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.

Just Us Girls #782 - Die Week

 It's time to play with your dies again here at Just Us Girls for our Die Week challenge.  Carol Mc. is our hostess for this challenge and she would like to see "Summer Things".

With the start of a new month means a new Guest Designer.  Please welcome Donna Mikasa!  Hop on over to JUGS to see what Donna and the rest of our talented Design Team have created.

Summer to me is more golf!  This sassy golfer is from Art Impressions.  Stamped the image then paper pieced her visor and skort.  Colored with a combination of alcohol markers, Prismacolor pencils and some gel pen.  Die cut the image with a rectangle die as well as the teal and green layers.  Stamped the sentiment in Memento Pine Green and die cut with a banner 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 #781 - Anything Goes Stencil Week

 It's Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls with Bobby as our lovely hostess.  

Check out JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Joanne James and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created using stencils.

I think this is our last Grad party for this year.  Stenciled the stars with Memento Luxe yellow ink on a linen card base.  Stamped the sentiment in Memento navy ink.  Die cut a couple of layered stars in yellow and glitter paper then colored the glitter star with a blue alcohol ink marker.  I always try to make grad cards in the school colors and this year I had 2 that were blue and gold and the other was blue and white.

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 #780 - Moodboard Week

 It's time for our Moodboard Week at Just Us Girls and Vicki has chosen a beautiful scene for our inspiration.

Hop on over to JUGS to see how this inspired our Guest Designer, Joanne James and the rest of our amazing Design Team.

I was drawn to the poppies and the blue of the sky and water.  Inked a striped embossing folder with blue ink and ran it through my Big Shot.  I've had these poppies for a long time and now am finally using them from Concord & 9th.  Stamped the poppies in Memento Morrocco and DI Aged Mahagony, die cut with the matching dies and added black glaze pen in dots to the centers.  Die cut some stems from another set in green.  Die cut the unknown tag and stamped the sentiment with more Morrocco.  Die cut a little bow from another unknown set and colored with alcohol ink pen.  Put it all together on a white linen card base.

Come play along with us and you could be 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 #779 - Word Week

 This week at Just Us Girls it is Word Week and Carol Mayne is challenging us to use numbers.

Come check out JUGS to see what our Guest Designer, Joanne James and the rest of our Design Team have created using numbers.

More graduation!  This is a card box that I made for my niece's party.  The base is just a cardboard box and the top is a 12 x 12 stretched canvas all spray painted royal blue.  Die cut letters and numbers were added to the band.  The tassel was made from embroidery floss. 

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 #778 - Die Week

 It's time for our Die Week challenge at Just Us Girls and Ina is challenging us to use layers with our die cuts.

It's the start of a new month, which means a new Guest Designer.  Please welcome Joanne James who will be joining us for the month of June!  Hop on over to JUGS to see what Joanne and the rest of our amazing Design Team have done with die cut layers.

Still grad season here.  The background was stenciled with yellow stars on this mini slimline card.  Added a couple of die cut stars and a die cut banner with the sentiment heat embossed with yellow ep.  Had a little boo boo on the lower edge of the card, so I added a couple of blue striped pieces to the top and bottom edges.

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 #777 - CASE a DT Week

This month their is a 5th Thursday, so it's CASE a DT Week at Just Us Girls.! Who will inspire you to CASE them?

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our amazing Design Team have created this week and pick one out to CASE.

Since it is graduation time and I needed a few cards for the occasion, it was a perfect opportunity to get this card done.  This one is pretty simple.  Inked up a striped embossing folder with some blue ink and ran it through my Big Shot.  Die cut a large star from some white linen cardstock and then die cut the 2025 with a Concord & 9th set from both blue and white glitter cardstock.  It's hard to see, but the outline of the numbers is the glitter cardstock.

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 #776 - Stencil Week

 It's that time to pull out those beloved stencils for our Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls with Lisa as our lovely hostess!

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

Using Gina K Inspiration Mosaic background embossed with gold ep.  Masked off each block and used various stencils to fill each one for a One Layer Card.  Sent this off to my daughter-in-law

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 #775 - Moodboard Week

 It's time for our Moodboard Week challenge at Just Us Girls and we have a fun one this week with our hostess Carol Mayne!

Come check out JUGS to see how Rosemary Dennis and the rest of our Design Team were inspired by this Moodboard.

Inspired by the heart and rainbow colors.   Grabbing some patterned paper from my stash for this one and using the Concord & 9th LOVE die with glitter 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 #774 - Word Week

 It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and Vicki has chosen a fun one for our inspiration this week!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Rosemary Dennis and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with fruit.

Using an older Concord & 9th stamp set and coordinating dies Pop Art Pineapples.  Stamped the pineapple and layer in a light brown then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment from the same set.  Die cut the leaves and layered flower from SU Botanical Builders framelets and inked.  Stamped the green polka dot background onto a piece of yellow, matted in black and adhered to a green 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 #773 - Die Week

 It's time for our Die Week challenge at Just Us Girls and Bobby is our lovely hostess and wants us to use flower dies!

A new month means a new Guest Designer!  Please welcome Rosemary Dennis!  Hop on over to JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Rosemary and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with flower dies.

Stamped, die cut with the coordinating die for the daisy from Gina K.  Added some Stickles to the daisy center.  Added some die cut leaves with some sponged green inks.  Stamped and die cut the sentiment.  Stenciled the background with a simple polka dot stencil in Memento New Sprout on some linen cardstock.  Matted with some very old SU Vintage Violet and onto a white, mini slimline 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 #772

 It's Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls with Ina as our hostess, so pull out those stencils and have some fun.

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

Stenciled the background with a net type stencil in Tim Holtz Distressed Linen.  Added the die cut lilies and added some shading by sponging on ink.  Stamped the sentiment 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 out next Guest Designer!  Please limit your entries to 3.

Just Us Girls #771 - Moodboard Week

It's time for our Moodboard Week challenge at Just Us Girls and Elizabeth has chosen a beautiful Moodboard filled with lots of inspiration!

Come on over to JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Wanda Cullen and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created.

 

I was inspired by the chicks, eggs and colors.  Using a very old Gina K image and scraps of patterned paper from my stash.  Die cut the bottom edge.

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 #770 - Word Week

 It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and Carol Mc is our hostess and chosen a fabulous Word for our inspiration!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our amazing Guest Designer Wanda Cullen and the rest our talented Design Team have created for YOU!

This uses Concord & 9th Turn-a-bout Dahlia stamp and coordinating die.  Stamped the petals in Hero Arts Butter Bar and Lemon Yellow.  Die cut one set of petals and an inked and shimmer spray spritzed panel behind the open spaces.  Added the sentiment circle stamped in orange and heat embossed with clear ep.  Added the die cut beautiful cut from yellow cardstock and put it together onto a green polka dot panel and white 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 #769 - Die Week

 It's time for our Die Cut Week at Just Us Girls and I am the hostess.  My challenge is to use no flowers for your card, but everything else is a go.

It's the beginning of a new month, so that means a new Guest Designer.  Please welcome the very talented Wanda Cullen, who will be joining us for the month of April!  Now, hop on over to JUGS to see what Wanda and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created without using any flowers.

A masculine birthday card with a lot going on.  Die cut the Tim Holtz gears and heat embossed with Spice embossing powder.  Used a piece of tissue paper and blotted up various inks in greens and browns, after it dried glued it to a piece of cardstock then ran it through my Big Shot with a gears embossing folder.  Embossed a piece of kraft with the same embossing folder then spritzed with Tim Holtz Mica Sprays in gold, silver and bronze.  Sprayed a piece of kraft cardstock with the gold Mica spray and stamped the sentiment and die cut.  Put it all together onto a brown card base.

Come play along with us and you could become 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 #768 - Anything Goes Stencil Week

 It's Stencil Week at Just Us Girls!  Create whatever you like as long as it includes some stenciling.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our amazing Guest Designer, Jeanne Jachna and the rest of our talented Design Team have created with stencils.

The background was created using a swirly stencil and Distress Oxide inks in blues and a greenish color.  Layered the inks sponging through the stencil, then moving the stencil and inking with another color, etc.  I think it has a watery look to it.  Had a piece that had been sprayed with blue and green shimmer spray which I used for the background in the shaker window.  Added some clear and colored (purple, green mix) and added the little whale.

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 #766 - Word Week

 Time for another Word Week Challenge at Just Us Girls and Bobby is our fabulous hostess and has chosen the Word Green!  Lots of possibilities with this Word!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer Jeanne Jachna and the rest of our awesome Design Team have created with Green.

I obviously was inspired to make a St. Patrick's Day card!  Die cut the circles die from gold cardstock and 2 shades of green.  Inlaid the light green into the circles and the darker green around the circles and putting it together on a yet darker green card base.  Stamped the sentiment with a dark green in the largest circle and added a few die cut shamrocks.  Lot's of green going on here!

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 #765 - Die Week

 It's Die Week at Just Us Girls and our amazing Designer Carol Mayne is our hostess.  This week Carol is challenging us the make a birthday card with dies.

Since this is the beginning of a new month for our challenges, that means a new Guest Designer!  Please welcome Jeanne Jachna who will be joining us this month!

Now hop on over to JUGS to see the birthday cards that Jeanne and the rest of our Design Team have created using die cuts.

This is for my son-in-law's birthday.  Die cut 3 beer bottles from Concord & 9th's Bottleful.  Colored by sponging on Distress inks.  After the ink dried, stenciled the dark brown stripes on the bottles and added some gold for the bottle caps. Stamped the dotted strip on the kraft base in white, but it wasn't showing up very well, so went over all the dots with white gel pen.  Lined the bottles up on the card base.   Die cut the sentiment and colored with a copper marker and layered onto a vellum shadow die cut.

Come share your die cut birthday cards 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 #764 - Stencil Week

 It's time for our Stencil Week Challenge at Just Us Girls and it's my turn to be hostess.  Pull out those stencils and let's see some magic.  Remember anything goes as long as you use a stencil somewhere on your creation.

This is our last week with Stephanie Severin, who has shared her amazing talent with us this past month.  A huge thank you to you, Stephanie for joining us!

Now hop on over to JUGS to see what Stephanie and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with stencils!

One of the Valentine's for one of my grandsons.  I used the negative piece from a heart die cut panel as my stencil and blended the shades of pink/red for the heart background on a piece of speckled cardstock I found in my stash.  Added a die cut heart and the peppermint, adding a little heart that I added some Nuvo Drops to for shine.  Stamped the sentiment in red and then die cut with a banner die.  Peppermint and sentiment from Concord & 9th Be Mine stamp set and coordinating dies.

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

Just Us Girls #763 - Moodboard Week

 It's Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls and Elizabeth is our fabulous hostess and has chosen a very fun and full of inspiration Mood Board for our inspiration.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our lovely Guest Designer, Stephanie Severin and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with this Mood Board as inspiration.

I was obviously inspired by the confetti.  I used a Concord & 9th Turn-a-bout stamp in yellow, orange, blue and green.  Cut down the panel for a mini slimline size.  Stamped the cupcake and sentiment, also from Concord & 9th.  Fussy cut the cupcake and then added some glitter nail polish for sparkle.  Couldn't find a card base color that I liked, so added more of the nail polish to the edges of a white base.

How does the Mood Board inspire you?  Come share your creation with us and you could be chosen as our next Winner of the Week, which would then put you in the running at a chance to become our next Guest Designer!  Please limit your entries to 3.

Just Us Girls #762 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls and Ina has chosen the word Friend!

Come on over to JUGS to see what our amazing Guest Designer, Stephanie Severin and the rest of our talented Design Team have created.

I love these ladies from Art Impressions.  Colored with alcohol ink markers and gel pens.  The wine was hard to photograph due to the shimmer from the stardust gel pen I used.  They are celebrating a birthday and toasting to the occasion.  Layered onto a dark purple mat and a piece of very old Gina K digital paper in the purple houndstooth and then onto a purple card base.  Two of my best friends are purple girls and I would be the one in leopard print :)

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 the Art Impressions Blog: Drink Up Challenge.

Just Us Girls #761 - Die Week

 It's time to put those dies to use, it's Die Week at Just Us Girls and Lisa is our hostess and would like to see Hearts!

And since this is the start of a new month, that means a new Guest Designer!  Please welcome Stephanie Severin who will be joining us for the month of February!  Now, come check out JUGS to see what Stephanie and the rest of our fabulous Design Team have created for this challenge.

The background is a heart panel die, unknown, die cut from white then red glitter cardstock.  The red glitter hearts are inlaid into the white panel then adhered to a black panel.  Die cut the moon from some star patterned holographic paper and added some shimmer spray in yellow.  The rocket and sentiment are from Concord & 9th Be Mine set with coordinating die for the rocket.  Die cut the sentiment from a banner type die.  Put it all together on 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 #760 - CASE a DT

 This is our fifth week of the month, so our challenge at Just Us Girls is to CASE a DT member with Carol Mc as our hostess.  Who will you be inspired by to CASE this week?

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our amazing Design Team have created this week, then chose a card to CASE.

I went pretty simple with this one that I created for my sweet Aunt who has always been a great inspiration to me.  The background uses Distress Oxide inks in light blues and greens by smooshing on my craft mat, misting with water and placing the watercolor panel into it for a soft background.   Used an unknown leafy branch die and colored with a brown marker and sponged a couple shades of green on the leaves.  Added some red Nuvo drops for the berries and stamped the sentiment across the bottom of the panel.  Matted onto a dark brown piece and put it together on a kraft base.

Chose a card from this week's post and come share it with us at JUGS.  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 #759 - Anything Goes Stencil Week

 It's time for our Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls with our very own Carol M. as our hostess!  Create anything you want, as long as it includes some stenciling and join our challenge.

Come on over to JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer, Annette Elias and the rest of our talented Design Team have created using stencils.

A Valentine for one of my grandsons.  A mini slimline with stenciled hearts using Distress Worn Lipstick ink. Used an unbranded elephant and heart balloon.  Sponged some gray ink on the elephant and some Sakura black glaze gel pen for his eye. Added some clear glaze to the balloon, even though it's noticeable in the photo.

Come join us with your stenciled creation 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 The Male Room for Challenge #194 - Clean and Simple.