Just Us Girls #677 - Wild Card Week

Hello!  Vicki is our hostess for this week's Just Us Girls challenge.  It's the fifth Saturday in April (where has the time gone?) so we have an extra challenge.  Vicki chose to have you CASE one of the design team members!  This seems like a fun one! 

The design team members were able to create any card they wanted for the participants to CASE.  I was very busy this week and didn't get a "new" card done, but I did have this one that I haven't posted.  I participated in a Pink Fresh event a while ago, and this is one of the cards we made.  It uses one of their fabulous stamp/stencil/die sets for the floral images.  I used Pink Fresh inks with the stencil and I think a gray ink for the outline to keep it soft.  The mat is die cut with one of their slimline dies and the sentiment is one of their gold foiled sentiments.  I added gold pearls to complete it.  You can see some dimension with the die cuts.  I added some of them with dimensionals.  I love this card!  That's why I still have it and haven't sent it out to anyone yet!  LOL!

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our April guest, Joanne James, on the JUGs blog.  This is Joanne's last week with us and I'd like to thank her for joining us this month with her beautiful creations!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  In the Meadow (PF)

Paper:  white

Ink:  Various PF inks

Accessories:  In the Meadow stencil and die set (PF), Blanket Stitched Slimline die (PF), foiled sentiment (PF), gold pearls

Just Us Girls #656 - Holiday Gift Tags

Hello everyone!  It's getting to be THAT time of the year!  The holidays are literally right around the corner.  Carol Mc has the perfect Wild Card challenge for us over at Just Us Girls...Holiday Gift Tags. 

I love making tags, but I hate when I see them get thrown out with the crumpled wrapping paper!  I don't usually put this much time into them, but I got carried away!  This is a Papertrey Ink tag set that I've had forever.  I'm not even sure it's still available.  I die cut it from white card stock and colored the ornaments with copic markers.  Then I had the idea to make it into a flat shaker, so I die cut another from white for the back and the top from white glitter card stock (which you can't see in the photo).  On the top one, I cut out the ornaments.  I added the clear pieces to the bottom and middle layers and added diamond dust glitter in between and adhered them together.  Then I adhered the white glitter piece on top.  I added the ribbon and die cut sentiment to finish it off.

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our October guest, Lynne Jardine, on the JUGs blog.  This is Lynne's last week sharing her beautiful designs with us.  Thanks Lynne!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Paper:  White, red, white glitter

Ink:  Copic markers

Accessories:  Christmas Cut Tag die (PTI), Winter Words die (Reverse Confetti), diamond dust, ribbon

Just Us Girls #643 - Wild Card Week

 Hi friends!  It's Wild Card Week at Just Us Girls.  This means the hostess can choose any challenge she desires.  Ina is this week's hostess, and she chose to have us CASE a designer.  Love this challenge!

I love Jennifer McGuire's cards, so I chose to CASE one of her recent ones.  This is the one I CASED.  It what she called a Unique Shaker Card.  I'll explain below.

What is unique about this shaker is that inside the shaker is a stacked die cut that the shaker bits have to go around instead of just falling to the bottom immediately.  I started by using Pink Fresh's washi tape and coordinating die.  I attached the washi tape to a piece of card stock and die cut it.  I set the other pieces aside.  I die cut it again four more times from white card stock and stacked those blank ones together.  I also die cut the scalloped frame four times from white card stock and once from gold card stock.  I stacked the white ones together.  Before adhering the stacked frame to the card base, I inked it with pink and marigold inks.  I adhered the stacked frame and die cut to the card base and added sequins, crystals, and hearts then adhered a piece of acetate cut to size.  The gold frame was adhered on top as well as the washi die cut.  The sentiment is also from Pink Fresh.

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our guest this month, Fran Wing, on the JUGs blog.  This is her last week with us, and I'd like to thank her for the beautiful cards she shared with us this month.

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Paper:  White, gold, acetate

Ink:  Sparking rose, bubble gum, marigold (Pink Fresh)

Accessories:  Stitched rectangle scallop frame die (MFT), Whimsical Blooms washi and dies (Pink Fresh), Foiled Sentiments 3 (Pink Fresh), sequins, crystals, stars

Just Us Girls #630 - Wild Card Week

Hi friends!  I'm the hostess at Just Us Girls this week and it happens to be our Wild Card week.  I can choose any challenge!  I settled on making a tri-fold card.

My friend, Cheryl, sent me a tri-fold card and I thought it was so clever and that is where I got the idea for this challenge.  My card is very much inspired by hers.

Here is the card closed.  I created the base by cutting a piece of fog card stock to 6" x 10.5" and scoring at 3.5" and 7".  This gives you the tri-fold card.  I then chose this Fly By stamp set and stamped, colored, and die cut the two flowers and the butterfly.  (I was very inspired by the Ukrainian colors when coloring the images with copic markers.)  Next, I die cut the larger window on the front panel, folded the card back up and figured where to die cut the second window.

I used a stencil and Unicorn white ink to stencil the fog card stock.  I love how it looks like silver.  I took the same two squares dies and taped them together and die cut a white frame to put around the inside window.

On the inside panel, I die cut a decorative panel using an older Spellbinders die and added clouds with a mini cloud stencil and blue ink.  I adhered the butterfly to it and stamped the trail and the sentiment (messed that up a bit).  Then I adhered the flowers to the middle panel and the front panel.  I also die cut the sentiment three times from white card stock and stacked them.  To give it some sparkle, I added star dust stickles to the flowers and butterfly and some crystals.

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Fly By Friends and Birthday Buds (MFT)

Paper:  Fog, white

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, unicorn white, copic markers

Accessories:  Fly By Friends dies (MFT), square dies and decorative die (Spellbinders), birthday wishes die (Casual Fridays), just plaid  slimline stencil (C. Pooler), mini cloud stencil (MFT)

 

Just Us Girls #617 - Wild Card Week

 It's Wild Card Week over at Just Us Girls!  Just what we need, right?  An additional week in January (at least for me in Western New York...it's cold!).  But it gives us a reason for another JUGs challenge.  Carol Mayne is our hostess and she chose PLAID.

I was so happy when I saw Plaid because I have so much pattern paper that I don't use often enough.  This gave me a chance to use at least one piece of it!  LOL!  I went with this puple plaid that has some gold foil going through it.  I die cut it with a scallop die and set it aside to work on the other parts of the card design.  I got this stamp, stencil, and die set recently and put it to work (I didn't use any stamps on this card).  I took colors from the pattern paper to ink up the flowers and used greens for the leaves.  I needed something between the pattern paper and flowers, but didn't want to cover up too much of the plaid paper so I die cut this smaller cover plate from white card stock.  I adhered that to the plaid paper and the flowers/leaves.  The sentiment is a pre-printed one from a pack from Pink Fresh.  It's gold foiled, which matches the plaid paper.  I added gold pearls to finish it off.

You can find more inspiration from our JUGs design team and our January guests, Chrisse Stokes and Stef Perry on the JUGs blog.  This will be their last week with us, and I just want to say thanks for being such great guests and giving us so many beautiful cards to display on our blog!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Paper:  White, Madras Plaid (Memory Box)

Ink:  Soft lilac, summer shower, seaside, mint, key lime (Pink Fresh)

Accessories:  A Little Hello stencil and dies (Gina K), Creative Curves die (Penny Black), Audrey Cutaways (Winnie & Walter), foiled sentiments (PF), pearls

Just Us Girls #608 - Wild Card Week

 Hello!  Just Us Girls is hosting it's Wild Card week challenge...if there is a fifth Saturday in the month, as we have this month, we have an extra challenge.  The hostess, this week it's Bobby, gets to choose a challenge of her choosing.  Bobby chose the word leaves, and let me tell you that made me happy!

I have two cards to share this week.  I love fall and I love creating with leaves.  This first card uses a leaves wreath stencil.  It's quite large, but I cut it down to fit an A-2 size card.  I used various fall colored distress oxide inks to create the wreath.  I added gold splatter (something I don't do much of...even with a splat box I had gold splatter on my phone, my desk, etc.!).  Then I die cut the sentiment using brown, orange, and gold cardstocks.  I originally used green ink to stencil the dots on the wreath, but when I added the gold splatter I thought gold crystals would look better.  Which in my opinion they did!  I mounted this panel on a brown mat and added it to the white base.

Unfortunately, I needed a sympathy card.  I decided to use a leaves turnabout stamp for this one.  I went with green, purple, and  light and blue inks.  The sentiment was die cut with gold cardstock.  I added stardust stickles to the berries on the wreath and mounted on pattern paper.  I added strips of gold on either side of the main panel.

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our October guest, Nora Noll on the JUGs blog.  This is her last week with us and she's done a fabulous job.  Thanks for joining us Nora!

We are also saying a fond fairwell to our JUGs teammate Angie.  She has been a wonderful asset to our team and she will be sorely missed!  Best wishes to you Angie!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe Card #1

Paper:  Recollections white, orange, brown, honey gold mirror cardstock

Ink:  Mustard seed, spiced marmalade, fired brick, ground espresso, gansai tambi starry watercolors

Accessories:  Leaves wreath stencil (SSS), thanksgiving die (SSS), gold crystals

Recipe Card #2

Stamps:  Harvest wreath TAB (C & 9th)

Paper:  Recollections white, honey gold mirror, pattern paper

Ink:  Hot tub, green tea, royal treatment, juniper mist (C. Pooler)

Accessories:  With sympathy die (Dee's Distinctively), star dust stickles

Just Us Girls #595 - Wild Card Week

 Hello everyone!  This is the fifth Saturday of the month which means it's Wild Card Week at Just Us Girls.  Ina is our hostess, and she gets to choose whatever type of challenge she wants.  She wants us to make anything but a card.

I love making bookmarks, which is what I chose for this challenge.  This bookmark looks pretty simple, but took a long time to make (as is usual for me).  I die cut the bookmark from heavy weight cardstock as well as from a SU retired pattern paper. I adhered them together.  Then I stamped and die cut the crayons.  I colored them with copic markers.  I used two colors for each crayon.  The sentiment was die stamped and die cut and both the sentiment and crayons were adhered to the bookmark.  I added ribbon and twine at the top.  I kept it flat (no dimension or crystals like I usually do).

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our July guest, Chrissie Stokes on the JUGs blog.  This is her last week with us and I'd like to thank her for her amazing contributions to the challenges this month!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Brilliant Day (Honey Bee)

Paper:  Recollections white, SU tangerine tango designer paper

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, memento tuxedo black, copic markers

Accessories:  Tall Tale Bookmark die (Altenew), Brilliant Day dies (Altenew), ribbon, twine

Just Us Girls #586 - Wild Card Week

Hey friends!  It's Wild Card Week over at Just Us Girls.  This week, Angie wants us to use spots and/or dots on our cards. Cool challenge!

 

I have birthday party to go to today for a one-year old.  I thought these fun primary colors and this cute mouse would be perfect for Ethan.  I colored the images with copic markers and die cut them.  I chose a red polka dot pattern paper for the main panel and die cut it with a square window slimline die.  I added a yellow diagonal pattern paper behind it.  The sentiment was die cut from polka dot paper also in green.  I embossed the happy sentiment on a blue flag.  I sprayed it with shimmer for that extra something.

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our May guest, Jacinda, on the JUGs blog.  This is Jacinda's last week with us and I'd like to thank her for her beautiful contributions this month!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  It's a Mice Time to Celebrate (MFT)

Paper:  Recollections white, Polka Dot Parade (Sunny Studio), Birthday Blowout (MFT)

Ink:  Versamark, copic markers

Accessories:  It's a Mice Time to Celebrate dies (MFT), mini slim square window die (TE), birthday trio die (PTI), shimmer spray

Just Us Girls #569 - Wild Card Week

 Hello there!  It's the 5th Saturday of the month which means the challenge at Just Us Girls is a Wild Card challenge.  I'm the hostess and got to choose anything I wanted for the challenge.  I chose MASKING.

I pulled out a never been used stamp set from Altenew because masking flowers is a great choice for masking.  I started by stamping the pink flower, created a mask for it then stamped the yellow flower.  I created a mask for that as well and stamped the leaves.  I had to create masks for the leaves as well so I could stamp the background image.  I added a piece of pattern paper to the bottom then die cut it with a stitched rectangle.  I die cut the sentiment and added that along with some crystals and star dust stickles in the flower centers.  This was added to a yellow panel die cut with a stitched rectangle as well.

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our January guests on the JUGs blog.

It is the last week for these talented ladies who have joined us all month.  Thanks to them for their great cards this month!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Flowering Cistus (Altenew), You Are (MFT)

Paper:  Recollections white, yellow, Classic Gingham (Sunny Studio)

Ink:  citrus burst, fresh lemon, maple yellow, honey drizzle, pink diamond, pinkalicious, rubellite, razzleberry, parrot, olive, moss (Altenew); mandarin spice, twilight, icing on the cake (C. Pooler)

Accessories:  Gina K masking paper, stitched rectangle dies (MFT),Impression Obsession sentiment die, star dust stickles, crystals, craft foam

Just Us Girls #560 - Wild Card Week

 Hey friends!  Happy Halloween!

It's the 5th week of October which means it's Wild Card Week over at Just Us Girls.  Angie is the hostess and chose to use Word Die-Cuts.  Easy peasy!

I just purchased this cute Thanksgiving gnome at my LSS yesterday.  He's so cute!  There are two others in the set, so I'll be making lots of Thanksgiving cards.  I started by stamping him and coloring him with copic markers then die cut him with the coordinating die.  Then I used a fall leaves layering stencil to create the background using several distress oxide inks.  For the challenge, I die cut the sentiment three times and stacked them for dimension.  I also die cut two rectangles from brown cardstock as well the stenciled background.  I added shimmer to the word and gnome and copper crystals.

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our October guest, Karen, on the JUGs blog.  Thanks to Karen for being such a great guest this month!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Gnome for the Holiday Thanksgiving (Photo Play)

Paper:  Recollections white, early espresso

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, dried marigold, shabby shutters, crushed olive, peeled paint, brushed corduroy. walnut stain, copic markers

Accessories:  Falling Leaves Layering stencil (SSS), Gnome die (Photo Play), stitched rectangles (MFT), thankful die (C. Pooler), shimmer, crystals, craft foam

Just Us Girls #551 - Wild Card

Hi friends!  It's the last and fifth Saturday in August (can you believe summer is almost gone?), so it is our Wild Card challenge over at Just Us Girls.  Carol chose BUTTERFLIES for this challenge.

 

My friend Cheryl and I were just talking about butterflies in crafting the other day and I was thinking about my favorite butterfly die.  It's a stitched set from Lil' Inkers (now defunct I believe) that I pulled out for this card.  I just purchased this circle slim line die and had to use it.  I die cut a white panel with it and backed it with cardstock matching the pattern paper I used to die cut the butterflies.  I adhered that panel to the base and added crystals to match as well as smaller butterflies from the colored cardstock.  The sentiment was die cut from gray cardstock three times and stacked.  That's it!  Loving these slim line cards!

 

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our guest for this month (her last month with us), Lisa Elton, on the JUGs blog.  Thanks for being a great guest this month Lisa!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Paper:  Recollections white, various colored cardstock, gray, Petite Gingham (MFT)

Accessories:  Slim braided circles panel die (Pink Fresh Studio), stitched butterflies die  (Lil' Inkers), butterfly delights die (Memory Box), wet paint cuts die (PTI), crystals, dimensionals, shimmer 



Just Us Girls #538 - Wild Card Week

Hi everyone!  This is the fifth Saturday of May which means Just Us Girls has an additional challenge which we call our Wild Card Week.  Our hostess, Sue, has chosen to use two or more different pattern papers on our cards.

 

A friend of mine just became a grandma, so I needed a baby card for her daughter, the new mom.  I used one of the new pattern papers from Waffle Flower in soft colors, focusing on blue because the new baby is a boy whom they named Ethan.  I pulled out this quilt die and die cut it from white, to use as the frame, and then blue, pink and a butter yellow color.  I backed the frame with a piece of white copy paper which was covered with adhesive.  I then inlaid the pieces to create a pleasing pattern.  The sentiment was die cut in the blue paper as well as twice from white cardstock and stacked together.  I added the quilt piece to craft foam and then to a blue base.  Sequins were added to the background and shimmer was applied to the word die.

 

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our May guest, Deborah Frings, on the JUGs blog.  This is Deborah's last week with us, and I'd like to thank her for joining us this month and for adding her lovely cards to our challenges.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Paper:  Recollections white, Unicorn Dots (Waffle Flower)

Accessories:  Quilt Square die (MFT), wonderful words: baby (PTI), sequins, shimmer, craft foam 



Just Us Girls #525 - Wild Card!

Happy Leap Day friends!  Are you doing anything special on this extra day?  I'm going to a local Polish restaurant that is celebrating with a Krupnik fest!  Krupnik is a Polish liqueur that is made with honey.  It's so good!  We will also be eating some delicious Polish food! 

 

But today is also Wild Card week at Just Us Girls.  Since it's the fifth Saturday in the month, our hostess, Nancy, gets to choose any challenge she wants.  Nancy chose Inlay Die Cuts.

 

I bought this set (I actually bought the entire release from The Greetery) with this challenge in mind.  It's a very cool set to use.  I started by die cutting the word in the middle of the panel.  Then I took the layering leaves stencil that comes with the set and blended green ink around the word.  I took the next stencil and blended pink ink for the flowers.  To get the details on the leaves and flowers, I used the coordinating stamps and darker green and pink inks.  I adhered that panel onto the base and made sure to add lost of adhesive where the letters are.  I die cut the word again from pink cardstock, then inlaid them into the opening in the panel.  The tricky thing was to add those little white pieces that the die cut.  I actually had all but one of these pieces!  I had to die cut the letter A again just to get one of those tiny pieces!  After all this was done, I added pink crystals to the panel and shimmer to the letters.  The little banner with the embossed sentiment was added to the middle with some dimensional tape.

 

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our February guest, Betty, on the JUGs blog.  This is Betty's last week with us, and we were very happy to have her as our guest this month!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Easter Jubilee (The Greetery)
Paper:  Recollections white, pink, olive
Ink:  Versamark, Distress oxide: worn lipstick and crushed olive; C. Pooler: party dress and eucalyptus
Accessories:  Stitched rectangle (MFT), Easter Jubilee die and stencils (The Greetery), white embossing powder, crystals, shimmer, dimensional tape



Just Us Girls #516 - Anything Goes!

Hello everyone!  Today is the last day of challenges for Just Us Girls for the year 2019.  We've had 516 challenges since we began in October 2009!  We are taking a December break, as we have been doing for the past few years, to give our designers a break during the holidays. We will be back on January 4, 2020 with challenge #517.

So this week is the fifth week of the month which means it's our Wild Card week.  Vicki chose Anything Goes for this challenge.

A couple of weeks ago, Jennifer McGuire put out a call for a card drive.  You can read about it here.  The cards they were asking for were for families who had pets who were experiencing an illness.  They were supposed to have a dog on it, if possible, and some kind of get well sentiment.  I'm a dog lover, so I had to participate.  I lost my sweet Springer Spaniel Lizzie a year ago yesterday to cancer.  I did receive cards from friends when she passed, but would love to have gotten cards during the time we knew she had cancer.  My Lizzie was liver and white in color, so I colored this dog to look similar to her.  I put her in the middle of these fun flowers and added the sentiment.  I only made five of these because of time constraints, but I also sent about ten Thank You cards that I had on hand that were also requested. The drive runs until December 15, so you still have time to send some cards if you have time.

 

We hope you and your families have a wonderful holiday.  I'll have a few more cards posting in December for my Time Out challenges.

 

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

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Doggone Good (Darcie's Stamps), Healing Hugs (SSS)

Paper:  Recollections white, X-Press It, black

Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K), Versamark, copics

Accessories:  Stitched rectangle (MFT), white embossing powder, glossy accents, shimmer



Just Us Girls #503 - Wild Card Week

Hey friends!  It's the fifth Saturday of August (and the last day of August, boo-hoo) and it's Wild Card Week at Just Us Girls.  Sue wants us to splash something on our cards for this challenge.  Easy enough!

 

I went to a stamp and scrap show last weekend here in Buffalo, NY and bought lots of new stuff with my friend Cheryl.  This thinlits die from Tim Holtz was one of them.  I kept it simple and cased the picture on the package.  I die cut the die and leaves first, then sponged distress oxide ink behind them with the Taylored Expressions brushes to get the soft colors.  For the challenge, I splashed some of the new Lawn Fawn liquid stardust and watered down peeled paint distress oxide on the panel.  The sentiment was stamped in C. Pooler black jack ink.  I wanted a softer color so I used this instead of black.  I also added crystals to finish it off and some of the liquid stardust on the berries in the center of the flower.  This panel is mounted on craft foam for dimension.  First card for the holidays done!

 

You can see more from the JUGs design team and Tristan Dawes, our August guest, on the JUGs blog. This is her last challenge with us for the month and I'd like to thank her for being such an awesome guest.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Happy Happy Happy (Lawn Fawn)

Paper:  Recollections white

Ink:  Mustard seed, festive berries, peeled paint distress oxide; black jack (C. Pooler)

Accessories:  Poinsettia thinlits (T. Holtz), liquid stardust (Lawn Fawn), crystals, craft foam 



Just Us Girls #494 - Wild Card Week

Hi all!  It's Wild Card Week at Just Us Girls and Ina chose for us to make a fancy fold card.

 

I hope this qualifies as a fancy fold.  It folds flat to fit into an envelope.  This was done with the dies and stamps from Concord & 9th called Birthday Stacks.  The balloons, word, and presents are all at different levels and are stacked for more dimension.  I stamped the balloons and presents in Versamark and heat embossed them with white embossing powder.  I added shimmer to the word and also added sequins. 

 

I used this week colors from the Color Throwdown challenge.

 

You can see more from our JUGs design team as well as our June guest, Marlena, on the JUGs blog.  This is her last week with us and we'd like to thank her for her great creations this month.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Birthday Stacks (C&9th)

Paper:  Gray, blue, orange

Ink:  Versamark

Accessories:  Birthday Stacks dies (C&9th), sequins, spectrum noir shimmer