Just Us Girls #673 - Color Week

 Hello friends!  Bobby is the hostess for this week's Just Us Girls Color Challenge.  She has chosen terracotta and green.

I initially thought of a plant in a pot (I see some of the other designers had the same idea) but I needed a quick sympathy card.  My good friend's brother passed away suddenly and I had to go to the wake/funeral yesterday.  Stencils make for a quick card, so I chose this turnabout stencil and used the two challenge colors.  After stenciling, I cut it on the diagonal, added the die cut sentiment and the black strip and some crystals and was done.  I really like the way the colors worked and how the card came out.  

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our new guest for April, Joanne James, on the JUGs blog.  Welcome Joanne!  I'm looking forward to seeing your creations this month!

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Recipe

Paper:  White, black

Ink:  Peeled paint and tea dye oxide 

Accessories:  Retro Petals turnabout stencil (Concord & 9th), stitched rectangle (MFT), With Sympathy die (Dee's), crystals

Just Us Girls #672 - CAS Challenge

 Hello friends!  This week's challenge over at Just Us Girls is our CAS challenge.  Sue is hosting this challenge and has chosen 1/3 or less, meaning only 1/3 or less of your card should be used.

I chose this silhouette set from Gina K.  I stamped the image in Versafine onyx black on the bottom of the card.  I wanted some color and thought about (and searched for) the Kaleidoscope ink pad.  Remember those?  I love them!  I stamped the sentiment using this pad and then die cut it with the coordinating die.  I stamped the secondary sentiment above it in black.  I love how simple this card is and how the ink really punched it up.

So this card was the first one I made.  I only thought about the 1/3 or less part of the challenge, not so much the CAS part!  The girls told me to post it, but I don't think it fits the CAS challenge.  So I'm just going to post it anyway as a secondary card.  I just adore these little mice.  I just started cross stitching again last summer.  I did this craft 40 years ago and probably had to put it aside because of work, etc.  I find it so refreshing once again and have several finished pieces and several pieces in the works!  So I had to have this stamp/die set.  

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our March guest on the JUGs blog. 

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Recipe Card 1

Stamps:  Friendly Silhouettes (Gina K)

Paper:  White, black

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, Kaleidoscope bouquet

Accessories:  Friend die (Gina K), stitched rectangle (MFT)

Recipe Card 2

Stamps:  Sew Very Mice (Lawn Fawn)

Paper:  White, Desert Storm, woodgrain dp

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx black, copics

Accessories:  Sew Very Mice dies (LF)

Just Us Girls #671 - Photo or Moodboard Challenge

 The challenge at Just Us Girls this week is hosted by Elizabeth and she has chosen this amazing moodboard.  I absolutely love the lemons!

I was in the Amalfi Coast in Italy last April, and the lemons were abundant!  Everywhere you looked you saw lemon trees and lemon everything as far as souvenirs were concerned.  I of course came home with some (and I wanted to include them in my photo and forgot!).

Anyway, my card uses the Lemons and Blueberries set from Pink Fresh.  I started by adhering the coordinating washi tape onto some white cardstock.  The die then cut out all the pieces perfectly.  I only used the wreath and one of the lemon bouquets on my card.  I actually cut the wreath in half to make it bigger which allowed me to adhere the white sentiment strip across it.  I adhered the lemon bouquet on it as well.  The yellow gingham pattern paper was adhered to the base then I adhered the wreath and sentiment strip.  I added yellow crystals as well. 

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our March guest on the JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Garden Roses (Pink Fresh)

Paper:  White, Gotta Have Gingham (Pink Fresh)

Ink:  Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Lemons & Blueberries washi & die (Pink Fresh), stitched rectangle (MFT), crystals

Just Us Girls #670 - Word Week

 Hello friends!  This week over at Just Us Girls, Elizabeth has chosen the word RAINBOW for our Word Week challenge.  So many options!

I have had these rainbow stamps and dies from Erin Lee Creative for a long time, and this is the first time I'm breaking them out!  I started by die cutting the rainbow in different card stock colors as well as the sun.  I taped the rays on the back side to keep them together.  Before adhering them to the card, I stamped the main sentiment.  Then I was able to adhere the rainbow and stamp the secondary sentiment, which I had to curve on the MISTI to match the curve of the rainbow.  I then added the sun using dimensionals.  I also added star dust stickles to the rays of the sun and some crystals for that shimmer I love.

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our March guest on the JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Hugs Sunshine Smiles & Rainbows (Erin Lee Creative)

Paper:  Whiite, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple

Ink:  Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  A2 Rainbow Rays die (E. Lee), sun die (E. Lee), crystals, star dust stickles

Just Us Girls #669 - Color Week

 Hello!  Ina has chosen these beautiful colors for the Color Week challenge at Just Us Girls this week.  Let's have some fun with them!

I have had this idea to create a card with strips on a diagonal for a while.  I love this design and thought it would work well with these colors.  I used a strip die in two sizes to create the strips.  The blue and yellow strips are larger than the black strips.  I adhered double sided tape in the two inch size (I think) on a piece of white cardstock then adhered the strips on a diagonal.  Once done, I used a stitched rectangle die to cut it down.  I then die cut the floral frame and sentiment from black and yellow card stock.  I layered the flower and sentiment, offsetting them.  I added crystals and was done!  Easy card, but it's very bold!  

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our new March guest, Michele Ferguson, on the JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Paper:  Black, aqua, yellow, white

Accessories:  Slim Strips dies (Pink Fresh), Floral Stem Collage die (Poppy Stamps), Hello There die (MFT), stitched rectangle (MFT), crystals

Just Us Girls #668 - CAS Week

 Hello!  Nancy has a great challenge this week over at Just Us Girls for our CAS week.

Coloring!

I haven't been coloring too much lately, and it felt good to get out the copics and get them going again.  The next holiday is St. Patrick's Day and I pulled out this cute lucky gnome to color up.  After coloring up the image, I die cut it and then again twice more to stack for dimension.  I added stenciled shamrocks on the side and a stamped sentiment.  I had to add some shine, so I used some yellow stickles on the buckle on is hat as well as on the shamrock in his hand.  I'm liking these CAS cards!

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our February guest, Karen, on the JUGs blog.  This is Karen's last week with us (can't believe we are going into March already!), and I'd like to thank her for joining us with her beautiful cards this month.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Gnome Lucky (SSS)

Paper:  X-Press It, white

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx black, copics

Accessories:  Gnome Lucky die (SSS), stitched rectangle (MFT), clovers stencil (SSS), yellow stickles

Just Us Girls #667 - Photo or Moodboard Week

Hi friends!  Just Us Girls has a new challenge this week that we are calling Photo or Moodboard Week.  You can see the Moodboard below that our hostess, Vicki, chose.

I looked at that moodboard and saw the yellow and purple colors as well as the several roses.  So I pulled out this rose set from Pink Fresh that has a stamp set, stencil set and die in the collection.  I started with the layering stencils (there are 5 of them) and used two colors for each of the roses and the leaves.  I then used the stamp to stamp the black outline and the die to cut it out.  I also die cut it two more times to stack for dimension.  Shimmer was added for some shine to the roses.  I used another stencil to ink up the plain background with yellow ink.  I stamped the sentiment and added crystals to finish it off.

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our February guest on the JUGs blog.

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Garden Roses (Pink Fresh), It's All You (Gina K)

Paper:  White

Ink:  Versafine onxy black; lemon whip, sweet mustard, soft lilac, candy violet, mint, olive (PF)

Accessories:  Garden Roses stencils and die (PF), large grid stencil (MFT), crystals, shimmer