The Write Stuff – Creative Ideas from Just Write Designs

Rosy Birthday Wish

Posted on May 3, 2025 9:53 PM by Julie Comment

Today I have a simple birthday card with a big punch of color. The woodplank background is colorblended for that rosy, summery look. The layout is simple but eye-catching and so easy to customize by using different colors or a different greeting.

A big congrats to beljed, the newest Featured Stamper FS952! She is a fabulous scrapbooker and her gallery is full of color and inspiration. I chose THIS page to case. I loved the gradient woodgrain so I kept that, but I used a stamped & die cut floral instead of paper flowers & made mine a birthday card.

To make my card, I die cut the wood plank cover then ran it thru the embossing to make a deeper impression. Using all of the reddish pinks, I color blended it, going from light to dark. I added a little yellow on top to give it that rosy glow & a little of the fuchsia on the bottom to deepen the red. The flowers were colored & die cut & popped up. I added more on the sides to even out were they would be placed on top of the frame. The frame is also slight elevated, as is the the greeting. It’s easy to cut card board for these using the same dies used to cut the items out. I just used a second piece & removed the parts that would be on top of the frame. That way there isn’t a folding or bending effect where they go across the frame.

Here are the Copics I used. I will mention, when coloring images, I stamp them first w/ Memento (since it’s Copic friendly). After coloring, I usually stamp over the image again using the Versaclair as it’s a crisper, darker black, but it’s not Copic friendly, so I save it for last. This is where the Misti really is essential, for me.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Hellebore Floral set

Paper: Staples 110# white

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versaclair nocturne, Brass & Bliss: Color Fuse inks set #2, set #4, set #5

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Hellebore Floral set, Wood Plank Panel, Rectangle Combo #4 dies, Detail Blending Brushes, Misti

Hellebore Floral set 37014	Hellebore Floral dies 37014D	Wood Plank Panel die 5708-01D	Rectangle Combo #4 die 5217D	Large Blending Brushes
Color Fuse Ink set #2	Color Fuse Ink set #4	Color Fuse Ink set #5	Copic Sketch Markers	Versafine Clair ink
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Memento Inks	MISTI	Scotch ATG

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Happy Garden

Posted on May 2, 2025 9:49 PM by Julie Comment

The weather is warmer, flowers are blooming and it’s a perfect time to sit in the garden. So many plants are blooming here and I wanted to try and capture that in my card. To me, it looks like a wonderful place to sit and drink in all the colors. This isn’t a hard card to make, so let me show how I did it.

It’s my turn to host the Inspiration Challenge & we’re visiting Art.com & their Pinterest Board. They have everything artsy you can imagine, so something to please everyone. I was inspired by THIS little garden scene.

To make my card, I die cut the chairs out of cobalt & turquoise then mix-matched them. I used the same blue for the awning, the tall pot and the narrow backing layer. The grass is two shades of green & the flowers are a mix of yellow, lt pink, dk pink & lt red. I die cut the white background first, then attached the darker green grass stri, leaving the very center unglued so I could slip in the white planter of tulips behind it.. I placed it back into the stitched rectangle die & recut so the grass would be even. I put together the awning & popped only the top part up (not the supports). The lighter green grass was attached behind the awning supports then the 2 chairs were popped up on top & the tall blue vase added on the left. The greeting was die cut & it’s backed w/ 2 plain cuts out of turquoise to shadow it. One is placed a little above the greeting & the other a little below it.

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

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Enjoy the Sunshine set

Paper: Staples 110# white, turquoise, cobalt blue, 2 shades of green, lt pink, dk pink, yellow, lt red

Ink: Versaclair nocturne

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Stitched Rectangles, Farmers Market Stand, Farmers Market Stand Spring Accessories, Enjoy the Sunshine set, Classic Grass dies, MISTI

Enjoy the Sunshine set 37011	Enjoy the Sunshine dies 37011D	Farmers Market Stand die 5813-01D	Farmers Market Spring Accessories die 5813-02D	Rectangle Small Stitch dies 5013D
Adirondack Chairs 5613-01D	Classic Grass die 5615-06D	Scotch ATG	MISTI	Versafine Clair ink
AC color card stock	Staples 110# White Card Stock

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Fancy Flower Oval

Posted on April 26, 2025 9:35 PM by Julie Comment

Today, I have a very sweet, feminie card, all pretty in pink. I kept the color palette simple with only a few accents in black & green. This new basketweave cover die is perfect to let a little of a second color shine through and add a little interest to the background.

A big congrats to Jayne, the newest Featured Stamper FS951! She has a beautiful gallery & I didn’t go far to find THIS card to case. I kept the general layout w/ flowers surrounding a greeting, but I used different dies, colors & changed the layered circle to a layered long oval & used a background die.

To make my card, I die cut the basket weave cover die in white & backed it w/ a lt pink panel. All of the flowers were die cut out of white then I used a blending brush & 2 shades of pink ink on them, going from the centers outward. The two shades of pink were blended on top of each other since neither one alone really went w/ the pink background, but together they complemented it well. The leaves were cut out of a spring green & also blended w/ a little green ink. Two sizes of the swanky ovals were cut & the top white one was popped up a couple of layers. Then flowers were shaped before being put together & attached to the card. For the greeting, I die cut 2 black shapes of the words & offset them, above & below to shadow the birthday wish words.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Hellebore Floral set (greeting)

Paper: Staples 110# white, lt pink, black spring green

Ink: Versaclair nocturne, Brass & Bliss: Color Fuse inks set #4, set #5, set #10

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Hellebore Floral set, Basket Weave Cover, Swanky Ovals, Whisper Blossom, Build a Bloom Anemone dies, Detail Blending Brushes, Misti

Basket Weave Cover die 5810D	Build a Bloom Anemones die 5808-01D	Whisper Blossom die 5811-02D	Swanky Ovals die 5812D	Hellebore Floral set 37014
Hellebore Floral dies 37014D	Color Fuse Ink set #4	Color Fuse Ink set #5	Color Fuse Ink set #10	Detail Blending Brushes
Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	MISTI	Versafine Clair ink	Scotch ATG