Color Hues Challenge #102 - NAVY and LIME GREEN - You are Special in Every Way (Midnight Blooms - Alex Syberia Designs)

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Welcome to Colour Hues Challenge #102, where our lovely hostess, Stef, asks us to play with hues of Navy and Lime Green over the next two weeks. Talk about a fun combination!

 

We're delighted to have Esther joining us as our Guest Designer for this challenge.

My ASD Midnight Blooms collection is finally making its debut, after sitting in my stash for several months. I should have used them much much earlier; they are lovely and suitable for a variety of occasions.  My photo doesn't capture how lime-y the leaves are in real life - but they are, especially since I used an HA Key Lime ink.

Looking forward to seeing how Navy and Lime Green inspire you!

The challenge will be open until January 29th @ 9:00 am EDT.

The winners will be posted an hour before our next challenge and the overall

 winner will have the opportunity to be a future Guest Designer.

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Just Us Girls Challenge #758 - Moodboard Week - Warm Wishes (49 and Market Rub Ons, WF Postage Collage Dies)

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #758, where Bobby has selected this frosty, wintry mood board as inspiration this week. Lots of pretty possibilities...

 Once again, Annette Elias  joins us as our January Guest Designer. 

New play things have joined my stash: rub ons (aka: transfers). I've featured a few of them here, inspired by the berries and pine cones images. I added my selections to postage stamp die cuts, in pale blue, red and deep grey, which we see in both the images and swatch. The sentiment is from Midnight Blooms, by Alex Syberia Designs. Although some may consider using rub-ons as 'cheating' or not in step with being hand-made, I don't. My goal is to make cards I'm proud to share and I tell you, these rub-ons do exactly that!  Plus, exploring different mediums - including transfers - is just plain fun!

Please head over to the main blog to see my wonderful team's creativity.

Looking forward to seeing your mood board inspired creations in the gallery.

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AAA Colourful - Colourboard Challenge 11 - Celebrate and Best Wishes (PFS Poinsettia Frame, Here for You Sentiments, TE strips)

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Popping in to share two cards inspired AAA Colourful: Colourboard #11. That image is positively gorgeous!

Even though the festive season is over, I'm not ready to put away all my Christmas products.

For this challenge, I wanted to see if my Pinkfresh Studio Poinsettia Frame set could be used with non-traditional colours; specifically, the palette featured here. Two panels - and two cards later - I was done. 

The inks I used are listed below; hopefully they bear a close resemblance to the colours swatch. I'm not sure why my photos make the leaves looks more green than aqua (because I used aqua inks), but...oh well. Sighhh.... The sentiments are from Here For You (PFS) press plates/dies and Taylored Expressions strips.

     

Pinkfresh Studio Inks:

Cherry Blossom, Slumber + Blue Jay

Ocean Breeze + Aquamarine

Altenew Inks:

Citrus Burst + Fresh Lemon

Card 1:

Card 2:

I'll let you decide if my experiment worked. I think they did...maybe...sort of...

Once again, thank you to the AAA Colourful designers for their fabulous challenge and wonderful inspiration.

Thank you, as well, to the two other challenges I've joined:

Cardz 4 Gals Challenge #241 - Use Stencils

Crazy is our Fame: Stencils are our Game - January 2025 Stencil Fun Challenge

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Inkspirational Challenge #332 - Reminder Post - Designer's Choice - Pretty Quilt

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Popping in today with a reminder that you still have a week to play over at Inkspirational Challenge #332 - Designer's Choice - Pretty Quilt.

Last week, I shared this 'quilt' using Concord & 9th's Pinwheel Quilt coverplate and dies: 

With the leftovers from the four patterned papers, I was able to create two more quilt cards: 

I had a blast with this challenge; hope you do, too!

Looking forward to seeing your pretty quilt in the gallery!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #757 - WORD Week - Masculine - Hockey Thanks (Photoplay)

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #757, where our lovely hostess, Sue, has selected *Masculine* as our Word Week inspiration. 

We're delighted to have Annette Elias joining us as our January Guest Designer.

I don't have much by way of masculine products (or the creativity to stylize what I have with a masculine vibe) but, I do have Photoplay's It's A Hockey Life in my stash. My sister-in-law needs thank you cards for my nephew's coaches so I've cobbled together this one to add to her stash.

Looking forward to seeing your masculine-themed cards/projects in the gallery.

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Inkspirational Challenge #332 - Designer's Choice - Pretty Quilt - LOVE Pinwheels Quilt (Concord and 9th)

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Welcome to Inkspirational Challenge #332 - our first "official" challenge of 2025. We have a full slate of new challenges planned; hopefully you, our wonderful players, will be as excited and inspired by them as we are. 

For the next two weeks, Julia's Designer's Choice Challenge is: PRETTY QUILT. Who doesn't love to curl up under a cozy quilt, especially when we're enveloped in the chilliness of winter or just need a comforting cuddle? Perhaps you have a special handmade quilt that evokes fond memories of the person who made it for you. We invite you to take the concept of PRETTY QUILT and translate it into a card/project. 

One of my 'plans' this year is to shop my stash and, in trying to decide on how to approach this challenge, I re-discovered my Concord & 9th's Quilt Pinwheel cover plate + dies. I selected four styles of patterned papers from a pad in my stash and set about making my pinwheel quilt blocks. Fiddly work, but I'm happy with the results. Of course, I had some 'fabric' left over, so you may see another card (or two) down the road.

Please head over to the main blog to see my amazing team's Pretty Quilts. While you're there, check out Julia's link for card quilt tutorials on Youtube.

Looking forward to seeing you in the gallery!

Also sharing at:

Cut It Up Challenge #320 - Anything Goes

 

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Just Us Girls Challenge #756 - Use a Die - Anything Goes - Happy 2025 - (Hero Arts, Waffle Flower, ASD)

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Happy New Year!

Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #756, where you'll notice a few changes. Launching today is Use A Die Challenge, which replaces our former Colour Challenge. While this week the theme is anything goes, future Die challenges might be specific.  [It is totally up to the Hostess.]  We hope you like this new challenge, especially given the wide variety of dies many of us have in our stashes. Let's give our dies the starring role on the stage! 

A new month also means a new Guest Designer; joining us for January is Annette Elias. Please head to the main blog to see her wonderful card, as well as those from my teammates.

My New Year's card features several dies: Hero Arts Classic Numbers, Waffle Flowers Snowflake Background and a sentiment from Alex Syberia Deisgns' Midnight Blooms. Lots of shimmer and shine on this one! 

Looking forward to seeing your dies delights in the gallery!

Also sharing at:

Time Out Challenges - Challenge #279 - Theme: Beginnings

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