Just Us Girls Challenge

 

This week is color challenge week at Just Us Girls!  Before I share my card with you help me in wishing our very own LISA a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY who celebrated her birthday yesterday!!

Here is a card I made trying to come close to the actual SU colors as I could:

I used the Unity fashionista called Claire  and the sentiment is from the kit called Sassy Pants.

Just Us Girls Design Team

Marisa 

Tangii 

Vicki 

Lisa 

Nancy 

Elise

How to play: Please copy and use our graphic on your post. You need to upload your project for this week's challenge to your online blog or to a public photo gallery. Leave a link that goes directly to your project in the Linky Tools form at the bottom of this post. If you upload to online galleries, please use the keyword or tag, JUGS185. After you post to Linky Tools you may also leave a comment here.

Deadline: to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, April 25th. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", will be announced on the following Friday morning. Thanks for playing with us this week!

Thanks for stopping by!

Maria

FWF Friday - Art Journaling with Washi Tape Flowers

Art Journal Friday

It's Friday and time for a little Unity FWF and Art Journal Friday!  This week in my journal I decided to play with washi tape!  You know you have some in your stash, it's getting to be a bigger and bigger trend.  Love the stuff, so much fun to just play around with.

Here is my two page spread for this week:

Taking a picture of this one was an adventure as I tried and tried, but for some reason this seriously looks so much better in real life!  Well anyhow, I used lots and lots of Unity stamps and washi tape!

The flowers is a big stamp by Unity called Donnas Poppy Background.

Some of the other stamps I used include:  Hearts of Old, She script,  moment by moment .  The "spiral" butterfly is old Unity but I couldn't locate it to link it, perhaps that one is retired.  On the flowers I used the words from Bloom and Simplify.

This week I also did a video sharing how I made the washi tape flowers.




Well that's all for this week!  Swing on by tomorrow for a card I made for this week's Just Us Girls Challenge using one of the Unity Fashionistas!

Till later!

Maria

Ombre Fun

This week is technique week with JUST US GIRLS!    This week we are doing the Ombre Effect.  Ok I have to admit I had no idea at all what this was.  I looked it up and it's pretty cool.  Bascially it's using 3 (maybe more I suppose) shades of the same color starting with the lightest to darkest, kind of creating a fade look.

I wanted to try and use my Dylusions sprays for this, so I played a little and here is a tag I came up with:

I know it doesnt' seem to show very well but in person it does fade show that "fade" better.  I started on the bottom with: Lemon Zest, Pure Sunshine, Squeezed Orange.  I know the first two are more yellow and then an orange but I thought it worked and look pretty good.

Be sure to stop by the Just Us Girls team to see their amazing creations:

 Elise

Lisa

Marisa

Tangii

Vicki

Nancy

This week we also have wonderful prize from a sponsor this week: Dare 2B Artzy!  This week's winner will get to choose a stamp set!

Dare 2B Artzy is an unique, inspiring, and contemporary line of clear stamps for the use of card making and scrapbooking. Along with the many stamp designs already created, customizable stamps are also available upon request.

How to play: Please copy and use our graphic on your post. You need to upload your project for this week's challenge to your online blog or to a public photo gallery. Leave a link that goes directly to your project in the Linky Tools form at the bottom of this post. If you upload to online galleries, please use the keyword or tag, JUGS182. After you post to Linky Tools you may also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, April 18th. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", will be announced on the following Friday morning. Thanks for playing with us this week!

  

Thanks!

Maria

FWF and Art Journal Friday and a Video

TGIF!!  I'm on a roll folks with the art journaling!  I am loving it though, it's a fun change from making cards.

This week I have another spread in my journal to share with you and a video!

My background is filled using many stencils and Dylusions sprays.  I mixed in some Unity background stamps and the Dream collage you see on the right is a Unity background stamp, as is the border stamped in blue.

The one stamp you can see on this page, the girls head is not a Unity stamp but is a stamp.  I decided the other day I wanted a funky/wierd sort of stamp of a girl.  Sooo, I tried it myself by drawing and carving my own stamp and that is what I came up with.

Here is a close up including the actual stamp on the left.

On this one I also decided to use pages from a magazine and that is how I made her dress and the butterflies on the right.

This was a fun one to do!

I also wanted to share with you a picture of all the stamps I have carved in the past.  A while back maybe last fall, I got into carving stamps for fun.  Here is my collection:

So I guess it would be ok to use these stamps for FWF along with Unity Stamps :-)

I also created a video I call Intro to Art Journaling.  It is just my ideas and views on how I art journal.  And I think I mentioned inexpensive many times over! But I was trying to explain how easy it really is to get started and how it doesn't have to cost alot.    Again I apologize for the grainy picture I still haven't figured that out.

Thanks for stopping by!

Maria

Just Us Girls Sketch Challenge

This week is sketch week with JUST US GIRLS!  Check out this great sketch:

So I've been into alot of art journalling lately!  I love the Dylusions Sprays by Ranger and have been using them like made.  SOOO, I decided today I get a little artsy with my card.

I took a piece of white card stock and started spraying like I do in my journal, took out some stencils and had fun.

This is what I did and the products I used:

I used stencils, inks, sprays and Stamps by Unity Stamp Co.

Here is my card:

I had a blast going with fun bright colors!  The sentiment on the front is from a Tim Holtz set.

Be sure to swing on by the Just Us Girls Design Team and say hi!

 Elise

Lisa

Marisa

Tangii

Vicki

Nancy

How to play: Please copy and use our graphic on your post. You need to upload your project for thisweek's challenge to your online blog or to a 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 use the keyword or tag, JUGS183. After you post to Linky Tools you may also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, April 11th. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", will be announced on the following Friday morning. Thanks for playing with us this week!

  

Thanks!

Maria

Friends WIth Flair and Art Journal Friday!

TGIF!  It's Friday and time for a little UNITY Friends With Flair and my Art Journal Friday (it's becoming a thing:-))!

Today I have the rest of the journal layout I shared last week as well as a card!

First up here is the complete 2 page layout:

This has loads of stencils and Unity Stamps all over the place.

Each page:

This was so much fun to play with.  That is what I love about this art journaling stuff, just fun no stress.  NO rules etc...  And if I don't like it close the book! LOL!

Last week I mentioned I'm organizing an ART JOURNAL BLOG HOP and it's in the works.  We are hopping on FRIDAY MAY 3.  There is still time to join if you are interested!  Come and request to join my facebook group HERE!  I created this group to get organized for the hop but it's turning out to be a little fun place to share as well!

So now let me share with you a card I made yesterday using one of the new Fashionistas by Unity!  This one is called ALEXIS.

Well that's all for now!

Thanks for stopping by!

Maria

Gypsy Fortune Teller

There was a fun new release last night at Queen Kat Designs.  This fun image by Maigan Lynn is called Gypsy Fortune Teller.

You can now get these great images in digital format at Queen Kat Designs so be sure to check it out.

Thanks for stopping by!

Maria