Just Us Girls #805 - Word Week

Elizabeth is our host again for Word Week at Just Us Girls and this is what she chose:

I saw Jennifer McGuire use a cute set from Pinkfresh Studio and had to add it to my stash, partly for the sentiments that include dies.

It's called Get Well Soon and the bundle includes the stamp, die, and stencil.  You can't tell but I used Lisa Horton's gold for the handles, spout and stripes on the saucer.  The background was partially embossed with Tasteful Textiles from SU and colored with Kitsch Flamingo, leaving the bottom smooth for a Hickory Smoke 'table'.

Laurel and the Design Team have some wonderful words of encouragement for you to see.  We hope to inspire you to make a card for the challenge.  

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Time Out #304

Welcome to the first Time Out challenge of 2026.  It's a theme challenge.

We are also welcoming a new Design Team member, Jaydee from Stampin' with Jaydee.  You will love seeing her creative cards every fortnight.  

Now that Christmas is over, I've started on my valentines. 

Two sizes of MFT hearts were cut from a white panel and layered over Altenew's Treasured Ruby glitter cardstock using foam to pop it up.  The simple sentiment is from Concord and 9th.

Gina K is the sponsor for this challenge and she is rewarding our winner with a $25 store credit.  We award the winner with an invitation to be our guest designer.  That should be incentive enough to enter the challenge.  We hope to see your glitter card in the gallery.

 

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Color Hues #124

The challenge at Color Hues is red and gray and nature sparked this card.

Altenew's Berry Branch was cut in red and then dark gray.  There are leaves but I omitted that layer for the winter look.  The berries were coated in Glossy Accents and while that dried I made the chickadee from Honey Bee's Winter Birds.  The background is embossed with the SSS Pepperberry folder and bordered with PTI Pure Poppy.  A little Snowtex on the branch and a sentiment from HB finished it off. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #717 and NBUS #82

I'm glad Freshly Made Sketches stretched out challenge #717 for an extra week so I had time to make a card.  

Being a quilt maker and former seamstress, this Spellbinders set called Pins and Needles spoke to me when it went on sale.  I also added the BetterPress set with sentiments and a smaller pair of scissors.  The scissors and needle are cut from matte silver and the floss card from Desert Storm. The stitched background is a Honey Bee coverplate on Teal Topaz cardstock.  I wonder if I should have inked the coverplate with white.  Would it look like it was actually stitched? 

This is also going to Darnell's NBUS challenge.

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Just Us Girls #804 - Die Week

Happy New Year everyone!  Welcome to the first challenge of 2026 at Just Us Girls with Elizabeth as your host.  It's die week and she wants us to use a coverplate on our cards.  

We also need to welcome Laurel Seabrook as our guest designer for the month.  I'm sure you'll be delighted and inspired by her card making skills.  

As for me, this is what I made.

I used Altenew's 3D Floral Zero Waster coverplate, cutting it twice from white cardstock so I could layer some of the flowers.  The background was covered with Hickory Smoke Distress Spray and the flowers colored with a variety of inks.  The sentiment is from Honey Bee. 

The Design Team has some wonderful ways to use a coverplate and you can see them all at Just Us Girls with details on their respective blogs.  Be sure and check them out.  We hope to inspire you to enter the challenge.

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