Jugs Us GIrls #688 - Photo/Moodboard Week

Lisa E is our host at Just Us Girls this week and she has an enticing moodboard for us.  Take a look.

Here's a bigger picture.

You definitely should be able to find something that tickles your creativity.  If you need inspiration, you can always find plenty on the blog where the Design Team and our guest Kristin have wonderful cards for you to see.  Here's mine.

I was intrigued by the bone china cups and saucers in the upper right.  I have quite a collection, with some of them coming from my grandmother and mother.   The Altenew Vintage Tea Cup was stamped on photo paper to give it a shiny look.  The cup was filled with flowers from Waffle Flower that were colored with Zigs and it's centered on a gray panel cut with a PTI corner die to mimic the gingerbread on the cabinet. 

I hope we see you in our gallery.

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Just Us Girls #667 - Photo Week

Vicki has a moodboard to inspire you this week at Just Us Girls.

 You can find a close-up of the photos on the blog.  I zoomed in on the peach colored rose on the bottom.

The flower is from Altenew's Garden Rose kit.  This is a leftover rose from an earlier card.  For this one I used the TH die in the corner, backed with green to match the leaves.  I left off a sentiment so I can add one later when I know who the card will go to.

What part of the photo will our guest, Karen Walker,  and the rest of the team chose for their cards?  What will you choose?  Check out the blog for inspiration and make a card.  We'd love to see you in our gallery. 

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Twofer Challenge #5

Stretching your creative brain is a good thing and one challenge that calls for that stretch is the Twofer Challenge.  This is where you create two cards, for two different occasions using one word prompt.  This month's prompt is 'butterflies'. 

I knew what I wanted to do for my one card and it went together nicely.

I stamped the butterfly from HLS in Onyx Black and colored them with PolyChromos pencils to look like Monarchs.  The sentiment is from Verve.  The second card took a while to come together and I'm still not sure about it.

After seeing a gorgeous butterfly on the PTI blog, I bought some Frantage and embossed it on a vellum butterfly.  It has a little more gold in it that I thought it would but I carried that through to the gold embossed sentiment by PB.  I used a TH die to cut the corner and put a leftover alcohol ink panel from this card behind it.  I ended up trimming the panel with a jagged die because the original sentiment was crooked and I didn't want to just cover it.  I think it goes well with the jagged edges of the diamonds.

Thanks for another fun challenge, Darnell and Team.