JAI 754 Choose Two challenge - Frames and Flowers card set

Hello & welcome to my latest Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a Choose Two challenge, and the choices are to include a die cut, flower, or ribbon.

The Frames and Flowers Specialty Paper pack came immediately to mind as it includes die cut flowers and foliage sheets as well as regular papers. These combined paper and die cut packs lend themselves to easy, quick cards that include lovely details, perfect for when you want to create but not from scratch. I made five cards in the time it would usually take me to make one. Here's how they turned out.

JAI 752 inspiration challenge - Notes & Totes birthday flowers

 

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a photo inspiration challenge. I was a bit puzzled at first what to do, but then had an idea to replicate the car full of flowers as a fun tote using the new Notes and Totes stamp and die bundle. Here's how my card turned out.

JAI 750 colour challenge - Impressions Abloom warm wishes

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a colour challenge including a few current In Colors - Peach Pie, Pretty in Pink, and Summer Splash - teamed with black. I reached again for the Impressions Abloom dies I used last challenge, using the colours in different ways. Here's how my card turned out.

JAI 748 sketch challenge - Impressions Abloom Birthday

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a sketch challenge. I thought a bit outside of the sketch rectangles for my design using new frame and floral dies from the Impressions Abloom stamp and die bundle - available soon in the May Online Exclusives release - teamed with sentiments from the Birthday Celebration stamp set. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 736 Just add bling - Beautiful Butterflies milestone birthday

 

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a Just Add challenge and we have to add a touch of bling. Easy peasy! I mixed and matched some new goodies from the Jan - April Mini catalogue with other supplies to make a birthday card with a surprise inside for a dear friend's milestone birthday. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 729 colour challenge - Bright Enduring Beauty

Hello & welcome to a new week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This time we have a colour challenge with four beautiful colours that together make one bold, bright combo - Petunia Pop, Gorgeous Grape, Granny Apple Green, and Azure Afternoon. What to do? More stamping and stencil fun with Enduring Beauty sounded good. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 725 Just add stencilling - Floral thank you

Hello & welcome to a fun Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week's challenge is to add stencilling. I chose to use the beautiful floral image in the Enduring Beauty range of stamps, dies and stencils with a sentiment from Layering Leaves. 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 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 715 Just add shading-shadows - more roses from Layers of Beauty

Hello and welcome. This week's Just Add Ink challenge is to add shading or shadows. I used stencils from Layers of Beauty stamps, dies and stencils to create a pretty, floral card with lots of stencilled shading. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 709 colour challenge - Country Birdhouse

Hello and welcome. Today I have a new Just Add Ink team project to share with you. This week we have an unusual colour challenge where you can choose to use 3 or 6 of the chosen colours.
I must say this was a puzzling combo for me to start with, but I was drawn to the blues/aquas *no surprise there* and the yellow, and thought they'd work well with the Country Birdhouse stamps and die bundle and my Stampin' Blends markers. In the end I snuck in little bits of the other colours too. Here's how my card 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 700 Just add shimmer-shine - birthday sunflower

Hello and welcome to a new project share. This card celebrates my very special DD, and also a milestone for Just Add Ink. It's our 700th challenge. Amazing! It's also fun that our challenge is to add shimmer or shine, as I think every celebration needs one or both.
DD loves sunflowers so that was my starting point for the card. I used mostly retired goodies - Celebrate Sunflowers stamps set and coordinating dies, Amazing Thanks dies, and New Horizons paper, and current Wanted to Say dies. Here's how it turned out.

JAI691 inspiration challenge - Nature's Sweetness for you

Hello and welcome! Today I'm sharing my team project for this week's Just Add Ink photo inspiration challenge. As you can see above, it's an image with all sorts of possibilities. What to do?
The neutral and metallic colours, text, and circles in the image reminded me of the beautiful Nature's Sweetness paper pack, so I used lots of the prints in the pack to replicate the grid on my card. Here's how it turned out.

JAI690 just add a fancy fold - 100th birthday faux centre step

Hello and welcome! Today's project is for an amazing milestone birthday celebrated by a friend of a friend this week and this week's Just Add Ink Fancy Fold challenge. And you all know I love a fun fancy fold.
 

The card request was to include two of the recipient's favourite things - reading and animals. I included the Scottie dogs from the Christmas Scottie stamp set (sadly retired), the stack of books image from the Bird's Eye View stamp set, and a pretty blue floral print from the Countryside Inn paper pack (which also has some animals on it). I also made a bookmark which you'll see below.
Here's how the card turned out.

 

JAI 685 Just add flowers new year blog hop - Perennial Lavender fun fold card

Hello and welcome to my first 2024 post and first 2024 Just Add Ink challenge team project too. This week our challenge is to Just Add Flowers.  As always we're welcoming the new year with a blog hop and are thrilled to share a new look for Just Add Ink too. We hope you love it as much as we do.

So on to the hop. An extra special hello to you if you've arrived here from amazing Jan McQueen's blog, or another stop along the hop. I hope my project gives you some ideas to try.

It's a fun fold card featuring some floral prints from the gorgeous Perennial Lavender paper pack, and stamps and die cuts from the new Perennial Postage bundle. Take a look.

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

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.

JAI 678 Choose two challenge - Dainty Delight thinking of you

Hello and welcome. Friday means it's time to share my Just Add Ink challenge project with you. This week's challenge is to make a card using two of three possible elements (Brights, Foliage, or Friend).
I chose foliage and friend, making a soft and pretty thinking of you card for a friend, using the Dainty Delight dies, Layering Leaves stamp set and lots of embossing. Here's how it turned out.

Dainty Delight faux centre step card - class project 1

Hello and welcome! Today I'm happy to share the first of two cards we made at my September card class. This was my first in person class in a long time and I was lovely to be able to craft with other cardmakers again.

The card fold is a faux centre step card (like this cute Christmas version I made with polar bears) that's all about the pretty floral stems from the Dainty Delight stamp set and pretty, blue paper prints from the Countryside Inn paper pack. Here's how it turned out.