Just Us Girls #808 - CASE a DT

 This is the fifth week of the month, so at Just Us Girls it's time to CASE a DT member!  We hope to inspire you to create something based on one of our cards this week.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our amazing Design Team have created for your inspiration.

More encouragement for my sister as she continues her recovery from numerous surgeries on her leg and with one more to go if all goes well.  The last time I used the frog from this Gina K set and this one uses the adorable koala bear.  Using up more patterned paper from my very large stash.  Colored with alcohol ink markers and then sponged Distress Ink in Faded Jeans around the image.

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 #807 - Anything Goes Stencil Week

 It's Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls with Bobby as our lovely hostess!  So pull out those stencils and let your imagination run wild!

Come on over to JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Laurel Seabrook and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with stencils this week.

Using a Tim Holtz Heartbeat die and backed with red glitter paper.  Stamped the sentiment from Reverse Confetti and die cut with a larger heart die.  Stenciled the background (Artsplorations) with Distress Festive Berries.  Inked the edges of the larger heart with the same ink.

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 #806 - Moodboard

 It's time for Moodboard Week at Just Us Girls with Vicki as our fabulous hostess and she has chosen a moodboard filled with inspiration to inspire us!

Come on over to JUGS to see how this Moodboard has inspired our Guest Designer, Laurel Seabrook and the rest of our talented Design Team.

I was inspired by the arches and the window in the brick.  Pulled out the brick background from an earlier experiment and die cut the arched window.  Die cut the window again from white, backed the opening with a black and white "curtain" and added a scalloped border to the bottom of the shade.  Stamped the cat, colored with alcohol markers and some cream around the cat and adhered it behind the window so he was peeking outside.  Added some berry branches and stamped the Concord and 9th sentiment in black on a piece of patterned paper.

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 #805 - Word Week

 It's time for our Word Week Challenge at Just Us Girls with Elizabeth as our amazing hostess and she is challenging us all with the word "Encouragement".  That is something that everyone needs as some point in their lives.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our lovely Guest Designer, Laurel Seabrook and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created to give encouragement to someone.

Using an old Gina K set for my sister who is going through yet another surgery on her leg and has a long road of recovery ahead of her.  Colored the frog and the bamboo stalk he is hanging onto with alcohol markers, fussy cut and layered onto a piece of patterned paper.  Die cut with an oval and layered onto a darker green oval.  Pulling a piece of olive colored, textured cardstock out of my huge bin, used that as a base layer and adhered to a white card base.  Stamped the sentiment in a dark olive ink and die cut with a Tim Holtz die from the tags set.

Now it's your turn to come play along with us! By joining in, 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 #804 - Die Week

 Welcome back to Just Us Girls with the start of a new year!  It's time for our Die Week Challenge with Elizabeth as our lovely hostess and she is challenging us to create with coverplates!

Please welcome our fabulous Guest Designer for the month of January - Laurel Seabrook!  Now, hop on over to JUGS to see what Laurel and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created using coverplates.

Using a Spellbinders heart coverplate die cut from ivory cardstock.  Backed it with some hot pink glitter paper.  Die cut a large heart from the same glitter paper and added the die cut sentiment, which actually matches better in real life.

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 #803 - Anything Goes Stencil Week

 It's Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls and I am the hostess this week.  This is our last challenge of this year.  We will be on break until January 1st to let us all prepare and enjoy the Christmas season!

A huge thank you to Leslie Miller for joining us this past month!  Hop on over to JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer, Leslie Miller and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with stencils this week.

More penguins from Art Impressions!  I just love these festive little guys.  Colored with alcohol ink markers with the lights and star colored with Stardust gel pens for some shimmer.  Added some clear glaze to the ornament.  Did an out of the box technique with the image so that the ornament hangs over the edge.  The candy cane striped background is from Tim Holtz.  Stamped and die cut the sentiment and matted with some dark gray and put it together on another mini slimline card base.

Come play along with us at JUGS 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.

Flurries Forecasted

 Over at Art Impression Blog there is a new challenge, Flurries Forecasted Challenge #417 and is perfect for playing with my newly acquired Penguin Cheer set from Art Impressions!

Started by inking a snowflake embossing folder with blue ink and running through my Big Shot.  Stamped the igloo, little penguin and string of lights, then fussy cutting them.  Colored with alcohol ink markers and Starlight gel pens on the lights and star.  Added some white shimmer gel pen to the trees.  Die cut an oval from vellum and frame from some very old blue cardstock.  Arranged the igloo on the vellum and added the little penguin over the edge.  Decided I needed some sparkly snow so added a piece of white glitter cardstock.  After it was all together, needed to add a sentiment.  Stamped the sentiment with Azure Blue Stazon on vellum, but didn't like the way it looked, so stamped over it with Versamark and heat embossed with some royal blue ep.  Die cut with a circle die and slid it under the igloo and frame.

This is such a fun set to play with!  Thanks for stopping by for a closer look!