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Thursday, 7 May 2026

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
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. 





Thursday, 23 April 2026

Stencil Week at Just Us Girls...

It's our popular Stencil Week at 
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.



Thursday, 16 April 2026

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.




Thursday, 9 April 2026

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
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
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.


Wednesday, 8 April 2026

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



My second card has the
heat embossed 
(sadly retired)
STAMPlorations Vignette Eclectic Florals
in the background with
(sold out atm)
for my sentiment.
Inks from Tim's Distress Range.


My last card I cut the house from
to enable me to add the two hand cut house behind it.
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. 










Tuesday, 7 April 2026

Flowers Bloom!

It's that time of the month for our new 
Anything Goes Challenge over at the
 

 

Check out all the Details here.
I created this CAS card using a 
 background from my bits box.
Inked and heat embossed the 
 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.



 

Friday, 3 April 2026

Everything has Beauty!

Hello and Welcome to my post for
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.