Just Us Girls #243 - Wild Card {Shaving Cream Technique}

Hi everyone!  It's Wild Card week over at Just Us Girls, which means the hostess gets to choose any type of challenge she chooses.  Sharyn is the hostess this week and she's chosen an oldie but a goodie...the shaving cream technique.  I have to admit that I've never done this technique before, and I groaned when I saw it.  I thought it was going to be a pain to do!  But I found it was a really cool technique and I loved the results!

 

I used two reinker colors in Tangerine Tango and Marigold Morning.  I love orange, so it was easy to choose the tangerine!  I just received this butterfly die set from Lil' Inkers, so after I did the shaving cream technique, I die cut the butterflies from the resulting paper.  I also added a little strip of the paper on the side of the white panel.  I love that stitched trail line of the butterfly too.  It's a separate die, so you could use it for anything that flies (I'm thinking bees!).  I added bling to the butterflies and the sentiment.



We are saying a fond farewell to our May Guest Designer, Barbara Campbell this week.  She's been a fabulous guest! 

 

Stop by these blogs to see what the design team did with this technique!

 

JUGs blog

Cheryl Rowley

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Nancy Leppek

Sharyn Polesel

Sue Trembeth

Sue VanDeVusse

Vicki Dutcher

 

Thanks for stopping by!  I'm off to the Santana/Rod Stewart concert tonight and my cabin tomorrow.  The weather is supposed to be in the 80s!  Finally!  Enjoy your weekend!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Tag You're It (MFT)

Paper:  Neenah white, tangerine tango

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, tangerine tango and marigold morning reinkers

Accessories:  Stitched butterfly dies (Lil' Inkers), bling, shaving cream





Just Us Girls #242 - Photo Inspiration Challenge

Hi friends!  There's a new Photo Inspiration challenge over on the Just Us Girls blog.  Vicki chose the photo this time and I just love it!

Here's a closer look at the photo.  So much inspiration!

 

This is what I came up with.  I of course could not ignore the black and white stripes.  I like how the stripes were offset, so I set out to recreate that.  I found this piece of paper with black and white diagonal stripes.  I cut a two inch strip then cut it in half and laid it down on another two inch strip of thin white cardstock.  I offset the stripes before adhering it to the cardstock.  Then I saw a card on the Case Study challenge blog that used PTI's button dies.  I had been wanting to use them, so I pulled them out and cut several from pink, green, blue, and yellow cardstock. (I took these colors from the flowers and two vases in the photo.)   I was worried that the colors might look too baby-ish, but I think the black made it more sophisticated.  I layered some buttons and put the bigger ones up on dimensionals.  I added some Wink of Stella shimmer on some of the buttons and then filled in the bare spots with enamel dots.  I kept the sentiment simple.



You can see the card I took my inspiration from here on the Case Study Challenge blog.



Stop by the JUGs DT blogs to see what amazing cards they created!
 

JUGs blog

Cheryl Rowley

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Nancy Leppek

Sharyn Polesel

Sue Trembeth

Sue VanDeVusse

Vicki Dutcher

 Barbara Campbell, guest designer

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Strictly Sentiments (WPlus9)

Paper:  Neenah white, pink pirouette, pear pizzazz, barely banana, soft sky

Ink:  Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Button Stacks, Button Stacks II, Bitty Button Stacks dies (PTI), Wink of Stella shimmer, enamel dots, dimensionals





Time Out Challenge #6 - Home Sweet Home

Hi everyone!  The next Time Out challenge for the next two weeks is our Home Sweet Home challenge where we provide a homey picture for you to use as inspiration.  This picture is sort of Moroccan in feel.  This outdoor room looks so comfy!