It's Trend Week at Just Us Girls

 

It's Trend Week at Just Us Girls and Hosting this week is

Vicki who chose Sponging.

So many different ways to play with this one!

 

 

This was an easy cas card to make and a nice male card.

I decided to sponge the background

and masked the top and bottom.

The stamp I used was purchased at a recent craft show

and is from Stamp It Australia - Large Conifer.

Inked this with Memento Northern Pine.

The background colours are -

Memento Bamboo Leaves and

Tim Holtz Squeezed Lemonade/Dried Marigold.

Card stock is white linen.

The tree was inked once and then stamped off

on either side giving it the lighter effect.

Sentiment is from GKD.

While the main tree ink was still wet I dusted it with

Elizabeth Craft cool diamond glitter.

Still a little hard to see here.

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And there you have it.

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more inspiration and we would love to see yours this week.

 

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Guest Designing at Crafting with Dragonflies

 

Once again I am over at

Crafting with Dragonflies as I  have been invited

to be their Guest Designer.

Thank you Hilde for the opportunity to  be part

of the Team for July. So nice to be back with

some old Design Team Mates.

 

 

The challenge this fortnight is 'Summer Fun'

so my first thoughts went to the days when

we would enjoy the great outdoors biting into

an 'all day sucker' - that is what we call them.

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For my card I cut out quite a few circles from

scrap DP with a Spellbinder Circle die.

I attached these in a circular motion around a large circle

cut from jac paper only using one sticky side.

(lollypops are of course colourful)

I have matted the background with coloured paper

and embossed one from a Couture Creations folder.

For my lollypop stick I cut up an old straw.

Added a button which I glittered to the centre

a bow on the straw and some coloured gemstones.

The sentiment is computer generated and the song -

Sunshine & Lollypops kept running through my head.

This was also cut from Spellbinder circle dies.

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It may be the middle of Winter here in Australia

but like the Alan Jackson song may say

It's 5 o'clock somewhere - we can say

it's Summer Time somewhere and a

golden opportunity to get into this new challenge 

and have some fun.

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I look forward to seeing your interpretation

of Summer Fun over Here

 

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