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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Stampin' Fancy Friday | Something Blue Challenge

  Hello stamping friends. It's so great to have you here today. Today I have a project for the Stampin' Fancy Friday Team. If you've not see us before we are a group of past and continuing Stampin’ Up! Artisans bringing our followers a fancy monthly challenge to inspire them to get creative!  

 This month the challenge is 'Something Blue'. Who doesn't love the colour blue? 

The brief was to create a fancy project with any Stampin' Up! BLUE! Could be: just use blues for a monochromatic or create a new colour combo with a blue.  

I've created a card for you today using the Sale-a-bration Flight and Airy DSP with a Boho Blue and White colour combo. Blue and white is such a classic look and works well with any shade of blue.

For my card today I've started with the Basic White Layers and then using a Blending Brush added a layer of Boho Blue ink to created the colour on the Basic White. Over that I then splattered some Misty Moonlight Ink using the brushtip end of a Misty Moonlight Stampin' Write Marker.

Over the blended background I added some strips of the Flight & Airy DSP and then layered a die cut piece of Basic White, embossed with the Softly Sophisticated Embossing Folder (another Sale-a-bration freebie). Added to that a piece of the Vellum Basics Specialty Designer Series Paper, Boho Blue Textured Ribbon, Boho Blue die cut circle, Linen Thread and an image fussy cut from the Flight & Airy DSP. 

 The Flight & Airy DSP makes it so easy to make beautiful projects with its beautiful watercolour designs. Fussy cut a bird or two and add them to your projects then use the watercolour washes as card backgrounds. You'll have a masterpiece card on your hands in no time. Remember you can get this DSP for free. Just ask me how. Do you have your free pack yet?⁠

The sentiment comes from the Softly Sophisticated Stamp Set. I heat embossed it and then fussy cut around it. I've then finished off the card with the beautiful Iridescent Pearl Basic Jewels. Pretty! 

Check out the rest of the 'Something Blue' creations that the Stampin' Fancy Friday Design Team has made on the Stampin' Fancy Friday Instagram Account. This is where all their creations will be shared throughout this month, so make sure that you are following them to get all of the amazing ideas using all the different shades of Stampin' Up! blues! You won't be short if inspiration this month!

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Just Add Ink #688 | 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 #688 - Just Choose Two Challenge. 

Today for our Just Choose Two challenge (to choose two items to feature on your project) we are choosing from Sequins, Stars or Stitching. I chose stitching straight off the bat and then added sequins for my Just Choose Two.

The sequins and stitching are accents to finish off my card rather than being the main element. I did think about doing another cross stitch card but I might save doing another one later on down the track.

I've gone for a Basic White and Fresh Freesia card today for a pretty and fresh look. I think Fresh Freesia is becomning my new favourite Stampin' Up! colour. Everytime I use it I love it more and more.

The butteflies all over my card are from the Stampin' Up! Paper Butterfly Accents. I love the contrast of these beautiful white butterflies against the coloured cardstock. Pretty! To add the stitching element used a (very old and retired) Stampin' Up! Essentials Paper Piercing Pack and a Piercing Tool to punch the holes and then with a needle and some retired Gold Thread I hand stitched the border. I used to do this quite a lot on my cards and I love the gorgeous look that the hand stitching gives. This is the next best thing to using a sewing machine on your cards.

Because I wanted the butterfly layer to be the main element to my card I really didn't want a large sentiment to cover them all. I've layered some Vellum Basics, Linen Thread, a small piece of the Perennial Lavender DSP and the Happy Birthday Senitment. The sequins come from the For Everything Fancy Sequins.

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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