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!

Just Us Girls #802 - Mood Board Week

 It's time for Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls and our lovely hostess this week is Carol Mc with this beautiful image loaded with inspiration.

Hop on over to JUGS to see how our Guest Designer, Leslie Miller and the rest of our Design Team were inspired.

I was inspired by the colors, star and rustic look.  Stenciled the background with Distress Ink on white and then inked Antique Linen over the whole panel.  Die cut the star from some paper backed burlap and the sentiment from red.  Added some die cut pine boughs (hard to see against that background) and matted on the same red as the sentiment.  Put it all together on a kraft 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 #801 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls with the lovely Carol Mayne as our hostess and she has chosen a very timely word for our inspiration - Winter!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Leslie Miller and the rest of our fabulous Design Team have created with Winter in mind.

Playing with my newest acquisition from Art Impressions Penguin Cheer.  Stamped and colored the penguins with alcohol ink markers.  Stenciled the snowflakes on the background with Brilliance blue ink, but my brush must not have been clean because they turned out to be more light purple.  Matted the image with some very old Vintage Violet from SU and made the mini slimline card base from the same Vintage Violet.

Come play along with us and you could become 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 #800 - Anything Goes

 This week is our 800th challenge at Just Us Girls!  To celebrate it's Anything Goes so let's have some fun!

We are pleased to welcome our newest Guest Designer, Leslie Miller!  Hop on over to JUGS to see what Leslie and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created this week.

Using a lady golfer from Art Impressions colored with alcohol ink markers and paper pieced her shirt.  The green striped background is the inside of an envelope that I adhered to some cardstock.  Added the sequins due to a little mishap, oops!

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 #799 - CASE a DT

 It's the fifth Thursday of the month, so that means it's basically a free for all for our Design Team at Just Us Girls.  Which DT will you choose to CASE?

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our talented Design Team have created this week and choose one to CASE.
I have one last Halloween card to share.

Die cut the trees from kraft with a coverplate then swiped some brown Distress Ink directly to the trunks.  The background was black and sponged with Distress Oxide inks in shades of purple.  Inked a yellow circle die cut with Distress Scattered Straw to give it some dimension.  Stamped the boo banner from an old Gina K set in black on some vellum that I colored with a purple alcohol marker.  Lastly popped in the ghosts that were cut from some shimmer paper.

Come play along with us and you could be chosen as our 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.

Altered Witchy Golfer

 Once again, playing along with Art Impressions Challenge, this time the theme is Along Came a Spider.

I decided I needed one more Halloween card for a friend.  I stamped the lady golfer and fussy cut eliminating the golf club, her visor and part of her hair and her legs.  Used Tim Holtz witch hat and broom to replace the visor and club.  Had some random witch's legs that I fussy cut and replaced the golfer's legs with.  Colored her outfit with Halloween colors or purple and black.  I had a spider punch for the added theme of a spider and added it to the tip of her hat.  Die cut a yellow circle for a look of a moon behind her and onto an embossed background done with an old piece of Core'dinations black magic cardstock and sanded to reveal the color core.

Thanks for dropping by for a closer look!

Just Us Girls #798 - Stencil Week

 It's Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls with our lovely Ina as our hostess!  Let's have some fun with your stencils.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer, Greta Hess and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with stencils this week.

Another Halloween card using the tree and moon stencil.  Sponged white ink through the stencil on black cardstock then added some yellow to the moon.  Added some shimmer pen on the moon for some shine.  Stamped the skeleton with Versamark and heat embossed with white ep and fussy cut.  Stamped the tombstone, colored by sponging a couple shades of gray and fussy cut.  Die cut the letters for the sentiment and added shimmer pen and adhered across the top of the trees.  Put it all together on a kraft card base.

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 #797 - Mood Board Week

 It's Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls with Carol Mayne as our lovely hostess!  Carol has chosen an image that is so full of inspiration.

Now hop on over to JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer, Greta Hess and the rest of our amazing Design team have created.

I was inspired by the colors, pumpkins and leaves.  The pumpkins were made out of die cut ovals and inking with orange inks.  Recognize those leaves?  Yes they were die cut from the leftover magicals piece from a couple weeks ago.  The sentiment is from Concord & 9th.  Die cut the gold frame and added to the kraft card base.

Come play along 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 #796 - Word Week

 It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and it's my turn to be hostess.  Our word is Halloween!  This gives you time to get all of your Halloween cards ready and sent out ahead of time.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our amazing Guest Designer, Greta Hess and the rest of our talented Design Team have created with Halloween.

Started by inking a white panel with Distress Inks in purples, dark blue and black.  Stamped and heat embossed the haunted house and treen (Gina K).  Added yellow gel pen to the windows and white for the little ghost in the doorway.  Die cut the moon from white and inked with a couple shades of yellow.  Adhered the moon then stenciled the flying bats.  Last, added the ghosts and the die cut Boo.  Yes, there is a little oops on the bottom of the card base from some accidental splatter of white paint when I shook the jar.  Homemade cards do not need to be perfect ;)

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.

Old Birthday Boy

 Playing along with Art Impressions Challenge #413 - In the Navy using this dapper gentleman.  

This is for my Old Man!  Using AI Birthday Laugh Lines stamped the birthday boy and colored with alcohol ink markers and paper pieced his shirt and added some clear shimmer pen to the balloon.  Outlined his glasses with a black gel pen.  Matted on some navy cardstock.  Inked the birthday embossing folder with some navy ink and embossed onto a lighter blue panel and used the same blue for the card base.  I stamped the sentiment from the same set cutting out the You're not old, for the front and added the rest of the sentiment to the inside.

Thanks for dropping by for a closer look!

Just Us Girls #795 - Die Week

 It's time for Die Week at Just Us Girls with Bobby as our lovely hostess and she is challenging us to use Leaves.

A new month means a new Guest Designer!  Please welcome Greta Hess who will be joining us for October!  Jump on over to JUGS to see what Greta and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created using dies and leaves.

Background stamped with a woodgrain stamp and die cut the brown grid coverplate and adhered to the woodgrain panel.  Used some Lindy's Magicals (thanks to Ina for introducing me to these) in red and orange on some watercolor paper and die cut the leaves that I inherited from my sister's collection.  Added some brown marker to the veins of the leaves.  Die cut the sentiment from dark brown and copper cardstock and inlaid the letters into the shadow piece.  Die cut the frame and heat embossed with some Spice ep from Stampendous.

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 #794 - Stencil Week

 It's time for our Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls with Lisa as our lovely hostess.  Pull out those stencils and have some fun!

A huge Thank You to Jaydee for joining us this past month with all of her awesome creations!  Check out JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Jaydee and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with stencils this week.

This is for my grandson's 16th birthday.  Using some old Gina K sets.  Stamped and heat embossed the car with black, then colored in the flames, lights windows adding some shimmer pen over the coloring.  Fussy cut the car.  Stenciled the street with white ink on black.  Sponged on ink for the sky kind of randomly then die cut the sun and used the negative to stencil in the sun, which I now wished I had stenciled before inking the blue.  Added some yellow shimmer pen to try to brighten the sun a little more.  Stamped the sentiment and separated the words and added to a blue die cut banner and topped it with the red die cut 16.

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 #793 - Mood Board Week

 It's Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls with Bobby as our lovely hostess and she has chosen a beautiful scene for our inspiration.

Hop on over to JUGS to see how our amazing Guest Designer, Jaydee and the rest of our talented Design Team were inspired by this week's Mood Board.

I was inspired by the stone crock.  Pretty simple one layer card using Gina K Vogue Vases and Various Sentiments.  Stamped the vase with Distress Oxide Hickory Smoke and did a rock and roll technique to add the Scorched Timber.  Masked the vase and stamped the branches.  Colored the buds with orange gel ink pen.  Stamped the sentiment in black all on an ivory 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 #792 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls and Carol Mc is our fabulous hostess and has chosen the word "Container".  Let your imagination run wild with this!

Come check out JUGS to see what containers were used by our lovely Guest Designer, JayDee and the rest of our amazing Design Team.

My Containers hold beer!  Perfect for toasting for a celebration.  I used Altenew's Bottleful and colored by sponging Distress Inks.  Positioned them to be clinking for the toast and added an unbranded cheers die cut sentiment.  Put it together on a piece of a music score background.  I wasn't able to find a card base in the color I wanted, so inked the edges of a cream colored base with Distress Oxide Fossilized Amber.

Play along 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 #791 - Die Week

 It's Die Week at Just Us Girls with Vicki as our lovely hostess with Anything Goes using dies!

With the start of a new month means a new Guest Designer!  Please welcome Jaydee!  Now hop on over to JUGS to see what Jaydee and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created using dies.

Using a few unknown dies for this card for my sister wishing her a quick recovery and to let her know that I love her.  Heart die small cover plate for the background in ivory backed with pink shimmer cardstock.  Die cut the bigger heart from some darker pink, the same as the card base.  The band aid has a cut out heart that I used the same pink shimmer for the inlaid heart.

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 #790 - Stencil Week

 It's time for our Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls with Carol Mayne as our hostess, so pull out those stencils and let your imagination go wild!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Julie Beech and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with stencils this week.  Thank you, Julie for joining us this past month with all of your awesome creations!

Using random pieces from my stash.  Unknown stencil for background with Distress Oxide ink on kraft.  Glittery heart layered onto a copper spritzed piece.  Layered Love die (again unknown) and Tim Holtz you die.

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 #789 = Mood Board Week

 It's Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls with Lisa as our lovely hostess and she has chosen a perfect photo for our inspiration with school starting soon.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our amazing Guest Designer, Julie Beech and the rest of our talented Design Team have created.

I was inspired by the chalkboard, book and apple.  Using a Gina K image for the stack of books with the apple sitting on top, colored and fussy cut.  Added some clear glaze pen to the apple for some shine.  The background is from Unity stamped in white pigment ink on black.  Stamped and heat embossed the paper clip boarder from the same Gina K set with silver ep onto the red 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 to the Tic Tac Toe Challenge # 277 using the first column

King of the Club

 Playing along with Art Impressions Sports & Leisure Challenge #410.  Golfing is both Sports & Leisure as far as I'm concerned, even though it can be quite frustrating at times.

AI Golden Oldies are such fun images and I love this old golfer taking a swing!  Colored him with alcohol ink markers then die cut with an oval die, trimming around the end of the club for an out of the box look.  Layered onto another green die cut oval.  Stenciled the background with Distress Oxide in in Lucky Clover.  Stamped the sentiment also from AI, but a different set with a green ink.

What do you think of this dapper golfer?  Want to play a round of golf with him?

Just Us Girls #788 - Word Week

 It's Word Week and Just Us Girls and our fabulous hostess, Elizabeth has chosen the word Birthday!  

Hop on over to JUGS to see all of the awesome birthday creations by our Guest Designer, Julie Beech and the rest of our amazing Design Team.

A little fun with this Whipper Snapper flamingo.  Colored with alcohol ink markers and fussy cut.  Using a piece of patterned paper from my stash and die cut a stitched scalloped panel from white and put it together onto a pink card base.  Stamped the sentiment in black directly onto the 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 #787 - Die Week

 It's time for our Die Week Challenge at Just Us Girls and Elizabeth is challenging us to use florals!  We all have an overabundance of floral dies, so pull them out and play along with us.

It's the beginning of a new month and that means a new Guest Designer!  Please welcome Julie Beech!  Hop on over to JUGS to see what Julie and the rest of our Design Team have created with florals.

Using an unknown floral die and alcohol ink markers on glossy cardstock.  Yellow gel pen added to the flower centers.  The background is a piece of gauzy tissue that was used to pack something I ordered and adhered to a piece of white cardstock.  Stamped the sentiment in black and Versamark and heat embossed with clear ep.  The card base and sentiment strip are Wild Lilac by Gina K.

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 #786 - CASE a DT Member

 This is kind of a free for all challenge at Just Us Girls this week with Ina as our hostess.  It's time to check all of the Design Team's creations and choose one to CASE.  Who will you choose to CASE this week?

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our talented Design Team have created, then join in on the fun!

For my baseball loving grandson.  Using a mix of various sets.  Wanted the baseball to look like it was being hit out of the park.  Sakura clear glitter pen used on the "smoke" puffs and colored in the center of the image with a light blue alcohol marker.  Die cut the baseball adding the lines with red gel pen.  Stamped and fussy cut the bat.  Die cut the banner in red and stamped the sentiment with navy ink.

Come play along 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 #785 - Stencil Week

 It's Stencil Week at Just Us Girls with Bobby as our hostess!  Pull out those stencils and have some fun!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our Guest Designer, Donna Mikasa and the rest of our Design Team have created this week with stencils.  This is also our last week with Donna, so check out her page and leave some love.  Thank you, Donna for joining us this past month!

Using a starburst stencil and Memento Luxe Dandelion ink.  Added the die cut stars in glitter and yellow and the banner stamp and die.  Put it together on a yellow card base.  Pretty basic.

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 #784 - Moodboard Week

 It's time for our Moodboard Week at Just Us Girls and Carol Mayne is our hostess and has chosen a fabulous board for our inspiration

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Donna Mikasa and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created.

Obvious inspiration from the little flowers.  I picked up this background stamp from the dollar store and it actually stamped decent.  Applied ink to the flowers with a small round brush and the green areas are alcohol markers.  Die cut the Concord & 9th flower and added some clear glaze and a candy dot after it dried.  Stamped the sentiment and die cut with a banner die.  Put it together on a coral 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 #783- Word Week

It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and Vicki is our hostess and has chosen a perfect summer word, Water!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our amazing Guest Designer, Donna Mikasa and the rest of our talented Design Team have created with Water.

Started with a piece of watercolor paper and just kept adding various watercolors and inks for the variation in blues.  Cut a piece off of a cover plate die for the waves.  Die cut the sailboat coloring with alcohol ink markers and leaving the sails white.  Snipped a piece of red cardstock for the little flap on top of the mast.  Die cut a blue banner die and layered onto red, putting it all together on a white card base.

Come play along with us at JUGS 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.