The Paper Players PP751 - A CAS Challenge from Elizabeth

Join us! I am your hostess and it is Clean and Simple (CAS) week at The Paper Players.  Think lots of white space, minimal layers and embellishments.  I am challenging you to create a CAS card that includes CRITTERS.

I love Taylored Expressions' Gus and Gertie stamps.  These critters are some of my favorites.  I have simply colored and die cut the roller skating characters. I embossed my cardbase and added a rainbow flair, then adhered Gus and Gertie with foam tape.   The sentiment is simply stamped, die cut and adhered.  Final touch was the addition of a lot of small silver stars.  Easy peasy.

I made half dozen of these cards to create a set for my skate-loving niece.  I love to give boxed sets away as gifts.

Check out our fabulous design team.  These ladies work hard to inspire you each week.  Drop by their blogs and leave them a little love.

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier

Stef Perry

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

 
1.  Create a new paper project

2.  Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us and provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge submission.

3.  Please link your card to no more than four challenges in total.

Enjoy!  I am looking forward to your inspired creations in the gallery. 

Elizabeth

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Pinkfresh Stitched Octagons Taylored Expressions Rainbow Bright 3 Taylored Expressions Gus & Gertie On a Roll
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest Bazzill solid color cardstock
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black Copic markers
Embellishments	Silver stars (stash)
Desk Staples	Dahle Personal Rotary Cutter Scor Pal Mini Score Board Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Ranger Stamp Platform Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M ATG 714 Tape Adhesive 3M foam tape

Just Us Girls #788 -- WORD Week

Join us! It is WORD week at Just Us Girls.  I am your hostess this week and am challenging us to take inspiration from the word BIRTHDAY in our card creations this week.  I always need birthday cards so I am thrilled when I can easily make duplicates.  I used the Concord & 9th Party Hats Inlay die. When I bought this die, the free gift was a small pack of colored cardstock.  I used the six colors below for my cards. Here's what I love about this die, there is no waste.  I die cut the panel out of the chosen colors (backed with a doubled dryer sheet).  I peeled off the outline from each color, and backed each with 4.25" scoretape, and adhered to card bases.  Then I simply inserted the elements from each dryer sheet into the card bases.  So easy! The sentiment is layered, topped with gold Mirricard and backed in vellum.  The final touch was lots of micro green gems.

Check out our fabulous guest designer for August, Julie Beech. Please welcome her and check out her fabulous work over at Crafted by Jules! 

Also check out the design team.  These ladies work hard to inspire you each week.  Drop by their blogs and leave them a little love.

Vicki Dutcher

Sue VanDeVusse

Bobby Hagen

Ina Grehan

Carol Mayne

Lisa Elton

Carol McFarland

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

1.  Create a new paper project (no back dating please)

2.  Upload your card to your blog or a public photo gallery. Please copy and use our challenge graphic on your post. 

3.  Link your project in Linky Tools directly to your card. If your card is in an online gallery, please tag with the current challenge number, e.g. JUGS123

3.  Please limit your entries for our challenge to 3. You may enter in as many other challenges as you want.

Enjoy!  I am looking forward to your inspired creations in the gallery. 

Elizabeth

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Concord & 9th Party Hats Inlay die Simon Says Stamp Let's Party
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest Concord & 9th solid color cardstock (freebie with order) Bazzill vellum Mirracard gold cardstock
Ink
Embellishments	Memory Box micro gems
Desk Staples	Dahle Personal Rotary Cutter Scor Pal Mini Score Board Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Ranger Stamp Platform Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M ATG 714 Tape Adhesive 3M foam tape

The Paper Players PP750 - A Color Challenge from Claire

Join us! It is COLOR week at The Paper Players.  Claire is challenging us to create a card that uses the Stampin' Up colors:  Blackberry Bliss, Cherry Cobbler,  Old Olive, and Pumpkin Pie .  Using a quilt stencil, I stenciled the lovely challenge colors (the colors looked like fall to me!) on a card front then embossed with a pinpoint leaf pattern.  To complete, I added a layered sentiment backed in vellum and a small stamped sub-sentiment.  A couple of gems finished this card and the duplicates I made.

I made a dozen of these cards, in pastel "baby" colors, for donation to the First Baptist New Mother Initiative at my hometown hospital. First Baptist women put together baby baskets for every new mother, and a personal wish is added to each card. 

Check out our fabulous design team.  These ladies work hard to inspire you each week.  Drop by their blogs and leave them a little love.

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier

Stef Perry

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

 
1.  Create a new paper project

2.  Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us and provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge submission.

3.  Please link your card to no more than four challenges in total.

Enjoy!  I am looking forward to your inspired creations in the gallery. 

Elizabeth

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Taylored Expressions Quilted layering stencil Memory Box Pinpoint Leaf Plate Concord & 9th More to Say My Favorite Things Thanks and Gratitude Paper Smooches Welcome Studio Calico Baby
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest Bazzill solid orange and yellow cardstock Bazzill vellum
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black
Embellishments	Little Things by Lucy's Cards
Desk Staples	Dahle Personal Rotary Cutter Scor Pal Mini Score Board Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Ranger Stamp Platform Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M ATG 714 Tape Adhesive 3M foam tape

Just Us Girls #787 -- DIE Week

Join us! It is DIE week at Just Us Girls.  I am your host this week and am challenging you to make a FLORAL card using dies.   I used Concord & 9th's Enchanted Garden.  I made six of these inlaid cards so you know I have a system.  Die cutting the elements would be too paper intensive, given the small pieces, so I Copic-colored the elements.  First, I ran the die through my Big Shot with wax paper to ensure the pieces would not stick to the die.  Then I ran the die through with heavy white cardstock backed with a doubled dryer sheet. This run ensured all the pieces would remain in its outline attached to the dryer sheet.  A second, green A2 panel was run through to get the background outline, the small pieces were discarded.  The background outline was backed with 4.25" scoretape and adhered to the card base.

Then I colored! all the pieces in the white panels I had prepared.  Once colored, I inlaid the individual pieces into the green outline.  The final touch was a layered sentiment topped in gold mirricard.  This card was relatively easy for inlay.

Check out our fabulous guest designer for August, Julie Beech. Please welcome her and check out her fabulous work over at Crafted by Jules! 

Also check out the design team.  These ladies work hard to inspire you each week.  Drop by their blogs and leave them a little love.

Vicki Dutcher

Sue VanDeVusse

Bobby Hagen

Ina Grehan

Carol Mayne

Lisa Elton

Carol McFarland

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

1.  Create a new paper project (no back dating please)

2.  Upload your card to your blog or a public photo gallery. Please copy and use our challenge graphic on your post. 

3.  Link your project in Linky Tools directly to your card. If your card is in an online gallery, please tag with the current challenge number, e.g. JUGS123

3.  Please limit your entries for our challenge to 3. You may enter in as many other challenges as you want.

Enjoy!  I am looking forward to your inspired creations in the gallery. 

Elizabeth

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Concord & 9th Enchanted Garden Birch Press Designs Scripted Hello
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest Bazzill solid green cardstock (base) Mirracard gold cardstock
Ink	Copic markers
Embellishments
Desk Staples	Dahle Personal Rotary Cutter Scor Pal Mini Score Board Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Ranger Stamp Platform Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M ATG 714 Tape Adhesive 3M foam tape

The Paper Players PP749 - A Theme Challenge from Stef

Join us! It is THEME week at The Paper Players.  Stef is challenging us to create a card that uses the theme "BY THE WATER".  Given I live in Florida, I headed to the beach! I used a new-to-me product from Simon Says; Foil Transfer Sheets. These are sheets of acetate covered in a toner-based image.  The one above is seashells.  I ran the acetate sheet through my Fuse laminator with gold deco foil.  Wow!  My photo does not do the panel justice.  I admit I ruined the first acetate sheet because I didn't use a high heat; the second sheet (above) was run through on "4" on the Fuse.

I had planned to adhere the acetate to an alcohol ink panel but found the alcohol ink design detracted from the beauty of the foiled design. So I adhered the acetate to the card base, and created a border from the alcohol ink panel and gold Mirracard.  I used the same materials to die cut the sentiment. I made two duplicates for donation with the remaining two acetate sheets. I will definitely consider purchasing a set of these acetate sheets again.

Check out our fabulous design team.  These ladies work hard to inspire you each week.  Drop by their blogs and leave them a little love.

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier

Stef Perry

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

 
1.  Create a new paper project

2.  Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us and provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge submission.

3.  Please link your card to no more than four challenges in total.

Enjoy!  I am looking forward to your inspired creations in the gallery. 

Elizabeth

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Simon Says Stamp Foil Transfer Cards Acetate Seashells Waffle Flower Oversized Beach Simon Says Happy Essentials by Ellen Essential Rectangles
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest Mirracard gold cardstock Alcohol ink panel (stash) Deco Foil Gold
Ink
Embellishments
Desk Staples	Dahle Personal Rotary Cutter Scor Pal Mini Score Board Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Ranger Stamp Platform Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M ATG 714 Tape Adhesive 3M foam tape

Just Us Girls #786 -- CASE A DESIGN TEAM MEMBER Week

Join us! It is CASE A DT week at Just Us Girls.  Ina is challenging us to choose one of the DT members' cards and CASE (Copy and Share Everything).   CASE a Design Team [DT] member means it is your choice to CASE any DT's card in the JUGS post. [CASE = copy & share everything].  In a nutshell, use what inspires you from the card you choose, and create your own. There is such a selection from what the Team has created using anything goes for their creations. 

If you need help in learning how to CASE a card, please check out Ardyth's post on her LIMES method.  CASEing others' work is a powerful learning tool enabling you to solidify your own style.

I love CASE a DT Week.  It reminds me of the old Muse challenge... anyone out there been doing this long enough to remember that challenge?  I loved Muse because usually you were learning a new technique in order to CASE the guest designer's card.  OK... I have a few elements you could incorporate:  embossing folders, embossing paste, stencils, and heat embossing.  Also the theme...bees!  Or maybe the colors: kraft, black and gold.  Have fun with it.

I should say that this was the first time I have used gold embossing butter with a stencil.  The bees did not turn out as sharp as I would have liked, but they are still fun!

Check out the design team.  These ladies work hard to inspire you each week.  Drop by their blogs and leave them a little love.

Vicki Dutcher

Sue VanDeVusse

Bobby Hagen

Ina Grehan

Carol Mayne

Lisa Elton

Carol McFarland

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

1.  Create a new paper project (no back dating please)

2.  Upload your card to your blog or a public photo gallery. Please copy and use our challenge graphic on your post. 

3.  Link your project in Linky Tools directly to your card. If your card is in an online gallery, please tag with the current challenge number, e.g. JUGS123

3.  Please limit your entries for our challenge to 3. You may enter in as many other challenges as you want.

Enjoy!  I am looking forward to your inspired creations in the gallery. 

Elizabeth

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Darice Honeycomb embossing folder Papertrey Ink Quoted Honeycomb Funky Fossil Designs Bees
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest 80lb. Neenah Desert Storm Bazzill solid black cardstock
Ink	Versamark Hero Arts white embossing powder
Embellishments	Crafters Workshop Champagne Gold Stencil Butter
Desk Staples	Dahle Personal Rotary Cutter Scor Pal Mini Score Board Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Ranger Stamp Platform Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M ATG 714 Tape Adhesive 3M foam tape

The Paper Players PP748 - A Sketch Challenge from Jan

Join us! It is SKETCH week at The Paper Players.  Jan is challenging us to create a card that uses the sketch above.  The circle can be any shape and it is okay to add a border around the whole card.  As many know, I struggle with sketches.  But they are so important to expand my creativity.  I am deep into building my stash for Christmas.  Decembers are hard to get anything done now that I am back in school... but given my advanced age, I have learned the lession of planning ahead!  

In my never-ending quest to keep all sketches CAS, my pine branches form the rectangular background for my ornament, and a foiled sentiment the tag.  Most of the products I used are Memory Box.  I absolutely love the Memory Box Christmas DSP... all foiled in great colors. The foiled sentiments are so perfect; foiled on really thick cardstock in several different fonts.  I might love these products because I don't "foil" but have found a number of shortcuts to still enjoy the shiny effect.  Memory Box also used to make micro gems... I wish they still did because I am down to my last few sheets.  The gems are 1mm in diameter, and are the perfect little shine.  I also used Stardream metallic cardstock and gold Mirracard for even more shine!

Check out our fabulous design team.  These ladies work hard to inspire you each week.  Drop by their blogs and leave them a little love.

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier

Stef Perry

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

 
1.  Create a new paper project

2.  Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us and provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge submission.

3.  Please link your card to no more than four challenges in total.

Enjoy!  I am looking forward to your inspired creations in the gallery. 

Elizabeth

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	The Stamp Market Pine Boughs Poppystamps Clarissa Ornament Memory Box Little Bow and String die
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest Bazzill solid green cardstock Stardream metallic cardstock Mirracard gold cardstock Memory Box 6x6 Poinsettia Garland Memory Box foiled holiday sentiments
Ink
Embellishments	Memory Box micro gems
Desk Staples	Dahle Personal Rotary Cutter Scor Pal Mini Score Board Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Ranger Stamp Platform Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M ATG 714 Tape Adhesive 3M foam tape