A Two-fer Traditional and Tropical Tag

 It's WORD WEEK at Just Us Girls 

and Hosting is Carol M choosing

MERRY! to get us all into the Christmas Spirit.

My Traditional tag has gesso on the back

then added distress grit paste heavily

with Tim's Speckles stencil.

Die cut my leaf in two green tones

splashed with white posca pen.

Merry Die and sentiment are from Hero Arts

Added shimmer spray all over

from Lindy's milky way white

and Nuvo sparkle dust to the Merry,

 berry centre and snow drops.

My Tropical tag also has a gesso background.

Again using Tim's stencil as above

but I am saying that they are

heavy raindrops as that is what 

will be happening here.

Sponged a little blue to the background

after adding to the blue tones to

 the Merry die and leaves.

Sprayed the tag the same as the above tag.

Christmas sentiment is from the same set.

Other bits are from my Christmas box.

Surprising what you find and forgot

when Christmas is on the horizon.

I know we are going to have a gallery full of

amazing MERRY creations so 

better head over and see how our Guest Jane

 and my Talented Team mates chose to use

the word MERRY!

See you there...

Let's Go for Three!

It seems an age since we had our last challenge at

 Creative Artiste Mixed Media

maybe because October was a long month.

Lucky for me as I spent most of it

over the other side of Australia

celebrating my granddaughter's wedding,

catching up with family time and 

with long time friends.

Then I came back to catch up on all sorts of things.

One -  hoping Mo and Jo came back with me.

Yay they did!

Wasn't sure what I was gong to create

and while browsing through my box of

supplies of sorts, the neglected ones mainly from

AALL&Create making it easy-ish for me.

I began with three canvas ATC's 

adding gesso.

Distress inks, sprays and spritz were

out to show off some bold colours.

I was finally happy with the result - 

Continuing on with some stamping/stenciling

Stencil - Scrap FX

AALL&Create - 1261, 1263, 978, 991.

Finishng with posca pen splatters, inked edges

and TH Small Talk.

The middle stamp says Let's Go

(a little hard to read)

We have Pauline C as our Talented Guest this month so

head over to Our Blog and check out what

she created for us and the Team have

once again showed off their MM talents.

Head into your creative cave, have a play

and share with us. We look forward to  seeing them.

It's DIE Week at Just Us Girls

Hello and Welcome to Just Us Girls

It's a new month of Challenges and

the Lovely Lisa is Hosting our DIE WEEK

choosing ACORN DIES!

Also we Welcome our 

New Guest Designer for November

Jane Delen

Acorns are something you don't see lying around

here in Australia so I am thankful to kind friends

for the gifted DIES I have used on this card.

I die cut a few leaves from a scrap in my bits box

as well as my acorns.

Also cut my MB perpetual double frame

and lightly sprayed it with

Frayed Burlap Distress Spritz.

Added my arrangemnt and a

simple thankful sentiment.

Background is TH alterations embossed

onto kraft c/s and adhered to kraft base.

Head over and see Jane's first card as our Guest

and how the Team created their 

Acorn Die cards.

Then your turn to show yours in the Gallery.

 

Celebrate!

 Whenever we have five Thursday's in a month

We have our Case a Design Team Challenge at

Just Us Girls

This just happens to be this week!

And it's my turn to be HOST!

Since we are still in October  it's 

the changing of seasons.

We are into Spring here but over the other side it's

all about Fall Foliage.

so timely that I got out Tim's leaf fragments

and went to town with a bunch of colours

with distress inks and

 Lindy's Magical's for shimmer.

Adhered them to black c/s, adding

posca splatters in gold and white.

Sentiment from STAMPlorations is 

die cut three time for lift

and finished by adhering to coloured card base.

Head on over to Our Blog

Check out all the Design Team's fabulous cards,

and choose one that caught your eye,

case it and be sure to tell us who's your pick.

See you there...

Flowers Bloom!

Here we are nearing the end of October Yikes!

That means it is Stencil Week at Just Us Girls

Our Host this week is Bobby

and we look forward to seeing your play time

in our Gallery!

Here's mine!

I love stencils that does all the work for me

and this one from AALL&Create is the case here.

I used two parts by adding

part circles for extra interest.

Coloured with Tim's distress inks.

Inked my favourite Visible Image - Creative Chaos

and again for the flower head which was coloured with

distress inks and Lindy's Magical's 

(of course) and popped. Sentiment is from STAMPlorations.

Framed in navy onto white card base.

See how our Guest Carrie used her stencils

for her last week with us. 

Thank  you for sharing your talents with us this month.

The Team as always created beautiful cards for your inspiration.

Now it is your turn to WOW! us.

Hey there!

 Our Host this week at Just Us Girls is Carol M

and has picked the most delightful Mood Board

 for us to play with - and I did just that!

Yes those cute Ghosts came out and I found them

sneaking around some colourful leaves!

I started with some simple embossed background

then went about creating bright colours on w/c paper.

After finding suitable smallish leaves it was

down to cutting them and arranging,

then those ghosts came to join in.

Went with a different sentiment away from halloween

with a favourite from Paper Smooches (again)

Adhered to green card base to complete.

Check out the fun that our Guest Carrie

and the Team had creating for this

cute as Mood Board.

Hope to see yours in the Gallery.

What's the WORD at Just Us Girls?

Welcome to our WORD challenge at

 Just Us Girls with Host Carol Mc

wanting us to create something with a 'moving' motion.

Anything that moves that is!

I changed my mind from my first thought

and went with a rocker card.

One I haven't done for an 'age'

and went all feminine using some

old Spellbinders and Marianne Design dies.

Some reverse embossing behind my elegant Lady

and card base with dp to the front.

Die cut a bunch of flowers, leaves

and added liquid pearls to the centres.

Our Guest Carrie and the Team

 have also had fun creating all sorts of

super moving makes so head over

and check them out. Then - your turn

to share with us in the Gallery.

What moving creation are you thinking of???