Just Us Girls #831 - Word Week

 It's time for our Word Week challenge at Just Us Girls with Vicki as our hostess and she has chosen the word Play!

Hop on over to JUGS to see how our Guest Designer, Bonnie Klass and the rest of our amazing Design Team were inspired by the word Play.

A grad card for a young lady who is going on to continue playing softball at the next level!  Die cut a large star from white glitter paper, die cut the sentiment from blue, stamped and die cut the bat and ball from Art Impressions and put it all together onto a blue 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 #827 - Word Week

 It's Word Week at Just Us Girls with Vicki as our awesome hostess and she has chosen the word Summer!

Hop on over to JUGS to see all of the summer creations from our talented Guest Designer, Kellianne and the rest of our amazing Design Team!

Summer cocktails from an old SU set.  Stamped the drinks and sentiment by lining everything up on my MISTI.  Added a piece of black and white polka dot paper for the background and put it together onto a white card base.  Pretty simple.

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 #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 #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 #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 #801 - Word Week

 It's time for Word Week at Just Us Girls with the lovely Carol Mayne as our hostess and she has chosen a very timely word for our inspiration - Winter!

Hop on over to JUGS to see what our talented Guest Designer, Leslie Miller and the rest of our fabulous Design Team have created with Winter in mind.

Playing with my newest acquisition from Art Impressions Penguin Cheer.  Stamped and colored the penguins with alcohol ink markers.  Stenciled the snowflakes on the background with Brilliance blue ink, but my brush must not have been clean because they turned out to be more light purple.  Matted the image with some very old Vintage Violet from SU and made the mini slimline card base from the same Vintage Violet.

Come play along with us and you could become 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.

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.