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.

Thanks for stopping by!

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

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!  This is another difficult day for me as I am unable to visit my mom at her nursing home for the second year because of Covid.  I've been able to visit for the last month or so, but they are quarantining at her nursing home for the next few weeks because workers there have tested positive.  I'm very sad that people who choose to work in that field are not getting vaccinated.  It puts so many at risk, but that is their choice.  I only wish they would think long and hard about that.

Anyway, I did make a card for her and my mother-in-law.  I've been sitting on this Waffle Flower set for a while and I'm so glad I pulled it out for this occasion.  It's so pretty!  It's a stamp, stencil, and die set called Spring Blooms.  I started with the stenciling using several distress oxide inks.  Then I stamped the black parts (it's all one stamp which makes it so easy to do!) and finally die cut the image.  I die cut it two more times to stack for dimension.  I decided to use another stencil for the background.  I love this stencil as it gives just enough color and design without being too busy. I mounted it on a pink piece of cardstock and then attached it to the base.  I added the sentiment, sprayed it shimmer spray, and added crystals.  

I hope you enjoy your day!  Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Spring Blooms (Waffle Flower), Motherly Love (Flourishes)

Paper:  Recollections white, pink

Ink:  Versafine onyx black; spun sugar, worn lipstick, mustard seed, crushed olive, tumbled glass, wilted violet distress oxide

Accessories:  Spring Blooms stencil and die (WF), Harleen stencil (Winnie & Walter), shimmer spray, crystals

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful moms out there!  I hope you are having a great day and are a little bit spoiled today!

This is the card I made for my mother-in-law.  It's a larger 5x7 size because that potted lily image is quite large.  I stamped the image and colored it with copic markers.  I love the way this die cuts out all those open spaces between the blooms.  I also die cut it twice from white cardstock to stack it because it's a bit flimsy.  I then cut a 4x6 piece of watercolor paper and added faded jeans distress ink to create a sort of frame on which to adhere the image and stamp the sentiment.  This was mounted on a navy mat.  I added sequins and star dust stickles in the center of the sequins.  There is also shimmer on the image. 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Potted Lily (Waffle Flower), Motherly Love (Flourishes)

Paper:  Recollections white, X-Press It, Strathmore watercolor, navy

Ink:  Amalgam black, Versafine onyx black, faded jeans, copic markers

Accessories:  Potted Lily die (WF), sequins, shimmer, star dust stickles, craft foam 



Just Us Girls #386 - Photo Week

Hey there!  Vicki chose a pretty green teapot for the Just Us Girls Photo Week challenge.

 

I pulled out this sweet die and die cut it from white cardstock then colored the leaves and stems with a green copic marker.  I colored some scrap white paper and die cut the butterfly from it as well.  I made the card a shaker because of the opening.  I added some sequins on the front and stamped the sentiment.  There's some Spectrum Noir shimmer on the butterfly and leaves. 

 

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our March guest, Nance Salkeld, on the JUGs blog. This is her last week with us and we've enjoyed having her play along with us.

 

I'm also adding this to the Less is More blog.  The challenge is to use a frame.  I think this fits!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Cutaway Tags: Spring (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, copic marker

Accessories:  Circle of Leaves (SSS), Stitched Butterflies (Lil' Inkers), acetate, sequins, dimensional tape, Spectrum Noir shimmer

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





Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all of you hard-working moms out there!  I have a mom and a mother-in-law that I painstakingly made cards for last night.  They took a long time to make, but I was having fun and it was for a good occasion!

I'm taking the Online Card Classes Watercolor for Card Makers class, and I watched a video by my favorite stamper, Jennifer McGuire.  So I of course had to try her technique!

 In her video, she embossed her image with white embossing powder.  On my first card I, of course, forgot to do that and stamped it in black Archival ink.  I was not happy with the result  until I finished the entire thing.  I almost tossed it, but with watercoloring you can play around with the colors even after it's dried.  That's what I did here.  I didn't give up.  I colored the image with Distress markers in fired brick and spun sugar for the flowers and mowed lawn and forest moss (?) for the leaves.  I didn't like the way the leaves came out at first (too muddy-looking), but they look fine after a while.  I added some blue in the background with tumbled glass.  This actually wasn't my favorite of the two, but looking at it now, I like it so much more!

Here is my second attempt, the way Jennifer did it.  I like it much better in person.  It really is so much prettier than how the camera captured it.  I embossed this one in white embossing powder.  It was actually easier to color embossed.  Here I used spun sugar and picked raspberry for the flowers and just mowed lawn for the leaves.  I like the leaves better in this one.  Again, the background was colored with tumbled glass, but I think I used too much color.   I finished both off with some banners, the sentiment, pearls, and some Wink of Stella shimmer which you cannot see in the picture.

I hope you have a great day with your families.  We are off to our cabin for the day.  It's supposed to be in the 70s and sunny today, something we so desperately need!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Year of Flowers: Sweet Pea (PTI), Motherly Love (Flourishes)

Paper:  Neenah white, Tim Holtz watercolor paper, certainly celery, pink pirouette, retired SU dp

Ink:  Versamark, Archival black, Versafine onyx black, Distress markers:  picked raspberry, spun sugar, fired brick, mowed lawn, forest moss, tumbled glass

Accessories:  Spellbinder's die, pearls, white embossing powder, dimensionals

Some Mother's Day Cards

Hi all!  I forgot to post these Mother's Day cards I feverishly made last Friday for my mom and MIL. This one was for my MIL.  I made easel cards because she likes them.  She always complains that my cards are too heavy and fall down all the time!  So these are the perfect fix for that!  The stamps used on both cards are from the Motherly Love set from Flourishes.

This one was for my mom.  She loves yellow and I like it paired with the blue.  I used two different paper packs for these and don't remember which ones are which.  I think the first one is from Pebbles Family Ties line.  The second is Authentique's Lively.  

I used Verve's sketch for both cards.

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