Just Us Girls Guest Design Week Three

Its that time again, a brand new Challenge and check out the colours for this week, Dark Pink, Pink and Blue. I know really hard to use, NOT. I am so enjoying these challenges.  For this one I decided to leave the butterflies and get back into flowers.

I have used a mixture of flowers here from a few different stamp sets as one of my favourite pass times is to stamp and emboss the flowers in bulk and then when I have time I just colour or paint and fussy cut later. I have containers with all my flowers in little piles in no particular order just easy access.

Now needing two different pinks I couldn't have found a better background paper than this patterned paper I have here, I LOVE it.

Anyhooo we have white embossed, gold embossed, silver embossed and diecut and lots of watercolouring pinks soft and pinks dark and blue so all criteria met.

Die cut a pink metallic look 'happy birthday' and its all done, ohh I stuck them all on with double sided tape easy as. Very light watercolouring for the vase so it looks like water in the bowl.

Ok now its time to go see what the Design Team at Just Us Girls has come up with and be inspired and then make a card or two and join us.

Thank you so much for coming to have a look and please come again. I love it when you visit.

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Ohhhh I am in heaven, in heaven, these pencils (I forgot to mention they are PRISMACOLOR) are so beautiful to play with. Look at how vibrant they are on on Kraft card stock. Don't look at my stamping mistakes (I ran out of Kraft card stock and now I have to wait for more to be delivered. I do have more things stamped but I was unable to rest amp this so we are going to look at the beauty not the balance OK!!)

More stamps coming out of NBUS pile or I should say have been stamped and coloured and fussy cut and then put aside, wellllll then I saw  how Kelly coloured them with the Chameleon pencils, I fell in love with the look. I don't have their pencils but I sure have a million and one pencils these days.

I just picked random colours and went rainbow for the front and yellow/orange for the back ones.

I may end up going over the black lines again though it is only really obvious here in this close up.

There is no need to adjust the photo at all, the colours are this vibrant on the kraft. I have always seen other peoples colouring on kraft and wondered if they put down white first...... no they don't the colour just goes down perfectly and each is soft and blends into the other. I didnt use any baby oil at all just pencil to pencil.

I cant wait to use this stamp more, its perfect and also more pencil, my copics are getting jealous now they will have to share custody of me. Goodness when I go away now I will need to double pack and of course now the next quest - what is the best paper to colour in on that is also white enough for the front of the cards.

Challenges:

Less is More Card Challenge #336 & #337

its a Collaboration  between Less is More and

AAA Cards so the next challenge

AAA Cards CAS Game #94

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #351 One Layer

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Three New Cards and its all about the Butterflies

My First card was inspired by The Muse Card Challenge #223 for this week

done by Anita Bowden

I absolutely love the  the coloured swatches Anita has done on her card

with the butterfly over the top. Its a style I have never ever been able to do and

I sadly lack in these style of stamps all together. 

I hunted through all that I had and found that the closest I came to swatches was a set of

smaller ones from STAMPlorations that I am sad to say that I bought many years ago and have never used. I sat and played all afternoon with different ideas and ended up feeling that this was a card that

I not only liked but it was also me.

I used the same stamp twice but turned it up side down for the second stamp and of course I stamped with my Distress Oxide Ink. Flicked just a little water as I have used cardstock and didn't want it to swell out of shape. I stamped and coloured a little butterfly with different green copics to get a close match as I didn't want all black.

I used just a small sentiment for the Birthday Wishes as the swatches and butterfly were small and I felt that was what suited better. So though its a different look it was certainly inspired by Anita and I thank her for the inspiration to step outside my usual style.

These next two butterfly cards came about over quite a long process. I had spent a quiet few hours blending Distress Ink colours on Watercolour panels in different mixes and some I put aside as fails or to be worked on. These two panels are from this pile. This first had started a mix of orange and red and become too red, I decided to stamp and white emboss a large butterfly from the Stampendous collection and do some water resist, problem was it really wasn't doing much at all. I had also stamped and white embossed the other panel and managed to bend it in the process, so it was sitting to the side as wastage and the red well a dud.

Then my pencils arrived, my new Prismacolor pencils, all 150 beautiful colours. so after I sat and sharpened then all, I started playing,  ohhhhh the joy, the ease. Remembering to colour lightly, blending colours in, layers, not hurting the hands. Yes I have become a pencil addict, not watercolour pencils but pencils like my Polychromos so I can combine the colours and use them together.

Look at those beautiful colours, so a card that was destined for the bin became a beautiful butterfly.

I added a couple of sequins and yes a most unusual front. I had bought these clear photo fronts in a reject shop and they sat amongst the NBUS stuff and fell into my hands and I loved the look.

I attached them with a strip of washi on the side so the recipient can open and look at the beauty

of the butterfly then open the card to read what I have to say to them. A three fold card with a difference. The flash has caught in the reflection of the first photo but the front is a white heart and the sentiment 'best friends'

Now the ultimate save, this is the card that ended up with a fold in it from to vigorous blending. Just love the pencil blending and the photos overs-heet. 

Look at those rich colours, achieved so easily with very little effort from the hands.

Love this butterfly, great for practicing and beautiful to look at.

Again I have attached the Photo clear panel with washi tape at the side, this time a white with gold spots.  You  & Me in White

Not sure if we have any challenges I can add these too.

Challenge

The Muse Card Challenge #223

Birthday Wishes

Seize the Birthday Red White and You

Without the topping this time. 

'Birthday Wishes'

HLS July CAS Challenge: Birthday

Birthday Wishes

Sparkles Monthly Challenge #93 Embossing Heat or Dry

You & Me Butterfly Card

Alphabet Challenge Blog 'I' for Insects

Best Friends Card

4 Crafty Chicks :  #358 Stamping No Digi's

You & Me card

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JUST US GIRLS Guest Designer Second week

This week is trend week

I decided to go with my Distress Ink Oxides and I have blended on

watercolour canvas. i still don't have the orange so I did mix of Barn Door Red and Worn Lipstick

to get the orange look.  

I Heat set the panel then used my butterfly dies to cut out the different

butterflies and one swirl.

While the butterflies were still removed I did a bit of water flicking, dabbed

dry and once happy, cut another lot of butterflies with orange fun foam to fill

the spots where the butterflies went so they could sit a bit higher. 

Used the Misti to help with the Butterfly related sentiment and all done.

Thanks so much for coming to have a look. 

Don't forget to go see what the Design Team have done at Just Us Girls and get inspired to join us this week for another challenge.

The Flower Challenge #10 Heat or Dry Emboss

It's time for a new challenge at 

The Flower Challenge and this month is

Which means either stamp and heat emboss the image or use an Embossing folder. I have Embossing Folders but very few that have flowers on them and now as Im writing this post I have just thought of a folder I could have used that is perfect so I think maybe I need to go make another card just because I can lol.

Anyway for todays card I have stamped and embossed.

But before I stamped I played with my Distress Ink Oxides. Worn Lipstick, Wilted

Violet and just a splash of Faded Jeans and lots of water flicks.  Once I was happy with the look of the page I decided to try stamping and try playing with copics as I had seen a video that Kelly Latovia and she is making a background and using Copics and is absolutely brilliant so go watch, but after ok, (if you go now you may not come back, as she is so so clever).

I stamped and white embossed with lots of masking these beautiful flowers from Altenew, then when happy with composition I coloured with Copics. Very very little colouring. It was just to add some contrast to the flower and the background, it does feel funny as you colour and I don't know how good it is for the Copic colouring over this medium but they appear to have held up ok.

I only used the darker colours in the Copics and then used grey C5 to add a bit of shadow, a silver mirror card die cute sentiment from Neat and Tangled and some silver gems and its all done. I did go over a couple of spots where the Copic had dulled the white embossing with my white gel pen.

A different card with a very different feel to the front of it. Such interesting inks, cant wait for the rest of Distress Oxides to come out.

Now its time to go over to The Flower Challenge and see what the rest of the Design Team have made for your Inspiration. If I know them at all it will be stunning.

EDITING

Challenges

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes - Last Card

Cute Card Thursday #484 Anything Goes

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Two Cards & Two Very Different Looks

Thought I would get a card done in plenty of time for the Muse Card Challenge

rather than my usual last minute style. I was getting my cards done last night, these two and a couple of others needed for future posts before I headed off for my weekly two days baby sitting duties

down the coast at my sons. The second day is new to me and I will be staying over night rather than going home as I need to leave home at 6.30am to get to their place on time in the morning so a new experience for the rest of the family. Copying for a night without me there to supervise mmmm.

Okay the Muse card this week

done by Kim Heggins is so cute.

My inspiration

The stitched diecut half circle, the blended background and little flowers

and stamped sentiment.

My own interpretation was to soften the blending by using the brush and barely brushing over the background negative die cut in Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. I blended a whole lot of zig watercolours on watercolour paper in rainbow colours with no water, in rainbow colours and left to dry then die cut some flowers with new dies from Papersmooches. I decided just to use one as they are quite large flowers and left the centres in as they were so pretty.

The little Chickie is from Purple Onion stamped and coloured with Copics and fits perfectly with the sentiment.

The sentiment

'So very 

SORRY I FORGOT'

Inside the card :Here under the stem is meant to be a wonderful sentiment about how

I could never forget you my friend it's just your Birthday I forgot

But I stamped the wrong sentiment because I wasn't paying attention

and it was too late to fix it so you just get to see the top part of the inside, ok!!!

Next is a very busy card, a card I was inspired to do when I was looking through my digital images and I was thinking of my granddaughter. 

I have taken two separate images and pulled them in together. 

As soon as I showed Sophie she told me this story:

'Thats you and me, Nanny. We're on the beach. My hats like yours. Are we just talking??? And what does that say?? And where's the water?? Why haven't you got your glasses on? 

Coloured with Copics, tried for a bit of sunburnt tinge on Nanny as I'm a white/ burn/white person whereas Sophie's got that lovely European colouring. After stamping the sentiment I felt it needed more to say how I really felt, so I cut out the sentiments from patterned paper and attached. The sun

is a Glossy sticker.

I am really enjoying these years of looking after the younger of my grandchildren and getting to sit and play games and imagine.  Life has always been so full on and busy with all our children and running a business and then looking after mum and dad. Enjoy every minute you get because you never know whats around the corner. 

Challenges

Muse Challenge #222

So very sorry

Shopping Our Stash Challenge#309 Lazy Summer Days

The Purpose of Life

Seize The Birthday Anything Goes

So very very sorry I forgot

Work it Wednesday June 2017 Summer Icons

The Purpose of Life

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GUEST DESIGNER FOR JULY for JUST US GIRLS

How exciting is that. Not only Guest Designer for the month but its also a 5 Saturday month so you get to see me 5 times, you lucky duckies.

Ok for this week

WAHOO,  400th challenge, that is so cool.

Cant wait to see what all the others have done and there are two sponsors

this week Dare 2B Artzy and STAMPlorations.

I have gone all STAMPlorations on this card this week

I white embossed this wonderful rose with faint sentiment

in the background on watercolour cardstock then did very

light Zig watercolour, going back over areas on the rose

for shadow.

Same on the leaves.

Die cut the sentiment in gold cardstock, stamped the rest of the

sentiment from the Celebrate set and finished off with a few

sequins.

Now its time to go to Just Us Girls and see what wonderful cards the Design Team 

have made for your Inspiration.

Edit:

Time Out Challenge #86 Celebration Twist One Layer

Without the twist

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes

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