Just Add Ink #733 | Just Choose Two

 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 #733 | Just Choose Two. This week our Just Choose Two Challenge has been chosen by team member Kerry.

This is our last challenge for the year. WOW! Where did the year go? This challenge will run for two weeks and then the Just Add Ink team will be back in mid-Jan after a well earned rest ready to share our creations and inspiration with you all again.

Today for our Just Choose Two challenge (to choose two items to feature on your project) we are choosing from Elves, Reindeer, and Santa. I don't have anything that has Elves but I do have Reindeers but not much Santa crafting products. It was nearly going to be a Just Choose One week.

With some creative thought and a going though of all my crafting products I've come up with a Christmas Card with a reindeer wearing a Santa hat. That's all I've got. My brain is a bit fried creatively at the moment. I've gone into Christmas overload just trying to keep on track with everything during this Christmas season. Do you get a bit 'frazzled' this time of year?

I've used the Reindeer Days DSP for my card today. The main Reindeer image I've fussy cut from the Reindeer Days DSP.  I've had a lot of fun with the whole Suite this year and have used it for a lot of my Christmas crafting. Check out my Pinterest Board HERE to see all the creations I made using this Suite.

I used one of the Sketches from the 2024 Sept-Dec Mini Catalogue for this card. The sketches make creating that little bit easier to get started and are the perfect way to get the creative ideas flowing.

Can you pick which one I used?

I've used Pool Party and Basic White for the base layers and then layered the Reindeer Days DSP with some Garden Green embossed cardstock, a die cut circle, and then some fussy cut DSP pieces, and some stickers from the Reindeer Days Memories & More Card Pack.

I've finished the card off with a heat embossed sentiment and some Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints.

This is my last card for 2024. I've had so much fun sharing all my creations with you all and I'm looking forward to bigger and better creative things for 2025. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year.

I do hope that I've given you some inspiration for our Just Choose Two Challenge. Go and check out the design teams take on this week's challenge at the Just Add Ink Blog and then come and join us for this week's Just Choose Two fun!

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Just Add Ink #732 | 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 #732 | Sketch Challenge. This week we have a fabulous sketch for you designed by fellow JAI team member - Tina Gillespie.

I'm turning back to my regular crafting this week rather than Christmas Crafting. I received an order the other day with some pre-order goodies from the upcoming 2025 Jan-Apr Mini Catalogue and I was busting to use some these rather than anything for Christmas crafts.

My card today uses products from the AMAZING Friends of the Ocean Suite. The suite consists of Ocean Friends stamp set, Ocean Friends Dies, Soft Waves 3D Embossing Folder, Friends of the Ocean 12"x12" DSP, and the Sunny Day Iridescent Dots. The colours in the DSP include Berry Burst, Calypso Coral, Lemon Lime Twist, Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Summer Splash. All these gorgeous colours together will make for some bright and summery creations. Put these products on your wish list today and purchase them from 7th Jan 2025.

The sketch has a zig-zag design across the front so I've torn some Two-Tone Cardstock to replicate that zig-zag. I then embossed it with the Soft Waves 3D Embossing Folder and because the Two-Tone cardstock has a white core I lightly sanded the paper to reveal some of the white. It's a fantastic technique to give another look to your two-tone.cardstock.

Over the two-toned cardstock and the Friends of the Ocean DSP I've added some of the Ocean Friends Dies, some of the sea creatures fussy cut from the DSP, a sentiment from the Ocean Friends Stamp Set, and then finished off the card with the placement of a few Sunny Days Iridescent Dots. So fun and super cute! You'll be seeing a lot more of these products from me, that's for sure! They are so good!

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 blog for 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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Put these products on your wish list

- Friends of the Ocean Suite 

- Ocean Friends Stamp Set

- Ocean Friends Dies

- Soft Waves 3D Embossing Folder

- Friends of the Ocean 12"x12" DSP

- Sunny Days Iridescent Dots

 - Wildflower Celebrations 12"x12" Two-Tone Cardstock   

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CASE-ing the Catty | #ctc498 | CASE a project featuring animals

 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.

If you've come from Rochelle Laird-Smith's blog welcome, if you've started here with me also welcome. It's so good to have you here.

This week we are CASE-ing a project from either the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue or the Stampin' Up! 2024 Sept-Dec Mini Catalogue that features animals. There are quite a few options in both catalogues to CASE from.

My cards are loosely inspired by this gift bag sample from the Nests of Winter Suite that is in the 2024 Sept-Dec Mini Catalogue. While I didn't make a gift bag like the sample I used some of the design elements from the gift tag that accompanies the bag.

While I'm still in Christmas crafting mode I made a couple more Christmas cards for this weeks CASE-ing the Catty Challenge. Like the original sample I've kept the circle element and a rectangle that is a similar size to the actual tag. I've combined the Country Woods DSP with some of the products from the Reindeer Days Suite. I've incorporated the Reindeer Fun Stamp Set, the Reindeer Days DSP, the stickers from the Reindeer Days Memories & More Card Pack, and the Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints.

The Pool Party layer on both cards I used one of the stamps from the Reindeer Fun stamp set to stamp and heat emboss my own 'DSP' as such. I couldn't find a DSP that I liked to go on the card so I made my own.  I then cut the cardstock with the Deckled Regtangle Dies.

 

The stickers from the Memories & More card packs are a fun way to accent either your memory keeping or your cards. These images from the Reindeer Days Memories & More Card Packs are so festive and really add to the Christmas look and feel of your Christmas crafts.

On the first card I used one of the stickers for the sentiment but on this one I stamped the sentiment for a different look.

I think with these two cards I've finished making my Christmas cards for the year. I think. Time to get them in the post.

Next up on the hop is the fabulous Kathryn Mangelsdorf. Make sure you give her some CASE-ing the Catty Blog Hop love.

Julia Quinn

Rochelle Laird-Smith

Rochelle Blok - You are here

Kathryn Mangelsdorf

Peta Stephen

Rebecca Scurr

Andrea Sargent

 

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 week's challenge. You don't need to have a blog to join in!

 

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