Jolanda Johnstone

Secret Garden – You Make Me Smile

Welcome back! Florals for a Saturday pick-me-up. Playing with Color Throwdown (#835), selecting a coordinating Floral patterned piece of paper for Beautiful Blossoms (#25) Anything Goes and As You See It (#340) Crafting Resolutions to cut into Pretty Papers and bringing it all together with the Freshly Made (#670) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps:Continue reading “Secret Garden – You Make Me Smile”

In the Country – Birthday Card

Welcome back! Almost the start of the weekend. Do you have any creative plans? A masculine birthday card for Crafter’s Café (#315) and Krafty Chicks (#752) based on the Farm Quest (#67) Country Roads theme and bringing it all together with the Atlantic Hearts (#613) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adheredContinue reading “In the Country – Birthday Card”

Snow Much Fun – Birthday Wishes

Another Winter card… Playing with the Cupcake Inspirations (#609) Color Palette, choosing the AAA Birthday (#69) Winter Theme with the Sketch Saturday (#767) Layout Here is the result: Steps: A fun winter Birthday card. Thanks for spending some more of your time with me today. Cheers, Jolanda! Need a card? Ask me and I canContinue reading “Snow Much Fun – Birthday Wishes”

Winter Fun – Valentine

Welcome back! The Season of Love is nye… Today, I am inspired by the card created by Emma Goddard for the Facebook Global Design Project (#480) CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit). My takeaways: Small White Embossed Background, Centre Image/Sentiment and Ribbon detail. My choices were influenced by Retro Rubber (#246) for a Winter Fun themeContinue reading “Winter Fun – Valentine”

Happy Hibiscus – Thanks

Welcome back! A quick little card for you today… Playing with the Just Us Girls (#758) Mood Board and choosing the colors: Poppy Parade, Smoky Slate, Pebbled Path and Crushed Curry for the Red, Light Gray, Darker Gray and Dark Cream colors and moving away from the winter theme (as it is too darn coldContinue reading “Happy Hibiscus – Thanks”

Friendly Seagulls – Fun Fold Card

Indulge me with another card – so many deadlines today… Playing with Inspire Create (#184) looking for a Fancy Fold…not a style of card that I make very often and sharing with Creative Creases (#99). I chose to participate in the Stampin’ Through The Catalog stamp choice for today – Friendly Seagulls and use theContinue reading “Friendly Seagulls – Fun Fold Card”

Memorable Blooms – You Make Me Smile

Welcome back! Time again for Facebook Case-ing Tuesday, where we CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) cards found within Stampin’ Up!’s current catalogs. Today? The card can be found on page 13 of the 2025 Sale-a-bration Brochure. I flipped the card to a horizontal position swapping out the Banner Flag. Additional Influences: Just Add Ink (#734)Continue reading “Memorable Blooms – You Make Me Smile”

Wanderlust Postcard

Design Team Time: This round at Cardz 4 Guyz (#364) the theme is Lighthouse and at Hand Stamped Sentiments (#455) we have a Sketch Challenge. Seemed like a good idea to pair them up! Influenced by Paper Players (#721) for both Style and Theme and sharing with TGIF (#508) for the “In Art There AreContinue reading “Wanderlust Postcard”

Snowflake – Cheers

Welcome back! I woke up to a very cold morning here in the South…so unusual and certainly cold enough for snow. I wonder if we will get some. That said, there a number of winter related challenges about. It is January after all… CAS on Friday (#300) Winter; Inkspirational (#333) Snow; and Make My MondayContinue reading “Snowflake – Cheers”

Lifelong Friend – Ephemera Card

Welcome back! Clean and Simple is the order of the day and what can be simpler than making selections from the wonderful Ephemera Packs that Stampin’ Up! has given us to create great cards quickly. I selected the Something For Everyone and Saying Something packs along with the coordinating Calming Creek Cards & Envelopes toContinue reading “Lifelong Friend – Ephemera Card”