Just Us Girls Challenge #617~Wild Card Week - Plaid...Stocking Cover Plate Cards

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #617 where, as this week's hostess, I'm inviting you to go WILD with PLAID!  Whatever colours and style of plaid suit your fancy, we want to see it in the gallery!

A huge thank you to our Guest Designers, Chrissie Stokes and Stef Perry, whose cards have dazzled us all month long. Hope we'll see you playing along with us in future challenges.

I've already shared my Latte cover die in previous posts; now time to share the equally as awesome Stocking cover die (My Creative Time)!  For the first card, the stocking is used as it's meant to be used - as part of the card base - and opens to reveal space for your message. 

For this card, I cut the stocking as a separate piece and added it to the background.  So. Much. FUN!

Looking forward to seeing your *mad for plaid* creations in the gallery!

Thank you for dropping by!

Just Us Girls Challenge #551~Wild Card Week...Happy Birthday Butterflies

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I'm delighted to be your hostess for our Just Us Girls Challenge #551, where I've selected BUTTERFLIES as our *wild card* prompt! We're still seeing them flitting about here in Alberta; pretty, colourful signs that summer is still here...at least for a few more days!

A huge THANK YOU to Lisa Elton, from mypapertales, for being our guest designer this month! Her wrap up card: sheer delight! Hope you enjoy gazing at and admiring her pretty card, as well as all the beautiful creations by the rest of the team: Sue, Angie, Vicki, Ina, Bobby, Nancy, Lisa, Maria and Cécile. If you have a chance to leave comments, that would be a real treat.

Yes...another slimline, this time featuring one of my favourite Concord & 9th sets: Butterfly Beauty. I love the faux water-colour look of the background images. A simple sentiment, some Studio Katia gems and...done!

Looking forward to seeing your butterfly-inspired cards/projects in the gallery!

Also sharing at:

Seize the Birthday Challenge #198

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge~Anything Goes

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Just Us Girls Challenge #538~WILD Card Week (Use 2 or more different patterned papers)...Circles Thanks So Much

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #538, where our lovely Sue wants us to go *wild* in using 2 or more different patterned papers on our cards/projects! Bring out alllll your bits-and-pieces of pretty papers and show them some love!

Once again, Deborah Frings joins us with her finale post as this month's guest designer; Deborah, your inspiration has been nothing short of awesome! Thank you for playing cards with us! Please wander to her blog for a visit and, afterwards, drop by at my wonderful JUGS team's places: Sue, Angie, Vicki, Ina, Bobby, Nancy, Lisa, Maria and Cécile. If you have a chance to comment, that would be a real treat.

Sue asked for two or 'more' patterned paper, so I've delivered with FIVE! This circle die from The Stamp Market is perfect for using up assorted sizes of leftover papers. Such fun to piece them into their respective circles, too!

That's it from me!

Looking forward to seeing your patterned paper playgrounds!

Thank you for dropping by!

Just Us Girls Challenge #525~Wild Card: Inlay Die Cuts....LOVE!

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Happy February 29th!  Hope you have wonderful plans for this extra day! Me: off to a pop-up shopping event by a local retailer! Yayyyy!  Picking up some new Lawn Fawn and maybe a couple other things!

Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #525, where our lovely Nancy invites us to Inlay Die Cuts for this week's Wild Card theme.

We are super thrilled to have incredibly talented Betty Jacobson joining us once again as Guest Designer - but also sad that this will be her finale with us. Betty, your inspiration this month has been above and beyond! Thank you for gracing us with your talents and, hopefully, we'll see you often in the gallery! Please wander to her blog for a visit and, afterwards, drop by at my wonderful JUGS team's places: Sue, Angie, Vicki, Ina, Bobby, Nancy, Lisa, Maria and Cécile. If you have a chance to comment, that would be a real treat.

I'm sharing some 'floral' love today, complete with a little bee!  Hope you can see that these sweet  Paper Smooches Garden Greetings (except for the bee, who is buzzing overhead) are inlaid into the panel (I suspect you can because.my die-cutting is not exactly straight...sigh!!).  The panel is propped up with foam tape, so in real life, the recessing is quite evident. Such a joy to colour these; they are adorable, as are the other stamps in the collection.

That's it from me! Looking forward to seeing you go *wild* with inlay die cuts this week!

Thank you for dropping by!

Just Us Girls Challenge #516~Wild Card Week...Winter Wishes

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #516, where wonderful Vicki is making things super simple for us with an ANYTHING GOES challenge!  Go wild and fill the gallery! 

We're thrilled to welcome talented Kristin from Lilypad Designs to the JUGS family as our November Guest Designer and, as this is her final challenge with us, want to express how deeply we appreciated her awesome inspiration! Please check out her wonderful card along with those from the fabulous JUGS team: Sue, Angie, Vicki, Ina, Bobby, Nancy, Lisa and Maria. They would love to know you dropped by.

Sweet penguins from Heffy Doodle stamps bringing warm winter wishes! They're just too adorable!

This will be our last post for 2019 (we're taking a break) so this challenge will run though the entire month of December. Vicki will RANDOMLY select 1 player to be our GUEST DESIGNER for the month of February 2020. On January 4th [our returning challenge], she will announce the winner!

Hope you'll play along with us, especially since you're sure to have plenty of new crafting goodies to share!

Wishing all my wonderful visitors a most 

MERRY CHRISTMAS 

and 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Thank you for dropping by!

Just Us Girls Challenge #503~Wild Card Week...Birthday Fishes

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #503~Wild Card Week, where our lovely Sue invites us to Splash something on our card/project.  Ink, paint, water...perhaps even an image of a splash! Oh, the possibilities!

We're thrilled to have Tristan Dawes joining us with her finale as our August guest designer; Tristan, thank you for sharing marvelous inspiration this month. Please check out her wonderful card, along with those from the fabulous JUGS team: Sue, Angie, Vicki, Ina, Bobby, Nancy, Lisa and Maria. They would love to know you dropped by.

I splashed two ways on my card: alcohol inks and a fabulous negative plash die from Picket Fence Studio. Studio Katia ocean images and sentiment complete the scene...

Looking forward to a gallery filled with your SPLASH cards/projects!

Thank you for dropping by!

Just Us Girls Challenge #494~Wild Card Week...You are RAD!

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #494 where Ina has chosen a *wild* theme for this week: Fancy Folds!  I'm just a same old, same old kind of card-maker (plain ol' A2, usually side folding), so this was definitely a challenge. Skills stretched for sure...and that's a good thing *grin*

This is the final week for Marlena McDeavitt as our guest designer; Marlena, thank you so much for sharing your inspired, inspiring creations with us throughout June! Please visit her, as well as my teammates - Sue, Angie, Vicki, Ina, Bobby, Nancy, Lisa and Maria - who would love to know you dropped by.
After several 'experiments,' I finally managed a gatefold card that, for the most part, does 'meet' in the center. I covered my various sections with Boys Rule papers and ephemera by Cocoa Vanilla.  I'm planning to give this to my nephew...just need to find a photo to place inside the frame. I hope he'll like it; I think he is mighty RAD!!

Over to you...

Looking forward seeing your fancy folds in the gallery!

Thank you for dropping by!

Lovely Blooms...Just Us Girls Challenge #447~Wild Card Week

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #447~Wild Card Week, where our wonderful Vicki has decided to open the floodgates with an 'Anything Goes' theme! In addition, she's giving away a prize (random draw) if we get over 75 entries! Enter as often as you want and...go WILD!!

If you've come from - or are heading to - the challenge blog, you'll see an array of fabulous cards from our June Guest Designer, ever-so-talented Hannelie Bester (THANK YOU so much for sharing your incredible talents with us this month, Hannelie!)  - and my talented teammates: Sue, Angie, Vicki, Ina, Bobby, Nancy, Lisa, Maria.

Today, I'm sharing two cards, the panels designed over the course of the 30 Day Colouring Challenge. Inspiration for the left one came from Michelle, of The Card Grotto fame; the second (on the right) was my attempt to try some colour blends of my own, inspired by the current book cover over at The Library Challenge #10~The Rose Garden.  Still a HUGE learning curve with my zigs! Haven't given up on them just yet *grin* 

Studio Katia: Lovely Blooms

Studio Katia: Birthday Greetings 

NOTE: Honoured and thrilled to receive Librarian's Choice recognition, alongside two other designers. THANK YOU!

Looking forward to seeing your *Anything Goes* creations in the gallery!

Also sharing at:

Always Happy Birthday June Challenge~Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge~Anything Goes

Seize the Birthday Challenge~Anything Goes

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