Just Us Girls #783 - Mood Board Week

It's Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls and Carol M has a fun one for us. 

 There are so many images that you can use, together or separately, to make a wonderful nature inspired card. 

I took the colors and used the Honey Bee Wildflowers for my card.  Two SU! embossing folders were used on the background - Ferns and Subtle - along with SB Elliptical Ovals.  The sentiment is also from Honey Bee.

Need some inspiration?  The Design Team and our guest designer Donna Mikasa have cards to do just that over on the blog.  Check them out and then add your card to our gallery.  We'd love to see you there. 

I hadn't thought of how much this card resembles the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #695 until Donna pointed it out.  I'm sending this card to them but there will be another one later. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #677 and Love Those Pretty Papers

The sketch at Freshly Made Sketches gave me an opportunity to use some paper I bought quite a while ago after seeing someone make a lovely card with it and there it sat.  Since I'm finally using that patterned paper, I'm also sending my card to Love Those Pretty Papers. 

The paper is from The Paper Studio and called Eucalyptus.  It went well with C9s Tidepool that is embossed with SU Ferns.  The rectangles are popped up and adorned with one of the TH Wildflowers cut in dark gray, the same color that the heat embossed sentiment from Altenew was on. 

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Just Us Girls #718 - Time Out #259 Reminder

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If you haven't heard, Just Us Girls and Time Out collaborated for a two week challenge. For more information follow the links to their blog posts. 

I have another card to inspire you to join this fun adventure.

These cute little parrots are from a new to me company called Marianne Design that I found at Frantic Stamper.  There are different ways you can add beaks and topknots to them.  I chose to cut from white cardstock and color with Distress Inks.  I did substitute the more cartoonish eyes on the parrot on the right with some from another bird die.  The embossed background was made by inking up the Spellbinders Fern folder and the smaller panel was cut with Honey Bee's Deckle Edge Rectangle and edged with the same ink. 

There is still plenty of time before the deadline to enter either challenge and you are automatically entered into the other one.  Two challenges at once.  How great is that!?

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