Just Us Girls #824 - Mood Board Week

Carol Mc is the host at Just Us Girls this week and this is the Mood Board she has to inspire you.

You can take the shapes, colors, items, whatever draws you in to make your card.  I was inspired by the colors and the white framed geometric pictures on the wall. 

I started by stenciling PFS's Garden Trellis with CP inks in Tiki Torch, Party Dress, and Something Borrowed. Lisa Horton's gold was used for the center squares before adding the white die cut on top. I needed a simple sentiment and found this one in a set by SSS and CZ Designs called Good Greetings.

Need more inspiration?  Check out the Design Team and our guest Kerry to see how they used the mood board for their cards.  

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Freshly Made Sketches #602 and NBUS #54

Kim has a great sketch for us at Freshly Made Sketches.  

My proportions may not be quite right and the sentiment is in a different place but you can still see the sketch.

I used HoneyBee gourds from the Lovely Layers: Fall Bounty set, coloring them with a variety of Altenew inks and blending brushes.  The checked paper is from HoneyBee and the sentiment is from Concord and 9th's Garden Grown.  I love a good pun and that set has a number of them. 

Since this is the first time using the gourds and the sentiment, I will be sending them to NBUS. 

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The Flower Challenge #73

It's Happy Birthday  at The Flower Challenge.  That's right.  We're six years old.  Can you imagine how many flower cards the team has made in six years.  We hope you'll join us in celebrating by making a card.  There are some prizes to be awarded too.

For this challenge you MUST include a sentiment on your card.  Nothing difficult as we usually do that anyway.  Here's mine.

Can you see it?  I used the eclipse technique with a die from Winnie and Walter.  My flowers are from Altenew's Hello Beautiful set which includes stencils to color them.  

There's so much for you to see on the blog.  Inspiration from the Design Team.  Our guest Emily Midgett.   A list of prizes.  Please stop by.

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Just Us Girls #650 - Color Week

Hey all.  I'm hosting Color Week at Just Us Girls and I hope you'll join us with a card using these colors.

I thought they looked rather Autumnal.

This was an image borrowed from a friend and I didn't write down from whom - either the friend or the stamp company. 😁 It's stamped on Bristol, colored with Zigs, and splattered with black.  After trimming the panel down, I mounted it on orange and then a cream cardbase.  It looks very fairy tale-ish to me. 

Now it's your turn.  Check out what the Design Team and our guest have made to inspire you.  We'd love to see your card in our gallery.

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Muse #131 and CASology #162

The wonderful Carol Mayne is the Muse this week so I just had to play along.  She made this delightful card.

I pretty much copied it using a different feather.

Mine is from Paper Smooches, stamped in Archival Ink and watercolored with Distress Ink.

I'm also going to send this to CASology.  I already entered a card there but I'm afraid it's not CAS enough.  This one should fill the bill.

Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend to all my friends in the States, and stay safe.  This goes for the rest of you, too.