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.

Simple sea turtle card

Hello and welcome! Today I have another card made with the Sea Turtle stamp set and mostly leftovers and scraps from my desk and scrap bits tub. Here's how it turned out.

Sea turtle diorama birthday

Hello and welcome! Today's share is another turtle card made with the Sea Turtle stamp set. This is the first of two turtle started out with leftovers from making this sea turtle shadow box card and other random scrap, You know I love to play with scraps.

I'm happy that the Sea Turtle set is carrying over to the new 23-24 Annual Catalogue so it will be swimming with us for a while yet. Sadly most of the other supplies I used - the Layering Diorama dies,  and Paradise Palms stamp set (and coordinating Palms dies) and patterned paper are being discontinued.

Anyway I digress. Take a look at the finished card. I hope you like it.

JAI 646 inspiration challenge - Bunny Happy Easter

Hello and welcome to my latest Just Add Ink card share which is for this week's fun inspiration image challenge which has a distinct Easter vibe. I couldn't resist recreating the layout and images using the retired Basket Bunch stamp set, which had all sorts of cute Easter images too. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 644 colour challenge - Sending love pansy

Hello and welcome! Today I have a card to share for this week's Just Add Ink colour challenge, using Granny Apple Green, Gorgeous Grape, and Mango Melody.

The colours made me think of pansies so I went with that and made a card using the Pansy dies set and my favourite Sending Smiles stamps and dies. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 642 sketch challenge - hello kitty friend

Hello and welcome to another team project share for Just Add Ink. This week is a sketch challenge suggested by Kim. I chose to rotate the sketch to create a landscape card.
I created a cute kitty scene using the new Love Cats stamp set, Alphabet a la Mode dies and and an old favourite - the Biggest Wish stamp set. Here's how it turned out.
 

Mystery Card Challenge 2 is here - March 2023 (CMH2)

Hello and welcome to Mystery Card Challenge 2!

This is my March challenge and the first official challenge. I hope you'll play along with me to create a card or three using only the challenge pieces listed below and card supplies you have on hand.

Read on to find out how the challenge works, and all the info you'll need to play and how to share your project with me. 

JAI 640 Just add a surprise - Sea turtle shadow box card

Hello and welcome! Today I'm sharing my team project for Just Add Ink just add a surprise challenge. Fun! What's my surprise? I made a shadow box card - a fancy fold card with a 3d shadow box surprise when the card is opened. I've made lots of these over the years and shared a pdf tutorial previously. I'll link it below.

The stars of this card are beautiful turtles from the Sea Turtle stamp set - new in the January-April Mini Catalogue. I've mixed bits and pieces from other stamp sets and dies too. Here's how it turned out.

Mystery Card Challenge 1 - 5 simple cards (CMH1)

Hello and welcome! Today I have something new to share with you - a mystery card challenge.

This started as a challenge for a SU Demonstrator group I help to admin. It was so fun to do and reminded me how much can be done with just some simple pieces and limited supplies.

Anyone can play along with the challenge, whether you're new to cardmaking or completely obsessed. I'm going to set a new mystery challenge each month starting from 1 March.

In the meantime, try challenge one to get you started. Read on for all the info you'll need and to see all the cards I made.

JAI 636 Favourites Blog Hop - Floral fold birthday

Hello and welcome back. I know it's been a while (long story) but I'm happy to be sharing with you again and blog hopping with my Just Add Ink design teamies for our Just Add a Favourite challenge.
You many have come from Nikki Spencer's Sandbox or another way. Either way, welcome and I hope you enjoy seeing some of my favourites and hopping along with us.

My card is full of favourites; It's for one of my favourite people, She loves her garden and purple is her favourite colour. I chose some of her and my faves to make her card - Hues of Happiness floral paper, words from the Sending Smiles bundle, stitched shapes from Stylish Shapes die set. It's a fun, fancy fold too. What are the chances? :)