Just Us Girls #843 - Die Week

Welcome to October!  Carol has the perfect Die Week challenge for us this week at Just Us Girls.

You need to use a Halloween die on your card, not just make a Halloween card with a die cut on it. 

 

The dies from Tim Holtz Frightful Things were cut from white and colored with Altenew artist markers, except for the web which is cut from shimmer paper.  The background was splattered with SB Lime Zest and black.  Striped paper at the bottom and a PTI sentiment finish it off.  

The Design Team will have some scary/funny/crazy Halloween cards to inspire you so please take a look and then join us for the challenge.

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Just Us Girls #839 - Die Week

It's Die Week at Just Us Girls and our host Sue would like you to use a "Thanks" die.

My card features SSS Cosmos Duo, colored with Coral Bliss, Heartbeat and Firefly Altenew inks.    The background is the Petal Grid Coverplate from PFS backed with Silver Pearl cardstock from Spellbinders which was also used on the sentiment die from Catherine Pooler.  

I'd like to welcome our guest for this month, Julia Aston.  She and the rest of the design team have some lovely cards to inspire you.  I hope you'll take a peek and then make a card for our challenge.

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Just Us Girls #835 - Die Week

It's Die Week again at Just Us Girls with Vicki as our host.

I want to welcome our guest designer for this month, Betty Keefe at Created by BJK.  She and the rest of the Design Team have created wonderful cards to inspire you.  

My inspiration came from a friend's Cosmos Garden.

Mine are a little darker and I exchanged the stone wall for brick using Honey Bee's Rustic Brick Wall.  The Garden Cosmos are from Altenew, cut from their Vineyard Berry, Warm Sunshine and Mountain Pine cardstock.  The sentiment is from Spellbinders Just Add Cake.

I hope I see your card in our gallery.

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Just Us Girls #830 - Die Week

Ina is the host for Die Week at Just Us Girls and she has a specific die she wants you to use - one of those long forgotten ones. 

I know we all have favorite dies that we haven't used in a while but when I was looking for something I forgot it was die week and made the card below.  It does use dies and since I'm not in my studio there is no way I can make a different card so I'm going with the flow.  

These Crazy Birds are from Tim Holtz, colored with Zigs, die cut and Glossy Accents added to their eyes.  For the background I cut a panel with The Greetery's Crimped Frames and smooshed it with Mowed Lawn and Faded Jeans Distress Ink.  The sentiment is from MFT.  Now you can see why I wanted to use this forgotten stamp set. Aren't they fun?!

Now for technically correct cards using a forgotten die, please check out what the Design Team has done. We welcome Bonnie Klass from Stamping with Klass as our guest for the month of July so be sure to stop by, say hi and marvel over her wonderful card creations. 

 

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Just Us Girls #826 - Die Week

Carol is the host for Die Week at Just Us Girls and she would like to see a butterfly die used on our cards.

I'd like to welcome Kellianne from In My Stamp Room as our guest designer this month.  She has some softly colored and beautifully designed  cards on her blog that you'll want to take a peek at.  

As for me, my card is fairly clean and simple.

I've had this Memory Box butterfly for quite a while.  One cuts the detail that's done in Graphic foil from C9 and the other the background that is colored with Mica Sprays in Snowflurries and Winterfrost. The same colors are on the border cut with HA Rounded Rectangles. C9's Swirls Die adds a little flight movement to the main panel.  The sentiment is from The Ton. 

Now it's your turn.  For inspiration, please check out what the Design Team and our guest Kellianne have made.  They're sure to give you ideas.

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Just Us GIrls #822 - Die Week

Elizabeth is the host for Die Week at Just Us Girls and she would like to see sentiment dies on our cards.

We are adding a new member to our team - Denise Morgans from The Crafty Den.  Please welcome her as well as our guest designer this month, Kerry Parkinson.  Both of them will blow you away with their card making talent.

As for me, I pulled out an older stamp set to go with my die cut sentiment.

This is pretty much an Altenew card.  Their Beautiful Day stamp set was colored with Vanilla Cream, Coral Bliss, Heartbeat, Just Green and Hunter Green.  The background is the Garden Rose embossing folder and the sentiment is from Versatile Greeting #2.  

The Design Team has plenty of inspiration for you with a wide variety of ways to use a die cut sentiment.  I hope you'll check out their posts and then make a card for the gallery.  I'd love to see you there.

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Just Us Girls #813 - Die Week

Sue is the host for Die Week at Just Us Girls and this time she has a specific topic.

She wants you to include either something green, something referring to luck or maybe a combination of both while using your dies.  

I want to welcome Milla as our guest designer for the month of March.  Be sure to stop by her blog at Mustesormi to see her wonderful coloring.

I smooshed a panel with Rustic Wilderness, Mowed Lawn and Bundled Sage Distress Oxides and cut it with Penny Black's Classy Frames.  Their Ascending die was colored with Distress Spray in Rustic Wilderness and they were both splattered in gold paint from Altenew.  The frame was cut three more times, once in gold and layered around the panel.  The gold embossed sentiment is from Honey Bee's Gently Squeezed.

There are a lot of greens and die cuts over on the Just Us Girls blog post to inspire you.  We hope to see you in our gallery. 

I'm also sending this to Color Hues for their green and gold challenge.

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Just Us Girls #809 - Die Week

Sue is the host for Die Week at Just Us Girls and she wants us to use a heart die on our cards. 

I just had to pull out my Heart Hugs set from Honey Bee for this.

Isn't he just the cutest, holding that tiny heart?  He's resting on a folk heart from Ellen Hutson that was stamped with a sentiment from The Greetery.  The background is Concord and 9th Poppy embossed with Spellbinder's Cross My Heart folder. 

I'm also sending my card to The Paper Players  where Claire has a 'Love is in the Air' challenge. 

There are so many ways to use hearts on your card.  Let's go see what the Design Team has done to inspire you to make a card for the 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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Just Us Girls #778 - Die Week

Ina is the host for Die Week at Just Us Girls and she wants layers.

We welcome Joanne James as our guest designer for the month of June.  Be sure and check out Joanne's blog The Crafty Owl .

My card features the PFS Geo Tiles cut in gold and added over a Brusho panel from my Bits box.   The border is C9 Juniper cardstock and the HA sentiment is stamped in navy on a scrap of the panel.

The Design Team and Joanne are ready to inspire you to make a layered die cut card for this challenge.  I hope to see you in the gallery.  

 

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