Just Us Girls #797 - Mood Board Week

 It's Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls with Carol Mayne as our lovely hostess!  Carol has chosen an image that is so full of inspiration.

Now hop on over to JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer, Greta Hess and the rest of our amazing Design team have created.

I was inspired by the colors, pumpkins and leaves.  The pumpkins were made out of die cut ovals and inking with orange inks.  Recognize those leaves?  Yes they were die cut from the leftover magicals piece from a couple weeks ago.  The sentiment is from Concord & 9th.  Die cut the gold frame and added to the kraft card base.

Come play along with us and you could be chosen as our next Winner of the Week, which would make you eligible at a chance to become our next Guest Designer!  Please limit your entries to 3.

Just Us Girls #796 - Word Week

 It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and it's my turn to be hostess.  Our word is Halloween!  This gives you time to get all of your Halloween cards ready and sent out ahead of time.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our amazing Guest Designer, Greta Hess and the rest of our talented Design Team have created with Halloween.

Started by inking a white panel with Distress Inks in purples, dark blue and black.  Stamped and heat embossed the haunted house and treen (Gina K).  Added yellow gel pen to the windows and white for the little ghost in the doorway.  Die cut the moon from white and inked with a couple shades of yellow.  Adhered the moon then stenciled the flying bats.  Last, added the ghosts and the die cut Boo.  Yes, there is a little oops on the bottom of the card base from some accidental splatter of white paint when I shook the jar.  Homemade cards do not need to be perfect ;)

Come play along with us and you could be chosen as our next Winner of the Week, which would then make you eligible at a chance to become our next Guest Designer!  Please limit your entries to 3.

Old Birthday Boy

 Playing along with Art Impressions Challenge #413 - In the Navy using this dapper gentleman.  

This is for my Old Man!  Using AI Birthday Laugh Lines stamped the birthday boy and colored with alcohol ink markers and paper pieced his shirt and added some clear shimmer pen to the balloon.  Outlined his glasses with a black gel pen.  Matted on some navy cardstock.  Inked the birthday embossing folder with some navy ink and embossed onto a lighter blue panel and used the same blue for the card base.  I stamped the sentiment from the same set cutting out the You're not old, for the front and added the rest of the sentiment to the inside.

Thanks for dropping by for a closer look!

Just Us Girls #795 - Die Week

 It's time for Die Week at Just Us Girls with Bobby as our lovely hostess and she is challenging us to use Leaves.

A new month means a new Guest Designer!  Please welcome Greta Hess who will be joining us for October!  Jump on over to JUGS to see what Greta and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created using dies and leaves.

Background stamped with a woodgrain stamp and die cut the brown grid coverplate and adhered to the woodgrain panel.  Used some Lindy's Magicals (thanks to Ina for introducing me to these) in red and orange on some watercolor paper and die cut the leaves that I inherited from my sister's collection.  Added some brown marker to the veins of the leaves.  Die cut the sentiment from dark brown and copper cardstock and inlaid the letters into the shadow piece.  Die cut the frame and heat embossed with some Spice ep from Stampendous.

Come play along with us and you could be chosen as our next Winner of the Week, which would then make you eligible at a chance to become our next Guest Designer!  Please limit your entries to 3.

Just Us Girls #794 - Stencil Week

 It's time for our Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls with Lisa as our lovely hostess.  Pull out those stencils and have some fun!

A huge Thank You to Jaydee for joining us this past month with all of her awesome creations!  Check out JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Jaydee and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with stencils this week.

This is for my grandson's 16th birthday.  Using some old Gina K sets.  Stamped and heat embossed the car with black, then colored in the flames, lights windows adding some shimmer pen over the coloring.  Fussy cut the car.  Stenciled the street with white ink on black.  Sponged on ink for the sky kind of randomly then die cut the sun and used the negative to stencil in the sun, which I now wished I had stenciled before inking the blue.  Added some yellow shimmer pen to try to brighten the sun a little more.  Stamped the sentiment and separated the words and added to a blue die cut banner and topped it with the red die cut 16.

Come play along with us and you could be chosen as our next Winner of the Week, which would then make you eligible at a chance to become our next Guest Designer!  Please limit your entries to 3.

Just Us Girls #793 - Mood Board Week

 It's Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls with Bobby as our lovely hostess and she has chosen a beautiful scene for our inspiration.

Hop on over to JUGS to see how our amazing Guest Designer, Jaydee and the rest of our talented Design Team were inspired by this week's Mood Board.

I was inspired by the stone crock.  Pretty simple one layer card using Gina K Vogue Vases and Various Sentiments.  Stamped the vase with Distress Oxide Hickory Smoke and did a rock and roll technique to add the Scorched Timber.  Masked the vase and stamped the branches.  Colored the buds with orange gel ink pen.  Stamped the sentiment in black all on an ivory card base.

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Just Us Girls #792 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls and Carol Mc is our fabulous hostess and has chosen the word "Container".  Let your imagination run wild with this!

Come check out JUGS to see what containers were used by our lovely Guest Designer, JayDee and the rest of our amazing Design Team.

My Containers hold beer!  Perfect for toasting for a celebration.  I used Altenew's Bottleful and colored by sponging Distress Inks.  Positioned them to be clinking for the toast and added an unbranded cheers die cut sentiment.  Put it together on a piece of a music score background.  I wasn't able to find a card base in the color I wanted, so inked the edges of a cream colored base with Distress Oxide Fossilized Amber.

Play along with us and you could be chosen as our next Winner of the Week, which would make you eligible at a chance to become our next Guest Designer!  Please limit your entries to 3.