Just Us Girls #567 - Color Week

 It's Color Week at Just Us Girls and Maria is challenging us to use shades of blue.

Come join us at JUGS to see what our Guest Designers, Carol McFarland and Melanie Hungerford along with the rest of the JUGS Design Team have created using 3 shades of blue

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Tried Jennifer McGuire's layered backgrounds and window design.  Stamped the very old SU Crosshatch background in white.  Die cut the star opening.  Stenciled the stars on the background with Memento Nautical Blue ink then covered with Gina K Glitter Glitz.  Die cut the sentiments and glued to the smaller star and adhered it across the larger star opening.

Come join us with your creation 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 #566 - Trend Week

 It's Trend Week at Just Us Girls and Ina is asking us to use a Stencil!

Come on over to JUGS to see how our Guest Designers, Melanie Hungerford and Carol McFarland  along with the rest of the fabulous Design Team have done using stencils.

I found this watercolor panel in my stash and used a graduated striped stencil and a leafy branch stencil.  Distress Oxide Inks were used to sponge the color through the stencils.  Sentiment from Gina K's Lots of Lines heat embossed with black ep.  Matted on Gina K Charcoal Brown and onto a Gina K Dusty Sage card base.

Since my watercolor panel has splatters with Distress Oxide ink, I'm also adding this to  the CAS Mix Up Card Challenge.

Come play along with us at JUGS 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 #565 - Word Week

 Just Us Girls is back with our first challenge of the year and it's time for our Word Week.  Nancy is our hostess and has chosen the perfect word for our first challenge after the Christmas break - Hello!

I would like to welcome our 2 Guest Designers for the month of January - Melanie Hungerford and Carol McFarland!  Come on over to JUGS to see what Melanie and Carol along with the rest of the amazing Design Team have created using the word Hello.

The telephone is from an old Gina K set and colored with Touch Twin markers and a little pink gel pen accents.  The Hello is from Altenew and stamped with Hero Arts Bubble Gum ink and the beautiful is a die cut from Concord & 9th cut from some glitter paper.

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

Frosty

 Playing with my Tim Holtz snowman which fits the challenges at Cardz 4 Guyz #260 Snowman/men and The Male Room Challenge #145 - Tartan & Plaid.

Die cut my big snowman from Tim Holtz and colored his arms, hat and nose with Touch Twin markers.  Added some black gel pen dots for the eyes, mouth and buttons.  Trimmed a piece of plaid patterned paper to make a scarf and hat band.  Shaded the body with a light gray Touch Twin marker.  The background uses a Tim Holtz plaid stencil and Lawn Fawn Gingham background stamp.  Added the strip of black cardstock to join the stamped areas.  

Thanks for stopping by!

100 Year Celebration!

 My aunt asked if I could make a birthday card for a beautiful lady who is turning 100 on Christmas day and this is what I came up with using the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch!

Started with a Core'dinations Glitter Silk background piece.  Stamped the polka dot background from Cornish Heritage Farms with Delicata Rose Gold ink and stamped the 100 from Gina K's Lots of Dots Alphabet and die cut with Spellbinders label die and Tim Holtz tag die.  Stamped the birthday in the same rose gold ink.  Die cut the balloons (WPlus9 - Whole Lotta Happy) from pink cardstock with gold embossed vellum adhered with Score Tape and added some floss strings.  Die cut the happy from the same WPlus9 set from some white glittery cardstock.  Put it all together and adhered to a kraft card base.

Do you think she will like it?  Thanks for stopping by!

Dashing Through the Snow

Another Christmas card done!  I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and the theme of snow for CAS on Friday.

First stamped the prancing little Rudolph from Clearly Besotted - Let's Prance and masked him.  Stamped the flourish of snow from an old Inkadinkado set with Brilliance blue ink for a little shimmer.  Colored the deer with a combination of Prismacolor pencils, Touch Twin markers and black gel pen. Added a drop of Gina K crystal drops to his nose and sprinkled with red glitter.  Stamped the sentiment with red ink and layered onto a red card base.

Thanks for stopping by!

Santa Sketch

 Great sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch!

And #259 Traditional Christmas at Cardz 4 Guyz

I've had this Santa image in my stash for a long time and I don't think I've ever used him.  Colored with Touch Twin markers, Prismacolor pencils with Gamsol and the smaller gel pens.  Embossed the sentiment in white and got a few unwanted flecks, so pulled out some white acrylic paint and splattered over the whole panel for a snow effect.

Thanks for dropping by for a closer look!