Just Us Girls #801 - Word Week

It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and Carol chose this word:

While at Michele's this summer, I stamped one of her darling Penny Black images and decided this was the time to use it.

It's called Little Sledder. I think she is precious and reminds me of my four blond granddaughters. (when they were little of course). She was stamped on watercolor paper and colored with Distress Inks.  A Penny Black frame, also cut from watercolor paper, was added to SB Blush and a sentiment from PTI finishes it off.  

What comes to your mind when you think of the word winter?  For inspiration, our guest Leslie Miller and the Design Team have a wide variety of beautifully made cards.  We'd love to see your card in the gallery.

What a great turnout we had for our 800th challenge.  I put all the eligible names in a bowl and had my husband draw a name.  Drum roll . . .  the winner of the Dazzling Diamond hot foil plate is Karen Letchworth.  Please send your mailing address to bobbarah @ gmail .com, Karen, and congratulations. 

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The Flower Challenge #107

It's time for another The Flower Challenge and we have a specific color we want you to use.

Purple is the color of so many flowers although as artists we can make any flower any color.  I went with the traditional Lilacs.

These are from The Greetery and are cut from cardstock that was sprayed with Villainous Potion Distress Spray.  A double set of blossoms were cut to give it fullness.  The gray frame is from Penny Black and the sentiment is a BetterPress from SB.  

The Design Team will WOW  you with their purple designs.  Please check them out for inspiration.

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Double D - Frames

I love all the wonderful frames that are the inspiration at Double D.  What I wouldn't give to have some of them just to hang, no pictures needed.  But my card does include a frame and picture.

Stamped on Bristol, the PB Garden Trio image was colored with Zigs.  The PB Double Frame was cut from a TH pack that I thought gave a patina look,  layered and then foam popped.  The sentiment is a SB BetterPress.  

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As You See It #348

I had a leftover piece of embossed watercolor paper in with the frame die and used it to make a card for As You See It - Spots or Stripes.  I wasn't sure if embossed spots were what they were looking for until I saw DT member Joanne's card. 

The Penny Black frame aperture had already been cut from it so I cut another piece for the actual frame in addition to two other layers.  For some reason the panel was short for an A2 card so I cut the bottom off the card base.  The center was used to stamp the PB Love Blooms flower that was watercolored with Distress Inks.  The sentiment is from Spellbinders. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #680 and NBUS #73

Freshly Made Sketches has a wonderfully versatile sketch this week and I couldn't wait to make a card using some new products. 

The flowers from Penny Black's Love Blooms were cut from watercolor paper and colored in lavender because I had fully intended to enter my card at The Paper Players but missed the deadline.   Before tucking them into the layered frame, also from PB, I stamped the background with MFT's Brush Spatter and stamped the sentiment from MCS.  

This will be going to Darnell's NBUS since both the frame and flowers have never been used before.

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Inkspirational #333

There's a snow theme over at Inkspirational and with all the snow we've had I thought it would be fun to make a card.   It's way more fun than tromping through it or even worse shoveling it. 

I brought Stump out to play again.  I'm glad you can face him different ways and I only had to do a little surgery on his scarf to make that work.  I also must confess he had a little nose job too.  😉 The tree is from Honey Bee, layered white on dark green.  It all started with PB's Classy Frames, cutting it from blue and then twice from white.  A little splatter helped get the snow falling before putting it all together. 

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