Just Add Ink: May 2026

Welcome to our brand new challenge at Just Add Ink - Just Add Stencils, Dies.... or Both!

This challenge is all about getting creative with your favourite crafty tools. Whether you love blending ink through stencils, creating dimension with intricate dies, or combining the two for extra wow-factor, we’d love to see what you make!

This challenge is perfect for experimenting with:

✨ Ink blending
✨ Layered stencilling
✨ Die-cut sentiments and shapes
✨ Mixed media techniques
✨ Clean and simple or detailed designs

We can’t wait to see how you use stencils, dies, or both in your projects!

Here is what the Design Team have come up with this week to provide you with inspiration...

Did you know we have an Instagram acc? We’d love to see your projects over there too. So once you’ve entered the challenge here on the blog (by adding your project to our gallery via the "Mr Linky" below) head over to Insta and tag us in your post using #justaddinkchallenge or #jai785

This challenge will close at 7pm (ADST) on Wednesday 20th May

JUST ADD INK RULES

Please limit your entries to 3 per challenge.

Create a card, layout or 3D project using our challenge as inspiration.
Link your post, NOT your whole blog back here.
Your project must be new, created for this challenge and combined with no more than 5 other challenges.
Please mention JUST ADD INK in your blog post and provide a link so others can come and join in the fun too.
Inspiration & Colour Challenges: Use the Inspiration or the colours or both. Please use a minimum of "3" of the challenge colours when creating your project. (Black-White-Metallics-Skintones may also be added)
Just use Stencils-Dies Challenges: Use Stencils-Dies or a combination of both. No theme, anything goes.
Choose Two or more Challenges: Please comment in your post which of the elements you chose.
Please DO NOT use your challenge entry as self promotion. We are here to have fun and encourage creativity.
We reserve the right to remove links that do not comply with the above guidelines.
Please note, if you have privacy settings on your socials, you are still welcome to play, but you may get limited comments from the design team.

This week’s Sketch Challenge brought an incredible mix of creativity and style to our Challenge Gallery. From bold compositions to standout details, you all delivered another round of inspiring projects that made narrowing down our top picks no easy task. Thank you for joining the Challenge.

After reviewing this week’s submissions, we’ve selected our three top picks. They are:

Trina