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.
Monday 6 May 2024
Friday 3 May 2024
JAI 700 Just add shimmer-shine - birthday sunflower
Hello and welcome to a new project share. This card celebrates my very special DD, and also a milestone for Just Add Ink. It's our 700th challenge. Amazing! It's also fun that our challenge is to add shimmer or shine, as I think every celebration needs one or both.
DD loves sunflowers so that was my starting point for the card. I used mostly retired goodies - Celebrate Sunflowers stamps set and coordinating dies, Amazing Thanks dies, and New Horizons paper, and current Wanted to Say dies. Here's how it turned out.
Friday 26 April 2024
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.
Labels:
3d items,
challenge,
die cutting,
fancy folds,
Just Add Ink,
neutral,
stampin up
Friday 12 April 2024
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.
Labels:
cards,
challenge,
christmas,
die cutting,
embossing folders,
Just Add Ink,
neutral,
stampin up
Friday 29 March 2024
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.
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.
Labels:
3d items,
all occasions,
birthday,
cards,
challenge,
embossing,
fancy folds,
Just Add Ink,
just because,
markers,
neutral,
no stamping,
Stampin Blends,
stampin up,
treats
Friday 15 March 2024
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.
Labels:
all occasions,
birthday,
cards,
challenge,
fancy folds,
friend,
Just Add Ink,
just because,
markers,
neutral
Saturday 2 March 2024
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.
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.
Labels:
all occasions,
birthday,
cards,
Class Projects,
fathers day,
friend,
just because,
masculine,
neutral,
Stampin Blends,
stampin up
Friday 1 March 2024
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.
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.
Labels:
all occasions,
cards,
challenge,
feminine,
Just Add Ink,
just because,
neutral,
stampin up
Friday 23 February 2024
JAI690 just add a fancy fold - 100th birthday faux centre step
Hello and welcome! Today's project is for an amazing milestone birthday celebrated by a friend of a friend this week and this week's Just Add Ink Fancy Fold challenge. And you all know I love a fun fancy fold.
The card request was to include two of the recipient's favourite things - reading and animals. I included the Scottie dogs from the Christmas Scottie stamp set (sadly retired), the stack of books image from the Bird's Eye View stamp set, and a pretty blue floral print from the Countryside Inn paper pack (which also has some animals on it). I also made a bookmark which you'll see below.
Here's how the card turned out.
Here's how the card turned out.
Labels:
3d items,
birthday,
cards,
challenge,
die cutting,
embossing folders,
fancy folds,
feminine,
just because,
markers,
Stampin Blends,
stampin up
Friday 16 February 2024
JAI 689 colour challenge - hot air balloon birthday
Hello and welcome. It's colour challenge week at Just Add Ink, and we're using a bold combination of Gorgeous Grape and Tahitian Tide with white. I love both separately but can't say I've combined them until now. I've used them with the Hot Air Balloon stamps and dies bundle to create a bright birthday card. Here's how it turned out. Tell me what you think.
Labels:
all occasions,
birthday,
cards,
challenge,
die cutting,
friend,
Just Add Ink,
just because,
Stampin Blends,
stampin up,
thank you
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