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.