What the 'Trend' this week at Just Us Girls

Hello and Welcome to my Saturday Post for

Just Us Girls

Vicki is Hosting and chose a popular one

Emboss Resist Technique!

It's a favourite of mine and I found

This Tutorial by Kate Palmer on You Tube

 that is just that little bit different and 

virtually cased her design. 

I inked my backgrounds with the same inks

usingthe flourish from SU Bliss with Archival Watering Can

and Archival Black on the Stampendous Script.

I then inked up my Bohemian Damask stencil with

WOW Atlantic Sea Spray Embossing Powder.

As you can see it has gold speckles which really

added so much to  the stenciling.

I then had loads of fun with some new Lindy's Sprays

in Tiffany Lou Blue and Witches Potion Purple.

(Love the shimmer)

I sprayed a few times to get the bold colours.

We all have an over abundance of ribbons etc and

since I haven't touched mine for such a LONG TIME

this was a perfect time to cut them 

to add to my emboss resist background.

I then cut out my leaf background, flourish

and some fern to add to the back of my flower.

It is a MFT Heirloom Rose die cut several times

and sprayed with Lindy's. 

Added some cord in front of the background

then attached my flower.

Sentiment is STAMPlorations FlutteryStamp/Die.

Finished with Nuvo Glitter drops and

attached to coloured card base.

I know there will be a few that love the colours here - 

just happens they were some new Lindy's Sprays.

A close up of the embossing glitter and shimmer

Pop over and see what our Guests

Janet and Cindy created

and my Talented Team Mates.

Come join us in the Gallery.

You could be our Chic of the Week

and be in the running to join us as Guest in March.

Thanks for dropping in.

Love reading your comments.

A Textured Mixed Media Project for Art and Soul Studio

Today is my turn to showcase what I made with taking inspiration 

from the January Mood Board over at

 Art and Soul Mixed Media Blog

As you can see I honed in on the Deer and Trees.

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I started my project by choosing the

Memory Box Garden Birch Landscape Stencil

then started sponging with Tim's Oxide Inks in

Faded Jeans/Spiced Marmalade/Fossilized Amber

Pealed Paint and Vintage Photo

Then with the stencil still in place

 inking my trees in a variety of colours with

Memento Pistachio/Olive Grove/MementoLuxe Northern Pine

Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves

Checking out to see where to place my Deer

This is part of the Tim Holtz Great Outdoors CMS321 set

I purchased from the Art and Soul Studio as are the trees above.

Removed the stencil then

I heat embossed him with Ranger Copper and a second time

with Ranger Potting Soil.

 

Next came texture to the trees with DecoArt Crackle Paint

allowing it to dry naturally.

More texture was added for the ground using

Artisan Powder in Parisan Rosewood

Tim's Distress Stain in Gathered Twigs 

and VersaFine Clair Fallen Leaves

mixed with DecoArt Texture Sand Paste.

and stenciled with Scratchy Stencil by Kaisercraft

Inked the edges then attached to a blue back.

Decided to add a backing with brown card stock

with a Stamperia Formato D (KSD282) stencil

using Nuvo Toasted Almond Mousse.

(Still not sure if I like it)

Added touches here and there for effect on the trees

and on the ground.

The trees were also coloured with an Antique Linen Pen.

Finished with distressing the background .

Main image is popped.

Sentiment is die cut from MFT Stitched Die

heat embossed in white.

A few close ups!

The Art and Soul Studio give away

$50 vouchers to their store for Australian Residents

as prizes and overseas contributors are

invited to be Guests. Why not come join in 

 our Soul Sister's Facebook Group

and add your creation Here

this month and you could be a lucky winner!

Products from Art and Soul Studio are

Tim Holtz Great Outdoors Stamp Set

Stamperia Stencil

Kaisercraft Scratchy Stencil

Artisan Parisan Rosewood Powder

DecoArt Texture Sand Paste

Nuvo Toasted Almond Mousse

VersaFine Clair Fallen Leaves.

Hope you liked my project.

Till next time Cherrio!

Big Hugs for CUTplorations.

Today's post is for the January Challenge over at

STAMPlorations. It's the CUTplorations Designer's turn

and you can see all our creations  HERE!

What can you do with  these bold bright colours?

I chose to do a background  with a mix of

Finnebair Art Alchemy Metallic Paints

diluted in a little water.

I then got out my  ARTplorations Evolution Stencil

and Versamarked through it then heat embossed

with clear embossing powder.

Added small strips of gold paper 

on the sides then cut my

  CUTplorations Flutter-Zen-2-Layering-Dies

with the same gold paper.

My sentiment is CUTplorations Big-Hugs-Phrase-Die.

Finished with some gold splatters and 

adhered to white card base.

Sure hope you get a chance to play this month.

As always there are great prizes to be won.

Thanks for dropping in

Just Us Girls are Back!

Yes it's January and the Just Us Girls are Back

refreshed after our Christmas Break ready for

A New Year of Challenges.

Hope you enjoyed the Holiday Festivities.

We have two Talented Guest Designer's this month.
Welcome to Cindy Major and Janet Ribet.
Lovely to have you join us this month.

Sue is our First Host and it is WORD WEEK

and chose something I know we all have plenty of ---

LEFTOVERS! No not the food kind -

all those bits we sometimes have still on our

work space or tucked away for those 

'I know I will use this one day'

Mine is a 'Bit Box' and I  rummage through it

quite regularly. I did so for my first challenge of the year

Here

and have used the other half of my background piece 

on my card here.
It was a little hard to get a decent photo. Sorry!

The coloured background is simply smooched with

Finnebair Art Alchemy Metallic Paints on water colour paper.
They were leftover paints on my work bench
that just couldn't go to waste.
I added a soft stenciling and a
sprinkle of glitter while wet on the side.
Added some pearls ribbon and an IO word die.
The background that I adhered to my card base is
stenciled with Nuvo Roasted Almond Mousse
and a new one from Sanna Lippert Designs
called ARTplorations Fairy-Tale-Forest

I saw a card from my good friend Loll Thompson
that I based my card on. Thanks for the inspiration Loll.

Hope you can come play with us this week
and add your card to Our Gallery
In doing so you could be our first
 Chic of the Week for 2019
and be our Guest Designer in March.
Of course you will have seen what my Team Mates
created with their leftover bits haven't you?
Thanks for popping in.

Thank You

Hello and Welcome to my first post for 2019.

Happy New Year to you all.

The first post off the Block over at

Happy Little Stampers is for our 

Watercolour Challenge and as usual it is

Anything Goes but we would love to see

TEXTURE on your creation with our Optional Twist

My fairly CAS card used

a background piece from my Bit Box

which was inked with 

Finnebair Art Alchemy Metallic Paints.

For my texture I stenciled white texture paste

onto Fairy-Tale-Forest-ARTplorations-Stencil-Sanna-Lippert-Designs

I added flourishes from Fancy That in gold

and white metallic paper.

The flower is also cut with metallic papers

and is from SU Botanical Blooms

with Nuvo Mousse around the edges.

Added some coloured prills to the centre of the flower.

Card base is Metallic with a soft pattern.

Sentiment - heat embossed with

Ranger Sage from 

STAMPlorations Trendy Spring Blooms

Hope you can pop over and 

Welcome our New Designers

as well as our Returning Designers

and check out their January Creations

made for your pleasure. 

Look forward to seeing you in our Gallery

Thanks for stopping by.

A Mixed Media 'Dream'

Christmas is over and goodies put to bed for a while at least.

Time to relax and just play  - in my case to use some new goodies.

I didn't know where this project would lead to so just 

went with what took my fancy!

Funny enough I started two projects and nearly

put this one in the bin as I wasn't happy with the background

but came back to it today and pressed on.

The other item landed in the bin.

I started by adding a couple of patches of Sand Paste

then stenciling the background with

texture paste sprayed with 

Tim's Dusty Concord Distress Stain.

Wet my page then added Lindy's Magical's

in Witches Potion Purple/Freaky Franken Lime 

and Nuvo Solar Flare Shimmer Powder.

That is where I left it overnight.

I decided it needed a little more so

stenciled the middle using Nuvo Mousse 

in Aloe Vera then just  kept adding

different coloured mousses

 some Inka Gold and random script.

Inked water colour paper with 

the same Magical's above and

Starburst Spray in Tiffany Lou Blue.

Stamped my butterflies with 

Black Archival ink then heat embossed

in black. Fussy cut them after blinging them up 

with Nuvo Blue Lagoon Crystal Drops. 

Attached some lightly coloured dry wall tape and a 

flourish before adding the butterflies.

Finished with a popped sentiment cut from

MFT die and distressing some of the edges.

A few close ups!

I am going enter this at 

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge

for their current Challenge Here

It's an Anything Goes so the sky's the limit!

Thanks for dropping in today.

Only a few days till the New Year.

Hoping yours will be a Happy Healthy one.

Life is a Beach at Art and Soul Studio Challenge

Time for my latest project  as Ambassador for

Art and Soul Studio over at their Blog.

It's a very Tropical Mood Board for December 

as we are in our Summer Season in Oz

 and it depicts just that! 

The heading says it all. 

I started by adding Gesso to my 5"x 7" canvas

then crumpled up tissue paper for texture.

and DecoArt White Crackle Paint,

 adding colour

with Art /Alchemy Emerald Green/Mermaid Sparkle

and Glitter Gold Colour Craft Lustre Powder

Now to add my sea shells

Nice variety to choose from here.

Cut the mesh bag and thought it only right that

I would use a portion to help add more texture

and painted part of it with

Art Alchemy Gold Rush with a baby wipe.

Now to add those sea shells and some Calcined Bauxite

Then some painting,waxing -

pearls, mica flakes, beads and prills.

and a few close ups

finishing with the required sentiment word (Life)

from Inkadankado

I know December is a busy month and it would be

fabulous if you can join our   Art and Soul December Challenge.

 There are $50 Gift Certificates on offer & we have a stunning mood board every month

There's so much beautiful inspiration from my Talented Team Mates.

 All the details about the December Challenge can be found Here

Items purchased from Art and Soul Studio - 

Art Alchemy Paints

Nuvo Mouse

Derivan Matisse Calcined Bauxite

Josonja's Texture Paste

Liquitex Gesso

Derivan Matisse Mica Flakes

Hope you enjoyed checking out my project.

Thank You for coming by today.

Till next time - Cherrio from