Just Us Girls #660 - Photo Week

Hi friends!  I hope all my American friends had a very nice Thanksgiving Day.  We had a nice time with family, great food, and football (our Buffalo Bills pulled out a win)!

This is our last challenge for 2022 over at Just Us Girls.  We are taking December off and will be back in January with some exciting changes.  But this week is Photo Week and Carol has chosen this comfy looking photo. 

I saw that painting of the deer over the fireplace and knew exactly what stamp I was going to use.  This is an older stamp set from Papertrey Ink that I cannot part with.  It's a multi-step stamp set and comes together so nicely.  I chose a fun polka dot pattern paper for the back and a pretty teal for the frame.  I stamped the sentiment and die cut it three times (as I did for the deer) for dimension.  I spritzed it with shimmer spray and added red pearls.  

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our November guest, Karren Johnson, on the JUGs blog.  Thanks goes out to Karren for being such a great guest this month!

Have a wonderful holiday season and we will see you in January!

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Recipe

Stamps:  Fawn & Flora (PTI), Ornamental Christmas (SSS)

Paper:  White, North Pole (Doodle Bug)

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, sand castle, over coffee, candy apple, key lime, evergreen, gathered twigs

Accessories:  Fawn & Flora dies (PTI), Ornamental Christmas die (SSS), Nordic Frame (Greetery), shimmer spray, pearls

Just Us Girls #659 - Color Week

 Hi friends!  Carol is the hostess at Just Us Girls for our Color Week challenge.  I love that she chose these classic holiday colors.

I chose these bells as the focus of my card this week.  I die cut them from two different green colors and gold for the accent. The bow was die cut from red and burgundy card stocks.  I chose to display them on this pattern paper I received free from Honey Bee.  It was the perfect back drop for the bells.  The sentiment was embossed in gold on red card stock and stacked with two other pieces for dimension.  I popped up the bells and added shimmer on the red berries to complete the card.

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Ornamental Christmas (SSS)

Paper:  Red, green, burgundy, gold, Honey Bee designer paper, white,

Ink:  Versamark

Accessories:  Layering Holiday Bells (Honey Bee), Ornamental Christmas die (SSS), gold embossing powder, shimmer, dimensionals

Just Us Girls #658 - Trend Week

 Hi!  I'm the hostess this week over at Just Us Girls for the Trend Week challenge.  I chose for us to make a matching envelope.  I feel envelopes get ignored sometimes and thought this would be a good challenge.

I started by making my card.  I used the Peaceful Pines stencils from Taylored Expressions.  This made four cards, but I'm only sharing one here today.  I saw one on their site using these bright colors and thought it was so fun, so I went with it.  I added some texture with their Fresh Snow paste.  It's kind of hard to see in the photos.  I stamped the sentiment and added crystals and mounted it on an aqua card base.

For the envelope, I created it in the same manner as the card to mirror it.  When I send cards to family and friends out of town, I always stamp the back flap with a sentiment that says "Greetings from Buffalo" and I have a buffalo stamp that I stamp with it (I live in Buffalo, NY).  I got it at my LSS, who special orders them.

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Here We Come A-Caroling (C. Pooler)

Paper:  White, aqua, white envelope

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, salvaged patina, mowed lawn, gathered twigs, saltwater taffy, carved pumpkin, mustard seed

Accessories:  Peaceful Pines stencils (Taylored Expressions), stitched rectangle (MFT), fresh snow texture paste (TE), 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 #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 #655 - Photo Week

Hi friends!  Cecile has chosen a beautiful photo for the current Just Us Girls Photo Week challenge.  It's really so her style!  I love it!

 

I saw that feathery thing and immediately thought of this wheat image I just got last week at my LSS.  It's from Penny Black and is red rubber, so I used my much unused Tombow markers to color it.  I started with a gold color on the entire image, then used medium and dark brown markers to add shading.  It's a 5x7 card because the image is so big, and it looked too white.  I pulled out another red rubber background stamp and stamped over the image with antique linen oxide ink.  I added the die sentiment, which was stacked three times for dimension, and brown crystals.  I also rounded the right corners for some extra interest.

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Gilded Wheat (Penny Black), Script Bold Prints bg (Hero Arts)

Paper:  White, mustard, brown

Ink:  Antique linen oxide, Tombow markers

Accessories:  Big Hugs die (Memory Box), crystals, corner rounder

Just Us Girls #654 - Color Week

Hello!  I'm the hostess at Just Us Girls for this week's Color Week challenge.  I love autumn and chose some colors that remind me of my favorite season.

I started with this card.  I received a pretty paper pack from my friend Cheryl and it was in these colors.  I chose a pattern from it and the Fall Foliage stencil and die set from Pink Fresh.  The orange here looks yellow, but it really is orange.  This is a four-piece layering stencil set that has a coordinating die.  I layered the pieces onto the panel and added a twine bow and crystals.  Before I added the sentiment, I spritzed it with shimmer spray.

Then I did the next three cards, which were stenciled on one sheet of paper using the Falling for You layering stencil set from Taylored Expressions.  I used the same colors as in the first card and created three mini slim cards.  I chose card bases in the challenge colors.

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe Card #1

Stamps:  Happy Harvest (Taylored Expressions)

Paper:  Whtie, Bohemian Harmony

Ink:  Apricot, sky blue, warm buff, doe, gathered twigs

Accessories:  Fall Foliage stencil and dies (Pink Fresh), twine, crystals, stitched rectangle, shimmer spray

Recipe Cards #2-4

Stamps:  Happy Harvest (TE)

Paper:  White, brown, apricot, blue

Ink:  Apricot, sky blue, warm buff, gathered twigs

Accessories:  Falling for You stencil set (TE), crystals, shimmer spray