Just Us Girls #371 - Photo Week

Vicki is our hostess this week for Photo Week at Just Us Girls and this photo is so elegant and full of inspiration!

I want to thank our November Guest Designer Cecile Ribon for joining us this past month with all of her gorgeous creations.  Now, come on over the JUGS blog to see what Cecile and the rest of the Design Team have created with this beautiful photo as their inspiration.

Using Palette Silver ink for the Stampedous Snowflakes (another one hard to get a good photo).  Splattered some purple Twinkling H2Os and added the joy die cut from some Tim Holtz glitter cardstock.

Now it's your turn to create something with our inspiration photo, you could be chosen as our next Chic of the Week, which would put you in the running at a chance to become our next Guest Designer!  Please limit your entries to 3.

Rustic Joy

I really like the inspiration photo at Curtain Call and knew I just had to play along in the challenge.

First I stamped the wood background from Concord & 9th in Memento Rich Cocoa on kraft, added a die cut star and then stamped the big JOY also from Concord & 9th with the Rich Cocoa.  Used the coordinating JOY die to cut the letters from some Gina K Turquoise Sea cardstock, then added some clear Wink of Stella to the letters and adhered over the stamped JOY.

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Just Us Girls #370 - Color Week

Ina is our hostess this week at Just Us Girls for Color Week and she has chosen some very rich, beautiful colors!

We have the very talented Cecile Ribon with us again this week as our November Guest Designer!  Come on over to the JUGS blog to see what Cecile and the rest of the Design Team have created with these awesome colors.

Started this off with a purple polka dot card base.  Stamped the globe with Delicata Golden Glitz ink on some teal cardstock and die cut with a circle die.  Stamped the JOY and TO THE WORLD in purple ink even though it looks almost black in the photo and then added some Wink of Stella to the JOY.  Matted with some mirror gold cardstock and added the fishtail tag (it's the same teal as the globe but looks so much darker).

Come play along in our Color Challenge this week at Just Us Girls and you could be chosen as our next Chic of the Week, which would then make you eligible for a chance to become our next Guest Designer!  Please limit your entries to 3.

Science Experiment

A masculine birthday card with a science theme!
Playing along with a couple of challenges:

The Male Room             

And CAS-ual Fridays           

I also used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, but missed the deadline.  Stamped the chevron/arrows from Rad in Memento Rich Cocoa then stamped the sentiment from the same set with Memento Morocco and Espresso Truffle.  The beaker is from Inkadinkado ws stamped on white, colored with Touch Twin markers and cut out by hand.  Stamped a small flourish on top of the beaker and added some copper gel pen accents as well.

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Just Us Girls #369 - Trend Week

Bobby is our hostess at Just Us Girls for our Trend Challenge this week and she has chosen the trend of Metallics!

We have with us again this week as our Guest Designer - Cecile Ribon!  Come on over to Just Us Girls to see what Cecile and the rest of the Design Team have created using Metallics.

Metallic surfaces are so hard to get a good photo of!  I started by die cutting a Vintage Violet tag and added the gold striped piece and the silver and gold tag topper, all by Reverse Confetti.  Die cut an ornament from some silver and white Metallic Foiled cardstock.  Added the foiled die cut bow and some scraps of the foiled purple as a ribbon to top off the tag.  Stamped the sentiment by Tim Holtz and layered onto some more Vintage Violet and edged the edges with s gold Sharpie marker so that it wasn't lost against the tag.  Used a swirly embossing folder on some DCWV Metallic Stack purple and then sanded it a little.  Stamped the little stars from WPlus9 in Delicata Golden Glitz.

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

Just Us Girls #368 - Word Week

It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and it's my turn to host the challenge.  My Word is Encouragement.  There are lots of situations in which someone needs encouragment.  Maybe they are battling a disease, just lost a job or life just doesn't seem to be going their way and just need a little Encouragement.  Do you know someone who could use a little Encouragement?  Come play along with us and give someone a lift that they may need right now.

I would like to welcome our November Guest Designer - Cecile Ribon all the way from France!  Come check out how Cecile and the rest of the JUGS Design Team are inspired to create with the word Encouragement. 

This is another card for my niece who is continuing her battle against breast cancer and just to remind her how truly beautiful she is.  I used a pre-watercolored card base and stamped some leaves and flowers from Concord & 9th.  Die cut the sentiment from some Coredinations Glitter Silk cardstock.  It's hard to see it in the photo, but it is black glitter.

Come play with us at Just Us Girls and you could be chosen as our next Chic of the Week, which would put you in the running to become our next Guest Designer.  Please limit your entries to 3/

Sympathetic Leaf

Perfect timing for the challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz because I needed a masculine sympathy card for a friend who just lost his father this week.

I am loving this set from Concord & 9th!  I stamped the background leaf stamp with Delicata Gold Glitz, then stamped the leaf and sentiment with Memento Espresso Truffle.  It needed a little more gold, so I pulled out a splatter stencil and added sponged on the gold ink.  Pretty quick and simple on this one.

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Dashing Through the Snow

I was looking for some inspiration to use my new Clearly Besotted stamp set Let's Prance and the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches seemed to be a fit.

Stamped the sentiment with Altenew Crisp Ink in Velvet and stamped the reindeer with Altenew Crisp Ink in black and colored with Touch Twin markers and added a dot of Xmas Red Stickles to his nose and some black gel glaze pen to his hooves.  Layered onto a piece of red and white diagonal striped paper from my stash.  Stamped the music score from a Gina K set with the Velvet ink onto a light green card.

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