It's CASimply Happy Birthday.

Welcome to today's post.

 We made a couple of changes to our themes this year at

Just Us Girls  and this is one

 I am sure will be very popular. 

It's CAS - Clean and Simple.

Check our guidelines below.

The Host has the choice of what she is looking for

 and our Host Carol has chosen BIRTHDAY!

As the theme states - CAS.

Background is a simple die cut from Kaisercraft.

Die cut several florals in purple tones

Attached a piece of ribbon from my stash

and Happy Birthday Sentiment is from SU.

Pop over and see how our Guest Jules

and the Team went CAS.

Hope you like our New Challenge and

join in with your CAS card in the Gallery.

As it is the last challenge of the month

we bid farewell to our Talented Guest Jules.

Loved having you share your creations with us this month.

Thank you so much.

My CAS card fits in with Challenge #648 All Occasions

at Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog

Till next time

Let it Snow!

The Theme for our current challenge over at 

The Sisterhood of Crafters is

Brr! IT'S COLD OUTSIDE -

just not here where I live. 

Gives me a chance to get a Christmas card made 'early'

Used a peek a boo die and smooched a

snowy background with Lindy's Magical's

and Irridescent Medium.

Die cut trees and punched stars.

Added a mound to ground the trees.

Lots of splatters and heat embossed sentiment

finished my card.  Adhered to white card base.

Head over and see what my Sistahs created.

Hope to see yours on our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Be Strong!

Welcome to todays post.

Had some time to participate in 

a few challenges with just one card.

This doesn't happen too often for me.

My card is for

Krafty Chicks -  Their Week 3 Challenge 

 is (Clean and Simple) CAS #747 

for

Tic Toc Toe

My choice was Top Row

White cardstock - flowers - pearls

Retired SU Stippled Blossoms (nice to get an oldie out)

and Kaisercraft Lavender Pearls

and Time Out are looking for

words that inspire!

I chose Be Strong 

using a few of the sponsors products - 

AALL&Create #37 Cracked Walls stencil 

and #754 Power of the Word Stamp Set

Inks - Memento Lulu Lavender, Sweet Plum

Elizabeth Crafts Cool Diamonds Glitter.

Thanks for taking time to drop in.

From Me to You

It's Saturday and Photo Week at Just Us Girls

Carol Mc's Mood Board has lots to choose from.

It's obvious what took my eye!

 

Here's a closer look!

My flower is a Black Eyed Susan from Elizabeth Craft Designs

 cut multiple times with flower soft in the middle.

Added embossed background, die cuts

and white ribbon tied with white cotton.

Finished with a simple sentiment and framed,

adhered to white base. 

Head over and see what our Talented Guest Jules

and Team Mates created for inspiration

and come join in by adding yours to our Gallery.

Thanks for taking time out to visit.

Let it Snow!

 Don't you love it when you find a challenge by accident

and something already in your bits box fits?

That is exactly what happened when I went to 

comment on a fellow DT card. 

Leanne DT member of Krafty Chicks Challenge

blew me away with her beautiful purple Christmas Card

for Challenge 646 Week 2 Christmas

I just had to finish it off  and

 enter into their Gallery - then add to my 2023 Christmas cards.

Background is smooched with Lindy's Magical's

Trees stars and deer are Tim's Great Outdoors.

with a bit of heat embossed glitter.

Snow is roughed up texture paste and glitter.

Distressed the edges, matted on brown and

white card base.

Sentiment is from Happy Little Stampers.

Allsorts Challenge Blog

is looking for  AG with option of Winter Blues

so popping this over to their Gallery.

Thanks for taking time out to visit.

With Love!

Sue is Hosting this week at Just Us Girls 

and is looking for Hearts!

You can never send too much Love can you?

I hadn't intended my heart to be so "redish' but 

the Lindy's Bougainvillea Fuchsia

 has a mix of red/pink and purple.

I die cut an old Cuttlebug heart, flowers

and heart heads from the mix.

There is also a white cut out heart in the background

and scored behind that for extra interest.

Die cut a few extra heart stems in white

and a flourish from Fancy That.

Sentiment from STAMPlorations,

a few splatters and tiny pearls to finish.

Head over and see how our Guest Jules

and the Team used their 'Hearts' - 

 perfect for those that create cards for

Valentine's Day coming up -

so come join in with yours to our Gallery.

We would love to see you there.

Sending this over to the  Romantic Challenge #229

at Time Out Blogspot

and Tic Tac Toe Challenge for

Challenge #192

Going with Middle Row Down

Hearts - Free - Shades of Red

Thanks for visiting.

Be True to You!

It's our first challenge for the New Year at

The Sisterhood of Crafters and

we are starting off with

  Something New!

With so many new craft items either bought

or gifted the fun of choosing could be hard.

My Something New is 

The stamp I used here bought 

late last year after seeing a card

made by our Sistah Annie.

It's Timeless Tulips from Dark Room Door.

Background is inked up with

Tim's Ox inks, stenciling (new) and stamping from

AALL&Create.

Fussy cut the tulips inked, heat embossed

and slightly popped.

Framed and adhered to white card base.

Showing off the whole stamp here - 

first time inking with Versafine Clair Nocturne 

and heat embossed onto a background

from my bits box. 

Added some splatters and a simple sentiment.

Framed and onto black card base.

Head over and see what my sistahs created.

We would love to see your

'Something New' in our Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in

Christmas Snippets

It's our first Challenge for 2023 at Christmas Craft Creations 

and one I am sure we all have lots of after 

our Christmas card making for last year.

'Snippets'

Here's mine!

All dp used here are leftover bits (snippets).

Die cut five trees, adhered to white cardstock,

framed in red and corner rounded as is the 

one background piece. Both adhered to

white and red card base.

Merry die/sentiment is from Her Arts

and finished with a red bird.

After our recent DT call out we have 

New Talented Designers joining the fun.

Head over to Our Blog and check out

how creative the Team were with their snippets

and don't forget to leave some kind 

welcoming comments for our Newbies.

Looking to see lots of lovely creations.

Will yours be there?

Thanks for popping in

It's Gold! oh and Pink!

 I just HAD TO make another card for the

Pink and Gold Challenge over at 

Color Hues Colour Challenge - this time

using 'real gold paper' and of course pink.

I got out two dies - Memory Box Loveland Corner 

cutting twice (pink and gold)

and CUTplorations Clustered Hearts a few (quite a few) more

as I was going to use them on another card but

didn't work out as planned so scattered a few spares for interest.

The Love Die was a gift.

This was all adhered to gold metallic paper

and on to metallic gold card base.

The Design Team and Newbies 

Jules Stef and Marcia so inspired us

with their amazing cards didn't they?

Thanks for visiting.

'Inspire'

 Welcome back to a New Year of Challenges at

Just Us Girls

We start our Challenges off with Color Week

chosen by our Host Lisa K

AND we have a few a few changes coming during the month too.

***

 Lisa has made it so easy for us with such lovely shades of blues.

To get back into the swing of things I went with

a favourite of mine - a colourful background of blues

with Lindy's Afternoon Delight Denim and

Tim's Denim Delight on Canson Cold Press WC paper

(which is a very creamy coloured paper)

 with his Wildflowers coloured in the same colours.

Added some navy cotton, a simple sentiment

and a blue pearl to the white flower.

Scored the card base to frame the popped florals.

We welcome our January Guest - Jules Pedd

and the Team back again for 2023.

Head over and see how the colours inspired us all.

Hope to see yours in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Wishing You Happiness!

The Talented Designers at Color Hues are back

and have a fabulous colour combination

 chosen by Nancy to inspire us.

Color Hues #55 Light Pink and Gold

As you can see my card hasn't the

traditional gold colour BUT  is

Lindy's Grab a Guy Gold.

My pinks are Tim's gorgeous Saltwater Taffy

and Distress Worn Lipstick EP for my

 STAMPlorations Fond Expressions 2 sentiment.

Dies were a gift.

Added some gold thread for interest and

gold flicks from a posca pen.

I couldn't help but add some stenciling

from AALL& Create also.

Inked the edges and adhered to white card base.

Love the fabulous colours Nancy.

Thanks for dropping in and commenting.

Christmas Wishes

 Sistah Diane chose the Theme to use

 Traditional Christmas Colours of  RED & GREEN

for our last Challenge of the Year at

The Sisterhood of Crafters

A simple layout here using the chosen colours

with stitched die cuts, sentiment,

Kaisercraft Berry Vine full of red berries

and finished with twine. 

We will be back on the 11th January to 

start all over again to create and inspire you.

Look forward to you joining us again in the New Year.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas

and a Safe and Healthy New Year.

Merry! Merry! Merry!

The Theme for our December Challenge at

Christmas Craft Creations is Gnomes.

I only had one lonely gnome stamp but

lucky for me our local craft store had a

special on them recently (and with dies yay)

in plenty of time to create for our last challenge of the year.

I knew the paper I wanted to use here.

It's Boofle with lots of tartan and other gorgeous pages.

My bff brought it back from England

many years ago and use it sparingly.

I inked my gnome with Versafine Clair Nocturne

and heat embossed clear.

Inked again on one of the dp's

and fussy cut his hat, boots and mittens.

His beard is layered lightly with Liquid Pearls.

Added a touch of shimmer with a gel pen

and gloss.

Popped him onto a MFT die cut, added

three Merry dies and a heart to finish.

Head over and see what my Team Mates created.

Look forward to seeing your gnomes in our Gallery.

Thanks for your encouraging and kind comment

throughout the year.

Merry Christmas and as the Scots say

A Guid New Year Tae Yin An Awe

See you in 2023. 

PS So looking forward to watching the

Edinburgh Military Tattoo once more.

Merry Christmas!

 The December Stencil Challenge over at 

Happy Little Stampers is live.

You may wonder where the stencil is on my card.

The background is Tim's Speckles and I sprayed

Lindy's Black Orchid Silver through the stencil

on w/c paper and let it dry.

A close up!

I did the same with iridescent medium

and added extras with splatters.

The trees are coloured with the same background colours.

Sentiment is Hero Arts.

Finished with a few punched stars.

That's it for the year.

Hope you have a Merry Christmas

and a Safe Happy New Year.

It's a White Christmas

It's our last challenge of the year at

 Creative Artiste Mixed Media

and I had a lot of fun creating a 

Very Snowy Christmas Hanger.

 I bought the hanger last year - just didn't get to work on it.

I knew when I saw it, it was perfect for Mixed Media.

Let the fun begin! Gessoed with black and white.

Painted the outer circle with 

AA metallic rusty red and dark forest.

adding crackle paste to the inside circle

Lots of  'messy stuff'' going on here

adding crackle paste, glitter, art stones.

touched up back trees in green,

AA waxes, acrylic paint for snow capped trees and houses.

It needed a backing so cut out a circle

and smooched with Tim's ox inks and some

irridescent medium for shimmer.

and that finished off my

Christmas Wall Hanger.

Head over to our Blog to see what my

Talented Team Mates had fun creating.

Hope you get some 'you' time to create

a little mixed media something for us.

This is our last challenge for the year.

We take a break in January but

we will be back with more Mixed Media

for your pleasure in February.

Thank you for your kind comments throughout the year.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas

and a Safe Happy and Healthy New Year.