Just Us Girls #160 - Inspiration Photo Challenge

Hi friends!  Just Us Girls has a great photo inspiration challenge going on.

Here's a closeup of the photo inspiration.  What a fun table setting!

I have many fall related stamps to choose from, and I chose this new one.  It's from Art Gone Wild by a designer named Michelle Masters.  She has a topiary line that she designs.  I purchased this (and two Christmas stamps from her line) at a stamp show here in Buffalo, NY in the summer.  I just fell in love with these designs!  This one is the Acorn Topiary.  I colored it (or tried) using the picture on the front of the package and copic markers.  I hope I gave it justice!  I've been having such a hard time lately with creating lately...it seems my mojo is on vacation.  I added some star dust stickles on this image and used papers from PTI (Autumn Abundance and First Fruits).  The green panel was run through an embossing folder.  I threaded the buttons with floss and curled the ends.

 

The JUGs design team has some great inspiration for you.  Check them out at their blogs.
 

JUGs blog
Andrea Matthews
Elise Durenberger
Lynn Mangan
Maria Levine
Marisa Ritzen
Vicki Dutcher  



Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great weekend!

Just Us Girls #159 - Color Challenge

It's Saturday!  So happy it's the weekend!  And we have a new challenge at Just Us Girls.  It's a color challenge brought to us by Marisa.  She chose these this great color palette.

 For some reason my mojo wasn't working when I made this.  I tried to color something, but it just wasn't working, so I went with a wordart.  This one is from PTI called We Go Together.  The pattern paper is Carefree from Authentique.  I added some pewter pearls and a basic grey tafetta ribbon.

This is the sketch I worked with from Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.  I changed out the flag for the ribbon.  

The design team has some great inspiration for you.  Check out the team's blogs.

JUGs blog

Elise Durenberger

Lynn Mangan

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Vicki Dutcher

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!



Pretty Palette #73

Hi there friends!  I'm here with another Pretty Palette color challenge.  I don't remember what the inspiration was for these colors, but I'm lovin' them!

 

This big, pretty flower is from the Be Dazzled digital stamp set from My Time Made Easy.  I colored it in GIMP using the colors from the swatch above.  I printed out two of them (wish I had printed three) and cut away part of one so I could layer it on top of the full one.  When I was coloring it in GIMP, I created a slightly darker shade of the blueberry so that it had more depth to it.  I added some Star Dust Stickles to the center of the flower.  The kraft embossed piece I found in my stash.  I believe that is an embossing folder from SU, as is the ribbon.  The paper is from My Mind's Eye called Moments.  The tag was punched with a Martha Stewart punch and I stamped the sentiment, from Tending the Garden acrylic stamp set (love all those little sentiments in that set...so versatile!) on it and attached it with some twine.  All of this was placed onto a black layer and then on some Neenah cardstock.

The sketch is a classic from Freshly Made Sketches.

You can see more inspiration using these colors on these blogs.

 

MTME blog

Dawn Burdick

Jackie Randolph

Mary Vogel

Romaine Rancier

Theresa Winslow

Tracy Holmes

 

Thanks for stopping by today!