Just Us Girls #429 - Photo Week

Hi friends!  I'm the hostess at Just Us Girls this week and I'm thinking spring!  These cute flowers always pop up around my house even in the snow!  So pretty!

 

So I watched Jennifer McGuire video this morning...'nough said, right?  She was demonstrating GinaK's new wreath building template (which I of course ordered immediately), and I thought I could recreate it with a square die cut.  I first die cut a square from a piece of cardstock and then put the negative piece in the MISTI and the square die cut in the negative space. I stamped the flower in the corner, then turned the square piece three more times and stamped the flower each time.  Then I went in with the colors and did the same procedure.  When stamping the leaves, I had to mask the flower.  All I had to do when done was stamp the sentiment and add some star dust stickles in the center of the flowers.  It's mounted on yellow cardstock and that's mounted on fun foam to the base.  It's a 4.25 x 4.25 card. 

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our guest on the JUGs blog.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Beautiful Day (Altenew), Deepest Sympathy (MFT)

Paper:  Recollections white, barely banana

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, eucalyptus, sugared lavender, royal treatment, shea butter, sauna (C. Pooler inks)

Accessories:  Square die (Spellbinders), star dust stickles, fun foam, MISTI





Time Out Reminder

Hi everyone!  I had to make a card for a fellow teacher who retired.  I thought about a gift for her, and settled on a Barnes & Noble gift card.  She's a reading teacher, so I thought this old set from Papertrey Ink would be perfect for her card.

 

This is such a simple card, but when I say it took FOREVER to make please believe me!  I stamped the image I think four times due to smudges.  Then I dropped a stamp pad on the main panel just as I was ready to mount it on the base.  I inked another (the background is sponged with ink) and spattered it with that dark pink ink...I hated it, so I started over!  Then I didn't like the original pattern paper, so I changed that.  Yikes!  This is the final result, and I'm just ok with it, but it had to do!  I hope my friend likes it.  I stamped another sentiment about reading and Happy Retirement on the inside and put it in the envelope!  

 

I'm also adding it to the Remind post over at the Time Out blog.  The theme is hobbies.

 

You can see more from the Time Out team and our current guest on the Time Out blog.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  All Booked Up (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white, Sweet Threads (Basic Grey)

Ink:  Razzleberry and bamboo (Altenew)

Accessories:  Stitched rectangle die (MFT), Mat Stack 3 die (PTI), sequins, dimensional tape 

 

 



Just Us Girls #428 - Color Week

We have a really pretty color challenge going on over at Just Us Girls.  Turquoise, berry, and kraft...lovely!

 

I used this really cool stamp from Concord & 9th and stamped it with the turquoise ink then filled in the flowers with berry and kraft inks.  On the tips of the big flowers, I stamped off the berry color before stamping it on the flower to get a lighter color.  I mounted this piece of kraft paper and added the embossed sentiment on berry paper and the sequins.

 

You can see more from our JUGs design team and February guest on the JUGs blog.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Blooms Fill-in (C & 9th)

Paper:  Recollections white, kraft, bravo burgundy

Ink:  All That Jazz and Peppermint Scrub (C. Pooler), kraft (MFT), Versamark

Accessories:  Wonky stitches die (Avery Elle), white ep, sequins, dimensional tape 



Time Out #103 - Hobbies

Hi friends!  The theme for the current Time Out challenge is Hobbies with an optional twist to make it a one layer card.