You make me Smile!

 It's our Die Week at Just Us Girls and our Host is Vicki

 sharing some very special news for you all - 

to announce we have a New Designer

joining us this week. 

A Big Welcome to Denise Morgans

You will have seen her creative talents recently as

a past Guest Designer.

On that note we Welcome this month's Guest

Kerry Parkinson

to  show you all her creativeness.

On to my CAS card this week

I stencilled my card using the cute stencil

bought years ago with grit paste

with Distress Glaze in Kitsch Flamingo

to add some sparkle.

The fun Smile Die (you are smiling aren't you)

is a cheapie I loved when I saw it.

This was cut from w/c paper inked with 

Distress Kitsch Flamingo/Glaze

as is the frame. Off course I had to

 add some splatters to  finish and

adhered to white card base.

Head over and check out the vast array of

Talented from our Guest Kerry and 

New Team member Denise with the

rest of us and add your to our Gallery. 

Stencil Week at Just Us Girls...

It's our popular Stencil Week at 

Just Us Girls

and Vicki is Hosting with Anything Goes.

Here is what I created!

The background is from some soft toned DP and

embossed with Distress Crackle Paste.

I found this piece lying on a table - 

must have started it and got sidetracked!

An easy finish by adding some die cut flowers

from Simply Dies - Tall Flower.

The main flower cut from another

Designer Paper Pad and cut so as the vase was

a different colour. The background flowers

were inked with DO to blend.

Added some mesh to ground the vase

finishing with a small talk sentiment.

Head over and check out Rosemary's last card

as our Guest and a Big Thank You for sharing

her talents with us this month.

Also the Design Team were busy creating

for your pleasure and now we invite you to

join in with yours to our Gallery.

Simply ''Hello

Hosting our Just Us Girls Mood Board  Challenge this week

is BOBBY and don't you just LOVE the choices!

You can guess what caught my eye!

That single deep blue flower head had me

going to replicate it using 

Distress inks and Lindy's Magicals to try

and get that blue.

Die cut a Kaisercraft leaf,

did a little embossing, attached to popped white frame.

Scored around the edges and onto white base.

Added a tiny piece of twine and again used a

sentiment die from Poppy Stamps

(thanks again L)

Check out what caught the eye of 

our Guest Rosemary and the Team

and come join us in the galllery.

Spotlighting at Just Us Girls

I'm hosting Just Us Girls Word Week and

chose a something I bet you haven't done for quite some time.

the SPOTLIGHT Technique.

I had so many ideas running through my head but

in the end I went with what I thought was

a reverse spotlight going with the feature

as a background.

I inked up two images from

STAMPlorations Blossom Sprays #3

with thebackground from a 

shaving cream piece from my bits box

and the top one with white c/s.

I got carried away and thought I would go all out

and make it a shaker card.

Remind me not to do one again in a hurry.

Bits go everywhere ...

Added tape to background and 

managed to line the top fairly closely.

Finished with the sentiment from

STAMPlorations Bloom Happy

and adhere to black base.

I did another one very similar to this

which went live a few days ago Here

Head over and check out the

Spotlighting that our Guest Rosemary

and the Team had fun with then I hope

you will go back in time and create

your spotlight card to add to our gallery.

Thank you for visiting and leaving

your kind comments.

Spring-ing ATC's for STAMPlrations

Hello and Welcome.

It's my turn to showcase some of the 

gorgeous spring ATC's that are 

flooding the STAMPlorations Blog at the moment.

If you haven't been over to check them out

you really are missing such wonderful creativity

by the STAMPgirls!

Here are my makes!

This one is showing off three of the ATC's.

Behind them I stenciled STAMPlorations Ethnic Organic 1

with Tim's Distress Ink

Added some grunge from STAMPlorations Art Marks

The ATC's were framed, adhered and popped.

Sentiment is die cut from

STAMPlorations Bloom & Grow

My second card has the

STAMPlortions Flutter Zen Artsy Borders

heat embossed 

STAMPlorations Celebrate Artsy

STAMPlorations Mixed Media Elements

(sadly retired)

STAMPlorations Vignette Eclectic Florals

in the background with

STAMPlorations Trendy Butterflies 2

(sold out atm)

for my sentiment.

Inks from Tim's Distress Range.

My last card I cut the house from

STAMPloration Houses 

to enable me to add the two hand cut house behind it.

The STAMPlorations Mosaic Slimline Stencil

was created with Translucent Crackle Paste.

Sentiment was cut and inked from

STAMPlorations Merry.

Added framed background and 

sisal and art stones in front of the houses.

Thanks for taking time out to check out 

my ATC creations - showing that you can

go all out and play with them in any way

you like to use them. 

Flowers Bloom!

It's that time of the month for our new 

Anything Goes Challenge over at the

STAMPlorations Blog

 

 

Check out all the Details here.

I created this CAS card using a 

 background from my bits box.

Inked and heat embossed the 

STAMPlorations Blossom Sprays #3 twice,

 for the coloured background and the other

popped in the foreground.

Die cut a circle to blend in.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations Bloom Happy

Added a few black pearls, corner rounded

and attached to black base to complete.

Don't forget to head over and check out

what the STAMPgirls created and come

join in the fun as there are prizes of all sorts to win.

PS while I was making this card there was another

very similar one on the craft table that you will see in a few days.

Nothing like a twofer creation going on so no your eyes

aren't seeing double.

Thanks for visting and leaving a kind comment.

 

Everything has Beauty!

Hello and Welcome to my post for

 Creative Artiste Mixed Media.

It's our Anythng Goes Mixed Media time 

and here is what I created this month.

We all have times when Mo and Jo go missing and they did

just that recently when I needed to create

 this month's Mixed Media.

So I got out a sheet of MM paper and

 just started some stencil work,

added a bit of crackle, texture paste here and there.

Stencils I use are mostly AALL&Create.

A few touches of Lindy's Magical's,

Inks are Tim's as are some of the stamping. 

There is a bit of shimmer,

a few circles inked from a lid.

The butterfly is Sizzix. Inked the paper edges.

Sentiment is from Tim's small talk.

Here are a 'few' close ups - 

As you can see by the close ups there are quite a few

layers of all sorts.

Sorry for the lack of progress photos as

it was a crazy month and craft time limited.

Just a fairly CAS style Mixed Media.

We have Claudia as our Guest this month so

drop by and check out what Mixed Media Makes

Claudia and the Team had fun with and come join in.

# Please make sure you use multiple mediums on your entries. 

This is a mixed media challenge for cards and projects.

Thanks for visiting.