Just Us Girls #809 - Die Week

Sue is the host for Die Week at Just Us Girls and she wants us to use a heart die on our cards. 

I just had to pull out my Heart Hugs set from Honey Bee for this.

Isn't he just the cutest, holding that tiny heart?  He's resting on a folk heart from Ellen Hutson that was stamped with a sentiment from The Greetery.  The background is Concord and 9th Poppy embossed with Spellbinder's Cross My Heart folder. 

I'm also sending my card to The Paper Players  where Claire has a 'Love is in the Air' challenge. 

There are so many ways to use hearts on your card.  Let's go see what the Design Team has done to inspire you to make a card for the challenge.  

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Peace on Earth #74

Peace on Earth has such a wonderful mood board and it inspired me to make a card featuring a fox.  

I love the Heart Hug critters from Honey Bee and cut the fox from brown and rustic cream cardstock.  His candy cane is from the Spellbinders Christmas Wonder set and the dome die from Waffle Flower.  The background is Catherine Pooler's Peppermint Stick stamp inked in her Rockin' Red ink and the sentiment is from one of her older stamp sets. 

Edited to add:  I just saw the challenge at Jingle Belles and my card fits there beautifully.  

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The Card Concept #193a

After reading the definitions of the acceptable card styles on The Card Concept I wasn't quite sure where my card fits, if at all.  It's either clean and layered, although I have no white space, or Freestyle Collage? Anyway I love this baby card that I created for my husband's grandson and his wife who are expecting a little one this summer.

That fox from HoneyBee's Heart Hugs is so cute I couldn't resist using him on my card.  He's cut from white and inked with Altenew Dusty Rose.  The background is a stencil from Winnie and Walter that was turned 90 degrees after the first inking to make a plaid.  The sentiment was stamped on Soft Stone that was cut with a Waffle Flower dome and then embossed with a quilt folder.

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Just Us Girls #607 - Photo Week

Cecile is our host for Photo Week at Just Us Girls and she has this delightful picture to inspire us. 

Need a close up?

There are so many ways to go with this but I knew my Gerda Steiner fox would be the focal point.

I made his forest with a TH die placed on cardstock inked with Hickory Smoke DI.  I also used some of the ink to dry brush the edges of the trees.   Foxy was colored with Rusty Hinge and for the sentiment from Dare to be Artzy I made a rock.  Or should I say boulder?  

What grabs your interest in the photo?  I hope you'll be inspired by the Design Team and our guest Nora Noll to make a card for the gallery.

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Twofer Challenge #25

I was honored to win the January challenge at Twofer Card Challenge and that allowed me to be a guest designer for this month's challenge which is:

I did what one usually does when they're not sure about a prompt.  I googled Spring Animals and saw some cute little babies.  One caught my attention.

See that darling Gerda Steiner fox?  Kits are born in the Spring and so I used that stamp for my cards.

I added the GS squirrel and dog to make a birthday card.  All the images are colored with PolyChromos pencils and placed on an MFT panel over some brightly colored DSP.

For this card I made a background using a tree from Altenew, an MFT cloud stencil and Distress Ink.  One fox is in the thoughts and prayers of another as depicted by a thought bubble cut from MFT circles.

I hope you'll join me and the Twofer design team over on the blog for inspiration.  We'd love to see your cards in the gallery but remember the rules:

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Less Is More #400

Small images,  We all have a lot of them that often get neglected.  Less Is More wants us to find those little critters (figuratively speaking) and use them on our clean and simple cards.

Literally speaking I used a critter on my card.  One that has been colored for a while and just waiting for the right time and right challenge.

He's from Gerda Steiner, colored with PolyChromos pencils.  A sentiment is always the hardest to add but I thought this one from Technique Tuesday kind of says it all.

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Twofer Card Challenge #12

One of my favorite things is the prompt at the Twofer Card Challenge this month.  Birds.  And one bird in particular.  Owls.  So of course I had to include one on my card for the challenge.

The first card is a thank you.

The owl and fox from Gerda Steiner were stamped on Desert Storm and colored with PolyChromos pencils.  The background was inked with Distress Inks and splattered with white paint for stars.  After all owls are nocturnal.

The second card is a birthday card.

Where's the owl you ask?

Here he is!  I made a double slider card so he could hide in the tree until it was time to wish someone a happy birthday.  The tree was made by inking a woodgrain embossing folder with Black Soot DOX.  This was so much fun to make and will probably go to my great grandson on his 6th birthday in April.

So there you have it.  Two cards using the same owl in two different designs for a thank you and a birthday card.

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