Just Us Girls #786 - CASE a Designer

Here's the Design Team's chance to inspire you with their individual cards as Ina hosts CASE a Designer Week at Just Us Girls. 

I had fun with this card and I hope it inspires you to use the elements to make a card of your own.  The Honey Bee Picnic Basket was made and hiding in the package.  I added it to a tan background that was embossed with the HB Burlap folder and filled it with some of the TH Wildflowers.  The best way I saw to add a sentiment was with The Greetery Market Basket's sentiment and holder on a strip of black.   

Not your style?  The rest of the Design Team have a variety of ideas for you to choose from.  We hope you except the challenge and link your card.

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A You See It #350 - Triptych

I put together a card for the sketch challenge at As You See It - Triptych.

For the three images I used one of TH Wildflower dies in Kraft, which went well with the striped paper from Honey Bee.  I trimmed the panel to let the navy cardstock show and added the Betterpress sentiment also in navy.  This will work well for a masculine card. 

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Just Us Girls #729 - CASE the Designer

It's the fifth Thursday in May and time for a CASE the Designer challenge at Just Us Girls, hosted by Vicki.

This is your chance to get ideas from our Design Team and CASE their card, making it your own. I hope I made it easy for you to be inspired by my card.

I have always loved the Tim Holtz wildflower dies and wanted to use them on my card.  I picked two of the dies, the daisy and what looks like an ageratum, cut them from Bristol and colored them with Zigs.  They are tied together with a die from The Greetery from which hangs a tag and sentiment from My Craft Spot (oob).  The background is a gel plate pull that was in my Bits Box. 

There are so many options for you to choose from to CASE a card and I hope you will find one that inspires you to enter one into the gallery. 

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The Flower Challenge #88 - Reminder

There is still time for you to make a card for The Flower Challenge.  We want you to add a heart to your flowers this month.

For this card I added hearts to the background with a cover plate from Honey Bee.  The wildflowers are also from Honey Bee, colored with Distress Inks and tied together with a tag that has a heart on it. I have a package of tiny white hearts that were given to me by Darnell some time ago, leftovers from a card she sent.  They come in handy every now and then. 

How will you add a heart to your card?  For more inspiration be sure to check out what the Design Team has made for you.

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Word Power #2

My niece got married on February 2 and I thought the card I made for their wedding would be a great entry into Word Power's second challenge. 

My sister gave me a set from Stampin' Up that included the wonderful sentiment which was the starting point of my card.  Altenew's Framed Die was layered up around it and then the fun began with making the arrangement.  Susie sent me the colors in her bouquet and I proceeded to cut Spellbinder's Be Bold Blooms, Honey Bee's Wildflower poppy and Dogwood blossoms and TH's Wildflower from white cardstock, blending them with a variety of inks to get the colors I wanted.  Susie included a red poppy in her bouquet because it was my mother's favorite flower.  

I colored more flowers and my daughter used them to make a similar card without a sentiment but I neglected to take a picture of it.  Lisa was hoping that Susie would frame the two of them together. I do know she was delighted with both cards. 

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Inkspirational #262

There's a lovely floral photo over at Inkspirational and I was inspired to make this card.

My daughter-in-law is a potter and I've been the recipient of a few of her wonderful pieces. Instead of glass vases like the photo, I decided to make pottery jars by using Distress Oxides on photo paper and then wiping it off until I liked the results.  The TH Wildflower Stems were cut from paper that had been colored with Distress Sprays.  Some High White embossing powder made the little pussy willows. 

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CTS #388

The weather has taken a turn for the worse so it was a good excuse to stay in and make cards.  This one is for CAS(E) This Sketch.

I cut some TH Wildflowers from Bristol and colored them with Zigs.  They are arranged on an embossed panel that a friend made me and covered with a PinkFresh die on foam and stamped with an Altenew sentiment.  Not necessarily in that order.  *wink*

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Time Out #139

It's been  a while since I've posted a card other than my Design Team ones.  After a week at the lake I'm ready to get back into it until I leave again next week for a trip to Boston with my daughter.  Today's card is for Time Out and their "Inspired by Words".

I inked up the moon with Squeezed Lemonade before masking it to blend other Distress Inks onto my Bristol panel, then added stars with acrylic paint. Once I removed the mask I added a little shading and then stamped the wildflowers from MFT.  The sentiment is also from MFT.

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Just Us Girls #475 - Color Week

Are you ready for some color?  Just Us Girls host Maria has chosen these colors for the challenge.

I must say I struggled with this because I didn't want to make any more valentines.  After days of thinking about it, an idea came to me in the wee hours of the morning.

I see cards where the flowers are stamped around the edges but I rarely do that.  Using the Altenew wildflowers in the challenge colors around the edge of my card worked just as I imagined. I cut an MFT scalloped oval to stamp my PTI sentiment on and popped it in the middle.

What will you do with these colors?  I hope you'll make a card for our gallery for a chance at being Chic of the Week.  The Design Team and guest designer Lisa Elton have some beautiful cards to inspire you.

AAA Cards #131 and Seize the Birthday #157

AAA Cards is trying a new format this year in order to help people keep their cards clean and simple.  This time there's a sketch with an optional twist of pastel.  I turned the sketch sideways.

The flowers are from Catherine Pooler and the sentiment from SSS.

I'm also sending this to Seize the Birthday where the topping is "Stamping Only".  This qualifies.


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Time Out #107

This is the only Spring I see around here.

I was more than happy to bring a little of it to my craft room with the one layer twist

I used my NBUS Altenew Wildflowers with Altenew ink to add to my prayer cards.

ETA:  I just realized that this card fits the challenge at Inspired By All the Little Things so I'm sending it as my second entry there.

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Just Us Girls #432

Nancy is our host for the color challenge at Just Us Girls.

I was inspired by a shower curtain I saw online and switched it up a little to make my card.

I originally thought about placing the wildflowers in all three colors on a white card base but it just didn't do anything for me.  I put it aside and as often happens I had an epiphany in the wee hours of the morning.  I turned the two turquoise die cuts over and colored them with Walnut Stain DOX to go with the one I had already done and the two I did in Frayed Burlap.  Then I used some Peacock Feathers with a Clarity Brush on that white panel.  I love that you can stamp with DOX and used the walnut for my MCS sentiment.  It looks crooked to me but it's all one piece, so if it's crooked it's not me. ;)

I hope you  head off to see what the rest of the Design Team and our guest designer Stef Perry have made using these colors.  If you make a card you may be chosen Chic of the Week and be eligible to be our guest in May.

Just Us Girls #401

It's Trend Week at Just Us Girls and Chris chose 'ink blending' before deciding that it was time for her to step down from the design team.  We will miss you, Chris, and wish you only the best.  Nancy will do hosting duty in her place this week.

When one designer leaves another one comes onto the team and our new team member is Angie Cimbalo.   Please be sure and check out her blog.

This challenge is exciting to me because you can get so many different looks with ink blending.  I went with a scenic look.

I taped off the edge of my Bristol and used Distress Oxides to make a field, mountain and cloudy sky.  In front are some wildflowers from CP's Stamp of Approval and a sentiment from Altenew's Birchland.

What will you do for your ink blended card?  I do hope you're making one. You could be chosen Chic of the Week and be eligible for a chance to guest design just like this month's designer Aileen.  Go to Just Us Girls to see the Design Team cards for inspiration.

CASE The Designer Day

Two of my favorite designers have cards to CASE on challenges.  The Flower Challenge has several designers to CASE and I chose Karen from Snippets. She always does wonderful floral cards with beautiful backgrounds and fantastic sentiments.  You have to check out her blog if you haven't already. This is her card for the challenge:

Like Karen, I took an unfinished background for my card but left it in one piece.

The background was left over from my shaving cream marbling. I put it in a frame and added die cuts from the same TH set that Karen used.  I thought this worked well for a sympathy card so I added the sentiment from PTI.

My next card is my CASE of the one Hannelie of Desert Diva did for Time Out.  Hannelie does some of the most magnificent cards using her Silhouette, all very creative.  Check out her blog to see more work like this one she did for the challenge.

I did a sort of a reverse CASE, coloring the flower and making the background black and white.

The PB lily was stamped on watercolor paper that had been cut with PIT's Tipped Tops and colored with DIs.  A sentiment from HA and some splatters were added before mounting it on black and white stripe paper.  I like this one so much I may do it in other colors.

I will also sent this one to CAS Watercolor.
ETA:  And at CAS Mix-up.  I don't know why I didn't originally do this. Thanks Nancy for telling me it qualifies.

Thanks for dropping by today.  I hope you've found some inspiration.