What's the Word at Just Us Girls?

It's Saturday and our New Challenge over at 

Just Us Girls has Bobby hosting Word Week.

As it is a new month - 

We welcome our  Guest Designer for November

and that is Karren Johnson at

https://karrenj.blogspot.com/

 

After spending far tooooo long trying to get my card

to look like the colour it actually is I have just

let it be knowing how hard purple is to photograph.

A pretty CAS card with a few die cut flowers behind my fence.

The arched die cut has patterned vellum behind the

purple front. Finished with a hello die and a tiny butterfly.

Adhered to the same purple card base. 

Head over to Our Gallery and check out

the great inspiration in store for you from

Karren and the Team.

 Why not come join us for this weeks challenge.

Thanks for visiting

A Fabulous Day

The New Challenge over at Bizzy Becs Blog

is live and I have created a simple card as Guest Designer.

It's Anything Goes which makes it easy

to go with whatever comes to mind.

I totally love Tim's Wildflower Dies and have used

Wildflower Stems #1

coloured with Lindy's Magical's

My go to sentiment stamp is

Dark Room Door Happy Birthday

So versatile with so many great words to choose from.

I arranged the flowers on a die cut frame

and popped it in front of a smooched background.

and on to white card base. 

The blue flower has diamond dust in the middle but

not showing up here. 

Head over and see what the Team created

Love to see you add something to our Gallery.

There's a Mystery Stamp to be won by doing so.

Thanks for visiting

Challenge Time at Creative Artiste Mixed Media

It's Challenge Time at Creative Artiste Mixed Media

I got a voucher from my bff for my birthday and

some of the products I used here are from that. 

I am so lucky that there is a store here in Oz

that sell AALL&Create products as I

soooooooooo love their products.

This is my take on a YouTube presentation from

the Talented Tracy Evans HERE

and I looooooooove her work.

Started by brayering the background and flower colours.

Then added some stamping - Splattered Numbers #350

Stamped and fussy cut flowers and inked pot

Elegant Numbers #752 and Containers #401

Added some texture using sand paste over

stencil #6 and washi tape #1 and #9.

Attached black stamped flower and 

popped the fussy cut flower heads and bowl

Of course I had to add white splatters,

some AA Fire Wall Wax and a few Liquid Pearls

to the centre of the flower,

completing with sentiment #40

corner rounding and attached to black base.

This was such fun and looking to more

makes from inspiration from Tracy and

her fabulous stamps.

My team mates have again made amazing 

Mixed Media Makes for this months challenge.

Head over and see for yourself.

They never disappoint do they?

Thanks for visiting and hope you enjoyed my project.

UPDATE! Popping this over to

Mixed Media Lovers Challenge #19 Letters

Till next month - Cherrio from 

An Allsorts Celebration and a Tic Tac Toe

 Loving a rainy day as it gave me a chance to

get messy and create a card for a couple of challenges.

Gardening can wait till tomorrow's sunny day.

I started  my background stencilling with

AALL&Create Mock-Croc #58

using texture paste, brusho's and 

Lindy's Magicals Spray.

Unfortunately the texture got a bit squashed

when I cut my circle.

Penned a couple of circles behind it for effect.

Flower is inked with the same colours.

Added tiny seeds 

 a Happy Birthday sentiment.

Flicked a few splatters

Attached to white card base. 

Allsorts Challenge are celebrating

a milestone 700th Challenge

How fantabulous is that!

and The Paper Players have a

Tic Tac Toe Challenge

I chose the middle row down

Die cuts, texture, birthday.

This card is heading over to the above challenges.

Thanks for visitng

Tags for Christmas!

Christmas is a comin' and with that in mind 

Carol Mc our Host for Wild Card Week at

Just Us Girls chose Holiday Gift Tags 

to get us moving.

I'll keep this as short as I can - 

Tag 1 - CUTplorations Tags

SU Rich Razzleberry paper/ink,

SB snowflake dies, washi tape, seam binding

sentiment dies and stamping.

Tag 2 -  Sizzix Frames, Tim's Holiday Greens

C/B Embossing, Marianne Dies

Bazzill cs, punch, sentiment

Nuvo drops and shimmer.

Tag 3 - shaving cream background,

die cut tree, snow hills and sentiment,

piercing, nuvo drops, punched stars, glitter,

ribbon, silver cord.

It's our Guest Designer Lynne's last challenge with us.

Loved having you share your talents with us this month.

Thanks so much.

Don't forget to head over and see the

abundance and variety of tags made by Lynne

 and Team for your pleasure.

We look forward to seeing our Gallery full

of inspiration and beautiful Christmas Tags.

Thanks for visiting.

Especially for You

For our New Challenge over at

The Sisterhood of Crafters 

Vickie has chosen - Fall Colours.

We don't experience the

pleasure of seeing the trees

show off their magical colour changes 

where I live but I love to indulge by 

creating something in those bold beautiful colours.

I was going to use gilding flakes but then

I looked at the gorgeous colours I could play with

using my Lindy's Magical's.

Leaves are from old Cuttlebug dies,

unknown die for small leaves

and I inked away to get those fall colours.

(photo doesn't show the shimmer)

Adhered to Memory Box branch die.

Background has some texture pasted stenciling.

Finished with sentiment and twine bow.

Head over and see the beautiful colourful cards

from the Sistahs and add yours to our Gallery.

Sending this off to Allsorts Challenge for their

Colours of Autumn Challenge

and

Use Your Stuff  - #469 Diecuts

Thanks for visiting.

Good Friends!

 It's Saturday and Challenge Day at

Just Us Girls.

Our Creative Cecile is Hosting and chose a

simply divine photo for our Inspiration.

I love to see what people take from a photo - 

we all see different things that catch the eye.

I went with the colour, tall stems but hearts and 

 similar wording in the sentiment.

One has a die cut and bow,

 the other stencilled with a punched heart.

I wasn't sure which one I liked and found

them hard to photograph.

The sentiment is small and I now see

I should have used different paper. 

This is  one of those challenges the outcome

I am not completely happy with.

Head over and be impressed with

what caught the eye of our Guest Lynne

 and Talented Team Mates.

Till next time -

A 'Blooming' Birthday

Another gloomy overcast day has given me 

a rest day from gardening and a day just to play 

in a few of my favourite challenges.

I got out one of my favourite stamps to ink up - 

Rubbernecker W/C Poppies #719

 with Versafine Clair Nocturne

and heat embossed clear.

Coloured with Tim's Oxide inks and a 

touch of Lindy's Magicals and Perfect Pearls for shimmer.

Flicked a few 'splats'.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations.

Die cut is Scrap Dragons.

Background coloured the same as the poppy,

 cut with SB square die.

Adhered to the back and

attached to cream linen card base. 

This is heading over to - 

 Color Hues has a great colour combination - 

Orange and Green

The Flower Challenge are celebrating

Use a Sentiment & 6th Birthday

and Seize the Birthday

Challenge#249 

(without the topping)

Thanks for dropping in and commenting.

You Rock!

It's Saturday and Lisa K is our Host for

Colour Week at Just Us Girls

I seem to be in an orange zone lately.

I guess it started with the change of season colours

with so much brown and orange for fall/autumn.

I went in a different direction 

inking lots of circles in the above colours

from several stamp sets.

Finished with a sentiment.

Head over and see what's in store 

in our Gallery - Here

from our Guest Lynne

and my Talented Team Mates and

our Guest Lynne 

and why not join us!

Thanks for visiting

Let the Good Times Roll

Challenge Time at The Sisterhood of Crafters .

It was my turn to pick a Theme and 

 I chose - One for the Guys!

You can interpret it any way you choose - 

Birthday (obviously) Graduation

Retirement/ New Job  A Sporting Achievement

Lots of choices. 

Items used are

Kraft card stock, alfoil, embossing folder,

Die cuts from Marianne Designs,

DP, brads and punch,

Sentiments from STAMPlorations.

Head over to our Gallery and check out

more male cards from the Sistahs

and come join in by adding yours

to the Gallery. We would love to see you.

Thanks for visiting

It's a White Christmas!

Hello and welcome to today's post for 

Christmas Craft Creations

Our Theme this month is White on White

There is something magical about an all white card

especially a Christmas one.

I got out my favourite Spellbinder Poinsettia dies

and for some snowy shimmer added

Lindy's  Milky Way White Magicals to my flower and

the foliage dies behind it.

I dry embossed a sentiment strip to the background

(a freeby from a magazine)

Did you see the little birdie sitting on the branch?

Shame it couldn't be a red one.

Adhered to white card base.

Head over and see more white magic from

my Talented Team Mates.

We would love to see yours in our Gallery..

Thanks for stopping by and commenting.

Thinking of You

What do you do with a little leftover snippet 

that's too nice to throw out and want to use somewhere!

Thanks to the lovely Sarn from

Snippets Playground leaving me a 

kind comment on one of my cards I found

a New Challenge that uses 'snippets' YAY!

I went CAS here inking a Kaisercraft stamp 

for my background on cream card stock.

Added some gold splatters and popped my

Cuttlebug leaf coloured with Lindy's Magical's

 dry embossed for texture.

Finished with a bit of twine, corner rounding and sentiment

from Happy Little Stampers onto

rusty card base.

Sending this over to Use Your Stuff

for their Autumn or Fall Challenge

Thanks for visiting and commenting.

It's Creative Chaos!

 October is Halloween Month and DT Carol from

Color Hues Challenge has chosen

the perfect ones!

for Challenge #50

I do love these colours together

(well there is my favourite colour purple there)

so I had to play and purple is so hard to photograph!

Since I have been having fun with the

Visible Image Creative Chaos recently

(you will see that card in a few weeks)

and still on my desk - it got inked up again.

I smooched Tim's distress inks for the background

adding some stenciling from AALL&Create,

inked my flowers with VersaFine Clair Nocturne

and heat embossed. Cut the second head

and inked in same colours as the background.

Cut and coloured the vase (also AALL&Create)

Popped both flower head and vase.

Sentiment was inked and heat embossed.

Adhered to black card base to finish.

This is heading over to

Dare 2 B Artzy

October Challenge - Favourite Colour

It's PURPLE!

Hope you like it and leave a comment.

Thanks for stopping by

Sending Happy Thoughts

Sue is Hosting our Trend Week at Just Us Girls

and chose CAS - Clean and Simple.

An easy one here using dies.

 

I die cut my flowers with the same paper as my base

and inked them to highlight them.

Tore a bit of plasters tape, inking that also,

adhering to white card stock.

Flicked some fine splatters and finished with

a torn popped sentiment.

Head over and see what our Guest Lynne 

and my Talented Team Mates created.

Hope to see yours in our Gallery.

 Update! Popping this over to

All Sorts Challenge for the

Option using Monochromatic

Thanks for visiting.

With Brave Wings She Flies!

It's time for our new challenge over at

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge 

and I must apologize for my contribution this month.

It has been one of those times with so many different things

happening on the home front that craft time

has been on the back burner.

What I have made above was already started and 

just had a little finishing off to do.

I decided to make it into a card adhering to

SU card base and adding an appropriate sentiment 

from Tim's Small Talk.

My background is smooched Magical's,

Inked circles and text,

die cut background is Kaisercraft and

that beautiful bee is a Sizzix die

also inked Magicals with glossy centre.

Head over and see what is in store from

my Creative Co-workers and 

hope you get a chance to create

a little Mixed Media something for our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Stencil Time at Happy Little Stampers

 It's that time of the Month for the

Stencil Challenge over at Happy Little Stampers

My stencil is from AALL&Create Mock-croc #58  sponged with

Tim's Oxide Inks. Added an inked die cut and circle inside.

Black strips are from credit card.

Fine splatters from perfect pearl spray

Added die cut flower coloured with

Art Alchemy Gold Rush Metallic Paint

Inked the edges and added a simple sentiment

to finish.

My Team Mates have been creative using stencils

so head over and see what they made for your pleasure.

Love to see you in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting.

For You.

Can you believe we are in to October already!

Well it's true and our new round of challenges at

Just Us Girls is upon us.

That means we have a New Guest Designer

A Big Welcome to Lynne from Rubydoobydoocrafts

 I am Hosting our Word Week with

SCRAPS! 

We all have an abundance of those leftover bits of paper - Right!

How hard is it to create a card using them?

Well for me this challenge was just that.

Even with boxes/drawers of bits, somehow I found it

hard to get what I was happy with. 

In the end after leaving it for a few days,

 contemplating whether to just thow it out and start again.

 I finally finished with something I am happy with.

I knew I wanted to use some leftovers (scraps) from

the retired SU Pumpkin Pie DP

then went looking for a colour to go with them.

Found one and started die cutting

The top strip is from Lawn Fawn Stitched Borders,

Butterfly is CUTplorations Flutter Zen #2

Sentiment - Impression Obsession

Leaf Swirl - Fancy That - inked with Lindy's Magical's.

Kaisercraft pearl.

That's my take on our Word Challenge.

Thanks for visiting.

Hope to see you in our Gallery.