Just Us Girls #46 - Wild Wild West!

Hi JUGs fans! Today we have a very special challenge for you. It's technique week, so we've chosen a "theme" instead of a technique. We are challenging you to make a card/project with the Wild Wild West theme. Why, you ask? Well our fellow DT member, Alicia Weiman, is hosting a rodeo in the memory of her son, Ethan, who passed away last year from neuroblastoma cancer, and her family is doing this rodeo as a fundraiser for research for a cure. Ethan was a little cowboy, hence the rodeo. Here is a link to Ethan's Rodeo for more information. (I found that you can donate tickets if you can't attend the rodeo...they only cost $10 and for each ticket you purchase, one will be donated to a child with cancer or an accompanying adult. I just bought two!)

I used a digi image that was created as a charity stamp in Ethan's honor for my card. I just love this image, and I made it a birthday card for my nephew, also Ethan, who will be 6 years old this month. I used the SU western paper (retired and I don't remember the name right now) as my starting point along with the current Mojo Monday sketch. He's colored with the new technique I learned last week at a class at my LSS, Buffalo Stamps & Stuff. I colored him with copics, then went over it a bit with prisma pencils and gamasol. It adds a richness and smooths out the lines from the copics. (It works great on reds...I have such trouble blending the reds!) The sentiment is from Paper Makeup Stamps set called Birthday Cheer. Here is what the inside looks like.

I think the sentiment is from Wordsworth. I've had it for years and it sort of fit with the theme.

Here are links to the digi stamps that were created by Pink Cat Studios: Cowboy Billy, Cowboy Lilly, and Sweet Pea Cowpoke.

JUGs is welcoming the fabulous Theresa Momber as a special guest designer this week. She has generously donated one of her sets from Gina K Designs called Out West to one lucky winner, too! Thanks Theresa!

Wow! Lots of information here...but all good stuff! Check out the JUGs blog for more information and inspiration from the JUGS DT, Guest Designer Jo Westfoot, and Special Guest Theresa Momber! Yeehaw! (I had to do that!)

Also, I want to wish one of our fabulous DT coordinators, Pam Imholz, a very Happy Birthday on Monday! She does so much to make our challenges run smoothly and is a great person! So I made this card for last week's JUGs sketch challenge just for her (and kept it a secret, but forgot to send it...whoops! It'll be in the mail today!) Happy Birthday Pam! Enjoy your day!

You can see the details of this Paper Makeup Stamps card here. Thanks for stopping by!

I Get by with a Little Help from My Friends....

I just love that Beatles song! It's perfect for this post too!

One of our Paper Makeup Stamps DT members is going through a rough time right now, and Katie Cotton, owner of PMS, has gone charitable once again. She is offering a new digital image and two new sentiments the proceeds of which will go to our DT member, Gabby Arriaza. Gabby is a sweet, rocking girl (just check out her blog and you'll see what I mean!), so Katie had a Moody Girl created for her called Moody for Rock.I love the Moody Girls! This one is no different! I don't think I did her justice, as I had to do this really quickly last night. I tried to find a rockin' dp, and went with these from Dressed Up by DCWV. I pulled the colors from the dp to color the image. You can't tell from the photo, but the entire guitar is covered in Crystal Effects.

You can read more about this image on the PMS blog. The image can be found at Paper Makeup Stamps for $3.00. I hope you can help out our friend! (Sorry for the short post....it's late!)

Thanks for stopping in today. Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Charity Stamp for Baylee

Paper Makeup Stamps (Katie Cotton, owner) has always had a soft spot for children and families in need. There have been several charity stamps created for these families by PMS during its one year existence. Today, we have another. I don't have a card created for this image yet, but I can share the image with you.I'm going to use Katie's words to share a story with you about a sweet young girl, Baylee, for whom this image was created:

"Recently, Paper Makeup Stamps was contacted by 2 friends (Carole Chesser and Ashley Newell) about a sweet girl named Baylee Tadlock. At the age of 9 months, Baylee was diagnosed with Leigh's Syndrome. Leigh's Syndrome is a metabolic-mitochondrial disease. The family was told to expect Baylee's life to be only of about 2 years. That she would never walk, talk, sit up or even crawl. But Baylee was a fighter and a lover of life! She loved to ride horses! She loved Disney and Princess Ariel. Baylee recently went to be with our Lord on January 9th at the age of 13. You can read all about Baylee, her too short life, and her family's amazing faith at www.adreamforbaylee.com

One of our illustrators, Diem Pascarella drew this wonderful image. All proceeds from the sale will go directly to the Tadlock family. They have set up a scholarship fund in Baylee's name with http://projectride.org. Project Ride is a program giving therapeutic recreational horseback riding instruction to children and adults with special needs. PMS is designating the funds for the Tadlocks to use as they need."

So please go to the PMS website to purchase this image. You can go the PMS blog to see the wonderful cards created by some of the DT with this image. Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Just Us Girls Charity Challenge

I have another post today, so please scroll down!

Our Just Us Girls team has paired up with Paper Makeup Stamps to do a charity challenge for the Anderson family. Fellow stamper, Sarah Anderson, lost her son suddenly last week, and Katie Cotton has named one of the Beautiful Day Fairies after her son Henry. The image is available in rubber as well as in digital format. The proceeds from the digital image are going to the Anderson family. So the challenge is to purchase the digital image from Paper Makeup Stamps (you can find it right under the Categories section on top), make a card, and post it on the JUGs blog. There is a $15 shopping spree at Paper Makeup Stamps for a randomly chosen winner. Go to the JUGs blog for more information and for some inspiration from the team and Katie Cotton.

Here's the card I made with the image.Cute image, isn't it? I remember making these in the snow as a child. We'd love for you to play our challenge, as it's for a great cause! We'd really like to add to the proceeds that PMS is raising for this grieving family. I can't even imagine their pain.

Thanks for stopping in today.

My Time Color Challenge

So it's Saturday and that means another My Time to Create Challenge. Today is a color challenge and these are the colors Lauren gave us for this challenge.
She gave us another challenge to go along with this...to use the Weiman Wranglers digi stamp set created by Pink Cat Studio. It's a charity stamp set called the Weiman Wranglers with all proceeds going to the Make-a-Wish foundation in memory of Ethan Weiman. (Over $1,400 has been raised so far!) Ethan left behind a sister, Ava, who was his best friend. These images represent Ethan and Ava. You can read this post for more information. Here's my card for this challenge. Tracy Cuccia showed us how to place these two images side-by-side and create an upside down heart with the ends of the balloon strings. Cool, huh? I just love this sentiment from SU's Always...perfect for this card! I used SU's retired Outlaw dp and some jute ribbon. I ran some twine through the holes on the buttons, in keeping with the rustic theme.

Stop by the My Time DT blogs to see what they did with this set. Alicia (My Time DT member and Ethan's mom) even tried her hand at this set to make a memory book.

Alicia

Dana
Dawn
Jennifer
Kendra
Kristin
Lauren
MacKenzie
Maria
Odette
Pam
Tamara
Tracey

If you play our challenge, please upload your direct post to Mr. Linky on Lauren's blog. If you post to SCS/PCP, please use the code MTCC03. Thanks for stopping by and have a great Saturday!

Recipe

Stamps: Weiman Wranglers (Pink Cat Studio), Always (SU)

Paper: PTI white, really rust, old olive, Outlaw dp

Ink: memento tuxedo black, really rust

Copic Markers: E00, 02, 27, 29, 37, 53, 97, 99; Y02, 17, 28, 38; YG03, 95; W-3, 5, 7

Accessories: Nestie, jute ribbon, buttons, twine, modern label punch (new SU), stickles, dimensionals

The Weiman Wranglers

Hello all! This is going to be a bittersweet post, but I want to tell you that I have another post today for the PMS Monday Challenge, so please scroll down to see that post!

My post last Monday (here) contained some sad news about a little boy, Ethan Weiman, who went to live with the angels on June 12. He had neuroblastoma cancer and suffered with it for the past two years (he was almost 5 years old at his passing). His mom, Alicia, is on our My Time DT and we were so saddened my this news. Lauren Meader was especially touched by this because she has a daughter who also had cancer, but survived it and is now 10 years old. Lauren is on the DT for Pink Cat Studio and asked the owner, Melissa, to create a digital image of Ethan to be sold as a charity stamp. Well, Melissa went above and beyond that and created one of Ethan and another of his little sister Ava along with some sentiments. Ethan was a little cowboy and loved to ride horses. He always wore a black cowboy hat and loved balloons. Here is what Melissa created in digital images.

Aren't they adorable? They are priced very reasonably too. Either Ethan or Ava are priced at $4.00 and each will come with the two sentiments. If you buy the entire set, it will only by $6.00. All proceeds are going to the Make a Wish Foundation of Illinois per the Weiman family. You can read more about this on Melissa's blog here. Also, Lauren is sponsoring a contest. All you have to do is make something using these images, link them to her blog here and you have the chance to win a $25 gift certificate from Pink Cat Studio! How cool is that?

Melissa was so kind as to give the My Time DT these images to work with and promote them. You can see all of them here and here is my version. Cute, huh? What a nice way to honor Ethan! I colored the image with copic markers, and cut and embossed it with nesties. I placed an embellishment on his belt buckle. The rust layer behind that was run through the paisley cuttlebug folder. The dp is SU's retired Outlaw (perfect for a cowboy card) and the ribbon is SU's chocolate chip grosgrain. The sentiment was cut and embossed with a nestied as well as the rust layer. Really cute and simple card, but I love it and the idea behind it. Like I said....bittersweet. Here are links to the DT so you can see what they came up with.

Dana
Dawn
Jennifer
Kendra
Kristin
Lauren
MacKenzie
Maria
Odette
Pam
Tamara
Tracey

I hope you like the images as much as well all do, and I hope you can find it in your budget to purchase them. Please let me know if you post any cards using this and I will do my best to showcase it on my blog. Thanks so much for stopping by and reading this post! I really appreciate all your comments!
Recipe
Stamps: Cowboy Ethan and sentiment digital images (Pink Cat Studio)
Paper: PTI white, really rust, chocolate chip, Outlaw dp (SU retired)
Copic Markers: Y17; YR24; R20; E00, 02, 53, 97, 99; Gooo, 00, 85; W-3, 7
Accessories: Nesties, paisley cuttlebug folder, grosgrain ribbon, embellishment for belt, dimensionals