Just Us Girls #614 - Trend Week

Hello everyone!  The Just Us Girls challenge this week is hosted by Vicki and is our Trend Week challenge.  She chose to make inked or sprayed backgrounds.  I made a few (!) cards this week!

I used a technique that Jennifer McGuire demonstrated a little while ago with alcohol inks.  Basically, I put blending solution then various inks on one panel and placed another panel on top for a few seconds.  I then pulled them apart.  You get some cool designs on both panels

For this one and the next, I used raspberry, blue and violet pearl inks.  I just love the way these panels came out!  It is so much prettier in person.  I could not capture how lovely is it.  To create this card, I cut the panel down to fit behind this floral frame die.  I impressed the front of the card base with a linen impression plate (I can't leave a panel pure white!), stamped the sentiment, and added crystals.

This is the second panel.  I also cut it down and added silver cardstock strips and sentiment as well as silver crystals.  I CASED one of Jennifer's cards here.

This one looks weired and distorted, but it's really pretty!  I used yellow, coral and pink inks along with a silver mixative.  I die cut the panel with PTI's Tipped Top die and used a larger die to cut the silver mat.  I die cut the sentiment twice from white cardstock and once from silver and stacked them together.  The sub sentiment is a SSS sentence strip.  I love the silver shimmer in this panel.

This is the other panel, die cut with a stitched rectangle.  The sentiment was die cut twice from white and once from silver and stacked.  I added silver crystals.

For the panels on the next two cards, it's not as dramatic looking.  I used the same yellow, coral and pink alcohol inks, but didn't add the silver mixative.  But I still love the effects.  I cut the panel to fit behind this smaller cover plate.  The sentiment was created with black ink embossed with with clear embossing powder.  I added the sentence strip below it and some white pearls.

I added a full cover panel on this one with an embossed sentiment and sentence strip as well.

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our January guests on the JUGs blog.

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe Card #1

Stamps:  Moments of Grace (SSS)

Inks:  alcohol pearl inks

Accessories:  Floral Stem Collage die (SSS), linen impression plate (PTI), crystals

Recipe Card #2

Inks:  alcohol pearl inks

Accessories:  Hello die (the Stamp Market), stitched rectangle (MFT), silver cardstock, crystals

Recipe Card #3

Inks:  alcohol pearl inks

Accessories:  Happy Birthday die (Creek Bank Creations), Tipped Tops dies (PTI), linen impression plate (PTI), sentence strip (SSS), silver cardstock, crystals

Recipe Card #4

Inks:  alcohol pearl inks

Accessories:  Birthday Wishes Circle die (SSS), stitched rectangle (MFT), silver cardstock, crystals

Recipe Card #5

Stamps:  Perfect Sentiments (PFS)

Ink:  alcohol pearl inks, Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Creative Curves die (Penny Black), linen impression plate (PTI), clear embossing powder, pearls

Recipe Card #6

Stamps:  Perfect Sentiments (PFS)

Ink:  alcohol pearl inks, Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Lava Lamp die (C. Pooler), sentiment strips (SSS), clear embossing powder, pearls

PMS Monday Challenge and Sneak Peek Day 1

Today is a double whammy...it's our usual Monday Challenge at Paper Makeup Stamps and it's day one of our August sneak peeks. Today's challenge is a technique challenge and was chosen by yours truly. The technique is to make your own decorative paper. I made my own paper using a technique I've been wanting to try for a while....alcohol inks. Here's my card.

First of all, do you love the image? I was hoping PMS would have a fairy with a dog because I love dogs! I had to have this one to sneak for you! Her name is MeMe Fairy and she'll be available on the 7th.

Now the technique. I followed the tutorial on SCS for Alcohol Inks and let me tell you it was EASY! I used a piece of photo paper (because it's glossy) and butterscotch, lettuce, raisin, eggplant, and latte alcohol inks and silver mixative. It literally took me 5 minutes to do.

I wanted to show as much of the background as possible, so all I added were some ribbon, a paw print brad, and the word "soulmates" from the Soulmates free digi from PMS this week. You can find it here. I thought it was perfect for this fairy and her dog.

Stop by the PMS blog and see what the others have for you. If you play, post a direct link to your creation on Mr. Linky on the PMS blog. if you post to an online gallery, use the keyword PMSMC22. Thanks for stopping in today!

Recipe
Stamps: MeMe Fairy, Soulmates digi sentiment (PMS)
Paper: Neenah white, pure poppy and summer sunrise (PTI), glossy paper
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, alcohol inks (butterscotch, lettuce, raisin, eggplant, latte), silver mixative
Copic Markers: E00, 02, 15, 99; R14, 24, 27, 32; YR23, 24, 31; Y21; W-3
Accessories: ribbon, star dust stickles, paw print brad, nesties, MS flourish punch, dimensionals