Treehouse Challenge Thursday

It's Thursday and time for another Treehouse Stamps Challenge. This week's challenge is to make candy wrappers. Here is what I came up with:

I used the pumpkin from fall blessing and in photoshop I put them together and added the sentiment. It's so easy to make these. I seriously didn't follow a template I just took a Hershey Bar (oh one of my favs) and wrapped cardstock around it and judged as to where I should score it so it would fit nicely.

I hope you will hop on over to the Treehouse Blog to view what the entire Design Team came up with and to play along with us!

That's it for now!

Thanks for stopping by!

Cosmo Cricket DT Spot Tryout - I need your nomination

Cosmo Cricket is holding a "contest" for an open DT spot for the month of November. But to win you need nominations! I went in to nominate myself but now I need friends to hop on over and nominate me!

I would love it if you do it's HERE- COSMO CRICKET!

Just Us Girls Saturday Challenge

It's Saturday and time for another JUST US GIRLS challenge. This week we are using acetate on our projects. So I went with a clear card. I picked up some clear "cardstock" a while back at a craft show and finally I'm using some. I used a Christmas image from the Unity Septemeber Kit of the Month.

But first I want to make a shout out to fellow JUGS DT member Alicia who celebrated her birthday this past week! I hope you had a Happy Birthday, Alicia!

Here is what I came up with:


I embossed the clear cardstock using a snowflake embossing folder. My main image is from Unity and I cut out the center snowflake to create dimension and added some SU glass glitter. This is mounted on a piece of cardstock covered with fabric. I have been loving using fabric in my creations lately and I thought this would work well.

Well that's it for now.

Be sure to swing on by the JUGS Blog to see what the DT cooked up and to play along with us!

Friday Friends with Flair Unity Style

Welcome to Friday and another Friends with Flair Unity Style. Be sure to swing by the Unity Blog for a full list of Friends participating today!

Well it's Friday again and time for another fun Friends with Flair Friday Unity Style!

This week I once again pulled out some of my painters canvas and decided I wanted to make a canvas card!

Here is what I came up with:

So, I started with a piece of canvas ironed and folded to the size of a card. I added some gesso to it and waited for it to dry. Then using some acrylic paints here I used some Ranger paint daubers, I painted the canvas. Then I stamped using a birdcage from Unity in Aged Mahogany Distress ink by Tim Holtz/Ranger. I wanted to make my canvas card sturdy so I lined the inside with chocolate brown paper (Gina K Designs).


On the front I added all my paper elements. The scallops were cut from the Fiskars scallop punch using Tim Holtz's Lost and Found stack and Chocolate Brown cardstock from Gina K. The heart "leaves" branch I cut using my Cricut. When adhering all the paper I used a fabric glue since I was adhering directly to the canvas. The owl is paper pieced and cut out and I used dimensionals to adhere.

I am really pysched at how this came out. NOW, I know I'm not the first person to make an all fabric/canvas card but I was impressed with myself at what I came up with since it was not based on anything I have seen online or in a magazine or anywhere.
Well that's it for now!

Thanks for stopping by!

Treehouse Challenge Thursday

Welcome to another Treehouse Thursday Challenge. This week we have a color challenge: Orange, Purple and Black.

Here is what I came up with using a few halloween digi's together:
The fun part about using digital stamps is you can manipulate the size and create scenes easily on your computer. I added glitter to these guys for some glitz! I also distressed the edges around the black. My flower is a little Prima with a button in the middle.

Well I hope you will come over to the Treehouse Blog and play along with us this week.

Well that's all for now!

Thanks for stopping by!

Just Us Girls Anniversary Celebration

Happy World Cardmaking Day!!! What a fabulous holiday don't you think? Today also marks the ONE YEAR anniversary of JUST US GIRLS Challenges!!! A year already, can you believe it? But it's true and we are loving it and so glad so many others are also loving our challenges!

For the anniversary we have a sketch challenge and blog hop! We also have some amazing prizes from some amazing companies! What you need to do is go on our blog hop. Each DT member will have a letter for you in their post. You need to collect the letters which spell something, then send a mail to the JUGS TEAM with the word it spells and one lucky person will win a great prize package! Be sure to play along with the sketch challenge as well so you will have two entries for the drawing!

Here's a list of generous prizes that have been supplied by some of our favorite stamp companies! Thank you all!

• My Time Made Easy - A Secret Surprise Stamp set PLUS In Suspense Template!
• Gina K Designs - Fanciful Tags stamp set
• Joan's Garden - $25 gift certificate to spend at Joan's store!!
• Paper MakeUp Stamps - $25 gift certificate!!
• Clear and Simple Stamps - donated the following prize package:
(1) Awareness Darling stamp set
(1) Awareness button mix sampler (includes buttons from I'm a Princess Pink, You're Such a Gray-cious Host, and A Blanc Check color stories) (1) I'm a Princess Pink Ribbon sampler (1 yd) (1) Limited Edition Attitude mini stamp All products are made in the USA, ribbon is double-faced satin, and stamp sets are 100% photopolymer.
• WPlus9 - TWO stamp sets of the winner's choice!!!
• PixiePetals Etsy - $10 Gift certificate
• JustRite Stampers - Homemade Treats and Wood Stamper 2-3/8" with Bonus 25 pt Font set

Now onto to the sketch for today:

Here is what I did with the sketch using an Itty Bitty from Unity:

AND YOUR LETTER FOR THE BLOG HOP IS: R

NOW HOP ON OVER TO THE FABULOUS PAM FOR MORE INSPIRATION AND ANOTHER LETTER!

That's it for now! GO MAKE A CARD TODAY AND ENJOY!

Treehouse Stamps RELEASE DAY!

Today is the October release with Treehouse Stamps! There are lots of fun new digi's being released today as well as the new free image for the October contest! Be sure to swing on by the Treehouse Blog for lots of inspiration and information!

Here is a little something I made using the October free contest image:

Well that's it for now!

Till later....