Just Us Girls #798 - Stencil Week

Just Us Girls Stencil Week is brought to you by Ina.

This is usually one of our busiest challenges and it's so great to see you loving our stencil week.

Because Altenew's Golden Days flower is so large I made a 5 by 7 card.  It was hot foiled in matte silver and stenciled with Altenew's Sugar Plum inks.  PTI's Plum Pudding was a great match for the card base.  The foiled sentiment is from SB.  

Our guest designer Greta and the rest of the design team have some beautifully stenciled cards for you to peruse.  I hope you draw inspiration from them and make a card for the gallery.

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Time Out #300

No matter where you are in the world, the Time Out challenge wants to see your Autumn celebration.

I don't make Thanksgiving cards so my choice was to do a Halloween card since I send them to my greats and grands every year.  They are fun to make and the kids enjoy them.  

The candy images are from Spellbinders Halloween Wonder except for the mint which is from PPP. The DSP is from Doodlebug and the sentiment is computer generated.  In an earlier post I mentioned my printer dying.  After some research I found just what I was looking for.  In fact it's called "The Crafter's All-In-One" by Canon.  There was a bit of a learning curve at the beginning but I'm loving it.  

There will be a variety of celebrations highlighted by the design team.  Check them out for inspiration and make a card for the challenge.  The winner will receive a $25 store credit to Doodlebugs.wa.  

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Double D and Two Old Bats Halloween Challenges

Double D wants to see Halloween colors on our cards so I obliged.

The inside says: Put on your party hat and celebrate.

My friend and high school classmate has a birthday on Halloween so I make her a card every year.  For this one I used paper from a Doodlebug pack, cutting the hats from Sizzix.  The sentiment from Honey Bee said Happy BOO day but I stamped a birthday stamp, cut off the irth and pasted it over the OO.  The panels were cut using Waffle Flower's A2 rectangles.

I'm also sending this to D and D's Two Old Bats Halloween challenge. 

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Jingle Belles Pink Christmas

It's been a long time since I played in the Jingle Belles challenge  but after seeing my friend Bonnie's post and hearing what a good cause this particular pink challenge is for I wanted to play along.  Stephanie and Lauren will each donate $2 for every card in the gallery to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.  

When I bought these skates from the Spellbinders Warehouse sale I knew I wanted to make them in this shiny pink paper.  I'm not sure where it came from and unfortunately the shine doesn't show in the photo.  I also used it for the border. The poinsettia and greens are part of the set, the background is Loops from SB and the silver embossed sentiment from PFS.  

As I was typing this post I got a call from the prayer chain at my Michigan church.  One of my friends has a recurrence of breast cancer after 18 years.  That makes it even more imperative that we keep contributing to research.  

 Thanks for your generosity girls and for this fun BCA challenge.

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Inkspirational #352 and Cardz 4 Guyz #378

I got a top pick with my card for the last Inkspirational challenge and as I try to always do, I'm back with a card for the current challenge - Seasonal.

I saw a technique with a leaf embossing folder so I ordered one from Spellbinders and now I can't remember the technique.  I still love the folder so I tried my own technique which unfortunately is barely visible in the photo.  I inked the raised side with Lisa Horton Copper ink, ran the folder through with  C9 Nutmeg to embed the ink into the leaves.  Two leaves from Honey Bee's Fall Foliage were cut from copper foil and a sentiment from HB's Sweater Weather was embossed with copper to finish it off. 

Cardz 4 Guyz is looking for Autumn/Fall cards so my card will go there too.

ETA:  Lisa mentioned my card would be good for The Paper Players challenge and since it seems their definition of CAS is more lenient than mine I'll send my card there. 

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