Just Us Girls #668 - CAS Week

 Hello!  Nancy has a great challenge this week over at Just Us Girls for our CAS week.

Coloring!

I haven't been coloring too much lately, and it felt good to get out the copics and get them going again.  The next holiday is St. Patrick's Day and I pulled out this cute lucky gnome to color up.  After coloring up the image, I die cut it and then again twice more to stack for dimension.  I added stenciled shamrocks on the side and a stamped sentiment.  I had to add some shine, so I used some yellow stickles on the buckle on is hat as well as on the shamrock in his hand.  I'm liking these CAS cards!

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our February guest, Karen, on the JUGs blog.  This is Karen's last week with us (can't believe we are going into March already!), and I'd like to thank her for joining us with her beautiful cards this month.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Gnome Lucky (SSS)

Paper:  X-Press It, white

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx black, copics

Accessories:  Gnome Lucky die (SSS), stitched rectangle (MFT), clovers stencil (SSS), yellow stickles

Just Us Girls #622 - Word Week

 Hello!  It's March...must closer to those warmer and longer days!  This week is our Word Week challenge over at Just Us Girls.  Elizabeth chose the word LUCKY.

I'm actually feeling some warmer weather this week because I'm visiting my best friend, Maria, in her new home in Bluffton, SC (just outside of Hilton Head).  We will be golfing and enjoying the warm weather.

For this week's card, I chose to use clovers as my lucky symbol.  I started by stamping the large four-leaf clovers in two shades of ink then die cutting them with the coordinating die.  Then I used a clover stencil and green ink on the green panel.  I added some glitter texture paste over them and they now look gold.  But some of the green is peeking through.  I laid out the three clovers on the left and the glittered panel on the right.  The sentiment is actually gold foil, but looks black.  I added gold pearls to the centers of the clovers.  I'm giving this card to our good Irish friend who is receiving an award at our Irish Center here in Buffalo.

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our March guest designer, JoAnn Burnham, on the JUGs blog.  Welcome to JUGs for the month of March JoAnn!

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Recipe

Stamps:  Luck & Love (Gina K)

Paper:  White, green

Ink:  Key lime, olive (PFS)

Accessories:  Luck & Love dies (Gina K), stitched rectangle die (MFT), clovers stencil (SSS), frosty dawn sparkle texture paste (Cosmic Shimmer), pearls

Color Throwdown #528

 Hi everyone!  I'm playing in this week's Color Throwdown.  I haven't played in a while and had some time today to play with these fun colors.

 

Are you on a gnome kick? I just think they are so adorable and found this St. Patrick's Day one that I purchased last year that had not seen ink.  It's from Whipper Snapper and I colored it according to the image on the packaging.  I had to fussy cut it (no dies) which I do not enjoy I must say!  The background is a turnabout stamp from Concord & 9th that I stamped in two colors of green.  I die cut it with a stitched rectangle.  Then I used the thin frames die from that panel as well as from a black panel to get that thin black frame.  The sentiment was die cut three times and stacked.  I added star dust stickles to the gnome and spectrum noir shimmer to the sentiment and stars.

 

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Recipe

Stamps:  Lepregnome (Whipper Snapper), Star TAB (Concord & 9th)

Paper:  Recollections white, black

Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K), limelight and gumdrop green (MFT)

Accessories:  Stitched rectangle (MFT), Thin Frame die (SSS), Wet Paint Cuts die (PTI), star dust stickles, spectrum noir shimmer, dimensional tape 



Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!  I went to a class at my local stamp store and made four of these cards there.  I came back home and made more!  They are all Whipper Snapper Designs and I colored them with copic markers.  Love them!  Here they are!

 

 

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