Word Week at Just Us Girls

Welcome to my Saturday.

Vicki is Hosting our Word Week at Just Us Girls

and chosen a very appropriate one with 

Valentine's Day just around the corner.

As it is a new month we have a new Guest - 

Welcome to the Talented Leslie Turner.

 A pretty simple make using kraft card stock

die cuts from CUTplorations and Cuttlebug

in pretty pink and white.

Added some Art Alchemy Waxes to the hearts,

 backed with cheesecloth for interest

and a few splatters.

Framed in white onto kraft card base.

Pop over and see what our Guest Leslie Turner.

and the Team created for Valentine'vs Day.

I'm sure I will see plenty in our Gallery

and hope you can be there.

Be picked for our Chic of the Week and you are

in the running to be our Guest in April.

Adding my simple card to the 

Double D Challenge Details Here

Little Red Wagon

for their Total Eclipse of the Heart Here

Creations in Pink with

Anything Goes in MAINLY Pink

Shopping our Stash for

#438 Love is in the Air

 the Mod Squad Challenge

All About Love

and not to miss out at

Allsorts Challenge

for #Week 610 - Love is...

Thanks for dropping in and

leaving your kind comments.

Not your ordinary Spec's Case

 Time to show you my latest Mixed Media project for

Creative Artiste Mixed Media

where our challenges are Anything Goes 

with multiple mediums required.

Something a little different this month and fun to make.

I decided to dolly up a boring black spectacles case.

Started with black gesso

then went to work with stenciling adding chipboard, flowers,

cogs, keys, cheesecloth, magical's, waxes, pearls,

metallic paints and real chicken feathers.

Here's some photos. 

The start!

and finish!

That's it for me this time round.

Pop over and see what my 

Ever So Talented Team Mates created. 

Then head into your creative space and create

some magic for our Gallery.

Love to see you there.

Live in the Moment

Hi there and Welcome to my Saturday post for 

Just Us Girls

As we have 5 Saturday's this month it's our

Wild Card Week and the Lovely Lisa 

wants us to do some Masking.

Here's my simple masking - and

it's my first make for 2021.

All the others you have seen were made before

I had knee surgery back in early December.

My favourite Visible Image Creative Chaos stamp

is an easy one to mask. All I had to do was stamp

the main image and cut out the head flower,

adhere it lightly and create a background then remove it.

I have used a few stamp sets here -

two I received from my dear talented crafty friend Mac Mable

(Big Thank You here)

who knows how much I love VI and AALL&Create stamps.

I inked AALL&Create #383 and 

Visible Image Somewhere in Time for my background

with Tim's Black Soot and Hickory Smoke

and smooching Lindy's Sprays and Magicals.

The flower was inked with Dusty Concord Archival Ink.

Sentiment is from Visible Image Live in the Moment.

Gave it a light spray also with Perfect Pearls.

Adhered to purple card stock.

PS I so enjoyed making this card especially inking up 

those new stamps - getting me back into my craft room.

Here a close up!

Pop over and see how our Guests 

Carol and Melanie and the Team

played with masking their cards.

A Big Thank You to our Guests Carol and Melanie

for sharing their talents with us this month.

Hope to see you in the Gallery this week.

Thanks for dropping in.

It's Snowing Somewhere!

It's our Photo Week at Just Us Girls 

and looks like it's snowing 'somewhere'

with the beautiful photo Carol chose as our Host this week.

I did have a lot of fun working on my background

and thought I had overcooked it with too much colour

but turned out fine in the end.

Lots of Distress Oxide Inks were used for the

galaxy background. I then cut out the houses in black

adding different colours for the lights and doors.

Of course there is the snow falling and even added some 

fantasy snow to the rooftops, trees and ground.

A bright star for the night sky and 

finishing with attaching to black card base.

Pop over and see how our Guests Carol and Melanie

and the Team created their cards

with inspiration from that fabulous photo.

Hope to see yours in our Gallery.

I'm 'Blue' for You

Welcome to Saturday. It's time for our 

New Challenge at Just Us Girls

It's Colour Week and our Host is Maria

who is all awash with the blues

(colour that is)

I started my background with several

Distress Inks in blue tones with a light

touch of stenciling.

Flowers are die cut from Cheery Lynn,

leaves in shades of blue from Kaisercraft.

Sentiment is Impression Obsession

cut from the same paper as the flowers.

Added a touch of Art Alchemy Wax

and Stampendous Chunky White Enamel

to the centre of the flowers and heat embossed.

Corner rounded and adhered to navy card base.

Pop over and see what our Guests Carol and Melanie

and the Team created and come join us

this week. You could be chosen as

Chic of the Week and go on to be our

 Guest Designer in March.

Thanks for dropping in

Sunny Days Ahead

It's time for our Reminder Post for STAMPlorations

Mine is for the Stencil Challenge

Check it out Here

I found a background piece using the shaving cream technique

in my bits box and thought it would blend nicely with the

 ARTplorations Slimline Bamboo Stencil. I used 

Distress Grit Paste to give it a rough layered look.

I then inked up some watercolour paper for my

CUTplorations Dragonfly Layering Die

with Lindy's Magical's and Nuvo Shimmer Powder.

To add a little more to the dragonfly I inked

both top and bottom die with a stamp from

STAMPlorations Mixed Media Grunge

a stamp set I go to often.

Inked the tag from STAMPlorations Fluttery 

then the CUTplorations Fluttery Die for

 my sentiment from STAMPlorations Bloom Happy

I backed it with the fluttery die cut smooched

with the colours from the dragonfly.

Finished it off with backing with some

coloured card stock to match and attached to card base.

Here are the products I created with.

Hope you get time to add a little something to our Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in - 

I'm Hosting 'Trend Week' at Just Us Girls

 Hi there! I am Hosting this weeks Trend Challenge at

Just Us Girls 

and chose a favourite of mine - Stencils

I love using more than one stencil on my cards,

 moving them around, adding extra colours and layers.

This is what I have done here starting with the

Two Toned Stencil from Visible Image using

Tim's new Crackling Campfire with

Spiced Marmalade and Fossilized Amber.

On top of that I used Retro Circles from ARTplorations

with Dreamweaver Crackle Paste. 

Die cut some leaves and added a tiny bow.

Inked the edges in brown.

Sentiment is from Kaisercraft and

finished with some tiny pearls and on to

white card base. 

Pop over and see what our Guests Carol and Melanie

and the Team have made and come join

the Gallery this week. 

You could be chosen as our Chic of the Week

and in the running for Guest Designer in March.

Thanks for coming by

Hello 2021

 Welcome to our First Challenge of 2021 for

Just Us Girls

 and our first Guest Dssigners

Welcome Carol McFarland and

Melanie Hungerford

I saw this lovely card on Pinterest Here

and loved the concept so decided to make my version

for our Word Week Challenge.

Nancy is our Hostess and chose

How easy is that!

I started by cutting a circle so I could 

colour the inside with Lindy's Magical's

in Oom Pah Pah Pink  then added some

more colour 'blotches' and splatters

of pink and gold. To add a bit of interest I

added some gold using a gel pen.

Then came some pretty washi tape and

a gold die cut.

My hello die is from CUTplorations

cut with black paper and waxed with

Art Alchemy Vintage Gold.

A little pink butterfly with a pearl were the

finishing touches and adhered to bright pink card base.

Don't forget to check out our Hello cards from

our Guests Carol and Melanie

and the Team. 

Thanks for dropping in

Thinking of You

 Happy New Year!

It's a New Year and we continue giving you

inspiration from STAMPlorations.

Here's my first make for the Stencil Challenge

Check out what my Stencil Team Mates have created

Here also.

It's always a lot of fun creating with stencils especially

when you combine a few together.

This is what I did with the ARTplorations Bubble Dance

Dots and Dashes and Checkers

Background was made with gelatos

then adding crackle paste on the checker stencil,

 oxide inks and white pigment ink on the other stencils.

Sentiment is the CUTplorations Thinking of You

cut twice for shadow effect.

Added three coloured stones around the circle to finish.

Here's the products I used - 

Pop over and see all the creativeness from the

STAMPlorations Family and look forward to 

seeing yours in the Stencil Challenge.

Also don't forget to add our banner and enter  the

STAMPlorations Never Ending Anything Goes Challenge

for even more chances to be a winner.

There's even a discount when you purchase by using

my code - STAMPGIRLINA.

I'll be back in a fortnight with a reminder!

Thanks for droppin' by

A Reminder for STAMPlorations Stencil Challenge

Posting today with our Reminder Post for the

Stencil Challenge at STAMPlorations

This time I DID make a Christmas Card and

it's quite CAS with a bit of Sparkle.

I started my background with some

VersaFine stamping with 

STAMPlorations Mixed Media Grunge

around a few of the edges then adding

ARTplorations Christmas Tree Stencil

with Distress Grit Paste for texture.

While wet I sprinkled it with 

Cool Diamond Glitter. Adding

white splatters for snowflakes

and a glittery red star.

Sentiment is from 

STAMPlorations Layered Holly

heat embossed onto heavy vellum.

This was then popped on to the

card base after inking again with VersaFine

The glitter was a bit hard to photograph.

Here are the products used.

Hope you get time to join us before the end of the month.

Love to see you in our Gallery!

I will have plenty of time to browse as I will be

resting after my knee surgery. 

It will be a quiet Christmas for me for sure!

This may be my last for the year so will 

Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a big 

Thank You for the lovely comments

through out the year. I apologize for my

lack of commenting but I have enjoyed

checking out lots of blogs when I have been able to.

Till next time - Cherrio from