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 #804 - Die Week

 Welcome back to Just Us Girls with the start of a new year!  It's time for our Die Week Challenge with Elizabeth as our lovely hostess and she is challenging us to create with coverplates!

Please welcome our fabulous Guest Designer for the month of January - Laurel Seabrook!  Now, hop on over to JUGS to see what Laurel and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created using coverplates.

Using a Spellbinders heart coverplate die cut from ivory cardstock.  Backed it with some hot pink glitter paper.  Die cut a large heart from the same glitter paper and added the die cut sentiment, which actually matches better in real life.

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 #803 - Anything Goes Stencil Week

 It's Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls and I am the hostess this week.  This is our last challenge of this year.  We will be on break until January 1st to let us all prepare and enjoy the Christmas season!

A huge thank you to Leslie Miller for joining us this past month!  Hop on over to JUGS to see what our fabulous Guest Designer, Leslie Miller and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created with stencils this week.

More penguins from Art Impressions!  I just love these festive little guys.  Colored with alcohol ink markers with the lights and star colored with Stardust gel pens for some shimmer.  Added some clear glaze to the ornament.  Did an out of the box technique with the image so that the ornament hangs over the edge.  The candy cane striped background is from Tim Holtz.  Stamped and die cut the sentiment and matted with some dark gray and put it together on another mini slimline 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.

Flurries Forecasted

 Over at Art Impression Blog there is a new challenge, Flurries Forecasted Challenge #417 and is perfect for playing with my newly acquired Penguin Cheer set from Art Impressions!

Started by inking a snowflake embossing folder with blue ink and running through my Big Shot.  Stamped the igloo, little penguin and string of lights, then fussy cutting them.  Colored with alcohol ink markers and Starlight gel pens on the lights and star.  Added some white shimmer gel pen to the trees.  Die cut an oval from vellum and frame from some very old blue cardstock.  Arranged the igloo on the vellum and added the little penguin over the edge.  Decided I needed some sparkly snow so added a piece of white glitter cardstock.  After it was all together, needed to add a sentiment.  Stamped the sentiment with Azure Blue Stazon on vellum, but didn't like the way it looked, so stamped over it with Versamark and heat embossed with some royal blue ep.  Die cut with a circle die and slid it under the igloo and frame.

This is such a fun set to play with!  Thanks for stopping by for a closer look!

Just Us Girls #802 - Mood Board Week

 It's time for Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls and our lovely hostess this week is Carol Mc with this beautiful image loaded with inspiration.

Hop on over to JUGS to see how our Guest Designer, Leslie Miller and the rest of our Design Team were inspired.

I was inspired by the colors, star and rustic look.  Stenciled the background with Distress Ink on white and then inked Antique Linen over the whole panel.  Die cut the star from some paper backed burlap and the sentiment from red.  Added some die cut pine boughs (hard to see against that background) and matted on the same red as the sentiment.  Put it all together on a kraft 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 #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 #800 - Anything Goes

 This week is our 800th challenge at Just Us Girls!  To celebrate it's Anything Goes so let's have some fun!

We are pleased to welcome our newest Guest Designer, Leslie Miller!  Hop on over to JUGS to see what Leslie and the rest of our amazing Design Team have created this week.

Using a lady golfer from Art Impressions colored with alcohol ink markers and paper pieced her shirt.  The green striped background is the inside of an envelope that I adhered to some cardstock.  Added the sequins due to a little mishap, oops!

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.