Just Us Girls #657 - Word Week

 I'm hosting the Word Week challenge at Just Us Girls and the word is

I don't think this is a word we've used before and I don't know what was on my mind when I chose it.  Then I couldn't find the die I 'knew' I had to make my card.  In searching I found a cut that I ended up using but I don't know where it came from.

I cut a white panel down, stamped the Jillian Vance sentiment and embossed it with the SU Subtle folder.  The pumpkins from SSS and grass from Gina Marie were arranged with the fence on the panel and then mounted on some leafy patterned paper.  I'm sure this is not what I was planning when I chose the word but I think it turned out great. 

You must have some kind of fence in your crafting stash.  I hope you'll pull it out and make a card for the gallery. 

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The Card Concept #114

My former house used to have a high fence behind it and I would have wanted to decorate it like the photo from The Card Concept.  I did actually have colored paint cans hanging though.

No fence where I am now so I did it on paper.  Yes I got literal again.

I saw a video by Rina K and adjusted her idea to make my fence, using Altenew ink.  The boots are from PB and I colored them with PolyChromos, adding gel pen to the flower centers.  I also used gel pens for the flowers that I put in them.  Both the flowers and the sentiment are from EBE.

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CAS(E) This Sketch #289

Sometimes it take a while to figure out how to honor a sketch and such was this new one from CAS(E) This Sketch. 

It's a retro sketch from back in 2013 and I did make one then.  You can see it here.  Not much to it and I hope I've come a long way in the past 5 years.  I think I found the perfect stamp set for this new card. 

Stamps:  PTI Summer Fenceline, Altenew Cattleya for sentiment
Inks: Altenew, Distress and Oxides
Other: Clarity brushes

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Just Us Girls #349

It's photo week at Just Us Girls and look what a darling photo Chris has chosen.

I would love to have these hanging on my fence - if I had a fence.

My card includes another 'borrow' from Michele at our last playing cards session - Paper Smooches boots.  This was before I knew about the photo but I knew I wanted to cut out the boots so I took some patterned paper to do so. They worked perfect for this card.  For the fence I embossed the woodgrain on Smoke cs then rubbed it down with Hickory Smoke, Black Soot and Unicorn White inks.  A MFT border die made the fence top and the whole thing is on some green paper.  Sometimes the hardest part of making a card for me is the sentiment but when I saw this one from CB, I thought it was perfect.  I mean what good is one boot - unless you want to hang it on a fence. ;)

Now it's your turn.  Take whatever inspiration you want from the photo, or see what the rest of the design team has for you over on the JUGS blog, and add your card to the linky.  You may be lucky enough to be chosen Chic of the Week and even earn a guest designer spot for August.

Hope to see you there.

CAS(E) This Sketch #160

I had so much fun with the sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch once the idea hit me in the early morning hours.
The sketch:

My card:

I bought this barbed wire fence die from MFT on sale a while ago.  I didn't know what I'd do with it but I love barbed wire.  Crazy, I know.  In fact I'm a sucker for any rusted metal.  But I digress.  Once I decided on the fence I needed a sentiment.  I was thinking about "Don't Fence Me In"  and using a horse but once I saw the sentiment  from "The Whole Herd" I knew it was meant to be.

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