Just Us Girls #299 - Photo Inspiration

Happy Saturday!  School is finally over and summer begins for me!  Hopefully that means more crafty time for me too!  Today begins a new challenge over at Just Us Girls and it's a photo challenge.  Maria has chosen this summer-filled photo.

 

Here's a close up of the photo.

 

I just love gingham, so I chose that for my inspiration.  I made this rosette from the red gingham and placed it on a green diagonal panel.  The green came from the rind of the watermelon in the picture.  I added a green heart to the center of the rosette and some sequins.  The white panels were spritzed with Biscotti Perfect Pearls Mist.  This is going to my BFF Maria, so I chose this lovely sentiment.

 

I used this sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketches.

 

You can see more from our design team and guest on these blogs.

 

JUGs blog

Cheryl Rowley

Chris Dring

Ina Grehan

Maria Levine

Nancy Leppek

Sharyn Polesel

Sue VanDeVusse

Vicki Dutcher

 Ros Crawford, guest designer

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Blissful Butterflies (MFT)

Paper:  Recollections white, real red, kiwi kiss, pattern paper (unknown)

Ink:  Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Paper rosette (Tim Holtz), Surely Stitched Heart (SSS), sequins, biscotti perfect pearls mist, fun foam

 



Time Out #34 - Home Sweet Home Challenge

Hi everyone!  The new challenge over at the Time Out blog is our Home Sweet Home challenge.  This is where we supply a photo of a room in a home and you use it as inspiration.

Here's the really cool room we chose for this challenge.  So many possibilities!

I chose the pink and orange colors as my inspiration along with a bit of black. I needed some thank you cards for some end of year gifts my students are giving me.  I was organizing my stamps this weekend and found two sets from Verve with these beautiful butterflies and had to use them.  This is a one-layer card (except for the sentiment which is stacked with five layers).  Very simple card.


You can see more from our Design Team on the Time Out blog as well as Sue, our guest for this challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Fluttering By and Petals & Stems (Verve)

Paper:  Recollections white, black

Ink:  Morocco and rose bud (Memento Luxe)

Accessories:  Quote tag die (Paper Smooches), Wink of Stella

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day!  I have a great father-in-law that we are celebrating today with breakfast and dinner!  I made this card for him, unfortunately he won't see it because he's blind.  But I always make sure I make a nice card for him, even though he can't see it.  It makes me (and my mother-in-law) feel good!

 

I recently purchased MFT's Terrific Ties and the coordinating dies.  I die cut the three ties from pattern paper and adhered them to the black panel.  I also die cut some stars to place in the corner.  The sentiment was stamped below.  The white panel is raised using fun foam for some dimension (Jennifer McGuire's idea and don't we all follow her lead?  LOL!).

 

I followed the Fusion sketch and some of the colors from their photo.

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Enjoy your day!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Take Flight (Clearly Besotted)

Paper:  Recollections white, black, Marrakech (Basic Grey)

Ink:  Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Terrific Ties dies (MFT), Small Sketched Stars dies (PTI), fun foam

 





Just Us Girls #298 - Color Week

Hi everyone!  This week over at Just Us Girls we have a color challenge.  Ina chose some pretty fall colors (my favorites!).

 

I made a mistake in the colors.  I didn't add any burgundy.  Ooops!  I just had that picture in my head and missed the "color" part of the challenge.  Anyway, I used alcohol inks in terra cotta, butterscotch, and lettuce.  I applied drops of those colors on a felt piece attached to a blending tool then pounced it all over a piece of glossy cardstock.  Then I added some pearl mixative on the same felt piece and pounced it all over.  Some blending solution pounced over that softened the look.  It sort of looked like the picture!  I added a sentiment on a folded banner, a leaf bunch, and sequins.

 

I used the current sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch.