Just Us Girls #722

Hi crafty friends, this week at JUG's is word week and the word is RAIN!

I have had my fill of winter and wet weather and it's a beautiful sunny day. For my card I wanted something happy while still using the word RAIN. I used Concord & 9th Brighter Days and Taylored Expressions Over the Rainbow for my card.

I stamped using Catherine Pooler Inks. I always get a good impression with those. I used Do-Si-Do, Catching Rays, Garden Partty and Cummerbund.

A sparkly heart finishes it off.

Thanks for stopping in and have a wonderful day!

Just Us Girls #720

Hey crafty friends! I'm back again with my final card for my March Guest Design at Just Us Girls! This challenge is a stencil challenge and anything goes. So with that I pulled out my Papertrey Ink Wild Blooms stencils because every time I use it? I love it more!

I started off picking lighter and darker shades of my greens, pinks and yellows. All my inks are Catherine Pooler inks and I listed them all in the supply list at the bottom of my post.

Wild Blooms comes as a set of 6 stencils. I worked my way through each stencil using first the lightest shade and then adding my darker shade from the base of each image and then finally finishing it off by going over the stenciled pieces again with the lightest coloured ink.

Once I had the whole piece stenciled I went around the edges of the panel with blue ink to give the panel more dimension and reality. Next I cut the panel with the largest die from the Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Rectangles dies. It was adhered to the card base with foam tape.

I have been trying to use some older products that I have lately. The word spring is from a Neat & Tangled die called Spring, how apropos! The die comes with the word and a shadow. I cut the shadow with vellum and then I cut the word spring three times with black cardstock. The words were glued together to make a thick word, it was then glued to the vellum base.

TIP: I dotted glue on the back of the vellum piece behind the letters so it would not show through to the front.

I stamped and white embossed Happy & Birthday from yet another older MFT Stamps set and those were adhered around the word 'spring' with thin foam tape.

Thanks for hanging out with me this month as I was guesting with the Just Us Girls Challenge. I've had a really fun time and I hope to see your cards in the gallery. Break out those stencils, this challenge is a fun one!

Just Us Girls #718

Hey crafty friends! I'm back again with m second card for my March Guest Design at Just Us Girls! This challenge with are having a Collaboration Challenge with Time Out Challenges for challenge #718. 

We are doing a two week challenge running from March 14th - 27th. At JUGS it's a word challenge and the word is Birds! I don't have many birds in my collection but I have MFT Stamps Seaside Seagulls and pulled it out to play!

I created a cloud background with the MFT Stamps Clouds stencil, then I cut it into a panel with the MFT Stamps Wonky Stitched borders. 

I used a bright blue cardstock for my background and I have gone through all my cardstock and still do not know what company makes it. 

I added some foam tape/dots to add some dimension behind the white panel and behind the bird and die cut clouds!

This is the now, sadly retired, stamp set I used, MFT Stamps' Seaside Seagulls!

All the images were coloured with Copic markers.

 I hope to see you play along with us!

Just Us Girls #717

Hi there crafty friends! Today I'm so excited to share that I am the guest designer for Just Us Girls for the month of March! 

The first challenge is for Color Week #717 and the colours are green, lime green and one other colour! I chose a coral pink for my other colour!

I used all Catherine Pooler products for my card. With St. Patrick's Day just around the corner I decided to make a card for the occasion. I used the Clover & Blooms stamps and dies and the Lucky Charm stamp sets along with the Lucky word die. I stamped the clovers in Grass Skirt and Lime Rickey inks and I made my own cardstock using Coral Cabana ink for the word lucky. 

All were assembled on a panel cut with the Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Rectangle dies. The clovers were attached with foam tape for a bit of dimension.

This card would be suitable to give to a friend or someone you love.

I hope to see you play along at the Just Us Girls challenge this week. I can't wait to see what you do!