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.

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Time Out #319 - Pick Two

It's a Pick Two challenge at Time Out and these are the words you can pick from to make your card.  

I went with CAS, monochrome, birthday and floral for my words.  

Daffodil Delight from Altenew was embossed on watercolor cardstock and painted with Squeezed Lemonade and Wild Honey Distress Ink.  The sentiment is a BetterPress.  

Newton's Nook is the sponsor for this challenge and the winner will receive a $25 store credit and an invitation to guest design.

The Design Team has chosen their own two words to base their cards on.  You may want to check them out for inspiration.

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Krafty Chicks #831

Krafty Chicks has an Anything Goes challenge this week because of the 5th  Thursday in the month.  Even thought it's AG, they do have a wonderful mood board and one of the images inspired my card.

If you look at the board below you will see in the upper right corner a glass of a cooling summer drink.  I turned it into a Popsicle from the Sweet Summer set from C9.  Using Distress Ink, I stenciled the lemons and strawberries and then went over the die cut in the same colors with a lighter hand.  It is layered and popped up on a panel embossed with Hero Arts Circle Confetti die.  The sentiment is from the set, stamped in Mocha and cut with an MFT circle.  

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CAS MIx-Up August 2026

I hope you enjoyed CAS Mix-Up last month.  Today we're back with another fun technique for you.   Stenciling over patterned paper.

This should be fairly self explanatory but if you want some direction there are videos on the blog.

My patterned paper is from Altenew's Soft Wash paper pack.  The stencil is ARTplorations Bloom Silhouettes and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.  To keep it CAS, I made a frame from two rectangle dies.

The Design Team has some wonderful inspiration for you on the blog.  Be sure to check them out, then create your own stenciled card for our gallery. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #747

I was honored with a win last week at Freshly Made Sketches and therefore HAD to make a card for this week's challenge.

I'm sure it's not surprising that I used flowers, in this case poinsettias, for the circles on Kim's sketch.

Finding flowers small enough was the challenge but since I need more Christmas cards I pulled out the TH Vault Holiday Classic, cutting the poinsettias from white and inking with Festive Berries and Fired Brick Distress Inks, plus a little green and brown for aging.  I bought the paper pack from The Paper Studio because of its soft aged look.  It was cut with my new Diagonal Stitch Rectangles from PFS.  I used the smallest of the dies to cut the sentiment, also from PFS.  

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Just Us Girls #834 - CASE a Designer

There are five Thursdays in July so that means this week's Just Us Girls challenge is CASE a Designer hosted by Carol Mc.

All you have to do is choose one of the designer's cards and create one using their idea but adding your own twist.  Please tell us whose card inspired you in case it's not obvious.  

My card started with watercolor paper, Distress Inks and an image from Penny Black's Garden Trio.  The image was colored with Worn Lipstick, Evergreen Bough and Forest Moss, with a light wash of Evergreen Bough on the panel that is inset into Curvature Frame, also from PB.  The sentiment is from their Sprinkles and Smiles. 

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