It's PHOTO WEEK at Just Us Girls



It's time for our PHOTO WEEK at

JUST US GIRLS

and I am Hostess.



I love hexagons and found this great photo

with lots of inspirational bits and bobs  -

so much to look at and choose.

That was the start of my dilemma.

The trouble was I had so many different

ideas running through my head.

Mo and Jo seemed to go walkabout

coming back every now and then starting

something and then leaving it.

I had lots of  different sized hexagons

in different papers cut out and spread

everywhere but nothing looked right.

Does this happen to you? I am sure it does

and is so frustrating. Lucky for me I had

time (too much in fact) up my sleeve and I think

that was my problem.

 

Ok I am rambling here so I will get on with

my posting. Sorry!

 

I was inspired by the hexagons naturally and the colours

of red and black with a touch of green and yellow. 

 I made 2 cards as the first one I think I tried

to put tooooooooo much into it hence

my procrastinating over my second attempt.

This is the 2nd card.

 

 

I framed my SU Hexagon diecut several times

cut a large one from the Spellbinders Hexagon Die

to back my flower which is Spellbinders Layered Flowers

Cut several daisy flowers and layered

Green fern from Kaisercraft

Sentiment is by Cherry Lynn.

 

and my first one.

using the same Spellbinder Hexagon die

SU Hexagon embossing folder

some unknown DP

The background I stamped multiple times

with a hexagon stamp from Kaisercraft.

As you can see I have a few hexagon products

which just added to my confusion.

 

I think I will leave it there and let you

go over to Our Blog

so you can see what inspired everyone else.

 

For October & November Only: If you are picked as Chic of the Week for any of our October and November challenges, you'll be in the running to be chosen as one of two Guest Designers for the month of January 2016! The Team will be taking a 2 week break in December, so we will not have a Guest Designer for December. Good luck and happy crafting!

 

Hope to see your creations there this week.

 

 

 

 



Autumn Leaves in my Spring Time

 

It may be Spring in my neck of the woods but over at

Crafty Cardmakers Jackie is Hostess for our latest challenge

and she has chosen anything with Warm Autumn Colours.

 

 

Now it just so happens that I recently purchased

some gorgeous gilding flakes at a craft show and since there

 are so many fall/autumn coloured themes in blog land

I have had fun playing with them.

 

My card looks really simple and it was but trying

to cover my vine die with those flakes ...

well I got my glue out and covered it

then the fun began with those ever so light flakes.

 I started pressing down to make sure

all was covered and of course I had a little glue

on my fingers + you guessed it flakes a plenty.

And you can imagine they were also covering my desk.

Now to get on with what else I used on my card -

White card stock

I cut 2 different sized circles from my SB die

and inked with Tim Holtz

Tea Dye/Frayed Burlap & Dried Marigold

My vine die is from Kaisercraft

Gilding Flakes - Creative Expression

Sentiment - Inspired by Stamping

Spellbinders Radiant Triangles for my frame

Finished off by adding some gemstones.

 

I really enjoyed making this card - Thanks Jackie

I hope you like it as I love reading your comments.

 

Don't forget to go over to

Our Blog and check out what the

Talented Design Team have created.

Hope to see your Autumn Themed projects there.