Sea Shells by the Sea Shore!

Bobby is Hosting this weeks challenge at Just Us Girls 

and chose WATER for our  WORD WEEK. 

I knew just what I wanted to do for this challenge

and had so much fun putting my little 

Mixed Media Canvas together.

 

There is a little story behind this canvas.

I recently said to my daughter I needed some sand

for a project. She said she would get a bag for me 

on a trip to spend time with granddaughter in Weipa

(top of Australia) hence she arrived home with

the little bag of sand and some tiny shells

which Harper (my GGD) picked from their trip to the beach.

I had mixed enough sand and texture paste

mixed with Lindy's Magical's and Acrylic Paint

 to create a few more sometime soon.

I even added two small bottles of beach bits

but too big for this canvas.

My beach scene has the blue water

with tiny breaking waves and splashing

against the sand.

Lots of shells, mica flakes, pearls, art stones,

distress glitter and bauxite I have had

in a little bottle for years

(funny enough came from Weipa

where it is mined)

Our Guest Betty and the Team

have created a variety of 

water themed cards for your pleasure.

Now it's your turn to show off yours.

The Moment!

 It's again time for our Monthly Anything Goes

MIXED MEDIUM CHALLENGE at

Creative Artiste MM Challenge

Once again I seem to have used 

much the same colours as last month.

Maybe because the tag die is a bit grungy also and

 saw This Tag on Pinterest and since I had recently

purchased that set I cased her fabulous MM tag.

oh! and a few more sizzix butterflies wanting to be useful.

I started with - 

adding on 

die cut squares and lots of inking

and crackle paste that didn't adhere well.

Added some smooched blue to the squares

to blend with the butterflies

coloured with Lindy's Magical's and Brusho's.

I don't know why the screamin' banshee black

has gone a very deep blue so added a touch of black brusho's.

Added some cheesecloth, 

side bits, black and white splatters.

Decided it needed something in the middle

and a few embellishments beside the added butterflies

with added black pearls.

a couple of close ups!

Head over to Our Blog and check out

what is in store for you from 

our Guest Jenn Borjeson and

our Talented Little Team

and go have some Mixed Media Fun

(using several mm elements)

then add to our Gallery.

Love to see you there.

Die Week at Just Us Girls.

It's a New Month and we start off with our

Die Week at Just Us Girls

Vicki is our Host and chose to go with Anything Goes

so we are sure to have an abundance of  cards

using our DIES!

We also have a New Guest Designer!

Welcome to Betty Keefe

 

I have had a couple of the postage dies for

quite some time but barely used them so it was time

to use one. I went hunting to find something suitable 

that would fit and picked several from a

very old but much loved paper pack from

Inspired by Stamping (no longer in business)

They are very soft muted colours, inking the edges.

Die cut extras popping a few for interest, framed

and adhered to white card base.

A simple Hello to complete.

Our New Guest Betty has wowed us with her

first beautiful card and the Team

as always have an array of

fabulous creative and fun die cut cards

for you to be inspired by. 

Now it is your turn to add to our Gallery

and perhaps be our Weekly Winner or Shout Out.

See you there!

Simply Thank You.

 It's our CASE a DT Week at Just Us Girls

and Hosting is Carol Mc.

We ask you to CASE a DT card from this post

tell us who you CASE and how it inspired your choice.

As you can see it is a pretty CAS card. 

My background is from my bits box and

would have been coloured with Lindy's Magical's

and there is swirled circles from clear texture paste.

I die cut Tim's Mixed Media #2

and attached to my background.

Added a simple die cut sentiment,

 some matching droplets and attached to white card base.

Head over and check out what the Team created

for inspiration and CASE which one

caught your eye and add to our Gallery.

Stencil Week at Just Us Girls...

Hello and Welcome to Stencil Week at 

Just Us Girls 

Our Host is Sue going with Anything Goes.

There isn't too much evidence of stencil work here

but sometimes it is nice just to have a simple background

instead of  it being the feature as I have done here.

Once again I used a favourite AALL&Create stencil

for the background of my tag with a couple of Tim's distress inks

with a touch of gold shimmer and a few splatters 

on the cover plate.

Die cut another few old favourites as feature

adding a rounded ball of variegated cotton

also to the tag.

Finished with a simple sentiment.

Inked the edges and tag.

As this is Bonnie's last week with us as Guest

A huge thank you once more for sharing

your amazing talent with us. It has been

such a pleasure.

Head off and see Bonnie's last card for us

and it is spectacular!

The Team have also created such beautiful stencil art

so you won't want to miss checking them all out. 

Mine is a bit plain compared to them.

Then it is your turn to inspire us with yours inour Gallery.

From Me to You!

Hello and Welcome

It's Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls

and Bobby as Host chose this variety of beautiful images below

for us to pick from.

 

As you can see I am showcasing

the poppies on the top left.

I coloured my tulips with 

Tim's Distress Barn Door and 

leaves and stems with peeled paint and rusty wilderness

with a touch of shimmer from Magcal's but hasn't shown up

onto w/c paper and die cut.

Die cut my Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles frame

and added some grunge stamping and splatters.

Adhered my poppies to frame and added a

STAMPlorations sentiment.

Popped on to cream frame and base.

Our Guest Bonnie and the Team have chosen

what caught their eye on our Mood Board

and created a variety of lovely work

now it is your turn to show us yours.

See you there

You ROCK!

It's Just Us Girls Word Week and Hosting is Vicki

who wants us to PLAY!

How will you use that word?

I went the easy way out and chose music

as it was a big part of my hubby's hobby.

A simple card with some grungy inking for the background.

Die cut a few guitars deciding on three different colours.

fussy cutting the white centres and adding gold liquid dots

and some inked music notes.

Added some splatters also to the appropriate sentiment

from a favourite Paper Smooches stamp set.

Framed in black onto red card base.

You will want to check out how

our Guest Bonnie and my Talented Team Mates

chose to use PLAY.

You will be so impressed that you will

want to add your version to our Gallery.

See you there.