Sending Sunshine

 

It's Anything Goes Stencil Week at Just Us Girls. We are hosted by Carol and joined by Colleen Begley, our Guest Designer for the month of April. 

I went with a stenciled background using Distress Oxide Inks to  "set the stage" then I made a little scene with Bear Ware from Ellen Hutson, added a sentiment from CZ Designs Beachy Kean and my card was complete. 

Please head over to the Just Us Girls Challenge Blog and check out the wonderful creations by Colleen 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 to play.

Project Details
Stamps/Dies/ Stencils	Ellen Hutson Pinkfresh Kaleidoscope Layered Stencils Simon Says Stamp Beachy Kean Avery Elle Scalloped Pierced Rectangles
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest 80lb. Neenah Solar Crest SU Daffodil Delight
Ink	Distress Oxide Inks Memento Tuxedo Black Copic markers
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 Scor-Pal Score Tape-1/8" 3M foam tape

Im also playing at:

Color Hues #85 - Yellow & Pink

Krafty Chicks #713 - All Occasions

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Flock On - Collaboration with Time Out

 

Time for a new challenge at Just Us Girls. Challenge #718 is a a special collaboration challenge with Time Out Challenges! How cool is that?? Our common theme is "birds". We are birds of a feather flocking together!

By entering the linky tool at Just Us Girls, you will automatically also join Time Out Challenge, woot woot! Entries to the Time Out Challenge Linky will automatically also join Just Us Girls #718.

Your project will gain twice the visibility... You will double your chances to be chosen as a Design Team favorite and your project may be showcased in one or both of the challenge blogs. Whether you join from Time Out or from Just Us Girls, you also have a chance to win $25.00 store credit to Waffle Flower Crafts. 

For my card, I went with a flamingo from Ellen Hutson's Flock Star. I perched my bird on an Altenew cover plate background which was mounted on a tropical background stamped with Uniko Paradise images in PTI inks.

Please head on over to the Just Us Girls Blog to check out what the our Guest Tracy McNeeley and the  Design Team has come up with to inspire our creations. Then head over to Time Out to see what they came up with to inspire you! How fun is this?? I can't wait to see your creations in the galleries!

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Altenew Dotted Starburst Essentials By Ellen Flock Star Uniko Paradise and Paradise Leaves Photoplay A2 Round rectangles
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest Bazzill solid color cardstock
Ink	VersaFine Onyx Black PTI Melon Berry, Ripe Avocado, Harvest Gold, Hawaiian Shores
Embellishments	Little Things by Lucy's Cards
Other	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 Fun foam

I am also playing at:

Lost Coast Designs #183 - Let's Fly

My background is completely stamped with tropical leaf images from Uniko Stamps.

Birds-Blooms-Butterflies March 2024

Cut It Up Challenge #299 - Colors Of Spring

Stamping Sensations March Challenge - Spring

Die Cut Divas March Challenge

Anything Goes - 4/3

All The Treats

I am so excited to be here with my Guest Designer project for Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge, where it's always anything goes - Halloween.

 

Here is the November mood board for some inspiration.

To create my card, I blended Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade, Seedless Preserves and Black Soot Distress Oxide inks on a piece of Neenah Solar White 80# card stock. After it dried, I spattered it with water, and after that dried, with Mr. Huey's Opaque White Color Mist. I used the Essentials By Ellen Birch Trees Cover Plate and Ebony Black Cardstock to die cut the trees and ground and affixed it to the blended panel. I stamped, Copic colored and die cut several images from Bear Ware 2 & 5 and arranged them in a Halloween scene. I added a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Sentiment Strips Halloween die cut with Pink & Main Sentiment Strip Dies and my card was complete.

Please head over to the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge and check out the wonderful Design Team Creations. This is such a fun challenge where it is all Halloween all the time! Also check out the winners the and honorable mentions from October in the the November 1st post - so much great inspiration there too! Thanks so much Darlene and Diane for the opportunity to design for Two Old Bats! I had a great time making this card!

I'm also playing at:

Inspired By #193 - Friends Fall Together

Daring Cardmakers - Halloween Inspired

Krafty Chicks #583 - All Occasions

Little Red Wagon #625 - Outside

Use Your Stuff #434 - Halloween or Pumpkins

O is for Outdoors

This is Halloween November Challenge

People

 

Time Out #194 begins today, We are challenged to create a card inspired by the photo above. The challenge runs from Thursday, August 12, 2021 to August 25, 2021.

Our wonderful sponsor is Time Out Challenges Design Team Member Kim Heggins of RunningStitchDesign. Our challenge winner will receive the bag pictured as the prize. Running Stitch Design is Kim's Etsy store that is full of all things hand stitched.

We have two guest designers for this challenge: Nathalie of wonderingwabbit on Instagram and our wonderful co-founder and long time leader Sandie Munro of London Days. Welcome Nathalie, and welcome home Sandie.

Check out our blog for all the info on our challenge, the prize, our wonderful guest designers, and the fabulous inspiration of the Design Team.

For my card, I focused on the women encircled in the fabric design of Kim's wonderful tote. I used my never before used Julie Ebersol's Voices In My Head stamp set from Ellen Hutson. I stamped, colored with Copics and fussy cut the main image of the bunned woman and popped her up on a gel print background. I used a speech bubble die from Paper Smooches, and stamped one of the sentiments from Voices In My Head Volume 3 by Julie Ebersole. I added some blue gems for a little bling, and my card was complete.

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

I'm also playing at:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Funny/Punny

NBUS #29

All stamps and dies on this project have been awaiting use for a loooooong time.

Love Your Heart

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.

Since the Inspiration List is a mix of elements related to the festivity, the creator has the choice to make something for that festivity, or to ignore the festivity all together and create something using just the three (or more) elements selected.

Today's festivities are in celebration of International Polar Bear Day, which is celebrated on February 27th. The challenge runs from February 5 - February 15.

For my Polar Bear themed project, I used: bear, blue, snowflakes and sentiment from the inspo list. The trees and snow are cur from white glitter paper using the Birch Trees Cover Plate by Julie Ebersole from Essentials By Ellen. That sweet bear is from All Inside, and his little hot cup is from Bear Ware 3, also by Julie Ebersole from Essentials By Ellen. My bear scene is mounted on a sheet of blue foiled card stock. The snowy sky is made from blended Distress Oxide inks and spatters of Mister Huey's Opaque White Color Mist. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp Sentiment Strips and die cut with a Sentiment Strip Die from Pink & Main. The card base is Neenah Solar White 110# card stock.

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

Judy Rozema

I'm also playing at:

The Paper Players #526 - Die Cut, Animal, Scene

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Create Your Own Background

Hey, Wasabi?

 

It's time for a new challenge at Time Out!!! Time Out Challenge #169 is a theme challenge in which the theme is "Season" with an optional twist of coloring. Many of us will immediately think of the four seasons of the year, but we can also season our food with herbs and spices, or become a seasoned (experienced) player or professional... there are many ways to go with this. It's always fun to see how artists interpret a theme.

We are generously sponsored by Poppystamps.

I really wanted to go in a different direction than seasons of the year with this one. I looked through my entire stash for something in the herbs and spices category, but did't really have anything like that. They I thought about the Essentials by Ellen Wasabi set and decided what I was going to do.

I combined the sketch from CAS(e) This Sketch #386 and the theme from Inspired By Challenge #IB138, and came up with my card. The idea is that sushi can be "seasoned" with soy sauce and wasabi and ginger, etc. That might be a little far out of the box, but that is the way I went. I was too late to enter my card in the Inspired By Challenge, but it was definitely part of my inspiration. I stamped, colored and die cut the images from Wasabi and arranged them on the diagonal on a panel that is embossed with the SU Tasteful Textile embossing folder. Some of the die cuts are popped up and some are not. I am so happy with the way it came out.

Please hop 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 with:

CAS(e) This Sketch #386

Mix It Up #40 - Anything Goes + Embossing

SimonSaysStamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

I Can't Even...

 

This simple card was made with EBE Voices In My Head by Julie Ebersole. I LOVE this set and the others that go with it. I am a teacher. It perfectly sums up my feelings about going back to in-person learning. I will graduate from face mask to face shield. Oy!

My face shield is cut with and Pink Fresh Essentials Basic Label Frames, and the white panel is cut with Lawn Fawn Scalloped Rectangle Stackables.

This card was inspired by these challenges:

CAS(E) This Sketch #385

Inkspirational #219 - Face

The Paper Players #504 - CAS Back To School

I'm also playing at:

Krafty Chicks #521 - CAS

It's Your Birthday

I am thrilled to be here with my first DT creation for 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. 

Since the Inspiration List is a mix of elements related to the festivity, the creator has the choice to make something for that actual festivity, or to ignore the festivity all together and create something using just the elements selected.

For example, an Inspiration List for the festivity “Talk Like A Pirate Day” could include pirates, birds, water, boats, black, etc... A more literal submission would probably use pirates and maybe a parrot with a fun pirate pun sentiment. But, a project with a sailboat on the water with birds in the sky and a “happy birthday, husband” sentiment would also qualify for the challenge. It is important to note that, though the list is based on a holiday or festivity, the final creation does not need to reflect that holiday.

I love the concept and format of this challenge, and I am pleased and proud to be joining this wonderful team of designers.

My project includes red, black, baker's twine, stripes. heart, dog and embossing. My skateboarding birthday dog is from Julie Ebersole's Clever Sausage (Essentials By Ellen). Balloon heart dies are from Poppystamps.

FF0065 is a celebration of National Dog Day. See the Inspiration List above. Lots of fun things to choose from! You can visit the Festive Friday blog to see the "pawsome" inspiration that the Design Team has created to spark your imagination, or you can link to their blogs here by clicking each designer's name:

Sharon Burkert

Melanie Hungerford

Helen Jennings

Beth McCullough

Melva Peters

Judy Rozema

Ann Wilcox Schach

Come play with us!

I'm also playing at:

The  Card Concept #138c - The Dog Days Of Summer

I was inspired by the adorable dog having fun! My Dachshund is having fun as well in this Clean and Layered design.

Watercooler Wednesday #283 - Anything Goes with a Feminine Twist

Little Red Wagon #561 - Happy Days

Seize The Birthday- Anything Goes #196

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Use Your Favorite Tool - My good old Cuttlebug

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Birthday