Just Us Girls Technique Week

Welcome to another challenge with JUST US GIRLS! This week is technique week. We are doing the baby wipe techique. Check out a simple tutorial HERE.

Here is what I came up with using images from Gina K Designs:

Be sure to swing on by the JUST US GIRLS BLOG to play along!!!

Checkout the inspiration from all the JUGS GALS:

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team ♥♥

Andrea

Dana

Elise

Kathryn

Kristin

Lisa

Pam

Be sure to also stop and visit our Featured Designer for the month...

Theresa

How to play: You need to upload your project for this week's challenge to your online blog or public photo gallery. Leave a link that goes directly to your project in the Linky Tools form at the bottom of the JUGS post. If you upload to online galleries, please also use the keyword or tag, JUGS79.

Deadline to be considered for the weekly "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, April 14. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Well that's it for now!

Thanks for stopping by.

Unity Friends with Flair Friday!!

TGIF people!!! Which means it's time for another Friends with Flair Unity Style! Each Friday all the crazy Unity friends hop along sometimes with some of the Unity DT members. The fun always starts on the UNITY BLOG HERE! So be sure to check it out! This week I have a "sweet" card for you. I used the March KOTM for this one.

Close up of those awesome ice cream cones paper pieced:

Be sure to check out the Unity KOTM, it's high quality wonderful rubber. LOADS of stamps well worth the price! Take a peek at the April KOTM:

Well that is all for today! Happy Friday!

Be sure to swing back tomorrow for another fun Just Us Girls Challenge which I'm the hostess!

Till later....

Stampendous Fun

I was at my local stamp store the other day and they had the new large Stampendous Cling stamps! These stamps are HUGE! I thought they would be fun and perfect to play around with in my art journal. I picked up one called "Cling Jumbo Hydrangea Set". This stamp measures about 5 inches across and approx 7 inches from top to end of stem! Now that's huge!

One journal that I have is a composition book which I covered with fun papers and I like to write in daily funny things about the kids and life. I've taken it to my daughter's ballet class and my son and I wait for her by drawing with crayons in the book. Later I write over it. SO, I stamped the flower in this journal and colored it with regular crayons and loved it! So simple and fun. Then I thought why not stamp this huge flower on the front of a card and color it with crayons? So I did:

The butterfly is also part of the set and she is popped up on SU dimensionals. The sentiment is by Unity Stamp Co.

How cute is this? SIMPLE SIMPLE, children's crayons! OK, so it's not a perfect coloring job and I did go outside the lines a bit! LOL! But I thought it came out pretty neat. Now this makes me think I should get some artist crayons to play with! Next up maybe some watercoloring... I have an Stampin Up water color crayon set and another one I got at Micheal's so I might have to play with those soon.

Thanks for stopping by!

Till later....

Queen Kat Designs Royal Release Day

It's the first Wednesday of the month and that means another fun release with Queen Kat Designs. This month I got to work with the WIS kit by Maigan.

Doesn't she look lovely in blue? Be sure to swing on by the QKD blog for more inspiration and then the STORE to check it all out. And don't forget QKD has a fun facebook page HERE! Come join the fun and later tonight will be a release party.

That's it for now!

Thanks for stopping by!

Art Journal Every Day

Julie Fei-Fan Balzer from Balzer Design has the Art Journal Every Day going on each month. It's a way to motivate creativity every day. I have gotten into mixed media, collaging, journaling recently after taking Soul Restoration with Melody Ross and then the She Art class with Christy Tominlinson. So now I have a few art journals in my room and I do try to do something in them each day. Here you will see the date on the bottom is from March and yes I did work on this then. Actually that day I thought ok I'm done but it was awful, worse than what it is now if you can believe that! LOL! Anyhow here is my page:

So when I was creating this page I think it was Julie who probably that day or during this that week showed a journal page with large flowers on it and I loved it. SO I decided to draw some big flowers. She used a china marker which I had and used but then I couldn't color over it because it smudged. SO I used a black permanent marker and painted with pink paint but that didn't work well. SO today I pulled this out again and actually used a dye ink re-inker and a paintbrush to color them blue. SO some of the flower petals here were still drying when I took the photo and they did come out a little too dark. BUT over all it is a little better now than what is was then. I also added some stickles which I love. Then looking at it now I should have went with 3 large flowers because we all know odd numbers for design works better, but oh well.

I'll be back again with some more journal pages as I continue to mess around and learn. Its just fun to toss some paint on a page at random. I actually have a few pages in this journal with just colors on a page waiting for some other cool stuff.

Thanks for stopping by !

Just Us Girls Sketch Week

Welcome to another challenge with JUST US GIRLS! This week is sketch week. Here is today's sketch: Here is what I came up with:

I used this adorable owl from Unity Stamps and I paper pieced him. The "leaves/branches" sticking out from under him is from the bird punch from Stampin Up. My solid papers are from Gink K Designs and Stampin up. The striped pattern paper is from My Mind's Eye.

Be sure to swing on by the JUST US GIRLS BLOG to play along!!!

Checkout the inspiration from all the JUGS GALS:

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team ♥♥

Andrea

Dana

Elise

Kathryn

Kristin

Lisa

Pam

Be sure to also stop and visit our Featured Designer for the month...

Theresa

How to play: You need to upload your project for this week's challenge to your online blog or public photo gallery. Leave a link that goes directly to your project in the Linky Tools form at the bottom of the JUGS post. If you upload to online galleries, please also use the keyword or tag, JUGS78.

Deadline to be considered for the weekly "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, April 7. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Well that's it for now!

Thanks for stopping by.

Unity Friends with Flair Friday

It's been a few weeks since I played in the Unity Friends with Flair but here I am with some Unity creations! Since taking Melody Ross' Soul Restoration and Christy Tominlinson's She Art class I have been into painting, collaging and art journaling. kk So today I decided to take those ideas for my project. I have this 6x6 book of canvas paper by Strathmore so I took a piece out and added some paints to it, mounted it on a piece of cardstock, added a small wallet sized photo and here is what I came up with:

The next wonderful Unity player should be the wonderful challenge blog ALL THINGS UNITY.

Be sure to swing on by the UNITY BLOG for the full list of Friends with Flair Friday participants!

That's it for now! Stop by tomorrow for a new JUST US GIRLS challenge!

Till later....