JUGS # 345 Photo Week

Over at Just Us Girl's Lisa has a photo challenge for us.

I pulled out a stamp my BFF gave me from Stamps of Life called "Pinwheel".

I used some brushos for the background and then stamped my colors on the pinwheel.

I added a few sequins and called it good!

You must check out what the design team created from this inspiration photo, there is some amazing cards!  And you can see  bigger picture of this "craft" room!!

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JUST US GIRLS Challenge meets CAS Mix-Up Challenge

I saw Jennifer McGuire water color on vellum using both Wink of Stella and the newer Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens.  I had to give it a try and enter ONE more card into the JUGS Challenge which asks for vellum! that is the "trend for this week"  and right on, because the last Online class was all about vellum and acetate on cards! (A friend gifted the class to me, sweet, right?)

This is the Altenew Beautiful Day stamp set that was white embossed and then colored with red  and clear Wink of Stella.  After adding a bit of the red, I pulled it out with the clear to help give it some dimension and coloration (is that the right word?)  Other than clear WOS, I have gold and a silver, however I picked up a red the other day to give this technique a try.  I used gold for the leaves because I didn't have green!  And it is sad that we can't capture the sparkle on camera because it really does shine!  I embossed the sentiment in gold to tie in with the gold leaves.  And, I did color on the right side, not the back of the image!

I think this card is very elegant looking!

EDITED TO ADD:  Loll reminded me that I could also enter this card in the CAS Mix-UP Challenge, so I am linking this card to that challenge also...you need to emboss on your card, stamp and your choice!

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JUGS with vellum

My friend is going to be a grandmother for the third time, her son and daughter-in-law is expecting their first child in August and I am invited to the shower.  My daughter needed a baby girl gift also, so we bought a cute outfit from Gymboree.

It is a little onsie with bottoms that have cute little giraffte faces on the feet!

The giraffe on the onsie is yellow, so I made the card to be like the outfit.

My vellum is striped and I layered it over a lovely lady pink cardstock.

I am entering this in the JUGS challenge also.

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Just Us Girls # 343

Hi friends, I have a very rainy Sunday here, so I don't have to feel guilty about playing inside!

Today I am joining JUGS again, I saw that they were asking for vellum as that seems to be the trend these days.  And oddly enough I have three cards that I used vellum!  Just a coincidence too!

I first saw this technique called Watercolor Bleaching by Kelly over at her blog.

I thought I would give it a try with some random stamps from the SOA called Enchanted Garden by Sugar Pea Designs.  I white embossed all my flowers and leaves, then I used four distress inks and blended them all over and over again.  I started with wild honey at the bottom and worked my way up, then I used abandoned coral, fired brick and worn lipstick. 

The bleaching happens (without bleach!) by using water on a brush and then dabbing it off .  Because distress inks react to water, it pulls the color out and makes it look like it was bleached out.

My sentiment is from PTI called Bold & Beautiful and it was stamped and embossed with white on vellum.  I also splattered water drops from my paintbrush, and I wanted some white drops too, so I used a pin and my pearl acrylic paint to make some small white dots.

The last thing I did was use copics to go around the outline of the stamps being careful to not touch the embossed outline with my copic pen.

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Just Us Girls ~ Butterflies

I was privileged to meet in person the owner/manager of our Seize the Birthday Challenge and Nancy is also a designer for Just Us Girls Challenge too!

I went over to check out this "JUGS" Challenge and saw that it was butterflies...I couldn't pass that up

I drove up to Seattle and stayed with my BFF of 59 years, she lives south and east of SouthCenter and  she DOES NOT drive downtown Seattle (and I wouldn't either!!), so we had an adventure on the Light Rail!  I could legitimately claim ignorance as I am from Portland...hee hee...so with a little help we made it downtown and now we are pros and will do it again...and for seniors it is only $1 each way!  Woo hoo!!  We had a beautiful sunny warm day and meeting Nancy was a highlight of my trip...gosh we just talked like we had been best friends forever and were just catching up!!  She is the sweetest person ever and has a great sense of humor!  We had the best time getting to know each other, and I am sure we will be meeting up again especially since Nancy's son lives in Seattle now!

stamps & dies all PTI:  Embroidered Borders, Inspired by: Faith, Color Pop: Butterflies

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