Just Us GIrls #771 - Mood Board Week

Elizabeth has a fun mood board for you this week at Just Us Girls. 

I was inspired by the chicks and eggs on the bottom right two panels.

The image from Penny Black was stamped on watercolor paper, colored with Distress Inks and cut with their Classy Frame.  The remaining panel was embossed with Altenew's Dotty Circles and the frame stacked and inserted.  The sentiment is from PTI.  

What inspires you in the mood board?  Check out what the Design Team did and make a card for the challenge for a chance to be a guest designer. 

Edited to add: I was given a gentle nudge that my card fits the mood board at Inkspirational so I'm sending it there. 

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Just Us Girls #626 - Word Week

It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and the word our host Elizabeth chose is 

I used what I thought were my only eggs in a challenge a few weeks ago until I remembered this one from Penny Black.

I stamped the chicks with GinaK Amalgam ink and colored them with Altenew artist markers.  The panel and polka dot paper were cut with rounded corners from Hero Arts and the card with my corner chomper.  The sentiment is from SSS. 

MacMable is our guest designer for the month of April.  She and the Design Team have given you some examples of how to use eggs on their cards.  I hope they inspire you to make a card for the gallery.

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CAS(E) This Sketch #365

CAS(E) This Sketch has quite the sketch this week.  Because I need more Easter cards I turned it upside down to make this card.

I started by stamping the eggs and animals from Gerda Steiner and coloring them with Zigs.  I needed something for the third panel and decided to make my version of an Easter basket by inking up a basket weave embossing folder with HA Soft Brown and running it through my die cutting machine.

Now that we're social distancing until the end of April, it's more important than ever to send out those cards we've been making to residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities, friends who are having difficulty dealing with all that is going on in their lives, and those working on the front lines.

You are all in my prayers.

Freshly Made Sketches #378

I pulled out some of my Easter stamps and found just what I needed for Freshly Made Sketches.

Stamped on watercolor paper, the PB image was colored with DOXs.   The sentiment is from PTI.

Thanks for dropping by.  I love it when you do.

Just Us Girls #433

I get to be your host this week at Just Us Girls and I have a photo for your inspiration.

I chose this because it's close to Easter and this reminded me not only of Easter but of a beautiful Spring day.  That means you have a lot to choose from to inspire your card.  I did a mixture of a couple of images.

I started with the Altenew flowers that I watercolored with Distress Ink and fussy cut.  I also wanted to incorporate some eggs so I watercolored a die cut from PTI.  They needed a frame so I used an Altenew die to cut some cream cardstock (like the vase in the photo), layered it up and ran it through an impression plate.  The sentiment is from Jillian Vance.

I hope there is something in this photo that inspires you to make a card for this week's challenge.  Please check out what the Design Team and our guest designer Stef Perry have made.  If you are chosen Chic of the Week, you could be our guest in May.