A Simple 'Hello'

It's our Colour Week at Just Us Girls and

our Lovely Lisa is Host and chose such gorgeous colours.

As it is a New Month we have a New Guest Designer.

A Big Welcome to Kerry Parkinson

So glad to have you with us for October.

Here's a close up shimmer!

I had fun inking my Kaisercraft butterfly in the required colours

and attached to die cut background. This was popped onto

the middle of a peek a boo die.

Some framing on the side with leftovers. 

Simple STAMPlorations sentiment and a bit of splatter to finish.

Bling completes my pretty butterfly.

Check out how our Talented Guest Kerry

and the Team enjoyed creating with these fun colours

then - your turn to add yours to our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting!

Oh HAPPY Day!

 

It's our Stencil Week at Just Us Girls and Elizabeth is Hosting!

It was relaxing creating my simple inked stencil card

as I have done here. Just used three distress inks

with ARTplorations Ethnic Organic 1

Die cut a vellum circle from MFT,

inked and heat embossed the sentiment

adding a few pearls, attached to white card base

and I'm done.

Head over and see how our Guest Nancy

and the Team used their stencils and

then hope to see yours in the Gallery.

We bid farewell to our Talented Guest Nancy

and loved having her share her talents with us this month.

Thank you Nancy.

 I know we will see you in our Gallery again soon

The Seasons of Change!

Welcome to  our New Challenge over at Cut It Up

All over the world the Seasons are changing.

Spring has sprung in my surrounds but

we are looking for colours of Fall/Autumn.

Here's close up of the colours.

I got out my set of  Lindy's Magical's Autumn Leaves,

sprinkled and sprayed them on a sheet of water colour paper

and cut the backgrounds in various colours,

cut the heads in white and glued them off to the side.

Background is a texture die cut from Kaisercraft.

Arranged my leaves and popped.

I thought the sentiment fitted the theme nicely.

Adhered to whte card base.

The Team have created some fun and fabulous array of

all things Fall/Autumn related for your pleasure.

Now it's your turn to share with take in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Spring has Sprung!

Welcome to today's post for  Just Us Girls

I am Host for this week's challenge

and as Spring has arrived in my neck of the woods

I chose these beautiful bunches of FLOWERS!

I am sure we have all had a card that was nothing like

what we planned and this one is just that.

I had intended to ink up a floral stamp and colour it

but couldn't decide which one. In the end 

I went with Tim's Wildflower Stems 1

and again changed my layout umteen times.

The colours turned out nicely but not exactly what I wanted.

Background is Tim's Splatters

and a bit of grungy stamping.

Scrunched up and inked a bit of word tissue paper

and arranged my floral bouquet on top.

Added a bit of shine to the centre of the flowers.

Spring sentiment is from CUTplorations.

Head over and check out how our Guest Nancy

and the Team showered our blog with all things floral.

See you there

It's WORD Week at Just Us Girls

Hello and Welcome to todays's post.

Hosting this weeks Word Challenge at

Just Us Girls is Sue with the very powerful word

HOPE! which can be used in many ways.

My background is a mix of Magical's,

distress inks and script stamping from Darkroom Door.

Gold leaf was sitting on my desktop.

Sentiment is STAMPlorations, heat embossed in gold 

and die cut from MFT. Inked the edges.

Adhered to brown card base.

Check out what our Guest Nancy and the Team created.

Hope to see yours in our Gallery.

 

This IS in My Garden...

 We are looking for What's In Your Garden at

Cut It Up

As you know I recently moved house and the villa

we moved in didn't have much of a garden so - 

I am in the process of changing that as I do love a garden.

It is only very small so I have been busy potting

as well as adding some colourful flowers and shrubs.

I chose to try and replicate one shrub that has a

beautiful pink flower. It is in a pot sitting on

pebble stones like I embossed here and behind it

is the brick wall. Added lots of greenery

 from a few dies.

I decided to ground the pot with bauxite stones

and cover the pot with art stones.

Sentiment fitted perfectly.

The Talented Team have amazing takes on

'What's in their Garden'

Now it's your turn to show us by

addng to our Gallery.

Thanks for visitng.

See it 'GROW'

 

It's been a long time coming but 

 I am back getting inky for our September AG

Mixed Media at Creative Artiste Mxed Media

I haven't quite finished sorting out my MM supplies

so have gone with some more 'easy to find items' here.

The piece I used for my die  cut tag is one 

made quite some time ago.Tim's die cut flower

is also from a scrap I had sitting around.

Got out some favourite AALL&Create stamps 

for the background stamping, adding some stencilling.

The pot is popped and I added some 

sisal and art stones.

Inked the edges and fnished with 

some wrapping ribbon.

Sorry there are no progress photos

as craft time is still limited.

Head over to our blog and check out

what creativity is in store for you there by the Team.

Be inspired and join in with your Mixed Media

to our Gallery. 

Thanks for visiting

Case a DT Week!

It's our Case a DT Week at Just Us Girls 

and our week to make whatever we fancy

for you to choose one of the DT makes and case it.

Just be sure to say who's card you chose.

I got out my favourite Visible Image Stamp Set

Creative Chaos. I love that big flower as it is

an easy one to add a popped head as I have done here.

The background and flower head are from 

a shaving cream session some time ago. 

Inked the flower with VersaFine Clair Nocturne

 then popped the cut out head highlighting

with another piece with more colour.

Inked the edges and added strips of black

with a credit card -

(thanks to Karen Dunbrook who showed us this trick)

Added a little bling to the flower with Lindy's Marvel-ous EP.

Finished with sentiment inked and torn from the set.

Head over to our Gallery to see what the Team created

and choose the one you want to case.

Looking forward to seeing yours there also.

Thanks for visiting.

Don't Ruffle My Feathers!

 Today's post is for our New Challenge at Cut It Up

and we are looking for the popular

ANYTHING GOES!

I thought I would dig out an old favourite 

stamp/die set from SU and go with

Kraft card stock.Two feathers were inked with

VersaFine Clair and the third is vellum.

Inked the background with Hero Arts Unicorn Pigment ink

and splatters for interest.

Finished with twine.

Simple sentiment that I thought fitted perfectly.

Check out the variety of lovelies created by

our Talented Team and then head over and

add your make to our Gallery.

Thanks for dropping by.

It's Stencil Week at Just Us Girls

It's Stencil Week at Just Us Girls and I have another 

oh so CAS one.

This isn't my first attempt - how hard is it to create

with something as simple as a stencil!

Today was thank goodness productive.

Stencil-ing was inked with Tim's Distress inks

from  ARTlorations.

Floral stamping with VersaFine Clair popped

and a little bit of ribbon was all it needed to complete.

Our Guest Bonnie and the Team have been busy

creating lovely cards so head over and check them out.

Then your turn to add to our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

I Picked These!

Time for more fun this week at Just Us Girls  for our

 Mood Board Challenge chosen by our Host the Lovely Lisa.

Here's a close up!

and so much to pick from eh!

I couldn't go past the lovely daisies.

The background is a mix of Lindy's Magical's then

 heat embossed a few circle dies,

more magical's in the centre of the daisies -

the larger one popped.

Simple sentiment and framed with a piece of

leftovers from another card and attached to card base.

The bees are certainly humming over on our blog

with our Guest and the Team so head over and 

see for yourself then it's your turn to buzz on over

with your inspiration from the gorgeous Mood Board.

See you there.

We are 'Thinking of You' at Cut It Up.

 I'ts time for our New Challenge at

Cut It Up

I am still getting my craft creativity back slowly

after the big move.

The hardest part is remembering where things

are in their new spot.

I had a piece of pretty w/c paper on my desk and
made for a nice cut out.

Added  a couple of stamens and a pearl to the centre.

Background is a touch of Tim's stencilling for added interest.

Sentiment is simply Thinking of You.

I had the edges of the w/c paper so cut two pieces

and angled them behind my die cuts

Head over and check out what the

Talented Design Team created for your pleasure

and join in by adding yours to our Gallery.

Hello - Sweet Friend

 It's Word Week over at Just Us Girls

and our Host is Carol M choosing 

Again I have gone CAS with craft time

limited ths week.

A simple inked flower from Woodware

in Versafine Clair Nocturn,

 an old Spellbinders hexagon die for my popped 

and scored frame

with sentiment from Altenew and a few SU gems

and my card is complete. 

Our fabulous talented Guest Bonnie has created a stunner

and the Team likewise with an array of framed beauties.

Head over and check them out. Then it is your turn

to share yours in our Gallery.

Hope to see yours there.

I'm Back!

 This is my first post since April after the big move north

to be close to family due to health issues and access to 

important medical facilities.

It was so good to start the huge task of unboxing

my craft goodies. It is still a work in progress but at least

I can begin creating slowly again.

Hence my first post is for the Colour Challenge at

Just Us Girls

As you can see I went really CAS here

while I continue finding places to put my goodies.

Carol Mc chose these fun colours as Host.

I got a bit  heavy handed with the pink inking

(SU Melon Mambo) 

as it went a bit too dark so I cut two heads

and inked them lightly with Versacolor 33 Pink

adding them as a shadow. The orange leaf is

inked with SU Tangarine Tango.

Some simple die cuts and a few pearls,

sentiment from STAMPlorations

 and that finishes my first DT project in my new home.

I am excited too that our Guest for August is

the very talented Bonnie Klass and we get to

enjoy her craftyness with us at JUGS.

WELCOME Bonnie!

And so my new journey begins!

Head over and checkout what we all have 

in store for you colour wise then be sure to 

add yours to our Gallery.

Believe!

 Today's post is for the New Challenge at 

Creative Artiste Mixed Media

This is a short one this month as we are

in the process of selling our small farm and

moving to a retirement village.

With so much to do my craft time is very limited.

I did get a bit of time to create this small piece

giving me the chance to unwind from decluttering etc.

Had brother in law help over Easter and has

done a good job of helping take some 

farm supplies back to his place.

I did take a few photos and made a list of products used.

I cased this card Here and you can click on her blog

showing how she made it.

I used gesso, texture paste, Lindy's Magical's,

torn paper, washi tape, chipboard, art stones,

gold mica powder, butterfly die from stash, 

cabachon and sentiment. 

Attached to purple base.

Head over and check out what my Team Mates created

and hope you can add your mixed media piece to our Gallery.

This will be my last piece for now as I pack up

my craft room for the big move north.

Thanks for visiting

Just 'Hi'

It is my turn to Host at Just Us Girls

for our Colour Week and I chose 

Purple Orange and Mustard.

With a new month we have a New Guest - 

Colleen Begley is joining us. Welcome!

Once again I saw a CAS card from 

former Jugs Designer Cecile Ribon

which was perfect using the above colours.

Added a Spellbinder square die, floral die,

 purple ribbon, thread and gem.

Finished with a simple sentiment.

Popped in front of DP (the same as the floral die)

Check out what Colleen and the Team created

and hope they inspired you to

add yours to our Gallery.

Simply For You!

Sue is Hosting our Stencil Challenge at Just Us Girls

A CAS card here for today's post.

My stencil is from Tim textured onto kraft paper.

Added a few die cut daisies with liquid pearls to the centre,

some black thread to the back and

 tied tagged sentiment to complete.

Attached to white card base.

Head over and see what our Guest Tracey

and the Team stencilled for your inspiration

and come join in with yours to our Gallery.

As it is the last challenge for the month we bid farewell to

Tracey and a Big Thank You for sharing her talents with us.