A Forever Friend!

Hello and Welcome to thday's post for

Just Us Girls

It's our Word Week and as Host I chose FRIEND!

I got out a favourite retired SU SET - Botanical Blooms

die cutting my flowers with

 pretty metallic card stock.

Behind them is stampings from SU Timeless Textures

inked with Memento London Fog,

Added a touch of Nuvo Glitter Gloss

around the edges and pearls to the centres.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations.

Head over and see how our Guest Stephanie 

and the Team chose to showcase their 'Friend' cards

and join in with yours to our Gallery.

Hope to see you there.

It's Original ART.

 Time has just flown by the last few months and

It's already Febraury. I am so thankful that we

take our break in January as I have had very little play time

with hubby in hospital - however he comes home in a few days

so will see how my days pan out with him needing full time care.

I need to get my project below scheduled before then.

I worked on this as time allowed so have few photos of the progress

but some closeups only and will endeavour to explain

how my tags upon tags were created.

Here are the bits and bobs -

lots going on here with the inked background

stencilled with AALL&Create. In fact the stampings

are all from them. Die cut lots of tags from

different suppliers. I knew I wanted to play with them!

Looking at where I am going to place items.

and continue on with the main tag

with cut out stamping and a tiny bit of washi tape on the side.

the corner with stamping and background stencilling

with inked edges.

the left corner with & die cut, tag on top

and lace attached to background tag.

bottom detail with finished tags with twine

and left tag has floral washi tape.

close up view of the bottom strip

with tiny tags that have ric rack and inked art stones

 and pearl.

the back tag with a pink pearl.

and that is my completed MM multiple tag make.

It was so much fun, takng some time to pick

and choose with some items being discarded and

looking for alternatives.

The hardest was the main tag, in the end left the top as is.

Head over to our Mixed Media Blog and

check out the most amazing creative makes from

our Talented Team and

 introducing our New Oh So Talented Designer

Emma Philpott. 

We are excited to have Emma join us 

sharing her creations as part of our team.

WELCOME Emma!

This Makes Me 'Smile'

 I so love the 'Theme' for our latest challenge over at Cut It Up

My sister loved sunflowers so every tme I see them

I think of her and 'Smile'. 

Hence the reason for today's die cuts and sentiment.

I love usng corrugated cardboard so that was

the perfect backdrop (swiped with white gesso)

tearing the top and bottom for my

multi die cut popped sunflower

in shades of yellow/orange from Tim's Oxide's

and some shimmer from Nuvo Solor Flare.

Added twine to the back and green leaves

cut from the same set.

I embossed an old CB leaf folder with white card stock

adding background texture

and finished with a fussy cut 'smile' from STAMPlorations

onto white card base.

Head over and see what thoughts came to mind

for the Team's 'Smile' creations

and come join in with what makes you 'smile'

to our Gallery.

Hope to see you there.

It's Love!

Welcome to a New Month of Challenges

and our New Guest Designer - Stephanie Severin 

at Just Us Girls

Our Host for our Word Week is the Lovely Lisa

It wasn't the easiest card to photograph -

the colours are a little bit out.

Lots of elements added here

Lawn Fawn Stitched Borders

SU Edgelets, MB Small Ringlets

CUTplorations Clustered Hearts

Spellbinders Sentiments 3

Kraft/Coloured cs,Twine

AALL&Create Stencil

Tims Abandoned Coral Distress Ink

Lumberjack Plaid Glaze.

It was a whole lot of fun putting it together.

Head over to check out the talents of our Guest Stephanie

and the Team on how they chose to use the Word Prompt

Heart/Hearts and add yours to our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Case a DT Week!

It's our  Case-ing  a DT Week as we do when there are

Five Thursday's in the Month.

The Team get the opportunity to do their own

Anything Goes - you get to choose  

which DT card you want to case and

mention  your choice.

 Check out what the Team created for your pleasure

then go for it!

Here's my Anything Goes creation.

Background is embossed with Couture Creations Ferns

Die cut card stock on an angle and stamped with

AALL&Create Scripts in Versafine Claire Nocturne.

SB Shapeabilities Butterfly was cut from

a scrap piece from my bits box.

Sentiment is STAMPlorations Trendy Butterflies

punched and coloured with Versafine Clair Verdant

heat embossed with

Colourblast Apple of my Eye.

Added some sisal fibres behind the butterfly for interest

and added a gem to the centre.

Attached to bright lime green card stock.

Looking forward to checking out the

case-ing's in our Gallery.

Love Always...

 It's time for our New Challenge over at

Cut It Up with the Theme Have a Heart.

I wanted to get away from the normal red/pink colours

and had fun with Tim's Oxide Inks in

Peacock Feathers Mermaid Lagoon 

and Crackling Campfire for the background. 

My heart die cut is from CUTplorations Clustered Hearts

 with SU DP (retired)

Sentiment is from STAMPlortations Pocket Blooms.

I used metallic paper, corner rounded

and attached to metallic paper to complete.

Head over and check out what my

Talented Team Mates created.

I am sure you will want to add your

die cut heart themed card to our gallery

so I will look out for it.

Thanks for visiting.

Thinking of You.

It's our ever so popular Stencil Challenge at Just Us Girls

and Hosting is Carol M

My background piece is from my bits box

which I thought made a dramatic backing for

Tim's Abstract Florals

I got that set just before Christmas and

there is so much I want to do with it.

No colouring or adding an extra flower head

as there is enough with the 

AALL&Create stencil work and colourful background

and oh! the splatters.

Added my sentiment from the set,

corner rounding and adhering to

 SU Mossy Meadow card base.

This is Annette's last week as our guest

so head over and see her creation 

as well as the teams inspiration.

A big Thank You for being our Guest Annette.

Thanks for the visit.

Best Wishes.

We are into our Mood Board Challenge at Just Us Girls

and Hosting is Bobby choosing a mix of multiples to choose from.

A bigger view!

I went as close as I could with the  image on the top left

but adding colours from the palette on the right

with rust, grey and a soft pink.

Added a tiny metallic flower with a pearl centre

with a simple sentiment.

Attached to SU grey card stock and base.

Check out what our Guest Annette

and the Team took from the super Bobby Board.

Be inspired and head off and create yours

to add to our Gallery.

Thanks for the visit.