Just Us Girls #706 - Photo Week

The host this week at Just Us Girls is Carol Mc and this is the photo/moodboard she chose to inspire your cards. 

Here is a larger view.

You can choose from the images or the colors or even the sentiment.

Here's what my mind's eye saw.

Whenever there's an opportunity to make a bird, I'm going to do it.  The beautiful cardinal and the sentiment are from Honey Bee's Winter Birds.  The greenery and branch are from their Winter Greenery dies.  A little Oxide ink background and some snow made with Puff embossing powder and a few splatters give the scene a wintry look. 

What image inspires your imagination?  Go see what the Design Team and our guest Melissa have made and then make a card for our challenge.  We'd love to see you in the gallery.

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52 Christmas Card Throwdown 15.23

This week's challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown is a basic one - Santa.  Who doesn't have a number of Santa stamps/dies in their stash.  I made mine with Spellbinders die cuts gifted to me by a friend.

Santa is colored with Altenew artist markers and popped up on a panel of DSP from HoneyBee.  His hat brim and pom are embossed with Puff embossing powder.  The sentiment is from Winnie and Walter (oob). 

Since there were two die cuts on the panel, I made second card.

This one is on a dark gray oval on patterned paper from Echo Park. 

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Happy Little Stampers Christmas - September

Another month has flown by and it's time for September's challenge at Happy Little Stampers Christmas.

Of course I had to do the twist.

I have this layered tree stamp from HA and wanted to see how it would work with my Puff embossing powder to add snow to the branches.  I loved how it looked but then I had to figure a way to display it.  I watercolored around the edge of the tree and cut it with a scalloped oval from MFT.  I knew I wanted a plaid background, something soft to bring out that sky so I used my C9 plaid background and stamped it in Sea Glass and Frayed Leaf  from Altenew.  The sentiment is from the same HA set stamped on a banner from LF.

The Design Team has cards for your inspiration and we look forward to seeing what you make for our challenge this month.  The winner will receive a $20 voucher to HLS which will be doubled if HLS stamps are used.