Sending Smiles 2 - Inspired neutral floral background

Today's Sending Smiles card is really is all about the stamps and die in the bundle playing nicely together.

I've created a randomly stamped, cut strip background with the leaf and some floral stamps paired with the wonderful sentiment dies and stamps, with a fresh, neutral colour scheme.

JAI 619 Just add masculine - Sending Smiles 4 - Sunset palms

Hello & welcome! Today is Sending Smiles bundle post 4 and my team project for Just Add Ink challenge 619. This week's challenge is to create a masculine card. It's Father's Day in Australia this Sunday so perfect time for anyone looking for guy card inspo.

I went with a tropical sunset scene birthday card with a blended ink background - yes I'm pretty obsessed with them and sunsets at the moment. Take a look.

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.

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.

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? :)

Sending Smiles 6 - Spring flower garden

Hello & welcome to my sixth and last Sending Smiles series card post for now. I'm sure you'll see more of this fab bundle along the way, but for now take a look at this bright and happy card.

Sending Smiles 3 - Field of flowers thank you

Hello & welcome! Today I'm sharing the 3rd class project using the Sending Smiles stamps and die bundle.

It's a easy thank you card that's all about the pretty, stemmed flowers in the bundle. I have no idea which flowers they're based on. Any ideas?

This card shows off three 2022-24 In Colors too - Orchid Oasis, Starry Sky, and Parakeet Party. Such a fresh combination.

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 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.

Sending Smiles 5 - sending love and flowers

Hello & welcome! Today I'm sharing the 5th Sending Smiles bundle card - a clean and simple flower cluster to send love to someone special.

Sending Smiles - Patterned paper card base

Hello & welcome. Today I'm sharing one of my recent class projects and the first of 6 new posts featuring the Sending Smiles stamp and die bundle. This card design was inspired by a beautiful card my darling man gave me for Mother's Day.

You can make beautifully coordinated cards with all the elements in the bundle. Even better, the fab 'Sending' stamp and die and coordinating sentiments play so well with others too.

You'll see them playing very nicely together today teamed with the Hues of Happiness paper and the Amazing Year stamp set.

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.

JAI 654 colour challenge - daffodil love and hugs

Hello and welcome! It's colour challenge week at Just Add Ink with a bright and happy combination of Parakeet Party, Tahitian Tide and Daffodil Delight.

You also find me today with laptop troubles so I'm keeping this post short and sweet. For some reason the challenge colours said daffodils to me so that's what I went with using the retired Daffodil dies and my favourite Sending dies. Take a look.

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 615 inspiration challenge - serene grove neutral birthday

Hello and welcome! Today I have a bit of a different card to share, made for this week's Just Add Ink inspiration image challenge. This one definitely was a challenge as the image looked like something I'd be looking at as renovation ideas rather than to make a card. 

After quite a bit of thinking I was drawn to the frame and back of the cabana structure, timber and touches of greenery, which gave me the idea to make fun fold card, using the Grove dies and Inspired Thoughts stamp sets.