Just Us Girls #846 - Stencil Week

I'm hosting Stencil Week over at Just Us Girls and it's Anything Goes.

My image is from Altenew's Lush Garden Craft Your Life Kit.  It comes with stamps, dies, embossing folder and stencils.  After embossing the panel, I stenciled it with Altenew inks, using alcohol markers for the center of the smaller flowers.  The sentiment is from BetterPress.

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Just Us Girls #842 - Stencil Week

Your favorite Stencil Week is back at Just Us Girls and it's Anything Goes hosted by Sue.

I would like to thank Julia Aston for all the wonderful cards she created to inspire our followers this month. 

I gold heat embossed the Lovely Camellias set from Altenew and stenciled with their Spring Bouquet inks.  The trimmed navy panel was embossed with Altenew's Dotty Circles and a gold embossed sentiment from their One-Go Birthday was added. 

Now it's your turn.  Which stencil will you choose to use to make a card for our challenge?  We'd love to see yours in our gallery.

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Color Hues #141

It's so much easier to use most of my stamps when Color Hues has green in the mix.  This challenge has Sheri's choice of purple and artichoke. 

I've been watching Jennifer McGuire videos and loving the ideas she has for making cards with a twist. I made a Zfold card with a flower overhang.  The stenciled flowers are Amazing Things from Pinkfresh Studio, colored with Altenew inks.  The embossing is the Sparkling Facets folder from SSS and the sentiment is a BetterPress. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #752 and NBUS #90

The sketch at Freshly Made Sketches gave me a reason to get out my newly acquired Magical Fuchsia set from Alex Syberia.  

The set includes a press plate and stencil that I used with Altenew inks.  After cutting with the die, I placed it on a panel embossed with SSS Woven Rings folder and added a BetterPress sentiment.  I'm not entirely happy with how this turned out.  I have some ideas to make it better next time.  

Everything but the sentiment is new so the card will go to Darnell's NBUS.

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Color Hues #130

Today's card is for the Color Hues challenge of Fuchsia and Navy.  I didn't want to do my usual florals so it took a while to come up with something.

The Spellbinders Gorgeous You Perfume Bottle was part of a class I took a while ago but I can't remember what class or when it was.  I evidently didn't make a card with the die set because I searched my blog and couldn't find anything. The bottle was cut in C9 Dragon fruit and embossed with Altenew's Crystal Wall. Gina K's In the Navy was used for the sentiment frame and background that was embossed with SB Cross My Heart.  It was necessary to use double sided tape to keep the bottle stuck to the background with all that embossing.  A sentiment from the set was heat embossed in gold to go with the ribbon.  

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Color Hues #127

Peach and Teal.  Those are the colors for the Color Hues challenge and I tried a number of things but couldn't get them to work until I decided to go with my usual florals.

Even this card took a few turns until I was happy with it.  It features Altenew's Japanese Anemone stamp and stencil.  The stenciling went fine using my oft neglected CP ink in Apricot and Bellini for the flowers and Altenew Dew Drops and Aqualicious for the leaves. I planned a one layer card but the sentiment didn't stamp well so I used the dies to cut them out.  I love the way they cut in between the blossoms.  Now what about some texture or dimension or just plain interest?  I tried MFT's Itsy Bitsy Polka Dot background stamp in Dew Drop and loved it.  A number of sentiments were auditioned and the BetterPress one fit best.   

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Just Us GIrls #811 - Mood Board Week

Lisa is the host for mood board week at Just Us Girls and she has a wonderful photo to inspire your card for this week's challenge.

Doesn't that look luscious?  What sparks your imagination?  I did a mix-up.

I took the cup and put the flowers in it. 😁  The Greetery geraniums were cut from SB blush and inked in the center with Kitsch Flamingo DI. They were arranged along with leaves cut from a green scrap in a mug from Memory Box cut from Pink Sand, also from SB. The embossed background is the Blossom Field folder from SSS and the sentiment is a BetterPress.  

There is inspiration abound from the Design Team and our guest designer Denise Morgans from The Crafty Den.  I hope you check them out and make a card based on the photo.

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Time Out #305 - Favorite Technique

Time Out is giving you a chance to show us your favorite technique.

Whatever it is that you like to do to make your card special is what we want to see.  One of my favorite techniques is Ink Smooshing.  Like this.

Some people put ink on their mat, add water and slap the cardstock into it.  Some take a piece of acetate and dip it into watered down ink and placed on cardstock repeatedly until they get the look they want.  For me, it's easier to use a pouncer I made by wrapping acetate packaging around a ball of paper towel and securing it with a rubber band.

The panel was then used to make this card.

The smooshing adds dimension and color to the background of The Greetery Hollyhocks, making it look like more flowers in the distance.  The flowers and leaves were colored with Dried Marigold, Pealed Paint and Shabby Shutters Distress Ink, the same ink used to smoosh. 

Top Flight is the sponsor for this challenge and they will award our winner a $25 store credit.  To win you have to enter so let's get making those cards with your favorite technique. 

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The Flower Challenge #102

It's May and time for another fun challenge at The Flower Challenge.  We want you to add spots or stripes to your card along with flowers.

My love of daisies inspired this card made with Altenew's Fresh Flowers.  Some Lost Shadow DI was added to the white petals, while the other flowers were cut from yellow and Fossilized Amber used for shading.  All the flowers are arranged on striped paper from my stash and a BetterPress sentiment was added.

We'd love to see your spotted or striped cards in our gallery.  For inspiration, please check out what the Design Team has made.  

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The Flower Challenge #101

I hope you enjoyed our 100th birthday celebration last month.  Now it's on to The Flower Challenge #101.

It should be a colorful gallery with lots of Spring flowers popping up.

The PTI iris were cut from Bristol and colored with Zigs.  Would you believe I found this patterned paper that matched the iris colors?  I think it came from some freebies from Honey Bee Stamps.  For texture, I ran it through with the Tasteful Textiles folder from SU and used their Subtle folder on the Notched Frames from SB to layer my flowers on.  A simple sentiment from Spellbinders finished it off. 

The Design Team has plenty of inspiration for you over on the blog.  We hope you'll join us for this challenge. 

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Time Out Challenge #258 - Photo Inspiration

Happy Leap Year Day !  Time Out has a fun photo to celebrate the day and inspire your card for this challenge.  We are being sponsored by Lawn Fawn and the winner of the challenge will receive a $25 store credit. 

 

Now it's time to think outside the box.  I do have a large frog stamp but I didn't want to use it.  The more I looked at the colors instead of the image the clearer my direction became.  

The frog's round red feet reminded me of this Berried Cotoneaster embossing folder from Altenew.  I used the matching stencil to color the image in a variety of Altenew inks, then added the sentiment from PB.  

What do you see when you look at the photo?   Whether it's the image or the colors, we hope you'll make a card for our gallery.  The Design Team has plenty of inspiration for you on the blog. 

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Tic Tac Toe #212

When I saw that a couple of my friends posted cards at Tic Tac Toe I decided to take a look at their current challenge and was inspired to make a card.  Yellow, Die Cuts, Floral

I pulled out my Craft a Flower: Cosmos dies from Altenew.  The pieces were die cut from Bristol and colored with Zigs.  The background is the Stitched Diamond Panel from Waffle Flower and the sentiment is from Altenew's One-Go Birthday. 

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The Flower Challenge #78 - Reminder

There is still time for you to make a card for The Flower Challenge using flowers and stencils, dies cuts or both.

My card uses the Flowery Bouquet Hot Foil Plate from Altenew.  It comes with stencils and I used Altenew Inks after foiling the image in silver. The foiled sentiment is from Spellbinders.  

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The Flower Challenge #74 - Reminder

There is still time for you to make a card for The Flower Challenge.

Just remember to keep the focus on the flowers and add embellishments.

Except for the embellishments and cardstock this is an Altenew card.  I used the Climber flowers with scraps and put them on a background embossed with the Checkered Squares folder.  The sentiment is from the One-Go Birthday set, embossed in silver and the embellishments are from Trinity Stamps.

Will we see your card in the gallery?  Check out what the Design Team and our guest Hannelie have made to inspire you.

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Just Us Girls #641 - Color Week

Cecile is hosting Just Us Girls for Color Week and this is what she chose.

The gold gave me a chance to use my Spellbinders Sweet Blooms Border hot foil plate.

Yes I jumped on that Hot Foil bandwagon and got a Glimmer machine.  I wasn't going to but there are so many enablers out there and I couldn't resist, especially after getting a chance to use Bonnie's when I visited.  I must tell a sad story though it has a happy ending.  Not long after playing with my machine it quit working.  Somehow I had the foresight to save my receipt and Spellbinders sent me a new one.  I had to wait a while and have it sent to my lake address but it's here and I'm getting good use out of it.  This card was made with the first machine. 

I colored the flowers with Altenw artist markers, added a foiled  sentiment from Spellbinders and matted the panel with gold. 

How do you see using these colors?  Give a look see at what the Design Team and our guest Fran Wing have done for some inspiration.  

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Just Us Girls #631 - Word Week

This week's challenge at Just Us Girls is perfect for me.  For Word Week Vicki has chosen 

I must admit that I didn't notice the plural until after my card was done but I love it so I'm going with it.

The coneflower is a HoneyBee die, cut from pink cardstock and inked with Salt Water Taffy.  I cut a stem for it and used the same color for the leaves, inking them with Peeled Paint.  For the background, I stamped the sentiment from Penny Black and then embossed the Catherine Pooler coverplate rather than cutting it.  It gives a more subtle look. 

I know you all have flowers that you can make a card with so I'm hoping you'll join me, my teammates and our guest designer this week at Just Us Girls.

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