Just Add Ink #751 | Just Add a Shaker Card

 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 #751 | Just Add a Shaker Card. This week, Just Add Ink Design Team member Kerry suggested our challenge. 

I've not made many shaker cards, so it is a bit of a challenge for me, too. Check out the only other shaker card that I've ever made HERE. 

I've used products from the newly release Beautiful Gallery Suite that feature in the new 2025 - 2026 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue that went live on the 6th May.  I thought the frames in the Gallery Blooms Dies would be perfect to use for a shaker card and I really wanted to use the 'floral' sheet of DSP from the Beautiful Gallery DSP, so that is where I started with my card today.

I've used the new Secret Sea card stock as the base for my card today. This is one of the colours that coordinates with the Beautiful Gallery DSP and looks like it coordinates with the DSP pattern that I used for the "frame". I love the look of the Secret Sea and every time you look at it, it can look a different colour from Black to Green to Blue.  The top layer of the Secret Sea has been embossed with the gorgeous Damask Designs Embossing Folder.

 Due to the busyness of the DSP and the scattered sequins, I've kept this card quite simple by using some of the dies from the Beautiful Motifs Dies and the Gallery Blooms Dies for a little 'spray' of leaves and flowers to the side, also in colours that coordinate with the DSP. I've then finished off the card with some Linen Thread, and then the 'Hello' from the Beautiful Motifs stamp set. The sequins are from the retired For Everything Fancy Sequins and were just the right pieces to create the shaker part.

 

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2025 Artisan Design Team | Technique Tuesday | Ombre Scrapbook Titles

Hello stamping friends. Today I'm sharing my first Technique Tuesday Tip for the 2025 Artisan Design Team. Stampin' Up! celebrated National Scrapbook Day on 4th May 2025, so all the tips/ techniques that are shared on the Stampin' Up! Facebook and Instagram for Technique Tuesday for the month of May will relate to scrapbooking.

 My tip using the new Party Alphabet Dies was to show you how to create Ombre Letters to use for an Ombre Scrapbook Title. Follow the steps below for you to create your own Ombre letters.

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CASE-ing the Catty | ctc#518 | Case Front Cover 2025-2026 Annual Catalogue

 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 front cover of the new 2025-2026 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue that goes live to customers this week on 6th May. Yay! New catalogue and new products! Love that!

I was inspired by this sample from the front cover. I love the simplicity of the design with the use of DSP across the front of the card and then the angled flowers with the sentiment in the middle. So with those design elements and the new Floral Impressions DSP, (which will also be available to purchase 6th May as an Online Exclusive), I've created a bright and fun Thank You card.

Floral Impressions 12"x12"DSP

The Floral Impressions DSP showcases bright blooms and lush leaves, while the coordinating pattern sheets provide a delicate touch of texture and contrast. Here for my card I've used some of the patterned sheets as the base layers of the card trying to keep with the same design elements as the sample card. I tore the Darling Duckling design for an added element and for added interest. With that I've layered one of the die cuts from the Impressions Abloom Dies and then embossed the centre panel with the Pressed Flowers Embossing Folder. These two products are part of the Floral Impressions Suite that the Floral Impressions DSP also comes from. With all these products together, it is such an amazing suite!

The flower and leaf images have been fussy cut from the Floral Impressions DSP. The flower images in this DSP are so stunning and they really pop off the card when fussy cut like this. I've added some Impressions Abloom die cut leaves as well for some extra layering.

I've finished the card off with some Linen Thread, an embossed sentiment, and some Gems from the Strawberry Slush & Pretty in Pink Gems. 

I really love how that with one pack of DSP you can make some amazing cards or scrapbook pages with minimal stamping! Stampin' Up! has some stunning DSP packs and they make it easy to make beautiful creations. Let's get to using them! 

I hope that you like my CASE of the sample from the new Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue. Next up on the hop is the fabulous Kathryn Mangelsdorf. Be sure to give her some CASE-ing the Catty Blog hop love.

 Julia Quinn

Rochelle Blok - You are here
Kathryn Mangelsdorf

Rochelle Laird-Smith

Monique Fielder

Judy May

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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Just Add Ink #749 | 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 #749 | Just Choose Two Challenge. This week our Just Choose Two Challenge has been suggested by team member Nikki.

Today for our Just Choose Two challenge (to choose two items to feature on your project) we are choosing from Circles, Cake, and Coffee. I don't have any crafting products that relate to coffee so it was circles and cake for this weeks challenge. When looking for cake crafting products I didn't have much of those either so I went for a bit of a dive into my retired crafting products and found the Piece of Cake stamp set that I think retired in about 2020. It also had a coordinating punch that punched out the cake stand and the cakes (separately). Was a super cute bundle. Do you remember it?

I've combined the retired stamp set with some current and soon to be released products that will be available for customers to purchase from 6th May 2025.

 I've started the card with a Fresh Freesia base and some Fresh Freesia layers and then used the Perennial Postage die cut in Basic White to layer in between. The Basic White in between breaks up the colour and adds some more added interest and elements. On the top Fresh Freesia layer I've embossed it with the new Pressed Flowers Embossing Folder that will be a new Online exclusive on May 6th and then also added some Fresh Freesia splatters. So pretty and super fun!

Over the Fresh Freesia layers I've added some Country Woods DSP. This favourite will be returning in the new catalogue, so Yay! And then on this I've used some Black & Very Vanilla Large Check Ribbon and some Linen Thread. This Black & Very Vanilla will be retiring at the end of the current 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! catalogue. That will be one product that I will miss very much. I use it a lot 😢.

 On the top I've added a die-cut circle that has been die-cut from the Floral Impressions DSP and then layered with a circle from the Foiled Frames & Labels Ephemera Pack. Both these products are also Online Exclusives to purchase 6th May.

 

I've finished off the card with the birthday cake that I've coloured with Stampin' Blends Alcohol Markers and then added a heat embossed sentiment.

 

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 #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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