Just Us Girls #843 - Die Week

 It's time to play with your dies this week at Just Us Girls with Carol Mayne as our hostess and she has chosen the theme of Halloween!

The beginning of a new month means a new Guest Designer!  Please welcome Carrie Sheridan who will be joining us for the month of October!  Now, hop on over to JUGS to see what spooky delights were created by Carrie and the rest of our talented Design Team.

Tree coverplate die in white with gray inking.  Layered over a piece of patterned paper.  Stamped and die cut the Tim Holtz Crazy Birds accessories pumpkin, witch's hat and broom.  Colored and die cut with coordinating dies.  Die cut the ghosts and covered with Stickles in Frosted Lace.  Framed it with piece of black cardstock die cutting the center with a rectangle die and put it all together onto a gray card base which is completely covered by the front panel.  Added the sentiment strip tucked under the hat.

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 #839 - Die Week

 It's Die Week at Just Us Girls and it's my turn to be hostess.  We would like to see Thanks/Thank You dies used for this week's challenge.

Since this is the start of a new month, that means a new Guest Designer!  Please welcome Julia Aston!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what Julia and rest of our amazing Design Team have created this week.

Found this stamped and stenciled panel in my stash and decided to use it.  Added the die cut sentiment in a dark olive and adhered to a dark olive 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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.

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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #756 - Die Week

 Welcome back to the start of a new year and a brand-new challenge at Just Us Girls - Die Week!  Vicki is our hostess this week for our newest challenge and it's Anything Goes!

It's the start of a new year, a new challenge and a new month at JUGS which brings to us a new Guest Designer!  Please welcome Annette Elias who will be playing along with us for the month of January.

A little bit of recycling going on here for the lighthouse background, it's from a tissue box.  The die is an unbranded one that I don't remember where it came from.  Die cut from white cardstock and colored the windows, top of the lighthouse and rocks with alcohol ink markers.  Layered onto a piece of turquoise cardstock and onto a white card base.  Sentiment is from Reverse Confetti.

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.