AAA Cards Challenge #318 - Follow My Lead - Follow Marlies - Let's Shell-ebrate (SSD Crab Ephemera)

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Welcome to AAA Cards Challenge #318 - Follow My Lead. For the next two weeks, we invite you to draw inspiration from Marlie's card, featured below.  

Inspiration card:

To follow Marlie's 'lead', I translated her background into a grid die cut and her coffee beans into a trio of way too cute crabs from Simply Stated Design. A sentiment from Waffle Flower finished off my CAS card.

Please visit the main blog to see my teammates' fabulous takes on the sketch.
Looking forward to seeing how it inspires you.

A reminder that we're looking for Clean and Simple designs; you can find the description of what that means here. 

Thank you for dropping by!

Inkspirational Challenge #371 - Visual Prompt - Summer Vibe - Lemon Daydream Just For You and A Little Something To Make You Smile (SSD)

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Welcome to Inkspirational Challenge #371.  For the next two weeks, we invite you to take your cue from the bright, beautiful Visual Prompt below. Whether you're inspired by the soft pink blossoms, sunny lemons, refreshing drink, vibrant colour palette  or simply the summery vibe, we'd love to see how you interpret it in your own style.

I'm sharing two cards featuring the beautiful Lemon Daydream collection from Simply Stated Design. For something a little different, I paired with background dies from AALL & Create,

Please visit the main blog to see fabulous cards from my talented design team, then join us in the gallery with a mood board card/project of your own.

Thank you for dropping by!

Just Us Girls Challenge #830 - Use A Die Week - Forgotten Favourite - For the Record (Concord and 9th)

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #830. Time to dust off an old favourite! 
For this week's Use A Die Challenge, Ina asks that we dig into our die collection, find a 'forgotten favourite' and bring it out for a play date.  Let's let the 'oldies but goodies' shine!

We're delighted to have Bonnie joining us as our July Guest Designer. 

We all have that die set (or, in my case, multiple sets); the one we absolutely had to have, used a handful of times then quietly tucked away.  The hidden gem I've brought out for another *spin* is  Concord & 9th's For the Record collection. I had a blast reuniting with this set; a reminder that some things never go out of style: vinyl records, great music and favourite dies! 

Please visit the main blog to see which *forgotten favourites dies* my talented team have showcased, then rummage through your stash and bring out oldie of your own to feature.

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Color Hues Challenge #136 - Cream and Gold - Thanks, I'm Touched Beyond Words Lilies (Better Press Society Cascading Lilies)

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First, Happy Canada Day to my Canadian followers. Hope your day is filled with celebraton.

Welcome to Colour Hues Challenge #136 where Julie invites us to play with hues of Cream and Gold for the next two weeks. Such a pretty combination, especially if you're thinking of "Christmas in July" as a possible theme. If course, this pairing also fits for a wide range of occasions, as you'll see from the design team.

Another Better Press Society plate making a debut today: Cascading Lilies. Simple gold foiling of the plate, then die cut and added to a matte gold background.  The lilies are lovely but oh, how I wish Spellbinders had included a stencil with this plate. That said, 'plain' works, too. 

Please visit the main blog to see lovely inspiration from my talented teammates.

Looking forward to seeing how Cream and Gold will inspire you.

The challenge will be open until July 14 @ 9:00am (EST). 

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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AAA Birthday Challenge #87 - For Girls - Lemon Daydream Happy Birthday (SSD - Lemon Daydream, AALL and Create)

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Welcome to AAA Birthday Challenge #87. Last month we celebrated with cards *For Boys*; for July, we're celebrating cards *For Girls.*  

We're delighted to have Brenda joining us as our Guest Designer.

I've created a 'stylized' card for this challenge, using a background die from AALL & Create, decorated with papers and ephemera from Simply Stated Design's Lemon Daydream collection. . A sentiment from Spellbinders pairs wonderfully with the pretty pink + yellow feminine images. 

Please visit the main blog to see fabulous inspiration from our guest and my teammates.

Looking forward to seeing your For Girls birthday cards in the gallery.

Thank you for dropping by!

Just Us Girls Challenge #829 - Anything Goes Stencil Week - All The Best As You Begin Another Year (Better Press Society - Flourish and Vine)

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Welcome to  STENCIL WEEK at Just Us Girls; Lisa is our hostess.  Bring out your stencils and give them a play!

A big thank you to Kellianne for being our guest designer this past month. It's been a pleasure having you with us!

Another of my Better Press Society plates making a debut: Flourish and Vine. Such a delicate image - and I love that the set comes with a die to cut an aperture.

Please visit the main blog to see fabulous inspiration from our Guest Designer and my talented team.
Looking forward to seeing your stencil showcases! 

Thank you for dropping by!

AAA Card Challenge #317 - Sketch Challenge - Painted Blooms Celebrate (Concord and 9th)

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Welcome to AAA Cards Challenge #317 where we invite you to play along with our Sketch challenge displayed in the photo below. You're not required to use 'firework' style images; rather, work with something you feel captures the placement and/or conveys the 'motion' of the sketch.

I translated the sketch into some pretty stenciled flowers from Concord and 9th; one of my favourites in my collection.

Please visit the main blog to see my teammates' fabulous takes on the sketch.
Looking forward to seeing how it inspires you.

A reminder that we're looking for Clean and Simple designs; you can find the description of what that means here. 

Thank you for dropping by!

Inkspirational Challenge #370 - Word Prompt - Leftovers - School Themed ATCs

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Welcome to Inkspirational Challenge #370 where our Word Prompt for the next two weeks is LEFTOVERS. This challenge invites you to rescue scrappy bits and odds-and-ends - paper, ephemera, embellishments, etc. -  from previous projects and repurpose them so they become the stars of a brand-new card/project. Show us how your creativity can turn "leftovers" into something extraordinary. 

I'm somewhat 'over zealous' with keeping scrappy bits in my stash but hey, those little snippets of paper, bits of ephemera and cute little embellishments may come in handy some day, right?

Today, I'm sharing a set of 6 ATCs I created for a swap where the theme for June is: School. The teeny-tiniest pieces of red, yellow and blue cardstock worked a charm for my 'blackboard letters'.  Extra red and green scraps transformed into wee apples; white bits became little stars and sentiment backgrounds.  Hopefully my swap friends will enjoy my handiwork with papers that were 'this close' to being tossed.

Please visit the main blog to see wonderful inspiration from my talented teammates.

Looking forward to seeing your leftovers transformed into something fabulous!

Thank you for dropping by!

Just Us Girls Challenge #828 - MOODBOARD - Just for You (AALL and Create, Sunroom Drift)

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #828, where Denise has selected a lovely floral moodboard as inspiration this week. Such a beautiful burst of colour! 

Once again, we're delighted to have Kellianne joining us as our June Guest Designer.

The flowers and the fashion in which they were displaced - squares and rectangles - caught my eye, so I replicated this in my card. One sheet of pretty paper from AALL & Create's Sunroom Drift. 
I'm fortunate to have a wonderful collection of pretty papers and ephemera in my stash; I'll display them whenever I can! 

Please visit the main blog to see fabulous inspiration from our guest and my talented team.

Looking forward to seeing your fabulous florals filling the gallery.

Thank you for dropping by!

Color Hues Challenge #135 - Yellow and Black - A Note from Me to You (Better Press Society Teardrop Mosaic)

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Welcome to Colour Hues Challenge #135 where, as hostess, I'm inviting you to play with hues of YELLOW and BLACK. Think sunflowers, bees, butterflies, bold geometric patterns, stylized florals - and that's just a snippet of the countless ways to show this bold, dramatic combination.  We're excited to see where your creativity takes you!

We're pleased to welcome Barbara Campbell and Diana Karlova as our Guest Designers for this challenge.

I'm slowly making my way through my Spellbinders' Better Press Society plates; for this challenge, the Teardrop Mosaic makes its debut. I glimmered the 'frame' plate with gold and the yellow teardrops with black. The die for the teardrop opens so many possibilities. 

Please visit the main blog to see fabulous inspiration from our guests and my talented teammates.
Looking forward to seeing how Yellow & Black inspire you.

Thank you for dropping by!

AAA Colourful Colourboard #29 - Celebrate in Your Own Style (AALL and Create, SB Beautifully Imperfect, SSD Butterfly)

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Welcome to AAA Colourful Challenge #29, where we invite you to draw inspiration from the beautiful colours featured in the image below.  We're delighted to have Arlene joining us as our Guest Designer. 

My card features two new additions to my stash. First is the AALL & Create: Blotch Code stencil, a 'blotchy' blend of flowers, leaves, splatters and, of course, butterflies. The second is the pretty butterfly ephemera from Simply Stated Design. Hopefully, you'll see the colours from the colourboard reflected in my choices of inks and the butterfly. The sentiment is from Spellbinders' Beautifully Imperfect collection. 

Please head to the challenge blog to see fabulous inspiration from my talented teammates.

Looking forward to seeing how this Colourboard inspires you!

Thank you for dropping by!

Just Us Girls Challenge #827 - WORD Week - Summer - Watermelons are Smiles of Summer (Graphic 45 Rub ons)

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #827, where Vicki has selected SUMMER as our Word Week theme. 

Once again, we're delighted to have Kellianne joining us as our June Guest Designer.

Rub-ons played the starring role on my card. The pretty watermelons and the overall whimsical images of this collection make me smile; I hope they generate the same response from you. 

Please visit the main blog to see fabulous inspiration from our guest and my teammates.

Looking forward to seeing your sensational summer cards/projects in the gallery.

Thank you for dropping by!

AAA Cards Challenge #316 - 1 + 1 Summer - You Are My Sunshine (Concord and 9th)

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Welcome to AAA Cards Challenge #316 where we have a 1 + 1 Summer theme to inspire you for the next two weeks.  The concept is simple: your card should feature something 'summery' paired with ONE of the choices from the following: Travel, Get Away, Beach or Sun. 

My choices: summery colours + sun. I've used an older Concord & 9th set that I've had for ages. Felt good to give it a play.

Please visit the main blog to see my teammates' fabulous takes on the sketch.
Looking forward to seeing how it inspires you.

A reminder that we're looking for Clean and Simple designs; you can find the description of what that means here. 

Thank you for dropping by!

Inkspirational Challenge #369 - Visual Prompt - Woodland Gnome - Woodland Deer Celebrate You and Woodland Bear (Nadine Karen Designs - March Kit)

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Welcome to Inkspirational Challenge #369. For the next two weeks (June 6 - 19), we invite you to draw inspiration from our Visual Prompt featuring a charming woodland scene.  From the plaid-clad gnome and toadstool accents to the soft florals, greenery, whimsical elements, textures and cozy cottage-garden feel: an abundance of details to spark your creativity.  ✨🍄🌿📬

Alas, I do NOT do gnomes. Nope...no way.  That said, I do love whimsical images of forest animals, so I selected a sweet deer and darling bear as 'gnome stand-ins' for the two woodland cards I created. Both feature ephemera from the March kit collection I purchased from Nadine Karen Designs, a Canadian designer in BC. Her kits are delightful and jam-packed with crafting opportunities galore. 

Hope my little woodsy scenes bring you a smile.

Please visit the main blog to see fabulous inspiration from my talented team, then join us in the gallery with a card/project of your own.

Thank you for dropping by!

Just Us Girls Challenge #826 - Use A Die Week - Butterfly - Sending Happy Thoughts Your Way (MCT)

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #826 - Use A Die Week where I'm the lucky hostess.  For this challenge, I'd like you to showcase at least one - or more, if you so choose - BUTTERFLY die on your card/project. 

We're pleased to welcome Kellianne as our June Guest Designer. I'm sure you'll join me in having flutters over her beautiful card. 

My card features the Pretty Butterflies collection (stamps, dies, patterned papers) from My Creative Time, a set that's been in my stash for years. Definitely a keeper! 

Please visit the main blog to see fabulous inspiration from our guest designer and my talented teammates.

Looking forward to seeing butterflies galore filling the gallery.

Thank you for dropping by!