What Will You Stamp #200 - Merry Christmas To All

Jo's Stamping Spot - What Will You Stamp? Challenge #200


Welcome to Tuesday! I'm back with a card today for the latest What Will You Stamp? Challenge #200. I was asked to join this week as a guest designer for winning challenge #197 - Signs of Santa, you can see my card here. This week's challenge #200 is using the Merry Christmas To All set from the 2018 Holiday Catalogue.

Jo's Stamping Spot - What Will You Stamp? Challenge #197 Signs of Santa


Jo's Stamping Spot - What Will You Stamp? Challenge #200


I have made 3 different sets of Christmas cards with this bundle this year, it's such a versatile set and can be used in so many ways and styles.

Just Add Ink #439 - Add A Gift Box

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #439


Welcome to the last Just Add Ink challenge for 2018! This week we have challenge #439 and Patrice has asked us to do a gift box!

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #439


Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #439


This is the perfect time of year to have this challenge, who doesn't love a gift box for Christmas? I decided it was the perfect challenge to create a little thank you for my customers!

Just Add Ink #437 - Just Add 'I'

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #437


Welcome back to another new challenge for Just Add Ink! This week's challenge is to just add 'I' to our projects!

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #437


Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #437


These letter challenges really get me sometimes! I really had no idea what to do for this challenge! Thankfully OnStage in Melbourne happened and we all received a stamp set called 'Incredible Like You' which gave me something 'I' I could add to my card!

What Will You Stamp #197 - Signs of Santa

Jo's Stamping Spot - What Will You Stamp #197


I'm just jumping on today with a card I've made for the latest What Will You Stamp? Challenge Blog where this week they are highlighting the Signs of Santa stamp set!

Jo's Stamping Spot - What Will You Stamp #197


I haven't joined in with their challenges in a good while but as I'm still trying to get a jump on my Christmas cards I thought this was the perfect opportunity!

Just Add Ink #435 - Inspiration Challenge

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #435


I'm back with another Just Add Ink Challenge today! This week we have an inspiration image suggested by Kim!

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #435


Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #435


I'll be honest, I wasn't totally sure what to do with this image. I don't have any of the current tree stamp sets so I had to dig out an old set and use it with a bit of a twist!

Just Add Ink #433 - Colour Challenge

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #433


Hello and welcome to a new challenge for Just Add Ink! This week we have a bold, bright colour challenge for you, apparently suggested by me!

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #433


Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #433


This colour combo was meant to include Island Indigo but it was replaced with Blueberry Bushel when it got retired recently. This turned into one of my most challenging challenges yet but so happy to have got something together and played along!

Just Add Ink Challenge #432 - Choose Two

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #432


Today I'm joining in with another new challenge at Just Add Ink! This week we are running challenge #432 and Patrice has asked us to Just Choose Two!

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #432


Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #432


About the only thing I don't really keep in my craft stash is Buttons so I have chosen to use Bows and Bling!

Just Add Ink #431 - Sketch Challenge

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #431


Another Friday has rolled around so we have a new Just Add Ink Challenge today! This week we have a sketch challenge suggested by Tina!

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #431


Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #431


Sketch challenges are probably my favourite because they allow a lot more choice and interpretation and this one is such a fab sketch!

Just Add Ink Challenge #430 - Inspiration Challenge

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #430


Happy Friday! This week I'm jumping in with the new Just Add Ink Challenge #430, an inspiration challenge with a lovely floral pic suggested by Rochelle!

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #430


Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #430


We've got a beautiful floral image that could be used in so many ways but I thought it was so nice I practically replicated it!

Just Add Ink #429 - Just Add Vellum

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #429


Welcome to a new challenge for Just Add Ink! This week we have challenge #429 suggested by Di and we are adding Vellum!

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #429


Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #429


We have had some really lovely vellum products over the years and I was going to use our new Graceful Glass vellum for my card today but in the end I decided to go with some retired vellum that really made my card pop!

Just Add Ink #427 - Just Add 'K'

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #427


Welcome to another Friday and a new Just Add Ink challenge! This week we're playing along with challenge #427 where we've been asked by Tina to Just Add 'K' items!

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #427


Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #427


I really didn't have all that many 'K' items in my supplies. I only came up with kangaroos, koalas, kittens, knight, kettle or a kindness sentiment. I wanted to do something different so I tried a technique (starting with K) that I'd never done before!

ESAD 2018 Holiday Catalogue Blog Hop

Jo's Stamping Spot - ESAD 2018 Holiday Catalogue Blog Hop


Welcome to the ESAD Blog Hop for the 2018 Holiday Catalogue release! You're probably coming here from Libby's blog and seeing her wonderful projects or you may be starting here, either way I hope you enjoy all the fabulous inspiration from the ESAD demonstrators on the Hop!

Jo's Stamping Spot - ESAD 2018 Holiday Catalogue Blog Hop


Jo's Stamping Spot - ESAD 2018 Holiday Catalogue Blog Hop


There is so much product to love being released in the 2018 Holiday Catalogue but the standout set to me was the gorgeous Signs of Santa and Santa's Signpost Framelits bundle. The images are so cute and as an added bonus you can cut images from the the coordinationg DSP using the framelits!

Just Add Ink #425 - Inspiration Challenge

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #425


Welcome to a new challenge for Just Add Ink! We are running challenge #425 this week and have a fabulous inspiration pic suggested by Kelly!

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #425


Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #425


There's so much to take from this picture, the fabulous country feeling, beautiful flowers or just the colours! I wanted to keep the lovely spring feeling since we are having pretty miserable weather here in Sydney so I chose to go with the flowers and the colours.

Just Add Ink #423 - Colour Challenge

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #423


Welcome back to another Just Add Ink Challenge! This week we are playing along with a colour challenge suggested by Kim!

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #423


Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #423


I'll be honest, I didn't really know where this challenge was going to take me, the colours are really not ones I would put together!

Just Add Ink #421 - Sketch Challenge

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #421


Welcome to another challenge for Just Add Ink! This week we have a wonderful sketch from Narelle!

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #421


Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #421


I think sketch challenges are my favourite type of challenge because the only limit is the way you put your pieces together!

Just Add Ink #420 - Inspiration Challenge

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink #420 Inspiration Challenge


I'm returning today with another challenge for Just Add Ink and this week's challenge, as suggested by Nikki, is an inspiration challenge with the picture below! How colourful!

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink #420 Inspiration Challenge


Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink #420 Inspiration Challenge


So many possibilities with this wonderful colourful image! I thought of stained glass and colourful flowers but, of course, the most obvious to me was a rainbow!

Just Add Ink #419 - Add A Twist

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #419


Welcome to another Just Add Ink Challenge! This week we have challenge #419 and we've been asked to add a 'twist' to our cards by Kelly!

Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #419


Jo's Stamping Spot - Just Add Ink Challenge #419


To add a 'twist' meant using something in the way it was not intended. My first thought was to use a Christmas stamp as a birthday stamp and I played around with that idea for a while until I came to the conclusion it wasn't going to work and gave up lol. I came up with another idea to perhaps use a die for which its shape could be taken as something else. That idea failed too because I simply ran out of time. So third time was a charm and this card came together (thank goodness!).