Just Us Girls Challenge......JUGS6 34

Hi Ladies! Thanks to all who played along last week in the Just Us Girls Wild Card Challenge! I really enjoyed viewing all of the entries! Soooo many GORGEOUS creations! Saturday rolls around before we know it & it's time again for a NEW Just Us Girls challenge! This week Maria is our lovely Hostess & she has challenged us to create using her AMAZING sketch! I hope you can join along in the fun this week :) For complete details, please visit the Just Us Girls challenge site & be sure to visit ALL the DT girls blogs to see how they created their project! Thanks for looking! We look forward to seeing what you can do with Maria's sketch!

Here's my Give Thanks card:

For my main background, I used a piece of DP resembling newspaper print from K&Company. Hopefully that will help stream line my stamping, as I would like to duplicate this card :) I paper pieced the pumpkins however, I used the BossKut Leaf die to make all those lil' leafs!

For color & some texture inspiration, I referred to the picture of the Thanksgiving Pumpkin Luminarias from Martha Stewart Living via Carolina Panache featured this week as the Tuesday Trigger at the Moxie Fab World Blog. For inspiration & a whole lot of fun, please be sure to visit the Moxie Fab World Blog & all the other BEAUTIFUL entries.

I love the soft-subtle green ghords with the dull yellow glow shining through. I attempted to recreate the lattice-like pattern using a Fiskars border punch. LOL

Ingredients Used: Stamps: PTI Fall Elegance, SU Fancy Flexible Phrases Paper: K&Company DP, SU Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Mellow Moss, Sage Shadow, Natural's Ivory Ink: SU Chocolate Chip, Ranger/Tim Holtz Antique Photo Sprinkles: BossKut Leaf die, Spellbinders Scalloped Circle & Circles nesties, Fiskars border punch, PTI button, Offray ribbon, gold cord & brads from stash

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Deck The Halls... 21

Hello Ladies! We are 1/2 way there :) to Friday that is! & another day closer to Thanksgiving & Christmas :0 Before we all know it, we will be thinking about hearts for Valentine's Day! LOL My girlfriend who works at a LSS notified me this morning that Valentine's paper has ALREADY arrived & is on the shelves! Personally, I would like to ENJOY Thanksgiving & Christmas for as long as I can.... After all, I just received an order of Christmas stamps & more are on the way :) If you visit often, you know I work in an Operating Room & have a lot of co-workers. We are like a BIG family. I can't afford to purchase everyone a gift so, I make them each a HOMESPUN card with lots of love :) With that thought in mind, I wanted to create a card that I could easily "mass produce". LOL I would love to know if you "mass produce" your Christmas/Holiday cards or do you make a "few" & purchase the rest? Be Sweet!

Here is my "Deck The Halls" card:


I really liked the soft, sweet look of the Making Memories DP. I didn't want to hide all that goodness on the paper, so I made a lil' tag to accent the Holly leafs & berries as well as the sentiment.


After inking up the PTI Holly leaf images with SU Glorious Green & stamping, I used a super sharp scissors to cut out the leafs to piece them on the tag. I gave the tag & perimeter of the card a soft- vintagey look by inking up a sponge dauber with Ranger/Tim Holtz Antique Photo ink & gently applying to the edges.
These are all the "pieces" for my cards. Being the CRAZY stamper that I am, I think this picture is sooo YUMMY looking :) All those buttons, brads, tags ....
Here are most of the supplies I used to make these Deck The Halls cards. YUMMY toys :)

Ingredients Used: Stamps: PTI Holiday Button Bits Paper: Making Memories DP, Bazzill Pomegranate, Kraft, SU Naturals Ivory Ink: SU Basic Black, Ranger/Tim Holtz Antique Photo Sprinkles: Sizzix Snowflake EF, Spellbinders Labels 1 dies, Crop A Dile 1, EK Success punch, PTI twine, Michael's ribbon, DMC floss, American Crafts buttons

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Happy Birthday Kristin! 33

Good Morning Just Us Girls & Friends! Today is a SPECIAL DAY! It's Kristin's birthday and Just Us Girls is celebrating Kristin's BIG DAY with a Birthday Blog Hop!

If you are joining along with the hop, you should have arrived here on my blog from Maria's blog. If you have arrived here without starting at the beginning of the hop, please drop by the Just Us Girls Challenge page and start the hop there. You will be directed to each DT member's blog in order - and you'll all be able to wish Kristin a very happy birthday yourself! :)

To make Kristin's Birthday card, I used Mercy's Sketch #45, MTSC45 for sketch inspiration. While you are hopping around on the Birthday Blog Hop, be sure to stop by Mercy's site for some AMAZING inspiration!

Here's my Happy Birthday Wishes card I made for Kristin:

If you have visited the Just Us Girls site as of Saturday or here, then you know EVERY participant in this week's JUGS5 challenge will receive some Blog Candy courtesy of Kristin! Kristin has offered up her VERY OWN Exclusive Classic Lamp Post & Holiday Greetings digital stamp set! Be sure to check out this week's Challenge #5 - you will find ALL the details just below the Happy Birthday Kristin post! I would love to see what you create!

NOW - be SURE to hop over to Pam's blog and see what Pam has created with her little hands for Kristin - you're almost to Kristin's blog - be sure to wish her a Happy Birthday when you arrive! :) Thanks for stopping by! Be Sweet!

Card details: For sketch inspiration, I used Mercy's Sketch #45, MTSC45. While you are hopping around on the Birthday Blog Hop, be sure to stop by Mercy's site for some AMAZING inspiration! Ingredients Used: Stamps: SU French Script, PTI Damask Designs, Flower GardenPaper: SU Close to Cocoa, Natural's Ivory, Blush Blossom, K&Company DP Ink: SU Chocolate Chip, Ranger/Tim Holtz Antique Photo Sprinkles: EK Success punch, Offray ribbon, Sizzix tag dies, Cuttlebug EF, cord & hardware from stash

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Blissful Butterflies 20

Hi Ladies! Happy November 1st :) I hope you are all enjoying your weekend! We will be heading off to the Cajun Festival today with the kiddos. I am a bit worried about my step son finding something that he likes to eat - he has a such a limited diet & has more dislikes than likes :( One day soon, I know he will be eating us out of house & home as the saying goes :)
Moving on to the crafty chit chat...Not only do I LOVE to browse Lauren Meader's blog for AMAZING crafty inspiration but I really enjoy reading her stories about her lil' family happenings that she shares with all of us :) For those of you who are not familiar with Lauren, she is the TALENTED designer/creator of the My Timeless Templates featured by Papertrey Ink! Well, when I stopped at her blog the other day to see what she has been up to, I read that she is being featured as a CELEBRITY designer on the Limelight Papercrafts Blog! Lauren designed the sketch for the Limelight Papercrafts Sketch Challenge #33, LLPC033 & she is playing along :) There is NO WAY I could play along in a challenge where Lauren is the CELEBRITY & not make one of her templates!!! We were challenged to incorporate BUTTERFLIES into our creations if we have them! I'd love to know if you have tried one of Lauren' Templates & if so, what is your favorite? Thanks for looking! Be Sweet!


Here is my Blissful Butterfly set:I used the DP from DCWV Garden Party stack for my background paper. This was one of those stacks that I just had to have! It has been sitting in my craft closet, on a shelf since Spring! UNTOUCHED LOLIt was difficult to make the butterflies show up, so I layered them x2 using a Martha Stewart punch. After making antennae from a piece of twine, I fastened the butterflies to the card with a brad. Then I could separate them to show their dimension :) I think "things" are more eye pleasing with dimension!
Lauren's Fold N' Go template is one of my favorites :) It makes for a great gift bag! I made a lil' matching tag that you see dangling off the Fold N' Go handle.To make the lighter pink butterfly of the two, I inked up the teeny weeny dot image from the PTI Polka Dot Basics II set with VersaMark, stamped it then embossed using White Filigree embossing powder.

The girls at Pile It On! invited me to be their Guest Designer for the month of November :) For those of you who are not familiar with Pile It On!, please allow me to share a little bit about them. They are a challenge site & the theory behind Pile It On! is to create cards, scrapbook pages or even altered items using MORE THAN ONE challenge!
For this Many Thanks card I used the following Challenges:
Pile It On! - Thank You
Limelight Papercrafts - Sketch
Whimsical Ink - Embossing
Daring Cardmakers - Get Punchy With It

Please be sure to visit ALL of the sites I have mentioned here today for oodles & oodles of inspiration!

Ingredients Used: Lauren Meaders/PTI My Timeless Template Fold 'N Go Stamps: SU Best Yet, Natural Beauty PTI Polka Dot Basics II Paper: SU Pink Piroette, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip DCWV Garden Party DP Ink: SU Chocolate Chip, VersaMark Sprinkles: Offray ribbon, generic hardware, PTI buttons & twine, Martha Stewart punch, Spellbinders Label 1 dies, EK Success punches, brads from stash, Filigree embossing powder, Cuttlebug EF

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