Just Us Girls Color Challenge

Maria has some beautiful colors for our challenge at Just Us Girls this week.  I love this color combination, it has so many possibilities.

Take a look at the great creations that our Guest Designer Judy Woodland and the rest of our Design Team at JUGS have come up with for our Color Challenge.

Stamped the balloons with Memento Luxe Nautical Blue, Hero Arts Lime Green and SU Only Orange.  Die cut with coordinating dies, covered with Versamark and heat embossed with clear ep.

Come and play along with us in our Color Challenge and you could become our next Chic of the Week, which would then make you eligible to possibly become our Guest Designer for the month of March!  Please limit your entries to 3.

Can't wait to see what you can create with these fun colors!

Love Always

I made an anniversary card for a very good friend and her husband.  She loves purple so that fit right in with the challenge at Colour Me.

Used the sketch from Cardabilities

And the theme from The Card Concept

I guess this would be considered to be a clean and layered style.  Sentiment from Gina K Lots of Hearts stamped with Memento Elderberry and die cut with a pennant die.  The circles are Spellbinders circles and the flower from Memory Box.  Finished off by tying a twine bow around the sentiment banner.

Thanks for paying me a visit! 

Just Us Girls - Trend Week

It's my turn to bring you this week's Trend Challenge at Just Us Girls.  I am challenging you to use a stencil on your creation.  If you don't have any stencils you can punch or die cut some shapes or words and use the negative piece for your stencil.  Stencils are so versatile; you can sponge ink through them, use spray mists, watercolors, acrylic paint, modeling paste, spackle or anything you can imagine.

Our fabulous January Guest Designer - Judy Woodland is with us again this week!  Come see how Judy and the rest of the JUGS Design Team have used stencils.

I used a stencil to add the little hearts and the splatter, I am very splatter impaired, so I bought a stencil of splatters.  The larger heart, arrow and sentiment are from the Gina K set - Lots of Lines.  And for a little added pattern, I added a strip of washi tape down the left side.

Can't wait to see what everyone can do with stencils!

If you win Chic of the Week in any of our January challenges, you will be in the running to be our Guest Designer for the month of March.  Good luck!

Please limit your entries to 3 

Deadline to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9PM EST on Thursday, January 15th.  Our Chic of the Week will be announced the following Friday.  

Thanks for playing along!

Stamplorations Sketch Challenge #25

Loving the sketch at Stamplorations!

I stamped the Grunge Floral Strips with red ink on white cardstock, lining them up to cover more area, then punched out the hearts.  Sponged the edges with Fired Brick Distress Ink.  Stamped the sentiment from Eclectic Florals in black and red inks, cutting out the red heart and layering it over the black.  Stamped the ribbon, also from Eclectic Florals to look like it is tied around the striped strip.

The patterned papers are freebies from Mel Stampz.

Thanks for taking a closer look!

Warm Thinking of You

Finally have some time to play in a few challenges.
I used the sketch from Retro Sketches

The inspiration from The Curtain Call

And Simon Says Stamp is Anything Goes!

Birthday for a Chemist

I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches to make my son-in-law's birthday card, and yes he is a chemist.

The test tube is actually from a Halloween set, but I thought it was perfect.  Colored the tube with watercolor pencil and clear Wink of Stella for some sparkle.  Added some nerdy glasses with tape on the bridge.  I paired the dotted paper because it reminded me of the bubbles in the test tube and the graph paper because I thought it was appropriate.  The sentiment has stenciled splatters on it, maybe because an experiment went wrong.

Thanks for taking a look!

Just Us Girls - Word Week

Sharyn is our hostess this week for our Word Challenge at Just Us Girls and the word she has chosen is "Winter".  How does "Winter" inspire you where you live?

We would like to welcome our January Guest Designer - Judy Woodland!  Now come on over to JUGS to see what Judy and the rest of the Design Team are inspired by "Winter".

I actually like to have snow on the ground if it has to be cold!  I love it when my grandsons are here and we build a snowman, so that is what I went with.  I stamped, colored with Touch Twin markers and cut out the Stampendous snowman.  Used my curved dies I recently got from Taylored Expressions to cut some Core'dinations White Washed cardstock.  Sanded the edges and added a little clear Wink of Stella.  The sentiment is from Gina K.  Love these fun card bases I picked up at TJ Maxx.

Now it is your turn to come play with us at JUGS, showing us how "Winter" inspires you in your part of the world!  You could be chosen as our Chic of the Week and that would put you in the running to be chosen as our Guest Designer for the month of March.  Please limit your entries to 3.