Just Us Girls #766 - Word Week

I picked the word for Word Week at Just Us Girls and this is it.

I know this looks like a color challenge but you can interpret this any way you choose.  It doesn't have to be all green.  I mean what about a golf theme or maybe money.  Anything you associate with green.  Here's what I did.

A gentleman was selling out of his Penny Black stock at a big discount and I picked up a few oldies from him including the Toadily stamp set.  Using the MFT irregular stencil, I inked the sides with Salty Ocean on Bristol cardstock.  The toad was colored with Zigs and the sentiment from Hero Arts stamped in two shades of Altenew ink.   Although I prefer to think of them as frogs, I'm sure it's because of the pun sentiment included that they are called toads. 

Now it's your turn to think about something green.  The Design Team and our guest Jeanne Jachna have inspiration for you over on the blog.  Check them out and make a card for the gallery.  We'd love to see you there. 

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Inkspirational #261

Critters that hop.  There aren't a lot of them but Inkspirational wants to see what we have in their newest challenge.

I saw a lot of bunnies on the blog but wanted to do something different.  I hope Inkspirational will forgive me for using an image I entered in a challenge two years ago for the word 'leap'.

I had a play day with Brushos on my gel plate and used one of the panels to stamp this frog from Woodware. I love lime and navy so made a background by clear embossing the SSS Circle Doodle background stamp on GinaK navy cardstock.  The  frog was fussy cut, layered and his hands and feet popped up.  Glossy Accents bring his eyes to life and a remnant of the panel was cut with an MFT sentiment die. Doesn't he look like he's celebrating something?

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Inkspirational #208

It's been a while since I've played at Inkspirational.  Their word prompt sparked an idea so I had to make a card.

I inked my Woodware frog with Zigs, fussy cut him out and added Pico Embellisher to his eyes.  For the background I used the acetate smoosh method after cutting the panel with MFT's wonky stitches.  The sentiment came with Mr. Frog, who is happily leap frogging on an action wobble.

Thanks for dropping by.  I hope you have a hoppy day!

Freshly Made #201

I got this darling Woodware stamp at a craft store near the lake this summer and thought it would be perfect for the Freshly Made sketch this week.

I colored him with Distress Inks and put him on an action wobble.  He makes me smile.