Sixes

| Gayle Chrvala
Just Us Girls Challenge #600 Word Week

To help celebrate the 600th challenge for the Just Us Girls Challenge. The word week challenge is 6 of anything. Using my Tim Holtz Sizzix cut out leaves dies, I lined up 6 of the decorative leaves and I do believe they are straight too…..LOL; stamped the sentiment in GKD’s Honey Mustard and sponged lightly around the border. The sentiment is from GKD’s Haunts and Harvest stamp set from the Festive Fall card kit. The patterned paper under the die cuts is Gilded Ink paper pad by Recollections.

Fun challenge and I’m getting anxious for fall to begin with some cooler weather.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Have a great day and stay safe.

Dog Days of Summer

| Judy Inukai

Retro Rubber has a picture for inspiration for the current challenge. I made this card for a dear friend who’s turning 80 soon. All stamp sets are by Gina K Designs and are all older than 1 year. The pitcher is from Stately Flowers 9 (2015). The flowers are from Daisy Delight (2017) Birthday Blessings is from Beyond Baskets (2012) 80 is from For the Grad (2019) and was just about the perfect size to go with the rest of the sentiment. The daisies were colored with Copics YR02, YR04, YR07, Y02, Y08. The card base is Lemon Yellow. The gingham is from my stash, matted with Sweet Mango. I’m also entering this in the Color Hues challenge. The current challenge is to use Yellow and Orange. They are celebrating their first anniversary.

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Six of anything

| Judy Inukai

Congrats to Just Us Girls on their 600th Challenge – WOW! What a milestone. The challenge is to use six of anything. My card has six layers (besides the card base). I used Dark Chocolate for the mats. The PP is from Weathered Wood by Divinity Designs. The sentiment from Autumn Wreath Builder by Gina K Designs is stamped in Dark Chocolate on Ivory. The card base is also Ivory. I made this for the Brothers in my husband’s Lodge to thank them for their help and support at a recent BBQ fund raiser I was in charge of.

Hat’s Off

| Gayle Chrvala
Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

It’s the September Anything Halloween challenge with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge blog and what an interesting mood board to inspire a card.

All of those skeleton heads caught my eye but really it was the awesome hats helped me decide on the Tim Holtz framelets with stamps and texture fades set.

To begin, I created a woodgrain background on black cardstock using 1/4 inch score lines, then swiped Hero Hues Unicorn White pigment ink over the score lines. After that dried, I spritzed that background a few times with the Halloween color Distress Oxide sprays and then came back in with the spider web stamp from the same set stamping in the Hero Hues unicorn white ink, adding some white embossing powder and heat setting. The spider was die cut from the same set too. I needed to add a flower and found this rosette in my stash and added the orange gem to the top.

I had a lot of fun creating this background and card with the hopes of getting some mojo back.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Happy Labor Day and stay safe.

Sunflower Wreath

| Lisa K

I created a card using 6 sunflowers for the Just Us Girls challenge.

http://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2021/09/just-us-girls-challenge-600-word-week.html

I used the Arrange a Wreath stamp and die set from Stampin’Up for this card. The sunflowers were created with Bumblebee cardstock and the edges inked with matching ink. The wreath is in brown tones, Crumb Cake and Early Expresso also from SU. The door was created using patterned paper from Gina K Designs and it needed a knob, so that came from Holiday Frame Filler set also by GKD.

Congratulations on reaching 600 challenges! It was fun to create a card with six of something.

MSC Flowers Hope

| Lisa K

I enjoy slimline cards and the Mod Squad Challenge made this easy with the Slim is IN challenge.

https://modsquadchallenge.com/slim-is-in/

This card uses Gina K Designs stamps and inks. I used Painted Autumn stamp set for the flowers and leaves and Hopeful Flowers set for the greeting. The ink colors used are Fresh Asparagus, Lovely Lavendar, Wild Lilac, Edible Eggplant.

This card will be posted on Split Coast Faith Based Challenge on Tuesday, Sept. 7, as an encouragement card.

I enjoyed pulling out my stamps that have not seen ink in a long time. I have enjoyed this set since purchased in 2016. I used Melanie Muechinger’s blog post where I found a similar layout and her date was 2016. Thanks for an enjoyable challenge!

Circus Seal

| Lisa K

Taking inspiration from buddy Gayle and one of her challenges, I went to my stamp room and began finding stamps, a stencil and dies that worked for the Circus Themed challenge at The Sisterhood of Crafters.

http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-greatest-show-on-earth.html

To find the help I needed, I searched Pinterest for Circus. A seal photo popped up in my search and I knew I had a stamp set purchased around 2013 from Gina K Designs, illustrated by Melanie Muenchinger called Jumping for Joy and it contains a seal, the ball, and the jumping platform as well as other animals. I stamped and then masked the seal, then placed the jumping platform and ball around the seal. Next obstacle was to create a background that looked like a circus. I spotted a stencil that was laying nearby and realized it would make the perfect tent like background. I chose to use a red Copic marker for tracing the lines. This stencil is from Spellbinders and Fun Stampers Journey called Sunny Day Stencil. I realized my tent needed something like curtains or banners. I had a banner close by that had not been colored or die cut, so I colored and cut it with the die, then proceeded to cut two more. I popped a set up for dimension. I made a ticket from The Stamps of Life ticket2stamp which I own dies for, so cutting was easy. Then came the stars. I often use a die from Lawn Fawn to cut small stars and this time I took a scrap piece of cardstock and colored it with the blue Copic marker that was used on the banner and the ball center. Finally everything looks like a circus. I added a lot of sparkle to make the stars and banner shine.

Thanks for reading my process. I enjoyed creating this and using so many items just sitting in my craft room begging to be used.

Mermazing Tail

| Gayle Chrvala
Double D Challenges: Anything with a tail

Today’s card was created to play along with the Double D Challenges: Anything with a Tail. I decided to use the Hero Arts Reef Border and Frame Fancy Die for my background which framed a piece of ocean patterned paper and the Hero Arts Mermaid stamp & cut set for my card to be entered into this challenge.

It turned into a beautiful day today once Ida moved through our area and gave us a heavy soaking. This card reminds me that summer is coming to a close and also the calm after the storm.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek and have a great day. Stay Safe!

Circus Nuts!

| Gayle Chrvala
The Sisterhood of Crafters

The Greatest Show On Earth is the theme for The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge. Well…I decided to play along because the cards from the design team were so creative. Unfortunately I do not have any circus stamps besides a jungle animal here and there but I did have a DCWV All About Boys paper stack which is my layering image. OK, then what??? So I googled some circus clip art and found the bag of peanuts which I colored and layered on some paper strip background. The sentiment stamps were GKD’s Party On and TPC Studio Underwater Adventures.

After choosing the bag of peanuts, I probably should have included an elephant!! I must admit I’m not really a fan of the circus nor of peanuts.

Back to the drawing board but it was fun to be challenged.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Have a great day. Be Safe.