Just Us Girls #803

It's our final challenge of the year at Just Us Girls! The team will be taking the month of December off. New challenges will begin again on Thursday January 1st. I would like to send out a big thank you to Leslie Miller for being our guest designer this past month. It's been a real treat having you with us, Leslie! 

 Okay, it's stencil week... anything goes, have fun!

My card base was stenciled with pink snowflakes... wouldn't that be a delightful sight! Next came a strip of MB plaid paper topped with some vellum scallops and a little strip of silver metallic paper. I topped it off with an arched sentiment from The Greetery. Before adhering the Merry Christmas portion of the sentiment, I stenciled on a couple more snowflakes using the same ink, just going a tad darker this time.

It's your turn now, my friends. You don't have to make a Christmas card, unless you need more like I do! Just pick a stencil and come play along!

Just Us Girls #754 ~ Greetings

Carol has a delightful Mood Board for us this week at Just Us Girls. Isn't this oodles of fun? There are so many delightful things to choose from! My eyes went straight to those cutie little gingerbread house ornaments on the bottom left and then to the mug on the top with all of that whipped cream ~ YUM!

 

I bought the sweetest paper pad by Mintay Papers after the holidays last year. When thumbing through it recently, I found the perfect piece for Carol's challenge! This card was so quick and easy. A PPP die cut border, a snowy embossing folder and a last year leftover sentiment by The Greetery all came together for this festive little number!

 

We do hope you'll join us this week. The team and our guest designer, Jenn Borgeson have put together some wonderful inspiration for you. Be sure to stop by the blog for a look!

Just Us Girls #740 ~ Happy Birthday to You

 

It's my turn to host over at Just Us Girls. As you can see it's Mood Board week. I thought these bees and all of their busy work was a good choice for some August inspiration. Here's what I did with it...

It all started with this PTI tag. It was a good landing spot for the bees and honeycomb from The Greetery. Those bees needed something to pollinate, so I gave them a trio of blooms by Poppystamps. Their fairy jewel centers have that amber honey look, don't you think? Once I finished the tag, it needed somewhere to go! I pulled some floral paper from my stash and ran it through my machine with a honeycomb embossing folder. A cute sentiment tab (MB) and a little twine finished things up.

Our gallery is sure to be BEEutiful this week! 

I hope to spot your card there!

Just Us Girls #706 ~ Joyeux Noel

  

We have a festive Mood Board for this week at Just Us Girls.

Need a close up, here you go!

I was inspired by the cardinal, the colors red and teal.

My Poppystamps cardinal is nestled among berry filled branches from PTI. I added a few glitzy snowflakes as a nod to the shimmery ornaments in the photo. Funny thing how I put this card together. I glued all of those elements together THEN added them to the embossed panel! Don't ask me why, that's just the way I was rolling on that particular day!!

I can't wait to see how this pretty Mood Board inspires you. You are planning to play along, right? I sure hope so!

Tis the Season

 

There's a terrific new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches this week and I wanted to give it a go. It seemed like the perfect time to use the Waffle Flower poinsettia dies I bought at an afterseason sale. This is their debut and I have to say, they are pretty fabulous!

After a some ink blending, I added them to a pine embossed panel cut with a PPP border die. I layered a little pink under the bottm edge for more interest. A simple sentiment from The Greetery was all it needed.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I'll be back tomorrow with a new Just Us Girls challenge. Have a great weekend!

Joy to the World

 

Hey there!  I pulled up another of my ready to go Christmas cards to add to The Paper Players gallery today.  They're looking for CAS cards and I think this one fits right in!

I made a few cards similar to this one last year and loved them. I used strips of patterned paper adhered to a thin card base then die cut them with an ornament die. The beaded garland EF is no longer available, but isn't it beautiful! It's most definitely a favorite in my collection! I topped things off with sentiments from The Greetery and a a trio off confetti bits (PPP).

 

Wishing all of my US  friends a very blessed and happy Thanksgiving! Gobble till you wobble!

'Tis the Season

 

Hey there! Popping in today with one of my made ahead Christmas cards. I think this one works for the Tic Tac Toe challenge.

 

I used the center vertical line: red, sparkle, holly. The holly leaves are PPP and my sentiments, The Greetery.

Thanks for all of your well wishes and prayers, I appreciate them more than you know. Things are going pretty well. I'm usually a ball of energy, so sitting and chilling is tough! No movement of my thumb and wrist allowed at all. 

 

This is my accessory for a month, then a shorter one.

 

Speaking of short, that will be my commenting on those fabulous cards of yours for several weeks. Just know those few words mean so much more!

Merry Christmas

 

Hello and welcome! It's time for a new challenge at CAS Christmas! Barb is our hostess this month and she's looking for that jolly old elf, Santa!

Can you believe I have not one Santa in my collection? I did recently purchase this adorable Santa Shaker die from The Stamp Market so I was good to go! I embossed the card base and part of the hat with a pretty 3D EF from SSS. Lots of Stickles went onto the white portions of the hat ~ so sparkly! I pulled out my favorite Christmas sentiment set from The Greetery to finish off my card. 

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Wishing all of my US friends a Happy 4th of July weekend! If you squeeze in some stamping time, we sure hope you'll join us!

Inspired By #196C ~ Neighbor Tag

 

 

Hi friends! We have a new challenge for you today at Inspired By! I was inspired by the cute houses, their decorations and those peppermint stripes! Here's what I came up with.

I've used one of my first PTI set ~ Love Lives Here, a very old HA snowflake, equally old SB postage die and yes... my new sentiments from The Greetery! I'm determined to revisit my older stamp sets and vast supply of 6x6 paper pads. I think it's working and I'm enjoying it!

I hope I've inspired you to join us this week. Need a bit more of a nudge? Let's go see what the team has to share!

Joyeux Noel

 

Hi there! Popping in for a quick minute tonight with a card for this week's Just Us Girls challenge. It's trend week and they're looking for mini slimline cards. Here you go!

I pulled out my PTI Sprigs and Sprays again inking them up with Ocean Tides and Pure Poppy inks. Those sentiments from The Greetery have yet to be put away... somebody stop me!!  An embossed background, a sprinkling of PPP Sparkling Clear sequins and voila!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Joyful Holiday Greetings

 

I'm cranking out the Christmas cards!

 Today's card is for the Peace on Earth challenge. 

I still had The Greeting Cathedral Window die and PTI's Holiday Folk stamps and dies on my desk. I merged the two and came up with this! I used a hole punch to create my plaid ornaments. One would think those scored lines were added before gluing the window onto the white panel. NOPE!! I thought to myself "I'm fixin' to screw this up big time!" Phew... it worked!

I hope you're staying warm. We had snow flurries yesterday and there's still a little hanging around on the rooftops. A good day to stay in, make a big pot of beef stew and a few cards!

Inspired By #195 ~ White Christmas

 

"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas"... and then the snow can go away LOL! Although I could go for some snow like that in our Inspired By photo. You don't have to shovel or snow blow paper snow! 

You guessed it, I was inspired by those pretty white snowflakes! The pine trees also caught my eye.

 

 My hubby called this one a cold card... brrr!!  

This pretty snowflake panel was another 12 Kits leftover. I turned it into a shaker filled with frosty bits from PPP. My Taylored Expressions ship-lap stamp provided a soft background. Keeping the promise I made to myself to use older stamp sets this year, I added two trees from PTI's Holiday Folk set. I think I've overlooked this set for too long. You'll probably be seeing more of it in the coming weeks! And yes, I did slip in another of my favorite sentiments from The Greetery!

Okay friends, put on your mittens and get frosty with us!

Inspired By #194C ~ Welcome Friends

 

 

Hello and welcome, friends! 

Welcome to another Inspired By challenge!

I was inspired by our Christmas photo this week.

Those sage greens, rich browns, and pops of red!

I recently purchase the beautiful Cathedral Die from The Greetery and couldn't wait to use it! It's die cut from wood grained patterned paper (MFT). I opted not to do stained glass. Instead, I added a panel of vellum so the Christmas wreath (SSS) adorning it would be the focal point. I hope you don't grow tired of me using these Christmas sentiments and dies (also from The Greetery). But golly, I just love them to bits!

Thanks for spending some of your day with me. Lets go see what the team has to inspire us and then maybe you will be inspired to play along too!

'Tis the Season!

 

Hi friends! Did you have a good weekend? Ours was a lazy one. Just the hubs and I. Saturday Mass, take out followed with more laziness and some old movies on Sunday. Sometimes you just have to chill out and do nothing!  So today I got it in gear. Made a pumpkin pie, chicken pot pies and then a card! This one is for the Tic Tac Toe Challenge. 

I went right down the middle with a sparkly red ornament, embossed and die cut holly. My ornament is Top Dog Dies, remember them? I'm loving this sentiment set from The Greetery. The script font is so pretty! Then of course I had to bring out my favorite PTI Holly Jolly dies. Quick and easy, hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Be Merry!

 

I've had the CAS Christmas red and gray challenge on my mind and finally got a card made.  Take a look..

I adore this sweet Purple Onion Design bunny to bits! He's popped up on a panel stamped with some old Hero Arts snowflakes and The Greetery sentiments. I did a bit of partial stenciling (WF) in the background. I love what the pops of bright red add to this. Hope you do too!

Thanks for taking a peek!