Just for You!

 

It's that time of the month for our

Word Week at Just Us Girls

and Maria is our Hostess choosing

FLOWERS! as our word.

 

 

I saw the idea for my card from

DOstamping with Dawn Here 

and knew one day I wanted to case it

especially as I had the same stamp -

Retired SU Lotus Blossom.

I just love that stamp as it has a 3step

stamp and there are so many colour combinations

you could use. Just need to play with it

and see what looks good.

I came up with Memento Potters Clay

Desert Sand & Teal Zeal on mine.

Other products are -

Embossing is by Darice

Spellbinders Circles

Sentiment - Inspired by Stamping

Ribbon - SU

and rhinestones.

 

 

A little of the inside.

 

 

Don't forget to pop over to Our Blog

to check out Stephanie Castro's inspiration -

our March Guest Designer

Welcome Stephanie

and the Design Team's amazing talents -

join us and you could be our Chic of the Week

and our May Guest.

Hope to see you there.

Cherrio from

 

 

 



It's a Coloured Birthday Celebration

I found one of my favourite colour combinations over at

Colour Throwdown and just had to play.

Also at As You Like It their challenge is to

Make a card for your

Favourite Occasion and

Explain Why.

I think it is rewarding when you can make a

Birthday Card for someone special in your life

who is celebrating their Special Day.

So this time it is BIRTHDAY!

I am hoping to make another with my other favourite.

(not saying what it is) 

 

 



In the process of making this card I had chosen

one of my favourite stamps for this challenge

but when I went to get a stencil

I went a totally different way.

I decided to get my bokeh stencil out and play with that

inking randomly with Tim Holtz Peacock Feathers

and SU Melon Mambo. They go so well together.

Funny how this technique isn't quite so popular

now as there are always new ones to try.

I used 2 other stencils in the background.

I am hoping I can finish the card I originally started

in time before the challenge ends.

 

I recently bought this Happy Birthday die and thought

it perfect to place in front using the 3rd colour.

It is from Nina's Things.

I decided to mute the colours by adding a sheet of

patterned vellum on top. Liked that it had circles in white

adding to the effect.

Finished off with coloured sequins.

 

So that's it for now.

I do have another card scheduled for later today

so you get a bonus with 2 postings....

Thanks for dropping by

 



Celebrate! It's Photo Week at JUGS

 

It's Photo Week at Just Us Girls

and Hosting is Lisa who has chosen

rather a fitting photo as 2016 is

a Leap Year and all those who were born

on the 29th get to Celebrate their special day.

 

I looked at the photo and thought how easy was this?

Just some great flourishes and a date.

Well I was wrong. After a few attempts

and some paper being thrown in the bin

I went with this -   

 

Not my favourite and not completely happy

with the end result but sometimes you just have

to say - It's not that bad after all...

 

I kept it cas as the photo is just that.

I used the following items -

White and coloured card stock

Scoring

Framed my flourish which is rightly named

Flourish from Kaisercraft.

inked with Memento Olive Grove (a little too dark )

Sentiment is IBS

Number 18 is from Cuttlebugs Hippie Chick Alphabet

Added some pearls to give my card a lift.

 

Thanks for dropping in and be sure to pop over

and see what has inspired our Guest Pamellia

and the Team.

 

Join us and you are in the running for

Chic of the Week and

may be chosen as our Guest for April.

 

 

 

 

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For a 'Special Friend'

 

Our latest challenge at

Crafty Cardmakers

is being Hosted by Marlene

and she has chosen the Theme

'For a Special Woman'

and I had a Special Friend in mind

so I made this card just for her.

 

 

I made it fairly cas as she is one that doesn't go

all over the top fancy with her cards.

 

I used the following products on my card -

Basic card stock Doily

Flower is inked with SU Rich Razzleberry

from Gina K Designs

Sentiment (perfect for my friend) is from

Lily of the Valley and given to me by her

so it is pretty special.

Framed with Spellbinders Circles/Lacey Circles

Punch is from Fiskars

and a few rhinestones.

 

Pop on over to our blog and see

what my Team Mates created

and hope you get the chance to

Make something for a Special Lady

in your life.

 

 

 

 

 



Happy Birthday Wishes

 

It's Colour Week at Just Us Girls and Cheryl is Hosting.

She has picked a perfect colour combination.

What are you going to create with these 3 colour below?

 

 

 

Here is how I chose to  showcase these colours.

 

 

and the products I used -

White/watercolour paper

Memory Box Waives Stencil in

Tim Holtz Peacock Feathers/Stormy Sky

and Memento Teal Zeal.

Image was heat embossed in Candy Blue

and is by SU's Nature Walk.

Sentiments are

Happy - Spellbinders Die

Birthday Wishes - GKD

Corner Rounder & Foam Squares.

 

Pop over to our blog Here

to see what our February Guest Pamellia

and the Team created.

Join in and you could be our Guest in April.

 

Thanks for dropping by

 



Sending Best Wishes

 

Once again I am playing with paper over at

Always Playing with Paper -  this time for their current 

Colour Challenge.

 

Here is what I came up with

with these gorgeous colours below.

 

 

A favourite stamp set of mine

for the flower is from

SU - Lotus Blossom because it is a

3 step stamps and can use so many different colours.

This time I just used the 2 -

Memento Love Letter & Versa Color Old Rose.

I used basic coloured card stock in pink grey

& white with water colour paper.

 The background speckles are Tim Holtz

in Memento London fog. The stem is also this colour.

The sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping

Corner rounded and popped my image

and finished with some rhinestones.

 

Hope you like my cas card. Love to read your comments.

Till next time Cherrio from

 

 



V is for 'Vegemite'

 

Over at Just Add Ink the current challenge is to

create a project with the letter V

Details are Here

 

 

Now you may ask where my V is?

When I read the post the first thing that stood out was

VEGEMITE! What's this you say?

It is a yeast extract that us Aussie's love to put on toast.

My favourite is to add avocado with it - yum!

Now I know a lot of people can't stand the strong taste

but I spread it lightly not like my hubby who

smothers his toast with it.

 

The next thing that came to mind was the word

VACATION so I got out one of my favourite

SU sets called Feeling Sentimental and the

phone booth reminds me of the red British ones

so what better stamp to use when you are

over the other side of the world

on VACATION without your VEGEMITE?

The colours I used are part of the theme -

you see Vegemite comes in a jar or tube is

brown in colour and yellow is on the jar so I used

SU Yo Yo Yellow & Close to Cocoa.

 

Other products used are -

Background are stencils from

Tim Holtz - Speckles

Clear Scraps - Chevrons

Sentiment - Gina K Designs Country Roads

I picked this to go with the strip behind the

yellow cotton - I need my VEGEMITE

typed up on my laptop.

Did some distressing to match the stamped image

and finished with a tiny button tied with some

more yellow cotton.

 

Sorry this is a long posting but needed to

explain a little about our Vegemite.

 

My card certainly isn't what most people would be thinking

with the chosen letter - but I sure had fun with it.

 

Thanks for dropping in.

 

 

 

 



Tag it for TREND Week at JUGS.

 

It's Trend Week at Just Us Girls and I am Hosting.

 

 

I like to add dimension on most of my cards

and my thoughts went to 'Add a Tag'

so that is what I went with.

 

I had done a card similar a long time ago and decided
I would make another in the same layout.
I like the idea of the corrugated cardboard behind the tag
so used that as my starting point.
My card base is kraft and topped with cream paper
to match my postage tag.
Here are the other products I used -
Background is SU Beyond the Basics
Butterfly/floral stamped image is unknown
as a friend gave it to me.
She also made the crochet flower.
Crochet cotton, pearls
and another brad (doing well with them lately)
Inks are -  Tim Holtz Peacock Feathers
Abandoned Coral & Vintage Photo
Memento Teal Zeal
Sentiment is Inspired by Stamping.
Foam squares for more dimension.

Hop over to Our Blog to see what the Jugheads created
and Pamellia's Blog Here to see her beautiful work
as she is our February Guest.
You could be our April Guest just by
participating in our February Challenges.

Hope to see you there.
Thanks for dropping in.
Till next time -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Another card for Always Playing with Paper #59

 

The current challenge over at

Always Playing with Paper is running for 2 weeks

so I got to create another card for their great Sketch.

 

 

I decided to get some Kraft paper out and

emboss my images in white and clear embossing powder

(for the background)

The stamp set I used is SU - Morning Meadow

Sentiment is also from that set.

I popped it for dimension punched the corner with a

Fiskars punch twice adding the white from the holes for effect.

Finished with gold pearls and a tiny butterfly by SU.

 

 

 

Thanks for popping in.



A RRRUFF day.

I just had to play with the current challenge at

The Paper Players which is Raining Cats & Dogs

for a few reasons.

My sister has had a bad fall and is in hospital

hence a Get Well card but with a difference.

 

 

 

Now we both love 'Scottie Dogs' being Scots ourselves.

and

I have been itching to use this Scottie dog die

(Marianne Die LR0039) as my hubby

bought it for me for Christmas. 

I have had the sentiment which belongs to

Inkadinkado for quite some time

and thought it a perfect

cheer me up for my card.

I know there will be quite a few 'ruff days'

when she gets out of hospital.

I used basic black/white & red card stock

some tartan paper on the side his collar

and a few small hearts.

Paper pierced around the edges

foam squares for dimension

a few bones inked from the die

and there it is finished.

Oh and I added a white dot for the eye and nose.

 

Thanks for dropping in

 

 

 



It's all about LOVE.

 

It's getting to that time of year when

Love is in the Air

so what better excuse is there to make a card

to say 'I Love You'

for our latest challenge at Crafty Cardmakers

and Hosting is Julie.

 

 

This was a simple card to make

and here are the products I used -

Black Silver and Red card stock/paper

Love Die is from Kaisercraft Decorative Die

Flourish - Memory Box Loveland Corner

The hearts in the Love triangle are

the cut outs from the flourish.

The tiny heart punch is Sullivans

and stamped from a SU stamp

Finish off with some rhinestones.

 

Don't forget to pop over to our blog

to see what the other Designers have created.

I am sure you will want to play with this challenge.

 

See you there!

 



Sketch Time at Always Playing with Paper

Here I am finally able to play with paper again

having had an extremely busy few weeks with

Doctor's Appointments and procedure for hubby who is now

home and in recovery mode - which means I do most

of the heavy work around the house for the next 6 weeks.

***

I couldn't wait to play with the current sketch challenge over at

Always Playing with Paper

 

 

I decided I would flip my card around and go from there.

I loved the idea of the circles on the sketch below
 hence I got out my circle stencil
and gave my background the bokeh technique.

 using Memento Lulu Lavendar and Sweet Plum.

The leaves, tiny stamped flowers and sentiment are from

Gina K Designs Stippled Nature.

Memento Pistachio for the leaves and

SU Rich Razzleberry on the flowers.

My bigger flowers are also from SU

Flower Shop and Petite Petals.

They go so well together.

Did a little spritzing and finishing off with

popping the flowers and adding pearls to the centres

and liquid pearls to the tiny flowers.

Used basic card stock and rounded off the corner.

Oh and of course I used my favourite colour - purple.

***

Below is the sketch to follow.

 

 

 

I really enjoyed this challenge and look forward to seeing

next weeks Colour Challenge - one of my favourites.

 

Thanks for dropping in.

 



A Simple LOVE U

 

It's February and that means

Love is in the Air and Valentine's Day

 

 

So to run with this occasion our Host Vicki

has chosen VALENTINE for our Word Week at

Just Us Girls

 

 

I am not one to celebrate this occasion as there are
365 days of the year that you can say 'Love You'
so since I have made 2 of these cards in similar style
I am going to send them to my 2 daughters.

Here are the products I used for my cas card.
Red & Metallic card stock
Red floral paper
Memory Box Loveland Corner
isn't it gorgeous?
Kaisercraft Decorative Die
An old Cuttlebug Heart Die
cut in both colours and popped
Sullivan Heart Punch
Cuttlebug Alphabet Die for the U
again cut twice and popped
and finished with the placing of some
coloured pearls.

Don't forget to pop over and see what our
Guest Designer Pamellia
and the Design Team have created
then I hope you will create
your Valentine Card for this weeks challenge.
You could be our Chic of the Week and
our Guest Designer in April.

Till next time
Happy Crafting

 

Another Tic Tac Toe card

 Here is the other card I made for
this weeks Tic Tac Toe Challenge at
Just Us Girls

 

For some reason I just wasn't happy with this one
hence I made another.
 

 

It's been a long time since I did a cut away card

so thought it a good idea to try one again.

The SU Morning Meadow Stamp was perfect for this

and I stamped it randomly on white cs in

Memento Teal Zeal & SU Baja Breeze.

The top flowers are die cut from SU Petite Petals.

Card base is Kraft

Butterflies are from GKD inked with

Tim Holtz Frayed Burlap.

Sentiment is also GKD

Finished with different coloured pearls from Kaisercraft.

 

 



It's Wild Card Week at JUGS

 

Once again it is another month with 5 Saturdays

and that means WILD WEEK at Just Us Girls 

hosted this time by Chris who has chosen.

an ever popular challenge in Blogland -

TIC TAC TOE

They are always so much fun with so many choices -

you get to pick your very own favourite squares.

 

 

 

I had already made a card for this challenge but

decided to make another.

I will post it after this goes live.

Can't believe I have chosen just about

 the same colours as before.

Oh Well! on to how I made this one -

I chose to go straight down the middle with

Die Cuts Stamps and Flowers

with

White Aqua & Kraft card stock

My stencil is TCW - Textile and inked with

SU Whisper White and added

Mont Marte Pearl White Paint and

a little glitter

Flower is from SU Flower Shop

Flourishes are Kaisercraft

Added a sentiment a few small flowers

some fern and pearls to finish.

 

Don't forget to pop over to see what the Design Team

created and hope you get the chance to play

TIC TAC TOE with us this week.

You could be our Chic of the Week or

Guest Designer in March.

 

Thanks for dropping in

 



I'm this weeks GUEST at Always Playing with Paper

 

I recently won the colour challenge over at

Always Playing with Paper

and was asked to be their Guest for this week challenge.

Of course I was so excited I said YES!

 

 

Don't you just love this Inspiration Photo?

Now a lot of us tend to steer away from male cards

but after seeing this photo -which just screamed

Rusty Old Car! I got out some supplies I thought

I would use but landed up with something totally

different and I must say

how pleased I was with how it finished.

 

 

I started my card with black card stock.

The DP I used here is from

Farm House Paper Co. - Fair Skies

This was used on the first background

and behind the tag.

I have backed that with black cs embossed

with a Tim Holtz embossing folder.

I distressed the edges on both the dp and the tag.

The truck is from Gina K Designs Country Roads.

The sentiment is also from GKD

which I purposely chose because when you travel

there are little moments

 that make that trip a big lifetime memory.

Sentiments on the tag are from Stamp It.

The other stamps are from

Prima Marketing and Kaisercraft.

The truck was coloured with a variety of pencils

from Faber Castell and blended.

Inks used were Memento Tuxedo Black

Stormy Sky/Potters Clay

and Tim Holtz Peacock Feather.

Foam Squares for depth

Finishing it off with a couple of brads

and some Jute String.

 

Thanks for dropping in today

and be sure to pop over to the

Talented Designers  Here

to see what Inspired them

for their Masculine cards.

 

Hope you get time to play with us this week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Just saying 'Thank You'

Our current challenge over at

Crafty Cardmakers is to use Punches/Dies

and Maike is Hosting.

 

 

I am sure you are like me and got new craft items for Christmas.

My hubby chose this die for me so of course I HAD to

try it out didn't I? Perfect for our latest challenge.

I cut my die - Crafts Too You Daisy with green card stock

and the daisy head in white which I inked in

Tim Holtz Abandoned Coral. Touched up with Wink of Stella.

 I forgot that I had a spare piece of cs already

with the shaving cream technique

sitting on my desk left over from another card

which matched my flower Genies.

This was cut with Spellbinders Wonky Rectangle die.

I embossed the backing with

Couture Creation Ambrosia.

I found this gorgeous ribbon and attached to the back

(a little hard to see) and placed my bow to the side.

I finished by adding a tiny sentiment from SU. 

 



Be sure to pop by to see what the DT have for your inspiration

and hope to see your creation there.

PS It doesn't have to be a card this time so

let your imagination run wild!

but don't forget if it has you cannot enter it

 if you have uploaded it to more than

 15 sites including this one...sorry

 

Happy crafting and Thanks for dropping in

It's PHOTO WEEK at Just Us Girls

 

Sharyn is our Hostess this week at

Just Us Girls

 

What do you see that inspires you here?

 

I saw the Chevrons and pretty pillows

 

I cut out a template and went from there.

Here are the products I used -

Navy and white card stock

Scrap DP

Kaisercraft leaf die

SU Butterfly

Several scrunched inked yellow silk flowers

(think I was a bit heavy handed inking them)

Memento Paris Dusk on

Sentiment from IBS

White brad (yay got to use another one lol)

The chevrons were popped for 3d effect.

 

That's it for now but be sure to pop over to our Blog

to check out what inspired our Guesties and DT.

 

Hope you get a chance to play with us this week.