Giving THANKS

Welcome to today's post for Just Us Girls.

It's a little special as I am Host this week and

being close to our Remembrance Day (11th) I chose the word

THANKS 
As this is the beginning of a new month we have
Kristin from Lilypad Designs.
Welcome Kristin - looking forward to you
sharing your talents with us this month.

Around this time each year I make a Poppy Card

in remembrance of those past and present

who have or are serving our country.

I used the Memory Box Perky Poppy Die

cutting it out with white card stock then

the flower heads and branches and stems

with a red and green metallic patterned paper.

The background is lightly inked with 

Tim's Stone Stencil in Frayed Burlap.

Sentiment is from 

STAMPlorations Fond Expressions 2.

Adhered to white card base.

Pop over and see what our Guest Kristin 

and the Team created as their Thank You's.

Love to see you in our Gallery with your

Giving Thanks card.
AND
Adding my Poppy card to the
P for Poppies or Pumpkin Challenge
at Alphabet Challenge Blog

Fly High for STAMPlorations Stencil Challenge

Hello and Welcome to November.

Time for our next Stencil Challenge at STAMPlorations

My Mother Load of Stencils arrived in my mail box

recently and this is the first chance I have had to get them messy.

I did have a lot of fun with this 5x7 canvas.

Starting with my background of smooching with

spritzed Nuvo Shimmer Powder in Green Parade.

I then started some stenciling with

Art-Splatters  Onion-in-Raws

Lupinus  and  Layered-Petals

using Tim's Fossilized Amber, Carved Pumpkin,

Gathered Twigs, Lindy's Magical's Yellow Rose of Texas

 and Art Alchemy Metallic Paint in Fresh Orange.

Adding some stamping with 

Mixed-Media-Elements (Out of Stock)

around the edge and randomly inside.

Scribbly-Splattery-Grunge (Out of Stock)

also on the inside.

Sentiments are from  Trendy-Butterflies-2 (Out of Stock)

and  Art-Marks

Finished with the butterfly from
  Flutter-Zen-2-Layering-Dies

in a metallic copper paper and a pearl.

Head on over and see what my team mates created
and come join us in our Gallery.
There's always generous winnings
to be had by participating.
I'll be back later in the month with
another project to Remind You.

Thanks for dropping in and commenting

A Mixed Media Maple Leaf Make

Hello and Welcome to my post for

Creative Artiste Mixed Media 

This month I moved away from my usual

floral type makes and went for

a pretty maple leaf and some cogs.

Something a little less time consuming

after last months piece.

It's a 4x4 canvas sealed with gesso.

and textured with stenciling

from Little Birdie

Adding colours with Lindy's Shakers in

Magnolia Magenta Gold

Grab a Guy Gold and

Cowabunga Copper

and more stenciling with some script using

Cadence Relief Paste .

Coloured up my chipboard cogs and attached to canvas.

Also attaching my maple leaf which is from a

very old Cuttlebug Die and cut multiple times

coloured using Jolly Roger Red Alpine Rose

and Glory of the Sea Gold Sprays

Metal cogs are heat embossed with

Wow Chocolate Caramel Pearl Powder.

Added lots of waxing in

Art Alchemy Fire Ruby Royal Robes

and Rich Copper

around the canvas edges and cogs.

Coloured a few cabachons to finish.

A few close ups - 

That's it for this month.

 Pop over and see what my Talented Team Mates created.

Hope to see you in our Gallery.

Once more I will join in the Challenge over at

Bleeding Art for their Anything Goes Here

Born to be Wild

Hello November and Welcome to

Happy Little Stampers
Time for our Watercolour Challenge

and our Optional Twist is

When I saw this option I knew exactly what stamp set
I was going to use. It's
Happy Little Stampers Born to be Wild
My background is made from
Magical's Sprays (of course)
and the surround circle die of the lion
is also with Lindy's Sprays/Shakers.
I stamped my lion with VersaFine Clair in
Fallen Leaves then heat embossed in clear.
I like the effect I got with the different outline shades.
I cut out a Kaisercraft die that I thought
could look like part of a cage. Again I used
Magical's and used my fingers to cover it.
(I still have coloured fingers a day later)
Needing something more I cut several leaves from
Carta Bella Spring Greenery arranging them
around the lion and 'cage'.
Lucky I have some Glad Press and Seal
that helped me hold all of this in one piece
so I could glue them all down.

I really had a lot of fun getting inky here.
Hop on over and see how my Team Mates
chosen to play this month and
come join us in our Gallery.
 Hope to see you there.

This lion is roaring over to join in the Silhouettes
at Double D Challenge



UPDATE!
Just saw that over at
Mix It Up Challenge their
Anything Goes Current Challenge
optional twist is Watercolouring!
My card above fits perfectly.

Thankful...

Hello and welcome to my Saturday post for

Just Us Girls

Here's my take on our Photo Challenge below
chosen by our Host Bobby.

There are always gorgeous photos of sunflowers
and pumpkins and this one is a 'beauty'
My stash is light on with pumpkins but lucky for me
I have a few good ones - and the one I used is the
STAMPlorations Oh-So-Grateful-Stamps-and-Coordinating-Die
I heat embossed my pumpkin with Ranger Potting Soil
then coloured with a variety of Lindy's Magicals.
Also added a bit of Art Alchemy Wax.
This was then die cut.
My background stencil is a new one called
Barley-ARTplorations-Stencil-Sanna-Lippert-Designs
and sponged with those amazing blending brushes.
The Thankful is heat embossed and from
Thankful-Blessed-Dees-Artsy-Impressions
My pumpkin was popped.
Added a brown backing and adhered to
my white card base.

Pop over and see what out Super Guest Chris
Simply fabulous having her back with us this month.
and the Team have created and come join us.
You could be our Chic of the Week
and a future Guest like Chris.

Sending my card over to Addicted to Stamps for their
Challenge #178 to add a Pumpkin and
Dies R Us Challenge  using the Theme of
Pumpkins and/or Apples



Thanks for dropping in

Mixed Media Magical's Make

Hello and Welcome. Today's post is to show you

my finished Mixed Media project I played with recently.

Over at Random Arts they have this divine Mood Board

and being a 'purple person' had to use this as my inspiration.

I am building my supply of Lindy's Sprays and 

I got them out to use some for the first time

to experiment. As I had nothing special in mind

besides using the colours of the mood board

I just went with what came to mind.

I gesso'd my 5x7 canvas and started building layers with

Dry Wall Tape, Punchinella, Little Birdie Stenciling 

using Dreamweaver Crackle Paste

 and a few things from my stash.

Then the fun began with the colours.

Adhered some cheesecloth to the back of my

Little Birdie Flowers that I have waxed  for effect.

Some Art Stones and Distress glitter made for more layers.

Randomly added some stamping from Art Alchemy

and finished with a few cabachons and some white splatters.

I am linking this up to the current challenges at

Random Arts October Mood Board Challenge

using from the store Here

Lindy's Sprays

Dreamweaver Crackle Paste Distress Paste

Distress Glitter Art Stones

Little Birdie Flowers and Stencil

Art Alchemy Waxes

and Bleeding Art for their

October Anything Goes Challenge

Thanks for dropping in.

Love reading your thoughts.

Spotlighting my Thistle Silhouette

Hello and Welcome.

Today I am showcasing a favourite Stamp

using a Silhouette image for Double D Challenges

and what else would it be for me but 

The Flower of my Homeland - A Thistle.

Something a little different from me here.

I had not planned to highlight my thistle

but the dark background just didn't show

the flower properly so thought I would

ink it up in white and colour it in it's true colours.

The background is a combination of 

various distress inks swiped from side to side

onto photo paper and then heat embossing 

my Lavinia Thistle in black.

I inked the edges with black archival ink

and  randomly swiping also from side to side.

Added some Art Alchemy in Rich Copper

and Stampendous Aged Copper embossing enamel

to ground my flower.

Die cut sentiment twice - black on white

and is from CUTplorations.

Popped my die cut thistle, sponging with a light lavender

to soften the whiteness,

 added a white mat and adhered to black card stock. 

This really was a fun card to make. 

Thanks for a great challenge DD.

Your 'Special'

It's the start of a new week and I have been busy

making another card for the October Challenge at

CAS Stencil Challenge 

using Patterned Paper with our stencil.

I did have another one made but decided to

make the card above as well.

Lots of white space here and highlighting 

my stencil on a pretty peachy coloured 

patterned paper. 

I used Cadence Champagne Paste

on my stencil and framed it with a 

Spellbinder die and popped.

Adhered the same paper for added colour

and onto white card base. 

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations

and die cut ARTplorations 

Thanks for dropping by 

Till next time Cherrio from

It's a 'Twofer' for Just Us Girls

It's Saturday and posting day for
Just Us Girls and this week Host is Sue
choosing 

This is the second card I made for this challenge

as I wasn't sure if the first one I had gone too far

on the background.

The outline image from Rubbernecker

called Bouquet was on my work bench

so thought I would play around with it

using the three colours with Tim's Distress Inks

and some Magical's for a bit of shimmer.

Sentiment die is from Crafts4U.

Added some splatters and backed it with

matching card stock.

And my first card

The bright coloured  background was smooched with Magical's

and added some grunge in black for contrast.

Feather is from STAMPlorations Trendy Feathers 2

heat embossed as is my sentiment from

STAMPlorations Bold Sentiments.

Die cut and attached to purple paper and

adhered to black card base.

Pop over and see what our Guest Chris

and the Team created and join us in our Gallery.

Thanks for dropping by.

A Retro Happy Birthday

Hello and Welcome

A quick post today for the current challenge at

Retro Rubber where you ink up stamps 

that are more than 12 months old.

I enjoyed making one for their Tic Tac Toe Challenge

a few days ago and so made another  - 

this time with a bit more stamping on it.

I chose to go down the right had side  with

Floral Ribbon and Birthday.

My stamps that are older than twelve months are

SU Just Believe (2012?)

for the background leaves

and Curly Cute (2012) for the sentiment.

The leaves were inked with

 SU Mossy Meadow and sponged.

The Happy Birthday in the same colour.

Added a few die cuts wild flowers from Tim Holtz

waxing one with Art Alchemy Heather Hills

and the yellow brushed with Nuvo Shimmer.

I added SU ribbon and adhered to

Mossy Meadow DP and white card stock

embossed with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots.

Attached then to my white card base.

Thanks for dropping in

Love reading your thoughts!