Shimmery Merry & Bright

 Playing around with some Perfect Pearls and embossing folders and saw this would be a fit for Let's Squash It!

Masked off the center and applied some Distress Oxide Inks in 2 shades of blue then dusted on some Perfect Pearls in Pearl.  Used a Tim Holtz snowflake embossing folder and realized I had the panel in backwards, so I just went with it and used the debossed snowflake side.  Die cut the Tim Holtz Christmas words from some white glittered cardstock.  The shimmer is amazing in real life!

Thanks for stopping by and taking a closer look!

Just Us Girls #660 - Photo Week

 It's Photo Week at Just Us Girls and Carol is our hostess and has chosen this gorgeous Christmas scene photo for our inspiration.  This is also our last challenge for this year.  We will be taking a break for the holiday season, but will be back the first Saturday in January of the new year.

A huge thank you to Karren Johnson for joining us this past month as our fabulous Guest Designer!

Come check out JUGS to see what Karren and the rest of the Design Team have created with this photo as inspiration.

I was inspired by the tree with the beautiful blue ornaments and touches of gold.  I went CAS with this.  Stamped the pine boughs with green ink then stamped the ornament from Gina K in a royal blue ink then with Versamark and heat embossed with a sparkly blue embossing powder.  After the first layer cooled, stamped the little stars with Versamark and heat embossed with gold ep.  Sentiment from Gina K stamped in a royal blue.  Die cut the frame 3 times and mounted over the image panel and adhered to a linen card base.

Come play along with us and you could be chosen as our next Chic 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 #659 - Color Week

 It's Color Week at Just Us Girls and Carol Mayne has chosen a beautiful and classy color combo for our inspiration!

Come over to JUGS to see how our Guest Designer, Karren Johnson and the rest of the amazing Design Team have used these colors on their creations.

Die cut the star circle on shimmer cardstock and added some gold ink to the stars.  Die cut a circle and colored with a gold Sharpie and framed the stars.  Die cut some greenery and sponged on a little green ink and arranged above the stars.  Die cut a bow in red 3 times and cut them apart and arranged them to make the bigger bow then covered with red Stickles.  Added a drop of gold Liquid Pearls to the center of the bow.  Put it all together on a red card base.

Come join us with your creations and you could be chosen as our next Chic 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 #658

 It's time for Trend Week over at Just Us Girls and Lisa K is challenging us to make a matching envelope for your card.

Come over to JUGS to see some great ideas for making a matching envelope for your card, Karren Johnson, our fabulous Guest Designer, along with the rest of our amazing Design Team have created some pretty amazing envelopes.

I recently saw some amazing ideas for using vellum by Jennifer McGuire.  Snowflakes embossed on vellum then die cut the front of the purple card base to make a frame then adhered the vellum to the opening and adhered another purple frame to the backside of the front panel.  Die cut the big snowflake from some Lawn Fawn Pixie Dust glitter paper and die cut the Tim Holtz "merry" from the same purple, but felt it needed a little something, so I covered the sentiment with some Nuvo drops giving it iridescent look.  I used the same snowflake embossing folder on the flap of the envelope and rubbed some Brilliance purple ink over the raised snowflakes.

Come share your creations with us and you could be chosen as our next Chic 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 #657 - Word Week

 It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and Bobby has chosen the word Fence to inspire us this week!

It's the start of a new month and that means that we have a new Guest Designer!  Please welcome Karren Johnson! Hop on over to JUGS to see all of the fences created by   and the rest of the amazing Design Team!

I know that Halloween is over, but this is one of the cards I made for one of my grandsons.  Once again using some patterned paper from my stash which I thought worked well for this spooky little scene.  The mummies are from There She Goes, spider and bats are punches and the fence is an unknown die.  Added some black Stickles to the spider and some Gina K clear gloss to the bats.

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