Just Us Girls #822 - Die Week

 It's time for Die Week at Just Us Girls with Vicki as our hostess and she is challenging us to use Word Dies!

We have some exciting news!  We have a new designer joining our team.  Please welcome Denise Morgans to our team!  

We also have a new Guest Designer for the month of May.  Please show a warm welcome to the very talented Kerry Parkinson!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what Kerry, Denise and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with Word Dies.

Using Lindy's Magicals, watercolored the background blocks in green and blues.  Stamped the shells and birds from Gina K's Gifts from the Sea and painted the shells with some watered down white gouache paint to lighted them a little.  Die cut the happy with some coordinating teal cardstock and stamped the birthday in Taken with Teal ink on the same watercolor paper and fussy cut and added over the lower part of the die cut.  Matted onto a piece of patterned paper with a splotchy look and mounted 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 #821 - CASE a DT

 It's CASE a DT member at Just Us Girls with Carol Mc as our hostess for our 5th challenge of April.  Hopefully the Design Team offers you some inspiration to CASE one of us.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our amazing Design Team have created for you.

This was created for my grandson who is graduating from Michigan State University in May.  Pretty clean, simple and masculine.  Stamped the letters with a dark green ink and added the outline numbers using a metallic green for the outline and some green vellum for the inside.  Added the Tim Holtz grad hat from the Crazy Birds accessories set.  Matted on to a dark green and put it 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.

I am also entering this into the Cardz 4 Guyz challenge #385 - Clean and Simple

Just Us Girls #820 - Anything Goes Stencil Week

 It's time to pull out your stencils and play along with us at Just Us Girls for our Anything Goes Stencil Week with Vicki as our hostess.  

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

Using a mix of purples used Altenew's peony set and a Simply Graphic stencil for the background.  The circle die is unbranded and I added some Nuvo drops.  Matted with some very old Vintage Violet by SU onto a purple Gina K card base.  The sentiment is by Pink Fresh.

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 #818 - Word Week

 It's Word Week at Just Us Girls with Ina as our hostess!  Ina wants to see some creations with the Spotlight technique.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Rosemary and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created using the Spotlight Technique.

I went with a one-layer card using Altenew's  and a circle stamp from Ellen Hutson.  Colored the leaves inside the circle with Prismacolor pencils and gamsol and also colored the background with a light blue pencil and gamsol.  Added the sentiment from 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 #817 - Die Week

 It's Die Week at Just Us Girls with me as your hostess and I would like to see Spring/Easter themed cards using dies.

I would like to welcome Rosemary as our April Guest Designer!  Now hop on over to JUGS to see what Rosemary and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with dies for Spring/Easter.

Using an unknown bunny/circle die that has an extra bunny, ears, eyes and nose.  Made it a chocolate bunny.  Used blue gingham and a green striped patterned papers from my stash.  Embossed the background by inking the ef then embossing on some aqua textured cardstock.

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 #816 - Anything Goes Stencil Week

 It's time to pull out those stencils again for Just Us Girls Anything Goes Stencil Week!

I want to say Thank You to Milla whose has joined us this past month with all of her amazing designs!  Hop on over to JUGS to see what Milla and the rest of our talented Design Team have created with stencils this week.

Pretty simple!  Stenciled the yellow polka dots on the center of the white card base then added the unknown cluster of balloons and inlaid the orange plastic Shimmer Sheet pieces for shiny balloons.  Stamped the sentiment and punched out with a word window punch.

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 #815 - Moodboard

 It's Moodboard Week at Just Us Girls with Carol Mayne as our hostess and she has chosen a real beauty for us this week.

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

Embossed the black cardstock with a floral ef and colored in the images on the debossed side with Sakura Moonlight gel pens.  Die cut the happy from some pink cardstock and then stamped the little birthday on the same cardstock in black, trimmed around the stamping and layered over the lower part of the die cut sentiment.  Layered onto a light green card base.

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.

Just Us Girls #814 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls with Bobby as our fabulous hostess and she has chosen the word Emboss!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Milla and the rest of our amazing Design Team have done with embossing.

I started out with a floral embossing folder and embossed a textured piece of purple cardstock.   The I rubbed a white ink pad over the raised areas making the flowers and leaves pop.  Embossed the sentiment on a piece of vellum in silver and used a purple Brilliance ink pad and swiped it across the back side to color the vellum.  Adhered the vellum piece onto the back side of the embossed panel and put it together onto a very old piece of hoarded SU Vintage Violet for the 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 #813 - Die Week

It's Die Week at Just Us Girls and the word(s) is Lucky/Green

Hop on over to JUGS to welcome our Guest Designer for the month of March, Milla and to check out the inspiration created by Milla and the rest of our amazing Design Team.

Die cut the unknown shamrock and smooshed it on to some Lindy's Magicals spritzed with water on my kraft matt.  Stenciled some shamrocks onto a white background, added a strip of washi tape and stamped the sentiment in a dark green.  Put it together on a green card base.

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

Just Us Girls #811 - Moodboard Week

 It's Moodboard Week at Just Us Girls with Lisa as our lovely hostess and she has chosen a beauty for our inspiration!

Hop on over to JUGS to see how our Guest Designer, Denise Morgan and the rest of our Design Team were inspired for this week's challenge.

I was drawn to the delicate flowers and colors.  I had some Opalite reinker sitting on my desk for some unknown reason, so I squirted some onto my craft mat and smeared a piece of watercolor paper over it getting a soft almost marbled looking background.  Some masking and stamping with the Gina K. A Year of Flowers embossed with platinum ep.  Added some watercolor to the images.  Couldn't find a card base to match, so inked the edges of a white card base with some Peeled Paint DI.  Finished by stamping the sentiment.

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 #810 - Word Week

It's Word Week at Just Us Girls with our lovely hostess, Carol Mayne!  Carol has chosen the very timely word Valentine.

Hop on over to JUGS to see all of the Valentines created by our fabulous Guest Designer, Denise Morgan and the rest of our very talented Design Team.

 

Using Concord & 9th for the rocket and sentiment.  Added some Stickles to the flames and window.  Die cut the striped heart and framed with another double cut heart.  The background with stamped with a very old Cornish Heritage polka dot background stamp with red ink.

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 #809 - Die Week

 It's for Die Week at Just Us Girls with me as your hostess!  I am challenging everyone to use a heart die somewhere on their creation.  Pretty simple with Valentine's Day just around the corner.

Since it's the first week of a new month, that means a new Guest Designer!  Please welcome Denise Morgans who will be creating along with the rest of our talented Design Team for the entire month of February.

This is for one of my five grandsons.  Die cut the coverplate from red.  Die cut 2 sizes of hearts and stamped the polka dots on the smaller one with red ink.  Added some red Stickles for the frosting on the donut and added some little heart "sprinkles".  

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 e.

Just Us Girls #808 - CASE a DT

 This is the fifth week of the month, so at Just Us Girls it's time to CASE a DT member!  We hope to inspire you to create something based on one of our cards this week.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our amazing Design Team have created for your inspiration.

More encouragement for my sister as she continues her recovery from numerous surgeries on her leg and with one more to go if all goes well.  The last time I used the frog from this Gina K set and this one uses the adorable koala bear.  Using up more patterned paper from my very large stash.  Colored with alcohol ink markers and then sponged Distress Ink in Faded Jeans around the image.

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 #807 - Anything Goes Stencil Week

 It's Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls with Bobby as our lovely hostess!  So pull out those stencils and let your imagination run wild!

Come on over to JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Laurel Seabrook and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with stencils this week.

Using a Tim Holtz Heartbeat die and backed with red glitter paper.  Stamped the sentiment from Reverse Confetti and die cut with a larger heart die.  Stenciled the background (Artsplorations) with Distress Festive Berries.  Inked the edges of the larger heart with the same ink.

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 #806 - Moodboard

 It's time for Moodboard Week at Just Us Girls with Vicki as our fabulous hostess and she has chosen a moodboard filled with inspiration to inspire us!

Come on over to JUGS to see how this Moodboard has inspired our Guest Designer, Laurel Seabrook and the rest of our talented Design Team.

I was inspired by the arches and the window in the brick.  Pulled out the brick background from an earlier experiment and die cut the arched window.  Die cut the window again from white, backed the opening with a black and white "curtain" and added a scalloped border to the bottom of the shade.  Stamped the cat, colored with alcohol markers and some cream around the cat and adhered it behind the window so he was peeking outside.  Added some berry branches and stamped the Concord and 9th sentiment in black on a piece of 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 #805 - Word Week

 It's time for our Word Week Challenge at Just Us Girls with Elizabeth as our amazing hostess and she is challenging us all with the word "Encouragement".  That is something that everyone needs as some point in their lives.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our lovely Guest Designer, Laurel Seabrook and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created to give encouragement to someone.

Using an old Gina K set for my sister who is going through yet another surgery on her leg and has a long road of recovery ahead of her.  Colored the frog and the bamboo stalk he is hanging onto with alcohol markers, fussy cut and layered onto a piece of patterned paper.  Die cut with an oval and layered onto a darker green oval.  Pulling a piece of olive colored, textured cardstock out of my huge bin, used that as a base layer and adhered to a white card base.  Stamped the sentiment in a dark olive ink and die cut with a Tim Holtz die from the tags set.

Now it's your turn to come play along with us! By joining in, 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 #804 - Die Week

 Welcome back to Just Us Girls with the start of a new year!  It's time for our Die Week Challenge with Elizabeth as our lovely hostess and she is challenging us to create with coverplates!

Please welcome our fabulous Guest Designer for the month of January - Laurel Seabrook!  Now, hop on over to JUGS to see what Laurel and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created using coverplates.

Using a Spellbinders heart coverplate die cut from ivory cardstock.  Backed it with some hot pink glitter paper.  Die cut a large heart from the same glitter paper and added the die cut sentiment, which actually matches better in real life.

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.