Guest Designing at Just Us Girls - Challenge #814

It's my second week of being a Guest Designer for Just Us Girls challenge. This week is Word Week and the theme for challenge #814 is Emboss. A nice and easy one, wouldn't you say?

I did both dry embossing and heat embossing for my card. First, I masked a rectangle on my white panel and ink blended some Distress Oxide inks to it before splattering the masked rectangle with some brown ink. Then I used an embossing folder by Penny Black called Filigree and used it on my panel (unfortunately, the dry embossing doesn't show clearly in the photo but if you zoom in, you can see it's there). I then stamped Bunches of Love florals from Gina K Designs and coloured the image with my Copics before die cutting it with its matching die and adhering it in its place. To keep with the theme, I heat embossed a sentiment from Blessings of Spring stamp set by Gina K Designs on a strip of dark brown cardstock and adhered it in place with foam adhesives. Lastly, I embellished the card with some brown gems.

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Beautiful Branch

I made this card using products from Pinkfresh Studio. The stamp I used is called Beautiful Branch and I coloured the image with my Copics before die cutting it with its matching die. I used  Intricate Stitched Ovals coverplate die to make the background and Stitched Scallop Circles die to die cut the blue frames. The sentiment is from Humbled & Grateful stamp set. Lastly, I embellished the card with some clear gems.

I'm entering this to:

* Pinkfresh Studio: March 206 Challenge - Sew Much Fun

Guest Designing at Just Us Girls

I was invited to be a Guest Designer for Just Us Girls challenge for the month of March - thank you so much for the invite and the honour! This week is Die Week and the theme for challenge #813 is Luck/Green.

I went through my dies while searching for something suitable for this week's theme and came by this lovely little rainbow die from MFT called Rainbow Whimsy. Now rainbows are lucky signs, aren't they? So, to make my card, I die cut the rainbow from cardstock in different shades of green and adhered the rainbow onto a panel die cut with Stitched Rectangle Stax die (MFT) using foam adhesives. I also die cut the larger white panel with the same MFT dies and matted it onto a piece of green cardstock. The panel behind the smaller white panel is die cut with Lacy Rectangle Stackables die from Lawn Fawn. The sentiment I used is from Dandelion Wishes stamp set by Mama Elephant - I thought it would be perfect for the Luck theme. Lastly, I embellished my card with some green sequins.

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Peonies

I decided to be brave and try a bit of stenciling today - stenciling still scares me as it is so out of my comfort zone but this White Cap Peonies layering stencil set from Altenew is simply so gorgeous that I figured I cannot go wrong with it. I stenciled the image on my panel and wanted to add a frame to it, so I used Nesting Rectangle Infinity Dies from Hero Arts to die cut a golden frame. The sentiment is die cut as well and it says 'Congratulations'. Lastly, I matted the panel onto a piece of red cardstock and embellished the card with some gems.

I'm entering this to:

* Altenew Inspiration Challenge: March 2026 (I was inspired by the bold flower in bold colour and wanted to recreate that, albeit with different flowers)

* Inkspirational: Challenge #362 - Use Stencils

* Just Add Ink: Challenge #780 - Stencils - Dies or Both

* Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Blue Anemone

I'm sharing a card I made with the Fresh Picked Anemones dies by Spellbinders. This is actually a birthday card I gave to my Dad for his birthday so I used different shades of blue to make it. There are two layers of blue cardstock in the background, I die cut them both with Spellbinders' Essential Arches dies and used a Penny Black embossing folder for the top layer. I used Pinkfresh Studios' cover plate Hexagon Tiles for the off-white cardstock showing through the opening. The sentiment is die cut and translates as 'Congratulations'. I embellished the card with some gold half pearls.

Happy Bouquet

I love a good circle card and decided to make one today with a stamp set from Gina K Designs called Happy Bouquet. I coloured the image with my Copics before die cutting the panel with a circle die. I matted the panel onto a bigger circle die cut from dark purple cardstock (it looks almost black in the photo but it really is dark purple). The die cut sentiment says 'Congrats'. I embellished the card with some gold half pearls.

I'm entering this to:

* Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: Anything Floral Goes with Optional Mood Board #38 (I took my inspiration for the colours from the boutiful bouquet in the inspiration photo)

You Are Loved

Happy Valentine's Day! I'm sharing the tags I made for my sons to go with the little Valentine's sweet treats I got them. This darling little mouse is from the What's Cookin'? stamp set by Hero Arts. I coloured them with my Copics. The little hearts are die cut with a Lawn Fawn die and the tags themselves are die cut with Spellbinders dies Scallop Labels and Tag. I added a bit of patterned paper, some burlap, some string and a sentiment (it says 'You Are Loved') and I also adorned the hearts with little half pearls.

I'm entering this to:

* Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Not A Card