Just Add Ink #690 | Just Add A Fancy Fold

 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 fun challenge - Just Add Ink #690 | Just Add A Fancy Fold. 

I do love to create a card with a fancy fold but I often forget to make them. If you want to check out some of the fancy fold cards that I've made in the past check out my Pinterest Board HERE.This might also give you some inspiration for our Fancy Fold Challenge this week.

For today I've made a fancy fold card that I've not seen before, a mirror fold card. I've only recently found it when I was reasearching on what to make for this challenge.

While the card and the fancy fold looks fairly inconspicuous when it's closed with the belly band around it. The reasoning as to why it's called a Mirror Fold card doesn't really come to light until you unfold it.

Here I've used panels embossed with the Layered Florals 3D embossing folder, which looks beautiful, but you could also use panels of your favourite DSP for an equally stunning look. The centre panel is perfect to write your message. Need additional room to write your message? You can add another panel of Basic White to the back side of the central rhombus section.

Here I've created the belly band with Crumb Cake cardstock and layered it with some Coastal Cabana Carstock and some Vellum Basics Specialty Designer Series Paper and some dies and sentiment from the Sending Smiles Stamp and Die Set. I love the boldness of the Basic Black against the Vellum and Coastal Cabana. It's very striking!

I really hope that I've given you some inspiration for our Fancy Fold Challenge. Go and check out the design teams take on this week's Fancy Fold Challenge at the Just Add Ink Blog and then come and join in this week's sketch fun! I can't wait to see what you create.

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Just Add Ink #675 | Just Add ... Spotlight Technique Challenge

 Happy Friday! I'm sharing with you today my latest card for the design team for the new Just Add Ink Challenge - Just Add Ink #675 | Just Add ... Spotlight Technique Challenge.

My take on the Spotlight technique for my cards today was Spotlight Stamping. Its a technique which as the name suggest adds spotlight to certain part of stamp. In this technique what you do is highlight a certain portion of stamp with your favorite coloring medium. So I've stamped the leaf image on the cardstock and embossed it with White Embossing Powder and then I've added some ink blending on the cardstock using the Stampin' Up! colours - Bubble Bath, Fresh Fresia and Highland Heather.

How stunning are these colours blended together? I'm loving it that's for sure! I've used products from the Masterfully Made Suite from the Stampin' Up! 2023 -2024 Annual Catalogue. In the catalogue the project samples are made bright and bold colours but with the colour combination that I've used today I love how gorgeous these suite products with the soft and pretty look.

In this card the embossing creates an emboss resist look and then the laying the image from the die-cut with the image on the cardstock base layer accents the Spotlight Stamping technique.

 In this card, lining up the bottom image with the top image, and having them in different colours really accents the Spotlight Stamping Technique. 

Isn't it such a bonus when you can get two cards from the one technique. I really enjoyed this technique and I'm looking forward to trying it with different stamps and also different ink blending colour combinations.

The Just Add Ink Design Team have lots of amazing creations for you and to show you their take on the Spotlight Technique. I can't wait to see you join in and to see your take on this fun technique.

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Just Add Ink #663 | Just Choose Two Challenge

I'm here today to bring you my card for the NEW challenge we have over at Just Add Ink Challenges - Just Add Ink #663 - Just Choose Two Challenge. 

Today for our Just Choose Two challenge (to choose two items to feature on your project) we are choosing between Flowers, Gingham and Splatters. I do love me a Just Choose Two Challenge and this one is no exception. I think they are my equal favourite with a Sketch Challenge. I can't decide which I like more.

 I chose flowers, of course, with the flowers from the Sending Smiles Stamp Set. I've had this set for a long time and haven't inked it up until now. I've used the new Boho Blue In Color for the petals and used the trusty, old faithful Old Olive for the flower leaves and stems.

The other element I chose for my card today was Splatters and I'm going to say its a very subtle splatter. I used Crumb Cake for the card base and then layered over that another Crumb Cake layer die cut with the Dots & Spots die. Over that then I flicked the brush tip end of a Crumb Cake Stampin' Write Marker to create my splatters. I love the tone on tone look with using the same ink as your cardstock to create beautiful, subtle, less is more look.

The 'Sending' was also stamped in Boho Blue Ink and that is layered on some Boho Blue Textured Ribbon and finished off with the 'Birthday Wishes' White Embossed on Boho Blue cardstock, some linen thread and some Iridescent Pearl Basic Jewels.

  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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Just Add Ink #657 | Sketch Challenge

 Hello stamping friends. Happy Friday! I hope you are having a wonderful day. I'm here today for the new Just Add Ink Challenge - Just Add Ink #657 | Sketch Challenge. This week we have a fabulous sketch for you designed by fellow JAI team member - Nikki.

It certainly has been a while between creations for me with life and family taking over and crafting and creating put aside for a moment. But I'm here today ready to share again my lastest creations.

While I love the simple design of the sketch that leaves lots of room for interpretation, I was a little bit thrown by the angled lines across the card. I much prefer the lines across any card to be either vertical or horizontal. Definitly not angled. But as I've said it before and I'll probably say it again not doubt, it's not called a challenge for nothing.

I used retired Stampin' Up! Washi Tape to mask up my Basic White card front so that I could blend some Boho Blue ink across the front of the card. If you were wanting to make a quick card you could use strips of cardstock but I liked the look of the blended in as opposed to the cardstock.

Over my ink blended layer I've added a layer of embossed vellum - embossed with the Countryside Blossoms Embossing folder - and then added some die cut layers, cut with the Countryside Corners Dies.

The flowers, leaves and sentiment all come from the Lasting Joy Stamp set. The flowers stamped in Bubble Bath Ink, the leaves in Mossy Meadow and then the senitment has been heat embossed with White Embossing Powder on Bubble Bath cardstock.

I love this pink and blue colour combo and I'm sure I will use it again in creations to come.

I've finished off the card with some Linen Thread, Boho Blue Textured Ribbon (which I cut in half) and some Pearl Basic Jewels. 

Lots of layers, flowers, a pretty colour combo and some gorgeous ribbon and trim, all the things I love in a card all rolled into one.

There are lots of AMAZING creations from the rest of the Just Add Ink Design Team on the JAI Blog. Go and check out everyone's take on the sketch. Can't wait to see what you do with the sketch.

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