Just Us Girls #684 - Photo or Mood Board Week

 It's Photo or Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls.  Vicky has chosen this great photo of what I believe are cabana houses.  I love the colors!

I know I have, or had, a wood stamp with a row of houses but do you think I could find it?  No.  So I used this birdhouse die I recently got at my LSS.  I pulled the colors from the photo and I love the way it came together.  I did stack the red and blue parts to make them more dimensional.  I matted it with a kraft polka dot pattern paper to mimic the sand and die cut it with a stitched rectangle.  I added a pearl for the door handle and some extras around the house.  The sentiment is a preprinted one from SSS.  I also spritzed it with some shimmer spray.  I haven't used that product in a bit, but I love the look.

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Paper:  White, red, various pattern paper

Accessories:  Decorative Birdhouses (Pretty Pink Posh), sentiment strip (SSS), pearls, stitched rectangle (MFT), shimmer spray

Just Us Girls #683 - Word Week

 Hello!  That's my greeting and the word for the Just Us Girls Word Week challenge.  Ina is the hostess this week, and I think it's a great choice!

My friend and fellow JUGs team member Nancy always tells me I should color more.  I love stencils and dies and they have taken me away from coloring.  So I pulled out this image that my other crafty friend Cheryl gifted to me and colored!  We were shopping together one day and I said I loved this image, and next thing I knew it was mine!  I stamped it on X-Press It card with Memento ink and colored it with many copic markers.  My markers were happy to be out and used today!  I stamped the sentiment in the upper corner.  I thought this was the perfect stamp to use for the image.  I die cut the panel with a stitched rectangle and matted it with a black mat.  I pulled out a PTI gingham paper pad and chose this yellow gingham.  I die cut it with another stitched rectangle.  For some shine and shimmer, I added star dust stickles to the flower centers and bee's wings and some crystals.

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Buzzy Hive (Whipper Snapper), Hog Heaven sentiment (MFT)
Paper:  X-Press It, white, black, PTI gingham

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx black, copic markers

Accessories:  Stitched rectangles (MFT), star dust stickles, crystals, craft foam

Just Us Girls #682 - Color Week

 Hi all!  Vicki is our hostess over at Just Us Girls for this week's Color Week challenge.  She has chosen a very unique color combination of blue, purple, and gray.  I loved it!

Last fall, I took up a new craft...quilting.  I fell in love with it and have made several quilts since then.  I was very lucky to have found someone to do the quilting (the finishing part of the quilt process where the top of the quilt I made is combined with the inside batting and the backing piece using a machine called a longarm) just 15 minutes away.  She is very talented at longarming, and did some amazing work on my quilts.  Well, it seems she is moving south and taking her longarm with her!  I'm so happy for her, but sad for me and her other customers.  

Anyway, long story short, I wanted to make a card for her to express my happiness for her next chapter in her life and my thanks for all she's done for me.  I pulled out this quilt die and die cut it from white card stock for the frame and three pattern papers in the challenge colors and created this pattern.  Just like a quilt!  The best part is that I can create two more cards with the left over pieces.  I covered the front of the card base with gray pattern paper and added the hello.  To finish it, I added crystals.

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our new guest for June, TK, on the JUGs blog.

Welcome TK! We are so happy you are joining us this month!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Paper:  White, various pattern paper

Accessories: Quilt Square Coverup die (MFT), Hello die (Paper Smooches), crystals

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)

Just Us Girls #680 - Photo/Moodboard Week

 Hello!  The challenge at Just Us Girls this week is our Photo/Moodboard challenge.  Bobby has chosen a few great photos for this challenge.

I chose the colors from the photos.  I pulled navy, orange, aqua, and red to create with.  I used this hexagon stencil set from Taylored Expressions.  This stencil set creates four backgrounds on one sheet.  I chose this background to use for this card.  After stenciling the four colors, I cut it out with a stitched rectangle and stamped the sentiment and a hexagon in some of the stenciled hexagons with Versamark and embossed it with gold embossing powder.  I mounted that onto a navy card stock mat.  

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Oh Yes You Did  (Taylored Expressions)

Paper:  White, navy

Ink:  Versamark, aquamarine, blue jay, persimmon, candy apple

Accessories:  Hexagon stencils (TE), gold embossing powder, craft foam

Just Us Girls #679 - Word Week

Hello friends!  I'm the hostess over at Just Us Girls this week for our Word Week challenge.  My niece is getting married in July and I thought WEDDING would be a good choice for this challenge. 

I used to make wedding cakes, so this stamp/die/stencil set from Pink Fresh was perfect for this wedding card.  It reminded me of all the beautiful weddings my cakes were part of.  I started by stamping the images in black ink and adding color using the coordinating stencils.  I used gold Delicata ink on the cake.  I die cut the cake and flowers and then the cake stand from gold card stock.  I wanted a foiled background, so I used this Pink Fresh hot foil plate and gold foil to create it.  The sentiment was die cut from the same gold card stock as the cake stand as well as two more times from white card stock for dimension.  After adhering everything to the foiled background, I added gold crystals to it and to the cake stand.  The main panel was added to the card base using craft foam.

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Celebrate in Style (Pink Fresh)

Paper: White, gold

Ink:  Ballet slipper, sparkling rose, sweet mustard, fresh pear, olive (PF); Delicata golden glitz, Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Celebrate in Style dies and stencils (PF), celebrate die (MFT), Abstract Triangle hot foil plate (PF), gold foil, crystals, craft foam

Just Us Girls #678 - Color Week

 Hi friends!  Nancy has chosen pretty colors for the Just Us Girls Color Week challenge.  Pink and yellow!

I pulled out this layering die set from Honey Bee for this challenge.  My friend Cheryl gave me a birthday card using this flower and I loved it.  I had the die (never used it) and thought it would be pretty in these colors.  I die cut everything from white card stock and inked them with two pink inks and two yellows.  I shaded with the darker inks for dimension.  I adhered them on a panel that I stenciled by Tim Holtz with the lighter yellow ink and die cut it with a stitched rectangle.  I didn't want a black sentiment, so I die cut the sentiment from gray card stock.  Pink crystals were added for dimension.  I wasn't sure how yellow leaves were going to work, but I think it came out fine!

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our new guest for May, Claire, on the JUGs blog.  Welcome Claire!  I can't wait to see what you create this month for us!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Paper:  White, gray

Ink:  Lemon whip, lemongrass, ballet slipper, sparkling rose

Accessories:  Lovely Layers Peony dies (Honey Bee), Impression Obsession die, stitched rectangle (MFT), Gothic stencil (T. Holtz), crystals