Just Us Girls #242 - Photo Inspiration Challenge

Hi friends!  There's a new Photo Inspiration challenge over on the Just Us Girls blog.  Vicki chose the photo this time and I just love it!

Here's a closer look at the photo.  So much inspiration!

 

This is what I came up with.  I of course could not ignore the black and white stripes.  I like how the stripes were offset, so I set out to recreate that.  I found this piece of paper with black and white diagonal stripes.  I cut a two inch strip then cut it in half and laid it down on another two inch strip of thin white cardstock.  I offset the stripes before adhering it to the cardstock.  Then I saw a card on the Case Study challenge blog that used PTI's button dies.  I had been wanting to use them, so I pulled them out and cut several from pink, green, blue, and yellow cardstock. (I took these colors from the flowers and two vases in the photo.)   I was worried that the colors might look too baby-ish, but I think the black made it more sophisticated.  I layered some buttons and put the bigger ones up on dimensionals.  I added some Wink of Stella shimmer on some of the buttons and then filled in the bare spots with enamel dots.  I kept the sentiment simple.



You can see the card I took my inspiration from here on the Case Study Challenge blog.



Stop by the JUGs DT blogs to see what amazing cards they created!
 

JUGs blog

Cheryl Rowley

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Nancy Leppek

Sharyn Polesel

Sue Trembeth

Sue VanDeVusse

Vicki Dutcher

 Barbara Campbell, guest designer

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Strictly Sentiments (WPlus9)

Paper:  Neenah white, pink pirouette, pear pizzazz, barely banana, soft sky

Ink:  Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Button Stacks, Button Stacks II, Bitty Button Stacks dies (PTI), Wink of Stella shimmer, enamel dots, dimensionals





Just Us Girls #208 - Photo Inspiration Challenge

Hi all!  We have a photo inspiration challenge this week over at Just Us Girls.  Elise is our hostess and she chose these four fabulous pictures.  Elise is definitely a cowgirl, can you tell?

I picked out the pumpkins in the bottom two pictures and went in search of some pumpkin stamps in my stash of fall stamps.  I found this one from Our Daily Bread which has a die to match.  I stamped it in Jet Black Archival ink onto watercolor paper then die cut it.  I've had distress markers for quite a while, but haven't used them yet.  What was I waiting for?  They are so fun to use with water on watercolor paper!   I still have some practicing to do, but I like the outcome.  My leaves look a little muddy.  I added some orange to the green and I should have added more green to brighten them up.  I also added some Wink of Stella shimmer to the pumpkin.

I'm entering this into the Case Study challenge.  I used the sketch as my inspiration.



 

I'm also entering this into the Cas-ual Fridays challenge to use fall colors and a leaf.

You can see more inspiration from the JUGs team at these blogs.

 

JUGs blog

Elise Durenberger

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Nancy Leppek

Tangii Crain

Vicki Dutcher

 

We are also bidding a fond farewell to two of our JUGs design team members:  Elise and Tangii.  Elise is moving on to bigger and better things and needs time to do just that.  We will miss her bubbly personality and comments.  Tangii is also moving on and will be sorely missed by all, especially me!  We have been on three design teams together for quite some time and have become friends.  Best wishes to Tangii and Elise!  You were both such an asset to this team!

 

Check out the JUGs blog on Tuesday, October 1st to see who the new members to our DT will be!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Pumpkin (Our Daily Bread), Mega Mixed Messages and Sew Simple Borders (Papertrey Ink)

Paper:  Vintage cream, Sugar Hill paper pack (Farm House Paper)

Ink:  Archival jet black, memento rich cocoa, distress markers

Accessories:  Pumpkin die (ODB), prima crystals, Wink of Stella pen, dimensionals





Baby Christening

I had a Christening to go to today and needed a card.  I used the Case Study challenge as my starting point.

 

I liked the shape card idea, so I went with it but turned it upright.  I used the Spellbinder's die to cut the base of the card out of marina mist cardstock. The flourishes were embossed with white embossing powder on the blue cardstock, and the cross was embossed with silver powder.  I added strips of brush silver cardstock on either side of the shimmer white paper.  There are silver pearls added to the cross, and I made a double tailored bow from satin white ribbon.  It's for a boy so I didn't want to get too girly with the ribbon.  I also decorated an envelope with the flourishes and cross (which you can't see) in a gray ink.

Here's the inside.  (Please excuse my poor pictures!  I don't know what happened!)

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great week!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Everyday Blessings, Fancy Flourishes, Delightful Dahlias (Papertrey Ink)

Paper:  Marina mist, shimmer white (PTI)

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, Versamark

Accessories:  Spellbinders labels 8 dies, silver pearls, satin ribbon, white and silver embossing powders, glue dots 

Just Us Girls #203 - Photo Inspiration Challenge



We have another great challenge from Just Us Girls this week.  It's inspiration photo week and Tangii chose this great back to school "cake" as inspiration. 

Here's a closer look at the inspiration photo.  Isn't that cool?  What a way to start the school year!

 

 Here's what I created.  I obviously took some of the colors and banner from the inspiration.  And the technique came from Jennifer McGuire.  I tell ya, that girl has become my idol!  She is so talented and I love her videos.  Here's the video I watched to make this.  She calls the technique Die Cut Inlay.  By doing this, you can make two cards.  I chose to make a card and a tag.

I started with black, red, yellow, and orchid cardstock cut into 1/4" strips.  I used a glue stick to cover a piece of typing paper and then laid the strips down diagonally.  Then I die cut the word and put it aside.  I then cut the word again from the tag and inlaid that die into the one with the strips of color.  This way it looks inlaid.  I then die cut the triangles and stamped the letters on them.  I "hung" the banner using black twine.  Lastly, I added sequins and some shine on the word with a Wink of Stella clear brush.

Here's the inside.  I cut down my original piece so I had these little strips to add to the inside.

With the piece cut out of my focal image, I inlaid it into the tag that I cut the other word from.  I stamped the word "happy", added sequins and some ribbon.  Doesn't that look cool?  Love it!

 

 I'm also entering this into this week's Case Study challenge where Jennifer McGuire is the muse this month.

 

 Stop by the following blogs to see more inspiration using this great photo!

 

JUGs blog

Elise Durenberger

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Nancy Leppek

Tangii Crain

Vicki Dutcher

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Stylish Sentiments: Birthday and Fresh Alphabet (Papertrey Ink)

Ink:  Versafine onyx black

Paper:  Neenah white, black, real red, orchid opulence, daffodil delight (SU)

Accessories:  Birthday Trio and Banner Builder dies (PTI), black twine, satin ribbon, sequins, Wink of Stella clear brush, dimensionals

Case Study Challenge #153

Hi everyone!  I got a chance to do some simple stamping this evening and got a card in before the deadline on the Case Study Challenge.  Jennifer McGuire is the August Muse and I just love her style so I had to play along.

 

 I decided to start making some little thank you notes for Christmas.  My students give me gifts all the time and I like to have these thank you notes ready.  I made three of these 4x4 notecards.  I started by lightly drawing a circle using a roll of ribbon.  Then I just started inking up Christmas ornaments and boughs.  I have the sets I used listed below.  You can't see in the picture, but I added Star Dust Stickles on the boughs and stars.  Love the little bit of sparkle!

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Bells and Boughs, Take a Bough, Iconic Images (Papertrey Ink)

Paper:  Neenah white

Ink:  Memento Luxe pear tart, Hero Arts bubblegum, cornflower, and pale tomato, Versafine black onyx

Accessories:  Star dust stickles