Happy Birthday!

 Welcome to my Saturday post for Just Us Girls

It's our Photo/Mood Board Week and Host Bobby

has a fabulous array of possabilities there.

Here's a closer look!

All those beautiful blues got my attention 

and went with a bit of a grungy make

using products from STAMPlorations

Inks are from Tim Holtz in the blue/grey tones

with a touch of tan.

Added some splatters and attached to navy card base.

Head on over and see what our Guest  Greta and the Team

took from this super board and maybe you can

find a little time to play and add yours to the Gallery.

Hope so!

Thanks for dropping in and commenting

Spread your Wings!

It's Word Week at Just Us Girls

and Hosting is Lisa K choosing 'BEE'

I have used several items from AALL&Create here.

The stencilling in the background are

Broken Circle and Cracked Walls 1

with Tim's Oxide Inks.

My Bee is from Sizzix Thinlits

# 663423 Jennifer Ogborn.

Inked and finished with Lindy's Magical's.

Stamping is Scripted Hexagons

and Sentiment from an old

Gina K stamp set - Springtime Silhouettes.

Finished with splatters and

adhered to SU card base.

Check out what our Guest Greta and the Team

showcased their bee themed cards and

come over and add yours to the gallery.

We would love to see you there.

Thanks for visiting

Keeping it Simple!

We are looking to Keep it Simple for our New Challenge at

 The Sisterhood of Crafters

I love when a CAS card comes together quickly.

Sometimes they just don't but this one did.

My two step stamp is Rubbernecker Poppies 719

inked with Memento London Fog and

VersaFine Clair Nocturne.

Light stamping in the background is

Darkroom Door French Script.

Sentiment is from Woodware Going to Seed.

Die cut frame and inserted grey card stock

and adhered to black card base.

My Sistahs have made such lovely 'simple' cards

for your inspiration. Check them out and

join in by adding yours to the Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in

Welcome CHRISTMAS!

What's the Theme for this month at

Christmas Craft Creations 

It's another easy one (for some)

Clean and Simple!

You will notice that my trees are the same shape as last month - 

that's because I made both cards at the same time using

the same die set. Can't get it easier than that.

Die cut my two trees and attached to kraft card stock.

Added a wee star and a white embossed snowflake.

Sentiment is a very old SU one I forgot I had

till just recently.

Attached to kraft card base and my CAS card is done!

Head over to see what the Team created and

come join in. You are never toooo early

to get some CAS Christmas card rolling out.

Thanks for the visit.

Hello!

Hello and Welcome to my post for

 Happy Little Stampers Stencil Challenge.

For this months make I got out a favourite stencil

from ARTplorations - Happy Flowers.

It's big and bold and makes an easy CAS card.

DP background is Paper Rose.

Flower is stencilled with texture paste.

Hello die from Pink Fresh Studio die cut black 

and shadowed from same DP.

Corner rounded  onto white base.

Head over and see what the rest of the 

Stencil Team created for your inspiration

and head in to create yours for the Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

You ROCK!

Vicki is our Host for our Colour Week at Just Us Girls

and it's a super combination with so many possabilities!

Greta Hess from GG Creations

My card is pretty basic. I had the dies already on my desk

 so went with them in the colours above.

They are from MFT and background embossed brick is Kaisercraft.

Sentiments are from Paper Smooches inked with

Versafine Clair 

(I loooove those inks)

Decided to add something a little different

to finish it off  - buttons. haven't used them in an age

and don't we all have a stash!

That's pretty much it!

OH! and this is the last of my three-fers after all

there are three colours in our challenge.

Love it when a card comes together as quick as this one.

Should be a fun gallery this week with these great colours.

Check out what our New Guest Greta and the Team created and

Hope to see yours there.

My Big Bold Beautiful Butterfly...

Once again it is time for our Anything Goes 

Mixed Media Challenge at

 Creative Artiste Mixed Media

It's always fun to move away from card making and 

get into the Mixed Media Zone and play.

You never know how your project will finish.

While my friend was here recently we bought a few dies

and to our surprise the butterfly above was

way bigger than we thought. You could say

we didn't look at the size did we!

Worked out nicely for my MM project though.

I thought I would go softer on the colours this time round

as I do love Tim's Speckled Egg.

Here's the how and products I used with some progress photos!

Background is coloured with Lindy's Magical's

Distress/Oxide inks and Ken Oliver Metals.

Added circles from Dutch Doobadoo stamping by Kaisercraft

 and stencilling with AALL&Create Cracked Walls with grit paste.

Inked die cuts adding Stampendous

Aged Copper Enamel and adhering to background.

Die cut THAT big butterfly with heavy weight paper.

I loaded up the die with Tim's Speckled Egg,

Lindy's Magical's and Stampendous

Aged Copper Enamel around the edges

and centre of the butterfly.

Added extra colour with AA waxes of

Rich Copper and Peacock.

Cheesecloth was added to the background

before attaching the popped butterfly.

Undecided as to a sentiment if it needed one.

Adhered to coloured card base to complete.

Head over and see what magical mixed media

has been created by our Guest Anita and my

Talented Team Mates to Our Blog

for your pleasure. We would love to see you

get creative and add your mixed media piece.

using multiple mediums to the Gallery.

Thanks for taking time out to

check out what I have been up to.

Case-ing a Design Team Member Challenge

July is a month where we have Five Saturday's and at

Just Us Girls we have our Case a Design Team Member's card.

Carol Mc Is Hosting.

This is where you create your card from 

one of the Design Team's cards in this weeks challenge.

We all have an over abundance of DP's so I thought

I would cut up some beautiful roses from

Marianne Designs Dark Vintage pack.

My design only uses one piece of paper -

the red rose was top left then right and

bottom one underneath the rose. These were die cut

with SB Square Dies. I then pencilled the die edges

on the back of the dp and cut to get the frame.

These were slightly popped on white card base.

Sentiment is STAMPlorations Carved Flowers

inked in Tim's Abandoned Coral. 

A pretty little CAS creation that 

used up a lovely colourful piece of DP.

Yep - it's another three-fer card I didn't think of

till I photographed it, and I have done it

again coming up soon. OOPS!

Of course the Team have created

beautiful cards to entice you to case them

and enter in this weeks challenge.

Hope you head into your craft space

and do just that.

Thanks for visiting.

A Burst of Tropical Colours

 We are going Tropical for the New Challenge at

The Sisterhood of Crafters

What to me is more tropical than the

beautiful hibiscus flowers!

I added bursts of tropical colours for the background

touching up the floral hibiscus spray with extra colour

from STAMPlorations and popped an extra one on top.

Die cut the frame, added a pearl and sentiment.

Backed with coloured card stock onto white frame.

My Sistahs have created fabulous tropical bliss so

head over and check them out.

We would love to see your tropical creation 

in our Gallery so come on over.

Thanks for visiting

It's a 'Three-fer'

 Hi there and Welcome to my Saturday Post for

Just Us Girls

It is my turn to Host our CAS Week

and I chose 'Three of Something' as our 'Theme'

You can incorporate the word any way you choose

as long as there are 'three'

I chose three die cuts in white, kraft and purple.

Background is from Tim Holtz 

Added a simple bow and sentiment to finish.

Our Guest Kristin and the Team have gone all out

with their 'three-fers' so head over and

check them out and hope to see yours in the Gallery.

Sending this over to the Tic Tac Toe Challenge

for their Challenge #218

I chose Top Right, Middle and Bottom Left

CAS - Free - Any Shape Die.

Thanks for visiting

Time for Tea...

It's our Photo/Mood Board Challenge at Just Us Girls

and Hosting is Lisa E choosing the most gorgeous array

of feminine softness.

Here's a larger view

Oh the endless possabilities we have in this beautiful Mood Board!

. As you can see I was inspired by

the gorgeous tea arrangement on the top right side.

I sanded my old CB folder to take away some of the 

bright pink. My tea cup is from

STAMPlorations Always Tea Time

as is the sentiment which is a little hard to see

(There is no trouble so great that cannot be

much diminished by a nice cup of tea)

Both inked with Versafine Clair Glamerous

and heat embossed clear.

Tea cup is die cut with SB Floral Ovals

Finished with a few pink gems.

Head over and see how our Guest

and the Team took inspirations from the photo 

to make their card for this challenge.

Hope they inspired you to 

play along this week and add yours

to our Gallery.

What's Growing in your Garden?

What's growing in your garden?

The Design Team at  The Sisterhood of Crafters

are looking for beautiful blooms

or maybe the garden tools that you need to produce them.

There aren't many here at the moment as Winter arrived

but I am sure our Aussie Annie's garden will be 'blooming'

Cut out some woodgrain DP for my fence

with some inked shrubs in the background.

Added greenery and coloured flowers from my stash. 

I thought the sentinent fitted the theme nicely.

Finished with some coloured/plain framing.

Check out what is in my Sisitah's gardens.

We would love to see yours in our Gallery.

Thanks for taking time to visit and comment.

Season's Greetings!

 Hello and Welcome to our New Challenge at

Christmas Craft Creations

This month we are looking for the popular theme

ANYTHING GOES!

A fairly simple card using MFT dies

for the DP trees  

Sentiment is a really old SU retired one. 

Attached to white card stock and card base.

Thanks for popping in.

Head over and see what the rest of the

talented designer created for this months' challenge.

Hope to see yours there.

UPDATE! We are having a Design Team Call!

An opportunity to have those Christmas cards

up and running before December hits you.

It is a great team to be part of and only need to make

one card a month but welcome to do two

as we have two teams creations a fortnight apart.

Head over to our Christmas Craft Creations Blog

for all the important info.

Seashells by the Seashore!

 Welcome to today's post for Just Us Girls

Nancy is Hosting and I am sure she is thinking of the seaside

with the WORD -Seashells for this weeks Word Challenge.

I wanted to do something a little different for this one

and really did go way outside the box starting with

a seaside paper napkin attached to card base.

Then it all went from there.

The seaside has fish nets and shells abounding right!

so up to the shed I went and raided the

shell grit we give to our chickens.

There are two types there - some very tiny

and others more realistic.

The fish net is of course cheesecloth

for the shells to lay on. The hardest part was

waiting for the gel medium to dry

setting the shells in place. I did add some

clear crackle on a few items but hard to see.

Glossy accents on the bird and some shimmer

here and there.

Computer generated text to finish.

I took a couple of close ups to show you better detail

of all the different shells - 

I had so much fun creating this Mixed Media project - 

now head over and see what our Guest Kristen and

my Talented Team Mates created.

Love to see you get out those seashell supplies

and add yours to our Gallery. 

Thanks for visitng.

Love to read your thoughts on my seashell piece.

Update! Just found a few new challenges to add this to

thanks to a friend. It is The Inspired Challenge

for their Inspired by the Sea Decor

and Creative Inspiration Challenge

Anything Goes #4