Just Us Girls #705 - Word Week

Hello!  Carol is the hostess this week over at Just Us Girls for our Word Week challenge, and she has chosen the words THANKS or THANKSGIVING. 

I chose Thanksgiving as my word because I need more of these cards to send to friends and family.  I started by stenciling the background with a two-part stencil.  I chose several different autumnal rainbow colors and brown for the stems.  I just love those colors!  Then I chose this die and die cut it three times.  First from the brown card stock for the background.  Then I die cut the thanks part from white card stock that I first sponged with the rainbow inks and once again from just white card stock for the bottom part of the sentiment.  I added the orange card stock to the card base then the main panel.  That panel was spritzed with shimmer spray before adding it to the base.  I also added yellow crystal for more sparkle.

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

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Recipe

Paper:  White, orange, brown

Ink:  Sweet mustard, marigold, fresh pear, olive, evergreen, gathered twigs, sorbet, cranberry

Accessories:  Layered Fall Wreath stencil (PPP), Thanksgiving die (SSS), stitched rectangle (MFT), crystals, shimmer spray

Just Us Girls #698 - CAS Week

 

Just Us Girls has a new challenge this week.  It's our CAS week challenge and Sue is our hostess.  She has added the subject SPORTS for a focus or theme.

I was a bit stumped thinking I didn't have anything sports related when I recalled some golf themed stamps/dies I have.  I chose this golf bag stamp and die set I had purchased at a stamp show a few years ago.  When I pulled out the die I realized it was two dies.  One cuts out the entire bag and the other the front pocket so you can layer them.  I colored it with copic markers and added the pearl for the snap on the pocket and some shimmer on the golf clubs.  For the background (I forgot it was CAS this week...I thought it was our word week...oops) I stenciled an argyle pattern.  Argyle for me is associated with golf!  The sentiments are from a Gina K golf set and I added them around the bag.

You can see more from our JUGS design team and our October Guest, Stephanie Lanzalotto, on the JUGs blog.

This is Stephanie's last week with us and it was so nice having my former Time Out teammate joining us on Just Us Girls.  Thanks for the beautiful cards Stephanie!

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Recipe

Stamps:  Golf Bag (The Artful Stamper), Golf Diva (Gina K)

Paper:  White

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx black, sky blue, seaside, grassy knoll, copics

Accessories:  Golf Bag die (The Artful Stamper), stitched rectangle (MFT), layered argyle stencil (Pretty Pink Posh), pearl, shimmer

Just Us Girls #696 - Word Week

 Hello!  Bobby has chosen a great word for the Just Us Girls Word Week challenge this week.

MOON

What a great word, considering we just had that beautiful moon in our skies last week!

I really wanted to use my Tim Holtz moon stencil, but in my mess of a craft room I couldn't find it.  Organizing that room is on my to do list!  So while searching, I found this slimline tree stencil from ARTplorations and pulled that along with my newest purchase of this cat.  I'm not a cat person, but when I saw this cat I couldn't resist!  So it took me a minute to figure out how to get the moon in there (this is my second try!).  I first stenciled the trees using a blue ink for the background.  I didn't want to make it too dark because of the black cat, but in hindsight I think it could have been darker.  Then I die cut a circle from a piece of masking paper and, while the stencil was still in place, laid it over the stencil.  I then used yellow and orange inks to get the moon shape.  The cat was die cut and assembled and adhered to the card.  I chose this cute sentiment and embossed it with white embossing powder.  The band on the hat was sparkled up with some star dust stickles and I added some black crystals.

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

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Recipe

Stamps:  Sentiment Strips: Halloween (Pretty Pink Posh)

Paper:  White, black, orange

Ink:  Versamark, marigold, clementine, slumber

Accessories:  Beyond the Trees stencil (ARTplorations), Spooky Cat die (SSS), circle die (Spellbinders), stitched rectangles (MFT), white embossing powder, star dust stickles, crystals

Just Us Girls #692 - Word Week

Hello friends!  I'm the hostess over at Just Us Girls this week and I've chosen the word

BEE.

I'm seeing bees a lot in decor and thought it would be a good word for card making.

 

So you may remember the background of flowers on my card from last week.  When I made last week's card, I made four of these floral backgrounds.  I was going to use a honeycomb stencil when I saw the remaining three backgrounds on my desk and thought it would look great with a bee on it.  So I started by stamping the bee and coloring it with copic markers.  I die cut it two more times and layered it for dimension. I die cut the word bee three times as well from black paper and stacked them. Then I went on a hunt to find a secondary word that would work and settled on awesome.  To add some interest and fun, I put the bee on a wobbler.  I love how she moves!  I added star dust stickles to her wings, flower and drink and some black clay hearts to finish off the card.  Now I'll have to see how I use the remaining two backgrounds in other cards.  Who knows?  Maybe you'll see one next week!

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

Thanks for buzzing by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Beekini Season (Honey Bee), Monster Love (MFT)

Paper:  White, black

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx black, copic markers, sunshine, marigold, summer shower, grassy knoll, warm buff

Accessories:  Spectacular Sunflower stencils (Gina K), Bee Cool die (Honey Bee), stitched rectangle (MFT), clay hearts, star dust stickles, wobbler

Just Us Girls #687 - Word Week

 Hello!  Nancy has chosen the word Seashells for the current challenge over at Just Us Girls.

I sent her a message earlier this week saying that I wasn't going to be able to participate this week because I had nothing shell related...not even pattern paper.  Then the next day I went to Dollar Tree to get some decorations for a party I was having at my house and walked down the craft aisle.  What did I see?  A stencil with a shell on it!  It's a pretty bad "stencil" if you want to call it that, but it did the job.  I used Pink Fresh Peach Fuzz ink to stencil the shell.  Then I remembered a card I saw on FB this week that was a shell theme with this sentiment!  I wish I could remember whose card it was because I'd love to give them credit, but I couldn't find it.  (It was Chari Moss!  Here’s the link to her blog:  Mossy Made).  I thought it was so cute and had to use it.  I die cut the letters three times and layered them for dimension.  I added shimmer to the letter and added a preprinted sentiment.  I mounted it on peach cardstock.

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

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Just Us Girls #683 - Word Week

 Hello!  That's my greeting and the word for the Just Us Girls Word Week challenge.  Ina is the hostess this week, and I think it's a great choice!

My friend and fellow JUGs team member Nancy always tells me I should color more.  I love stencils and dies and they have taken me away from coloring.  So I pulled out this image that my other crafty friend Cheryl gifted to me and colored!  We were shopping together one day and I said I loved this image, and next thing I knew it was mine!  I stamped it on X-Press It card with Memento ink and colored it with many copic markers.  My markers were happy to be out and used today!  I stamped the sentiment in the upper corner.  I thought this was the perfect stamp to use for the image.  I die cut the panel with a stitched rectangle and matted it with a black mat.  I pulled out a PTI gingham paper pad and chose this yellow gingham.  I die cut it with another stitched rectangle.  For some shine and shimmer, I added star dust stickles to the flower centers and bee's wings and some crystals.

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

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Recipe

Stamps:  Buzzy Hive (Whipper Snapper), Hog Heaven sentiment (MFT)
Paper:  X-Press It, white, black, PTI gingham

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

Accessories:  Stitched rectangles (MFT), star dust stickles, crystals, craft foam

Just Us Girls #679 - Word Week

Hello friends!  I'm the hostess over at Just Us Girls this week for our Word Week challenge.  My niece is getting married in July and I thought WEDDING would be a good choice for this challenge. 

I used to make wedding cakes, so this stamp/die/stencil set from Pink Fresh was perfect for this wedding card.  It reminded me of all the beautiful weddings my cakes were part of.  I started by stamping the images in black ink and adding color using the coordinating stencils.  I used gold Delicata ink on the cake.  I die cut the cake and flowers and then the cake stand from gold card stock.  I wanted a foiled background, so I used this Pink Fresh hot foil plate and gold foil to create it.  The sentiment was die cut from the same gold card stock as the cake stand as well as two more times from white card stock for dimension.  After adhering everything to the foiled background, I added gold crystals to it and to the cake stand.  The main panel was added to the card base using craft foam.

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

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Recipe

Stamps:  Celebrate in Style (Pink Fresh)

Paper: White, gold

Ink:  Ballet slipper, sparkling rose, sweet mustard, fresh pear, olive (PF); Delicata golden glitz, Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Celebrate in Style dies and stencils (PF), celebrate die (MFT), Abstract Triangle hot foil plate (PF), gold foil, crystals, craft foam

Just Us Girls #674 - Word Week

 Hello friends!  The Just Us Girls Word Week challenge is hosted by Carol this week, and she has chosen SUNSHINE.  A lot of us in the northern part of the country are certainly looking for some!

I pulled out another stencil for this card.  I used two different yellow inks to ink it up.  I found a stamp set that has this very cute face to stamp on the sun and added some pink cheeks with a copic marker.  The panel was die cut with a stitched rectangle.  I stamped the sentiment with Versamark ink and embossed it with white embossing powder.  The coordinating die was used to cut it out and I die cut two more pieces to layer it for dimension.  I finished it by matting it on a black piece also die cut with a stitched rectangle and added yellow crystals.

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

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Recipe

Stamps:  No Bad Days (Erin Lee Creative), Tag You're It: Celebrations (Honey Bee)

Paper:  White, black

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, Versamark, Sunshine, Sweet Mustard

Accessories:  Radiating Rays stencil (MFT), Tag You're It die (HB), stitched rectangles (MFT), white embossing powder, 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 #666 - Word Week

 Hello!  Carol is the hostess this week for the Word Week challenge at Just Us Girls.  She chose the word SPARKLE.

I love sparkle and almost every one of my cards has some sort of sparkle on it.  I went to my "sparkle drawer" of glitter gels and embossing powders and found a yellow glitter gel.  When I went to use it, I found it had dried up.  I have several and most were dried up.  Anyone know how to reconstitute them?  So I changed direction and used this gift box layered stencil with some colored inks, Versamark ink and a glitter embossing powder.  I used pink, orange, and yellow inks, layering them where they met.  I then used the same inks to add the designs on them.  For the bows, I mixed the colors up, putting yellow on pink, pink on orange, and orange on yellow.  Then, using the same bow stencil, I used Versamark ink and then embossed it with the glitter embossing powder.  I used the same colors on the word die, covered it with Versamark and the glitter embossing powder.  I die cut the shadow die from white card stock and stacked the word die for dimension.

I leaned the card into the light to show more of the sparkle from the glitter embossing powder.

This card looks so washed out here, but it really is quite colorful even though the colors are soft.

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

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Recipe

Paper:  White

Ink:  Versamark, ballet slipper, peach fuzz, lemon whip

Accessories:  Build a Gift stencils (Pretty Pink Posh), happy birthday dies (SSS), stitched rectangle (MFT), Wanderlust embossing powder (C. Pooler)

Just Us Girls #662 - Word Week

Hi everyone!  It's Word Week over at Just Us Girls and Sue has chosen an appropriate word for the upcoming holiday in a few weeks:  HEART. 

I don't know about you, but I love stencils!  I chose to use this layering stencil from Trinity Stamps. I started with the largest heart stencil and the lightest pink and worked my way down to the smallest heart stencil and the darkest pink.  The stencils perfectly layer on top of each other to get this effect.  I die cut it with a stitched rectangle so the heart was coming off the edge.  Then I stamped the sentiment with Versafine onyx black ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder for some shine and die cut it.  I die cut it two more times and layered it for dimension.  I added this panel to a pink panel and added crystals to finish it off.  

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

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Recipe

Stamps:  Love & Hugs (Taylored Expressions)

Paper:  White and pink

Ink:  Versafine onyx black; ballet slipper, sparkling rose, bubble gum, raspberry bliss

Accessories:  Layered Hearts stencils (Trinity Stamps), Love & Hugs die (TE), stitched rectangles (MFT), clear embossing powder, crystals

Just Us Girls #657 - Word Week

 Hello!  This week is Word Week at Just Us Girls, and Bobby chose the word FENCE.

I saw Jennifer McGuire use this die in this manner a while ago and had to have the die.  For her background, she pieced strips of colorful paper for her background.  I didn't have the time (or patience!) to do that, but I did remember I had lots of rainbow printed paper from Waffle Flower that I could use.  I chose this one and adhered it to the card base.  I die cut the image from white card stock and adhered it over the rainbow paper.  Then I needed a fence, so I found this slimline fence die from Honey Bee and cut it to size and adhered it over the die.  I think it looks like it belongs!  I added the foiled sentiment from Pink Fresh and some crystals.  I love this card!  I'm sending it to my niece who will start a new nursing position with our local Veteran's hospital next week.  I think the sentiment is fitting.

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our new November guest, Karren Johnson, on the JUGs blog.  Welcome Karren!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Paper:  White, JJ's Rainbow (Waffle Flower)

Accessories:  Girl with Kite (Hero Arts), Horizon Slimline Borders (Honey Bee), foiled sentiments (Pink Fresh), crystals

Just Us Girls #652 - Word Week

Hello friends!  I hope everyone who lives in Florida is doing well.  It's terrible seeing all the devastation on the news.  

This week's challenge over at Just Us Girls is the Word Week challenge.  Ina has chosen the word scraps. 

I have been wanting to use my scraps (which I have so much of!) with this strip die.  I started by stamping the image and coloring it with copic markers.  I die cut it three times for dimension.  Then I die cut the scrap strips and adhered them on the card base.  The sentiment was die cut three times and stacked for dimension too.  I added orange pearls and stamped the sentiment on the envelope.

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our new guest for October, Lynne Jardine, on the JUGs blog.  Welcome to JUGs for this month, Lynne!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Halloween Envelopes (Pretty Pink Posh)

Paper:  White, green, orange, black

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx black, copics

Accessories:  Halloween envelopes die (PPP), Boo die (Lil' Inkers), slim strips die (Pink Fresh), pearls

Just Us Girls #644 - Word Week

 Hello!  We have a new challenge at Just Us Girls.  This week is our Word Week challenge and Vicki has chosen the word BUTTERFLIES.

 I had three foiled butterflies on my desk, but I knew I had this stamp and stencil butterfly set from Taylored Expressions that I really wanted to use instead.  I started by using the red cling stamp for the bodies, stamping it in black ink.  Then I laid the two layering stencils for the wings and added two colors of orange ink.  I pulled out the die cut and embossed sentiment I had in my stash and laid it on the background.  It looked so busy.  I needed to break it up in some way.  I decided to use a thin frame to cut out a frame from the background piece as well as from black card stock.  I adhered all the pieces to the card base and added a secondary sentiment.  There were more black pearls, but somehow they didn't stay on the card!

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our new guest for the month of August,

Catherine Roffey, on the JUGs blog.  Welcome Catherine!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Butterflies (Taylored Expressions), Perfect Sentiments (Pink Fresh), Messages for Everyday (SSS)

Paper:  White, black

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, Versamark, peach fuzz, apricot

Accessories:  Butterflies stencil (TE), stitched rectangle die (MFT), thin frame die (SSS), sentiment strip die (Gina K), white and clear embossing powders, pearls

Just Us Girls #639 - Word Week

 Hello!  It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and Nancy chose MAMMALS.

I love foxes.  I think they are such a pretty animal.  I started by using a cloud and grassy edge stencil for the background.  Then I colored the elements with copic markers and die cut them.  I added some white accents (I don't do that very well, I have to admit!) and crystals.  That panel was die cut with a stitched rectangle and mounted onto a blue mat.  There's shimmer on all the die cuts too. 

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our new guest for July, Fran, on the JUGs blog.  Welcome to JUGs for this month!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Woodland Friends (Gina K)

Paper:  White, blue

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx black, sky blue, grassy knoll

Accessories:  Woodland Friends dies (Gina K), stitched rectangle (MFT), mini cloud die (MFT), grassy edge (SSS), crystals, shimmer

Just Us Girls #635 - Word Week

Hi friends!  Lisa E. is the hostess at Just Us Girls for our Word Week.  She chose a cool word:  PAINTBRUSH.

I love how colorful this card is!  I die cut the handles and tips of the brushes from a rainbow of card stock colors and the brushes from black card stock.  I used silver card stock for the metal piece.  The sentiment was stamped in black and the word "color" from rainbow ink colors.  I added crystals in rainbow colors and a red heart.  I mounted the white panel onto black and then added that to a rainbow stripe pattern paper.  

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our new June guest, Lucie, on the JUGs blog.  I'd like to welcome Lucie to JUGs for this month!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Crafty TAB (Concord & 9th)

Paper:  White, black, rainbow paper (Lawn Fawn), various card stock colors, silver

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, candy apple, clementine, sweet mustard, grassy knoll, seaside 

Accessories:  Crafty TAB dies (C9th), crystals, shimmer

Just Us Girls #631 - Word Week

Hello everyone!  The new challenge over at Just Us Girls is the Word Week challenge.  Vicki has chosen flowers.

 

I just returned from a trip to Italy, and we spent time on the Amalfi coast where lemons are in abundance.  I can still smell the fragrance!  So I pulled out this lemon die set from Spellbinders, which also has flowers in it.  I die cut the parts from various greens, white and yellow card stocks and adhered them together.  I adhered them to a panel that was impressed with a weave stencil.  I ran it through my die cut machine with the rubber mat to impress the stencil into the card stock.  I stamped the sentiment in black ink and die cut it with a square die.  The main panel was spritzed with shimmer spray and I added yellow crystals.  I mounted that panel onto a yellow mat and adhered that to the white base.

Here's a picture of some lemon trees.  They were growing everywhere!

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our new guest for May, Deborah Wheeler, on the JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Motherly Love (Flourishes)

Paper:  White, yellow, greens

Ink:  Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Lemon Zest (Spellbinders), Basic Weave stencil (MFT), square die (Spellbinders), crystals, shimmer spritz