Just Us Girls #710

 It's time for our Moodboard Week at Just Us Girls and Lisa has chosen a very cozy Moodboard for our inspiration.

Come check out JUGS to see how our very talented Guest Designer, Stef Perry and the rest of our amazing Design Team were inspired by this Moodboard.

I was inspired by the colors and some of the texture and came up with this masculine Valentine.

Embossed the background using kraft cardstock then swiped some Weathered Wood Distress ink across the raised areas.  Used the same kraft for the larger heart and the insert on the sentiment.  The striped paper was in my scrap pile and the smaller striped heart is the inside of an envelope adhered to some cardstock for some stability.  Colored the outline of the sentiment with a dark gray marker.  Did direct to paper on a white card base with the Weathered Wood ink to coordinate with the rest of the card.

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 #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.

Encourage-mint

 Creating a card for my grandson at college, just to let him know how much I love him and believe in him.

Using the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and the theme from The Male Room Funny/Pun

Die cut the three squares from white linen cardstock then placed some black and white grid paper behind the openings.  Stamped the mints and die cut them with the coordinating dies from Concord & 9th Be Mine stamp set and colored with glaze gel pens then covered the mints with clear glaze to shine.  Stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set and mounted it all onto a bright blue card base.

Do you think he will like it?  I'd love to know what you think.  Thanks for dropping by!

Just Us Girls #708 - Color Week

 Happy New Year!  It's a new year at JUGS as well with some new challenges.  Vicki is kicking off this year with a fabulous color combo for our inspiration at Just Us Girls!

First off I would like to welcome our new Design Team Member, Stephanie Lanzalotto!  Stephanie will be a fabulous addition to our talented team!

And I would also like to welcome our Guest Designer for the month of January - the very talented Stef Perry!  Hop on over to JUGS to see what Stef and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with this week's colors.

Die cut the unknown balloons from silver cardstock and then again from some alcohol ink colored acetate sheets and inlaid the balloons into the silver outline.  Adhered to some navy striped paper and stamped the sentiment in Memento Bamboo Leaves.  Added to a light green card base.

Come join us with your creations 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.

Ho3

 A CAS Christmas card using Ellen Hutson's Santa's Flight and Tim Holtz Crazy Birds Accessories.

Stamped the sentiment in Memento Northern Pine.  Stamped the Santa Hat and die cut with the coordinating die.  Colored with alcohol markers and added some Stickles Frosted Lace to the hat brim and pom pom.

Entering this at The Male Room, 52 Christmas Card Throwdown and Simply Clean & Simple Card Designs

Thanks for stopping by and a very Merry Christmas to all!

Still Working on Christmas Cards

 Trying to finish up my Christmas cards and drew inspiration from several challenges.

This was the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.  The background is navy pearl cardstock and used a snowflake flourish die with glittered cardstock and added the sentiment in red from Concord & 9th.

Next uses the sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches.  I used one of my favorite Clearly Besotted sets.  Colored with alcohol markers.

This was inspired by AAA Cards using the beautiful combination of Black, White and Gold.  Die cut the big snowflake from white cardstock and covered with Stickles in Frosted Lace.  Inked the base banner with Golden Glitz ink and added the black layer with the sentiment embossed in gold ep.  Layered onto a piece of soft gold cardstock and layered onto a white card base.

And one more inspired by Can You Handle the Pressure? and Time Out Challenge.  Inked the raised area of the embossing folder with white ink and embossed onto light blue cardstock.  Die cut the sentiment from white glittered cardstock and mounted onto a white card base.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by!

Just Us Girls #707 - CAS Week

It's CAS Week at Just Us Girls and it's a fun one brought to us by our lovely hostess Bobby!  The challenge is In a Circle, how fun is that!  

This will be our last challenge for this year.  We will be taking a break for the month of December to be able to prepare for the upcoming holidays and to spend precious time with our loved ones.

Come check out JUGS to see what our awesome Guest Designer, Melissa Craig and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created In a Circle.

I dug way back in my vast collection and found this very old Stampin Up set.  I made masks of each part of it inking the snowflake and the dotted scalloped border with Brilliance Blue ink and the word circle with Hero Arts Red Royal ink on a white card base.  Super simple!

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.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas season!