Just Us Girls #217 - One Layer Winter Themed Card

It's Wild Card Week over at Just Us Girls because it's the 5th Saturday of the month.  That means that the hostess gets to choose any challenge she wishes.  Nancy chose to challenge us to create a one layer project with a winter theme.  Great challenge for me!

 

I had an idea to use this Jingle Bell Border die from Memory Box.  I thought I could use the negative piece as my stencil and cover it with embossing paste.  Great idea, but some of it smooshed out and made a little mess in the middle.  So then I tried Versamark ink and gold embossing powder, and that worked like a charm!  I repeated the embossing of the sentiment and that was it!  Done! 



Check out all the fabulous one layer creations by the JUGs design team!

 

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Cheryl Rowley

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Nancy Leppek

Sharyn Polesel

Sue Trembeth

Sue VanDeVusse

Vicki Dutcher

 

Our November Guest Designer is posting her last card with us this week.  Make sure you check out her card on her blog.

Nancy Penir

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Communique Curves (Papertrey Ink)

Paper:  Papertrey Ink white

Ink:  Versamark

Accessories:  Jingle Bell Border die (Memory Box), gold embossing powder





Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American stamper friends!  If you don't celebrate then Happy Thursday!



 

Holiday Washi Card

I've been watching Kristina Werner's Holiday Card Series videos on her blog and they are fabulous!  I went back and watched her 2012 series too and found this washi card she did on this You Tube post.  I have lots of washi tape, so I thought I'd give it a try.  I totally CASED her card, but with different washi tape.

 

I had four different washi tape designs and just started adding them on the card like Kristina did.  The silver medallion was created by embossing several layers of silver embossing powder.  On the last layer, I stamped the snowflake medallion into it while it was still hot to get the impression.  The stamp was stamped in Versamark before stamping into the hot embossed piece so it wouldn't stick.  I tied some red and white baker's twine around the card and added the medallion on top.  Another easy card to recreate.

 

That's it for me for a while.  Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I've got a busy weekend!  Anyone shopping on Black Friday?  Not me!  I hate crowds like that! Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  2008 Holiday Tag Collection (Papertrey Ink)

Paper:  Neenah white

Ink:  Versamark

Accessories:  Wash tape, silver embossing powder, baker's twine

 





For My Niece

Hi everyone!  My niece's birthday was on the 12th and I'm just making her card.  I thought I would just use one of the ones I had on hand, but I thought she deserved a special one from her favorite aunt and godmother!  So when I saw this sketch from Unscripted Sketches, I knew I had to use it to make her a special card.

 

Maria loves green, so I went through my paper to find four different patterns with green in them.  I took a 4.25 x 4.25 piece of white cardstock and covered it with adhesive.  Then I started laying the strips of paper on top of it on an angle and trimmed off the excess.  I die cut the rectangle in the middle as well as another rectangle from white cardstock.  The decorative panel was adhered to the base, and then I inlaid the sentiment piece in the hole.  The flower was made with pink pirouette cardstock and I added a pearl in the center.  This is an easy card to recreate and I love the outcome, but my flower making skills need to be honed I think!  The MFT girls' flowers seem to so much prettier!

 

That's it for me today!  It was a busy weekend of crafting!  I'll have another post tomorrow!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Signature Greetings (Papertrey Ink)

Paper:  Neenah white, pink pirouette, Indie Bloom (Basic Grey), Lively (Authentique), Beautiful Life (Echo Park)

Ink:  Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Layered leaves and hybrid camellia dies (MFT), Spellbinders rectangle die, pearl, glue dots

 





Freshly Made Sketches - Thanks

Happy Monday!  It's a short week for me because of the Thanksgiving holiday!  This weekend I was pretty busy in my stamp room.  This is my third post in a row!  That doesn't happen very often.  Anyway, my niece called on Saturday and asked me to make her a thank you card for her nursing teacher.  She wanted something masculine (her teacher is a male) and nursing related.  That was a tough one.  I first searched for sketches and chose this one from