Just Us Girls #308 - Wild Card Week

Hi friends!  Since we have a 5th week in August, Just Us Girls has its Wild Card challenge.  That means the hostess can choose any challenge she wants.  Nancy is our hostess and she's given us a sketch to follow.  We haven't had a sketch challenge in a while here at JUGs!

 

I needed a 30th birthday card for a guy.  My best friend's son is celebrating his 30th birthday tomorrow, and my friend and her husband are throwing a big party for him today.  It should be a fun party!  So making guy cards (for me) is challenging.  Add to it an additional challenge and you have a card that took a while to make!  I chose this color palette from a card I did over a year ago.  I started by cutting thin strips of kraft, Baja breeze, and marina mist cardstock and adhered them to a piece of scrap cardstock.  Then I die cut the numbers from that piece then matted it on another larger number.  I die cut the word and suffix from vintage cream.  The kraft piece was embossed with a folder and then cut apart.  The vanilla cardstock beneath was splattered with some distress inks.  The kraft pieces were popped up with fun foam and the numbers with dimensional tape.

 

You can see more inspiration from the JUGs design team on the JUGs blog and our current guest, Karen Bourke. 

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

Recipe

Paper:  Vintage cream, kraft, Baja breeze, marina mist

Ink:  Pumice stone and broken china

Accessories:  By the Numbers, By the Numbers Mat, Suffix Style, Wonderful Words-Birthday dies (all PTI), mesh embossing folder, fun foam, dimensional tape



Time Out #38 - Reminder

Our current Time Out challenge is running for one more week.  This is the photo we are using as inspiration.

 

I saw this picture at Hobby Lobby and it gave me more inspiration for my card.

 

So this is what I ended up with.  I first sponged the navy stripes on white cardstock.  Then I die cut frames from white and navy cardstock.  I cut them about 1/3 of the way up and adhered the white frame on top and the navy frame on the bottom of the striped cardstock.  The sentiment was stamped in red ink, I popped up the red anchor, and added sequins.  I wasn't going to add the sequins cause this card looks more masculine, but I thought it needed something.  In hindsight, I wish I would have made the stripes lighter like in the Hobby Lobby photo to make the frame stand out more.  Oh well!

 

You can see more inspiration and can link up your card on the Time Out blog.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Sailing By (Paper Makeup Stamps)

Paper:  Recollections white, night of navy, real red

Ink:  Chipped sapphire, real red

Accessories:  Anchor die (Paper Smooches), rectangle frames die (MFT), sequins, dimensionals





Just Us Girls #306 - Photo Inspiration

Hi friends!  We have a new Photo Inspiration challenge over at Just Us Girls.  Chris chose this pretty photo of fall leaves.  It seems our team is hankering for fall!  My favorite season!

 

Here's a closer look in case you need it!

 

And here's my take on the inspiration photo.  I found a piece of glossy cardstock I created for this card so I used it to die cut my leaves.  The paper was created with various alcohol inks.  I stamped the veins of the leaves on the die cut pieces in brown ink.  The leaves are popped up on fun foam for some dimension.  I used some dotted paper for my panel and added the die cut sentiment and some sequins.

 

I used this sketch from this week's CAS(E) this Sketch.  Love this one!

 

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our guest, Karen Bourke, on the Just Us Girls blog. 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Leave It Be (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white, glossy paper, 2008 Bitty Dot Basics (PTI)

Ink:  Alcohol inks:  terra cotta, butterscotch, lettuce, and pearl mixative; Memento rich cocoa

Accessories:  Leave It Be dies (PTI), Impression Obsession dies, sequins, fun foam





Time Out #38 - Home Sweet Home Challenge

It's another Thursday in summer...summertime is slipping away!  But since it's Thursday, it means it's time for another Time Out challenge. 

 

This week is our Home Sweet Home challenge where we supply a photo and you use it as inspiration.  Look at these fabulous nautical glasses.  I love the nautical look!

 

I made this super duper fast and easy card!  It took me about 15 minutes to create and I didn't make any smudges or anything!  I stamped the blue lines then the red anchors.  The rope images were also stamped in red.  Then I finished it off with the sentiment in blue.  I was going to add some sequins, but I thought this was more of a masculine card, so no sequins!  I rounded the corners, mounted the main panel on a blue panel, then on the white base.  Easy peasy!

 

I used last week's CAS(E) this Sketch as my starting point.

 

You can see more from the Time Out designers and our guest for this challenge, Anni, on the Time Out blog.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Dockside and Dockside backgrounds (WP9)

Paper:  Recollections white, pacific point

Ink:  Real red, pacific point

Accessories:  Corner rounder



Christening Card

Hello!  I have a Christening party to go to today and had to quickly make a card.  I had some ideas in my head, but then I spied this book cover card die in "my yet to be used" bin and I thought it would be perfect for what I needed.  I simply cut the base from white card stock.  Then for the page edges, I had just enough of this gold paper to die cut it out.  Then I embossed the cross and decorative images in gold.  The Christening is for a baby boy, so I wanted to include some blue.  I die cut this word from some blue decorative paper.  The gold pearl was added in the center of the cross and I was done!  This is such an innovative die!  Love it!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Everyday Blessings (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white, gold dp, Elegant Soiree (SU)

Ink:  Versamark, delicata gold

Accessories:  Book cover card die (PTI), Doodle buds die (WP9), gold ep, gold pearl