Just Us Girls #346 - Word Week

Hi friends!  This is Word Week at Just Us Girls and "bird" is the word!

 

Have you ever bought a stamp, never used it, then find the perfect time to use it?  Today was the day for this stamp!  I purchased it last summer at a stamp show because I love silhouette images.  I watercolored the background with Peerless watercolors.  The colors are much darker than they appear here.  I couldn't capture the pretty colors.  I splattered some water on it when it was dry then blotted it.  Using the mini MISTI, I stamped the image...several times!  Thank goodness for the MISTI because it did not stamp well on this rough watercolor paper!  I think I stamped it 5 or 6 times.  I didn't want to over embellish this, so I just added some black enamel dots around the sentiment.

This card is already in the mail to a friend who is bravely battling cancer.  She had a little scare this week, but everything turned out alright.  I'm sending this to her to hopefully cheer her up and let her know we are thinking of her.

 

You can see more from our JUGs DT and our new guest for June, Cornelia Wenokor on the JUGs blog.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Birds on a Fence (Technique Junkies), On My Couch Additions (PTI)

Paper:  Master's Touch watercolor paper, black

Ink: Versafine onyx black, Peerless watercolors

Accessories:  Enamel dots, fun foam, Mini MISTI



Time Out #58 - Home Sweet Home Challenge

Hi everyone!  The new challenge over at Time Out is our Home Sweet Home challenge.  We give you a photo from a home and you use it as inspiration.

This is the photo chosen for this challenge.  Pretty cool window, huh?

 

I hope you can see what my inspiration was...that arch!  I found a sketch (you can see it below) that I wanted to use and thought it would be perfect for this challenge.  I have a first birthday to go to in a couple of weeks, so I thought I'd make a little birthday boy card.  I've had this stamp set from WPlus9 for quite a while and have never used it yet.  I die cut a circle and, using a stencil, smooshed Versamark ink though it.  I then embossed the dots with white embossing powder.  After that, I sponged two distress inks over the dots.  That circle border was also sponged with distress ink to match the bottom piece.  I used Zig markers on the elephant, balloon, and hat.  I couldn't find cardstock for a mat to match the distress ink colors, so I sponged the mat and added the main panel on top.  That was all adhered to the base with fun foam for dimension.  There's Wink of Stella on the balloon and the elephant's hat.

 

This is the sketch from The Challenge that I followed. 

 

You can see more from the Time Out DT and our guest, Karren, on the Time Out blog.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Unforgettable (WP9), It's a Celebration (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white

Ink:  Zig markers, Archival jet black, Versafine onyx black, Versamark, cracked pistachio, peacock feathers distress inks

Accessories:  Unforgettable dies (WP9), Western star border duo die (MFT), Spellbinder circle die, white embossing powder, baker's twine, Wink of Stella, dimensional tape, fun foam





Just Us Girls #345 - Photo Week

 Hi everyone!  I'm the hostess at Just Us Girls this week for our Photo Week challenge.  I chose this pretty, sunny photo of a craft room.

 

Here's a close-up of the photo so you can see more details.

 

What caught my attention was the yellow wallpaper and those pretty posies!  I started by stamping the background with yellow ink and an old Stampin' Up background stamp.  I then die cut a window in the center so I could create a shaker card.  After I created the shaker, I realized I should have added more sequins and glued some down so they didn't all fall to the bottom!  The flowers were stamped and layered onto the card with dimensionals, and the sentiment was stamped onto a banner.  I added more sequins and Wink of Stella on the flowers.  I'm giving this to my mom because she fell (again!) and broke her shoulder.  She's currently in a rehab facility because she can't use her walker and needs more care.  Hopefully she'll be back at her assisted living facility soon, and I'm also hoping this cheers her up.  She loves the color yellow, too!

 

I used this week's sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.

 

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

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Hand Stitched  (SU), Floral Sketches (PTI), Everyday Classics (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white

Ink:  Cotton candy, teeny bikini, willow, fern (Simon Says Stamp); pomegranate and daffodil delight (SU); Versafine onyx

black

Accessories:  Rectangle peek-a-boo window die (MFT), banner trio die (WP9), sequins, fun foam, Wink of Stella, dimensional tape

 



Time Out #57 - Inspired by Words Challenge

"May all your weeds be wildflowers"

What a beautiful sentiment!  That's the inspiration for our current Time Out challenge.

I received this great stamp set and matching dies from my good friend Cheryl for my birthday last month. I just had to use them for this challenge.  I stamped this swag of flowers on watercolor paper in Versafine onyx black ink and embossed it with clear powder.  Then I for the first time used my Kuretake watercolors to color it.  I matched the colors to the pattern paper, mixing some to get the colors I needed.  I die cut the swag and mounted it on dimensional tape, added the sentiments, and sequins.  I love this color palette.  

 

I used this sketch from Freshly Made Sketches as my starting point. 

 

Our challenge is sponsored by Clearly Besotted Stamps, and they are giving a £15 evoucher to the winner of this challenge! 

 

You can see more from the Time Out design team and our guest for this challenge, Julia, on the Time Out blog.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Floral Frame (Avery Elle), Natural Beauties (Paper Smooches)

Paper:  Recollections white, watercolor paper, Trend Setter dp (Fancypants)

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, Kuretake watercolors

Accessories:  Floral Frame die (Avery Elle), Banner Trio die (WP9), clear embossing powder, sequins, dimensional tape



Just Us Girls #343 - Trend Week



Hi friends!  We have a fun new challenge going on over at Just Us Girls!  It's our Trend Week, and Judy chose vellum as the trend to use this week.  It's certainly been making a comeback in blog land!

 

This is what I came up with.  I have to say that it's a case of a card Jennifer McGuire did in a recent Online Card Class called Clear and Sheer. I don't want to go into detail on how I colored the background (it's a paid class), but I embossed the image with white embossing powder, added the banner with a tiny attacher, and added sequins.  The vellum overlay has a flap on the other side that I attached to the cardstock base with strong adhesive.  I love this look and it was surprisingly easy to do!  I like the rainbow colors, but I may have to do more in ombre colors too!

 

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

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Lace Bouquet (PTI), Banner Sayings (SSS)

Paper:  Recollections white, vellum

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, Versamark, tenny bikini, orange peel, butter bar (Hero Arts), fern, scuba, blue jay (SSS)

Accessories:  Folded banner die (SSS), white embossing powder, tiny attacher, sequins, mini Misti



Time Out #56 Reminder - CASE with a Twist

Hi everyone!  We are in week two over at the Time Out blog for our CASE with a Twist challenge.  I missed the first week of the challenge because I was sick and couldn't get a card done.  I don't like to work ahead (I know lots of you do), but I've always waited to do my cards a day or two before they are due.  It's just the way I roll!  And sometimes it gets me into trouble!

 

The GORGEOUS card we are CASE-ing is this one by Kay Miller.  I'm so crushing on all the cards she creates!  And this one is just amazing!  I'm so glad she shared this one with us!

I guess you can say that I pretty much cased her card exactly (I just loved this card!).  However, I changed up a few things like the images and I used vellum for the large leaves. I added some sequins and rounded one corner.  

 

You can see more from the Time Out team and our guest on the Time Out blog.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Beautiful Brushstrokes and Embroidered Blooms (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white, gray, vellum

Ink:  Basic gray, pretty in pink, pixie pink

Accessories:  Beautiful brushstrokes dies ((PTI), pierced square frames (MFT), clustered leaves (SSS), sequins, dimensionals



Just Us Girls #342 - Word Week

Mother's Day is tomorrow, and this week word challenge at Just Us Girls gave me the perfect word to use:  Butterfly.

 

I've had this butterfly cover plate in my unused box for a while, so I pulled it out.  It's die cut from white card stock then sponged with mustard seed, spiced marmalade, and ripe persimmon distress inks.  (My mom likes yellow and this is for her!)  This was adhered to the card base, which was stamped with a text stamp in smoky shadow ink.  I added the sentiment on a banner and enamel dots.  The butterflies are covered in Wink of Stella.

 

You can see more from the design team and our May guest on the Just Us Girls blog.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Motherly Love (Flourishes), Background Basics: Text Style II (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white, black

Ink:  Versamark, mustard seed, spiced marmalade, ripe persimmon, smoky slate

Accessories:  Cover plate: butterfly, enamel dots, Wink of Stella, fun foam, white embossing powder