The Write Stuff – Creative Ideas from Just Write Designs

Thank You Friend

Posted on October 16, 2026 9:38 PM by Julie Comment

This is a cozy thank you card in warm, autumn colors and images. The humorous greeting is perfect for that special friend who “gets” your quirky sense of humor. Since it’s a 2-part greeting, you can always leave the snarky part off and make it plain thank you card. Since the background is a card covering image, it gives you the option to make it any color you choose.

For the Inspiration Challenge IC1089, we are visiting Matawi Teleworks & their Pinterest Boards. THIS tile was my inspiration.

To make my card, I inked up the Woodfolk Bg with several colors of yellow/orange & rust inks. I started w/ an orangish yellow, reinked it w/ a couple of darker oranges & stamped again. The darkest rust was inked, mostly around the edges & stamped again. A Misti is pretty essential for this repeated stamping. After letting it dry a bit, it was die cut w/ the largest plain rectangle. The image & leaves were stamped, colored & die cut w/ their coordinating dies. I used the smaller of the 5×7 Elegant Essentials dies to cut the white shape I put behind the main image. The image, background & greetings were popped up.

Here are the Copics I used:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Fall Harvest Fun set, Thankful Thoughts set, Woodland Folk Bg

Paper: Staples 110# white

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Distress inks Spiced Marmalade, Rusty Hinge, Carved Pumpkin, Brass & Bliss: Color Fuse set #2

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Fall Harvest Fun, Thankful Thoughts, Rectangles, 5×7 Elegant Essentials dies, Misti, Copic markers

Fall Harvest Fun set 38046	Fall Harvest Fun dies 38046D	Thankful Thoughts set 38045	Thankful Thoughts dies 38045D	Woodland Folk Bg 38042
5×7 Elegant Essentials dies 5941-07D	Rectangle dies 5003D	Color Fuse Ink set #2	Distress Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock
Memento Inks	MISTI	Copic Sketch Markers

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Frights & Delights

Posted on October 10, 2026 9:55 PM by Julie Comment

Halloween will be here soon! Time for a not-so-spooky card that is sure to delight the recipient. Lots of color & pattern on this one. This is a 5×7 card so there is a lot of real estate to display the patterned paper and big pumpkins/Jack O’Lantern.

A big congrats to Teri, the newest Featured Stamper FS1027! She has a fun little gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the bats/Halloween theme, the use of printed papers & most of the colors, but I used different papers, made mine a 5×7 & turned it horizontal.

For my card, the pumpkins were die cut out of 2 colors or orange & I used some brown & orange inks to add a little depth to them before gluing them together. To make them more Halloween-y, I added black die cut bats on top.They were layered, some popped up, on a white tall hex (turned sideways) cut background. I used a larger hex to cut the black plaid pumpkin paper behind it. The 5×7 stitched rectangle dies were used to die cut the orange plaid & plain orange paper. The largest of the 5×7 rectangles was used to cut the largest black plaid pumpkin paper for the final layer. I split a the greeting into 2 lines & used the mini sentiment strips for them & the orange backing layers.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Ghostly Greetings set

Paper: Staples 110# white, orange, pumpkin, blqck, Brass & Bliss: Spooky & Sweet paper pad

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Brass & Bliss: Color Fuse set #2 & set #3

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Gone Batty, Simply Pumpkin, 5×7 Stitched Rectangles, Tall Hex, Mini Sentiment Strips dies, blending brushes, Misti

Ghostly Greetings 36012	Simply Pumkin dies 5919-05D	Gone Batty dies 5951-01D	Mini Sentiment Strip dies 5944D	Tall Hex dies 5819-02D
5×7 Classic Stitch Rectangle dies 5941-03D	Spooky & Sweet paper 2410	Color Fuse Ink set #2	Color Fuse Ink set #3	Detail Blending Brushes
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Memento Inks	MISTI	AC color card stock

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Fall Thanks

Posted on October 9, 2026 10:07 PM by Julie Comment

Fall is the time to be thankful, to give thanks and don’t forget to say thank you to those in your life you really appreciate! Choose pretty paper and match your fall bouquet to the colors.

For the Inspiration Challenge IC1088, we are visiting Pacha Soap Co & their Pinterest Boards where I found THIS to use as my inspiration.

To make my thanks card, I die cut the large mason jar out of white & used a little blue ink to shade it. The fall bouquet dies were cut out of rich, jewel tone fall colors to go with the paper I chose for the background. I made a frame out of cobalt blue using a 5×7 rectangle & a 5×7 oval dies. A larger 5×7 stitched rectangle was used for the large cobalt blue & a slightly smaller one for the beautiful new paper from the Autumn Tapestry pad. The greeting was stamped & one of the layering pairs of the mini sentiment dies was used to cut it & its maroon backing layer. The Thanks part was die cut using white & maroon. Some of the frame & mason jar were popped up

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Thankful Mini Sayings set

Paper: Staples 110# white, rust, cobalt blue, goldenrod, brown, maroon, Brass & Bliss: Rustic Heirloom paper pad

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Brass & Bliss: Color Fuse set #7

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Fall Bouquet, Mason Jars, Thanks Script w/ Shadow, 5×7 Stitched Rectangles, 5×7 Stitched Ovals, Mini Sentiment Strips dies, Misti

Fall Bouquet dies 5946-02D	Mason Jar dies 5912-03D	Thanks Script w/ Shadow dies 5943-03D	Mini Sentiment Strip dies 5944D	Thankful Mini Sayings set 38049
5×7 Classic Stitch Rectangle dies 5941-03D	5×7 Classic Stitch Oval dies 5941-05D	Rustic Heirloom paper 2409	Color Fuse Ink set #7	Large Blending Brushes
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Memento Inks	MISTI	AC color card stock