JAI 760 colour challenge - Merry Christmas tree easel fold

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a colour challenge with  a definite Christmas vibe so I went with a Christmas card with a fun fold using the Season of Elegance paper to carry the colour theme. This is my first Christmas card of 2025 too. Yay for Christmas in July. Here's how my card turned out.

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 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 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 711 inspiration challenge - Merriest Trees in July

 

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.

JAI 697 sketch challenge - Merriest trees Christmas start

Hello and welcome to my latest Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team project share. This week we're using a sketch designed by me. I hope you enjoy trying it. Much as I love hexagons though, I mixed up the sketch shapes to create my first Christmas card for 2025! That's an early Christmas miracle I tell you.

The trees are from the Merriest Trees dies. I'm glad these and the coordinating stamp set are carrying over into our 2024-25 range. Some of the other elements I used are sadly not and will be discontinued as of 30/4/24 unless they sell out before. I'll share more on that below. In the meantime, take a look at the finished card.

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.

Festive Tags Kit step up to 15 Christmas cards

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.

 

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

JAI 672 sketch challenge - Christmas cards four ways

Hello and welcome! Today I have a new share for the Just Add Ink design team.  Nikki gave us a super flexible sketch to work with and I immediately thought Christmas cards!... and not just because it's almost October and time is a ticking. The sketch looked perfect for the beautifully elegant Shining Brightly specialty paper pack, as there are two colourways of the same design, all foiled in gold. I chose the leafy design and teamed it with the Layering Leaves stamp set to create some elegant Christmas cards, Here's the first of four cards I made.

JAI 670 Just add wildlife - Beary Christmas faux centre step

Hello and welcome to a new team project share for this week's Just Add Ink challenge, which is to just add wildlife to a project. This is also my first project using new Mini Catalogue goodies, and it's my first Christmas card for 2023. Yay!

I LOVE polar bears so I couldn't resist the super cute hand drawn images in the Beary Christmas paper pack, which of course conveniently fit the wildlife challenge theme. Here's how my card 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 623 colour challenge - Christmas Merriest Moments

Hello and welcome. Today I'm sharing a Christmas card created for Just Add Ink challenges. This week's colour challenge combination of Sweet Sorbet, Parakeet Party and Starry Sky was suggested by me. I don't know what sort of project I had in mind when I suggested them but I've created this Christmas card using the very clever Merriest Moments stamp set and Merriest Frames Hybrid embossing folder and die set.

JAI 621 sketch challenge - graphic snowflake Christmas

Hello & welcome. Today's project is my team card for the latest Just Add Ink sketch challenge. I do love a hexagon so this was a fun sketch to play with.

Early Christmas card prep is on my mind to avoid the mad December rush. I realised the snowflake stamps in my new Joyful Flurry stamp and die bundle and formed hexagon shapes. I paired them with the hexagon dies in the Beautiful Shapes die set to create my card. I did play around with the hexagon elements in the sketch but I'm sure you can see it. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 617 choose two - Christmas scottie dog

Hello & welcome to another project share. This is my team project for this week's Just Add Ink Choose Two challenge and my first Christmas card of 2022. The three challenge options are gingham, dots, and die cuts. How to choose from these 3 faves?

A tricky choice but I went with dots and die cuts, creating a window card with the Christmas Scottie stamp and punch bundle, Trees for Sale stamp set, free Sale-a-bration Tree Lot dies, and a lovely, foiled, dotty scalloped paper from the Lights Aglow pack as my main elements.

JAI 584 Just add Christmas - bay window gift card holder

Hello & welcome! Today I'm sharing a fun fold Christmas card that's also a gift card holder. This is my Design Team project for this week's Just Add Ink challenge.

I've used the Stitched Triangles dies with the Heartwarming Hugs patterned paper pack to create a cluster of Christmas trees on the card front with a scored and popped out section. This is an adaption of what I now understand is called a bay window card.

Quick & easy Gingerbread Christmas card set

Hello & welcome! Today I'm sharing 14 (yes 14) quick & easy card designs made with the Gingerbread & Peppermint 6 x 6 inch patterned paper pack and Memories & More Cards & Envelopes,
together with the Frosted Gingerbread stamp set & die bundle. Sadly none of these goodies are carrying over, so are only available while supplies last. Shop supplies for these cards in my store now.

I made multiples of some designs resulting in 22 cards in total for one Sunday afternoon. It was a good feeling to boost my still too small Christmas card stash.

Here's how they turned out (click on pic for a bigger view).

 

JAI 582 inspiration challenge - Christmas stockings

Hello hello & welcome to another project share created for the Just Add Ink challenges Design Team. This week's challenge is to make a project inspired by the cosy, Christmas scene above. I still have a ton of Christmas cards to make so this was very welcome.

I decided to use the Tidings & Trimmings stamp set and die bundle from the Annual Catalogue. This has traditional Christmas images like stockings & stars with a modern twist, and a sentiment that perfectly matched the one in the challenge image. Here's my finished card.