Hello Sweet Friend!

 

Today's post is for the Cut It Up Challenge

Our Theme this fortnight is

This Makes Me Happy.

My card was made for my BFF

and posted  to her with a few dies

that I had doubled up on. 

She has gifted me so many double ups

so it was my turn to send her mine - she laughed

which made me Happy!

The stencilled background is from Art Anthology

inked with Tim's Saltwater Taffy

The SU gingko die cuts camd from a panel

in my bits box then die cut the frame.

Added sentiment and adhered to pink card stock

onto SU Mossy Meadow.

Head over and check out what the Designers chose 

as inspiration that made them Happy

and join in by adding yours to our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Thinking of You...

We have added a New Challenge this year 

to our Weekly Themes at Just Us Girls 

 and I am thrilled to be our First HOST!

It's Anything Goes using a STENCIL - 

and don't we all have loads to choose from?

How fortunate I was that with our first challenge of the year

I made two cards. This is the other one and coming in handy

as I have had hubby in hospital on and off for a few weeks

so from playing Nurse and home chores play time

was on the backburner.

I do love adding texture to a stencil as I have done here.

I used my Magical's letting the colours soak into the background.

Added some white thread behind the die cut

and cut the sentiment several time for dimension.

Popped onto white card base and my stencilled card is complete.

Head over and see what our Guest Stef 

and the Team created with their stencils and

come join in the fun.

Hope to see yours in the Gallery.

A Big Thank You to Stef 

for sharing her talents with us this month. 

A LATE update sending this over to the

Inkspirational Challenge for their

Challenge #307 Use Stencils

Thanks for visiting

Just for You.

It's Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls

and time to check out the Fabulous Board 

our Host Sue picked for us and see what

catches your eye - and there are a lot of lovelies too.

The heart in the centre top photo was my pick 

concentrating on the grey hues and hearts

with a splash of pretty flowers.

I got out a 'very old' CB embossing strip

as backing for my heart dies and MS punched hydrangea flowers.

They were coloured with 'magical's' 

with Liquid Pearls to the centres,

touched up with Nuvo Glitter Gloss

Added splotches, punched sentiment,

corner rounding and adhered to SU grey card base.

Head over and see what caught the eye of 

our Guest Stef and the Team . Hope we have inspired you to

add yours to the Gallery.

Thanks for the visit.

I'm a Cut it Up Designer

 I recently got an invitation to join the Ladies at

Cut It Up Challenge Blog

and as the name says - cut it up but using dies

with our die cutting machines

and don't we all have oodles to choose from.

I'm excited to start the New Year with New Challenges,

 meeting and working with New Friends along the way.

The first challenge theme at Cut It Up starts with

A New Year 

which brings endless possabilities - 

New Die, paper, tool, technique just a few.

Mention what your New is in your post.

PS My New are the Mushroom Dies.

After a rough week it was nice to find mo and jo to help me

create this fun card. 

I die cut my mushrooms and coloured them with

Tim's distress inks and Lindy's Magical's.

Background is stencilled and stamped with leaves.

The bottom I inked for grounding then decided to

add some extras - sissel and art stones.

Of course I had to add some splatters, ink the edges

and add a fussy cut sentiment I thought perfect as

mushrooms do grow wild and free...

Adhered to card base and my first card for

Cut it Up is complete.

Head over and see what the other New Designers

and Regulars chose to showcase our New Challenge.

Hope to see yours in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting and your kind comments.

Just 'Sparkle'

It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and 

Hosting is Sue choosing 'SPARKLE'

 

and a close up to try and show the sparkle...

Last year I made several card fronts 

with the Hot Glue Embossing Technique

and decided to play around with it again for this challenge.

 After several attempts I didn't get one that I liked

so above is one from last years leftovers.

Just framed it then popped the sentiments

and adhered to white base. 

Head over and see all the 'sparkle' our Guest Stef

and the Team created and 

come join in with yours to our Gallery.

Hope to see you there.

'Sparkle' this Christmas

 Welcome to a New Year of Challenges for

Christmas Craft Creations

I know Christmas has just passed but 

let's start all over again with this month's fun Theme!

This is my first for the year!

and a closer look at the 'sparkle' which is 

sooooooooo hard to photograph.

I saw this sparkly creation on YouTube Here

and as our Theme asks for Sparkle

I thought it fun to case it.

I used matte gel medium as adhesive then added my 'sparkle'

sequins and tiny brightly coloured star sequins

to add extra pop of colour.

Sentiment is also brightly inked with Versafine Clair

and heat embossed clear.

Attached to coloured card base.

Head over to our Blog and check out

how the Team created their 'sparkle'

Come join in the New Year fun.

Best Wishes - Today Tomorrow and Always!

Hello and Welcome Back.

There is a whole lot of 'NEW' happening at

 Just Us Girls in 2024

First of -  you would have noticed our New Look Header!

Huge shout out for Teamie Elizabeth for the 

amazing modern cool look she has created all over for us.

and we have a New Designer - 

WELCOME to Stephanie Lanzalotto from My-Ink-Well - 

happy to have you sharing your talents with us every week.

but wait there's more -

a New Year of Guest Designers and our first is the Talented

 Stef  Perry at https://stefperry.blogspot.com/

plus there are a few other changes for you to check out

over on Our Blog especially the change of day

and  a longer time for you to get crafty!

Here's what I created from this weeks colours 

chosen by our Host - Vicki

I went CAS (getting back into the swing of things)

 here using my 'magical' sprays

and a puffer to get the tails.

Added a couple of dies - flower has coloured

texture paste in the centre and popped.

Finished with sentiment, sequins

and matting to coloured card base.

***

Head over to see all that is new

and the creative cards our Guest Stef

New Teamie Stephanie and the 

rest of us made for your inspiration.

AND - you have more time 

to add your card to our Gallery.

I know it was a long post but - 

so much to fill you in on the happenings

over the Christmas break.

Thanks for visiting

Just for You!

Today's post is for the Cut It Up Challenge

 It is the popular  Anything Goes

and of course we need to add a DIE CUT on our projects.

How easy is that! Got that covered here.

I die cut my flowers and inked them with

Tim's Oxide Inks and Lindy's Magical's,

as I did with the Impression Obsession sentiment

which was die cut three times for depth.

Embossed my background with Kaisercraft Leaves

then adhered a slim Sizzix frame from Lisa Jones

and attached the flowers. and sentiment.

Finished by attaching to textured coloured card base.

A nice way to spend a hot Sunday afternoon

and my last card for 2023 and look forward to seeing

 what the New Year has in store.

Thanks for dropping by -

Best Wishes Blooms

The Beautiful Blossoms Floral Challenge

is live with their Optional Colour Mood Board

for our inspiration.

Like a lot of us I chose the red and green colours.

An easy card to make -

I got the background die cut for my birthday a while back

and thought it would be a nice backdrop for my flowers

from STAMPlorations Floral Bliss.

Heat embossed white and coloured them in two 

pink/red tones from Lindy's Magicals.

The backing is coloured with the same colours.

Die cut the greenery and popped the flowers

 with prills added to the centres.

Finished with a simple sentiment and attached to 

white card base. 

Thanks for dropping in -

Love reading your kind comments.

A Pretty Pink Happy Birthday.

Hello and Welcome to today's post.

Christmas cards are done and dusted and are all on their way so - 

time for playing with my favourite retired 

SU Botanical Blooms Set

Made for Color Hues for their current challenge

Color Hues #77 with the beautiful soft

pink/silver combo

and the

The Paper Funday Challenge

are celebrating their

60th Challenge with a

5th Birthday Bash.

Don't you love milestone challenges!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Paper Funday.

I am also sending this over to their regular one

Challenge #60 Anything Goes

but without their optional twist of Snowman/or Birds

I'm afraid a snowman would melt in seconds here at the moment

with near #40c phew!

I die cut the front with white card stock

using a peek a boo die from MFT

then lightly inked Tim's stone stencil

with Hickory Smoke.

Die cut a SB square larger than the front

with pink card stock for the base.

Die cut leaves are heat embossed in

SU Silver and flowers coloured with

Lindy's Alpine Ice Rose and Oom Pah Pah Pink.

Added scattered gems to the leaves and

one to the main flower.

Sentiment inside is STAMPlorations Carved Flowers

which fitted perfectly behind the cut opening.

Certainly a hard card to photograph.

Thanks Nancy for choosing such a gorgeous color hue

for us this month.

Thanks also for taking time out to comment.

Simply 'Merry Christmas'

It's the last challenge of the year at 

The Sisterhood of Crafters

and my last card as I am stepping down

as a Designer. I have so enjoyed being part of the

fabulous friendly Sistah's and I know they will

continue to impress you with their craft skills

and encourage you to add yours to their Gallery in the New Year.

Our challenge is simply CHRISTMAS!

so go all out , have fun and

add yours to our Gallery. I know it will be full of

amazing Christmas creations.

I found the pretty paper I used on my die cut trees

in my stash - had it for years!

Embossed background is an old CB Christmas one.

Added some gold cord, bow and pearls.

Sentiment is from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Card stock/base are metallic gold.

Thanks so much Darlene and  Sistah's

for the wonderful time I had as part of the Team.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Silver Decorations for Christmas

It's sooooooooooo close to Christmas

and I am sure you haven't finished your cards yet have you?

 Christmas Craft Creations have their last challenge for the year

so a great chance to quickly finish them up by entering our

Christmas Decorations Theme

I went with an old CB embossing folder for my background

then added a MFT oval die that I had

adhered my silver Christmas Decorations to.

Die cut the Merry Christmas sentiment.

Framed in silver onto white card base.

A really CAS card that would be so easy

to do multiples of.

Hop over and check out what has been added to

Our Blog by the Talented Design Team.

Hope to see yours there.

Thanks for visiting throughout the year

with your kind comments.

May you have a

Merry Christmas 

with Family and Friends and I will be back

in the New Year to do it all over again.

Sparkle this Christmas!

It's time for the Anything Goes Stencil Challenge at

Happy Little Stampers 

I had a load of fun making this card. Started with

Lindy's magical's for my background

then stencilled ARTplorations Christmas Tree 

with coloured texture paste.

While that was wet I added lots of

Stampendous Twinkle Glitter.

It looks a little blurry in the photo I think because it is so thick.

Finished with heat embossing my sentiment from

Happy Little Stampers Let it Snow.

Adhered to white card base and my

sparkly Christmas card was complete.

Hope you get a chance to play with

our challenges over at

Happy Little Stampers 

as there will be an indefinate break.

A HUGE Thank You to Kylie for 

how she has cared for and looked after

the numerous Challenges she managed -

not to mention all her Designers. 

We are forever thankful for the

privilege of being part of her 'Family'.

Have a Merry Christmas.

Celebrating our #100th at Creative Artiste Mixed Media

We are celebrating our #100th Challenge at

 Creative Artiste Mixed Media

with this challenge a little different to our usual Anything Goes.

Christmas is just a few weeks away

 and have added the option of 

Anything Goes Mixed Media with a

Christmas Theme.

Our Talented Guest Betta

and the Team have gone with

a special Mixed Media Christmas make.

After coming home from a little holiday

I was full of ideas but Mo and Jo were overwhelmed

hence it took me a few days to narrow down what I wanted to create.

As it turned out what I started with is nothing like

what I had in mind and in the end it just wasn't me

so I started all over again and again!

When you want to do something special you 

overthink it and try too hard. 

In the end and running out of time I am

finally happy with my Christmas Creation.

Here is some progress photos

I wasn't happy with this background and it

did go in the bin only to come out the next day.

(Things weren't going to planat this stage)

adding kraft paper with splatters and rolled to top part

then added rolled paper from an old book.

Inked the edges with AA Rusty Brown Wax.

Then deciding what elements to add.

Art stones, crystal snow and cheescloth.

Tim's Holiday Greens, Deer with more snow,

Die cut envelope and note

Joy die is Kaisercraft inked and covered in Nuvo

Hollywood Red Sparkle Dust and adhered to

thick cardboard. Somewhere along the way

I lost the itty bitty i.

Finished with some sequins, gems and chipboard pieces I left natural.

Design Team Member Fiona has kindly donated 

this prize for one lucky Winner!

Be sure to add your Mixed Media to Our Blog for a chance to be chosen the Winner.

Looking forward to seeing all the lovely projects.

Hope yours will be there. 

PS - As we do each year we take January off to freshen up

our creativeness and get over Christmas/New Year festivities 😊

Thank you for all your kind comments during the year.

See you in Febraury!

Have a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.