Just Us Girls #47 - Color Challenge

Happy Saturday! It's time for a color challenge from Just Us Girls! I'm the hostess this week and I chose the happy colors! I wanted something that screamed summer, so I chose hot pink, teal, and lime green. I found these colors in the DeLovely paper pack from Cosmo Cricket.I just loved this image from The Greeting Farm (called Laundry) that I got at my LSS, Buffalo Stamps & Stuff, one day. I'm always doing laundry when I craft since my craft room and laundry room are in the basement. I don't mind doing the laundry, but I HATE folding it and putting it away! So this image really resonated with me!

She's colored with copics and I added lots of Star Dust Stickles to the image. The felt flowers are from SU and are centered with a lime green glitter dot. The sentiment is from PTI's All Booked Up set. The layout is from Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

Stop by the JUGs blog and see what the girls have come up with using these colors! Some fab stuff there! Leave them some nice comments on their personal blogs too! Thanks so much for stopping by today! Enjoy your weekend!

Recipe
Stamps: Laundry (The Greeting Farm), All Booked Up (PTI)
Paper: PTI white, gable green, DeLovely dp (Cosmo Cricket)
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, gable green, copic markers
Accessories: Square and scalloped square nesties, SU felt flowers, glitter dots, circle and scallop circle punches, star dust stickles, dimensionals

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Season's Greetings in Black & White

I saw this card on Sharon Johnson's blog, No Time to Stamp. She did hers as a simpler version...no dp or embellishments and I thought it was lovely. I just had to glam mine up a bit though! I used this dp I've had for a while in my stash. I got it at my LSS, Buffalo Stamps & Stuff. I was supposed to use it on a card I saw there, but never did, so I'm using it on this one. The stamp set is clear one from Inkadinkadoo called Ornate Christmas. Their stamps are so pretty...I have several of these sets and they do not disappoint! I used Versafine black ink and it left such a nice, crisp image. This is pretty simple. The base is PTI white, and I used SU's black. In the corner are 3 black glitter dots that are adhered with glue dots. I think I got these from Gina K. Designs. The sentiment on the inside is from PTI's Holiday Wishes. I think this is such a classy card and I bet it would look good in other colors as well, especially red or SU's Pacific Point blue! Hmmm, I may have to try it! Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps: Ornate Christmas (Inkadinkadoo), Holiday Wishes (PTI)

Paper: PTI white, black, dp unknown

Ink: Versafine black

Accessories: Black glitter dots, dimensionals

A Break from Christmas...

I had to take a break from all the Christmas cards I've been making to make a birthday card for my good friend Tracy. Her birthday was last week, but she had a holiday party last night and I gave this card and the softest pair of pajamas for her gift when I went to her house yesterday. I wanted something other than green, red, or blue! I started with this set from Gina K. Designs called Retro Boutique by Rupa Shevde. Tracy was having a "retro" party with her table adorned with snacks that our parents served with they had parties at our age (so cool)! So this set fit right in with her theme for the party. Tracy is also very stylish and has a flair for dressing and decorating. I started by paper piecing this dress with SU's retired dp Uptown. I also stamped it on a piece of PTI white cardstock and ran it through the cuttlebug with a Spellbinder circle die to cut it out and emboss it. It was layered on top of a piece of Lovely Lilac cardstock that was cut and embossed with a scallop circle die. I used So Saffron as my layer on top of the PTI white base. Another piece of Uptown was layered on a piece of lilac. A Martha Stewart punch finished off the bottom of the card. The sentiment is from PTI's Simple Little Things and was punched with the large oval and layered onto a lilac piece punched with the key tag punch. I added some shine with Spica glitter pens, which I don't think shows up very well, but shines so subtly! The layout is by Frances (aka Stamp Owl) for My Favorite Things. The ribbon is from Target...quite a bargin. I got it in the wedding section. Oh, and the flowers? Last minute idea because of a black smudge on the dress! UGH! Too late to start over, so flowers and bling it had to be! I also dressed up the inside with the purse and sentiment stamp from Rupa's set and another punched lilac piece. Well I have to get going and decorate my tree. We cut it down yesterday (a tradition that my dh and dog have done for years), and I got stuck in the deep snow many times and dh had to pull me out! The area south of Buffalo (where we got our tree) has gotten socked with so much snow and it's really deep! It was a beautiful sunny day, though, with the pretty, soft snowflakes falling gently! We had fun and got a beautiful tree. I'll post a picture when it's done. Thanks for stopping by!
Recipe
Stamps: Retro Boutique (Gina K. Designs), Simple Little Things (PTI)
Paper: PTI white, lovely lilac, so saffron, Uptown dp (SU retired)
Ink: Adirondack black
Accessories: Nestabilities, MS lace punch, large oval and key tag punches, white ribbon (Target), Spica glitter pens, dimensionals, primas, bling

I'm Stuffed...

...like my turkey! Are you? I hope you all had a very nice Thanksgiving Day. I know I did. My DH and I hosted dinner at our house for his mom and dad and my mom. I made the dinner, my mom made the sweet and sour cabbage ("kapusta" in Polish) that we all love, and my MIL made the pies...pumpkin, lemon meringue and chocolate. Hence, I'm stuffed! I decided to make place cards this year because I was inspired by Nichole Heady's blog entry about table settings using her First Fruits set. I guess I was most inspired by Debbie Olson's setting and made these place cards. I stamped the pineapple in Appricot Appeal and Garden Green on vanilla cardstock. That green is so rich! I just got this pad a few weeks ago and don't understand why I never got it sooner! I cut and embossed it using the oval nestabilities then backed it with a piece of Appricot Appeal using a larger oval. The Garden Green base (4.25" x 5.5") was run through the swiss dots cuttlebug folder and folded in half. I used a glitter pen on the dots of the pineapple and it shined in the light. I used Women of Life and Men of Life (which I just got on Wednesday, in time to do these!) for the "names". I decided to go generic for my DH and I, using "son" and "daughter". (I had a "husband" stamp, but not "wife"!) I made two "mom" placecards, but only took a picture of one of them. Everyone thought they were pretty and took them home. I gave the son and daughter ones to my MIL to use when she has us over for dinner sometime (soon I hope!). Have a great weekend and "Happy Shopping" to all of you crazy shoppers out there! Oh, and remember...blog candy as soon as I reach 10,000 hits!!
Recipe
Stamps: Women of Life, Men of Life, First Fruits (all PTI)
Paper: Vanilla, garden green, appricot appeal
Ink: Appricot appeal, garden green
Accessories: Oval nestabilities, small and large SU oval punches, glitter pen, swiss dots cb folder