JAI 603 colour challenge - rainbows of happiness

Hello & welcome to another project share - my Just Add Ink design team project for this week's colour challenge suggested by Nikki. The challenge colours are Mint Macaron, Blushing Bride & Rich Razzleberry.

What to do what to do? For some reason stripes then a rainbow popped into my mind, even though the colours are defintely not your typical rainbow. So I grabbed the Rainbow of Happiness stamp & die bundle and some other supporting goodies. This is what I made.

JAI 656 inspiration challenge - rainbow of happiness and love

Hello & welcome to this week's team project share for Just Add Ink. Our new challenge is to to create a project inspired by this fabulous sunset image.

The cool oval lens reminded me of a rainbow shape, so I kept it simple and fun, making a rainbow inspired by the colours in the image. Here's how it turned out.

JAI 589 Just add minimalist - circles and thanks

Hello hello! It's time for my Just Add Ink Design Team share for this week's new challenge - Just Add Minimalist and I have a card to share using the new Rainbow of Happiness stamp-die bundle and Amazing Thanks die. I really had fun making this one & love how it turned out so I hope you like it too.

So what is minimalist art? I used this description on study.com and learned it includes simple ideas, geometric shapes, colour and repetition, so I tried to reflect these elements in my card. Let's take a look at it.

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 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.

 

JAI 495 Just add a rainbow... of music

This week at Just Add Ink challenges, Rochelle has asked us to Just Add a Rainbow. What a fun challenge and who doesn't love a good rainbow.

I created a card for my darling man, although you could use it for many other occasions.

My new Music from the Heart stamp set got it's first of many inkings. This set includes hand drawn music themed images - music notes, stave, piano, guitar, keyboard and lots of useful sentiments, both for everyday & when you need a fun music pun. See more about it at the end of this post.

My card is easy & pretty quick to make using minimal supplies. All the rainbow colours on the card are made with Stampin' Blends alcohol markers.

JAI 610 inspiration challenge - black and white blended floral birthday

Hello & welcome! I'm here to share my team project for this week's Just Add Ink 610 inspiration challenge. The challenge image is interesting and different on many levels - fun, multiple monochromatic photos, bold pops of colour and a grid layout. These all gave so many options to create my card.

For once I was quite decisive, choosing to focus on the black, white, pops of colour, and grid layout. I substituted balloons on strings for colourful stemmed flowers. The Perfectly Penciled paper pack, Sending Smiles stamp and die bundle and Stampin' Blends markers came together to create the final look.

Stamping Sisters September Bundle & Blog Hop - Rainbow Colours

It's September already and time for a brand new Stamping Sisters Tutorial bundle and blog hop. Yay! I'm excited to share our beautiful collection of colourful, rainbow themed projects for you, just in time to celebrate the first day of Spring here in Sydney. 

Hello & welcome, whether you've arrived here from the lovely Ellen's blog or some other way.

In our September tutorial bundle you'll find 5 colourful, fun, rainbow colour themed cards of all shapes that we think you’ll love making. Hop with us too you'll see 5 more bonus projects inspired by them too.

JAI 703 choose two challenge - hot air balloons rainbow

Hello & welcome to a new project share. I made today's card for a beautiful friend, and it's also my team project for Just Add Ink's Choose Two challenge to add balloons, bright colours, or birthday. I chose balloons and bright colours, but it would work well for a birthday too. The sweet, heart shaped balloons in the Hot Air Balloons die set were perfect to create my rainbow of colour, and I teamed them with sentiments from the Beach Day set, which you know I love too. Take a look at the finished card.

JAI 507 sketch challenge - star rainbow birthday

This week's new Just Add Ink challenge is live and Jackie has given us this fun, angled sketch to work with. I've been playing around with rainbows and my Stitched Stars so I went with that theme and this is what I came up with.

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.

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.

Stampin' Blends Markers Colour Chart - 2024-2025 Update

Hello and welcome! Today I'm sharing my 2024 Stampin' Blends™ alcohol marker colour chart update. The colour chart shows all currently available and retired Stampin' Blends markers as of the 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue release in May 2024. This includes five new 2024-2026 In Colors.

Stampin' Blends include light and dark shades of the Stampin' Up! colour. The chart makes it easy to see the full colour spectrum and choose shades to blend together. Take a look at my coloured in chart.

2026-27 Stampin Blends Colour Chart PDF Update

 

Hello and welcome! Today I'm sharing my 2026-2027 Stampin' Blends™ alcohol marker colour chart pdf download update. This includes the five newest In Colors released for 2026-2028; Hydrangea Hue, Peaceful Pine, Barely Blush, Crisp Cantaloupe, and Golden Glow.

Stampin' Blends Colour Chart 2023-24 Update

Hello and welcome! A new catalogue means new In Colors, and this year's colour refresh means LOTS more new colours AND new Stampin' Blends alcohol markers. Hooray!

Stampin' Blends give us double the colour fun because we get a light and dark shade in each colour. I love seeing all the new marker shades together.

My Colour Chart makes it easy to find shades to blend together and keep a record of which colours you have and need. And it's so pretty coloured in. Take a look!

June Stamping Sisters Tutorial Bundle - Kids Big & Small

It's June already and time for a new Stamping Sisters Tutorial Bundle. This month is all about kids whether big or small, so you'll find bright colours, cute animals, and lots of fun ideas you can use for lots of cards. Here's a peek at the 5 projects we've created for you.

JAI515 Just add mixed media - Prized Peony for a friend

Hello hello! I'm back with my card project for this week's new Just Add Ink challenge - Just Add Mixed Media.

Mixed media gave me thoughts of collages, layers of paint, papers and texture so I checked for a definition and found that it "generally describes artworks composed from a combination of different media or materials". OK. Now how to interpret that for me and my fairly clean style.

I'm still loving peonies so the Peony Garden suite came out again, including the Prized Peonies stamp set and bundle and I created this card.

JAI 297 colour challenge - botanical blooms birthday

I hope you all enjoy a colour challenge as Nikki has suggested an awesome combination of pool party, blushing bride & pear pizzazz for this week's Just Add Ink challenge.

These colours say modern floral card to me so my new Botanical Blooms stamp & die bundle was perfect. This is my card.

The card base is thick white card with an overlay of printed Botanical Gardens vellum (a Sale-a-bration freebie - yay) attached at the top. I added pool party card cut twice with the vine die - love the curvy positive & negative leaf image - & a blushing bride strip underneath on the white base.

The vellum at the top isn't showing well in the pic but is more obvious irl. This pic better shows the vellum layer.

& this one hopefully shows the 2 layers.

It also shows the gorgeous sentiment from the equally gorgeous Birthday Blooms set, which I've heat embossed in pool party embossing powder. This colour is retired but you could create the same look by inking up your stamp in versamark, then pool party ink before stamping & clear embossing.

All this talk of vellum has gotten me distracted from the main act - the two flowers, cut with 3 dies from three Botanical Blooms dies - the large flower, large stamen & small stamen.  I lightly sponged, markered & curled the large petals with my bone folder, then added stamens & a sequin & pearl for the centre.

These flowers are so fun to make so I'm sure you'll see more in a rainbow of colours. Here's one more pic showing the card & flower for you to pin.

So, how do you think I did with the colour challenge?
The design team have shared lots of fab ideas to inspire you to try these colours & we'd love you to play along with challenge too. See them & join in here on the Just Add Ink blog.

More about Botanical Blooms

Botanical Blooms is part of the Botanical Gardens suite of goodies in the 2016 Occasions Catalogue & Sale-a-bration catalogues. The Botanical Blooms bundle includes a stamp set, coordinating dies AND Botanical Blooms DSP. These items are also available separately but you'll get 15% off all three items when you buy the bundle - score! The suite also includes darling flower embellishments, washi & matching card pack.  You can see all the projects & lots of samples on pages 26-27 of the Occasions Catalogue & in my online store.

This suite is so useful for lots of occasions, projects & people so you'll definitely want to include it on your wish list. Order the bundle & 1 accessory & you'll can choose a free Sale-a-bration item too - there are 2 coordinating SAB items (The Botanical Gardens vellum I used & fab Botanicals For You stamp set). Matchy matchy to the max!
More - watch this video with Stampin' Up!'s fab Shannon West.

You can see & order the supplies I used make my card & anything from the Botanical Blooms Suite from my online store.

Thanks for visiting today. I hope you liked my take on the challenge. Remember to pin my card for later inspiration & leave a comment as I love hearing from you.
Inky wishes, Di

Supplies
To see & order any items used in today's project, just click on the items below to see them in my Online Store. You can order from me if you live anywhere in Australia. I would love to be your Demonstrator if you don't already have one.  Please allow "Demonstrator contact" in your preferences so I can thank you properly when you place your order.
Note - Stamp sets & bundles noted below may be available in other mount options (eg wood, cling rubber or photopolymer). I have listed the option that I used, then alternative separate options at the bottom.. Please check the online store if your preference is different.

Print Recipe

Botanical Blooms Photopolymer Bundle	Birthday Blooms Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock	Pool Party A4 Card Stock	Card Stock A4 Blushing Bride
Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz	Versamark Pad	Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder	Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad
Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad	Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments	Heat Tool	Big Shot	Precision Base Plate
Botanical Blooms Photopolymer Stamp Set	Botanical Builder Framelits Dies