Just Us Girls #582 - Word Week

 Hello!  This week is Word Week over at Just Us Girls. Sue chose a great one:  FLOAT.  So many possibilities!

Our nephew and his new wife are expecting a baby in the fall.  A baby shower is planned for June, so this challenge fit my need for a baby card so well.  This is a mini slimline card, which I like so much!  My friend Cheryl sent me a beautiful Valentine card and I loved it so much, I used her layout for this card.  I pulled out this Penny Black balloon and bear image and colored it with copic markers.  I chose soft rainbow colors for the balloons and a neutral yellow and green palette for the base (we won't know the baby's gender until its birth!).  I used a triple window slimline die to die cut the yellow panel then added a plaid piece behind the windows.  The bear image was fussy cut (ugh, no die!) three times and layered for dimension.  The baby sentiment was also die cut three times and layered.  I added star dust stickles to the word and balloons and yellow crystals to the base for extra shimmer and a small white clay heart to the bear's chest.

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our new guest for the month of May, Jacinda, on the JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Balloon Ride (Penny Black)

Paper:  Recollections white, certainly celery, Plaid Patterns (MFT)

Ink:  Amalgam black (Gina K), copic markers

Accessories:  Mini slimline square window die (Taylored Expressions), baby die (PTI), crystals, star dust stickles, clay heart

Just Us Girls #571 - Trend Week

 Hi friends!  I'm back with another Just Us Girls challenge.  This week is Trend Week.  Maria has chosen for us to make a slim line card for this challenge.

I started this card by using things I found on my desk.  I had this hello die cut from another project that I did not use and the phone die.  As a young girl, I always wanted a pink princess phone.  Needless to say, my parents nixed that dream...I wonder why?  So I die cut the major pieces of the phone from a dark pink piece of scrap cardstock I also found on my desk and other parts from black and white.  After putting the phone together, I smooshed Versamark ink all over it and embossed it with clear embossing powder to give it the shine of a real phone.  I put those pieces aside and went to work on the background.  I pulled out a dotted circle stencil and added pink ink.  The stencil is a 6x6 size, so I had to move it down to cover the whole piece.  Then I die cut the black scallop frame and added that to the stenciled piece.  All that was left to do was stamp the sentiment, add the die cut pieces and some black clay hearts.

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our new guest for February, Leslie Turner,  on the

JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Layered Bouquet (Pink Fresh Studio)

Paper:  Recollections white, black, melon mambo

Ink:  Versamark, worn lipstick distress oxide

Accessories:  Dial Phone (SSS), slimline nested rectangles (SSS), slimline sentiments (Honey Bee), jumbo polka dot stencil (MFT), hello die (MFT?), clear embossing powder, black clay hearts

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!

 

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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 #544 - Trend Week

Hi friends!  It's Trend Week at Just Us Girls and Vicki has chosen to do long and skinny cards (aka slimline cards).  I'm so excited for this because I've been wanting to make one of these!

I recently purchased an envelope builder die set from Trinity Stamps.  It not only has the dies for to create an envelope, it also has two word dies and the shadow dies to go with them and the scallop and stitched frame.  I started by die cutting the frame and used my paper trimmer to cut a piece to fit with it for the main panel of the card.  I sponged some tumbled glass oxide ink on it.  Then I went to work on the flowers.  I die cut the piece then used the coordinating layering stamp set to stamp the flowers and leaves.  The piece you see here is the final one after two other tries!  I didn't like the colors I chose on the first try, and on the second try I got pink ink on the leaves.  I put those in the trash, but pulled them out so I could use them to layer behind the final piece.  This gave the die cut more dimension.  The hello sentiment was die cut from gingham pattern paper and also twice from white cardstock.  The shadow was also cut from white cardstock, but only once.  I stamped the sentiment on the main panel, then added the die cut pieces and these very pretty crystals.  That finished the card.

Now I needed an envelope, so I pulled out some very old Stampin' Up pattern paper and used the envelope builder dies to create the envelope.  I wish I had thought ahead and used this paper for the hello die cut too!  I'm definitely going to make more of these.  They are great for these large floral stamps and also dies.



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

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Recipe

Stamps:  Layered Bouquet (Pink Fresh Studio)

Paper:  Neenah white, Recollections white, classis gingham (Sunny Studios), Bali breeze (SU)

Ink:  Versa Claire nocturne; pink diamond, pinkalicious, bamboo, moss (Altenew); tumbled glass oxide

Accessories:  Layered Bouquet die (PFS), slimline envelope builder dies (Trinity Stamps), crystals, spectrum noir shimmer