Just Add Ink #722 | Sketch Challenge

Hello stamping friends. Happy Friday! I hope you are having a wonderful day.  I'm here today with the Just Add Ink Design Team for the new Just Add Ink Challenge - Just Add Ink #722 | Sketch Challenge.

This week we have a fabulous sketch for you designed by fellow JAI team member - Lou Kitzelman.

I recently recieved in my  Stampin' Up! order the super fun products from the Reindeer Days Suite that is found in the Stampin' Up! 2024 Sept-Dec Mini Catalogue. This suite is so fun and so cute and makes for some fabulous Christmas cards.

I've started the card with a Basic White base and added some Basic White die cuts for a Faux Embossed look. Faux Embossing is a fantastic way to add to your creations for that added something extra. Try it with other cardstock colours to incorporate into your creations.

 

I thought a fantastic contrast to the Basic White was the Real Red sheet from the Reindeer Days DSP. I cut up the DSP in strips and sponged around the edge of each of each strip with Real Red Ink. I then arrnged the strips like the sketch to create a fun DSP background.

I've then finished the card off with my current favourite ribbon - Pool Party Pom Pom Ribbon and then added the Spotlight on Nature cirle and the super fun Reindeer Fun Dies. Aren't they the cutest??!! The heat embossed 'Merry Christmas' comes from the Reindeer Fun Stamp set and is the perfect addition to finish off the card.

I do hope that I've inspired you with my card for this week's sketch challenge.Go and check out the design teams take on the sketch at the Just Add Ink blogfor some inspiration and then come and join in this weeks sketch fun. I can't wait to see what you create.

 

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CASE-ing the Catty | #CTC489 | CASE a Bundle

 Hello Stamping Friends. Welcome to a super exciting CASE-ing the Catty Blog Hop. We at CASE-ing the Catty are about CASE-ing the samples from the Stampin' Up! Catalogues (Catty) with a different theme to CASE each week. To CASE is to Copy And Selectively Edit.

This week we are CASe-ing the Bundles found on Pgs. 39 - 50 in the Stampin' Up! 2024 Sept-Dec Mini Catalogue.

 

If you've come from Julia Quinn's blog, welcome,  if you've started here with me also welcome.

 The Stampin' Up! bundles make crafting coordination easy. The stamp & tool bundles help you to quickly cut out stamped images to simplify your paper crafting while also at the same time saving you money. A double bonus if you ask me!

There are 12 amazing bundles in the catalogue from pgs. 39 - 50 that cover every occasion for the coming Christams/Holiday season. 

 I chose this sample from the Mini Catalogue for the basis of my CASE-d card today. It uses the Hang on Ornament Bundle but for my card today I've used the Sentimental Christmas DSP as the main feature of my card.

In the original card I liked the strip across the front and then the placement of the die cuts in a cluster to the right so I've used those design elements for this Merry Christmas Card.

Have you seen the Sentimental Christmas DSP? Its a stunning patterned paper filled with vintage traditional Christmas images. It reminds me of the Christmas wrapping papers and cards in the '80's when I was a kid growing up. It's very nostalgic! This paper was hand-drawn in coloured pencils for original designs that you won't find anywhere else. Here on my card I've fussy cut the stocking image to use as a feature element on the front of my card.

How beautiful are the traditional colours in the DSP??!! I do love using traditional and non-traditional colours when creating Christmas cards nothing screams Christmas as much as green and red. I've coordinated the Forever Plaid Embossing folder to add that extra texture and I've finished the card off with some Pool Party Pom Pom Trim, Linen Thread, Shaded Spruce Satin Sheer Ribbon, Embossed Merry Christmas from the Peaceful Season Stamp Set, and some Drusy Adhesive-Backed Embellishments.

Next up on the hop is the fabulous Kathryn Mangelsdorf. Be sure to go around and give her some blog hop love.

 

We would love to have you join us over at our Facebook group to share your creation CASE-ing a project from the 2024 - 2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue and join in this weeks challenge. You don't need to have a blog to join in!

 

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CASE-ing the Catty | #CTC488 | CASE a Technique

 Hello Stamping Friends. Welcome to a super exciting CASE-ing the Catty Blog Hop. We are about CASE-ing the samples from the Stampin' Up! Catalogues (Catty) with a different theme to CASE each week. To CASE is to Copy And Selectively Edit.

This week we are CASE-ing a Technique.We are taking inspiration from the techniques featured in the Stampin' Up! Annual and Mini Catalogues. Our catalogues are filled with techniques on each and every page. Some techniques we may use everytime we create something.

I was inspired by the Watercolour Techniques in the Annual Catalouge on pg.118 especially the Pencil Me In technique using the Stampin' Up! Watercolour Pencils. I've not used my Watercolour Pencils for a long time so it was so good to use them. I've combined the pencils with the Snowman Hugs stamp set from the 2024 Sept-Dec Mini Catalogue.

How fun is the snowman? I love his/her summery vibe. It makes me think of the song 'In Summer' from Frozen. Because this image is very finely drawn it lends itself a whole lot better to the Watercolour Pencils rather than the Stampin' Blends Alcohol Markers.

I've stamped the image on Basic White Thick Cardstock with Memento Ink and then coloured the image with the pencils. I then went over the coloured in pieces with the Stampin' Blends Colour Lifter to blend the colours a bit and to give the colours a bit more of a watercolour look rather than a freshly coloured with pencils look. Doing this really smooths out the colour and gives your image an even tone. You can smooth out the pencil colour too with a Blender Pen.

 I've layered Basic White and Pool Party cardstock for my base layers and added some embossed layers using the Snowflake Sky 3D Embossing Folder and the Forever Plaid Embossing Folder. I've added some Pool Party Pom Pom Ribbon and some 2024 - 2026 In Color Resin Dots for that added embellishment and then I've finished the card off with one of the pieces from the Joyful Sayings Mix & Match Ephemera.

I hope that you have been inspired to use the Watercolour Pencils techniqe a go and to use the Colour Lifter/Blender Pen to get that smooth coloured in look. 

Follow our hop by going through to visit the lovely Rochelle Laird-Smith to see what technique she is sharing with you.

 

 We would love to have you join us over at our Facebook group to share your creation CASE-ing a project from the 2024 - 2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue and join in this weeks challenge. You don't need to have a blog to join in!

 

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CASE-ing the Catty | #CTC487 | CASE Mix & Match (Pgs. 16 - 17)

Hello Stamping Friends. Welcome to a super exciting CASE-ing the Catty Blog Hop. We are about CASE-ing the samples from the Stampin' Up! Catalogues (Catty) with a different theme to CASE each week. To CASE is to Copy And Selectively Edit. This week we are CASE-ing the Mix & Match Samples on Pgs. 16 & 17 from the Stampin' Up! 2024 Sept-Dec Mini Catalogue.

If you come here from Andrea Sargent's blog welcome, if you've started here with me also welcome. 

I'm so loving these Mix & Match products and have used them in a few different Christmas projects already - HERE, HERE, and HERE. I've said it before with the release of the Mix & Match products from the Annual Catalogue, these products make it super easy to get crafting and creating your own hand made cards. You can also use these products to make a CAS type card or one that is stepped up. The choice is yours!

 I chose this sample from the Mini Catalogue for the basis of my CASE-d card today. I liked the placement of the scripted words more to the left of the card and then the use of the Mix & Match pieces to the right. And of course I've used the Mix & Match products to CASE the Mix & Match Sample. How could I not?!

I've started with a Night of Navy cardstock base and my new favourite 3D Embossing Folder - Forever Plaid. This embossing folder will be fabulous all year round not just for festive projects.

Over my card base I've layered one of the Gold Dipped Mix & Match Specialty Cards, which I cut down and layered with some Night of Navy cardstock. Over the Gold Dipped Card layer I've splatted the Coastal Cabana Stampin' Write Marker for a bit of contrast splatter.

Once all my layers were sorted it was just a matter of finding which pieces would fit in with my CASE of the Catty sample and what I thought would look good together. I've combined pieces from the Mix & Match Ephemera and the A Little Bit Festive Mix & Match Specialty DSP.

I've finished off the card with some Pool Party PomPom Ribbon, a piece of the Natural Tones Linen Thread, and some Iridescent Pearls.

Next up on the hop is back to the start with the lovely Julia Quinn.

 

Julia Quinn

Rochelle Laird-Smith

Michelle Strazds

Judy May

Andrea Sargent

Rochelle Blok- You are here

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CASE-ing the Catty | #CTC486 | CASE the 2024 Sept-Dec Mini Catalogue

  Hello stamping friends. Thank you for joining me on my blog today. I hope that you've had a fantastic week and are having fabulous day!

  Today I'm participating in a blog hop for the CASE-ing the Catty Design Team, to kick off the new challenge for the week. If you come here from Rebecca Scurr's blog welcome, if you've started here with me also welcome. 

 We are about CASE-ing the samples from the Stampin' Up! Catalogues with a different theme to CASE each week. To CASE is to Copy And Selectively Edit. This week we are CASE-ing any project in the all NEW 2024 Sept - Dec Mini Catalogue! Don't you just love new catalogue time!!!

I was actually inspired by two things in the Mini to create my card today. I loved the colours from the Snowy Scenes Suite as well as one of the card layouts with the use of the Pool Party Pom Pom Ribbon as an edging to the cardstock layer. I also loved some of the Stampin' Blends colours used to colour Santa in the scrapbook layout and as well as the cutting up of the seniment to create your own sentiment. So with all that together this is the card I created for you today.

This stamp set just screams Christmas to me with the water sports, warm weather, sunshine, the beach, and summer. Christmas time without these things just isn't Christmas and I love the fun take of Santa on the surf board.

I used Stampin' Blends to colour in the images with lots of different blends combinations.

Stampin' Blends Used

Hat - Dk. Cherry Cobbler, Dk. & Lt. Real Red, Lt. Pool Party

Beard - Lt. Pool Party

Cup -  Dk. Cherry Cobbler, Dk. & Lt. Real Red

Shorts - Dk. & Lt. Shaded Spruce, Lt. Shy Shamrock, Lt. Pool Party, Lt. Pecan Pie

Surf Board - Dk. & Lt. Daffodil Delight, Lt. Lemon Lolly

Skin - Dk. & Lt. Petal Pink 

Presents - Dk. Cherry Cobbler, Dk. & Lt. Real Red, Dk. & Lt. Shaded Spruce, Lt. Shy Shamrock, Dk. & Lt. Pool Party, Dk. & Lt. Daffodil Delight, Lt. Lemon Lolly

 

 I've kept the design of the card quite simple to let the fun images take centre stage on the card and to let them be the main focus.

I hope I've inspired you with my CASE of the Mini Catalogue Samples. I love combining ideas from various samples to create one card.

 Next up on the hop is Michelle Strazds with her CASE of the Mini Catalogue. She will inspire you with lots of creative ideas.

 

Julia Quinn

Rebecca Scurr

Rochelle Blok - You are here

Michelle Strazds

Rochelle Laird-Smith

Andrea Sargent

Judy May

 

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Funky Folds Blog Hop #7

 Hello stamping friends. Thank you for joining me on my blog today. Welcome to Funky Folds Blog Hop #7. 

 We are a community of paper crafters who love to make cards with funky/fancy/fun folds and to share our ideas. Each and every month the blog hops will have and 'anything goes' theme as long as your card has some type of 'funky' fold.

 

I've made for you today a Pop-Up Gift Card Holder. I had made one of these before, years ago, HERE and wanted to revisit this type of card as we come into the gift giving season. It's always nice to make something a little special to put a gift card in and 'jazz' it up a bit.

You may be thinking, "Hang on a minute, this doesn't look like a funky fold card"! And, yes the card does look like a normal card from the outside but when you open it up that is where the funky fold comes into play.

For the front of the card I cut down and layered one of the Gold Dipped Mix & Match Specialty Cards and then embossed that with the New Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder. I've then embellished the front of the card with the new Mix & Match Ephemera from the 2024 Sept-Dec Mini Catalogue.

When you open the card the pop-up for the gift card is revealed. On the inside I've used some of the Nest of Winter DSP and then used more of the Gold Dipped Mix & Match Specialty Cards to create the pop-up mechanism. I made the envelope for the gift card myself  but you can use a small envelope for the gift card if you don't want to make one yourself.

 

There is a panel on the back for you to write a personalise message or you could put a small note in with the gift card. 

I do hope you like my Funky Fold that I've shared with you today and have given you another idea on how to make gift card giving that little bit more special.

Next up on the hop is the amazing Andrea Sargent. She always has fabulous creations and I'm sure today is no different.

If you love to make cards with creative folds and would like to join in with our monthly Funky Folds Blog Hop, you are welcome to head on over to our community group on Facebook HERE to be part of the fun. 

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Just Add Ink #718 | Just Choose Two Challenge

 Hello stamping friends. Happy Friday! I hope you are having a wonderful day. I'm here today with the Just Add Ink Design Team for the new Just Add Ink Challenge - Just Add Ink #718 | Just Choose Two Challenge. This week our Just Choose Two Challenge has been chosen by team member Kerry.

 Today for our Just Choose Two challenge (to choose two items to feature on your project) we are choosing from Texture, Foliage or String. I chose Texture and String for my card today but really you could say that I've added a little bit of foliage as well. This is one of those Just Choose Two challenges where it's easy to use all the three options.

Today I've pulled out the Enduring Beauty stamp set for a bit of embossed watercolouring. I hadn't used this set for a while so it was nice to pull it out and give it a bit of love.

For my texture element from our Just Choose Two options I've used some of the fabulous 3D Embossing folders that Stampin' Up! has in their Embossing Folders range. Here I've used the Layered Florals 3D embossing folder and the Hobnail-Glass Dots from the Basics 3D embossing folders (online exclusive). I've used these two embossing folders as the base layers for my card. I love how using embossing folders really helps to bring your creations from 'drab to fab' with really not much effort at all.

I embossed the Enduring Beauty image on the Fluid 100 Watercolour paper with gold embossing powder and then using one of the Water Painters and some Stampin' Up! inks coloured in the image. Here I've used watered down Blackberry Bliss and Mossy Meadow. These colours are usually dark and intense but with them being watered down they've taken on a soft and subtle look. Pretty!

I die-cut the coloured image with the Everyday Details Dies and then using the holes cut in the circle and some Linen Thread - my string element, 'sewed' the thread through the holes. I also added some Linen Thread on the base layers of the card for some added embellishment.

I've then finished off my card with some ribbon, an embossed sentiment and some Iridescent Pearls.

There are lots of AMAZING creations from the rest of the Just Add Ink Design Team on the JAI Blog. Go and check out to see what 'two' elements they all used this week and then while you are there you can see how you can enter your project. Can't wait to see what 'two' you used.

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