Just Us Girls #770 - Word Week

It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and our host Carol M has chosen 

You never know where you'll find inspiration.  For my card today it came in the form of a thank you when I ordered a new case for my phone. 

I loved the ink blended colors and of course the word was a prominent feature that popped out at me.  Here's my interpretation.

Pretty close, huh?  It all started with Distress Inks on Hammermill paper.  Once I was happy with it I trimmed it down with a SSS stitched rectangle.  The sentiment, both the die cut word and heat embossed happy birthday are from an old set from Catherine Pooler's Stamp of Approval which was actually a CAS-ual Friday design.  The flowers are anemones from WPlus9, another older stamp set.  They were heat embossed in white on watercolor scraps and colored with Distress Inks. 

If you need more inspiration, the design team and our guest designer have it ready for you on the blog.  Be sure and check it out and then make a card.  We'd love to see you in the gallery.

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The Flower Challenge #54

Yes it's Shades of Purple for this month's challenge at The Flower Challenge.  I can't wait to see all the pretty purple flowers in our gallery.   For my card I chose to use Anemone from Altenew.

These are an easy layered stamp that I augmented with PolyChromos pencils. For the background I used a 3D embossing folder and then blended on Wilted Violet Distress Ink.  For the sentiment I made my own colored strip using the Plum color from the center of the flowers and heat embossed the sentiment from Sunny Studio.

I hope you'll check out what the Design Team has done and let them inspire you to make a card for our challenge.

The Flower Challenge - February Reminder

There's still time to enter your card at The Flower Challenge using your newest flower stamps and/or dies.  The Design Team has more inspiration for you and here is mine.

I just got this Altenew Anemone Coronaria last week.  I also got the new Altenew purples and greens that I used for the flowers and leaves.  I couldn't decide about a sentiment but since I am low on sympathy cards I turned this into one by heat embossing the PTI sentiment on a strip of black.  I see a lot of people embossing on black strips but I'm not sure I like it in this case.

We hope to see your card in our gallery.

Time Out Reminder

I'm here to remind you of the 100th challenge at Time Out where the word is:

I think grateful and thankful are synonymous and that is what I used for my card this week.

The anemones are from WPlus9 that I masked and loosely watercolored with Distress Inks.  The sentiment is from CPD.

The Design Team has some wonderful inspiration for you over on the blog so be sure to check it out. There's still time so we hope you'll make a card and help us celebrate this challenge milestone. 

Addicted to CAS #127

Welcome to another year at Addicted to CAS.  Our host Stephanie has chosen this as her word for this challenge.

I had all kinds of ideas but none of them were Clean and Simple and since this IS a CAS challenge I had to think even harder.  Please remember to keep your cards CAS.

I stamped and clear heat embossed the staff from CPD across the bottom of my card and added the sentiment from the same set.  The little church is from Sunny Studios that I colored with Zigs and mounted on some coaster board to give a little dimension.

Our guest designer Sue Symens and the Design Team have some wonderful cards to inspire you in this challenge.  Head on over to Addicted to CAS and check them out.  And if that's not enough incentive, Happy Little Stampers is sponsoring all our challenges and you can win a gc to their store. We hope to see your card in the gallery.