Just For You

While hubby was working on some action softball photos of Sweet P's team, I had a little play time and put together a card for this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge. Take a look...

My idea was to use a postage theme with my die cuts and stamps. I made a postage stamp using a Spellbinders die and a pretty little hydrangea stamp. Old Precious Remembrance Shop stamps were added too. Then I realized the graphic was a rectangle ~ OOPS! Sooooo, I added a couple of little banners to elongate my square postage stamp. What do you think, did it work? Hopefully the ladies at FMS will see the sketch in my design!

Thanks for stopping by!

Just Us Girls #817 ~ Easter Blessings

 

Hey there, it's time for another Just Us Girls challenge. This is DIE WEEK and Sue has picked Easter/Spring for you. We also have a new guest designer for the month of April. Welcome to the super sweet Rosemary Dennis! 

Busy busy is my name lately, so I went with a CAS card today. I used two dies. Lets take a look...

I know I use this IO egg every year, but it's just too cute not too. I mean just look at those sweet blooms and that polka dot ribbon! My pretty little PPP tag die frames it perfectly. I popped it onto a gingham panel cut with a Spellbinders Hemstitch die. A simple sentiment and it was good to go!

I think I'll link this up over at Inkspirational. They're looking for CAS cards with the optional twist of E as in Easter, Egg and hey... how about Elton!!

Wishing you all a blessed Easter!

Christmas Wishes!

Hello friends! I hope those who celebrated enjoyed a lovely Thanksgiving. We had a nice cozy dinner with our son, daughter-in-law, Sweet P and my parents. Then the bad news... Joe came down with Covid the following day! So far everyone else is good, but our boy is feeling rough.  Taking it one day at a time and keeping everyone in our prayers. 

Since we stayed put this weekend, I do have a cute little card to share. This one fits in over at Time Out Challenges. I picked embossing and movie. I would say this represents two; The Santa Claus or Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

I used another of those cute Santas from Lasting Impressions along with some of their gray gingham paper cut with an old SB label die. I popped them onto a polka dot embossed panel and dressed it up with glittery gold holly leaves (PTI) adorned with rhinestones. I added a simple Memory Box Tab sentiment and it was good to go!

Stay healthy, my friends... tis the season.

Just Us Girls #795 ~ A Harvest of Blessings

Hello and welcome! It's time for a new challenge at Just Us Girls. It's also a new month and that brings with is a new Guest Designer. I'm very happy to have a dear blogging friend of mine joining us for the month of October. Please give a big warm welcome to the talented Greta Hess! 

When Bobby picked the word LEAVES for us, I knew just the leaves I would use. This Pinkfresh set became a favorite the first time I used it last year. Cutting them from polka dot paper makes them even better! I popped two sprays onto a layered pair of SB label dies. I've had those dies for an eternity. Isn't the embossed edge nifty? My sentiment (MFT) was heat embossed on vellum. A couple of glue dots was all it needed and they're hidden with gold confetti pieces from PPP. Easy peasy!

Your turn now. 

What kind of leaves will you let fall into our gallery?

Just Us Girls #794 ~ Thankful for You

It's stencil week at Just Us Girls and I'm hosting! Grab a stencil from your stash and come join us! Remember, if you are chosen as our Winner of the Week, you have a chance to guest design with us for the month of November.

I pulled out some retired Poppystamps dies to add to my stenciled panel. I like this Nordic squirrel all dolled up in her autumn finery and those pretty little fall leaves! After stenciling a kraft panel using white ink and a WF stencil, I die cut it with a Spellbinders hemstitch die. Everything was popped onto a white card base and finished off with a simple fall sentiment.

Thanks so much for visiting with me today.

I do hope you'll join us this week!

Sending Warm Wishes

I discovered I had one Christmas card from last year, photographed and in my drafts, that I had not shared. When I saw The Paper Players had a food challenge, I thought this big cookie fit right in!

The cute iced cookie is a Memory Box die. It was popped onto a polka dot panel cut with a Spellbinders die and finished off with a Memory Box tab sentiment. Easy peasy!

Off this goes to the gallery! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Love Grows in Happy Homes

Hey there, I have a pretty little card to enter over at The Paper Players! I've used Ann's color challenge to CASE one of my own cards made many years ago. The reason for the CASE was that I found the cutie PTI birdhouse already cut in one of the colors I needed! 

I stamped the (PTI) leaves to hang the birdhouse from, then topped them with the leftover heart cut-outs. The sentiment and birdhouses are from the PTI Love Lives Here set. An old set that never gets old! After cutting the panel with a Spellbinders hemstitch die, I popped it onto a white card base then added the pearls.

And off she goes to the gallery and I'm off for a regular eye check up.

Dilation... no fun!!

Just Us Girls #767 ~ Happy Spring!

Hello and happy spring! I'm hosting our Mood Board challenge at Just Us Girls this week and picked this cheerful spring board for you to work with.

I've had a few of these little Paper Sweeties lamb die cuts in my stash for quite some time. I love to fill them with Stickles for a fluffy look! I popped this little lady onto a Spellbinders label with a little vine stamped along the bottom. I pulled that from the heart on the bottom right of the Mood Board. A few Poppystamp blooms were die cut along with a trio of teeny Poppy butterflies. The debossed base was sent to me by my sweet friend, Greta. You'll notice the little lamb on the Mood Board has gray behind it!

There you go, friends my happy spring wish to all of you! I hope you'll dig into your stash of spring goodies and join us this week. Lets pop over to the blog to see what our guest designer, Jeanne and my teammates have to share!

Just Us Girls #758 ~ Thank You

 

Bobby has chosen a pretty winter Mood Board for us this week at Just Us Girls with lots of pretty images and colors to inspire you. I picked out a couple of the colors and images for my card. Take a look...

I stamped the PF Winterberry background on a white panel, colored it with Copics, then cut it down using an old SB label die. After die cutting a couple of PPP tags, the MFT pine was stamped on and the little die cut pinecones added. I punched a tiny hole in each tag and threaded a bit of twine through. I glued just the knot to the card. I thought rounding the corners echoed the round edges of the two labels. 

I asked the hubs what he thought of it. He said, meh... nothing spectacular. At least he's honest! 

Happy Birthday

Hey there bloggy peeps! My sweet friend Michele, sent me a few hot foil goodies along with my birthday card this year. Since Seize the Birthday has a 'Use Something New" challenge, I thought I would heat up my Glimmer machine and play along!

I've used this pretty Spellbinders frame and sentiment with black foil. It worked beautifully with some Lasting Impressions paper from my stash. I topped it off with a sweet butterfly (TSM) and a few rhinestones. Easy peasy!

Thanks so much for visiting with me today!

Peace

Ready for another blast from the past? How about this angel from PTI's Love Lives Here: holiday set! I'll be sending her over to the gallery at The Paper Players.

When I saw Stef's sketch, a few ideas popped into my head. Then I remembered the greenery in this set and thought it would be a great substitute for the diagonal portion of her sketch! What do you think?

I pulled out an old Spellbinders label for the rectangle ~ cut from MB paper. Another oldie but a goodie, PTI's Tiny Tags, provided a place for the wee sentiment (Morning Star Stamps). More MB paper in the background just to tie the colors together.

Simple and sweet. Hope you like it!

Thanks

Happy Friday! It's a beautiful sunny day here in Ohio. The hubs spent the morning at Sweet P's school for a Veteran's Day assembly. It's a small gym, so it was veterans only. That's okay, they need those special times together too! Our girl was chosen as one of the students to read a poem to the veterans. She was very excited to surprise her papa! My morning was spent putting this card together for The Flower Challenge. 

This SB Cosmos panel was already foiled so I grabbed the stencils and got to work! I used warm autumn colors then framed it with this pretty PTI Border Bling die. My favorite Altenew thanks fit perfectly. Easy peasy and I love the way it turned out!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Just Us Girls #751 ~ Happy Birthday to You

 

October 31st... where does the time go??!! Your guess is as good as mine. But I do know one thing for sure, it's time for a new Just Us Girls challenge. It's CASE the DT week and Ina is our hostess. Pop over to the blog, pick out who's card you like and CASE it. That's easy enough! Here's my bit of inspiration for you.

I started with a set of flower dies from The Stamp Market. One of those, bought them and they sat on my desk for two months, items... good grief! Then I cut a pretty little Poppystamps bird and added all of those goodies to some postage die cuts. Everything went onto a white embossed panel and card base. A foiled sentiment by Memory Box and a little confetti wrapped things up. 

Alrighty, it's your turn! I look forward to seeing your card in our gallery this week. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Just Us Girls #742 ~ Life is Beautiful

 

 

This is a fun week for us at Just Us Girls. The team is free to design anything we like and your challenge is to CASE one of us. That's easy enough! 

I haven' used my PTI Meadow Greens set in a long time. It's always a good fit for a late summer card. I just love the delicate Queen Anne's Lace and pretty leaves it includes. The flowers (they're too pretty to be called a weed!) were stamped with Versa Mark and heat embossed in white. Next came the leaves and then I cut the panel with my favorite Mama Elephant cover die. The sentiment, also from the set, was cut with an old Spellbinders label die. A trio of sweet Nordic Butterflies by Poppystamps were cut from vellum and bedazzled with a tiny gem. 

Okay, sweet peeps, now it's your turn. Head over tho the Just Us Girls blog and pick out a card to CASE!

Cute Critters for STB#289 & FMS #648

Good Friday evening all. After a morning of shoveling stone into our landscaping, we took the rest of the day off! Well, I did make dinner (salmon and fresh corn on the cob) and we went for a walk. But I did have a bit of relaxing crafty time. I put together this little number for both the Seize the Birthday and Freshly Made Sketches challenges.

These cutie little bears by Mama Elephant always make me smile. I think they fit the cute critters bill that JoAnn has challenged us to at STB. They were stamped then cut with an old Spellbinders postage die. The tiny tag and bow are by PPP and my large postage borders were cut from a PTI frame. I love red and aqua together, how about you?

Thanks so much for stopping by. 

I hope you have a blessed weekend!

Just Us Girls #737 ~ Have a Good Day

 

 Hello friends! It's stencil week at Just Us Girls.

I was in a tropical mood... might want to grab your sunglasses!

She's bright, but I kind of like her! I used a fun tropical stencil by Waffle Flower, cutting the panel down with a PPP banner die. I played around with colors and decided this bright fresh green worked best. It's cut with a Spellbinders hemstitch die. After popping the banner onto the card, I tucked in some coral flowers from Poppystamps, a sweet PPP hummingbird and a sentiment from TSM. What is that, five different companies and they all play well together!

Our stencil challenges are proving to be popular and the team is loving it! Grab one or two from your stash and join us!

Celebrating You

Hello and Happy Valentine's Day to you! I'm sharing a quick post today with my card for The Paper Players challenge. LeAnne picked a lovely color palette that I couldn't pass up! Take a look...

After a long wait of it being out of stock everywhere, I finally got my hands on the pretty Cosmos Backdrop plate and stencils by Spellbinders! My sweet friend Nancy (aka the enabler!!) let me know this could be hot foiled and that's just what I've done here. Once I foiled it with Pewter foil, I was good to go with the stenciling. The light and dark pinks look so pretty on the petals. Two shades of gray were used on the leaves and the darker gray on the sentiment. A sprinkling of sequins and she was good to go! I love the way this turned out!

Thanks for visiting with me today, I appreciate it and you! And thanks to you Darnell for the reminder about your NBUS blog!

A Little Something For You

Snowed in? We have snow, but there was plenty of sunshine to go with it today! It was a good day to get a some crafting in. I put this little number together for the Color Hues challenge where they're looking for copper and green.

I started with a cute little PPP tag cut from copper paper. A pre-foiled sentiment went on next along with a partial circle cut from copper and white paper. All of these items were in a paper pad gifted to me long ago. Next came all of the fun little sprigs and flowers. I guess they're flowers, who knows! Everything came along with my Switch machine with the exception of the pierced leaves. They're by Simply Graphic. The pretty embossed background was a gift from sweet Michele (thanks again xo)!

Off this goes to the gallery. 

Thanks for taking the time for a visit!

Hope You're Feeling Better Soon

I took some time today to put together this card for the Color Hues challenge. I had an idea several days ago and finally got to make it happen!

I started with a trio of cute SSS sunflowers that were doubled up. They went onto an old Spellbinders Labels die cut that was embossed with a cute vine folder. The PPP sentiment went onto a smaller version of the label. Pretty vellum die cut leaves from The Stamp Market for the finishing touch!

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

Just Us Girls #702 ~ Happy Thanksgiving

 

Hello and welcome! Here we are at another Saturday and that means a new challenge at Just Us Girls. Ina has chosen a lovely autumn photo/mood board for your inspiration this week.

As you can see, I was inspired by the leaves and the colors! I stamped layers of leaves (PRS) on a white panel then die cut it with a Spellbinders Hemstitch die. Yes, I finally got my hands on this die set! I found the perfect butterscotchy plaid paper in my stash to add another layer of prettiness. My sentiment is by SSS. I like the way this one turned out!

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I hope I've inspired you to join us this week. 

Leaves, colors or both... it's up to you!