Just Us Girls #800!!!

We're celebrating 800 challenges at Just Us Girls!! What's a celebration without prizes? Some of the DT members are offering prizes on their personal blogs. You can find those details on their individual blogs. Vicki is our hostess this week and she is offering a $25 gift card to Simon Says Stamps on her blog. Rules are simple, you must play along this week and you must comment on the team member's blog to be eligible for their prize. 

Since our Sweet P will be turning 11 this month (I know, can you believe that??!!), I've put together a Sweet Pea stamp set prize package for one lucky random winner. 

A new month brings us a new guest designer. Please stop by to give the talented Leslie Miller a warm welcome!

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Now that all of the details have been taken care of, lets get to my card. I'm sharing the soon to be 11 year old's birthday card for today's celebration! 

At the beginning of the school year, P picked out school supplies with a cherry theme. That's been her jam since. I've been on the hunt for all things cherry LOL!! Papa and I have a cute mix of cherry items for her birthday. A personalized hoodie, PJs, socks, notebooks, journals and pens are among the mix! I even found a roll of cherry wrapping paper! My sweet friend, Michele was kind enough to send me these Concord and 9th {Cherry Nice} goodies to use for the birthday girl! I framed (Pinkfresh Studio) the cherries, that are popped up on foam tape, and added some cute blue gingham (it matches the PJs!). Embossed hearts by Amy Tangerine were the perfect background.

A matching gift tag was in order!

I added the embossed cherries and layered up the two 'sweet' sentiments Michele added to the package. They went on a coordinating gingham frame tag with the personalized Hero Arts 'P' added on a foam dot.

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Phew, that was a long post! Thanks for sticking with me to the end. It's your turn now, friends. All of us at Just Us Girls hope you'll join in our celebration this week. It's ANYTHING GOES... that's an easy one! Have fun!

Fall for FMS

It seems like forever since I've had time to enter a card challenge. Life does get busy sometimes! But I took a minute yesterday to get crafty and this is the card I came up with using Karren's fun sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches.

I already had a piece of PTI Soft Stone card stock all dolled up with this cute Concord & 9th cover plate. The MB paper was cut then added to the bottom for the diagonal portion of the sketch. The fall leaves are new over at Poppystamps. It's a Nordic set, but I opted to use just one layer here. The sentiment set, in it's first outing, is one I picked up on sale at PTI... last year I think! I love the way it looks on this pretty little PPP tag cut from vellum.

Okay, I'm off and running again. It's a pretty sunny day, a good one for washing  and vacuuming my car! Thank for stopping by, I appreciate it so very much!

Just Us Girls #746 ~ Happy Fall

 

It's time for a new challenge at Just Us Girls... stencils, anyone?  I had a small arched panel already cut and stenciled with bricks, so I was determined to put it to use!

I stenciled (WF) more of those little bricks onto another panel then added more interest with this cute Concord & 9th stitched card front die. I popped that arch on then added the fall cuteness. A fun little raccoon (SBJ), sentiment, pumpkins and leaves (PPP) and a grassy border (IO) all played well together!

This is our guest designer, Nance Salkeld's final week guesting with us. We've loved having you, Nance. Thanks so much for joining us this past month!

Alrighty, it's your turn now. I can't wait to see what stencil you choose this week!

Hello 2nd Grade!

 

Hey there, it's photo week at Just Us Girls and I'm hosting!

Fall is just around the corner and that means it's back to school time. 

I'm celebrating our little second grader with a special card made just for her!

This card started with the polka dot apple (PTI). I used coordinating paper for the background then layered on all of the school cuteness. Concord and 9th crayons and hearts, PTI spiral notebook page, and old #2 Quickkutz die with Hero Arts letters added. I wrote 'grade' myself. 

This card was waiting for my Sweet P at our "Thursday morning breakfast at gramma's!" Her favorite was served ~ waffles, bacon and fruit!

I hope you'll play along with us this week. Don't need a back to school card? No problem. There are apples, stars, art supplies and lots of colors in the graphic to inspire you!

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I'm entering this one in the Tic Tac Toe Challenge using the first horizontal line of blue, crayon and letters. I also have the apple, red and back to school boxes checked!

Inspired By #186 ~ Back to School

 

 

Hey there! We're celebrating {Back to School} at Inspired By this week. You also have the option of {Cool Holiday: IB186C} and our sketch. So many fun options! I went with back to school. You see, I just HAD to have the Concord & 9th crayon dies months ago. This is their first outing (hangs head in shame!).

Another card for my Sweet P stash! She likes to do what she calls the three crayon challenge. Close your eyes, pick three crayons and then color the coloring book page she picked for us. It gets interesting! I did teach her that she can stretch those three colors by coloring lighter or darker. Now she's even experimenting with mixing the colors ~ that's my girl! 

This card was super simple. An ABC dry embossed background, my three crayons and a PTI tiny tag holding a DeNami Design sentiment. I think I'll package this one up with a new coloring book for the wee one. She loves to get mail from gramma and papa!

Okay, your turn! Thanks for visiting