Showing posts with label Just Us Girls CAS Week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Just Us Girls CAS Week. Show all posts

Saturday, November 25, 2023

Just Us Girls #707 - CAS Week and a Fond Farewell

Hi friends!  It's our last challenge for 2023!  What a year of challenges it has been!  This week is our CAS week and Bobby has chosen In a Circle.  Lots of interpretation ahead!

I chose to use this new die set from Spellbinders.  A very simple but elegant ornament.  I also stenciled the background with a holly and berry stencil then cut it down to make it more CAS.  The ornament was simply die cut from red card stock and white glitter paper.  I used gold shiny paper for the hanger and green and red for the holly and berries.  I stamped the sentiment and die cut it with the corresponding die then added gold pearls for a more elegant touch.  I love this and may use it as my main card this year!

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our November guest, Melissa Craig, on the JUGs blog.  This is Melissa's last week with us and I'd like to thank her for the wonderful cards she's made this month!

On another note, it's been 14 years that I've been on this team.  We started it in October 2009 and I've been on it ever since.  I've really loved being a part of this team.  I've seen some amazing talent come across this challenge over the years and made some even more amazing friends.  I've even managed to meet a couple in person...Nancy Leppek while I was in Florida and just recently Sue Vandevusse who traveled from Michigan through my hometown where we met for lunch (I hope you stop again when you are on your way through!).  All this to say that I am stepping down from this team.  This will be my final challenge.  I'll probably regret it next year, but I just felt it was time.  Thanks to all my teammates and best of luck with the new challenge!

Thanks for stopping by! 

Recipe
Stamps:  Elegant Christmas Sentiments (Waffle Flower)
Paper:  White, red, green, gold shine, sugar crystal
Ink:  Versafiine onyx black, candy apple, evergreen
Accessories:  Festive Ornament dies (Spellbinders), Elegant Christmas Sentiments die (WF), Holly & Berries stencil (Honey Bee), stitched rectangle die (MFT), gold pearls

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Just Us Girls #703 - CAS Week

 Hello friends!  The new challenge over at Just Us Girls is the CAS Week challenge.  Nancy is our hostess and she wants us to just use the center of the card.  I like this challenge!

I need to send out some Halloween cards to the kiddos in the family.  I chose to make this cute black cat for my great-niece who has a black cat.  I started with the stencils.  Since we had to use just the center of the card, I used an oval masking stencil over the spider web and then the spiders.  The cat was die cut from black cardstock and I added an orange band to the hat and pink for the eyes and nose.  I added star dust stickles to that orange band and crystal effects to its nose.  I used wobblers to add the cat to the main panel.  I stamped two sentiments in orange ink and added another sentiment on orange card stock stamped with black ink.  I found these silver stars and added them for some sparkle.

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe
Stamps:  Sentiment Strips: Halloween (Pretty Pink Posh)
Paper:  White, black, orange
Ink:  Versafine onyx black, clementine, rocky slope, licorice
Accessories:  Layered Spider Web stencils (PPP), Masking Ovals stencil (PPP), Spooky Cat die (SSS), stitched rectangle (MFT), crystal effects, star dust stickles, silver stars, wobbler


Saturday, August 26, 2023

Just Us Girls #694 - CAS Week

Hello friends!  The CAS Challenge over at Just Us Girls is brought to us by Sue this week.  She has chosen a BABY theme to go along with it.

I pulled out an oldie but a goody stamp set from Papertrey Ink for this challenge.  I started by masking off a section of the main panel and inked it with Kitsch Flamingo ink.  I used another oldie but goody embossing folder.  I haven't used this Swiss Dots folder in a long time.  Then I matched some pattern paper to it and stamped the elephant on it and fussy cut it (no dies with the older sets...ugh).  I also die cut the word die from the same pattern paper.  The secondary sentiment was stamped and die cut on white card stock and all three were adhered to the inked panel.  I matted the main panel on another piece of pattern paper and added crystals and shimmer spritz for that bit of sparkle.

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe
Stamps:  Bitty Baby Blessings (PTI)
Paper:  White, Plaid Patterns (MFT)
Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx black, kitsch flamingo
Accessories:  Wonder Words: Baby die (PTI), Swiss Dots embossing folder, stitched rectangle die (MFT), crystals, shimmer spritz


Saturday, July 22, 2023

Just Us Girls #689 - CAS Week

Hello friends!  Ina is our hostess this week over at Just Us Girls for our CAS Week challenge.  She has chosen for us to make a CAS card with three of something on it. 

I've been going through my box of crafty goodness from the Scrapbook.com card event from March that I still haven't gotten to!  It's so sad, but the stuff in there is so amazing!  I found this stamp, die, and paper pack from Scrapbook.com and it looked so cute I had to use it.  I die cut the strawberries using the die and the strawberry paper from the paper pack.  The tops were also die cut using a die and green paper from the same pack.  They were die cut two more times from white card stock and stacked for dimension.  I die cut the sentiment from black card stock three times and stacked it too.  I die cut the white panel and ran it through an impression plate for some texture (I hate a plain white panel!).  Then I die cut a piece of gingham pattern paper from the same paper pack using a stitched rectangle.  I stamped the secondary sentiment with black ink.  As I was posting this to the JUGs blog, I saw my friend Nancy also used strawberries on her card!  I did not see it before I did mine!  Great minds I guess! LOL!

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe
Stamps:  Berry Sweet (Scrapbook.com)
Paper:  White, black, Berry Sweet pattern paper (Scrapbook.com)
Ink:  Versafine onyx black
Accessories:  Berry Sweet dies (Scrapbook.com), stitched rectangles (MFT), impression plate (PTI)


Saturday, June 24, 2023

Just Us Girls #685 - CAS Week

The new challenge over at Just Us Girls is the CAS week challenge.  Elizabeth has chosen a theme of Thinking of You for this challenge.
 

I love this sentiment die and it was perfect for this challenge.  I started by finding a secondary sentiment and chose this pre-printed one from SSS.  Since it was black, I decided to die cut the sentiment from black card stock and twice more for dimension.  I matted it with a pattern paper die cut from a tag die and added the enforcement in black and a twine bow.  The background of the card base was impressed with a cover plate in a quilted pattern.  CAS for me!

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe
Paper:  White, black, Blissful paper (Authentique)
Accessories:  Sentiment die (Altenew), Quilted Stitched die (Lil' Inkers), Infinity nesting tag die (Hero Arts), twine


Saturday, May 27, 2023

Just Us Girls #681 - CAS Week

 Hello friends!  Lisa E. is our hostess this week over at Just Us Girls for the CAS week challenge.  She has chosen SILHOUETTE as our CAS focus.

I love silhouette images!  I remember when I was on a design team for a now defunct stamp company and one of the girls took a line image stamp and colored it in with a black copic marker to make it into a silhouette image.  It was the coolest thing I had ever seen, and I have been smitten with silhouette images since!  

On to my card.  I needed a get well card for a guy friend who is going through some cancer issues, but it looks like he's going to be ok.  I used this image from Gina K and just created a black and white card.  I stamped the image on a panel that was die cut with a stitched rectangle.  Then I impressed that panel with a linen impression plate.  You probably can't see the cool texture it creates in this picture.  I'm not one to leave a panel smooth white...I always feel it's missing something.  So I use this impression plate a lot.  It's no longer available, so I'm glad I've hung onto it.  Next, I used a thin frame die to die cut a frame and die cut it again from black card stock. I inlaid the black frame into the panel.  I also love this look.  It really frames the image well.  I used pre-printed get well sentiment strips (I wish they were black with white text) and mounted them on foam strips.  

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe
Stamps:  Friendly Silhouettes (Gina K)
Paper:  White, black
Ink:  Versafine onyx black
Accessories:  Stitched rectangle (MFT), Thin frame (SSS), Get Well sentiment strips (SSS), linen impression plate (PTI)


Saturday, April 22, 2023

Just Us Girls #676 - CAS Week

Hi friends!  It's CAS Week over at Just Us Girls, and Carol has chosen for us to use food and/or beverages on our cards.  These CAS cards are a challenge for me for sure! 

I chose to use this cute punny set from SSS.  I stamped, colored, and die cut the image.  Before adding it to the card, I gave it some pink color to place it on to stand out more.  To give it more interest, I scored some lines in the bottom corner.  The sentiment was stamped, crystals were added and I also added some glossy accents to the donut.  Easy peasy card, but I always feel like it's missing something!

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe
Stamps:  Funny Food (SSS)
Paper:  white
Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, pink, copics
Accessories:  Funny Food die (SSS), crystals, glossy accents


Saturday, March 25, 2023

Just Us Girls #672 - CAS Challenge

 Hello friends!  This week's challenge over at Just Us Girls is our CAS challenge.  Sue is hosting this challenge and has chosen 1/3 or less, meaning only 1/3 or less of your card should be used.

I chose this silhouette set from Gina K.  I stamped the image in Versafine onyx black on the bottom of the card.  I wanted some color and thought about (and searched for) the Kaleidoscope ink pad.  Remember those?  I love them!  I stamped the sentiment using this pad and then die cut it with the coordinating die.  I stamped the secondary sentiment above it in black.  I love how simple this card is and how the ink really punched it up.

So this card was the first one I made.  I only thought about the 1/3 or less part of the challenge, not so much the CAS part!  The girls told me to post it, but I don't think it fits the CAS challenge.  So I'm just going to post it anyway as a secondary card.  I just adore these little mice.  I just started cross stitching again last summer.  I did this craft 40 years ago and probably had to put it aside because of work, etc.  I find it so refreshing once again and have several finished pieces and several pieces in the works!  So I had to have this stamp/die set.  

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe Card 1
Stamps:  Friendly Silhouettes (Gina K)
Paper:  White, black
Ink:  Versafine onyx black, Kaleidoscope bouquet
Accessories:  Friend die (Gina K), stitched rectangle (MFT)

Recipe Card 2
Stamps:  Sew Very Mice (Lawn Fawn)
Paper:  White, Desert Storm, woodgrain dp
Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx black, copics
Accessories:  Sew Very Mice dies (LF)


Saturday, February 25, 2023

Just Us Girls #668 - CAS Week

 Hello!  Nancy has a great challenge this week over at Just Us Girls for our CAS week.
Coloring!

I haven't been coloring too much lately, and it felt good to get out the copics and get them going again.  The next holiday is St. Patrick's Day and I pulled out this cute lucky gnome to color up.  After coloring up the image, I die cut it and then again twice more to stack for dimension.  I added stenciled shamrocks on the side and a stamped sentiment.  I had to add some shine, so I used some yellow stickles on the buckle on is hat as well as on the shamrock in his hand.  I'm liking these CAS cards!


You can see more from our JUGs design team and our February guest, Karen, on the JUGs blog.  This is Karen's last week with us (can't believe we are going into March already!), and I'd like to thank her for joining us with her beautiful cards this month.

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe
Stamps:  Gnome Lucky (SSS)
Paper:  X-Press It, white
Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx black, copics
Accessories:  Gnome Lucky die (SSS), stitched rectangle (MFT), clovers stencil (SSS), yellow stickles


Saturday, January 28, 2023

Just Us Girls #664 - CAS Week

 Hello!  This is one of the new challenges over at Just Us Girls.  It's CAS Week with a theme.  Carol has chosen birthday for the theme and the CAS description is in the picture below.

I have a hard time with CAS!  You'd think it would be simple, however, I just want to add things!  I stamped, colored with copics and die cut this cute gnome.  I love gnomes! I simply wanted to add him to the card base, but it was just too plain so I added some pink ink behind him.  It's really hard to see, but in real life you can see it well.  I added the sentiment and added the XOs with some crystals inside the Os.  I also added shimmer to the heart.  To add more interest, I rounded the bottom corners.  

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our January guest, Jules, on the JUGs blog.  This is Jules' last week with us and I'd like to thank her for joining us this month and creating such beautiful cards!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe
Stamps:  Joyful Heart (Trinity Stamps), Wishes Enclosed (Mama Elephant)
Paper:  White
Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx black, sparkling rose, copics
Accessories:  Joyful Heart die (Trinity Stamps), Wishes Enclosed die (Mama Elephant), crystals, shimmer, corner rounder


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