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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Just Us Girls #767 - Mood Board Week

Lisa is the host for Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls.

It looks like Spring is just around the corner judging by the photo.  I was inspired by the heart in the bottom right corner. 

And I even had a Spring sentiment to add to my heart wreath from The Greetery.  I tried my Brushos for the first time in quite a while and decided I am not very good with them.  I actually ended up using a smooshing technique to spread the colors and I like it much better.  I cut the center of the heart from white and inserted it so I could emboss the background with SU's Tasteful Textile.  The sentiment is from Honey Bee. 

Which of these pictures will you choose to base your card on?  Let's go see which ones the Design Team and our guest designer Jeanne Jachna picked to inspire you.

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Just Us GIrls #742 - CASE the Designer Week

Pick a card.  Any card.  That's what you need to do this week as Just Us Girls has their CASE the Designer challenge hosted by Vicki.

 For my card I pulled out an oldie but a goodie from Papertrey Ink.

The Brusho background was in my Bits Box.  I heat embossed the Meadow Greens flowers in white, cut down the panel on the sides and added a heat embossed sentiment from My Pink Stamper (oob).  

This challenge gives you a lot of options for making a card for our gallery. I hope to see you there. 

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AAA Cards #255

Happy new year everyone!  I hope your holidays were full of fun, food and family.  Mine were and I'm so grateful that we got to spend time together. 

I've been in a card making frenzy the last couple of days and it feels so good.  I not only did some Design Team work but also made some for a few challenges.  The first one due is for AAA Cards.

I used an older MFT die that includes the snowflake and other dies to go over the O in JOY.  The word was cut from a panel in my B&P box and the snowflake from vellum.  It's a CAS challenge but I thought the card needed something else so I scored a line above and below the sentiment. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #614

I love it when things fall into place.  The minute I saw the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches I knew I had the perfect die for it.  Then in looking through my Bits box I found just the panel to inlay in the die.

 

The circle die, cut in silver, is from Waffle Flower and an extra part was cut to fill in the bottom corner.  The circles are from a Brusho background that had been in the box for quite a while.  A heat embossed sentiment from Hero Arts was all it took to make a masculine birthday card for my stash.

I couldn't let the leftovers go to waste so I made another card.

I put the circles to the bottom without the extra portion, inlaid the silver circles and added a stamped sentiment from PTI.  It's been gloomy here so no good light to let the silver shine.

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Time Out #250

At Time Out we are to be inspired by words.

"When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in."  Kristin Armstrong. 

I  took the words gratitude and love and meshed them into a card. 

I first went looking for a sentiment and when I found this one from Penny Black I knew it was perfect.  The Brusho panel was in my Bits box and I used that for the background for the heart from The Greetery. I wish you could see the shine of the Mica Spray that colored it. 

 

The sponsor for this challenge is Poppy Stamps who are awarding the winner a $20 store credit.  I hope you'll stop by to see what the Design Team has made and be inspired by the words and their cards to make one of your own to enter in our gallery.

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Freshly Made Sketches #579 and Inkspirational #286

I made a card for Freshly Made Sketches and didn't like it at all.  Fortunately I had cut a second set of the Dogwood from HoneyBee so I made a similar card that I like much better.

The blossoms were cut from a Brusho panel I found in my Bits box, the leaves from a scrap I sprayed with Twisted Citron, and the branch from Bristol so I could color it with Zigs. The background is Altenew paper embossed with SSS's Blossom Field.  I embossed a white MFT oval with the SU Subtle folder and placed it on a brown scalloped oval also from MFT.  The sentiment is from HoneyBee's My Favorite Flower. 

Inkspirational has a mood board with what looks like these flowers so I'm sending my card to them too.

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Christmas Card Throwdown 3-23

I hope you aren't getting tired of my Christmas cards.  I want to make at least one a week for Christmas Card Throwdown.  This week it's "Fairies".

I don't have any fairy stamps so I masked the halo on this angel from MFT and colored her with artist markers.  I think she looks like a fairy.  The background is made with Brushos and cut with a die from Neat and Tangled.  I had a little trouble with the heat embossed sentiment from Penny Black.  The "E" on enjoy did not want to stamp.  I must have done it over 6 times before I got a legible impression. Oh and did I mention the WOS on the star and Dazzling Diamond spray on the background?  Very magical indeed. 

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Inkspirational #261

Critters that hop.  There aren't a lot of them but Inkspirational wants to see what we have in their newest challenge.

I saw a lot of bunnies on the blog but wanted to do something different.  I hope Inkspirational will forgive me for using an image I entered in a challenge two years ago for the word 'leap'.

I had a play day with Brushos on my gel plate and used one of the panels to stamp this frog from Woodware. I love lime and navy so made a background by clear embossing the SSS Circle Doodle background stamp on GinaK navy cardstock.  The  frog was fussy cut, layered and his hands and feet popped up.  Glossy Accents bring his eyes to life and a remnant of the panel was cut with an MFT sentiment die. Doesn't he look like he's celebrating something?

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CAS Mix-Up November - Stencils

Loll has brought back the stencil monoprint for this month's challenge at CAS Mix-Up. I don't always have the right stencils or get good results but this time things were going well and I ended up making two cards. 

This one uses an old PTI stencil with Distress Inks.  The panel was cut down and mounted on ivory cardstock.  The sentiment from HA was stamped on a scrap of the watercolor paper and cut with an MFT die that fit perfectly along one of the lattice slats.  A little sprig from TH finishes it off.

This one uses another older PTI stencil but this time with Brushos.  It looks like waves so I added the seashells from Honey Bee, colored with Zigs.  The sentiment is from Altenew.  They are individual words and it took forever to line them up but I like what it says. 

There's still time to enter this challenge and if you don't know about making a monoprint the description and a link to several videos can be found on their challenge blog.

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The Flower Challenge #53

This will be a fun challenge at The Flower Challenge.  We want you to use your newest stamps and/or dies.  You know you all have some. 

I think one of my newest is the Incredible set from Altenew.  I decided to try something new to paint those big beautiful flowers.

I heat embossed with white and painted with Brushos.  I tried some Nuvo drops in the center but it looked awful so I just pressed some sequins into it.  I mounted the panel on metallic cardstock and splattered it with some metallic paint in the same color.  The sentiment is from PB.

What stamps will the Design Team and our guest Sathya use?  Let's go check it out.  I hope they inspire you to make a card for the challenge using your new stamps.

CAS Watercolor May 2020

I kept getting my May CAS challenges mixed up.  That is why you'll see a Christmas card for the CAS Watercolor challenge - Night Sky.

I used Brushoes to make my sky and then splattered some gouache for stars.  The church is from Sunny Studios colored with Distress Inks.  While I was playing with Brushoes I made another background with different blues and made a similar card.

Still colored with Distress Inks, this church has a more saturated color and I used gel pens for the lights.  Since I cut the panels in half I have enough to make two more cards.

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Freshly Made Sketches #422

It seems I'm always racing to get a card for Freshly Made Sketches in on time but I have to wait until inspiration strikes. ;)

I knew I wanted to use the PB flowers on the small rectangle so I heat embossed them in white and  inked the background in Lucky Clover DOX.  I removed the ink on the petals with water and then painted them with Spiced Marmalade DOX.    The panel is foam mounted on a  Brusho piece that I did a while ago.

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CAS Watercolor - October and Time Out #146

CAS Watercolor is celebrating their 3rd birthday.  Boy did that time go fast although I know how  easy it is to lose track of time when you're crafting. ;)  Happy Birthday, CASW!!  For this challenge they are asking for maple leaves.  I recently made a ton of Thanksgiving cards using my one and only maple leaf from Hero Arts and Distress Ink spritzing.  I had to think what I could do differently for this challenge. 

Brushos were the answer.  I did a panel with several Fall colors, let it dry and cut the leaves.  I added them to a circle die from RC and curved a sentiment from PTI along the edge.  I picked this sentiment for two reasons.  I need some more masculine prayer cards and Time Out wants encouragement cards. 

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Twofer Challenge #19

Here I am just under the wire for the Twofer Challenge.  I really didn't think I had anything nautical until I read Darnell's list of things that could qualify.  I dug out my HA seahorse and this happened.

The card on the right was inspired by the book Mr. Seahorse by Eric Carle.

He's cut from a Brusho panel and is swimming in a DOX sea with a sentiment is from PS.

I think I should have cut the fins into him but I didn't think about it until he was foam taped down and I didn't want to risk tearing the card.  Maybe a googly eye too?

ETA:  Darnell found another challenge for me to enter my colorful seahorse into.  It's Crazy 4 Challenges and they want you to be inspired by a book.  I think this works just fine.

Coming up with a second card was more difficult especially finding a sentiment.  Once I saw the one from PB I knew it would work because I had already planned to gold emboss the little fellow.

Unfortunately you can't see his gold sparkle embossing powder or his WOS.   Regular DIs were used for the ocean and seaweed and Altenew Sand Dunes for the bottom with a little help from a PTI sand stamp.

It's been a busy time around here and I'm way behind - again - on commenting and entering my favorite challenges.  Things will slow down after Labor Day and I can get caught up.  I hope.

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