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 the JUGs 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!

Poppystamps

Hello lovelies! I have a card up on the Poppystamps blog today. Pop over to see what was added to this crisp white panel!

Just Us Girls #799 ~ Merry Christmas

Hello, friends! It's time for a new challenge at Just Us Girls. This is an easy one, CASE any member of the design team! Pop over to the blog, check out the cards and then have fun. Speaking of fun, check out this cool dude on my card!

Isn't he a cutie! He's from Lasting Impressions. I fussy cut him and popped him onto the WF snowflake background. I used a retired Poppystamps Scalloped Frame and a few PPP snowflakes. A simple sentiment by MB and a few rhinestones finished things off. 

How about a bonus card today?

The sheet from Lasting Impressions has more than one bear on it. I used the smaller pair on this version and just switched up the background and frame (RC). More PPP snowflakes and another MB sentiment worked here too!

We do hope you'll play along this week at Just Us Girls.

If you're chosen as our winner, you have a chance to guest design with us!

FMS ~ Sending a Hug

We've a had a quite weekend. Catching up on a few things at home, Saturday evening Mass, a couple of long walks and just being together! While the hubs worked on some photos this evening, I put together this card for Freshly Made Sketches.

As you can see, I flipped the sketch, hope Jen doesn't mind! I also went with an A2 card instead of a square one. Call me a rebel! I used some patterned paper by Lasting Impressions for my banner and topped it with a retired fox from Poppystamps. A few pierced sprigs by Simply Graphic and tiny Poppystamps blooms gave her a place to sit. Just a sweet way to send a paper hug!

Off this goes to the gallery.
Thanks for taking a peek!

Just Us Girls #798 ~ Happy Holidays

It's stencil week at Just Us Girls and we hope you'll join us! Thanks so much to our guest designer, Greta Hess for spending the month of October with us! I have a bright and cheerful holiday card to share with you. This went together in a snap. 

Take a look...

I used the pretty Waffle Flower Folk Art Frame stencil and die set. After die cutting the frame, I added it to a Bazzill Flamingo card base. Isn't that little bit of texture wonderful? The sentiment, by PPP was stamped then die cut with the little swag and rhinestones added. 

Alrighty, it's your turn now. 

What stencil will you pick out to share with us?