Here's to Coffee!

Hello and Welcome to my project for

 Creative Artiste Mixed Media

A quick run down on how my Mixed Media piece was created.

The background was done a little while ago for CA

 but I went in a different direction and never got finished

till now and I needed to create something quickly.

This was coloured with distress ink, stenciled with texture paste

and randomly stamped with varies grungy stamps.

Cut out some words from an old book. Scrunched it,

 added a die cut tag smooched and inked.

tore and inked edges of coffee ephemera

then put it together adding more inkings

and sentiment.

with a few close ups!

My talented team mates have also been busy

creating fun Mixed Media projects

for your inspiration so we would

love to see one of yours in our Gallery.

Don't forget to make sure you have 

multiple mediums - pretty easy eh!

It's DIE WEEK at Just Us Girls

We start a New Month at Just Us Girls with Die Week

and Hosting is Carol M choosing a specific  

HALLOWEEN themed DIE! and it must be 

clearly featured on your card

We are delighted to welcome our October Guest

   Carrie Sheridan sharing her talents with us.

I had fun creating my ghosty card thanks to

co-worker Lisa who sent those ghosts flying my way.

Started with orange card stock adding texture to Tim's script stencil.

Die cut a tag with dp and added my ghosts

with a black shadow.

Got out a very old Cuttlebug alphabet set for the

layered BOO.

Thought it need something so added some

purple splatters with a posca pen.

Attached to white card base to complete.

Head over and check out what our Guest Carrie

and the Team created for this fun

DIE CUT Halloween Themed Challenge

and share yours in our Gallery.

Their Wild and Free!

It's our popular Stencil Challenge at Just Us Girls 

and hosting is Sue choosing Anything Goes.

Once more I delved into my bits box for my background.

I love Tim's Wild Flowers and used the stencil

first with distress inks then added more with

metallic texture paste.

Finishing with a black die cut wild flower.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations.

Wild flowers really grow wild and free!

Attached to white card base.

Check out Julia's last card as our Guest

and the rest of the team's creative cards

and join us with  yours to our Gallery.

A Big Thanks You to Julia for 

sharing her talents with us.

So enjoyed seeing what you created for us each week.

It's Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls

 It's our Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls 

and Hosting is Vicki choosing this array of interesting items 

for you to pick from...

As you can see my eye focused on the coffee cup

just went with different colours.

Here's the BIG VIEW!

Thought it a perfect time to get out Tim's coffee mug

and play using with bright colours.

The background piece is some DP from my stash.

Behind that is card stock.

Covered it with vellum then added my pretty cup

and some florals.

The sentiment fits perfectly and is from STAMPlorations.

Adhered to white card base to complete.

Head over and check out what our Guest Julia

and Talented Team chose 

and head off and created what caught your eye

and add to our Gallery.

See you there.

It's BOLD!

It's my turn to host this week at Just Us Girls

and it is our WORD WEEK!

I chose BOLD!

As you can see I went with BOLD COLOURS!

An easy card using an

 alcohol inked sheet cut into triangles from MFT

attached to card stock for stability onto dark card base.

Sentiment is from Paper Smooches

and finished with some bright sequins.

Our Guest Julia and my Talented Team Mates

have created bright beautiful bold colourful creations

that will have you heading off to make yours

and add to our Gallery so -

I will see you there.

Mixed Media for Creative Artiste

It's  Creative Artiste Mixed Media Time

and here is my project for September.

It has been a hectic month with family and 

not too much craft time - and is ongoing

as this goes live I will be at the 

tip of Australia with family celebrating

my grandson's wedding.

Hence something simple and a few photos

to show you a little bit of how my tag came together.

Time was running out so didn't take photos of

 the other embellishments as I added them - sorry!

 

Started off with cardboard and

added some lovely dp from my stash.

That came about because I had the flower

in a drawer from years back.

Adding some stencil work from AB Studio

with Liquitex paste and Lindy's 

Have a Scone Heather shaker.

then lace on the side

adding a row of pearls,

die cut a tiny frame, popping the centre

after die cutting some flowers with pearl centres.

Found some scrap bits and used them for

the leaves in the background.

Inked the seam binding and ribbon adding it behind

the flower that has now found a home.

Tied ribbon to top of tag and that completes

this month's Mixed Media Make.

Head over and see what my Talented Team Mates

got up to over the month creating

fabulous mixed media pieces for you.

Then it's your turn to showcase yours

and add to the Gallery.

Off to finish the wedding card, packing etc

and enjoy a full on family celebration

and come home happily exhausted.

 

A Simple Thank You.

Our Host for DIE WEEK (as it's a New Month)

 at Just Us Girls is Sue who chose the word THANKS

to use with our DIES.

We have our New Guest Designer - Julie Aston

sharing her talents with us this month. WELCOME!

I do love arch dies and I found this pretty rose paper

so decided to use them and layer it.

Added a simple thank you die

and my card was complete.

So easy peasy.

Check out Julie's first stunning card

and the Team have as always outdone themselves

with an abundence of beauty so

check them out and add your 

Die Cut Thanks card to our Gallery.