Just Us Grils #820 - Stencil Week

It's Stencil Week at Just Us Girls and our host Vicki says it's Anything Goes.

I wanted to try something new this time and use my neglected Oxide inks.

Oxides are less transparent than regular inks and I knew I could use them on kraft cardstock.  I did have to order some finger daubers that I could designate just for those inks but that's fine by me.  The image is from Pinkfresh Studio called Painted Daisies and I wanted the flowers white so I started with Hero Arts Unicorn white.  Daisies are my favorite flower after all.  The sentiment is from PF's Cozy Blooms.  

I know you have plenty of stencils so why not  try something new with them?  I can't wait to see what you do.  If you need inspiration, the Design Team has plenty of it for you. 

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Color Hues #118

The soft colors in the Color Hues Challenge presented themselves in Distress Weathered Wood and Bundled Sage on my card.  

The flowers are from PFS's Wonderful in Every Way set of stamps, stencils and dies.  After stenciling, I partially die cut the image, layered it twice and added it to a card base with a strip of striped paper from Sunny Studio that was colored with Bundled Sage.  The sentiment is also from the set.  

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Just Us Girls #768 - Stencil Week

It's the ever popular stencil week at Just Us Girls hosted by Vicki.

I felt like I needed  to make a list of my stencils and went through my blog getting ideas.  It's fun to see things I've made in the past and I found a few things I might want to remake.  Today's card is not one of them but I had forgotten about this hot foil plate and stencil. 

It's Bougainvillea from PFS.  I had foiled it previously so it was just a matter of picking colors to use with the stencil.  A gold frame from PTI and a heat embossed sentiment finished it off.  

There is so much inspiration from the Design Team and our guest designer Jeanne Jachna that there is no reason not to make a card for this challenge.  I hope to see you in the gallery.

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AAA Cards #285 and Inkspirational #336

Even with all the other things I do and techniques I try on my cards, I still like the occasional clean and simple card.  AAA Cards is always CAS and this challenge has the twist of Spring Colors.  Inkspirational is also having a CAS challenge ( I omitted the twist) so off my card goes to both.

The flowers are Beautiful Blooms from Pinkfresh Studio.  There are six different images and accompanying stencils and dies in the set.  I did a number of them a while ago and just picked three to add to my card.  The sentiment is also from PFS.  

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Just Us Girls #764 - Stencil Week

Sue is the host for Stencil Week at Just Us Girls.

So many stencils, so little time.  I was lucky enough to find one already done in the package just waiting for the right challenge.

The image from PFS is called "The Best of Everything Floral" colored with Altenew inks.  To finish it off, I cut a frame from dark gray, embossed it with a wood  grain folder and layered it over the panel.

I want to thank Stephanie Severin for being our guest this month.  It has been a pleasure seeing all her wonderful creations.  She and the design team have one more card for you to see to inspire you to enter our stencil challenge.  I hope to see you there. 

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Inkspirational #307

I was lucky enough to have my card be one of the top picks for the last Inkspirational challenge.  You can see that card here.  Today I have one for their newest challenge - use stencils.

The stamp and stencil is from Pinkfresh Studio.  There are six different layers and I used Distress Inks with Altenew mini blending brushes.  The panel was trimmed down, inked around the edges and added to a white card base.  The sentiment is from Honey Bee. 

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Less Is More #491 and NBUS #54

Time is running out for Less Is More so I need to get my card posted.  

This sweet little flower is from PinkFresh Studio's Beautiful Blooms stamp, die and stencil.  There are six florals in all with a die to cut three at a time.  I bought the set because I thought they would make a great set of notecards to give as a gift.  This one has a sentiment from Altenew.

I need to tell you a sad story that has a happy ending.  I pre-ordered the Waffle Flower Grip Mat along with this set from DoodlebugsWA and was so excited when the date for delivery was here.  When my husband handed me the package that had been hand delivered by the mail carrier, I discovered that someone had stolen the entire contents.  Fortunately Cathy at Doodlebugs insures her packages so I was able to file a claim with the Post Office and get my money back.  Of course by that time Grip Mats were out of stock again.  I did find one at Honey Bee so ordered it from there (along with a few other things).  I did end up reordering the PFS set from Cathy.  This card is the first time I've used either and I love them both.  

Since this is the maiden voyage for these products, I will be sending my card to Darnell's NBUS. 

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