Just Add Ink #747 | Inspiration Picture Challenge

 Hello there stamping friends! Happy Friday! Welcome and thanks for joining me on my blog today. Today we over at Just Add Ink have a fabulous inspiration picture challenge - Just Add Ink #747 | Inspiration Picture Challenge.

 This week our insipration picutre is all about yellows and greys. I don't normally use a lot of yellows so this Inspiration Picture was a challenge for me too. 

Today I've made a clean and simple (CAS) card for you all and I've incorporated some new products that will be part of the May Online Exlusive release.

I'm using today products from the Floral Impressions Suite. This suite includes the Impressions Abloom Stamp Set, Impressions Abloom Dies, Pressed Flowers Embossing Folder, Floral Impressions 12" x 12" DSP, Strawberry Slush & Pretty in Pink Gems, and the Foiled Frames & Emphemera Pack. As the name of this suite suggests its all about flowers. Yay! My favourite.

I've started the card with a Basic White card base and then layered on that some more Basic White layers which I've also embossed with the super pretty Pressed Flowers Embossing folder. Here I've also used the dies to create some beautiful Daffodil Delight flowers with some Garden Green leaves. The background oval piece is also cut using the same die set.

I've accented the flowers with some Black & Very Vanilla Check ribbon and some Linen Thread. I've then finished off the card with an embossed Thank You sentiment and some of the gems that are part of the Floral Impressions Suite. While I've not used much grey in my card I was certainly inspired by all the yellow in our inspiration picture.

Go and check out the design teams take on this week's Inspiration Picture Challenge at the Just Add Ink Blog and then come and join us in this week's inspiration picture fun! Can't wait to see what you create!

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Online Exclusive On The Go Suite | April | 2025 Artisan Design Team Monthly Project

Hello stamping friends. This month Group 2 from the Stampin' Up!® 2025 Artisan Design Team have been creating with the March 2025 Online Exclusive On the Go Suite.

We were asked to create two projects with the suite, using all the products from the suite and to only use the colors that are featured in this suite. Combine your love of travel with your love of crafting when creating with this suite. The travel theme in this suite is great for card makers and scrapbookers alike. 

The suite includes

- Tags to go Stamp Set

- Tags to Go Dies

- On the Go 12" x 12" Designer Series Paper

- On the Go Puffy Stickers

- Pack Your Bags Twine - 3 Pack

- Suitcase Treat Boxes

Product Colours - Azure Afternoon, Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Shy Shamrock, and Returning In Colour - Strawberry Slush

 

Today I've gone back again to my papercrafting roots with a scrapbooking page and then a layered card as well. FYI - I was a scrapbooker before I was a card maker. I still love scrapbooking but they tend to take me quite a while to make, once I discovered cardmaking I loved how quick a card could be made and finished as opposed to a scrapbook that I could deliberate over for days till I was happy with the final outcome.

 

I've made a couple of scrapbook pages of a huge road trip that we took when my kids were little and it has inspired me to do the whole album. There are lots of photos! So watch this space for some more pages throughout this year of our road trip from Melbourne to Perth.

These photos are part of that road trip before we left home. I've started with a White Willow 12" x 12" cardstock base and then layered some torn On the Go DSP over top. I've then pierced some holes with the Take Your Pick tool so that I could stitch some of the Pack Your Bags Twine. I split the twine down to just two threads rather than using the whole strand of twine as it would have been too thick to stitch with that way. 

 

After that it was just a matter of layering the photos and then playing around with the placement of the photos and the die-cuts, stamped pieces, embellishments, DSP pieces, and twine until I was happy with the final look. Some things I put on and then took off and then put on again. So its a whole process and that is why it takes me quite a while to produce a scrapbook page. I do love it though.

For my card I layered Basic White for the card base and then this provided a beautiful contrast to the bright cardstock and the DSP pieces. I layered some of the geometric DSP patterns wiht some of the images from the DSP that I fussy cut. I've then finished the card off with some of the Puffy stickers, some Pack Your Bags Twine, and some die-cut heart shapes.

I hope that I've given you some inspiration using this suite and some ideas for your next travel themed projects. Make sure you check out my post for this suite on Instagram HERE as group two have an Instagram Hop and you will be able to see the rest of the teams creations.

 

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Just Add Ink #745 | Colour 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 #745 |  Colour Challenge. This week our challenge has been chosen by Just Add Ink Design Team Member Kim. 

 This week we have a little bit of a different colour combination for you. We have Petunia Pop, Balmy Blue, Soft Sea Foam,and Smoky Slate. Petunia Pop is quite a bright colour and the others are quite soft and subtle. Let's see what we can do with these.

I'm using some new Stampin' Up! products that will be available for customer to purchase on 6th May 2025. Aren't they just 'lovely'? 😊 The oval dies are from the Impressions Abloom Dies that will be an online exclusive product in May and then the die cut flowers, leaves and the sentiment are from the Pretty Florals Bundle and the Sweet Blooms Bundle and these two bundles are from the Florals in Bloom Suite Collection. Lots of new and gorgeous products!

 I've used the Smoky Slate as the card base. I've strayed away from the Basic White card base as I was trying to incorporate as much of the challenge colours as possible. I've added a layer embossed with the Mini Corrugated 3D Embossing Folder. Fun tip with this embossing folder - cut your piece of cardstock bigger than you need, emboss with the Mini Corrugated 3D Embossing Folder and then cut your piece of cardstock to the right size.

I've then added the oval panel also cut in Smoky Slate and then I've added some Smoky Slate splatters over both of these layers.

Due to the Petunia Pop colour being quite intense and bright compared to the other colours I watered down some Petunia Pop ink and then added a watercolour wash on some Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper. This gave me a softer look to the colour and made it more inline with the other colours. I also made the leaves using Soft Sea Foam in the same way but this time trying not to water the colour down too much so that it could stay as dark as possible.

I've then added the sentiment with the 'it's a' and 'day' heat embossed on Balmy Blue and then I've layered 'lovely' die with Basic White and Balmy Blue.

I've finished the card off with some Linen Thread and some Iridescent Pearls. Simple but pretty.

 I do hope that I've inspired you with the colours for our colour challenge. Go and check out the design teams take on this week's colour challenge at the Just Add Ink Blog and then come and join us for this week's colour fun.

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CASE-ing the Catty | #ctc513 | Case Beautiful Bokeh Suite pages 38-41

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 Julia Quinn'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 the Stampin' Up! Beautiful Bokeh Suite that is found on pgs. 38 - 41 in the 2025 Jan - April Mini Catalogue. This suite lets the dappling light, fluttery butterfly wings, fun embellishments, and soft colours of the Beautiful Bokeh Suite Collection transform your paper crafts from ordinary to extraordinary! This suite is just what you need to create captivating gratitude, birthday, and all-occasion cards, scrapbook pages, gift tags, and more.

 From the samples in the catalogue featuring this suite I've settled on this one today. I love the simplicity of the sample design with the three panels down the right hand side and then where the placement of the stamped images and sentiment are on the card is just perfect. I've then incorporated these things on my card for you today.

I've started off with a Basic White card base and then layered some embossed pieces of the new In Color - Strawberry Slush. If you are thinking that you've seen this colour before you would be right because this is a returning In Color. It was originally part of the 2013 - 2015 In Colors with Pistachio Pudding, Coastal Cabana, Crisp Canteloupe, and Baked Brown Sugar. 

Now for the 2025 - 2027 In Colors Strawberry Slush is teamed up with Darling Duckling,Timid Tiger, Secret Sea, and Cloud Cover.

I love the bright look of the Strawberry Slush and I've combined it with some 2024 -2026 In Colors for some floral clusters in placement just like the original sample from the 2025 Jan - April Mini Catalogue. These flower dies from the Impressions Abloom Bundle are a sneak peek for you from some of the new products that will be available in May for some new Online Exclusive Products.

I've combined with the Impressions Abloom dies the Delightful Wishes stamp set and dies to finish the card off with a  beautiful sentiment. I've also finished off the card with a few Iridescent Pearls for some pretty embellishment.

Next up on the hop is the fabulous Peta Stephen.  Be sure to give her some CASE-ing the Catty Blog Hop love.

 

Rebecca Scurr

Julia Quinn

Rochelle Blok - You are here

Peta Stephen

Rochelle Laird-Smith

Andrea Sargent

Monique Fielder

Lauren Meiklejohn 

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Just Add Ink #743 | 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 #743 | Just Add a Sketch. This week our challenge was suggested by Just Add Ink Design Team member Tristan Dawes

I've used the Delightful Wishes Bundle for my card today with a different colour combination for me. My card today uses Smoky Slate, Petal Pink, Calypso Coral, and Misty Moonlight. This card also started out very different to how it ended up. I had started with some stamping of the Mixed Florals Stamp Set on Fluid 100 Watercolor papr, coloured in the image with a Water Painter and Reinkers, and then die cut the images with the Stylish Shapes dies and it all looked wrong. Well I thought it did so it was back to the drawing board.  

 My next thought was the Delighful Wishes Bundle. I've started with Smoky Slate for the base of the card and then used one of the floral images to create a stamped boarder. These images are normally used as a layered stamp with two stamps to create the one image but I like using just the one image to create a boarder. Over this I used a blending brush to add a 'sponged' edge and then added some Smoky Slate ink splatter.

Next I've added some linen thread to the base layer and then layered the Stylish Shapes dies cuts and the Delightful Wishes floral dies. Its hard to see in the photo but I 'sponged' the edges of the flowers and leaves also using a Blending Brush.

 I've finished the card off with some super cute Tiny Bee Trinkets and my favourite Linen Thread and Black & Very Vanilla Large Check Ribbon.

 

While I haven't kept exactly to the sketch I've used most of the elements from the design of the sketch for my interpretation of this weeks sketch. 

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Online Exclusive Tag of Thanks Bundle | March | 2025 Artisan Design Team Monthly Project

 

Hello stamping friends. This month Group 2 from the Stampin' Up!® 2025 Artisan Design Team have been creating with the Tag of Thanks Bundle that is part of the March Online Exclusive release.

We were asked to create two projects with this bundle. This bundle helps you to create tags and card decor aplenty. The thankful sentiments and mini hole punches are a crafting must have. Use the circle punch and the For You or Thank You sentiments to create custom gift tags. Or create a card belly band with the oval punch and the So Lucky to Know You sentiments. Endless crafting opportunities with this fabulous bundle!

The bundle includes :

- Tags of Thanks photopolymer stamp set and,

-  Hole Punch Assortment Punches (3 in total)

 

For my first project I created a card using the Tags of Thanks Bundle. I've used a Crumb Cake, Shy Shamrock, Basic Black, and Basic White layered colour combination. On the front of the card I created the three embossed tags using one of the Hold Punch Assortment Punches to create the hole for the ribbon and then finished off the card with layers of die cuts, ribbon and trim, and the sentiments from the Tags of Thanks stamp set.

My second project I created a couple of gift tags. These consisted of Pretty in Pink, Shy Shamrock, Basic Black, and Basic White. I used a template to create the tag shape. I wanted to make sure that they were all exactly the same shape so that I could layer a two tags together and this was the quickest way to do it. I used the 'splatter' stamp from the Layering Leaves stamp set to give that splattered look over the tags. Over that I then added a piece of embossed Basic White.

To embellish the tags I created some rolled flowers. These were made by 

-punching out a circle using the 2" Circle Punch

- cutting the circle, free hand, into a spiral

- rolling the spiral inwards till the whole spiral is rolled in  

- allow the flower to 'loosen' off a bit 

- add glue to the flap and press the centre of the flower down into the adhesive and hold it till the glue is dry. 

Here is a quick tutorial that I used if you are more of a visual person to see exactly how they are made.

 

I used the leaves from the Layering Leaves Stamp Set accent the flowers and then added them to the tags. 

The tags are finished off with some ribbon, trim and sentiments from the Tags of Thanks Stamp Set.

 

The Tags of Thanks stamp set has been designed with elegant and casual fonts. These thankful sentiments are a crafting staple. Add to the stamp set the Hole Punch Assortment, the ultimate papecrafting tool, and you'll be able to create tags, cards, belly bands, paper ornaments and more. 

Make sure you check out my post for this suite on Instagram HERE as group two have an Instagram Hop and you will be able to see the rest of the teams creations.

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CASE-ing the Catty | #CTC510 | CASE March Online Exclusives

  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 Rachel Palmieri'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 projects from the Stampin' Up! March Online Exclusive Release. The online exclusive products are as their name suggests Online only. There is no fixed end-date for these products. Some products are re-orded when the Inventory is low but others are only available while stocks last.

With all the AMAZING products that were released with the March Online Exclusive Release there also came AMAZING creative samples to show off these fantastic products. I was inspired by a small little tag created using the Textured Notes Dies. Its the bottom one on the left using the Basic Black, Pretty Peacock, and Crumb Cake colour combination. I loved the colour combo and the layout of the tag so I used those elements to create a card using the Memorable Blooms Bundle.

I've used Pretty Peacock as the card base and base layers to keep with the colour combination of the original sample. I've used the new Mini Corrugated 3D Embossing Folder as one of the layers and 'roughed' up the edges a little by scraping the sharp edge of the Paper Snips across the edge of the cardstock.

On some Thick Basic White Cardstock I used the floral image and Basic Grey ink and stamped it all over the cardstock. I originally thought the DSP used in the sample was Basic Grey but on further inspection realised it was Basic Black after I'd made my card. I personally like the Basic Grey better. It gives a softer look as opposed to the Basic Black that can sometimes look a little harsh.

Over the stamped image I sponged some Pretty Peacock Ink using a Blending Brush to give a similar look to the original sample. I've also added some ink splatters.

To finish off the card I've added some Linen Thread and Black & Very Vanilla Ribbon, a Stylish Shapes circle, some of the stamped images coloured with Stampin' Blends, a stamped sentiment from the Memorable Blooms Stamp Set and some gorgeous Opal Rounds.

I know I've said it a few times when CASE-ing the Catty but the samples either online or in the catalogues are a fantastic tool to help you get creating especially if you are in a creative slump. They really help to get the ideas flowing. Use them to to either CASE the samples as is or do what I've done here today and use what products you have and change it up a little to suit what products you've got.

Next up on the hop is the lovely, Monique Fielder. Be sure to give her some CASE-ing the Catty Blog Hop love.

Andrea Sargent

Julia Quinn

Peta Stephen

Rachel Palmieri

Rochelle Blok - You are here

Monique Fielder

Rebecca Scurr

Kathryn Mangelsdorf

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Just Add Ink #741 | Just Add Simple and Elegant

 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 #741 | Just Add Simple & Elegant. This week our challenge was suggested by Just Add Ink Design Team member Lou Kitelman.

I've used the Heirloom Arrangements Kit for my Simple & Elegant card today. I've tried to do simple as best as I could but when I paired back the layers the card just didn't look right. So I've pulled back all the ribbon and embellishments that I like to use for a simple (with a few layers) & elegant look.

I've gone a bit rogue with the kit and cut up one of the 'pink' printed card bases to use as a 'cardstock' layer. Because these cards are cut to a U.S. sized card I opened one up and then cut it to an Australian sized card base. If you look real closely at the pink layer you can see the fold from the original card but with the printing on the card base it blends in. I also cut up some of the tags, die cut pieces and the printed envelopes to use on the Perennial Postage die cut pieces. These elements had to have similar colourings so that they would coordinate on the front of the card.

I finished the card off with some of the other printed and die cut pieces from the Heirloom Arrangements Kit, the stamped Happy Birthday from the Delightful Wishes Stamp set, and a few Iridescent Pearls to add to the elegant look.

 Ready to join in this weeks challenge? Click on the banner below and you'll be taken straight to the Just Add Ink Blog where you will find the design teams inspiration creations for you as well as all the details on how you can participate. I'd love to see you join in!

 

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