Ink floral birthday

Hello and welcome. How can it be April 1st already? Anyway today I'm sharing my team project for this week's Just Add Ink - Choose Two challenge - flower, paper or pattern.

I of course chose flowers and paper creating a pretty floral birthday card for a friend & SU teamie using the Artistically Inked stamp and Artistic die bundle teamed with the coordinating Expression in Ink patterned paper. Take a look.

JAI 595 inspiration challenge - butterfly wreath birthday

Hello & welcome. Today's share is my Design Team project for this week's Just Add Ink's inspiration challenge.

I took my inspiration from the pretty wreath and its shades of mainly green and white and chose to use create my own wreath. I used the pretty fern image in the Positive Thoughts stamp set and added a whimsical touch with butterflies instead of flowers. Here's how it turned out.

Sweet bunny belated birthday

Today I have another sweet card to share with you using the Cuckoo for You stamp set and bundle. It's similar to this hello bunny card I shared in my last post. This time the bunnies are celebrating the birthday of a friend and teamie, albeit a little late.

JAI 478 Just add H - for Hello

It's letter challenge time at Just Add Ink and this week Tina has challenged us to Just Add H to a project. Take a look at the sweetness of the Cuckoo for You stamp set I used to make the happy little card for a friend & teamie.

Three Tea Together pop up cards

I'm back today to share one of my fave Tea Together card projects... or four. I totally have the lovely Lou Kitzelman to thank for this fun pop up design. As soon as I saw Lou's Tea Together cards using the Gingham Gala paper pack I knew I had to try them too.

I chose to use the gorgeous All My Love paper pack for my cards. The patterns & colours in this pack are just beautiful & work so well with the Tea Together stamp set.

Bold Broadway Birthday gatefold card

 Sharing my Broadway Bound double easel card yesterday made me realise I hadn't shared the other cards I'd made with it and the cool Broadway Birthday stamps & die bundle - for my masculine class way back in August. Where have the past few months gone?

Today's card is the class project all my lovelies made. Tomorrow I'll share the other samples I made so pop back again then to see more. But back to today's card...

Dashing Deer Happy Christmas pair

Deer are one of my favourite Christmas images. Years back SU had a very popular single deer stamp named Dasher with curly antlers which I just loved (did you love it too?), then there was a great deer in the Santa's Sleigh bundle last year which I used LOTS. So you can imagine my sheer delight when I saw the best of all deer bundles in this year's Holiday Catalogue - called Dashing Deer. It combines the best of both of these then adds sooooo much more. Like I said, it's the ultimate deer lovers bundle, with an awesome collection of stamps, coordinating and standalone dies.

Here's one of the first card designs I made for it.

Simple modern vases & the Stamparatus

Way back in May I had my first play with the my fave first pick of our then new annual catalogue - the beautifully fresh & modern Varied Vases stamp & punch bundle. Today I'm sharing the first of two clean & simple cards to give you a peek of what's possible with it.

Pop of purple & a butterfly

I've been all about sharing my cards using the floral dies in the Springtime Impressions die set, and totally forgot to share the simple butterfly card I made with the die in the same set.

JAI 415 inspiration challenge - thankful

Today I have a new card to share, made for this week's new Just Add Ink challenge. Rachael challenged us with this beautiful image.

This is what I made...