Seagull With A Fry

Carol McFarland is our host for this weeks Just Us Girls Challenge where it is Color Week. Carol has chosen a wonderful summery color combination of pink and aqua. This is a great palette to work with!   As this is our firts challenge of a new month, we welcome CAS Queen, Jane Taylor, as our super talented Guest Designer for June.

I just received my Waffle Flower haul that was loaded with summer fun including lots of seagulls. These birds can be a menace, especially if people nearby are feeding them (they love to drop presents from the sky). That said, I love to watch them as they are really very funny creatures. They are brazen enough to swipe a sandwich right out of your hand, or stick their beaks into a temporarily abandoned beach bag in search of some snacks... so I went with Waffle Flower Beach Tote stamp & die combo,  Inquisitive Seagulls dies and lots of lots of shades of the challenge colors to create my card. 

Please head over to the Just Us Girls Challenge Blog and check out the wonderful creations by Jane and the Design Team. Get crafty with your stash and join us in the gallery! I can't wait to see how our players are inspired by the colors.

Please note: we have created a longer timeframe for our challenges! Wednesdays at 6:00 pm EST will be our new ending time in order to give you another day to get your cards in the gallery! The Winner of the Week will be announced now on Thursdays, an hour before the new challenges open.

Project Details
Stamps/Dies/Stencils	Waffle Flower Beach Tote stamp & die combo, Inquisitive Seagulls dies, Beach Umbrella die & stencil and     Wave Texture Die My Favorite Things Drift & Hills and Perfect Pool Water     stencils Spellbinders Nestabilities Circle dies
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest 80lb. Neenah Solar Crest My Mind's Eye Darling Dots 6x6 paper Sizzix Iridescent Opulent Cardstock
Ink	VersaFine Onyx Black Distress Oxide Antique linen & Salty Ocean PTI Aqua Mist, Hawaiin Shores, Raspberry Fizz, Berry Sorbet
Embellishments
Other	Spellbinders Platinum Plus Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer MISTI Stamping Tool My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press Scor-Pal Score Tape-1/2" SU Dimensionals

I'm also playing at:

Little Red Wagon #759 - So Cute!

Triple B June Challenge

Bird

Krafty Chicks #719 - Stamps

Die Cut Divas June Challenge

Your Favorite Die Cut Shapes

Make My Monday #227 - B is for...

Beach Bag!

Cut It Up #305 - Anything Goes

Relaxing By The Sea

It's time for a new challenge at Just Us Girls. Carol Mc is our host for Moodboard Week #727 and she has chosen a fabulous board for our inspiration. Super talented Jenny Martin of My Paper Epiphany continues with us as our Guest Designer for the Month of May.

It's easy to see the elements that I took from the board as my inspiration - the ocean, the sailboat, the colored sky...  Instead of the beach bag and hat, I put a beach chair in my design. This is going to a dear friend who is a beach lover just like me. We have spent many a beach day together in the many years of our friendship. I love the sentiment! Inside, it says "Happy Birthday" in the same sandy font as the sentiment on the front.

Please head over to the Just Us Girls Challenge Blog and check out the wonderful creations by Jenny and the rest of the Design Team. Get crafty with your stash and join us in the gallery! I can't wait to see how our players are inspired.

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Hero Arts My Monthly Hero Kit June 2018 Gina K. Designs Ocean Minded Waffle Flower A2 Layers Dies
Cardstock	Papertrey Ink Ocean Tides 80lb. Neenah Solar Crest
Ink	Papertrey Ink - various Distress Oxide Inks - various VersaFine Onyx Black Versafine Vintage Sepia Memento Love Letter
Embellishments
Other	Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer MISTI Stamping Tool My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press Simon Says Stamp Foam Squares Assorted Stencil Brushes

Hello From My Happy Place

 

I finally got a chance to break out this fabulous Spellbinders Day At The Beach die set that I have had for quite a while. Recently I ran across Gina K's Ocean Minded set and had to have it, so I broke my "no new stuff" pledge (this is becoming more and more common) LOL. I could not wait to put them together. There are 2 things I would change - the brim of the hat should be solid so that the "hello" would be more easily visible, and the second is that I had to heat emboss twice because I didn't wait long enough for the DOX ink to dry. The second stamping was off a little, but that is how the ocean looks, right?? I still love it and I can't wait to give this one a second go. I now know all the tricks of putting it together.

I'm playing at:

Just Us Girls #683 - HELLO

Color Throwdownc #747 - aqua, red, yellow

NBUS #51

All Stamps/Dies

The Four Seasons - Anything Goes Summer

Color Dare #552

Turquoise, red & yellow

Double Trouble #140 with Flip Flop Twist

Turquoise, red & yellow

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Lots of Layers

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Spellbinders Day At The Beach Die Set Gina K Ocean Minded Stamp Set
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar White 80lb. Neenah Solar Crest Various Gina K, SU, Mirror Cardstock and Patterned Papers
Ink	VersaMark, DOX inks
Embellishments
Other	Brutus Monroe Alabaster 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 Scor-Pal Score Tape-1" 3M foam tape

Beachy Thank You

 I needed a simple thank you card with a beach theme that I could easily duplicate.  After going through my beach stash, I broke out my NBUS Echo Park Starfish 6x6 stencil and inked it up with Abandoned Coral and Dried Marigold DO Inks. I stamped the Picket Fence Thank You sentiment, added a popped up Adirondack Chair stamp and die from the June 2018 MMH kit, and my card was complete.

I'm playing at:

Never Before Used Schtuff #28

Echo Park Starfish 6x6 stencil

Krafty Chicks #569 - All Occasions

Double D Challenges - Colors Of Summer

Use Your Stuff #427 - Summer Fun

Greetings From My Happy Place

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Time Out Challenge #185 begins today,. It is a photo challenge with the inspiration being the gorgeous photo above.

Our challenge runs from Thursday, April 8th to Wednesday, April 21. Our wonderful sponsor is Kitchen Sink Stamps. Challenge winner will receive at $25.00 gift voucher to the Kitchen Sink Stamps Shop.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Claire from Life On The Scrap Heap. Claire is an awesome designer. Please treat yourself to a visit to her blog for some awesome inspiration. You will be so glad you did.

To create my card, I used Kitchen Sink Stamps Isle of Big Bay Lake Multi Step Stamps for the ocean water. For the rest of the design, I used Hero Arts June 2018 My Monthly Hero Kit to complete the scene. 

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

I'm also playing at:

Never Before Used Schtuff #25

My new Kitchen Sink stamps

Happy Little Stampers April AG With Dies

Life Is Good

My creation for PDCC135 sprung from the wonderful blue door in this inspiration photo.  My mind was already in beach mode and as soon as I saw this photo, the little cabana from Wilson Designs' Teeny Bikini popped into my head.  I used PTI's Farm & Barn Background Basics to apply a fine woodgrain to the door and I went from there.  After two more school days I can go to the beach pretty much whenever I want until September. Life is good.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies:

Stamps~Wilson Designs Teeny Bikini, PTI Background Basics: Farm & Barn, Background Basics Medallions, Back Pocket Basics.

Ink~PTI Hawaiian Shores, Canyon Clay, SU Pacific Point, Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaFine Onyx Black.

Paper~PTI Canyon Clay, Hawaiian Shores, White, Neenah Solar White, SU Pacific Point.

Accessories~Dimensionals, Quartet Cork Crafe Sheet, MFT Die-namics Catch A Wave, PTI Back Pocket Basics Die Collection, Taylored Expressions Clouds Impression Plate.

Beach Note

Sharon Johnson's Stamp Simply #154 is a color challenge. The colors are Turquoise and Orange, with White OR Ivory as your neutral and as always, adding Black for a little POP is totally OK, but not required.  These colors are great as we transition from summer to fall.  I just love this beach chair and umbrella image from Just Rite's By the Sea Set. I love the simplicity of this card and the whispers of summer that I can hear when I look at the image. I am definitely a summer girl... but I love the fall too. This card is a tribute to my dual seasonal personality!

Here are my ingredients:

Stamps: Just Rite~By the Sea, Verve~Accent Notes.

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaFine Onyx Black.

Paper:  White, Soft Sky, Not Quite Navy, Pumpkin Pie.

Accessories:  Spellbinders Impressibilities, Nestabilities, Pumpkin Pie 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, Dimensionals, Copics, Spellbinders Fancy Tags,  Kaiser pearls, Cuttlebug.

Beach Outlines

This is my card for SC235 sketch challenge. I love this sketch, and I love the way this card turned out. The images all come from one stamp: Split Layering Collage-Seaside from a company called Outlines Rubber Stamp Company. The stamp was part of my birthday gift from my sister Lisa. Thanks LiLi!! See the pic of the stamp below. I stamped the image on Solar White paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink 3 times and colored the areas I wanted to use with Copics. I used a 1" circle punch to cut out the colored images.

You can't see it in the picture, but I used my atyou spica glitter pen to add sunny sparkle to each of the 9 images. I love the way it looks when the light hits it!

The card is 5.25" square. I used retired SU Cool Caribbean as the base. The next layer is Pacific Point topped with a layer of white which is run through the Cuttlebug. I sponged Cool Caribbean ink on the embossed layer to give it interest and dimension. The 1" circles are matted on black and then Pacific Point scalloped circles, all of which are cut with circle nestabilities. I finished it off with Melon Mambo 1/2" Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon. Voila! Time to hit the beach!