Easel fun fold card base - The card is larger than usual - the front is half an A4 sheet (21cm x 14.8cm). I made it into an easel card so the bike could stand up, and I'd have more design space. The base is Basic Gray card with a layer of Timid Tiger and Basic Black on the front.
I popped up a section of tyre to prop up the easel.

Motorcycle - I didn't have any stamps or papers with the requested motorcycle theme so I had to think of some alternatives. Thankfully my Canva account  had some great image options. I hadn't used it for my cards before but it worked well.
I printed a black image in the size I wanted, fussy cut it out, then added some shading and colour with Stampin' Blends (Gray Granite, Smoky Slate, Light Basic Black, Timid Tiger, and Peach Pie).

Sentiment - I turned a well known motorcycle logo into a custom birthday sentiment. I printed and fussy cut the whole image then layered a second happy birthday section on top.

Tyre Track Paper - I created a grungy custom paper design in Canva and printed it onto a sheet of mottled patterned paper from the retired Stampin' Up! Trusty Toolbox pack. 

This is how the card looks when open and flat. The sentiment inside is a retired SU one - a favourite of the friend who requested the card.

So that's my motorcycle birthday card. The requestor loved it and I hear the recipient did too, so that makes me very happy. It's not a fully SU creation but I hope it shows you can mix and match your basic supplies with other elements to create something new and gives you some ideas to try. Leave me a comment if you have any questions or just want to say you liked the card.

I haven't been making very much lately - life gets in the way - but hopefully I'll be back soon with something new soon.

Until next time, happy stamping.
Diane

I started by stamping the large floral image from Layers of Beauty in Highland Heather ink on white card to create some custom patterned paper. I love being able to use images in different ways. I coloured the background with light and dark Bubble Bath Stampin' Blends markers, then added touches of Fresh Freesia Stampin' Blends marker to the rose images.

I stamped another image and fussy cut the two largest roses, repeated the colour marker touches, then mounted them onto two die cut circles (Stylish Shapes and Spotlight on Nature die sets) stamped with a sentiment from Unbounded Love (discounted on Last Chance list). Ribbon and pearls finish off the look.

Inside I partially stamped an image onto some white card and mounted it onto the Highland Heather base.

 

I started by creating the horizontal panel elements from the sketch using some simple prints, matting white card behind the small floral and leaf print and popping it up on Dimensionals.

Then I fussy cut some sunflowers, leaves and other small blossoms, and created a cluster together with the banner (Stylish Shapes dies) and sentiment from Impressions Abloom stamp and die bundle stamped in Pecan Pie ink. This bundle is also part of the same Floral Impressions suite.

My crazy idea was to create a graphic, colour blocked look using the two drinking glass images from the Cheers and Sips bundle. I just started to play and it gradually came together.

I started by stamping them across the card using Basic Gray ink so they overlapped, then coloured each section with Stampin' Blends markers (Real Red, Poppy Parade, Timid Tiger, Peach Pie, Lemon Lolly and Pool Party). Then I dotted parts of the image with a Light Basic Black Blends marker to add some fun details and embossed the tall rectangle glasses with the glass texture die in the bundle, added some sentiments from the Cheers and Sips set, then created a dotty streamer background at the top. Some gems add finishing touches.

 
Inside are some more colour blocked glasses and a large birthday sentiment from With You in Mind

So that's my creative take on our Just Add Ink one layer challenge. I hope it gives you some ideas to try and that you share them with me too. Head to the Just Add Ink blog to see lots more inspiration for the challenge and play along too.
 

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