Just Hello for Just Us Girls

 Hello and Welcome to Saturday.

It's Trend Week at Just Us Girls

and our Host is Carol asking us to

use more than one stencil. 

I love doing just that. I am sure the Gallery

will be full of amazing stenciling especially 

with the layered stencils coming into vogue.

Me - well I don't have any but have a gazillion 

of the other ones as you can see below.

I thought I was going to have a background

from my gelli plate but my stenciling didn't turn out

as I had hoped so I went with a partly smooched one

 then went mad with lots of different stenciling - 

too many to mention. I used Distress Oxide inks

on all of them. The main focal stencil has

texture paste mixed with iridescent medium

then coloured to match the background.

Finished by adding my sentiments from STAMPlorations,

inking the edges and adhered to white card base.

Pop over and see what our Guest Claire

and my Team mates created and come join us.

You could be our Chic of the Week and

in the running to be our Guest in June.

Thanks for dropping in.

It's always a pleasure to read your kind comments.

Things with Wings Hop and Linky Party

Over at  STAMPlorations it's time to celebrate Spring!

We are having our 

Things with Wings Blog Hop and Linky Party

The STAMPloration Girls have been really busy

getting creative to inspire you

especially as there are Prizes to Be Won!

I decided to go all out here and made a 5/7 inch Canvas.

 

Admittedly this took me some time to make

but so much fun especially with the amount of colours/textures

 I used on the background. With all that going on

 a bit of the stenciling lost it's way.

I knew when this blog hop came up I wanted to use

one of my lovely chipboard butterflies which are really thick.

I had a hard time trying to get these close ups

 the same true colour like the main photo

but you get the idea!

Here are the STAMPlorations Products I used

CRAFTplorations Butterfly Chipboard

ARTplorations Dream Flower Stencil

ARTploraions Just Flow Stencil

CUTplorations Tags #1 Nesting Die

Trendy Butterflies 2

STAMPlorations Art Marks

Other products - 

Lindy's Spray's, Magical Powders

Distress Grit Paste, Gilding Polish

Art Alchemy Waxes, Sparks and Art Stones

Tiny Beads, Nuvo Embossing Powder,

Cheesecloth, Pearls, Gems and Button.

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Here are the blog hop prizes:

- 3 winners of a $10 prize code randomly drawn from comments left on

the STAMPlorations blog and designers' blogs

Linky prizes:

- 3 winners of their choice of STAMPlorations product (up to $15 value)

- 1 winner of a $25 prize code

Extra prizes:

- a few surprise winners randomly drawn from our social media accounts

(FB, IG, Pinterest, blogs) to win either prize codes or products.

Hop and Linky are open until May 7.

Winners announced on May 10 in the April winners post.

Don't forget to leave a comment here 

and hope to see your winged make in our Gallery.

Just Us Girls 'Word Week'

Hello and Welcome to my Saturday Post for Just Us Girls

Angie is Hosting Word Week and chose Stripes.

April is upon us and we have a New Guest Designer.

Welcome to Claire Apostoloff

As you see I took a very different approach to using stripes

by cutting a smooched piece of watercolour paper

into three strips. Backed them with black card stock.

My die cut is from Ultimate Crafts Wintertide Branches

I got the idea for this card from Julie Gearinger Here

although I have done similar in the past.

Flicked a few splatters and grounded my tree with

Nuvo Ebony Black Drops

Added my Happy Birthday sentiment from 

Happy Little Stampers .

Adhered to white background and black card base.

Pop over and see what our April Guest Claire

and the Team created and add yours to

The Gallery.

You could be Chic of the Week

 and be our Guest in June.

Thanks for popping in

In Art - Instinct is Enough.

Hello and Welcome to my latest

Mixed Media Piece for Creative Artiste 

Each month we have an Anything Goes

Mixed Media Challenge using multiple mediums.

I got a gift certificate for Christmas and only recently

used it buying the Thinlits Insects which I wanted to

 try them out. 

My first background attempt failed so didn't take photos

along the way after that. 

Here is how I started - using Art Achemy Metallic Paints

second  time around!

then adding the Thinlits Insects

to see  where to apply the Modeling Paste

After that I went on my merry way

adding the inked lace, die cut and coloured insects.

I like leaving some small bits of the cut outs. 

Just added to the effect.

Sentiment was cut and popped after heat embossing.

Rubbed the Art Alchemy Waxes and Sparks 

in various places especially around the edges.

Products I used are - 

Modeling Paste, Stencil and Sentiment  from STAMPlorations

Flair (Slimline stencil) Art Is (Sentiment cut up)

Lace background soaked in Magical's

Magical Powders and Lindy's Sprays

Art Alchemy Gold Rush and Emerald Green Metallic Paint

Art Alchemy Waxes Peacock and Vintage Gold

Art Alchemy Sparks in Mermaid Sparkle Acrylic Paint

White Embossing Powder

Thinlits Insects

A few close ups!

That's my project done and dusted for the month.

Hope you liked and leave a comment.

I love to read your thoughts.

Pop over and see what lovely Mixed Media Makes

are over there to inspire you to have a play

and add to our Gallery. Love to see yours there.

Popping this over to Country View Challenges

for their April Birds and Bees Challenge

Found this new to me Challenge through

Designer Jane using one of my favourite stamps.

Thank you.

Also to Pearly Sparkles Challenge

for their

 Challenge #61 Animals Birds and or Insects

and We Love2Create Blogspot

Anything Goes Mixed Media

Till next time - Cherrio from

Art Happens for STAMPlorations

 It's the beginning of a new month at

and that means New Challenges at STAMPlorations

Here is my creation for the April Stencil Challenge

I went bright and colourful starting with

Tim's Oxide inks. Adding dimension from the older

ARTplorations Retro Circles with texture paste

then through the

ARTplorations Square Lots for more colour.

A bit of sponging around the edges then heat embossed

the sentiments from STAMPlorations Subway Art Builders

#Note I used the stamps not the digitals here several times

and STAMPlorations Art Marks

Die cut Art Happens and layered with the

main die partially heat embossed in different colours also.

Here's a close up!

Attached to coloured card base to match.

Here are the products I used. 

Pop over and see what my Team Mates created and 

add yours to our Gallery.

Don't forget to add the Graphic and a Link back to 

our Challenge to qualify for prizes!

Hello 'Spring'

 Welcome to my Saturday Post for Just Us Girls

Hosting Photo Week is Vicki

No double after a very long Winter 

in the Northern Hemisphere everyone is looking forward to

SPRING and the photo below is inspiring - 

take what you like from it.

Could be the colours, layout of the flowers,

simple sentiment or even the circle.

As you can see the circle really took my eye

and I used it in various ways.

I went away from the lovely colours

and went bold and bright.

I did a bit of stenciling to the background,

inked up the Happy Little Stampers Doodled Flowers

then ran it through the CUTplorations Circle Cover Plate.

Die cut a big circle to house the big flower,

cut a small circle for my STAMPlorations sentiment

and inked a few small flowers also from STAMPlorations

Nuvo drops were added to the flowers and roughed up with a pin.

Backed with purple paper onto white card base.

Head over to Our Blog to see what our Guest Shawna

and The Team took from that fabulous photo.

Hope to see yours there.

Thanks for popping in

It's Colour Week at Just Us Girls

Hello and Welcome to Saturday! It's Post Day for

Just Us Girls and it is our Colour Week.
Nancy as Host chose Yellow Dark Green and Grey.

I seem to be using my Lindy's Sprays quite a bit lately

and have again done so here using Black Orchid Silver Spray

on my background. Die cuts in yellow and dark green

so have the three colours covered nicely here.

Added a yellow bow and some splatters.

Sentiment is from Altenew inked with

Tim's Hickory Smoke and clear heat embossed.

Added to a grey mat and found how very low

my grey card stock was - hence I used

SU Mossy Meadow.

For my second card I wanted to try out my

Ryn Water Effects 1 stamp inking in grey.

Background with (no not Lindy's)

SU reinkers (yellow and green) and a baby wipe.

Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping.

Popped on to white card base.

Don't forget to drop over to Our Blog

to see what our Guest Shawna and

the Jugheads created and come join in.

Thanks for dropping in

Reminder Post for STAMPlorations Stencil Challenge

Have you had time to play in our 

Monthly Challenges at STAMPlorations???

Here's The Reminder for you showing

what the Stencil Girls have made.

And here is mine!

Had a bit of fun here with my

 ARTplorations Flair Slimline Stencil

and ARTplorations Dots and Dashes

using Tim's OxideVintage Photo 

for the Dots and Dashes

and Spiced Marmalade and Crackling Campfire

for the Flair.

Wanted to add a bit of shine there so heat embossed

part of it with Lindy's Pumpkin Fiesta - did the trick.

Of course I had to add some splatters then stamped my 

STAMPlorations Happy Everything sentiment

inking around the edges and attaching to white card base. 

Hope you get time to join in the gallery as there is always

prizes on offer.

 Just remember to add our Graphic and a Link

back to our Challenge.

Thanks for dropping by

What's the 'Trend' at Just Us Girls?

Bobby is Hosting this week at Just Us Girls 

and it's Trend Week.

You are going to love Bobby's choice to use an

 Embossing Folder -

the hardest part is choosing which one to use.

I love all the detail on the Darice Henna Embossing Folder.

My background is from Lindy's Peg Leg Pete Purple

Moon Shadow Mist.

Die cut is from CUTplorations Bloomdala Bliss Felicity 

inked with leftovers and popped in front of a MFT die.

Sentiment from STAMPlorations Trendy Feathers 2.

Added pearls on the embossed circles

finishing with a frame of purple onto white card base.

Here's a closer look at that detailed embossing.

Pop over and see what our March Guest Shawna

and my Talented Team Mates created and join 

the fun in our Gallery.

Love to see you there.

Popping this over to Simply Create Too Challenge

for their Wet or Dry Embossing Challenge

As you can see I went Dry.

My 'Word' for Just Us Girls

Hello and Welcome. It's Saturday and

a New Month of Challenges at

Just Us Girls 

You know what it means when we start a new month - 

Shawna Standish from The Grand Stampede  has been chosen

  to be our Guest Designer for March

A Warm Welcome Shawna.

I'm Hosting and chose Animals

for our Word Week.

So much choice here and after much thought

and changing my mind several times I came up with

something I have had for 'years' in my stash.

It is simply a sheet with images from Creatief Art Belgium

SWK30-041 to cut out

and pop up to give a lovely illusion of depth.

I wasn't sure if I should add something to the corner

but after good advice I left it free and add

something appropriate inside.

Open it and see what is inside.

and open again for a wish for the recipient.

Pop over and admire what our Guest Shawna created

and of course  my Oh So Talented Team Mates.

I am sure there will be all sorts of traditional

and quirky animals running riot in the Gallery.

Hope yours is there.

You could be chosen as our Chic of the Week

and you are in the mix for a Guest Spot in May.

Thanks for dropping in