Botanical Butterfly cards - last week to earn your paper free

Family commitments have made it a bit difficult to share lately but I'm trying to write posts of my backlogged Sale-a-bration projects as I have time this week, before Sale-a-bration ends on 31 March.

Today I'm sharing four easy cards I made back in January using mainly the Sale-a-bration Botanical Butterfly designer paper pack - get it free with a $90 purchase until 31 March if supplies last that long.

I've also used Rectangle stitched framelit dies on all cards, Stampin Blends alcohol markers, and  a few different stamp sets-bundles for the sentiments.

JAI 448 Just add J - Joy fold birthday

This week our new Just Add Ink challenge is to...

So, what J's could I think of? Jeans (love to wear but no), jedi (cool but no), jewels, jolly, jars, jelly?  Then I remembered a fancy fold from way back - the  joy fold fold. I don't know why it's called a joy fold but it's definitely a fun card. Here's what I made using the Hello Cupcake free stamp set...

JAI 446 inspiration challenge - stitch crazy birthday cake

It's Just Add Ink inspiration challenge week & Rachael has given us this lovely, vibrant image to work with.

 

This is what I made:
 

JAI 442 sketch challenge - Tea Together

So it's time for a new Just Add Ink challenge and this week it's a sketch challenge. Yay!

I was intrigued by the swirly elements. They made me think of the large stitched pattern die in the Needlepoint Elements die set (also in the Needle & Thread stamp & die bundle), so I teamed this with the pretty teapot stamp from the Tea Together stamp set as my central element represented by a circle in the sketch. This is how it turned out.

In review - Simple Waterfront scenes

Today I'm looking back to two easy to make cards I made with the clever Waterfront stamp set. I made these for a masculine card class last year, and also for my darling man on Father's day.

Double easel card - Botanical Butterfly Sale-a-bration freebie

Last weekend we celebrated a special '0' birthday with a lovely friend so a celebratory card was a must too. I'm still loving the double easel card so I made this very fluttery version.

It may look familiar as I took my inspiration from this double easel card I'd made for my darling man's birthday.
 
Here it is closed...

JAI 440 Just add something new - blog hop!

Our first challenge at Just Add Ink for 2019 starts today & we're celebrating with a full team blog hop. Fun! You may have arrived here from the lovely Rochelle Blok's blog & gorgeous project, or popped directly here. In any case, a very warm welcome to you.

Hinged sampler for your Stampin' Blends markers

Just popping in quickly to share another fun & useful way to use my Stampin' Blends colour chart shared in this post. The chart has been really popular and I'm so happy you're finding it useful.

New Stampin Blends colours & chart update

Great news! Our new Occasions Catalogue release adds 2 more new Stampin' Blends colours to our range. This means you now have a total of 30 Stampin' Up! colours or 60 marker shades to create beautiful coloured images.

To help you keep track of all the available shades and how the colours look together, I've revamped my Stampin' Blends Colour Chart pdf documents.

Occasions Catalogue & Sale-a-bration is here!

 

Happy new year and hooray for a new year of creating. Our all new Occasions Catalogue and Sale-a-bration launches today and that's definitely worth celebrating.

You'll find something for everyone and every occasion in the Occasions Catalogue - new stamps, bundles, papers, punches, dies, accessories and more.

Shop the Occasions Catalogue in my store

Occasions Catalogue pdf - see & download

During Sale-a-bration - 3 January to 31 March - you'll get fabulous free goodies when you shop, extra Stampin' Rewards, and even more value with our Starter Kit options. The brochure pdf shows you all you need to know, including suggested purchase options that work with free items.
Update 15 Feb: Sale-a-bration brochure 2 added - more options available now.

Sale-a-bration brochure pdf 1 - see & download
Sale-a-bration release 2 brochure pdf - download

See all FREE Sale-a-bration items

My paper catalogues are in the post to current customers. If you're in Australia and don't have a current Demonstrator, contact me to request free copies.

Read on for all you need to know about the Occasions Catalogue & Sale-a-bration.