Time Out #177 - Photo Inspiration Challenge

 Hi friends!  It's time for a new Time Out challenge.  This is our photo inspiration challenge.  The beautiful monochromatic photo is below.

We are sponsored by STAMPlorations for this challenge.

I have used a stencil from their ARTplorations line, however I could not find it on their site.  It may have been retired.  However, it's a cool one and I thought perfect for this challenge.  I started with die cutting a fog cardstock panel with a stitched rectangle then used Versamark ink through the stencil.  I embossed it with silver embossing powder.  Then I found a small snowflake die and a merry die and cut from white cardstock.  In the center of each snowflake, I placed a silver crystal.  I forgot to mention I spritzed the panel with shimmer spray before adding the die cuts.  

You can see more from the Time Out design team and our guest for this challenge, Vicky, on the

Time Out blog.

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Recipe

Paper:  Fog, recollections white

Ink:  Versamark

Accessories:  Artplorations stencil, stitched rectangle (MFT), Christmas Greetings die (MFT), Warm Wishes snowflake (C&9th), crystals, shimmer spray, silver embossing powder

 

Time Out #176 - Inspired by Words

 Hi everyone!  The new Time Out challenge is our Inspired by Words challenge.  Here's the quote:

"Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings."

I've had this Sunny Studios stamp set for quite some time and haven't used it yet.  The bells and bows are three-step stamps.  I love those bells!  They look so shiny, and yet it's just the colors of ink used and the design of the stamp.  I started by die cutting the panel with a stitched rectangle, then blended some tumbled glass oxide ink on the background.  I aged it a bit with gathered twigs oxide ink.  Then I stamped the branch twice to fill in the panel.  The bells and bows were stamped and die cut and adhered to the panel.  I found this sentiment in an old Papertrey Ink stamp set.  I added crystals and before I adhered the panel to the base, I spritzed it with some shimmer spray.  That shimmer is so pretty!  I added crystals to finish it off.

You can see more from our Time Out design team and our guest for this challenge, Jenny, on the Time Out blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Holiday Style (Sunny Studios), Communique Curves (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white

Ink:  Versafine Clair nocturne, silver stone, industrial diamond (Altenew); rockin' red, peppermint scrub, spruce (C. Pooler); tumbled glass, gathered twigs (Distress Oxide)

Accessories:  Holiday Style dies (Sunny Studio), stitched rectangle (MFT), crystals, shimmer spray, craft foam

Just Us Girls #564 - Photo Week

 Hi friends!  This is the last Just Us Girls challenge for 2020.  The JUGs design team is taking a break for December...we will be back in January 2021!  But for this Photo Week challenge, Cecile chose this photo of a tower of gifts. 

I immediately thought of this very cute Presents Stack tag die from Simon Says Stamp.  It's only about three inches tall.  There are two dies in the set.  One cuts the base of the tag and the other cuts all the present details.  I die cut the detail one four times:  three times from different pattern papers and once from the silver glitter cardstock.  To put them together, I used the negative from one of the pattern papers as a guide to inlay all the different pieces.  I added black and white baker's twine to complete the tag.  I saved all the pieces left over so I can create three more tags

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our November guest, Joyce, on the JUGs blog.  This is Joyce's last week with us and we'd like to thank her for joining us and for her beautiful cards the month!

I hope you have safe and happy holidays!

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Recipe

Paper:  Recollections white, silver glitter cardstock, pattern paper scraps

Accessories:  Present Stack Tag die (SSS), baker's twine

Just Us Girls #563 - Color Week

Hi friends!  It's Color Week over at Just Us Girls, and Ina chose navy, green, and purple (she had to sneak in purple, her favorite color!). 

I just got this 3-D embossing folder from Simon Says Stamp and made a card with the traditional fall colors.  I loved it so much that I thought these challenge colors would look good with it as well.  I started by die cutting a white cardstock panel with a stitched rectangle.  I spritzed it with water to prepare it for the embossing folder and ran it through the die cutting machine.  This embossing folder is so cool!  The dimension is amazing.  Then I used two shades of each color and blended them onto the panel.  I then die cut the sentiment word from white glitter cardstock and twice from plain white cardstock and adhered them together for dimension.  I cut a piece of vellum to wrap around the panel and adhered the word die cut to it.  Crystals finished it off.  

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our November guest on the JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Paper:  Recollections white, white glitter cardstock, vellum

Ink:  Bundled sage, rustic wilderness, shaded lilac, dusty concord, faded jeans, chipped saffire

Accessories:  Fall Foliage embossing folder (SSS), stitched rectangle die (MFT), thankful die (C. Pooler), crystals

Time Out #175 - Quick Card

Hello everyone!  The new Time Out challenge is to make something quick.  It can be a card that you've made quick, time going quickly, kids growing up quickly, etc.  Use your imagination!

We are sponsored by Catherine Pooler Designs for this challenge, and I used many of her products on my card.

I thought I would make a "quick" card, meaning it wouldn't take long to make.  Well, that was a challenge because I had to find a background stamp I wanted, the Catherine Pooler products I wanted to use, and find the darn glitter paper I wanted to use!  I have a bunch of it, but I could not find it even now!  That being said, once the materials were found and decided upon, I believe this card could be make very quickly!  I started with the background.  Watching a Jennifer McGuire video today, I used her technique for it.  I blended three blue distress oxide inks on white cardstock then spritzed a background stamp with water and stamped it on the inked cardstock.  It leaves a soft impression and looks almost velvety.  I then die cut the frame, sentiment, and snowflakes as well as the background and adhered them onto the background.  I wish I could have captured the sparkle from the glitter paper.  It's so pretty!

You can see more from the Time Out design team on the Time Out blog. 

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Recipe

Stamps:  Garden Flourish bg (MFT)

Paper:  Recollections white, Nuvo sugar crystal glitter card

Ink:  Speckled egg, stormy sky, faded jeans distress oxide

Accessories:  Stitched rectangle (MFT), snowflake mini cover plate, joy wreath die, good stuff dies (C. Pooler), craft foam

 

Just Us Girls #562 - Trend Week

 Hi friends!  The Just Us Girls Trend Week challenge was a challenging one for me!  No-line watercoloring for me gives me the shivers, but it's always good to try something new.

So I went soooo simple with my first try at this trend.  I honestly don't know how people do this!  LOL!  Have you seen the samples the JUGs design team created?  OMG!  Gorgeous!  I've been taking a Christmas watercolor class over at the Online Card Classes and printed out a template used for one of the cards created.  I used a pencil to scribble on the back of the template then put it face up on the watercolor paper and traced it.  It left behind the graphite image of the template.  That was the "no-line" part.  Then I used Magellan Mission watercolors (I've had these forever and just filled all the wells with the colors) to fill in the tree.  It looks like a five year old did it!  LOL!   Once dry, I used a Nuvo gold glitter brush to add ornaments to the tree.  I also heat embossed the sentiment in gold.  The panel was die cut with a wonky stitches die and I added gold crystals to finish it off.  This card actually looks much prettier than it does here.  I just can't seem to get good photos lately.  I have to research that!

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our November guest on the JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Snowflake Soiree (The Greetery)

Paper:  Strathmore watercolor, garden green

Ink:  Versamark, Magellen Mission watercolors

Accessories:  Wonky Stitches die (Avery Elle), gold embossing powder, Nuvo gold glitter pen, crystals, craft foam

Just Us Girls #561 - Word Week

Hi everyone!  It's Word Week over at Just Us Girls and Vicki chose the word TRIANGLE.

I got this boxed set from Gina K and Thermo Web recently and the picture on the front of the trees caught my eye when I was trying to determine how I was going to use a triangle on my card.  Perfect!  The insert had pictures of tags (and I love tags!), so I cased that picture.  I started by stamping the mountains on the tags then stenciled the clouds in the background.  Then I die cut all the pieces.  The set comes with a stencil, so I used it to decorate the trees and the gnomes' hats.  I added red stickles to the ornaments on the trees and star dust stickles to the tops of the mountains.  I stamped the sentiments on the tag and added twine to finish it off.

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our new guest for November, Joyce Mehrberg, on the JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Gnome for the Holidays (Gina K/Thermo Web)

Ink:  Versafine Claire, sand castle, over coffee, tumbled glass, broken china, festive berries, pine needles, unicorn white

Accessories:  Gnome for the Holidays dies and stencil, infinity tag die (Hero Arts), mini cloud stencil (MFT), twine, red stickles, star dust stickles, dimensionals

Time Out #174 - Theme Challenge

 Hi friends!  The new Time Out challenge is our theme challenge, and the theme is festivals.

This was a little perplexing for me as I was trying to find images to fit the challenge.  I did two, but settled on this one.  (The other is posted below as well.)  I chose to use the Pinwheel Party set from The Greetery as I thought it looked festive.  I went with Christmas colors because I thought I could use it as a Christmas card or invitation (although I don't think I'm having any parties any time soon).  I also used a stencil to create the confetti on the bottom half of the card.  The twist on this challenge is to use shimmer or glitter.  I don't know if you can see it, but the cardstock I used for the die cut sentiment is a red shimmer.  I added crystals to the centers of the pinwheels for more sparkle.

This is the first card I made.  It's a trifold card...the JOY word folds down and the main panel folds up.  The main panel was stenciled with a Trinity Stamps stencil in green and red as well as black for the strings.  You can see the shimmer on the word die cut better on this one than in the first photo.

You can see more from the Time Out design team on the Time Out blog.

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Recipe (card 1)

Paper:  Recollections white, real red, red shimmer

Ink:  Festive berries, mowed lawn

Accessories:  Stitched rectangle (MFT), Pinwheel Party stencil and die (The Greetery), crystals, craft foam

Recipe (card 2)

Paper:  Recollections white, garden green, red shimmer

Ink:  Wild cherry, gumdrop green, black soot, unicorn white

Accessories:  Slimline buntings and lights (Trinity Stamps), Full of Joy Trifold die (C&9th), shimmer

Just Us Girls #560 - Wild Card Week

 Hey friends!  Happy Halloween!

It's the 5th week of October which means it's Wild Card Week over at Just Us Girls.  Angie is the hostess and chose to use Word Die-Cuts.  Easy peasy!

I just purchased this cute Thanksgiving gnome at my LSS yesterday.  He's so cute!  There are two others in the set, so I'll be making lots of Thanksgiving cards.  I started by stamping him and coloring him with copic markers then die cut him with the coordinating die.  Then I used a fall leaves layering stencil to create the background using several distress oxide inks.  For the challenge, I die cut the sentiment three times and stacked them for dimension.  I also die cut two rectangles from brown cardstock as well the stenciled background.  I added shimmer to the word and gnome and copper crystals.

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our October guest, Karen, on the JUGs blog.  Thanks to Karen for being such a great guest this month!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Gnome for the Holiday Thanksgiving (Photo Play)

Paper:  Recollections white, early espresso

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, dried marigold, shabby shutters, crushed olive, peeled paint, brushed corduroy. walnut stain, copic markers

Accessories:  Falling Leaves Layering stencil (SSS), Gnome die (Photo Play), stitched rectangles (MFT), thankful die (C. Pooler), shimmer, crystals, craft foam

Just Us Girls #559 - Photo Week

Hi friends!  Nancy chose a really great picture for our Just Us Girls Photo Week challenge.  I just love the colors and design!

I pulled out some Altenew products to create this card.  I started by die cutting the vase from some ivory cardstock then used frayed burlap distress ink and a blending brush to get the texture look similar to the vase in the photo.  Then I stamped the pink flowers and made a mask for it.  I put the mask over the flowers and stamped the fern in spruce ink.  This was a second generation stamping because I wanted the color to be lighter.  I adhered the vase to the panel that was die cut with a stitched rectangle die.  The mat panel behind it was created the same way as the vase and also die cut with a stitched rectangle die.  I added clear sequins to finish it off.  The sentiment was die cut three times and stacked.

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our October guest on the JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Vase Fillers & Mod Vases (Altenew)

Paper:  Recollections white, black, ivory

Ink:  Polished, spruce, frayed burlap

Accessories:  Mod Vases die (Altenew), stitched rectangle dies (MFT), sentiment die (Dee's Distinctively), crstals, masking magic, craft foam

Time Out #173 - Photo Inspiration

 Hi friends!  Time Out has a photo inspiration challenge this time around.  It's a lovely photo that I'm sure will have many interpretations.

Mine was somewhat literal.  I watched a video that Jennifer McGuire did recently.  She called it Die Cut Letterpress.  Here's the process.  I die cut the snowflake three times from white cardstock and once from vellum and adhered them together.  Then I inked the vellum side using a blending brush and walnut stain distress oxide ink.  I placed the snowflake face down onto Tim Holtz watercolor paper and ran it through my die cut machine with a rubber mat.  (I did spritz the watercolor paper a bit before doing this to make it more pliable.)  This causes the die cuts to make an impression into the watercolor paper as well as transfer the ink.  The vellum keeps the ink wet so the transfer is easy.  I die cut the sentiment twice from white cardstock and once from the woodgrain pattern paper and layered them together.  That was adhered under the snowflake.  I die cut the woodgrain pattern paper and adhered that to the card base.  The main panel was adhered with craft foam.  I added the bronze crystals and some star dust stickles on the small openings of the snowflake.

You can see more from the Time Out design team and our guest for this challenge, Rhamat, on the Time Out blog.

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Recipe

Paper:  Recollections white, Tim Holtz watercolor, Sasparilla (October Afternoon)

Ink:  Walnut stain distress oxide

Accessories:  Stitched rectangle dies (MFT), fancy flake die (PTI), winter words die (Reverse Confetti), crystals, star dust stickles, craft foam

Just Us Girls #558 - Color Week

Hi friends!  It's getting closer to Halloween and Maria chose some fun Halloween colors for our Just Us Girls Color Week challenge.  However, these could be used for any card!

 

I was going through my fall collection of stamps and found this cutie. It's from La La Land (I'm not sure they are still in business) and the insert had the colored image on it, so it made it easy for me to color the image!  She's colored with copic markers.  Once I finished coloring it, I die cut it with a stitched rectangle.  Then I created a mask for the image.  I laid it on top of it and blended some orchid ink around her.  It looks very faint and sort of blue in the photo, but it's really orchid and looks so pretty.  I stamped the sentiment on it and mounted it on black cardstock then purple gingham.  There is shimmer on parts of her outfit, glossy accents on the lollipop, and purple crystals.  

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our October guest on the JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Pumpkin Marcie (La La Land), How You Bean Candy Corn add-on (Lawn Fawn)

Paper:  Recollections white, black, gingham (Lawn Fawn)

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, shaded lilac, copic markers

Accessories:  Stitched rectangle die (MFT), Audrey cutaways (Winnie & Walter), glossy accents, crystals, shimmer, craft foam

Just Us Girls #557 - Trend Week

 Hi friends!  I'm the hostess over at Just Us Girls this week and I chose the OMBRE trend for our Trend Challenge.

I made another slimline card and channeled Jennifer McGuire once again.  I just love what she does with her techniques.  She recently did this technique in one of her videos called Negative Ink Layering.  What I did here was stamp the image on the cardstock then used the die to cut out a mask from Gina K masking paper.  I placed the mask onto the image, then used three different blue inks to create the ombre look.  Keeping the mask on, I used a leaf stencil and inked through it using the same three blue inks.  That is a little difficult to see.  With the mask still on, I used a small dotted stencil and white ink to ink over the panel.  I took off the mask to reveal the original stamped image. I die cut the sentiment and added the crystals and shimmer to the sentiment.  (I should have added a second smaller sentiment under the word die cut!  I'm going to do that later.)

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our October guest on the JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Beautiful Flowers 2 (SSS)

Paper:  Recollections white, black

Ink:  Tumbled glass, salty ocean, faded jeans distress oxide; unicorn white

Accessories:  Beautiful Flowers 2 die (SSS), slimline envelope builder word die (Trinity Stamps), floating leaves stencil (SSS), feeling dotty stencil (Altenew), crystals, shimmer, craft foam

Time Out #172 - Theme Challenge

 Hey friends it's October!  Summer sure went fast for me.  And because it's October, we all know it's Breast Cancer Awareness month.  The Time Out challenge is celebrating by having it be our theme for this challenge.

I made a slimline card for this challenge and added pink to my card for the twist part of the challenge.  I stenciled the leaves with yellow and pink inks.  Then I used the coordinating leaf vines stamping them with Versamark ink and embossing them with gold detail powder.  I stamped and embossed the sentiment in the same manner on pink cardstock and die cut it with the coordinating die.  I added some gold crystals for more sparkle.  The matching envelope was made with the same die set used for the scalloped frame.  It's so difficult to photograph this size card.  I can't fit it in my photo tent!  Ugh!

You can see more from the Time Out design team and our guest for this challenge, Dhruvika, on the Time Out blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Hello Fall (Honey Bee)

Paper:  Recollections white, regal rose

Ink:  Versamark, spun sugar, worn lipstick, picked raspberry, fossilized amber, wild honey

Accessories:  Hello Fall dies and Hello Fall Leaves stencil (Honey Bee), Slimline Envelope Builder (Trinity), gold embossing powder, crystals

Just Us Girls #556 - Word Week

 Hi friends!  It's Word Week over at Just Us Girls, and Bobby chose PLAID.

I wanted to make a card for my friend's 10 year old granddaughter who recently broke her wrist riding her bike.  I had this gnome already colored and sitting on my desk, so I chose to use this.  Gwen had her hair in braids the last time I saw her, so I thought it was perfect.  And she has blonde hair!  I recently got this mini slimline card and envelope die set from Trinity Stamps which worked perfectly.  I first stamped the plaid background in orchid ink then die cut the tag from it.  I also die cut the scallop rectangle and adhered the tag to it with craft foam.  The sentiment die was die cut three times and stacked for dimension.  The gnome was adhered with dimensionals.  I added the twine, crystals and star dust stickles to the heart.

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our October guest on the JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Spring Gnomes (SSS), Sketch Plaid bg (C. Pooler)

Paper:  Recollections white, orchid

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, copics, sweet sixteen

Accessories:  Mini slimline card & envelope die set (Trinity Stamps), spring gnomes die (SSS), twine, crystals, star dust stickles, craft foam, dimensionals

Time Out #171 - Inspired by Words

 Hi friends!  The new Time Out challenge this time is our Inspired by Words challenge.  Love this one!

We are sponsored by STAMPlorations for this challenge.

I'm not a coffee drinker like most people out there.  My parents loved coffee and there was always a pot brewing on the stove.  I'd much rather drink champagne!  LOL!  But I do love coffee mugs better than champagne glasses, so I chose to use this set from Stamplorations called Coffee Joy.  I'd love to own a mug like this.  I colored it with copic markers and went over the designs of the flower with a black thin line marker because the lines were a little faded after coloring it.  The center of the flower has shimmer on it.  I fussy cut it (I hate fussy cutting, but it was easy to cut out) and popped it up on the panel that I created with two different pattern papers.  That panel was die cut with a scallop die.  I added copper crystals to the background.

You can see more from the Time Out design team on the Time Out blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Coffee Joy (Stamplorations), Birthday Greetings (Gina K)

Paper:  Recollections white, brocade blue, Pumpkin Spice (Pink & Main), Family Ties (Pebbles)

Ink:  Versafine claire nocturne, icing on the cake (C. Pooler), copic markers

Accessories:  Audrey cutaways die (Winnie & Walter), crystals, shimmer, craft foam