Just Us Girls #826 ~ Wishing you...

 

Hi there! We're happy to have a new guest designer joining us for the month of June at Just Us Girls. Welcome Kellianne! Carol is looking for BUTTERFLY DIES this week. I had several to choose from but finally decided on this little cutie from The Stamp Market.

After pulling some patterned paper from my stash, I cut two strips with a PPP border die. They went onto the horizontal card base followed by a sentiment from The Rubber Cottage. The sweet polka dot butterfly was adhered next and I gave her a little pearl head. Cute, huh!

Okay, what butterfly will you pick out to use? 

When you decide, be sure it flutters into our gallery!

CAS Christmas begins again!

In case you haven't heard, my sweet friend, the fabulous Loll Thompson, has decided to start her CAS Christmas challenge up again! She also invited me back to the design team ~ YAY! The challenge launches today with Loll being our hostess with the mostess. First up: BIRD.

My card began with a pretty dove die cut.

The dove die cut (Memory Box, I think!) was sent to me by a friend. I added some Copic coloring to the bird, along with a bead for the eye, and nestled her into my stamped PTI Rustic Wreath. The sentiment, also from the wreath set, was stamped in PTI Autumn Rose ink. I added several more little dots to the wreath using this ink as well. A few Simply Graphic pine branches helped to ground the bird along with some punched dots. Simple and pretty. The hubs loved it!

Okay friend, it's your turn now. It's never too early to start working on that Christmas card stash and this challenge is a great way to get you motivated. Pop over to the blog for more inspiration from the team along with all of the challenge details. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Just Us Girls #825 ~ Hi

It's STENCIL WEEK at Just Us Girls and our new DT member Denise is hosting for us!

I used the Simply Petals stencil from The Stamp Market along with the coordinating Simply Modern Petals dies for my card today. Salmon (TSM) was my ink choice for the stenciling with PTI's Smokey Shadow for the stamping. The polka dot paper for my die cuts was not a true black, so the smokey dark gray worked well here. Kind of funky fun isn't it!

Your turn now, my friends. 

Pick out a stencil and get busy! 

Poppystamps

Hey there sweet peeps! I have a fun summer card on the Poppystamps blog today featuring products from the latest Nordic Garden release. Here's a peek at one of the blooms from the delightful Nordic Scattered Flowers set and the sweet Fine Eyelet Frame. Pop over to the blog to see what I did with these goodies!

                              

Just Us Girls #824 ~ Happy Birthday

 

Check out this fun vibrant Mood Board Carol Mc has for us at Just Us Girls this week! See that sailboat, the arch shapes and the orange stripes? Well, I turned them into this...

The little boat if from a MFT set, the scalloped arch is SSS and the sentiment an oldie by DeNami Design. Simple and cute. Just what I needed after taking a fall onto the concrete patio. Missed the last step and down I went. Sprained my ankle and wrist, hit my head, bruised my shoulder, scraped my knuckles... OY! Things are healing. Colorful, but healing!

I look forward to seeing your cards in our gallery. 

It's sure to be a bright and happy one this week!