Just Us Girls #85 Color Challenge...somewhere over the rainbow!

Hey blog friends!  It's a color challenge over at Just Us Girls and this week it's my honor to hostess.  I picked one of my favorite color combos....RAINBOW!  That's right, we're challenging you to make something using RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE AND PURPLE (neutrals are allowed too).

I used this happy color combo to create a thank you card for my daughter's 1st grade teacher.

All this color couldn't be more bright and energetic....just like our first graders and their treasured teacher, Ms Funk!  I created the sun rays by stamping with Practicing Creativity's You're Dandy set and I capped the ruffling rainbow ribbon with hand drawn clouds on lettering paper from Making Memories.

The text was created in Word and printed on a tag and stamp set by Papertrey Ink, Fillable Frame 4.

Ready for some more rainbow colored goodness to get your happy on?!??  Check out our Featured Designer for May, Clare Buswell and the Just Us Girls team!

Kristin Eberline

Maria Levine

Lisa Kind

Andrea Matthews

Kathryn Berthiaume

Put on your rainbow colored thinking cap and wow us with your color creativity!  Can't wait to see you over at Just Us Girls!  Thanks so much for coming by! 

Paper: Papertrey and Making Memories

Stamps: Practicing Creativity, Papertrey and Stampin Up!

Ink: Stampin Up!

Die: Papertrey Ink

Punch: Stampin Up!

Crafts Supply: Ribbon

City Crafter Challenge #16...Sweet!

Hey there!  I had to jump in with a *sugary* project for the City Crafters Challenge blog this week.
A simple little tag to coordinate with my gift bag.  I used a stamp from My Cute Stamps Sweet Kawaii set and the sentiment is from Practicing Creativity.

So glad you could stop by today! 

Just Us Girls #41 plus some of my favie challenges....when life hands you lemons

...why you make *lemonade* of course!  Hey everyone! I am here with Just Us Girls #41...it's technique week!  Maria has picked out the very fun Ink, Spray, Smash technique.  Wanna get inky?  This one will do it for you!  So grab some reinkers, glossy cardstock and let's get smashing!  Don't have reinkers or glossy cardstock?  I'll bet you can achieve some similar effects with acrylic paint and cardstock and join in...but if you do have the goods, won't you join us in trying this technique?  I got inspired by the lemon patterned fabric I found this weekend in my fabric stash.  I don't know the maker on it as I recieved it in a swap years ago.  So glad I had this hidden away for a sunny day!  Did you notice mMy card says "Happy Birthday" on it?  Guess what?  JUGs girl, Kathryn Berthiaume is celebrating her birthday this week!  Be sure and stop by her blog and send some celebration wishes her way!  Happy birthday Kathryn!

Not only am I getting inspiration from this cool Practicing Creativity Designs sketch shown below by Dana/Kismet, Art, and Life blog but I am also joining in on the Cupcards {2 Go} FRUITY challenge hosted by the fabulous Sarah Martina Parker!  Double bonus that I had that lemon fabric in my stash!  :)  I used Courtney's You're Dandy stamp set to stamp the green line-stars on the half circle behind the *lemonade* glasses and I used the Happy Birthday sentiment included in the same set.

Check out my aluminum foil and embossed background!??  Whaaaat?  Oh yeah, aluminum foil + herringbone embossing folder equals DE-LISH texture for my summery scene.  Thanks so much to  the girls at Everything but the Kitchen Sink for the aluminum foil challenge and the Shabby Tea Room embossing challenge.  The shiny foil reminds me of the old time tanning reflection screens folks used to use to tan their faces (eeeeeek!) back before we knew that baby oil is not a good form of sunscreen (tried that one in my teens!) and tan faces mean wrinkles and other skin mishaps later on in life!  Or maybe the sun glinting off the corrugated tin roof of one of the barns outside where I grew up...hot like that deserves a break with an icy cold lemonade!

Check out the ink fun I had trying to discover which lemonade/limeade/pink lemonade shade I could go with...

The first sheet is yellow reinker only, the second is yellow plus two shades of green and the final was a pale pink and a yellow.  I ended up going with the paper in the middle to capture the yellow and greens of the lemon fabric.  Super fun technique you chose this week Maria!  You definitely won't want to miss out on all the JUGs design team card details.  I hope you'll hit up their blogs and leave em some love!  They are listed on my sidebar.  Also, don't forget the very talented Debbie Marcinkiewicz who is guest designing for us this month!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you join us in our ink, spray smash party this week.  Be sure and link your creation on the JUGs blog.

Supplies:

Paper: SU!

Ink: PTI

Stamps: Practicing Creativity and Stampcraft

Ink: SU!

Glitter: Martha Stewart

Craft Supplies: ribbon, seed beads, flower beads

Just Us Girls Technique Challenge #24....Let's go fly a kite!

Hello friends!  The moment I saw Courtney Baker's(Practicing Creativity) stamp set called You're Dandy I have been humming the tune from Mary Poppins called Let's go Fly a Kite!  Watch this for a little bit of musical joy today:

Don't you just feel like, well, going outside to fly a kite??  I love that song and my girls and I love to sing it.

Oh wait, you might be here for the newest in challenges from Just Us Girls.  :) This week it is a technique called a Flap Card. (Check out Splitcoast Stampers for a great tutorial).  Our super talented Pam is your lovely hostess this week!

 

I wanted to make my flap a part of the card "scene" so I put it on the bottom, thus making a green hill dotted with french knotted yellow flowers and a fabby wood and felt flower I recived from my blog friend Jane!

I wanted the card to be pretty when either opened or closed.  Once the flap is opened, the sky has been revealed in it's entirity.  Aren't those ray like lines cool?  Courtney's stamp set includes two sizes of rays to create various ultra cool stamped backgrounds.  I used Papertrey paper and ink in aqua mist.

The kite was stamped on DP and detail cut and the clouds were stamped with both a solid and outline image and then embossed in spots to give a varied white and texture within each cloud.  I stamped the kite tail bows first in white pigment ink and then yellow dye ink direct to the background and then they were detailed with a black fine line pen.

Ready for more Just Us Girls project details?  Be sure and check out the DT project details at their blogs and then make a flap card to share with us.  Enter the link to your project on our Inlinkz tool  on the Just Us Girls Challenge blog.  Can't wait to see what you make!

Stephanie Kraft, Guest Designer

Kristin Bueter

Pam Imholz

Maria Levine

Tracey Cuccia

Lisa Kind

Mona Pendleton

Alicia Weiman

Thanks so much for coming by today!  Have a great one :)

EDITED:  Oh my!  When I went to add my card to the Practicing Creativity flickr group I realized that my card above had been very inspired by THIS ONE from Ms Courtney Baker herself!  Apparently her style stuck in my mind.  If you like my card, you'll love Court's version!  Nothing like being inspired by the stamp creator herself  :)  Thanks for the constant stream of creativity, girlie!

Supplies:

Stamps: Practicing Creativity

Paper: Papertrey Ink

Ink: Stampin Up

Punch: Fiskars and CM

Craft Supplies: clothespin flower, embroidery floss, trim, magnet closure (Basic Gray)