JAI764 Choose Two challenge - Wildflower birthday paper-thanks

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.

 

JAI 746 Just Add Swirls - Seaside birthday

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week's challenge is to add swirls to a project. This was trickier than I thought it might be. I created a seaside themed card featuring the So Swirly embossing folder and swirly shell from the upcoming Notes and Totes stamp and dies bundle. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 744 choose two challenge - Butterfly Rainbow

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week's challenge was set by me, to choose two of elements from either rainbows, flowers, or shimmer. I couldn't resist creating a rainbow as they're one of the things that always makes me smile. Another favourite is butterflies so they made it onto the card too. 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 717 sketch challenge - soft Seaside Wishes birthday

Hello and welcome! Today I'm sharing my project for this week's Just Add Ink sketch challenge.
The three repeated elements made me think of shapes in my new Seaside Wishes stamp, die and hybrid embossing folder bundle. I used a mostly neutral colour combination of Basic Beige, and white with a touch of Petal Pink and Calypso Coral to make this soft, pretty card.

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 707 sketch challenge - Sea Turtle Spotlight

Hello and welcome to a new project share. This card is my team project for Just Add Ink sketch challenge 707, which is a very easy one with lots of possibilities. It came together pretty quickly once I decided to use sweet little sea turtles from the Sea Turtle stamp set. This is how it turned out.

Beach Day 3 - Umbrellas and surfboards

Hello and welcome! Today I'm finally sharing three more cards I made with the Beach Day stamps and dies - mainly the chair, umbrella, and surfboard images. I'm so glad they have carried over from the mini catalogue to the 24-25 Annual Catalogue. They're so useful and fun to create scenes with. Take a look.

JAI699 colour challenge - expanding z fold birthday

Hello and welcome to my project share for this week's Just Add Ink challenge. This is a colour challenge chosen by me using Starry Sky (retiring at the end of this month *sob*), Coastal Cabana, and Berry Burst. It was more challenging that I thought it would be. My card is a variation of an expanding z fold I made for last weekend's classes, but you'll have to wait a bit more to see the originals. Enough chat, here's how it 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 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.

JAI 693 Choose Two challenge - Trusty rainbow pencils adapted z fold card

Hello and welcome! Today I'm sharing a colourful fun fold card, which is my team project for this week's Just Add Ink Choose Two challenge. I also suggested this challenge so I hope you enjoy playing along with it too. Take a closer look at my card, which is an adaption of a z fold card.

 

Beach Day 2 - More beach scene cards

Hello and welcome!
It's taken a little while but today is my second post of cards I've made with the Beach Day stamp set and die bundle. This time I'm focusing on the lifesaving beach tower scenes using simple masking techniques and marker colouring with Stampin' Blends.
One of the cards was a class project too. Take a look.

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.

JAI 687 sketch challenge - Beach Day birthday

Hello and welcome to a project share using the new Beach Day stamp and die bundle. This is my team project for this week's Just Add Ink sketch challenge.
Australia loves a great beach - and we're lucky to have so many of them - so this bundle was a must have buy for me. Here's how my beachy card turned out.

JAI 668 choose two challenge - zoo crew lion birthday card

Hello and welcome to a new Just Add Ink team share for this week's challenge suggested by Lou, who asked us to include two of three challenge element options on our project. I created a fun, whimsical birthday card with the using one of the very cute animal illustrations on the Zoo Crew paper. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 660 just add inlaid die cut - simple blended leaves card

Hello and welcome to a new Just Add Ink challenge share. This week Kerry challenged us to add a die cut inlay to our project. Thankfully my card came together pretty quickly as it's been a bit of a huge week. I went very clean and simple, creating this card using the one of the beautiful Meadow dies, Stampin Blends markers and sentiment from the Go To Greetings stamp set. Here's the finished card.

Happy travels - 3d suitcase fun fold birthday card

Hello and welcome!
Today I have something fun and interactive to share with you that I designed and made for Miss C's birthday.

She's heading off on a adventure soon so I thought it would be fun to create a card that looked like a pull along suitcase, complete with moving handle. Of course I had to personalise it for her with a monogram and tag too.

This is how it turned out.

JAI 648 choose two challenge - coastal grove birthday

Hello and welcome to my Just Add Ink team project share for this week's Choose Two challenge with the options of water, wall, or garden.  I did a fair amount of head scratching trying to work out which elements to choose or make with the supplies I have.

I decided to go with water and garden, creating this peaceful, coastal garden scene using the lovely, intricate Grove dies, and retiring favourite, the Inspired Thoughts stamp set. Here's how it turned out.

Chocolate and cookies make everything better

Hello & welcome.

Today I have a fun, just because card to share with you made with the Nothing's Better Than stamp set and Love You More Than dies. This may make you hungry or crave a sweet treat so I hope you have some treats on hand after reading.