All You Need Is Love

Time for a new challenge at Just Us Girls. It's Color Week this week, and Sue is our host. 

I am knee deep into Valentines right now, so I decided to go that route with my card. I arranged strips of varying sizes in reds, pinks and grays on a piece of white cardstock, trimmed it down, then die cut it with a scalloped edge die. I cut a heart in the center, created a shaker, and finished it off with a sentiment that is perfect for my Beatle-lovin' Valentine...

It's a new month, and we have a new Guest Designer, Denise Morgans. Please head on over to the Just Us Girls Challenge Blog to see what Denise and the rest of the Design Team have made to spark your creativity. Come play with us!

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Simon Says Stamp LOVE Shadow Wafer Die Spellbinders Nestabilities - Classic Hearts My Favorite Things Blueprints 27 Die-Namics Waffle Flower Slimline Strips Die
Cardstock	110 lb. & 80 lb. Neenah Solar Crest Various SU colored cardstock Echo Park Love Notes 6x6 Paper Pad
Ink	Versamark
Embellishments	Sequins (unknown origin)
Other	Waffle Fower 1/16"  Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer MISTI Stamping Tool Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M foam tape

I'm also playing at:

The Color Hues Challenge #80

Tic Tac Toe Challenge #239 

Middle Horzintal Row

Cards 4 Galz - Red and/or Pink Hearts Galore

TGIF #457

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

Have a Heart

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge 

Anything Goes

CAS Peonies -Thinking Of You

 

This card is a celebration of my first go with my new Altenew Stampwheel. It was a BD gift from my DH. I was a little dubious at first. I used what appeared to me to be an "easy to use" Altenew layering stamp set, and it turned out pretty well. I am usually pretty frustrated by layering stamps in terms of getting them lined up correctly. Lots of swearing usually involved. Sometimes tears. I watched Simon Hurley's review and demo, then I used to amazingly talented Michele Ferguson's tutorial with success. I will be posting another card soon with the results. I did let out a few "YAY's in the process. I am now ready to persevere.

I'm playing at:

Just Us Girls #685

CAS Thinking of You

Tic, Tac Toe Challenge #214 - Right Vertical Row

Die Cut, Bright Colour, CAS

Less Is More #486 - AG

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Altenew Build-A-Flower Peony Blossom Altenew Thinking Of You
Cardstock	110# Neenah Solar Crest 80# Neenah Solar White
Ink	PTI Honey Nut, Bright Buttercup, Harvest Gold, New Leaf &  Simply Chartreuse
Embellishments	No Hole Glass Beads
Other	Altenew Stampwheel Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer MISTI Stamping Tool Bearly Art Precision Glue SU Dimensionals

Merry Warm & Cozy Christmas

 

Today I kept going back and forth between decorating (in a minimalist way) and card making. I was fishing in my Christmas stash and spending way too much time looking at things and putting things away, when I found this awesome snippet - the heat embossed, inked and die cut "merry" above, and the juices started flowing. The simplest card took me forever, but that's OK. I really like the way it turned out. The current Alphabet Challenge is "Q is for Quilt", and that inspired me to take out my NBUS Sparkling Diamonds Cutting Die which is so reminiscent of a quilt pattern. Topped it with my wonderful snippet, foiled a sentiment and popped that up, added some bling and my card was complete.

The Alphabet Challenge - Q is for Quilt

Supplies Used:

Ink - None

Paper - Gina K Pure Luxury Red Velvet Heavy Base Weight card stock;  Hammermill 100# Premium Copy Cover card stock

Other - PinkFresh Studio Sparkling Diamonds Stand Alone Cuts; Concord & 9th Merry Die; Kaiser adhesive backed Rhinestones; Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System; Spellbinders Glitter Wishes Hot Foil Plates and cutting die; Glimmer Red hot foil; foam tape.

I'm also playing at:

Tic Tac Toe #189

Top row across - December Holiday, Use a Die, Embellishment

Krafty Chicks Challenge #639 - All Occasions

Sunday Stamps #297 - Holiday Greetings

NBUS #44 - November

My NBUS is the PinkFresh Studio Sparkling Diamonds Cover Plate

Thankful For A Friend Like You

Time Out Challenge #225 begins today. This time we are challenged to be Thankful.

We are generously sponsored by Lawn Fawn. Winner will receive a $25.00 Gift Voucher to use at the Lawn Fawn Store.

We welcome Deepti Aggarwal of Handmade by Deepti as our Guest Designer. You can see Deepti's wonderful design for our challenge on the Time Our Challenges Blog and HERE.

The I Love the Fall stamps & dies from Photoplay are the stars of this card. I LOVE these images and dies, and I love the Fall!!!. I stamped and colored them with Copics, die cut and placed them on a dome die cut that I embossed with SSS's Fall Foliage EF.

Please head on over to the Time Out Challenge Blog to see the wonderful creations that the Design Team came up with to inspire you. Come play with us!

I'm also playing at:

Tic Tac Toe #184 - Rightmost vertical row

Die cut, layers, autumn colors

Trick Or Treat?

A new challenge starts today at Can You Handle The Pressure? where the theme is always Anything Goes with an Embossing Folder and an optional twist. Heat embossing is welcome, but not required. An Embossing Folder must be used. For this challenge, the twist is "orange/black". The challenge goes from October 8th - 19th.

My background is embossed with the SSS Cute Ghosts EF on black card stock. I die cut the rick rack with an unnamed die set from my stash, and added the stamped and die cut circle from a long ago retired set from Waltzingmouse Stamps called Midnight Feast.

Please head over to the Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge? blog to check out the Design Team inspiration projects. You are sure to be impressed (pun intended)! Then dive into your embossing folder collection and join us with or without the twist! Just be sure to use an embossing folder on your creation!

I'm also playing at:

Tic Tac Toe Challege #182

First colomn - Halloween, Orange, Embossing

Make THe Cards Challenge - Halloween

Little Red Wagon #674 - Spooky Halloween

Fab'n'Funky #558 - Embossing Wet or Dry

Double D - Octoberfest

This is Halloween - October

Two Old Bats - October Anything Halloween

Friends Furever

A new challenge starts today at Can You Handle The Pressure? where the theme is always Anything Goes with an Embossing Folder and an optional twist. Heat embossing is welcome, but not required. An Embossing Folder must be used. For this challenge, the twist is "Dogs / Cats / Pets". The challenge is open from August 13th to the 24th.

For my card, I used PinkFresh Studio's Scalloped Rectangle to cut a red frame. I die cut a piece of white card stock with the same die in white and used the aperture piece with the Cuttlebug Heart Block embossing folder. I placed the white rectangle inside the red frame, and glued them together on white fun foam. I adhered that piece on a Neenah Solar White 110# card base after I added the black & white twine to the card base. I stamped, colored with Copics and fussy cut the boy and dog image from MFT's Friends Furever stamp set and popped that up on the embossed hearts panel. I stamped and clear heat embossed the sentiment from PinkFresh Studio Always Uplifting stamp set and my card was complete.

Please head over to the Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge Blog to check out the Design Team inspiration projects. You are sure to be impressed! Then dive into your embossing folder collection and join us with or without the twist! Just be sure to use an embossing folder on your creation!

I'm also playing at:

Tic Tac Toe #174

Third vertical row - die cut, free, embossing 

CAS Colors & Sketches #482

Global Design Project #355 - Animal

Global Tiger Day

It's time for a new challenge at Festive Friday where every challenge is an inspiration list based on a selected holiday/festivity from the traditional to the unusual. Challenge projects must include at least three items from the festivity inspiration list. Your project does not have to go with the challenge theme. You can just use 3 or more items from the inspo list for your creation.

Today's festivities are inspired by Global Tiger Day which takes place on July 29th. Wild tiger numbers have dropped by more than 95% since the beginning of the 20th century. Tigers can be found in isolated forests and grasslands throughout Asia. Their habitat is wide ranging – from evergreen and monsoon forests, to mixed coniferous-deciduous woodlands, and mangrove swamps. There are estimated to be around 3,900 tigers in the wild.

The challenge runs from July 8th - July 18th.

I like to create a card for our challenge that goes with the theme. I had the purr-fect supplies in my stash for this. All products that I used in creating this card are from Hero Arts. I punched a circle from masking paper to ink the sun. I then masked the sun with that circle so that I could ink blend the rest of the background with various Distress Oxide Inks. I used embossing paste with the Hero Arts Tribal Shapes Stencil on Kraft card stock for some texture and interest, added that panel to the left side of my card and glued the distress ink panel to the right of it. I die cut the grass and tree with the Hero Arts Thorn Tree and Grasses Fancy Dies and glued them onto my blended panel. I then stamped and die cut my tigers using Hero Arts Color Layering Bengal Tigers. I stamped the sentiment from Hero Arts Safari Huge Thanks stamp set with VersaFine Onyx Black and heat embossed it with clear EP. I glued the inked and stenciled panels on to a piece of black Gina K black card stock, and my card was complete.

  

I used tigers, stripes, orange, black & fur from the Inspo list.

For more inspiration, be sure to visit the rest of the  Festive Friday Challenge Design team.

Ann Schach

Beth McCullough

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert

Melanie Hungerford

Helen Jennings

Stephanie Lanzalotto

Melva Peters

Jaydee

Diane Evans 

Joanne James

I'm also playing at:

Tic Tac Toe Challenge #169

 Top row - Something round, Outdoors, Stencil.

Krafty Chicks #619 - Stamp Act

I Heart You

I spent the day yesterday making Valentines. It snowed all day, one of my sons was home to watch Super Bowl with his dad, I made a big pot of soup... what a great day!

Here is one of my Valentines that I made from mostly new schtuff. The only things that are not new, are the sentiment and the card stock.

Products used:
Stamps: MFT Pure Innocence I Heart You.
Dies: SSS Mini Interactive Envelope, Pinkfresh Studio Curvy Foliage and Sparkling Diamonds.

I'm playing at:

Colorful Options February 2022 -  Rosey Red

Tic Tac Toe #148

Left Column - Red, Heart, Sentiment

NBUS #35

CIC #537 - Valentine Hearts

If The Broom Fits

Less Is More Challenge #454 begins today. We are challenged to create a ONE LAYER (no layers) CAS card with an autumnal theme. 

I used Funky Fossil Designs Scribbbles stencil for my background and stamped the flying witch image from Picket Fence Studios If The Broom Fits stamp set on top of it. I then embossed with clear EP. The sentiment is from the same set, also clear embossed. 

Please head over to the Less Is More Blog and see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. I hope you'll play along with us to share your creations. Remember to keep your design Clean And Simple which we define as designs that include large areas of CLEAR AND CLEAN space with NO PATTERN, NO INK and NO TEXTURE See challenge guidelines on the Less Is More Blog.

LIM BLOG

LIM FACEBOOK PAGE

LIM INSTAGRAM

I'm also playing at:

Two Old bats Halloween Challenge - October Anything Halloween

Tic Tac Toe #135

I used column #3 - purple, witch and (heat) embossing.

AAA Cards #200 - Celebrate

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

Fall Mood Board Inspiration