Just Hello!

The Lovely Lisa is our Host this week at Just Us Girls

and it is our popular Anything Goes Stencil Challenge

I went with a CAS design here 

stencilling lightly with white texture paste

onto kraft card stock cut on an angle for interest.

The flower is die cut several times and

 layered for depth in white 

to match the background.

Added a textured die from Kaisercraft

behind the flower.

STAMPloration sentiment is torn 

and popped.

Head over and see what our Guest Kellianne

and the Talented Team chose to 

showcase their stencils.

As this is the last challenge of the month

I want to thank Kellianne for sharing her talents

with us this month as our Guest.

STAMPlorations 13th Birthday is just around the corner!

 Hey there! 

Be prepared for what's coming for

Our up and coming 13th Birthday Celebrations

Head over and check out ALL THE INFO above

and it all starts on 29th June till 3rd July.

The STAMPgirls have been so very busy

creating so many fabulous creations with

some awesome and fabulous new products

and using some old ones as well.

You won't want to miss out by not

dropping in to our blog daily to be 

in awe of how beautiful and how easy

these products are to create with in no time at all.

So this is a teaser - now head over and

pick your favourites and add to the Wishlist.

You could just be one of the lucky ones.

I will be back then too to showcase my selection

so hope to see your comments daily.

It's All About The FLOWERS!

It's Just Us Girls Mood Board Week

and our Host is Denise with a 

beautiful array of Summer Flowers.

 

I cut out and coloured a bunch of Tim's Wildflowers

in all sorts of colours. Tied together with wax twine.

Background is from my bits box and added white gesso through

an AALL&Create stencil, die cut and popped with my arch frames.

Finished with a STAMPlorations sentiment

and adhered to green base.

This is flying over the other side of OZ for

my daughters birthday which happens to be Thursday.

There's flowers a plenty over on our blog

so check out what our Guest Kellianne

and the Design Team created and

I am sure to see our gallery in full bloom.

Hope to see you there.

Summer Screams Ice Creams!

You all know the saying

I scream you scream we all scream for ICE CREAM! 

  so that's the way I headed for our

WORD Week at Just Us Girls and

choosing this 'cool' word is our Host VICKI!

It was fun creating this 'cool' card'.

I die cut a few ice creams from

STAMPlorations Sweet Cravings and

 using the kraft one and the white as a shadow.

Added colour, texture paste

and topped it with coloured sand paste and glitter.

Background is smooched with distress inks

sprays and spritz with a touch of Magical's.

Sentiment is cut up from Kaisercraft.

Piece of bark from the back yard grounded my 

ice cream cone.

Framed with white on to kraft card base.

Our Guest Kellianne and the Talented Team

have created a fabulous variety of 'SUMMER'

for you so we are looking forward to seeing

your take on our WORD challenge in the Gallery.

PS it is winter here in Australia but

living in the tropics doesn't stop us from

eating ice cream - but then lots do 

in the cold of winter eh!

See you there.

My Creative Artiste Mixed Media Make...

Today's post is for our New Challenge at

 Creative Artiste Mixed Media 

where we use multiple mediums on our

Mixed Media creations.

Here's mine!

 

An outside and inside shot!

I have used a heap of products on this 

and to name some - 

Kaisercraft bird cage die

Tim Holtz stamps/inks/sprays/crackle paste

Liquitex Texture Paste

Stencils -Zyneri and AALL&Create

Versafine Inks

and other bits from my stash

you will see from the photos.

and it all started here -

a 5/7 canvas panel corrugated cardboard

with gesso and inks

and the start of the stamping with Tim's Ledger Script

adding more stampng from

Tim's Fading Type and stencil work from

AALL&Create

onto the next layer with more script

and inked edges 

Birdcage is coloured with Lindy's Vintage Caravan Caramel

and attached to a different background as I messed up the first one..

As you can see there is a lot going on here - 

flowers scattered all over my desk, some old ones

from my stash and a few from the punch.

Added a die cut, tags stamped from

AALL&Create, twine and a key.

A little bird and a heap of pearls.

Finished with Wink of Stella on the flowers

and Tumbled Glass Distress Glass in the centres.

A few close ups - 

and as they say "That's a wrap"

If you haven't been and checked out 

what our Talented Team have created 

better head over to be inspired and

then it's your turn to 'wow' us.

Thanks for hanging in there for my long post.

PS - this piece headed over the other side of Australia

for my long time friend who is celebrating her 80th Birthday.

A Birthday Butterfly!

It's Die Week at Just Us Girls

and our lovely host is Carol M choosing

BUTTERFLY

How easy is that for us?

Just got to choose 'which'

and - a new Month sees a New Guest Designer

Welcome Kellianne. Lovely to have you on board.

My background was made some time ago just

never got finished so now it has.

Smooched colour on w/c paper and

stencil from AALL&Create is highlighted

with Apricot Metallic Gilding Polish.

Die cut my butterfly with metallic c/s

and added the polish to the wings and centre.

Oh yes there were 'splatters''

Added inked cheesecloth for interest

and finished with a die cut birthday sentiment.

Adhered to very pale peachy metallic base.

 Head over and check out what our June Guest Kellianne 

and the Talented Team created with beautiful 

die cut butterflies and hope to see yours in our Gallery.

It's a Twofer Stencil-ing

It's Stencil Week at Just Us Girls 

and Hosting for the first time is our

Newest Designer Denise.

As you can see I have made two CAS cards

using the same AALL&Create Lotus Clusters stamp 

including the sentiment inked with Versafine Clair Nocturne

with the one on the left heat embossed clear.

Stencils are from STAMPlorations Foiled Again

BeeArty White Wash

and AALL&Create Moc-Croc

in Saltwater Taffy Ox ink and stain

with different backings.

Easy as to make two while I had the stamp set out

as I wasn't sure which stencils to use.

All the Design Team with our Guest Kerry

have created an abundance of creativity

using their stencils and now it's

your turn to share with us in the Gallery.

You could be our Winner of the Week

and go on to be a future Guest.

Just Us Girls are 'In the MOOD'

We're in the MOOD at Just Us Girls and 

so will you be when you see the fabulous fun

Mood Board below our Host Carol Mc found for us.

Don't you LOVE IT!

It's an easy peasy quickie - just colourful paper 

and die cuts. I think I did fairly well matching

the the colours and theme.

Our Guest Kerry and the Team

have created a great variety of ideas from this

super fun mood board.

Check them out and go have fun too

and add to the Gallery. 

Love to see what you come up with.

Birthday Blooms

It's our WORD WEEK at Just Us Girls 

and our Host is the Lovely Lisa!

and choosing the perfect word

FLOWERS so our Gallery will be

overflowing with beautiful blooms for sure.

A simple but fiddley card with lots of

die cuts and piecing together.

I got out card stock that blended together nicely

and went from there. 

Added a STAMPlorations cover plate that

matched the half cut circles, adhered to coloured c/s

and attached to white card base.

Sentiment is also from STAMPlorations.

The Team and our Guest Kerry have created

an abundance of sheer floral beauty for your pleasure

and we look forward to seeing yours in our Gallery.

STAMPlorations Spring Fling!

Hello and Welcome to today's post for our 

STAMPlorations Spring Fling Blog Hop

There are lots more details over at Our Blog Spot

so head over and check it all out.

For my Simple Spring card I chose to go for 

an older release from

STAMPlorations Spring Florals

Adding texture to the background 

I embossed with 

STAMPlorations Bloomtangled Cover Plate 2

addng the sentiment from

STAMPlorations Big Hugs Die.

Adhered to a small white frame and on to 

coloured card base.

The STAMPgirls have created an

amazing variety of Spring Sensations 

to inspire you so you will head off

to your work stations and inspire us with yours.

Now you have been over and checked everything out

head into your craft zone and play along with us

for your chance to be a Winner!

of some fabulous products.

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

Kerry Parkinson

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. 

Stencil Week at Just Us Girls...

It's our popular Stencil Week at 

Just Us Girls

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.

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.

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

STAMPlorations Blossom Sprays #3

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

STAMPlorations Bloom Happy

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.