In the 'Mood' for Christmas.

We are in the 'Mood' this week at Just Us Girls

to offer a delightful array of all things Christmas 

with our host Carol Mc

reminding us that it is just around the corner!

and a closer look!

My inspiration came from the lovely gold tones above - hence

I have used gold, bronze and red metallic card stock.

Die cut my star several times and backed it with the

 old Spellbinders Twenty Seven die in copper.

Adhered the backing also in copper and cut the

gold metallic paper into three,

embossing the middle piece from a folder

that came with a magazine years ago.

Randomly placed pearls and one to the centre of my star.

Now head over and check out our Guest Leslie's

cute card and what caught the Team's eye. 

We look forward to seeing yours in our Gallery.

 

Because I Care!

We are sharing our favourite colour at

 Cut It Up Challenge for our New Theme.

Purple never really shows up well in photographs

which is a shame as this card looks stunning IRL.

Unfortunately this card was made for a

long time craft friend who recently lost her Mum.

I used metallic card stock, inking my die cut flowers

in a few shades of purple. Die cut,

adding purple c/s behind the flowers

and again the metallic card stock as base.

The sentiment is so appropriate.

Head over to our Blog and check out what colour the

Design Team showcased for your pleasure

then be inspired and add yours to this challenge.

A 'Winter' Snowfall...

It's a 'Winter' Theme for Word Week at Just Us Girls

chosen by our Host Carol M.

I went full tilt with my card showing off

a very Wintery Scene.

Off course you would know the background is 

created with Lindy's 'Magical's -

Black Orchid Silver and Screamin Banshee Black

to name a few.

Die cut my trees with grey c/s and one with kraft

then splattered them with textured sand paste for the snow.

Flicked lots of white ink for more 'white stuff'.

Sentiments cut from kraft stock with added 'snow'.

Added a few stars and didn't realize until I 

photographed it that with all the snow falling on the trees

there had to be snow on the ground - so added that

after I adhered it to gray card base - 

but you wouldn't have know that if I didn't mention it eh!

Lucky I didn't mess it up.

Our Guest Leslie and the Team have created a

'Winter Wonderland' of inspiration over on Our Blog

so head over and check them out and

come play and add yours too.

Mixed Media Art!

It's time for our New Anything Goes Challenge at

 Creative Artiste Mixed Media

What I thought was going to be a simple little canvas

turned out not what I was planning and 

taking longer than I expected.

How often does that happen?

We have Jenn Borjeson and Chrissy 

as our Guests ths month.

Welcome Jenn and Chrissy!

My 4"by4" canvas started with gesso then coloured 

with a mix of Lindy's Magical's (of course) and Tim's Ox Inks.

Stencil work is a favourite form AALL&Create Mock Croc.

Stampng around edges with VersaFine Pinecone.

then went to work on the jar which was already

made and sitting on my desk and die cut the frame.

adding more colour and dimension

to the jar and die cut bark with crystal glaze.

attached some dry wall tape behind the frame

(wasn't sure which frame as they were differect colours)

I added a tiny leaf to the bottom right side of vase

but needed something extra with art stones

coloured with wax and glaze.

Die cut a circle, inked, stamped the

That's Crafty ART word and popped to the side

to complete my little MM canvas.

Head over and check out what our 

Talented Designers created using

multi medium products on their projects. 

Come join in the fun with yours in our Gallery.

Celebrating Just Us Girls #800 Challenge!

What a MILESTONE we have reached at

 Just Us Girls

It is my pleasure to be a part of this Amazing 

and Super Talented Design Team.

Hence the card I made below is to say

THANK YOU for inviting me to be a part of Your Team.

OOPS! I forgot to mention long time JUGS Designer Vicki

is Hosting this huge milestone and to celebrate with us

she has made it easy to do so with

ANYTHING GOES! 

Our November Guest Leslie Miller has the honour to

share her first card as GD for this memorable accomplishment.

Welcome Leslie.

I created this card with a pretty layered flower die

inked with Tim's Distress Inks

adding my die cut THANKS to the side,

placing the inked words inside

and some tiny splatters in both colour tones.

Finished with some pretty pink pearls.

Card stock is cream.

Head over to Our Blog and visit

our Guest Leslie and the Team chose to Celebrate

this Big Milestone and leave them some love!

Then head into your workspace and create

something special to share with us. 

Once again I am so proud to be part of this Amazing Blog.

THANK YOU!

A Simple Thank You.

Our New Cut It Up Theme for the end of the month is

Thankful, Grateful, Blessed.

We have had quite a few social functions at the Village

where I live and a lot of work has gone behind the scenes

so a Thank You card was more to what I needed and 

went in that direction.

Going with the lovely metallic paper I cut out

one tag and a small die punching a hole

to create another tag, inking the edges

and adding my Thanks so much sentiment.

Flowers were die cut three times inking the edges

and adding a pearl to the centre.

The background is randomly stamped in grey

to add interest.

Finished with tying variegated cotton to the tags

and attached to white card base.

Pop over and check out what my

Talented Team Mates created and 

join us with your card to our Gallery.

Just Hi!

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

'cause there are Five Thursday's this month.

The Design Team love it when this comes around as we get to 

do our 'thing' and you get to CASE one of our creations.

Just don't forget to let us know who's card inspired yours

and add to our Gallery.

Let the Fun begin!

I saw This card on Pinterest and was drawn to

the die being used as a stencil and adding texture (my thing).

I found a scrap piece in my bits box which was coloured 

using the shaving cream technique

and die cut as my feature, 

adding the other two smaller dies in white.

Die cute the sentiments from MFT

inked with VersaFine Clare Verdant

adding splatters with TH crushed olive.

Adhered to matching card base.

Pop over and check out what my

Talented Team Mates created and

we all look forward to seeing who's card

caught your eye to CASE.

PS Photo was taken on my patio with the

Pony Club paddock in the background.

We added pool fencing so we could look out and

watch the horses, wallabies and birdlife

at our leasure.

Life is Good!

I'm Host this week at Just Us Girls

for our Stencil Challenge.

I had made this card weeks ago but was unhappy with the

main element I had added so it sat around and in two minds

whether to just throw it out or find something else

which I did. Still not completely happy

 I decided to go with it.

The stencilled background is 

 again that sand texture paste

using distress ink for colour once it was dry.

Added some roughly broken up bark

and tiny art stones.

I removed what I had adhered earlier,

 replaced with stamped die cuts popped

and some tied twine.

The big multi cut sentiment is inked with the same colour

as the stencil work from CUTplorations.

As this is Gerda's last week with us - 

a Big Thank You for sharing your talent with us.

Check out Gerda's last card and

the creative stencil work from my Team Mates.

This is always a popular challenge so 

I am looking forward to checking our Gallery out.

See you there.

Discards from Nature!

What's our Theme for our New  Cut It Up Challenge

ADD EMBELLISHMENTS.

Because I like to do a bit of Mixed Media

I tend to pick bits of 'stuff ' that has been

as the heading says - discarded by nature.

The bark is off a tree that is outside my patio

as is the twigs - blown down by wind.

I thought I would try and see if I could cut my bottle

from it and worked perfectly. Just had to be careful

it didn't fall apart. Sealed it with some old crackle glaze.

I backed it with cardboard.

My background is a cover plate die

from ARTplorations.

I then die cut a circle and added the other side

of the sealed bark behind it.

The hardest part was attaching the bits of bark 

and getting the bottle glued down.

Added some more bark to the bottle as a shelf.

Certainly different embellishments eh!

Die cut the Fig 3 from AALL&Create

and attached two frames.

Adhered to white card base.

Pop over and check out all the inspiration makes

from our fabulous Designer Team and

Add yours to our Gallery.

In the Mood for Coffee!

I am in the mood for coffee at Just Us Girls

after seeing the Fabulous Fun Mood Board that 

our Host - Carol M chose for us.

When I saw this Mood Board some time ago 

I knew what I was going to make

as I had recently bought some itty bitty beverage dies.

This was fun to make - just a little fiddly.

I die cut lots of 'coffee' items in a few different colours,

added a large MFT circle die and inked with Tim's stencil

then a couple of cut out circle dies.

Added my coffee embellishments with one 'frothy' topped cup

which really is sand texture paste.

I stencilled the card base lightly as it needed a little something.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations.

There is an amazing variety of inspiration from

our Talented Guest Gerda and Team Mates

for you to check out and lots to choose from

that Fabulous Mood Board.

Head off and create yours to add to our Gallery.

See you there.

My Eyes are on You!

 

It's looking kinda SPOOKY at Just Us Girls

because our Host Sue chose HALLOWEEN

for our Word Week Challenge.

Lucky for me I had this STAMPloration Monster

I inked up and coloured.

Halloween celebrations are getting bigger here

in Oz but no scary critters live at my house - 

hence why this card took an age to create.

After endless visits to Pinterest a few ideas came to mind.

You can't see the background clearly but I embossed it twice,

covered it with Lindy's Magical's and shine.

Die cut the tree, coloured and added crackle paste.

Added the moon and 'that google eyed monster'.

Die cut the big B - more crackle paste

and inked over it in grey.

Finished with adding all the eyes and

adhered to black card base.

Phew! now that's done I need to

get me some spooky craft items for next time.

There's certainly some scarey creations 

from our Guest Greta and the Team so 

head over and check them out. 

The Gallery is going to be fun to check out this week.

Will yours be there?

 

Die Cut Day at Cut It Up!

 

Hello and Welcome to my post for the

Cut It Up Challenge

and our prompt is

Use More Than One Die

My inspiration came from a left over die cut

that was sitting on my desk.

I love using kraft card stock as a base.

The flower dies were a gift and cut multiple times

from w/c paper colourd with 

Paper Mill Lavender Pigment Powder and

Cosmic Shimmer Frosted Heather Mica P/Powder.

Leaves are die cut from Lisa Jones Thinlits

with SU Mossy Meadow DP.

Cheesecloth, Wax Nylon Thread, 

Scattered Pearls including the flower centre.

Sentiment from STAMPlorations Leafy.

Distressed the edges and attached to Kraft C/S.

Check out what multiple dies were used by the Team

and join us with yours.

Be Unique - Be Strong

Welcome to my post with my October project for

 Creative Artiste Mixed Media

It's always fun getting a little inky, using products in my stash

and adding layers and fun sentiments.

I was going to use a canvas but what I wanted to make

didn't fit either size so went with watercolour paper

adhered to cardboard backing for strength.

It all began with my AB Studio stencil

adding sand grit texture paste. When dry I sponged with

Tim's Hickory Smoke. Then coloured with Crackling Campfire

and some splatters

Die cut and inked up for my first layer.

then dulled the colour with Hero Arts Unicorn pigment ink

and adding some splatters. Deciding to only use two.

With the leftover ink I die cut a frame for my second layer,

smooching, stamping, more splatters

and inking the edges.

oops! forgot to take photo of the stamping

My main feature came in handy as it was  

a 'spare' left over from another make.

It is Tim's leaf die coloured with an abundance of

Lindy's Magical's, sprays and powders.

Adding another element with a favourite of mine -  

inked cheesecloth.

Die cuts and frame were popped,

finishing with inking the main background

and smooched sentiments from

AALL&Create.

Mixed Media can be daunting but

it is a lot of fun so I urge you to just

have a go and play around with whatever you have

and see what results you achieve.

You may surprise yourself . 

Hope to see your efforts in our Gallery.

Go check out what our Guest Majda and the Team

created for inspiration in our own Mixed Media Style.