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.

Just Us Girls #746 - Stencil Week

 It's Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls.  

I would like to thank Nance for joining us this past month as our Guest Designer and sharing your talent with us.  Check out JUGS to see what our amazing Guest Designer, Nance Salkeld and the rest of our talented Design Team have created with stencils.

Another card for one of my grandsons, this one uses his school colors at Calvin University.  The background was stenciled with Distress Oxide ink on some burgundy cardstock, but it wasn't bright enough, so stenciled again with the same ink and while still wet sprinkled on some buttercup embossing powder and heat embossed it.  Die cut the HOPE from Concord & 9th from some pearl cardstock in a yellow/gold shade.  Stamped the little part of the sentiment onto the same pearl cardstock as the label with Versafine Onyx ink and die cut with a fishtail die.  Stamped the "good" (from a Gina K set) onto a piece of acetate and fussy cut to finish it off.

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 #745 - Moodboard Week

 It's time for our Moodboard Week at Just Us Girls and Ina has chosen a real beauty to inspire us.

Check out JUGS to see how this inspired our Guest Designer, Nance Salkeld and the rest of our Design Team.

The background was a panel leftover from playing with Distress Inks which I stamped the floral background from Stampin Up (very, very old) with Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Ink letting the colors shine through.  Die cut the floral sprigs from black and added some Sakura black glaze gel pen for some shine.  The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti.  Card base is Stampin Up Apricot appeal.

Come join us with your creations 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 #744 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls and it's myturn to hostess this week.  I have chosen the word Hope.

Come hop on over to JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer, Nance Salkeld and the rest of our talented Design Team have created with the word Hope.

Using a failed technique background.  I tried Gina K's technique that was supposed to give this depth and look like it was embossed, didn't work for me but still wanted to use it.  Stamped the Gingko Greetings image from Unity in brown on kraft cardstock, then shifted slightly and stamped with ivory.  I tried to blend out the ivory without much success, so went to some chalk to try to blend and still not what I was looking for.  Stamped the HOPE with Memento Espresso Truffle ink several times, but couldn't get the coverage I wanted, so took an alcohol ink marker in a dark brown and colored over the letters.  Layered onto a purple layer and adhered to a kraft card base.  As long as you don't look too closely, I guess it isn't too bad.

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 #743 - Color Week

 It's Color Week time at Just Us Girls and our fabulous Bobby has chosen a very versatile color combo for us to play with.

With a start to a new month brings us a new Guest Designer!  Please welcome the very talented Nance Salkeld!  Hop on over to JUGS to see what Nance and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with these colors.

This is actually a very unconventional sympathy card for my brother-in-law.  My sister recently passed away very unexpectedly and she loved hot air balloons.  Stamped, colored and masked the ballons then die cut a large circle from some masking paper and used the negative to sponge on some blue ink for the sky.  Stamped and die cut the sentiment and done.

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 linking this to AAA Cards for their CAS with Optional Twist of Sympathy-Get Well

Just Us Girls #742 - CASE a DT Week

 Once again we have a fifth Thursday this month, which means it's time to CASE a DT Member at Just Us Girls!  You can CASE any of the cards from this week's post.  Who will inspire you?

Come on over to JUGS to see what our talented Design Team have created this week and get inspired to play along with us!

Another whale card!  This one is going to one of my grandsons as some encouragement as he heads off for his freshman year at college.  The background was first embossed with an embossing folder then stenciled with large "bubbles" in blues and small "bubbles" in white.  Die cut the unknown fishnet and loosely adhered to the background leaving room for the sequins to get caught in the net.  Used a stamp storage pouch for the shaker, like seen on Jennifer McGuires blog adding the colored and clear sequins.  Shaded the whale in shades of blue, black gel pen on the eye and Stickles on the water spout.  Stamped the sentiment onto a piece of vellum with Azure Stazon ink and die cut with a fishtail die.  Framed the shaker with an old piece of Bordering Blue SU cardstock and onto a gray 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.

 

This is also a fit for TIME OUT Challenge - Friendship/Encouragement/Support.

Just Us Girls #741 - Stencil Week

 It's Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls with Stephanie as our lovely hostess.  Create anything your heart desires as long as you incorporate a stencil into your artwork!

A huge THANK YOU to Bonnie Klass for joining us this past month as an amazing Guest Designer!  Hop on over to JUGS to see what Bonnie and the rest of our talented Design Team have created using stencils this week.

I started out with a very old piece of patterned paper from my stash and stenciled over it with a Simply Graphic stencil with Distress Oxide Hickory Smoke ink.  Die cut the flowers also from and leaves also from Simply Graphic from green textured cardstock and again from some yellow pearlized cardstock and inlaid the petals.  Stamped the sentiment with Gina K Slate ink.  Colored the edges of a white panel with a dark gray alcohol ink marker and layered onto an ivory card base.

Come share your creations 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 entires to 3.

Just Us Girls #740 - Moodboard Week

 It's time for our Moodboard Week at Just Us Girls and Lisa has chosen a beautiful, summery collage for our inspiration.

Hop on over to JUGS to see how this fabulous Moodboard inspired our Guest Designer, Bonnie Klass and the rest of our Design Team.

I used an unbranded honeycomb die with some adhesive backed taupe colored cardstock and adhered to a textured dark cream colored piece.  Added the little bees from Concord & 9th Be Mine set, colored with alcohol markers and Stickles added to the wings then die cut with the coordinating dies.  Concord & 9th Double Cut Letters used to add BEE and Tim Holtz happy.  Adhered to a mini slimline white card base.  Then noticed a little ink stain so had to add the little hearts which were in my scrap bowl.

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 #739 - Word Week

 It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and our lovely Carol Mayne is our hostess and has chosen the word Frame.  I can't wait to see all of the framed beauties in our gallery.

Come check out JUGS to see all of the framed creations from our amazing Guest Designer, Bonnie Klass and the rest of our talented Design Team.

Digging deep in my stash!  Found this old frame stamp from Gina K and the floral image from StampinUp.  Colored with alcohol markers and then die cut the frame from some woodgrain kraft and layered 2 then inlaid the image panel.  A frame in a frame.

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 you entries to 3.

Just Us Girls #738 - Color Week

 We have a fabulous color combination from our amazing Carol Mc to start off August at Just Us Girls for Color Week!

And since it is the beginning of a new month, that means a new Guest Designer.  Please welcome the very talented Bonnie Klass who will be joining us for August!  Hop on over to JUGS to see what Bonnie and the rest of our talented Design Team have created with these colors.

Sending this off to someone very dear to me that is going through some rough medical issues.  Using the Dahlia Turn-a-bout stamp set from Concord & 9th stamped the petals in orange and hot pink inks.  Die cut the sentiment from glitter paper and shadow from black then colored the glitter paper with a pink alcohol marker.  Mounted to an orange card base and ready to pop it in the mail.

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 #737 - Anything Goes Stencil Week

 It's time for Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls with Elizabeth as our hostess.  Let you imagination run wild using a stencil or stencils.

I would like to say Thank You to Cat Craig for joining us this past month as our Guest Designer! Now check out JUGS to see what Cat and the rest of our Design Team have created using stencils.

The "bubbles" were stenciled in Brilliance Blue ink then added a few more stamped bubbles.  Die cut the whales and inked them with blue and gray inks.  Added some stickles to the water spouting of the blow holes and some Sakura Stardust black gel pen to the eyes.  The sentiment is from a very old Gina K set.

Come share your creations 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 #736 - Moodboard Week

 It's Moodboard Week at Just Us Girls and we have a fabulous moodboard chosen by Bobby that is full of inspiration.

Check out JUGS to see how our Guest Designer, Cat Craig and the rest of our Design Team were inspired by this fun Moodboard.

I was inspired by the striped umbrella and the pineapples.  Stenciled the stripes with some aqua ink and stamped the scalloped border from a Gina K set with orange.  Stamped the pineapple from Concord & 9th Pop Art Pineapples in yellow with orange polka dots and the stem green, then die cut and put them together.  Decided to use a sentiment from the same set and stamped it directly onto the pineapple.  Put it together onto an orange card base.

Come share your creation 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 #735 - Word Week

 It's time for our Word Week challenge at Just Us Girls and Carol Mc has chosen the perfect word for this time of year!

Hop on over to JUGS so see what our talented Guest Designer, Cat Craig and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created for Summertime!

Pack your bathing suits and bring your flip flops, sunglasses and beach ball, it's time for a pool party!

This is a very old set from Scraptrends called Summer Party.  I think it was the first clear stamp set I got and have no idea where I got it from.  Stamped the bathing suits in red ink and colored with alcohol markers.  Using different colored inks, tamped the flip flops, sunglasses and beach ball and colored them the same way.  Punched the sun and added some Wink of Stella yellow shimmer.  Stenciled the background with Hero Arts Tide Pool in on some light blue cardstock for a water effect.  Stamped the Gina K Ribbon Stripes (another very old set) in red.  Put it all together onto a yellow card base.

Come share your Summertime creations 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 #734 - Color Week

 It's time for our Color Week at Just Us Girls and Stephanie has chosen a fresh combo for us to play with.

Since this is the start of a new month, that means a new Guest Designer!  Please welcome Cat Craig! Check out JUGS blog to see what Cat and the rest of the Design Team have created with these colors.

A Tequila Sunrise is what these colors screamed at me!  Die cut the drink glass twice, cutting from white and a watercolored piece trimming it down to fit in the glass and covered with clear glaze.  Die cut the circles from white glitter paper.  Stamped the sentiment using Lots of Dots alphabet set from Gina K in black on a piece of yellow vellum and heat embossed. The little dot by the sentiment was placed to cover a little smear.  Put it together on a piece of coral cardstock and matted with yellow then onto a white card base making a mini slimline.

Come share your creations 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 #733 - Anything Goes Stencil Week

 It's my turn to be hostess at Just Us Girls for our Anything Goes Stencil Week!  Pull out those stencils and create anything that your heart desires.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our Guest Designer, Jane Taylor and the rest of our talented Design Team have created with stencils this week.

One more graduation card!  Stenciled the stars on a white card base with Delicata Golden Glitz ink and Die cut the numbers from some gold stars mirrored cardstock and layered 3 deep.  Quick and simple!

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 #732 - Moodboard Week

 It's Moodboard Week at Just Us Girls and Carol Mayne is our lovely hostess for this challenge and has chosen a fabulous Moodboard to inspire us.

Check out JUGS to see what our amazing Guest Designer, Jane Taylor and the rest of our talented Design Team have created with this Moodboard as inspiration.

I drew my inspiration from the lollypop in the upper right corner.  I've had this Unity set for a while and this was the perfect opportunity to use it.  Colored the lollypop with alcohol markers and Sakura Moonlight gel pens.  Found this polka dot paper in my stash and used those colors for the image.

Now it's your turn to share your creations with us and show us how you were inspired by the Moodboard.  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 #731 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls and Carol Mayne has chosen Celebrate, which is so perfect for so many different occasions.

Hop on over to JUGS to see how our Guest Designer, Jane Taylor and the rest of our Design Team are Celebrating.

Inked an old number embossing folder with Distress Oxide ink and ran through my Big Shot.  Die cut the balloons and colored them with alcohol markers.  Die cut the sentiment and colored with a dark green marker and die cut the shadow die with white glitter cardstock.  Put it together onto a white 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.

Just Us Girls #730 - Color Week

 It's Color Week at Just Us Girls with Carol Mc as our fabulous hostess and she has chosen a great color combo for our inspiration this week!

First I would like to welcome the very talented Jane Taylor as our Jane Guest Designer!  Now, come check out JUGS to see how Jane and the rest of our amazing Design Team have used these colors.

I was in need of another sweet 16 birthday card and thought these colors were perfect for the occasion. Started by stamping the polka dot background with a very old Cornish Heritage Farms background stamp in Hero Arts Bubble Gum Pink.  Stamped the balloons from Avery Elle with the pink and an aqua ink and die cut with the coordinating dies.  The smaller balloon was stamped with a random polka dot circle and added the sweet 16 in pink.

Now it's your turn to show us your creations with these amazing colors.  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 #729 - CASE a DT Memeber

 It's a free for all for the Design Team at Just Us Girls this week!  You can CASE any of the featured cards on this week's challenge.

Another quick grad card.  Die cut the sentiment from Tim Holtz and stacked 3 deep.  Die cut the star twice from white glitter paper and orange and white polka dots, used the smaller star to die cut the center of the white glitter and placed over the orange.  Used a piece of black and white striped paper I printed from Melstampz and onto an orange 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.

Just Us Girls #728 - Anything Goes Stencil

 Time to pull out those stencils again for Just Us Girls Anything Goes Stencil Week!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our Guest Designer, Jenny Martin and the rest of the JUGS Design Team have created with their stencils.

It's that time of year for graduation parties and this was done in the school colors of the recipient.  Stars were stenciled onto the background using Brilliance yellow ink adding some shimmer.  Die cut the stars and Tim Holtz sentiment which was layered 3 times and put together onto a yellow 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.

Just Us Girls #727 - Moodboard Week

 It's time for our Moodboard Week at Just Us Girls and Carol Mc. has chosen one full of inspiration!

Come check out JUGS to see how this Moodboard inspired our amazing Guest Designer, Jenny Martin and the rest of our talented Design Team.

I was inspired by the bicycle and added my own twist to it.  I have had that reverse cloud stamp in my collection forever and have never used it until now.  I inked with Distress Oxide ink in Speckled Egg (it wasn't quite what I had in mind), then stamped the bike over the bottom edge first masking off the flowers in the basket.  Added some Sakura Moonlight gel pen accents in pink and colored the basket with alcohol markers.

Come show us what inspires you from our Moodboard 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 #726 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls and Stephanie has chosen the perfect for this time of year.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer Jenny Martin and the rest of the fabulous JUGS team have created inspired by the word Garden.

I pulled out a very old Stampin'Up set.  Stamped the potted herbs and colored with alcohol markers.  I wanted to make a border of some sort and ended up with Lawn Fawn's gingham border stamped in Memento Pistachio ink.  I couldn't seem to find a color I liked to mat it, so I ended up coloring the edge of some white cardstock to match the pots.  Put it together onto a very old piece of Stampin'Up Vintage Violet.

Now it's your turn to share your Garden creations with us!  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 #725 - Color Week

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

I would like to welcome Jenny Martin as our May Guest Designer!  Hop on over to JUGS to see what Jenny and the rest of our talented Design Team have created with these beautiful colors.

The 16 looks a little splotchy, but it was stamped with Brilliance ink with lots of shimmer to it and was hard to get a good photo.  Spritzed some white cardstock with some peach shimmer spray and used a punch for the flowers and added some Gunmetal Stickles to the centers.  The oval frame was sprayed with Distress Oxide spray in Hickory Smoke.  Stamped the sweet on some vellum with chalk ink in gray and punched out with a word window punch.  Put it together on a lavender striped piece and then onto a white card base.

Now it's your turn to share your creations 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 #724 - Anything Goes Stencil

 It's Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls and Carol M. is our hostess for this challenge.  The sky is the limit with this challenge!  Pull out your stencils and inspire us with your creations!

A huge Thank You to Colleen Begley for joining us as our Guest Designer this past month!  Just hop on over to JUGS for some fabulous inspiration from Colleen and the rest of our awesome Design Team.

This was inspired by the tutorial on Splitcoaststampers by Didedi's Crafty Corner to create an underwater scene.  I used a sunburst stencil for the light shining down through the water.  Blended numerous shades of blue Distress Inks on watercolor paper, splattered with water and then shimmer spray.  The octopus is an old one from Gina K and the seaweed is part of a larger die cut from green then shaded with a darker green and finally misted with some seafoam green shimmer spray.

Come share your stencil creations 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.