Just Us Girls #371 - Photo Week

Dear Ones!
This week is photo week over at Just Us Girls, and our gal Vicki has chosen this stunning photo for our inspiration.

Here's what I came up with:

As everyone knows, it's very difficult to photograph shimmer and shine, and this is very shimmery with that gorgeous purple metallic paper. The ornament is cut out of silver metallic, and the background patterned paper is very glittery.

Here are the Ingredients:

GKD White Card Stock

Recollections Purple Foil Card Stock

Recollections Silver Card Stock

Recollections Shimmer Noel Patterned Paper

Marianne Designs Christmas Bauble Die

Tim Holtz Mixed Media Die

Martha Stewart Branch Punch

Stash Ribbon

Please visit the JUST US GIRLS blog to see the wonderful cards that our November Guest Designer, Cecile, and the rest of the team have made this week. And remember, if you win Chic of the Week in any of our November challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen as our Guest Designer for the month of January, 2017!!   I hope to see you there. 

Good luck, and thanks for stopping by!!

Just Us Girls #370 - Color Week

Dear Ones~

This week is COLOR WEEK over at Just Us Girls, and our gal Ina has chosen these gorgeous colors. TEAL, PURPLE and GOLD are stunning together.  As usual with color challenges, you are to use all three of the chosen colors as well as any neutrals that you need.  Neutrals are white, ivory, kraft, black, brown or gray.


Here's what I came up with:

 I adore this funny bunny from Verve Stamps. Doesn't he just make you smile?? I made this card for my virtual BFF who just lost her house to fire. I thought it might cheer her up. I fussy cut the bunny from patterned paper and colored his tummy, nose and feet with Prismas.

Here are the Ingredients:

GKD White Card Stock

SU Rich Razzleberry Card Stock

SU Island Indigo Card Stock

Colorbok Fresh Linen Patterned Pape
Recollections Gold Mercury Glass Card Stock

Verve Stamps Hip Hop Bunny Stamp

Power Poppy Springtime Love Stamp

Stash Gold Mirror Card Stock

Prismacolor Pencils 

SU Oval Dies

Paper Studio Lines and Dots EF

Please visit the JUST US GIRLS blog to see the wonderful cards that our November Guest Designer, Cecile, and the rest of the team have made this week. And remember, if you win Chic of the Week in any of our November challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen as our Guest Designer for the month of January, 2017!!   I hope to see you there. 

Good luck, and thanks for stopping by!!

Mod Squad Challenge - Ribbon, Ribbon! Who's Got The Ribbon?

Dear Ones~
This week Vicki Dutcher and I are hosting the Mod Squad Challenge. Our challenge is RIBBON, RIBBON! WHO'S GOT THE RIBBON? We are asking players to us ribbon somewhere on their card. Easy, peasy, right?

One of our sponsors is the wonderful stamp company  

Kitchen Sink Stamps

 

Kitchen Sink Stamps offers us a discount CODE: ModSquad15.

  These stamps are amazing. Most have a multi-stamp feature that lets you get great detail in your images using several colors. There is real dimension with a 3-D effect! And one of the best features of this stamp company is that there are color recipes for most of the multi-step stamps, so you don't have to guess what colors to use. There are even alternative colors if you don't have the inks that are suggested. Maria from Kitchen Sink Stamps is a member of our Mod Squad Challenge Facebook Group so feel free to say Hi or ask any questions.

 

THE PRIZE

A $25 GIFT CERTIFICATE to the store. 

You can pick your own goodies and there are lots of choices!

Here's my card:

I have a lovely little die from Marianne Designs called Christmas Bauble. It's very detailed, and is gorgeous cut with metallic paper. Here I have cut it in gold and then backed it with some watercolored background paper I found in my stash. The Kitchen Sink Stamps are from the set called Build a Garland. Isn't that ribbon multi stamp gorgeous? There are four separate stamps used to create the dimension. I stamped the ribbon and then fussy cut it out and glued it to the bauble. I also used that same stamp set to create the pine bough behind the bauble. And then the final touch was to splatter it with gold watercolor. I love how this turned out.

 Here are the Ingredients:

SU Rich Razzleberry Card Stock

GKD Red Hot and White Card Stock

Recollections Mercury Glass Card Stock

Marianne Designs Christmas Bauble Die

Stash Gold Mirror Card Stock

Kitchen Sink Stamps Multi-Step Build a Garland

Kitchen Sink Stamps Never a Loss for Words

Fine Tech Watercolor Paint in Gold

Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to head on over to The Mod Squad Blog Challenge and play along. I can't wait to see your wonderful creations, and I adore your comments.

Just Us Girls #369 - Trend Week

Dear Ones~

This week is TREND WEEK over at Just Us Girls, and our gal Bobby has chosen METALLICS. 

Here's my card:

I recently got a new die set from Stampin' Up called Starlight Thinlits. It has several beautiful star dies and I really wanted to see what it looked like cut out of metallic paper. I also just got some Inca Gold paste. This paste is very shiny, and works beautifully for stenciling. I thought it would make a great backdrop for the star focal. 

Here are the Ingredients:

GKD White Card Stock

Recollections Mercury Glass Card Stock

Recollections Christmas Glitter Card Stock

Viva Inca Gold Paste

Tim Holtz Speckles Stencil

SU Star of Light Stamp for Greeting

SU Starlight Thinlit

Spellbinders Fleur deLis Square Die

GKD Gold Embossing Powder

Please visit the JUST US GIRLS blog to see the wonderful cards that our November Guest Designer Cecile, and the rest of the team have made this week. And remember, if you win Chic of the Week in any of our November challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen as our Guest Designer for the month of January, 2017!! 

I hope to see you over at JUGS! 

Good luck, and thanks for stopping by!!

Make It Monday - That's a Wrap

Dear Ones~
This will be short and sweet because I have some other things to do today. But I wanted to play in the Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday Challenge. We are invited to create our won wrapping paper. I LOVE making my own patterned paper, so this was really fun.

Here's my paper:

So I just grabbed a really sweet stamp set from Papertrey Ink called Tinsel and Tags. It's from last year's Christmas collection. The images are all stamped randomly, and then I splattered the whole thing with gold Fine Tech watercolor.

Here are the Ingredients:

Hewlet Packard Copy Paper

PTI Tinsel and Tags Stamps

SU Inks In:
*Real Red

*Pear Pazazz

*Soft Suede

*Crushed Curry

*Cucumber Crush

Fine Tech Gold Watercolor

So that's it. Hope your weekend has been stellar. Thanks so much for stopping by, I adore your comments!

Just Us Girls #368 - Word Week

Dear Ones~

 

This week is WORD WEEK over at Just Us Girls, and our gal Sue has chosen the word ENCOURAGEMENT. 

What a lovely word to use.

Here is my card:

I love this sentiment from Verses Rubber Stamps. I sometimes use it to make a separate little placard to insert inside a card I am sending to someone who needs encouragement. I fussy cut a couple of the butterflies from the patterned paper. I thought they were so pretty!

Here are the Ingredients:

GKD Ivory Card Stock

MFT Spearmint Card Stock

SU Blushing Bride Card Stock

DCWV The Butterfly Garden Stack

Verses Rubber Stamps It's A Hug Stamp

GKD Gold Embossing Powder

  

I would like to welcome our November Guest Designer, Cecile Ribon. Her work is AH-MAZING!!! Check out her BLOG and see what I mean!!!

Please visit the JUST US GIRLS blog to see the wonderful cards that Cecile, and the rest of the team have made this week. And remember, if you win Chic of the Week in any of our November challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen as our Guest Designer for the month of January, 2017!! 

I hope to see you over at JUGS! 

Good luck, and thanks for stopping by!!