Just Us Girls #643 - Wild Card Week

There's an extra Saturday in July and that means Wild Card Week at Just Us Girls. (FYI: It's also my birthday.)  Ina is our host and she has chosen an interesting challenge for us.

You can pick any designer and CASE one of their cards.  For mine, I chose a card I loved from Therese Calvird.

I happened to have that Hydrangea stamp from EH and used my Zigs like Therese did to create this.

I gold heat embossed two images plus extra blossoms and leaves.  I popped one flower head up over the other on darker gray cardstock because that was all I had with me.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.

I want to thank Fran Wing for being our July guest.  She and the rest of the team have some wonderfully CASEd designs for you over on the blog.  Enter a card and you may be a future guest designer.

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The Flower Challenge #46

For July, The Flower Challenge wants to see our Summer cards, or Winter if you live in the southern hemisphere. 

My card features the Mondo Hydrangea from EbyE.

It is stamped in gray on watercolor paper and painted with Altenew watercolors.  A sentiment from MFT and a few splatters finish it off.

Please join the Design Team and our guest designer Mac Mable and make a card for the challenge.  They are there to inspire you.  Remember - a flower has to be the central focus of your card.

Just Us Girls #476 - Photo Week

Wait until you see the photo that our host Lisa chose as our inspiration for Just Us Girls.

How lucky are you, if your birthday is in February, to have the lovely amethyst as your birthstone.  How will you be inspired by it?  This is what I saw.

The Mondo Hydrangea from EBE.  It is very difficult for me to get a good purple color with my camera but believe me I used the violet and deep violet Zigs on those petals.  I heard tell that watercoloring works well with CP ink so I took Twilight and used it for my background, splattering it with black and white when I was done. 

I hope you'll be inspired by me and the rest of the Design Team including our lovely guest, Lisa Elton, to make a card for the gallery.  If you are chosen Chic of the Week you could become a guest designer.

Just Us Girls #453 - Trend Week

Yes it's trend week at Just Us Girls and our host Sue had picked this:

This is really easy and you'll find a link to Jennifer McGuire's video on how to do it on the Just Us Girls blog. 

I stamped the EbyE mondo hydrangea and leaves on watercolor paper with VersaGray ink and embossed it with pearl powder which gave it a pewter look.  I rubbed Distress Ink in Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch, and Shaded Lilac randomly on the flower and Peeled Paint and Mowed Lawn on the leaves, then sprayed liberally with water that contained Perfect Pearls and let dry naturally.  If only you could see the shine.   The sentiment from PTI was embossed the same way.

Ros Crawford is our guest this month and she and the rest of the team have some beautiful watercolor cards using this method.  I hope you'll check them out and then join us in the gallery.

CAS(E) This Sketch #236

I thought the sketch for CAS(E) This Sketch was a great one this week.

 An idea came to mind right away. 

I started with an alcohol panel left over from another card.  Then I need something for the circle portion of the sketch.  Zigs and the individual flowers from the Essentials by Ellen hydrangea to the rescue.  The sentiment from Sugar Pea Designs was white heat embossed.

Thanks for dropping by.  I hope your week is off to a great start.

Time Out #85

What I wouldn't give for a sun room that looks like the inspiration photo at Time Out.

Isn't that gorgeous?  I was inspired by the hummingbird of course, but I also saw that tiny bit of Hydrangea in the corner of the pillow.

The hummingbird is from WPlus9, the Hydrangea from Essentials by Ellen and the sentiment from Altenew.  Everything was colored with Zigs except for the background where I used Distress Ink and the Spectrum Noir sparkle that I gave the hummer.

I'm getting ready to head to the lake for the weekend.  Two more rooms to clean and I'll be ready for company.

Have a great weekend and thanks for dropping by.