The Write Stuff – Creative Ideas from Just Write Designs

White Butterfly

Posted on March 28, 2026 9:39 PM by Julie Comment

Spring has mostly arrived here. Some days are a little warmer, but today it’s on the cool side. Flowers are starting to bloom & I saw the first butterfly of the season today! This is a clean & simple card, all die cut out of white with a shimmery watercolor behind for the back layer of the butterfly. The best part, you only need 2 dies & 1 stamp set plus some pretty paper for the back butterfly layer.

For the Featured Stamper Challenge FS999, since it’s the 5th week, we are revisiting one of three past FS (either FS101, FS102 or FS103). I went w/ FS101 JulieHRR. Besides having a very cool first name, I like her style. I chose THIS card to case, I kept the all white front w/ just the pretty colors confined to the middle. I used different dies, different stamped greeting & moved it up under the image.

To make my very easy card, I die cut the white front with a stitch dot die, then cut the outline of the butterfly in the top center. I was going for a modified inlay look. I found a piece of shimmery watercolor back ground I die cut it w/ the solid butterfly shape & attached it behind the white outline. The greeting was stamped underneath it & this whole front was popped up one extra layer. I used the butterfly outline die to cut the body out of silver glitter, then trimmed away the rest of the outline. Super simple!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Fluttering Wishes set

Paper: Staples 110# white, scrap of silver glitter, watercolor bg

Ink: VersaClair nocturne

Accessories: Brass & Bliss/Rubbernecker Stamps: Stitched Rectangles, Monarch Butterfly, Fluttering Wishes, dies, MISTI

Fluttery Wishes set 38003	Fluttery Wishes dies 38003D	Monarch Butterfly die 5907-02D	Stitch Dot Rectangle dies 5821-03D	Staples 110# White Card Stock
DCWV Glitter Matstack	Versafine Clair ink	Scotch ATG	MISTI

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Spring Butterfly

Posted on March 25, 2026 9:00 AM by Julie Comment

Are you ready for Spring? We’ve had a taste of it here and flowers are starting to bloom. To celebrate the arrival of spring, I have a very bright card all done in vibrant shades of orange. It’s not a hard card to make and best of all, it uses only a couple of stamp sets with their matching dies, some inks & a little clear embossing powder. Change the greeting & make it a birthday, Easter or Mother’s Day card.

For the Inspiration Challenge IC1060 we are visiting Elephant Stock & their Pinterest Board where I was inspired by THIS picture.

To make my very orangey card, I first die cut a piece of white w/ the largest stitched rectangle. Then I die cut the flower branch from the set out of copy paper to use as a mask. The matching dies are great for more than just die cutting the images! Since I stamped the flowers more than once, I started w/ the middle one, masked it, then stamped the partials above & below as you can see here.

I added just a hint of color to the flowers with some yellow ink. Then I used a Versamark pen to coat the flowers & clear embossed them. The little splatter like dots were stamped in Versamark & also clear embossed. Then I used the large blending brushes to completely coat the entire piece. Starting with the yellow toward the center then working darker as I went outward.

I let it dry for a few minutes, then decided I didn’t want the images to look clear embossed, so I placed the panel between 2 pieces of copy paper & with a craft iron, ironed all of the embossing powder off to make it flat again. The butterfly was colored, die cut & popped up on one side. The black outlines are still shiny because I used a glaze pen to go over the lines.

Here are the Copics I used for the butterfly:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Fluttering Wishes set, Thankful for You set

Paper: Staples 110# white

Ink: VersaClair nocturne, Versamark, Memento tuxedo black, Brass & Bliss/Rubbernecker Stamps: Color Fuse ink set #1, set #2 & set #4

Accessories: Brass & Bliss/Rubbernecker Stamps: Stitched Rectangles, Fluttering Wishes, Thankful for You dies, Lg Blending Brushes, MISTI , Copic markers, clear embossing powder, Glaze pen, Versamark pen

Fluttery Wishes set 38003	Fluttery Wishes dies 38003D	Thankful for You set 38009″	Thankful for You dies 38009D	Rectangle Stitch Small dies 5013D
Color Fuse Ink set #1	Color Fuse Ink set #2	Color Fuse Ink set #4	Large Blending Brushes	Versamark ink
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Versafine Clair ink	Scotch ATG	Ranger Embossing Powder	Sakura Glaze pens
Copic Sketch Markers	MISTI	AC color card stock	Memento Inks

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Garden Birthday

Posted on March 14, 2026 9:38 PM by Julie Comment

I have a fun little birthday card that has flowers, a bird and a stenciled backgrounsd. It is easy to make and can be customized with any colors you like. The greeting can be easily switched out to anything you need it to be. All you need is some inks, stencils, a few dies and this cute stamp set.

It’s my turn to host the Featured Stamper Challenge FS987 so a big congrats to Sara! She has such a fun, clean little gallery & I cased THIS card. I kept the layout because I liked it so much. I used different images, dies & used stencils to create my background strip.
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For my card, I started by coloring the flowers, bird & birdhouse then die cut them & popped them up one layer. Then I set about making the stenciled strip. I used the rectangle stitch die to cut the long strip then started w/ the swirl stencil & used blues & one purple ink. A light blue was blended across the entire panel. The large circles of the bokeh (2 part) stencil was used with a little darker blue then the smaller circles using the darkest blue ink. Finally, the falling snow stencil was used w/ white pigment ink. I used a heat tool to make sure it was completely dry before attaching it to a piece of white & die cut w/ the largest stitch rectangle. I also added a couple of blue border on top & bottom w/ the stitch edge cut die. The greeting was stamped below before I attached all the images.

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: Enjoy the Sunshine set, All Occasion Birthday set

Paper: Staples 110# white, blue

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Hero Arts Unicorn, Brass & Bliss: Color Fuse inks set #6, #7, #8

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Stitch Rectangles, Enjoy the Sunshine set, Classic Edge Cuts, Rainbow & Cloud dies, Bokeh stencil, Falling Snow stencil, Abstract Circles stencil, Lg & Detail Blending Brushes, MISTI, Copic markers

Enjoy the Sunshine set 37011	Enjoy the Sunshine dies 37011D	All Occasion Birthday Greetings set 38002-02	Classic Edge Cut dies 5807-01D	Rectangle Small Stitch dies 5013D
Color Fuse Ink set #6	Color Fuse Ink set #7	Color Fuse Ink set #8	Large Blending Brushes	Detail Blending Brushes
Bokeh Stencil 4204	Falling Snow stencil 4407	Abstract Circles Stencil 4403	Scotch ATG	MISTI
AC color card stock	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Memento Inks	Copic Sketch Markers	Hero Arts Unicorn Pigment Ink