A New Year and New STAMPloration Challenges

 Happy New Year to you All.

Hope you are recovering after the festivities

and ready for New Adventures in 2022.

Over at STAMPlorations

it's the  start of our challenges for the year.

The Details for our Stencil Challenge is Here

and most of you would know I am part of that Team.

I had this card made the same time I did my December make

and decided to hold it off to use for January.

I got out the gorgeous

 STAMPlorations Christmas Backgrounds ATC #2 pack,

cut out three squares and framed them.

My background was stenciled with

a favourite of mine - ARTplorations Fairy Tale Forest

 inked and adding distress grit paste 

lightly then stenciled again darker on another piece of card stock. 

This was framed and adhered on top of the first piece.

My flower cuts were framed and popped in different sizes.

Added my sentiment from STAMPlorations Fluttery

Pop over and see what's in store for you

with all the New Challenges Here

then add yours to the Gallery.

As we do each year we take a February Break

and be back in full swing for March.

See you then.

It's time for 'Lemonade'

 Hello and Welcome to 2022. 

It's our first Challenge of the year at Just Us Girls 

and to get the ball rolling 

Nancy chose the word BEVERAGE!

Since it is New Years Day some may have a little

beverage 'hungover'

For me in the height of summer I chose to

cool off with a jug full of delicious home made lemonade. 

I found some DP that worked nicely with the

Lawn Fawn Make Lemonade stamp set

for the background. Inked the jug and lemons

with Nuvo shimmer Powders, Tim's Fossilized Amber

and Kitsch Flamingo, adding Nuvo Crystal Glaze

for the sparkling lemonade. The Cosy Coaster Die is

from The Greetery thanks to a friend and popped.

Added a tiny leaf die and sentiment.

Framed and attached to white card base.

The New Year is also full of Exciting News!

As you may know we had a Design Call in December

 and we have two Super Talented New Jugheads - 

Carol McFarland. Check Carol's Blog Here

and Lisa Elton. Lisa's is Here

but wait there's more.

We have two Talented Guests this month.

Chrissi Stokes from Simply One of a Kind

and  Steff  Perry from  Steff Perry Blogspot

A Very Big Welcome to you all.

Head over  to Our Blog and see what is in store for you

from our Guests Chrissie and Steff,

New Teamies Carol Mc and Lisa E and us Regulars!

PS We now have two Carol's and two Lisa's LOL.

Hope to see you there too.

Whew! that's it for today.

Thanks for dropping in.

Tags for the Holidays

 Sistah Vickie wants to see Holiday Tags 

for our last theme of 2021

at The Sisterhood of Crafters

I'm not a big tag maker but I had so much fun

making them and decided

that the second one (middle photo) would be used on a card.

Products used - 

Tag 1

Spellbinder Snowflake Dies with gold paper

Tim Holtz Stencil

CUTplorations Tags

Washi Tape, Ribbon, Cord and Gems.

Unknown Sentiment Stamp.

Tag 2 attached to card - 

Coutour Creations Embossed Background

Merry Die/Stamp - Hero Arts

Tim Holtz Holiday Greens

and his Speckle Stencil

SU Card base

Red Ribbon.

Tag 3 - 

Spellbinder Dies/Ribbon

Christmas Design Paper

Sentiment - Inspired by Stamping

heat embossed (no longer available)

SU card stock - same as Tag 2 base.

Pop over and see what my Team Mates created

and we would love to see yours in the Gallery.

Thanks for droppin in.

We are taking a little break for Christmas

 and will be back on January 12th

to kick start our Challenges all over again.

Have a Merry and Safe Christmas.

 

A Snowy Christmas Scene

We are making a Scene this month at

Christmas Craft Creations

My card certainly doesn't depict what 

Christmas looks like here - in fact

I will be spending it in the 

Tropics of North Queensland with family

(which I am really excited about)

relaxing by the pool and eating an 

abundance of fresh seafood, salads,

yummy deserts of I don't know what yet and

off course a few glasses of my favourite wine.

Not to mention my granddaughter's

amazing gingerbread cookies

that us girls are going to be making.

Okay! on to this months challenge - 

I went for a snowy scene using an old stamp

from Inspired by Stamping

(no longer available)

heat embossing and added some

 Cool Diamonds Glitter for the snow.

Still a little hard to see here!

Adhered that to grey frame

and on to an embossed Christmas background

with a few gems attached.

Added a Christmas Greeting, corner rounded

one side and attached to same grey card stock as the frame.

I'm sure you will see wonderful Scenic Christmas Cards

over at Our Blog to inspire you.

 We would love to see yours there.

I do have another one made for our Reminder

so till then - Cherrio from

Bizzy Becs December Challenge

Hello and Welcome to my post for

our December Challenge at Bizzy Becs

As it is only a few weeks till the big day

I chose to go Christmas and colour my Gnome with a Lantern image

 from Stamping Bella.

I used Tim's Distress/Oxide Inks

and Lindy's Magicals adding some shimmer

with Elizabeth Crafts Cool Diamonds Glitter.

This was die cut and added to my

snowflake background with Texture Paste.

Heat embossed my sentiment and holly,

adding some Nuvo Drops to the centres.

Adhered to grey card stock and on to

white card base.

Pop over and see what The Girls have been up to.

We would love to see yours in our Gallery.

There is always a Winner's Prize!

Thanks for droppin' in

The Merriest Christmas!

It's time for the last Anything Goes Challenge of the Year at

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge 

and being December - what else to make but

A Mixed Media Christmas Creation.

The start of my project was to add

gesso and some old crackle paste that

didn't crack much on to torn corrugated cardboard.

Moving on to the tag part I cut the white one

slightly smaller adding text, a bit of blue smooching

and distressing the edges.

Here are the colours from the Lindy's Magicals for my leaves

 with leftovers for the deer.

Placing Tim's Holiday Green dies, some dry wall tape

and snow to the bottom.

and some finishing touches - 

red cotton bow, red kindy glitz on the berries,

waxing around the edges and

on the branches.

One last look!

That's it for this years Mixed Media Makes.

Now head over and see what my Talented Teamies made

for your inspiration as we would love to 

see your creative creations over at our Anything Goes

 Creative Artiste Mixed Media Blog

using multiple mediums.

Let your imagination run riot

and get those fingers messy -

the inks and things washes off easy.

I have had so much fun creating as part of the Team

and look forward to doing it all over again in the New Year.

A Big Thank You to Andree and my Mixed Media Mates

for a wonderful creative year together.

#Note The Creative Artiste Girls are taking a break in January

but will be back in full swing for our February Challenge.

# Update - sending this over to the The Mixed Media Lovers

for their  Challenge #8

Have yourselves a Merry Christmas!

See you then!

Merry Christmas 'Deer'

 It's finally here - December that is and that means

New Challenges over at  STAMPlorations 

Check out our Stencil Challenge Here

where my Team Mates created projects for your pleasure.

I love using the reindeer head from 

CUTplorations Two Reindeer Dies

as you can build up the texture in so many ways.

I started my card with the background for it

with scrunched tissued paper glued to card stock

then added stenciling with ARTploratons Shutters

with Tim's Frayed Burlap and die cut.

On to my reindeer - I inked him with the frayed burlap,

vintage gold wax, crackle glaze and clear rock candy.

Needing some colour I stenciled red card stock with

ARTplorations Christmas Tree 1

using Transparent Gloss Texture Paste

and while wet sprayed with Gold Perfect Pearls Mix.

Inked my STAMPlorations Homespun Christmas sentiment

and attached behind the deer.

Added a few coloured stars and popped to the

Christmas Tree background and on to the same red card stock.

These are the products used

I'm sure we will have an abundance of creativity this month 

so be sure to add yours to the Gallery for a chance to win goodies.

Details - 

• Link up a maximum of 3 projects (cards, tags, layouts, mixed media, etc.) regardless of the platform you use for linking up your projects (blog, Flickr, IG, Splitcoast, etc.)
• You must use a stencil or stencils (any brand) in your project(s) - if it isn't obvious that you used a stencil in your project, your entry may be deleted or will not be eligible to win.
• Non-STAMPlorations products in entries are OK. (But please don't use our challenges to enter projects you make for promotional purposes.)
• No sneak peek projects! Full project photo must be displayed on the player's blog post in order to qualify for the prizes.
• To qualify for the prizes, players must display the challenge graphic and have a text link back to the challenge post (blogs only).
• Link up by November 30, 11:55 p.m. Pacific time.

Prizes:

• The winner will receive a $20 prize code ($25 if STAMPlorations/ARTplorations stencil was used).
• Two (2) randomly drawn crafters will each receive a $10 prize code ($15 if STAMPlorations/ARTplorations stencil was used).

Have a Safe and Merry Christmas and I will

 See you in the New Year.

Ho Ho Ho and all That!

Welcome to todays post for Just Us Girls

The Lovely Lisa is Host and chose a

super image with lots of goodies to choose from.

What took my eye was the framed piece

sitting on the bench. I knew straight away 

what I would use here.

Here's a bigger picture!

I hadn't planned to use my background for that purpose -

I was going to use it for my cut out but it turned out

so nicely that it landed up there.

I scrunched some tissue paper and adhered to card stock,

went over it with VersaFine and heat embossed

using WOW Metallic Platinum powder.

I then used the same powder for my CUTplorations 

Holidays Word Die Plate. Attached that then

die cut my frame adhering to metallic paper

and finishing with my card base.

A super die plate for an easy Christmas card make.

Pop over and see what our Guest Rachel took from the photo

and the Team's inspiration also.

Thank you Rachel for sharing your creativity with us

this month as our Guest. 

#NOTE Have you wanted to be a part of

this Amazing Team? Now is your chance.

Add your card to our Gallery with DT beside it

and you could be part of the Jugheads in 2022.

Good Luck!

As we do each year we take December off

to spend time with family and friends if we are able -

and to replenish our craftiness for the New Year so

we will be back in full swing on 1st January.

PS I am lucky enough to be flying north to 

spend Christmas with family. Swanning by the pool

keeping cool and enjoying my fill of fresh seafood

with a little wine on the side. It's the Tropics. Fun eh!

Enjoy Christmas wherever and whoever you are with.

Our 7th Annual Giving Thanks Blog Hop at STAMPlorations

 Hello and Welcome to our

 7th Giving Thanks/Blog Hop at STAMPlorations

This was a very easy card to make simply by using the

gorgeous STAMPlorations Spring Florals 3

quick card fronts. The paper is super thick

and makes it perfect to show off the

CUTplorations Wonky Stitched Texture Plate

Inked up the GRATEFUL from the Oh So Grateful 

stamp set (unavailable)

framed and popped.

The SO is from another oldie - All About You sentiments.

Adhered to purple card base.

Check this out - 

*hop prizes

- FIVE (5) winners of a $10 prize code; winners randomly drawn from all comments left on the hop post and designers' blogs and/or IG accounts.

*giveaway/linky prizes - randomly drawn from the linky

- TWO (2) winners of their choice of STAMPlorations product up to $15 value

- ONE (1) winner of a $40 prize code

*extra/surprise prizes randomly drawn

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hop and giveaway/linky are open until December 8 (2 weeks), with winners announced on December 10 in the November winners post.

Thanks for popping in and leaving your kind comments.

You 'ROCK'

 I'm Rockin' it for our latest challenge over at

 The Sisterhood of Crafters 

and we are looking for Something Musical.

Because Hubby is an avid guitar player/collector

that was my obvious choice.

Here's a close up!

Background is with Tim's Oxide Inks,

a little bit of  crackled stenciling, a few black splatters 

and some music notes.

Die cut a circle to place the guitar on

using the same inks as the background,

adding glossy gel medium, touches of inking, nuvo drops

and glued to a white one for shadowing then popped.

Added appropriate sentiment and onto black paper,

finishing with white card base.

The Sistah's have made amazing musical makes

so pop over and check them out then 

come join us by adding yours to our Gallery.

Till next time - 

 

 

 

Jingle All the Way

It's time for another Anything Goes Challenge over at

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge

and I made an easy card for posting purposes.

A simple heat embossed sentiment on

metallic card stock using Ranger Red Cinnabar,

die cut, heat embossed the backgrond to match

and attached to metallic card base.

Head over and see more Christmas makes

from the Team and add yours to our Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in - 

Hello Sweet Friend

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

with such lovely colour tones for us to work with.

Here's a closer look!

Once again I made this card quite a long time ago

just for the fun of using new dies.

Worked out perfectly for this weeks challenge.

Thanks Vicki!

I love kraft card stock and aqua blend together nicely.

I used metallic card stock for all the dies.

Added an extra die cut head to the big flower,

a thin frame, a few pearls and a

tiny sentiment to finish.

I loved how quick and easy this card came together.

Don't forget to check out how our Guest Rachel

and the Team were inspired by that lovely photo.

It's just 'that little bit different'

Hope you are inspired and join in

by adding to our Gallery.

Till next time -