Stenciled Happy Birthday

It's time for a new challenge at Just Us Girls. Thanks to all who played in our fun Collaboration Challenge with Time Out. The gallery was "bird-sting" with fabulous creativity!

This week at Just Us Girls, we are hosted by Sue for Stencil Week. Tracey McNeely returns as our fabulous Guest Designer for the month of March. Please head over to the Just Us Girls Challenge Blog and check out the wonderful creations by Tracey and the Design Team. Get crafty with your stencils and join us in the gallery!

Project Details
Stamps/Dies/Stencils	CZ Design Happy Birthday Wafer Dies Pretty Pink Posh Layered Leaves & Flowers Stencil My Favorite things Blueprint Sketch Dies
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest 80 lb Neenah Solar Crest SU Elegant Eggplant
Ink	Various Distress Oxide Inks
Embellishments	Recollections adhesive rhinestone stickers
Other	Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer Waffle Flower Grip Mat My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press Assorted stencil brushes

I'm also playing at:

Seize The Birthday #280 - Spring Floral

The Blessings Of Each Day

Spring has sprung at The Four Seasons Challenge. It is our first Spring themed challenge where this gorgeous mood board is there for your inspiration, but anything Spring goes. 

I took my inspiration from the shamrocks and went with a St. Paddy's Day creation. Take a look at the moodboard, and see what inspires you. The Design Team have created wonderful projects to inspire you as well. Check them out on the challenge blog HERE. Make yourself a cuppa, get crafty, and join us in the gallery. I can't wait to see what you create!

Project Details
Stamps/Dies/Stencils	Pretty Pink Posh Best Of Luck Stamps & Dies Reverse Confetti Big Stripes Cover Panel Simon Says Stamp Large Gnome Die A Colorful Life Designs Shamrock Spray Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Die
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest Recollections 110# Black Cardstock
Ink	Various Green Distress Oxide Inks
Embellishments
Other	Simon Says Stamp Sentiment Strips Reverse Lucky Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer Bearly Art Precision Glue Waffle Flower 1/16" Foam Strips

I'm also playing at:

Festive Friday #0154 - St. Patrick's Day

Green, Leprechaun, Clover/Shamrock

Double Trouble #161 - Pinch Proof

Partnering With Festive Friday

Use Green In your Project

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Dots and/or Stripes

 Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Inspiration Station March 2024 Challenge

Photo Inspiration - Looks like St. Paddy's Day to me!

Happy New Year, Next Year!!!

 It's time for our first challenge of 2024 at Time Out! We have planned a great year ahead with super fun and creative bi-weekly challenges, our 10th birthday celebration and many wonderful sponsors. For our first challenge of the new year, we challenge you to be... NEW. 

You can take this in many different directions, but I went with "New Year". And I do know that this is 2024 and not 2025! I was not ready with nearly enough Christmas cards this year, so I decided to make New Year cards. When that did not happen, I decided to make this New Year card for next year. If I am going to be honest, I will tell you that my champagne bottle was stamped, cut and colored for 2022, and it never got to the post office, so I re-did the label for this bottle for next year and made this card. I vowed to do a Christmas challenge every week this year so I am ready in December. We will see how that goes. LOL.

We are generously sponsored by Gina K. Designs. Challenge Winner will get a $25.00 store credit and an offer to join the Time Out Design Team as a Guest Designer for a future challenge.

We are joined by Cynthia Olheiser of Stampin' In Alaska as Guest Designer. Please head on over to the Time Out Challenge Blog to check out Cynthia's wonderful, then take some Time Out to play with us. 

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Pretty Pink Posh Happy New Year Mama Elephant Lunar Sayings Just Rite Alpha Numeric stamps
Cardstock	80 lb. Neenah Solar Crest Recollections 110 lb. Black Cardstock
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black VersaMark Copic markers
Embellishments	Cosmic Shimmer Gold Treasure Metallic Gilding Polish
Other	Ranger Superfine White Embossing Powder Pretty Pink Posh Fireworks Stencil Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer MISTI Stamping Tool Scor-Pal Score Tape-3/4" 3M foam tape

I'm also playing at:

Little Red Wagon #737 - What's New

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - New

Make My Monday #216 - New Year

The Alphabet Challenge - T is for Texture

Christmas Shaker Card

Time Out Challenge #252 starts today with the Theme of Winter/Holiday. We are sponsored by Birch Press Design. Winner will receive a $20.00 Store Credit to the Birch Press Store, and will get an invitation to be a Guest Designer for a future Challenge at Time Out. 

TIME OUT IS ALSO HAVING A DT CALL! 

Please click HERE for details.

Our Guest Designer is Jen Elliot of Live.Craft.Repeat. Jen is a very talented crafter, and a frequent participant of Time Out. Do treat yourself to a stroll through her blog for some wonderful inspiration!

For my card, I dug very deeply into the depths of my stash and dug out the Hero Arts My Monthly Hero October 2016 Kit. I've seen some snow globes out there lately that really inspired me, so I decided to make one. I always feel like I have to fiddle too much with shakers and all the bits find their way to the desk, floor, my hair... but I was bound and determined to get this one right. Most of what I used was from the kit, except the little bow die cut on the lower right, and the tiny star background which was stamped with VersaMark using a HeroArts Cling background stamp.

Gather your Winter/Holiday supplies and head over to the Time Out Challenge Blog for some awesome inspiration from our Guest Designer Jen and the Design team. Come play with us!!!

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Hero Arts MMH October 2016 Kit Pretty Pink Posh Twine & Bows Dies Hero Arts Tiny Star Cling Background Stamp
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest SU Soft Sky Ranger Distress Woodgrain Cardstock
Ink	Distress Inks - Tumbled Glass, Faded Jeans, Black Soot, Forest Moss, Lumberjack Plaid, Brushed Corduroy Versafine Onyx Black
Embellishments	Beads & sequins from card kit
Other	CZ Design Sentiment Strips Reverse Christmas 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 Waffle Flower 1/16" foam strips

I'm also playing at:

Inkspirational #303 - Seasonal

Krafty Chicks #691 - All Occasions

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #582

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Make It Sparkle

Too Glam To Give A Damn

It's time for a new challenge at Time Out. Challenge #237 challenges us to be FASHIONABLE. Think clothing, design, color trends - even food fashion. Let your imagination run free!

We are generously sponsored by AALL & Create.

Challenge Winner will receive a $20.00 store credit and an invitation to Guest Design with the Time Out Design Team for a future challenge.

We welcome Arlene Rose of Sunday Stamper Papercrafts and Winner of Time Out #234 as our Guest Designer for this challenge. Arlene is a very talented crafter with a style that is often CAS. She has awesome coloring skills. Please visit her blog for some great inspiration. She would welcome your comments on her creations!

I stepped waaaaaay out of my comfort zone on this one when I decided to go with a mixed media creation to showcase AALL & Create's Fashionable Miss Dee. She just cracks me up and was the perfect image for our challenge. I used powdered inks, stencils, Lunar Paste and white ink to create my gel print background. I die cut and foam mounted the background on 110lb cardstock. I stamped, colored and popped up Miss Dee and the sentiment, and my card was complete.

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!

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	AALL & Create Miss Dee Waffle Flower A2 Layers Dies Pretty Pink Posh Wonky Stitched Rectangles
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest 90lb. Neenah Cardstock
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black VersaFine Onyx Black VersaMark Brushos & Ken Oliver Color Burst inks Inkon3 Atelier Shark Tooth White ~ Artist Grade Fusion Ink
Embellishments	Recollections Gold Pearl Stickers Ranger Ink Simon Hurley Silver Lining
Other	Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer MISTI Stamping Tool WOW Heat Tool Bearly Art Precision Glue Scor-Pal Score Tape-1" Waffle Flower 1/16" Foam Strips WOW Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool A Colorful Life Designs Groovy Flowers Stencil AALL & Create Stencil Bursts #13 UNIMEIX Ink Blending Brush Gel Press 5x7 Gel Printing Plate

I'm also playing at:

Krafty Chicks #661 - All Occasions

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Make Your Mark

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

The Dream Factory - Miami Vice and/or Freaky Friday

Masculine and/or Feminine

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 "WREATHS".

I embossed my brown card base with a Darice Honeycomb EF. I die cut a piece of textured orange card stock with a Die-namics Fishtail Flag die. I stamped, colored and die cut ghosts, pumpkins and spider with Ghost Friends and Trick or Treat Friends from Pretty Pink Posh. I popped them up on the wreath die cut (Hero Arts, I think). The Trick or Treat die cut is from Papertrey Ink. The twine is from Lawn Fawn (I think).

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:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

November Anything Halloween

This is Halloween November Challenge

Aloha

 

Time Out #216 begins today. It's a Theme Challenge where we are challenged to be Tropical. 

The challenge runs from Thursday, June 16th  to Wednesday, June 29th. We are generously sponsored by Top Flight Stamps. Winner will receive a $25.00 gift voucher to the Top Flight Store.

For my take on tropical, I cut multiple strips in blues and greens from scraps with the Waffle Flower's Slimline Strips Die, glued them on to a 4 x 5.25 piece of card stock and trimmed the edges. I used the Pretty Pink Posh's Jungle Background Stencil with Ink on 3 Fleurette's - Atelier Ink. I cut a circle from Pinkfresh's Mini Slimline Essential Bundle on which I stamped a sentiment from Uniko's Paradise Stamp Set. I stamped and Copic colored some tropical images from Paper Smooches Get Outta Town set and adhered them to the circle die cut.

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 at:

Double D Challenge - Beach Time

Four Seasons - Anything Goes Summer

Challenge Up Your Life #148 - Fun In The Sun

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Less Is More #460 starts today. We are challenged to create a CAS card with a bit of bling.

I need some St. Patrick's day cards so I went there. I stamped, colored and die cut this adorable Leprechaun from Pretty Pink Posh's Best of Luck stamp set, popped him up with dimensionals, and added a sentiment from the same set. His jacket button and the center of the four leaf clover are tiny gold rhinestones for my bling. Hard to see. Here is a closeup...

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:

The Card Concept #170 - Wearing o' the Green

Clean & Simple

Little Red Wagon #644 - CAS 

Challenge Up Your Life #145 - Mood Board

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Add Some Green

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - A Bit Of Green

Happy New Year!

 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

To create my card, I used Gina K Iridescent Glitter Glitz Gel and the Pretty Pink Posh Fireworks stencil to create a very glittery and sparkly background on black card stock. I topped that with Cheery Lynn Designs' Happy New Year die cut from Memory Box Pastel Glitter card stock. I stamped and colored with Copics, the champagne bottle from Pretty Pink Posh's Happy New Year Stamp set, added "2022" on the label with my JustRite letter/number stamp tools from the deepest recesses my stash, and popped it up as my finishing touch. I used sparkle, stars, black, champagne, 2022, die cuts 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

Melva Peters

Jaydee

Diane Evans

Joanne James

I'm also playing at:

Watercooler Wednesday #330 - Occasions

Four Seasons Challenge - Anything Goes Winter - December