JAI 766 Just Add a One Layer Card - Cheers and Sips colour blocking

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week's challenge is to create a one layer card with stamping or stencilling. How tricky could that be? Apparently tricky for this girl who loves to pop up elements on her cards. But I took up the challenge with my newest purchase, the Cheers and Sips stamp and die bundle, and tried a bit of an fun experiment with stamps and colour. Here's how my unexpected one layer card turned out.

 

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 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.

JAI 713 Choose Two - Tune in TV birthday

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.

 

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 695 Just Add Chocolate - Mini patterned paper folder

 

Hello and welcome to a new project share for the Just Add Ink Design Team. This week's challenge is to Just Add Chocolate. Apparently that doesn't mean to just eat chocolate, though I feel it's implied for any chocolate lover.  Nevertheless, I set to creating a chocolate related project.

I remembered that the Nature's Sweetness specialty patterned paper included beautiful cacao/cocoa bean nature specimen images (as well as almond and vanilla images too - all favourite flavours of mine),
So I thought that could be a fun twist on a regular  chocolate project. I also happened to have some yummy Lindt Caramel Square chocolates. So this all lead to a mini version of my favourite No-cut Patterned Paper Folder to hold the chocolate and a message. Here's 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 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.

Sending Smiles - Patterned paper card base

Hello & welcome. Today I'm sharing one of my recent class projects and the first of 6 new posts featuring the Sending Smiles stamp and die bundle. This card design was inspired by a beautiful card my darling man gave me for Mother's Day.

You can make beautifully coordinated cards with all the elements in the bundle. Even better, the fab 'Sending' stamp and die and coordinating sentiments play so well with others too.

You'll see them playing very nicely together today teamed with the Hues of Happiness paper and the Amazing Year stamp set.

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 580 colour challenge - thinking of you

 

Hello Friday! It's been a long week but I'm happy to be sharing my Just Add Ink Design Team project for this week's colour challenge. The colours - Blushing Bride, Evening Evergreen and gold - gave me vintage vibes, so I chose delicate botanical themed images from the Quiet Meadow stamp set & bundle to create my card. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 521 inspiration challenge - Poinsettia Christmas

Yippee, I managed to get some stamping time this week, just in time to make a project for this week's Just Add Ink photo inspiration challenge AND use some of my new Christmas Mini Catalogue goodies to do it. So here goes with my first Christmas card for 2020.

 

Pineapple pop up window birthday card

My darling girl had her 19th (!) birthday at the beginning of May so I thought you might like to see the card I made for her.

I was in my Timeless Tropical phase and feeling a bit nostalgic about Hawaii where we've spent a couple of her birthdays when I made it, as it has quite the tropical vibe... and a pineapple.

It's also a pop up window card like I made for my May Stamping Sisters Tutorial bundle project too. I love that it looks like a normal card when closed but see lots of different elements when open.

Timeless Tropical Birthdays 3 - even more cards

I was waylaid from sharing the other Timeless Tropical bundle cards but here they are now. Both cards are adapted using mostly the same elements from my original class card you'll find here.

You'll see all the cards together at the end of this post too.

Timeless Tropical Birthday 2 - double easel card

Today I have another of my Timeless Tropical bundle cards to share with you - this one shows a gorgeous hibiscus teamed with another amazing floral print paper from the Tropical Oasis pack.

This has many similar elements to yesterday's cards, but I've stepped it up to make a double easel card - because you know I can't resist an easy fancy fold.

Timeless Tropical Birthdays 1

Today I'm sharing a card made with the Tropical Oasis suite of products, which I used in my ummm... end of February class - those so long ago days when we could spend time in person with each other and before life at home became a bit crazy too.

I just love the hibiscus & frangipani flowers, and general vintage vibe in the Timeless Tropical stamp die bundle, and Tropical Oasis paper I've used. They so remind me of our trips to Hawaii. Since we won't be getting back there any time soon I can at least dream of it with my cards.

JAI 486 inspiration challenge - sparkly mistletoe

How is your Christmas card creating going? If you're finished, congrats! I'm totally not done so this week's Just Add Ink inspiration image challenge was a good opportunity for one more.

Christmas Card class - Gleaming Baubles

Hello! I'm getting back to Christmas today with more of my November class cards using stamps, punches and paper from the Brightly Gleaming suite.

I love shine and baubles for Christmas so this suite was an easy choice. It's very easy to work with too and hard to put down. You'll see lots more of it over the next few days.

Today's cards show how you can get double duty from the same piece of paper and punched shapes to help you create lots of cards quickly with a different look.