Just Us Girls Challenge #644~Word Week - Butterflies....Happy Birthday PFS Stenciled Butterfly

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #644, where our wonderful hostess, Vicki, has selected *Butterflies* as this week's word challenge. Given all the butterfly stamps/dies/images in craft-land, we're sure to some absolutely gorgeous cards! 

We also welcome Catherine Roffey as our guest designer for August.

I've had the Pinkfresh Studio Butterfly die and stencils for a while, and just recently added the accompanying stamp. My stars, but what a difference it makes! Sooooo pretty! The background floral paper is from Cocoa Vanilla; I think it pairs wonderfully with the butterfly, leaving it to be the star of the stage.

Looking forward to seeing a flutter of butterflies filling the gallery!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #639~Word Week - Mammals....

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #639, where our lovely hostess, Nancy, has selected 8Mammals*as this week's prompt.  Bring out your critters! 

Also, we're delighted to have Fran guesting alongside us for the month of July.

I'm smitten with the kittens from Colorado Craft Co. So cute!

Looking forward to your marvelous mammal cards in the gallery!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #631 - WORD Week - Flowers...Good Friends Always Know When You Need A Cup of Tea

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #631, where our lovely hostess, Vicki, has selected *Flowers* as this week's word prompt. We're a bit away from flowers in full bloom here, but Spring's presence is starting to show...budding leaves, wee sprouts peeking from the lilies and a scattering of wild crocus on the hillsides where we walk our girl.

We're delighted to welcome Deborah Wheeler as our May Guest Designer. Her card and those of my team are absolutely lovely! 

My tea cup, the pink blooms and the lightly stenciled scattered dots background are all from Pigment Craft Co. Such fun that many of the products play so well with one another; more possibilities, for sure!

Looking forward to seeing your flowers blooming in the gallery!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #626~WORD Week...Happy Easter Bunny Ears and Eggs (Pigment Craft Co.)

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #626, where our lovely hostess, Elizabeth, has selected EGG as this week's word prompt. Perfect for getting a start (or a wrap up) on Easter cards.

We're delighted to have Mac Mable joining us as our April Guest Designer and what a designer extraordinaire she is! Amazing creativity, as you'll see at the main blog post. My teammates have created fabulous cards as well; if you have a moment to drop by and leave them some love, I know it will be appreciated.

My bunny ears-and-eggs cards combine products from two favourite companies; My Creative Time (eggs) which I've followed for years and the bunny ears slit, stencil and Easter from Pigment Craft Co.  I can't say enough about the quality of both company's products; awesome in every regard! I cut the Easter word six times with different colours of cardstock backed with Die Cut 'n Bond. After that, a simple matter of adding the sticker-ified letters to the background layer. Three cards done; three to finish assembling...stay tuned! 

That's all from me; your turn to 'get crackin'!

Looking forward to seeing dozens and dozens of *EGG* themed cards in the gallery!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #618~Word Week...Happy Birthday, Friend

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #618, where our lovely hostess, Cécile, has selected *Friends* as this week's word inspiration. 

Finally had a play with some of the Missees' Pet collection and for this challenge, Funny Bunny is receiving star billing. He is soooo cute, with his itty bitty running shoes and big birthday gift. He makes me smile! The other pets will have their opportunity on the stage soon...stay tuned!

Looking forward to seeing your *Friends* themed cards filling the gallery!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #609~Word Week: Merry...Merry Christmas with STAMPlorations Christmas Ephemera

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #609, where our sweet Nancy has selected MERRY as this week's word prompt.  With the festive season drawing near, Merry is certainly a timely. 

 We're delighted to welcome Rachel Davis as our November Guest Designer. Her card and those of my teammates are sure to put you into a merry-making mood!

I played with Christmas ephemera from STAMPlorations....again! As I've mentioned in previous posts, I LOVE these images! Such a variety, too! Snowflakes are Lawn Fawn; sentiment is an oldie but goodie set from Happy Little Stampers. I think it's pretty clear what my Christmas stash will look like this year! 

Looking forward to how your cards/projects will make us MERRY in the gallery this week!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #604~Word Week: Halloween...Pretty in Pink Halloween Card, Treat Holders, Tag, MemoryDex (My Creative Time)

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #604, where I'm delighted to be your hostess for this first challenge of October. I absolutely LOVE creating Halloween-themed projects so, of course, I'm inviting you to do the same! Bring out your spook-tacular creativity and dazzle us with your Fa-BOO-lous Halloween makes!  

We're delighted to welcome Nora Noll as our Guest Designer for October. Her card is sure to fright...I mean, delight *grin* you, as will those by my teammates. Check out their amazing inspiration below. 

One of my favourite companies is My Creative Time and when Emma shared her new release - complete with awesome samples - I 'had' to go shopping and, as it turns out, case a couple of her showcases. The results: a card (total case), a treat envelope, a gift card holder and a circle tag (kind of cased), using products from her 113th Release. And yes: I even splurged in ordering the same paper she did: Prima Marketing's Thirty-One. I LOVE it!!  The best part - besides having a ton of fun creating this spooky collection - is that it only called on one piece of 12 x 12 paper! Lots left to play with; LOTS! 

Your turn! Looking forward to a gallery filled with Halloween, be it spooky or cute or somewhere in the middle!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #596~Word Week: Harvest...Planting Journal

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #596, where our lovely Bobby has selected *Harvest* as this week's word prompt.  Fruits, vegetables, flowers, field crops...what will you harvest for this theme?

A new month brings new changes to Just Us Girls. First, we're sad to bid "see you later* to teammate, Maria Levin, who has been designing since 2009. We wish you all the best as you delve into other facets of creativity. Second, we're delighted to welcome Elizabeth Stewart, from papersweetness.blogspot.com to the team. Her “10 minute immersions into creativity” are guaranteed to inspire. Third, we're delighted to have Claire Apostoloff joining us as our August Guest Designer.  Lots of inspiration happening today over on the blog!

Okay...so I have fallen head-over-heels for the Elizabeth Craft Designs Planner Essentials collection and the wide variety of journals/albums that I've seen using them. At present, I have no plans to journal or create albums (not a photographer; not that interested in having pictures printed), but I *DO* have plans to play with pretty papers!  What started this was the little seed of an idea to create Advent Calendar journals (sort of like December Dailies, which I've never done) for my niece and nephew this year. The seed has started to grow...and so has my ECD collection. 

That said...I need to practice my journal/album skills before diving into the Advent project, so I decided to do so with this challenge. Below are a few pages of my 'playing around' with a variety of the dies and a patterned paper collection from Mintay, called Country Fair.  This ticks all the boxes for me: lovely vegetable-and-floral papers, pretty backgrounds (the pink woodgrain...swoon!), delightful chipboard stickers and a WHOLE lot of die-cutting/assembling. What I'll do with these pages, who knows. But...I've decided it's all about the process and for now, that's enough. 

Here's what I have so far...still a work in progress.

I can't even tell you how much fun I had putting these pages, even if several were 'left as is' because the images did all the work.  Next on the list: getting an actual journal to put these in!

Thank you for wandering through my babbling-and-photo-heavy post! Turning the stage over to you!

Looking forward to seeing how Harvest inspires you!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #556~Word Week...Plaid Happy Halloween

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #556, where our lovely hostess, Bobby, has selected PLAID as this week's word prompt.  I love plaid...

We're excited to welcome Karen Walker as our October Guest designer. She, along with the rest of the team -  Sue, Angie, Vicki, Ina, Bobby, Nancy, Lisa, and Maria - have some fabulous plaid delights for you.  If you have a chance to visit and leave comments, know that will be appreciated! 

I'm in full-on Halloween mode so I've used a pretty plaid background from a Simple Stories Halloween kit from last year as my background for the cutie-patootie ghost, witch hat and sentiment.  Nothing 'scary' here. *grin*  Yes...it's a slimline...a smaller-ish version! 

Looking forward to seeing your takes on plaid in the gallery!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #543~Word Week: Rainbow...Your Make the World More Colourful & You Make It Rain Rainbows

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Happy 4th of July to my USA friends! Celebrate wildly...but be SAFE, please!!

I'm delighted to be hostess for Just Us Girls Challenge #543, where I've selected RAINBOW as this week's word prompt. We all love rainbows, and given they come in such a wide range of styles, I'm hoping to see the gallery bursting at the seams with your ROYGBIV creations!

Just a note: you don't have to make a 'rainbow'; rainbow colours are totally a-okay, which is the direction taken by some of the design team! Be as creative as you please in interpreting the prompt!

New month = a new guest designer! We're thrilled to welcome super talented, super sweet Trina, from Phamtastic Designs to Just Us Girls for July! Her cards are always wonderful works of art and, as you'll see below, this rainbow delight is no exception! Please, enjoy gazing at and admiring her card, as well as all the smile-making 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.

After sitting in my 'never before used stuff' pile since last summer, my Avery Elle Rainbow dies finally make their debut. Here, two rainbow sporting-rainbow shaped cards using distress inks, spritzed with Perfect Pearl water for a little bit of  'rainy' sheen. I have another 7 more using cardstock. Those will make an appearance down the road. Aren't the sentiments sweet? Love them! 

That's it from me!

Looking forward to seeing your RAINBOW creations this week!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #539~Word Week: Sunshine...Be You; Be Happy

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Welcome to our first Just Us Girls Challenge #539 for June, where our delightful Maria has selected Sunshine as our inspiration!  Perfect for the tail end of Spring/beginning of Summer season!

A new month brings us a new guest designer: Mugdha. Her card is a sunshine delight, as are those by my teammates: Sue, Angie, Vicki, Ina, Bobby, Nancy, Lisa, Maria and Cécile. If you have a chance to leave comments, that would be a real treat.

The cutie-patootie sunshine from Paper Smooches is the star of the stage and is joined by clouds-and-rainbow friends from the same set. I just love the glasses and the adorable little smiles!

That's it from me!

Looking forward to seeing your Sunshine-themed cards in the gallery this week!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #534~WORD...You're My Super Hero

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #534, where our lovely Nancy has selected a topic that has great relevance to all of us these days: HERO.  We're surrounded by them: people who are doing their best for the 'common' good of all. From frontline medical personnel to volunteers in seniors' homes...they are the people who inspire all of us to rise to become more than who we are.

We're thrilled to have talented, super creative Deborah Frings joining us as this month's guest designer; 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.

As you can see on the JUGS blog, our guest and my teammates have done an incredible job of showcasing medical personnel and/or PPE. Alas, digital images are not part of my repertoire; doctor/nurse images aren't in my collection; creative 'masking' not in my wheelhouse. Soooo...I went with my Super Heroes (Taylored Expressions stamps/dies, Uniko Explosion stamps/dies, Paper Rose Super Hero patterned paper), with the hope that they'll be well received by all of you as well as the people outside the medical fields that are keeping us going. At this point, 'anybody' still going to work or reaching out to help others in some fashion is a 'super hero' to me! 

As you can see, I got carried away with my Super Heroes!

That's it from me!

Looking forward to seeing who your HEROES are!

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