Just Us Girls #753 - Word Week

 The Word this week at Just Us Girls is JOY.  I am the hostess and thought this would help to finish up or get started with your Christmas cards.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer, Jenn Borjeson and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with JOY.

Used a Tim Holtz snow embossing folder with some blue glitter paper and sanded off some of the raised areas of the snowflakes.  Used Concord & 9th stamps and dies.  Pretty quick and easy.

 Another using the same snowflake embossing folder this time swiping white ink across the raised snowflakes.  Die cut the oval and inked it with a darker blue ink and inlaid it back into the center.  Added the snowflake flourish (unknown/can't remember) and the sentiment.

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 #752 - Color Week

 It's time for Color Week at Just Us Girls with Carol Mayne as our lovely hostess and she has chosen a beautiful color combo for us to play with.

Since this is the first challenge of the month, that means we have a new Guest Designer!  Please welcome Jenn Borieson will be joining us for the entire month.  Hop on over to JUGS to see what Jenn and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with these colors.

I had promised myself I would not buy any new products for Christmas, so I pulled out the old Gina K set and stamped the ornament onto some blue cardstock and heat embossed with gold ep and fussy cut.  Then I added some shimmer with a clear shimmer pen, which turned the blue a little darker.  Die cut the sentiment from white glitter paper and colored with a blue alcohol marker then added some clear ink then added some clear glaze.  Cut the ornament top and "AND" from white glitter cardstock and colored with a gold Sharpie.  Stamped and heat embossed the string to hand the ornament in gold.  

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 #751 - CASE a DT Member

 It's CASE a DT Member at Just Us Girls this week!  Which DT member inspires you?

Come on over to JUGS to see all of the creations by our amazing Design Team.  Here's mine.

Another encouragement card for one of my grandsons.  Using one of my whales again blending some blues on him and adding some sparkle to his water spout.  Used a piece of patterned paper in the shaker and added the whale slightly popped up to let the sequins float around and under him.  Embossed a piece of white with a bubble/splatter ef and then inked with Brilliance blue ink adding some shimmer.  Sentiment is an old Gina K.

Choose one of our cards to CASE from this week's post, share it 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 #750 - Anything Goes Stencil Week

 It's Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls, so it's time to pull out your stencils and have some fun!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Kerry Parkinson and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created using stencils.

I picked up this cat stencil at a local scrapbook store before they closed, it has both the positive and negative of this cat.  First stenciled the black cat then used the mask and made a circle stencil and sponged various yellow inks for the moon, then placed the circle over the moon, leaving the cat in place and inked the background with Distress Inks in blue, purple and black inks.  Stamped the bats.  Stamped the sentiment onto a piece of patterned paper.  Matted with black and adhered to a Vintage Violet card base.

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.

I am also entering this at AAA Cards for their sketch.  Not sure if it's CAS enough.

Just Us Girls #749 - Moodboard Week

 Time for our Moodboard Week at Just Us Girls and Vicki is our hostess and has chosen the perfect Moodboard with lots of inspiration with Halloween just around the corner.

Pop on over to JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer Kerry Parkinson and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created.

I was inspired by the numerous Halloween images.  Playing around with an old Gina K set - Inspiration Mosaic stamped in black on Vintage Violet cardstock.  Stamped and fussy cut various Halloween images from my stash and colored with alcohol ink markers.  

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 #748 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls and Stephanie has chosen a very timely word - Leaves!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer, Kerry Parkinson and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with Leaves.

Playing around with some vellum.  Used vellum and a leafy embossing folder then flipped it over and stamped the very old floral background from Stampin Up.  Added a strip of purple vellum die cut with a fishtail die and stamped the sentiment with more very old product - Vintage Violet from Stampin Up.  Matted with black cardstock and adhered to a Vintage Violet card base.  

Now it's your turn to share your leafy creations with us, you could be chosen as our next Winner of the Week and possibly become our next Guest Designer!  Please limit your entries to 3.

Just Us Girls #747 - Color Week

 It's time for our Color Week Challenge at Just Us Girls and Lisa has chosen a fabulous combination for us to play with.

A huge welcome to Kerry Parkinson who will be joining us for the month of October as our Guest Designer!  Check out JUGS to see what Kerry and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with this combo.

The embossed background was a piece I had laying on my desk with the oval already cut out, so decided to put it to use.  I inked over it with Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Ink, but decided it was too dark, so sponged over that with some white ink, still a little dark, but oh well.  Die cut the branch and colored the leaves with chartreuse colored ink and the stem with the Hickory Smoke.  Added some Nuvo drops in light blue to the berries.  Die cut the sentiment from some light blue and the shadow from some light green vellum.  Put it together on a white linen card base.

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.