Just Us Girls #660 - Photo Week

 It's Photo Week at Just Us Girls and Carol is our hostess and has chosen this gorgeous Christmas scene photo for our inspiration.  This is also our last challenge for this year.  We will be taking a break for the holiday season, but will be back the first Saturday in January of the new year.

A huge thank you to Karren Johnson for joining us this past month as our fabulous Guest Designer!

Come check out JUGS to see what Karren and the rest of the Design Team have created with this photo as inspiration.

I was inspired by the tree with the beautiful blue ornaments and touches of gold.  I went CAS with this.  Stamped the pine boughs with green ink then stamped the ornament from Gina K in a royal blue ink then with Versamark and heat embossed with a sparkly blue embossing powder.  After the first layer cooled, stamped the little stars with Versamark and heat embossed with gold ep.  Sentiment from Gina K stamped in a royal blue.  Die cut the frame 3 times and mounted over the image panel and adhered to a linen card base.

Come play along with us and you could be chosen as our next Chic 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 #655 - Photo Week

 It's Photo Week at Just Us Girls and Cecile is our hostess and has chosen this awesome photo for our inspiration!

Come on over to JUGS to see how our Guest Designer, Lynne Jardine and the rest of the JUGS Design Team were inspired by this fabulous photo.

Playing with a few dies from Reverse Confetti and Simply Graphic made this come together quickly!  Sentiment is also from Reverse Confetti.  Using Kraft, Ivory and Apricot cardstock.

Come join us and you could be chosen as our next Chic 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 #651

 It's Photo Week at Just Us Girls and Nancy has chosen a beautiful photo for our inspiration!

Check out JUGS to see how this photo inspired our fabulous Guest Designer Julie Beech and the rest of the amazing Design Team.

Looking at the sunlight shining on those leaves made me want to add some shine to my card, hence a shaker card with shiny sequins!  Also using up some of my patterned paper stash.   Die cut the frame 3 times in Gina K Honey Mustard and Warm Cocoa and a third from kraft which was heat embossed with Spice ep and staggered them.  Die cut the leaves from watercolor paper which was misted with Lindy's Magicals.  The patterned papers are from the Old World stacks by DCWV that I have had forever.  Added the die cut and heat embossed hello and stamped the autumn which was part of a larger sentiment by masking off the rest of the stamp and die cut with a banner die.

Come play along with us and you could become our next Chic 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'm also adding this to a couple of other challenges.

Double D Challenges - Things that fall  

And  Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - Autumn Colors 

Just Us Girls #647 - Photo Week

 It's time for Photo Week at Just Us Girls and Lisa E. has chosen a perfect photo for our inspiration!

Since this is the last week of the month, we sadly have to say goodby to our fabulous Guest Designer, Cathy Roffey.  Thank you Cathy for playing along with us this past month with all of your awesome creations!  Now, come on over to JUGS to see how this photo inspired Cathy and the rest of the amazing Design Team!

When I think of back to school, it makes me think about the big chalkboard at the front of the classroom.  The background is stenciled with WPlus9 white ink then stamped the sentiment from Unity in the same white and then stamped again with Distress Oxide Broken China. Rubbed some white chalk around the sentiment.   Added some die cut stars and layered with red and blue onto a yellow card base.

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

Just Us Girls #642 - Photo Week

 It's time for Photo Week at Just Us Girls and it's my turn to be hostess.  Here is the photo I chose for this week's challenge.

Come on over to JUGS to see what our amazing Guest Designer, Fran Wing and the rest of the talented Design Team have created with this photo as their inspiration.

The leaves were stamped in black on watercolor paper and then watercolored.  Added the sentiment in black stamping partially over the leaves.  Layered onto some light green cardstock and then on to a white card base.  Very quick and simple!

Come share your inspired creations with us and you could be chosen as our next Chic 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 #638 - Photo Week

 Vicki is our hostess for Photo Week at Just Us Girls and has chosen a really fun photo for our inspiration!

A big THANK YOU to Lucie G for joining us this past month as our Guest Designer!  Come visit JUGS to see what Lucie G and the rest of the talented Design Team have created with this photo as inspiration.

I pulled out my fun Pop Art Pineapples from Concord & 9th.  Stamped in pink, aqua and orange and added green stems.  Die cut the sunglasses from Lawn Fawn Pixie Dust cardstock, which is white and colored with Prismacolor markers.  Stamped the little flowers on the Pixie Dust and enhanced the colors with Prismacolor markers as well.  Stamped and fussy cut the sun to shine down on the pineapples with their blingy sunglasses.  Sentiment stamped in black.  Inside says Sunshine.

Come share your creations with us and you could be chosen as our next Chic 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 #634 - Photo Week

 It's Photo Week at Just Us Girls and Carol Mc has chosen the perfect photo to kick off summer!

Check out JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer Deborah Wheeler and the rest of the Design Team have created with the photo for inspiration.

The image is from Penny Black.  Stamped the bike in black ink and then stamped and heat embossed in pink and silver.  Cut out the fenders seat, handlebars from the pink and the spokes and pedals from the silver and paper pieced it over the black.  The background is by Altenew and stamped with Hero Arts Bubble Gum pink shadow ink.  Basket was colored with alcohol markers and the flowers with gel pens.

Come share you creation with us and you could be chosen as our Chic 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 #629 - Photo Week

 It's time for Photo Week at Just Us Girls and Cecile has a fun photo for our inspiration!

Hop on over to JUGS to see how this photo inspired our fabulous Guest Designer, Mac Mable and the rest of the Design Team.

I loved all of the different words on the colorful rocks, so I went with Circled Sentiments from Altenew stamped in multiple colors.  Layered onto some orange striped paper and onto a turquoise card base.

Come play along with us and you could be chosen as our next Chic 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 #625 - Photo Week

 It's Photo Week at Just Us Girls and Bobby has chosen the perfect springtime photo to inspire us!

Hop on over to JUGS to see how our Guest Designer, JoAnn Burnham and the rest of the design team were inspired by the photo.

Birdhouse with bird is from Gina K, sentiment is unknown.  Stamped the bird and his house and colored with Prismacolor markers.  Masked the birdhouse and stenciled the leafy branch.  Layered onto a lattice die cut coverplate in Bordering Blue and mounted onto a white card base.

Come share your creations with us and you could be chosen as our next Chic 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 # 621 - Photo Week

 We have a fabulous photo to inspire you at Just Us Girls for Photo Week with one of our newest Design Team members - Carol McFarland.

Come check out JUGS to see how our amazing Design Team have been inspired by this photo.

Lots of masking here using some Gina K and a couple of unknown stamps along with a polka dot stencil.  Stamped the basket then lined up the eggs where I wanted them and stamped the bunny to peek over the eggs.  Then masked the bunny and basket to stamp the eggs, with the chicks masked.  The eggs didn't quite fill the basket, so masked the eggs and added a couple of unknown eggs to the sides of the others.  Colored with Touch Twin markers and felt it was lacking a little something, so masked the entire image and stenciled the polka dots on the background.  Added the sentiment by punching with a word window punch and layering it onto a thin strip of black.

Come play along with us and you could be chosen as our next Chic 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 #616 - Photo Week

 It's time for Photo Week at Just Us Girls and one of our newest Design Team Members is hostess of this week's challenge and she has chosen a fabulous photo for our inspiration!

Joining us again this week at JUGS as Guest Designers are Chrissie Stokes and Stef Perry!  Check out JUGS to see how Chrissie and Stef along with the rest of the Design Team were inspired by this photo.

I was obviously inspired by the heart and the colors. Die cut the striped heart out of the red cardstock and layered some blue glitter paper behind the cut out.  Added the die cut LOVE.

Come join us and share your creations, you could be chosen as our next Chic 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 #612 - Photo Week

 It's Photo Week at Just Us Girls and Lisa has chosen a fabulous photo full of inspiration!

This will be our last challenge of the year.  We are taking the month of December off to be able to prepare for the holidays and spend more time with our families.  We will be returning on January 1st and start the year off with our Word Challenge.  

This will also be our last week with our fabulous Guest Designer, Rachel Davis.  Thank you Rachel for sharing all of your awesome creations with us this past month.  Hop on over to JUGS to see what Rachel and the rest of the talented Design Team have created.

Stamped an unknown wreath found in my Christmas stash and colored the leaves with Prismacolor markers.  Added some Nuvo Drops in red on the berries.  Stamped the sentiment and die cut with a banner die and layered onto another banner die in green.  Added the die cut bow and a drop of green Nuvo Drops to the center.

Come play along with us and you could become our next Chic of the Week, which would make you eligible at a chance to become out next Guest Designer!  Please limit your entries to 3.

Just Us Girls #607 - Photo Week

 Cecile has chosen an absolutely adorable photo for our Photo Week Challenge at Just Us Girls!

Come check out JUGS to see how this photo inspired our Guest Designer Nora and the rest of the amazing Design Team.

I was obviously inspired by the entire photo!  Started with a gray panel and stenciled the stars in Distress Oxide coral ink.  Die cut the moon, clouds, little white stars and the bow.  Added some Wink of Stella clear to the moon and hanging star.  Had a little oops, so added some Nuvo Drops in white.  Stamped the sentiment in gray ink and die cut with a heart die.  Used a swiss dot embossing folder and white cardstock to layer behind the main panel and adhered to a white card base.

Come play along with us and you could be chosen as our next Chic 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 #603 - Photo Week

 The fourth Saturday of the month means it's time for Photo Week at Just Us Girls and Ina has chosen a beautiful photo for our inspiration.

I would like to thank Loll Thompson for joining us this past month as our Guest Designer and sharing all of her fabulous creations with us!  Now come on over to JUGS to see how this photo inspired Loll and the rest of the amazing Design Team.

Lots of masking on this.  Stamped the floral image from Gina K first, then the basket.  Masked the basket and flowers and added a strip of painter's tape and stamped the woodgrain.  Masked the woodgrain and used a stencil on the upper portion and inked with Distress Inks in Antique Linen and Old Paper, then stamped over the stencil with a crackled background stamp in Hero Arts Wet Cement, which is really hard to see in the photo.  Colored the flowers and basket with Touch Twin markers and green Moonlight gel pen on the leaves.  Sponged on some Antique Linen over the woodgrain.  Added the hello from Concord and 9th which was heat embossed with platinum ep on black and then die cut.

Come share your creations with us and you could be chosen as our next Chic 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 #599 - Photo Week

 It's our 599th challenge at Just Us Girls and Lisa has chosen a fabulous photo for our inspiration for our Photo Week Challenge!

First I would like to thank Claire Apostoloff for joining us this past month as our Guest Designer!  Come on over to JUGS to see what our awesome Guest Designer, Claire and the rest of the Design Team have created with this photo as inspiration.

I love the textured and layered dots on the photo and that was my inspiration for my card.  I used an incentive stamp I received from Gina K.  Stamped the flower trio and added Nuvo drops.  Sponged some Distress Inks and added some white and navy gel pen dots.  Stamped the sentiment on a strip of vellum and heat embossed.

I used the sketch from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

Just Us Girls #594 - Photo Week

 It's time for Photo Week at Just Us Girls and Nancy has chosen a fabulous photo for our inspiration.

Check out JUGS to see how this photo inspired our amazing Guest Designer, Chrissie Stokes and the rest of the talented Design Team. 

I LOVE the photo and was inspired by the stripes, colors, anchor and whale.  Stamped the blue striped blocks from Gina K Stamp It Big and the sentiment from Gina K Oh Boy! with Memento Nautical Blue.  I had these cute little whale stickers and had to use the red one like the photo.  Stamped the anchor from another Gina K set colored it and cut it out.  Tied some baker's twine through the hole of the anchor and around a blue die cut fishtail tag.  Put it all together on a piece of red and white striped patterned paper and onto a white card base.

Come share your creation inspired by the photo and you could be chosen as our next Chic 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 #590 - Photo Week

 It's Photo Week at Just Us Girls and Vicki has chosen an amazing photo for our inspiration!

First I would like to thank Fran Wing for joining us this past month as our Guest Designer sharing all of her amazing creations!  Now hop on over to JUGS to see how Fran and the rest of the talented Design Team were inspired by the Photo.

Started with some watercolor paper and sponged on some Distress Inks then sprayed with various shimmer sprays and splattered a little more of the blue and some white.  The stars and moon were die cut from shimmer paper and the moon colored with Touch Twin markers.  Images and sentiment from Hero Arts.

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

Just Us Girls #585 - Photo Week

 Just Us Girls challenge this week is Photo Week and Cecile has chosen a very pretty photo for our inspiration!

Come on over to JUGS to see how this photo inspired our Guest Designer, Jacinda and the rest of the JUGS Design Team.

I was obviously inspired by the 2 pretty daisies along with the burlap and twine.  Daisies are from Gina K colored with Prismacolor pencils and gamsol and die cut with coordinating dies.  Stamped the background in black onto white cardstock with Dotted Fill-in stamp set from Concord & 9th..  The kraft strip is stamped with an old Stampin Up Burlap background stamp in Memento Rich Cocoa.  Added some bits of twine and layered onto a kraft card base.

Come play along with us and you could become our next Chic 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 #581 - Photo Week

 It's time for Photo Week at Just Us Girls and  Bobby has chosen a beautiful springy photo for our inspiration.

Sadly, this will be our last week with our April Guest Designer, Claire Apostoloff.  Thank you Claire for joining us this past month with all of your awesome creations!  Now, hop on over to JUGS to see what Claire and the rest of the Design Team have created with this photo as inspiration.

Using this very old SU image I found in my stash of previously stamped images.  Colored with a combination of Touch Twin markers and Prismacolor pencils.  Stamped the background using Memento Rich Cocoa on Gina K Mustard cardstock.  Stamped the sentiment, die cut and added the green tab and bow to the end.

Come play along with us and you could be chosen as our next Chic 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 #577 - Photo Week

 It's the fourth week of the month and that means it's time for Photo Week at Just Us Girls!  Vick is our hostess and has chosen this awesome spring photo for our inspiration!

Sadly, it's also our last week with our fabulous Guest Designer, Shawna Standish.  A huge thank you to Shawna for joining us this past month and sharing her awesome talent with us.  Hop on over to JUGS to see all of the amazing creations that were inspired by the photo by Shawna and the rest of the Design Team.

I was totally inspired by the tulips and colors.  I used Gina K's  Spring Basket.   Using my MISTI I stamped the floral image and then flipped the panel upside down and stamped it again leaving a white space in the middle for the sentiment.  Die cut the happy and then covered it with Nuvo drops in black for some shine.  Taped off the sentiment and stamped only the Easter and punched out with a word window punch, adhered with some foam dots and added a couple of black Nuvo drops on the ends. 

I had to do one more.  I had this large dotted circle with the flourish in it and knew I had to ink it up with Hero Arts Lime Green Shadow ink.  Stamped the happy and Easter with Versafine black ink.  Added the tulips, from Gina K's A Year of Flowers and colored with Touch Twin markers and added the stems and leaves..

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

Adding this to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge per a recommendation, this is a new site to me!