Just Us Girls #626 - Word Week

 Hello friends!  Elizabeth chose the word EGG for this week's Just Us Girls Word Week challenge.

I had so many choices for this challenge and settled on this truck shaped card carrying Easter eggs.  I die cut the truck from a pattern paper in light green and colored the windows, mirrors, and other things on it with copic markers.  The eggs were also colored with copic markers and die cut.  For the "hoppy" letters, I colored a piece of white cardstock with a blue copic marker and die cut them.  I added them to the tailgate of the truck which was also die cut and popped up on dimensional squares.  I added white puff embossing powder to the bunny's tail, crystal lacquer to the mirrors and lights and shimmer to the eggs and letter.  Using the pattern paper for the truck was a great idea (I saw it on the Honey Bee site) because it saved time coloring it!

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our new guest designer for April, Mac Mable, on the JUGS blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Big Pickup Tailgate and Loads of Spring (Honey Bee)

Paper:  White, Farm House pattern paper

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, Memento Tuxedo black, copic markers

Accessories:  Big Pickup Tailgate and Loads of Spring dies (HB), Tall Type Alpha dies (C & 9th), white puff embossing powder, liquid lacquer, shimmer, dimensionals

Just Us Girls #620 - Photo Week

Hi friends!  It's Photo Week over at Just Us Girls and Carol McFarland chose this adorable photo!  I love it!

I pulled out my basket of Easter stamps and came across this Easter gnome.  Look at those bunny slippers!  LOL!  I colored him with copic markers and fussy cut him (ugh...no dies!)  Then I went to work on the background.  I wanted to do something different.  I saw Amy Rysavy creating some great backgrounds so I went that route.  I started by stamping an Easter egg background stamp with Versamark on water color paper and then heat embossed it with white embossing powder.  Then I pressed various pink distress inks onto a non-stick mat, added water to it and pressed the paper into it.  I did this several times, drying it in between.  When that was dry, I laid a stencil on it and spread embossing paste over it.  It's hard to see in the photo, but the texture is really cool!  I then die cut some flowers and leaves from colored cardstock and shaded it with coordinating inks.  The sentiment was stamped and die cut three times for dimension.  The gnome was given dimension by placing craft foam behind it.  I finished it with crystals and shimmer on the gnome.

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

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Recipe

Stamps:  Easter Gnome (Whipper Snapper), Easter Buddies (Honey Bee), Doodle Egg bg (SSS)

Paper:  Canson water color, white, pink, purple, green

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, Versamark, Memento tuxedo black, kitsch flamingo, picked raspberry, worn lipstick, copics

Accessories:  Audrey Cutaways (W&W), Stitched Blooms dies (MFT), Spring Boho Circle (SSS), embossing paste, white embossing powder, crystals, shimmer, craft foam

Happy Easter!

I made so many cards again this year, however this was the only one I remembered to take a picture of before putting them in envelopes and sending them off to friends and family.  I used the Honey Bee lily die set for the flowers and leaves.  I die cut the flower from two different colors of peach and the leaves from two different green hues.  I die cut a white panel with a stitched rectangle and stenciled it with pale yellow ink.  I stamped and die cut the sentiment and added it with dimensional adhesives.  I added crystals and shimmer spritz for some sparkle. 

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Recipe

Stamps:  Easter Buddies (Honey Bee)

Paper:  Recollections white, peach, green

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, scattered straw distress oxide

Accessories:  Easter Lily dies (Honey Bee), stitched rectangle (MFT), Harleen stencil (Winnie & Walter), crystals, shimmer spritz, dimensionals