You ROCK!

It's Just Us Girls Word Week and Hosting is Vicki

who wants us to PLAY!

How will you use that word?

I went the easy way out and chose music

as it was a big part of my hubby's hobby.

A simple card with some grungy inking for the background.

Die cut a few guitars deciding on three different colours.

fussy cutting the white centres and adding gold liquid dots

and some inked music notes.

Added some splatters also to the appropriate sentiment

from a favourite Paper Smooches stamp set.

Framed in black onto red card base.

You will want to check out how

our Guest Bonnie and my Talented Team Mates

chose to use PLAY.

You will be so impressed that you will

want to add your version to our Gallery.

See you there.

It's a 'REAL' Oldie!

Welcome to today's post for  

Just Us Girls

I'm Hosting this week's Die Week Challenge

and thought it time we dust off an 

old favourite die and show it off again.

I knew when I chose this weeks theme just whch 

OLD set I would use.

A big WELCOME to our 

July Guest Designer Bonnie Klass.

We are in for a treat this month as we all know

how talented Bonnie is.

Yes you guessed it - 

Tim's famous Tattered florals. I googled it and

it came out in 2010!

Would have to be one of his best sellers and

most likely my first Tim Collection.

I die cut a bunch and inked them up in various pinky tones

with Lindy's Magical's, Tim's inks and stains.

Scrunched them up and adhered them in front of

some leaves twigs and flourishes, Sisal straw and art stones.

Background is DP.

Added pearls to the centre of the flowers.

and a close up!

Head over and see what our Guest Bonnie and the Team

 chose as their OLD FAVOURITE

and dig out one of yours and add to our Gallery.

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.

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.

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.

Happy Birthday!

It's time to get out our embossing folders 

this week as this is the WORD our Host Bobby chose

for Word Week at Just Us Girls 

This was an easy one for me as the 

embossed piece I used here has been sitting 

on my desk for 'ages'.

I had used this 3d embossing folder a while back

and this one was a spare.

(shame you can't see the depth of the background)

Added a variety of powders, spraying water gently

on to w/c paper, closing the folder

and running it through my die cutting machine.

Added the big HB die cut matching the background

and popping it onto black card base to complete.

Head over and check out what our Guest Milla

and the Team created with their embossing folders

and come join in with yours.

There's No One!

Yes we are still in the Love Mode at Just Us Girls

with Valentine for our Word Week hosted by Carol M

I moved away from the traditional Valentine colours this week

and die cut some tiny white tags and added tiny glitter dp hearts.

Tags were popped after tying bows with nylon thread.

Background is from Lawn Fawn Stitched Borders 

on cream c/s and framed onto white card base.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations.

Check out this weeks cards from our Guest Denise

and the Team and add yours to our Gallery.

It's 'WORD' Week at Just Us Girls

Elizabeth is Hosting again this week for

our Word Week at Just Us Girls 

and picked that one word that can lift

anyone's spirits in such a simple way.

Of course an Encouragement card can do the trick!

I went with a light hearted way with the 

WORD - ENCOURAGEMENT.

STAMPloratons has a bunch of 

great encouragement word stamps and

while I was flipping through them

I came across the one I used here

and a few others, not sure at that stage

where this card was heading.

My background is from my bits box. 

You never know what didn't work out

at the time comes in handy for times like this.

Added a flicker or more white paint then

heat embossed the feather in white.

Looking rather lonely I decided to heat emboss

a seconed one on vellum and used the die

that comes with the 

Feathery Set from STAMPlorations.

Inked the appropriate sentiment in black

and decided to tear around the edges

giving it a little left.

Added a small frame to blend in with the background

and adhered to white base.

Pop over and check out what our Guest Laurel

and the Team created as an

Encouragement card to show they care.

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.

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?

 

Limited Editions!

We are up to our Word Week at Just Us Girls 

and our Carol Mc has chosen  one I am sure

will see all sorts of entries with the word

CONTAINER!

I know my heading says Limited Editions

but that doesn't mean the containers I used are

as they are still available so don't stress!

It's just the sentiment I thought suitable.

This was a whole lot of fun!

I started with a crackle stencilled background

and once dry put it back and lightly coloured with distress ink.

The containers are Tim's Freshly Picked and 

die cut from packing papers.

The container on the left has been embossed, 

inked and glazed. The lid added on an angle for interest.

The right one is slightly inked for colour, 

with twine and cork plug.

The front one has Magical's, ink and wax.

Sentiment is from Tim's small talk.

Adhered to brown card base.

You will want to head over for a few surprise containers

used by our Guest Jaydee and the Team. 

Your turn to have fun with this Super Duper Word.

How Old???

We are into our Word Week at Just Us Girls

and Hosting is Elizabeth choosing 

BIRTHDAY!

so our Gallery will be overflowing for sure.

Here's what I had a whole lot of fun creating - 

Going with something a bit out of the ordinary

using stamps from STAMPlorations - 

A Snarky Birthday to You created by

Talented Becca Cruger for the heat embossed sentiment

and balloons with Tim's Distress Inks and 

highlighted with Lindy's Magical's for extra colour.

The fun stampings are from 

Deepti Malik's Balloons and Banners

framed with my Arched Dies and 

coloured card stock on to white base.

Sentiment reads -

I'm not making

any jokes about

your AGE

because

genuinely feel

bad about how

old you are

Head over and check out how 

our Guest Julie and the Team

chose to use BIRTHDAY on their projects.

Word Week at Just Us Girls

 Hello and Welcome to Word week at

Just Us Girls

Vicki is Hosting and chose WATER!

My cards aren't normally what you associate water with

but MO and JO got lost.

Just one of those times nothing wants to work and the

waste paper basket gets a workout.

Smooched background are Distress Inks.

The leaves on the first card are from STAMPlorations

 adding umteen stamped raindrops from

Carabelle Studio then with glossy accents.

Found an itty bitty stamp that worked with the leaves.

(It's Autumn in Australia)

The other card is from my bits box

and stamp is also STAMPlorations - 

Blossom Sprays 1 heat embossed

and partly bleached.

I found the Katzelkraft KTZ146

waterfall stamp and though it would work

heat embossed  cascading over the floral image.

Adding this sentiment 

as I needed a sympathy card for a neighbour.

Our Guest Donna and the Team however

 had no troubles creating fabulous water themed cards

for you to pop over and check out.

Be inspired and add yours to the gallery.

PS MO and JO returned so you will see

a bit more creativity from me again next week.

1 2 3 and so on...

It's Word Week at Just Us Girls.

Our Host Carol M is asking us to use a

NUMBER on our card.

 

I think I got that covered LOL!

Had a bit of fun with the background 

using a bit of stencilling, inking and stamping

with Tim's OX Hickory Smoke.

It didn't come out as I wanted

but I think it looks better that if the images were clear.

Script stamping is Versafine Clair Cheerful.

The beautiful floral image is from

AALL&Create Delight in Flora coloured with

Lindy's Yellow Rose of Texas,

Tim's Mowed Lawn and Forest Moss.

Sentiment is from AALL&Create Power of the Word set.

Framed in black onto yellow card base.

Head over and see how our Guest Joanne

and the Team worked their numbers

and join in the fun by adding yours to our Gallery.

I Picked These For You...

Vicki is Hosting our Word Week at Just Us Girls 

and chose FRUIT.

Some time ago I was browsing with my daughter

in a bed store and came across a pack of napkins

with the above pears and of course I thought of

Vicki's FRUIT Challenge.

I peeled off the layers behind the fruit

and scrunched it up to create some texture.

I then fussy cut out extra pears 

 touched up with rusty brown matte wax

around the edges and popped to the napkin.

String added down the side.

Framed in blue to match the flowers

then an embossed back (a little hard to see)

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations.

Finished with attaching to white square card base.

Head over and check out what fruit our Guest Rosemary

and the Team chose to use on their cards.

Hope to see yours in our Gallery.

Celebrate 'YOU'

Carol Mc is 

Our Host for Word Week at Just Us Girls 

Maybe you can guess what it is!

While I was searching for a YOU stamp/die

I came across a pack of quick card fronts from

STAMPlorations (spring floral)

I knew would be perfect after I chose the

sentiment - also from STAMPlorations 

(see the good) picking one that

the sentiment fitted nicely.

Stumbled across the flower die 

a neighbour gave me and

cut out three from smooching on w/c paper

with Tim's faded jeans and stormy sky.

Die cut two sprays of leaves in a 

very pale green and vellum for backing.

Added diamond dust to the centre of the flower,

corner rounded one side and adhered to white base.

Head over and check out how our Guest Wanda

and the talented team used the YOU word

for your inspiration and

come join in with yours to our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting