Just Us Girls Challenge #681 - CAS CARD Week - Silhouette...Happy Holidays (Gina K)

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #681, where our sweet hostess, Lisa E, invites us to pair CAS and Silhouette as inspiration this week.  

 

A special thank you to our May guest designer, Claire, for sharing her incredible cards with us this past month. She is soooo talented! 

Guess what I made...another card based on my last October's Crop & Create box, with products from and lessons delivered by the awesome Gina, from Gina K designs. My masking skills are mediocre, at best, and my use of silhouettes very sporadic, but following her lead and tips, I managed to create this! Another class project done! A couple more to do and I can wrap up my GKD assignments.

Looking forward to seeing your CAS Silhouette cards in the gallery! 

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Inkspirational Challenge #290 - Moodboard...Just Saying Hello (PFS Butterfly, Gina K Stencil)

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Welcome to Inkspirational Challenge #290 where we're sharing this Moodboard as inspiration for the next two weeks. Corals, pinks and greens; circles, squares and chevrons; bottles, doors and books...even a stylized butterfly. Hope you find ideas aplenty here to spark your creativity.

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My eye was immediately drawn to the butterfly and leaves images. I inked up my Pinkfresh Studio's butterfly with an assortment of 'blobby' stamps - using Concord & 9th inks -  trying to replicate the design in the photo. Fiddly, but I'm happy with the results. A Gina K Designs stencil, a trio of enamel dots and Concord & 9th sentiment  wrapped it up. 

Looking forward to seeing your Moodboard-inspired creations filling the gallery!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #680 - MOODBOARD Week...You Mean the World to Me (Map EF, Concord and 9th Map Love)

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #680, where Bobby has selected a Moodboard as inspiration this week. 

Once again, we're delighted to have Claire Apostoloff, our May Guest Designer, joining us.

I went clean-and-simple with my card (although arriving at the final version involved plenty of start/toss LOL), drawing inspiration from the colours and the map. Carta Bella embossing folder in the background; Concord & 9th Map Love (retired) images for the sentiment. 

Looking forward to seeing your interpretations of the Moodboard.

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Color Hues Challenge #64 - Orange and Slate Grey - May Your Coffee Be Strong (Concord and 9th Coffee Cups) and Good Things are Going to Happen (HA Koi, Rubber stamps)

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Welcome to Colour Hues Challenge #64, where Julie B, our wonderful hostess, invites us to draw inspiration from the pairing of Orange and Slate Grey. Loads of possibilities, indeed.

  We're also delight to have Joanne joining us today as our guest designer.

I reached for my Taylored Expressions Perk Up kit for this challenge; it's fun and versatile. Here, I used an assortment of orange inks - Carved Pumpkin, Spiced Marmalade, Dried Marigold and one other than I can't recall. Weathered Wood served nicely for slate grey. The label for the sentiment used, obviously, orange and grey cardstock. Love the sentiment.

Then, I did a second card as an experiment using  a rubber stamp, from Local King Rubber Stamps, called River Rock, as a background. The koi is an oldie from Hero Arts. It's 'okay'...need more practice with and to find more uses for  the background stamp, though.

Looking forward to your Slate Grey and Orange creativity filling the gallery.

This challenge will be open until April 14 @ 9:00 AM EST

The winners will be posted an hour before our next challenge goes live.

The overall winner will have the opportunity to be a 

future Guest Designer!

Thank you for dropping by!

Just Us Girls Challenge #679 - WORD Week - Wedding...May You Live Happily Ever After

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #679, here our fabulous hostess, Lisa K, has selected *Wedding* as our Word prompt for this week.

Once again, we're delighted to have Claire Apostoloff joining us as our May Guest Designer.

I haven't been to a wedding in ages (likely the most recent was mine - 11 years ago - and yes, I was OLD when I got married, never mind being older now!), but still good to have one on hand, just in case. I used Vicki Bouton patterned paper, a very very very old sentiment from Clearly Besotted (isn't it pretty and timeless?), and gold intertwined die cut rings from Brutus Monroe (another 'find' in my last year's Crop & Create box). 

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

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HLS Anything Goes with Dies Challenge - May 2023 - Painted Rose Notecard (Concord and 9th)

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Welcome to Happy Little Stampers May 2023 Anything Goes with Dies Challenge. 

My card features one of my all-time favourite stamps/dies from Concord & 9th: Pained Rose. No sentiment to leave it open for whatever occasion arises that 'needs' a big, bold rose. 

Looking forward to seeing your die-focused cards in the gallery.

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HLS Stencil Challenge - May 2023 - Anything Goes...Just Because (Spellbinders Stitched Flowers, Sentiment and Stencil)

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Welcome to Happy Little Stampers Stencil Challenge for May 2023. Anything Goes is always the theme. 

A while back, I received a Let's Stamp Together package from Scrapbook and Cards Magazine. Finally, I took some time to play with the contents: a stitching die/stamp, sentiments and, yep, a stencil. Had fun stitching on paper; this may become a 'thing' with me! 

Let's see your stencil sensations fill the gallery!

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Inkspirational Challenge #289 - Word Prompt - Mini...Mini Embroidery Hoop Rainbow Have A Beautiful Day (LF and Concord and 9th)

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Welcome to Inkspirational Challenge #289, where our Word Prompt for the next two weeks is MINI.

Mini stamps, mini cards, mini cars, miniskirts, even Minnie Mouse...and we're sure you'll come up with many more ideas. Mega possibilities with mini!

Sharing my mini embroidery hoop and stitched rainbow from Lawn Fawn. Yes, some of my stitches are a bit wonky but...whatever. I had fun playing with floss-and-paper. Hard to see but I dry embossed a Simple Stories rainbow + clouds + stars stencil background onto my panel, before adding the rainbow strip and my hoop. In real life, it adds some pretty texture. Sentiment is from Concord & 9th.

Looking forward to seeing how *MINI* inspires you! Let's fill the gallery!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #678 - COLOR Week...Markered Thanks (Pink and Yellow, Concord and 9th)

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #678, where our lovely hostess, Nancy, has selected Pink and Yellow as our Colour Week inspiration. Perfect for so many occasions.

We're delighted to welcome Claire Apostoloff as our May Guest Designer.

Making its debut is my new Concord & 9th Markered collection. I LOVE turnabouts and bold sentiments. I especially LOVE that this collection looks fabulous in any colour combination.

Looking forward to a gallery filled to bursting with pink and yellow!

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HLS Christmas Challenge - May 2023 - Happy Holidays Pine Branch (Studio Light stencil, Gina K Designs)

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Welcome to Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge for May 2023 (May...already!). Anything Goes is always the theme, with an optional twist which, this month, is 'Trim the Tree."

I'm sharing a tree...trimmed with pinecones! My new stencil is from Studio Light - a single stencil that offers multiple layers at an incredibly reasonable price point! Yes, a wee bit fiddly as you shift the stencil around, but given the fabulous results (and the low cost), so worth it. Sentiment is from Gina K Designs.

Looking forward to seeing your Christmas creations in the gallery!

Also sharing at:

Crazy is our Fame - Stencils are our Game

Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge - No Patterned Paper

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HLS Birthday Challenge - May 2023 - Butterfly Happy Happy Happy Birthday (Local Rubber King Stamps)

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Welcome to our May 2023 Happy Little Stampers Birthday Challenge. 

Recently, I went to the Great Canadian Carnival Marketplace, with several vendors under one roof. Oh my stars! I may not have exercised as much restraint as I should have! I ended up purchasing a variety of rubber stamps and, for some, coordinating dies, from a company based in Vancouver: Local Rubber King Stamps, mainly because I was so mesmerized by the samples created by the owner. She was amazing! My card features two of my new purchases: a butterfly, coloured with watercolour markers, then stamped onto cardstock and die cute, and a background sky stamped with regular ink. That sky is soooo cool! I need to use it with different inks to see what happens, then pair it with, oh...balloons, kites, more butterflies...Lots of possibilities and certainly faster than using cloud stencils. 

Sentiment is an OLD set from Annabelle Stamps. Definitely a keeper! 

Looking forward to seeing your birthday-inspired cards filling the gallery.

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Color Hues Challenge #63 - Hot Pink and Cyan...Happy Birthday and Celebrate Hats (Pink and Main, Hero Arts)

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May 1st! Ohmystars! Anyway...the merry month of May brings us two new Colour Hues challenges, the first of which - Colour Hues Challenge #63 -  begins today. Our lovely hostess, Hannelie, invites us to use hues of Hot Pink and Cyan as our inspiration for the next two weeks. A spring/summer combination for sure.  

We're delighted to welcome Kristin as our guest designer for this challenge. 

We have a wide variety of cards from our guest and the team, proving this pairing works wonderfully with an assortment of images and occasions.

I'm slowly making my way through last October's Crop & Create box + classes (and yes, I did sign up for this year's, too, even though I've not even played with 1/2 the stuff from the previous version. Talk about late assignments! LOL!). Following a lesson from Jennifer McGuire and adding my own spin, I've made two cards with products from Pink & Main and Hero Arts. Papers for the hats are from MCT; background diagonal paper from Waffle Flower. A bit of whimsy with Hot Pink and Cyan!

This challenge will be open until May 14th @ 9AM!

Let's see the gallery filled with your amazing Hot Pink and Cyan creations.

The winners will be posted an hour before our next challenge goes live.

The overall winner will have the opportunity to be a 

future Guest Designer!

Thank you for dropping by!