Just Us Girls #792 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls and Carol Mc is our fabulous hostess and has chosen the word "Container".  Let your imagination run wild with this!

Come check out JUGS to see what containers were used by our lovely Guest Designer, JayDee and the rest of our amazing Design Team.

My Containers hold beer!  Perfect for toasting for a celebration.  I used Altenew's Bottleful and colored by sponging Distress Inks.  Positioned them to be clinking for the toast and added an unbranded cheers die cut sentiment.  Put it together on a piece of a music score background.  I wasn't able to find a card base in the color I wanted, so inked the edges of a cream colored base with Distress Oxide Fossilized Amber.

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 #788 - Word Week

 It's Word Week and Just Us Girls and our fabulous hostess, Elizabeth has chosen the word Birthday!  

Hop on over to JUGS to see all of the awesome birthday creations by our Guest Designer, Julie Beech and the rest of our amazing Design Team.

A little fun with this Whipper Snapper flamingo.  Colored with alcohol ink markers and fussy cut.  Using a piece of patterned paper from my stash and die cut a stitched scalloped panel from white and put it together onto a pink card base.  Stamped the sentiment in black directly onto the 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #757 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls and it's my turn to hostess and I have chosen the word Masculine.  You can make anything for the men/boys in your life.

Check out JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Annette Elias and the rest of the amazing Design Team have created with a masculine style.

I was inspired by this card I found on Splitcoaststampers.  I wanted something unique for my grandson who is playing basketball in college.  The background was embossed then cut to mimic the lines on the basketball and layered onto black.  Die cut the happy and the numbers all from black and put it all together on a rust/orange card base.

Share your creation 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 #753 - Word Week

 The Word this week at Just Us Girls is JOY.  I am the hostess and thought this would help to finish up or get started with your Christmas cards.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer, Jenn Borjeson and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with JOY.

Used a Tim Holtz snow embossing folder with some blue glitter paper and sanded off some of the raised areas of the snowflakes.  Used Concord & 9th stamps and dies.  Pretty quick and easy.

 Another using the same snowflake embossing folder this time swiping white ink across the raised snowflakes.  Die cut the oval and inked it with a darker blue ink and inlaid it back into the center.  Added the snowflake flourish (unknown/can't remember) and 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 #748 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls and Stephanie has chosen a very timely word - Leaves!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer, Kerry Parkinson and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with Leaves.

Playing around with some vellum.  Used vellum and a leafy embossing folder then flipped it over and stamped the very old floral background from Stampin Up.  Added a strip of purple vellum die cut with a fishtail die and stamped the sentiment with more very old product - Vintage Violet from Stampin Up.  Matted with black cardstock and adhered to a Vintage Violet card base.  

Now it's your turn to share your leafy creations with us, you could be chosen as our next Winner of the Week and possibly become our next Guest Designer!  Please limit your entries to 3.

Just Us Girls #744 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls and it's myturn to hostess this week.  I have chosen the word Hope.

Come hop on over to JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer, Nance Salkeld and the rest of our talented Design Team have created with the word Hope.

Using a failed technique background.  I tried Gina K's technique that was supposed to give this depth and look like it was embossed, didn't work for me but still wanted to use it.  Stamped the Gingko Greetings image from Unity in brown on kraft cardstock, then shifted slightly and stamped with ivory.  I tried to blend out the ivory without much success, so went to some chalk to try to blend and still not what I was looking for.  Stamped the HOPE with Memento Espresso Truffle ink several times, but couldn't get the coverage I wanted, so took an alcohol ink marker in a dark brown and colored over the letters.  Layered onto a purple layer and adhered to a kraft card base.  As long as you don't look too closely, I guess it isn't too bad.

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 #739 - Word Week

 It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and our lovely Carol Mayne is our hostess and has chosen the word Frame.  I can't wait to see all of the framed beauties in our gallery.

Come check out JUGS to see all of the framed creations from our amazing Guest Designer, Bonnie Klass and the rest of our talented Design Team.

Digging deep in my stash!  Found this old frame stamp from Gina K and the floral image from StampinUp.  Colored with alcohol markers and then die cut the frame from some woodgrain kraft and layered 2 then inlaid the image panel.  A frame in a frame.

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 you entries to 3.

Just Us Girls #735 - Word Week

 It's time for our Word Week challenge at Just Us Girls and Carol Mc has chosen the perfect word for this time of year!

Hop on over to JUGS so see what our talented Guest Designer, Cat Craig and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created for Summertime!

Pack your bathing suits and bring your flip flops, sunglasses and beach ball, it's time for a pool party!

This is a very old set from Scraptrends called Summer Party.  I think it was the first clear stamp set I got and have no idea where I got it from.  Stamped the bathing suits in red ink and colored with alcohol markers.  Using different colored inks, tamped the flip flops, sunglasses and beach ball and colored them the same way.  Punched the sun and added some Wink of Stella yellow shimmer.  Stenciled the background with Hero Arts Tide Pool in on some light blue cardstock for a water effect.  Stamped the Gina K Ribbon Stripes (another very old set) in red.  Put it all together onto a yellow card base.

Come share your Summertime creations 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 #731 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls and Carol Mayne has chosen Celebrate, which is so perfect for so many different occasions.

Hop on over to JUGS to see how our Guest Designer, Jane Taylor and the rest of our Design Team are Celebrating.

Inked an old number embossing folder with Distress Oxide ink and ran through my Big Shot.  Die cut the balloons and colored them with alcohol markers.  Die cut the sentiment and colored with a dark green marker and die cut the shadow die with white glitter cardstock.  Put it together 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 #726 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls and Stephanie has chosen the perfect for this time of year.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer Jenny Martin and the rest of the fabulous JUGS team have created inspired by the word Garden.

I pulled out a very old Stampin'Up set.  Stamped the potted herbs and colored with alcohol markers.  I wanted to make a border of some sort and ended up with Lawn Fawn's gingham border stamped in Memento Pistachio ink.  I couldn't seem to find a color I liked to mat it, so I ended up coloring the edge of some white cardstock to match the pots.  Put it together onto a very old piece of Stampin'Up Vintage Violet.

Now it's your turn to share your Garden creations with us!  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 #722 - Word Week

 It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and Lisa is our hostess and chosen the perfect word for this month, Rain!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer, Colleen Begley and the rest of our fabulous Design Team have created with Rain as our inspiration.

Using random stamps from my stash that have never been inked.  Stamped the cloud in gray then masked and stamped the waterdrops in Brilliance Blue giving some shimmer.  The sentiment is computer generated and printed on vellum.  Matted onto a piece of blue cardstock and onto a gray 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 #718 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls and we are collaborating with Time Out Challenges for the next 2 weeks!  By entering our challenge, you will automatically join at Time Out Challenges.  

Your project will gain twice the visibility... You will double your chances to be chosen as a design team favorite and your project may be showcased in one of the challenge blogs. Whether you join from Time Out or from Just Us Girls you also have a chance to win $25.00 store credit to Waffle Flower Crafts. 

Check out JUGS to see what Tracey McNeely and the rest of our Design Team have created with Birds and also jump on over to Time Out Challenges for even more inspiration.

This is for my amazing Aunt who is turning 100 very soon.  For her 90th she was disappointed that she didn't get any funny/humorous cards, so ever since then I have tried to humor her!  She is still going strong!  She lives alone, still drives (bought a new car a year ago), is in good health and sharp as a tack!

This started with Gina K Inspiration Mosaic and then stamped the birds, leafy branches, and footprints into the blocks by masking off as needed.  Colored all the birds with alcohol markers all on a Gina K heavyweight card base (no bleed through).  It was too plain, so masked off and blended green Distress Ink around the edge.

Come play along with us and Time Out and you could be chosen as our next Winner of the Week and or a winner over at Time out.  If you are our WOW then you would become eligible at a chance to become our next Guest Designer!  Please limit your entries to 3.

Just Us Girls #713 - Word Week

 It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and Elizabeth has chosen the perfect word with Valentine's Day right around the corner - Love!

Come on over to JUGS to see what our Guest Designer Denise Morgans and the rest of our Design Team have created for LOVE.

And yes, this is another masculine Valentine since I have all grandsons.  Found this piece of striped cardstock in my stash and die cut the sentiment from the striped piece in the opposite direction that I used it on the background.  Die cut the shadow die in red.  Had the big heart laying in my pieces bowl and added a little mirrored heart from the same stash.  Stamped the you, which is actually part of a larger sentiment, die cut it and then fussy cut just the you.  Matted with the same red and the shadow and put it together onto a kraft card base.

Come play along with us at JUGS 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'm also entering this over at The Male Room - Valentine/Use a Heart

And it is also a fit for the challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz - Love

Just Us Girls #709 - Word Week

It's time for word week at Just Us Girls and I'm the hostess this week and I have chosen the word Sparkle!  Lot of things Sparkle and I went with a gem.

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer, Stef Perry and the rest of the amazing Design Team have created with Sparkle in mind.

The gem is a 2 piece that the base was cut from white sparkle cardstock and the outline from white which I colored with a silver marker.  Die cut the white layer with the quilt type texture and added some turquoise Sakura Stardust gel pen dots for more sparkle.  Stamped the sentiment directly onto the white layer and added to a turquoise 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.