Baby It's COLD Outside

Oooh yeah - it really is - 18º today, Friday, as I write this post and we should see our first snow of the season by tomorrow morning.  So appropriate for my card for today's Just Us Girls challenge. It's a sketch challenge and Alicia has come up with a good one.

Now isn't that just adorable???

So here's my take on it - I was lucky to be able to play with the new PTI Banner stamps and dies - borrowed from a friend! Super fun set but timely for this challenge.

I cut out the two layers of the dies I wanted to use - I chose the rounded ones since they were big enough to use my letters cut with my cricut. The triangle banners were a bit smaller. I stamped and embossed the light blue layer with several of the different stamp patterns. Then adhered the letters on top. Added the various tops to each pennant. SO cute! Sentiment is from PTI.

I added a few embellishments - snowflakes as my banner "ties" and rhinestones in the centers of the snowflakes on my CB background.

Here's the inside too - simple yet sweet. This will go to one of my California friends when it's cold again like this in January - always makes me ask myself WHY did I move here????

Please give a WARM welcome to our new Featured Designer for December - the very talented and funny Elise Durenberger (aka Mamacow!). Please stop by her blog and check out her project :-)

And here's the rest of the team - we LOVE all of our JUGS participants and really, sincerely thank you for playing along with us and making us so successful! Can't wait to see what YOU do with our sketch.

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team  ♥♥

Alicia
Andrea

Dana
Kathryn
Kristin 

Lisa

Maria

Hugs n smiles and happy holiday preparations. Happy Hanukkah to all of our Jewish friends as well.

Just Us Girls Week 3 - Color Challenge

Wow girls - you totally rocked our new blog (Just Us Girls) last week! We already have more than 90 followers and we had 75+ participating entries last week for our first challenge on the new blog! AMAZING! Huge thank yous and hugs to everyone who helped support our new venture.  :-)    :-)    :-)

Alas, it is Saturday again - and time for another NEW challenge from Just Us Girls. This week the amazing Dana is our hostess and she has a fabulous color challenge for you: Aqua, Red and Cream. Although the colors referenced on our color graphic are PaperTrey colors, you may use any company's papers that are similar colors.

It has been really cold here in the Chicagoland area (especially considering that this is only October) so I was in the mood for working with a holiday or winter idea. (OK Dana you nudged me into it LOL.) Here's my card for this week's color challenge:

I love that I could combine stamps from both Gina K (Funky Christmas snowman and snowflakes) and PaperTrey (Snowfall sentiments).

I used all Papertrey papers per the color graphic and just worked with several layers. Cuttlebug snowflake and swiss dots embossing folders provided some texture. There are snowflakes stamped on the cream strip but are very soft and a little hard to see. The aqua mist ribbon really matches the paper beautifully but my camera was messing with the color so part of it looks a little "off". (sorry)

I used red as the accent throughout from the sponging to the framing to the embellishments. A little bit of Copic shading using BG000 to provide some dimension to the snowman (and to stick with the color challenge.) Again, it's hard to see but there is glitter on the snowman and bits of it on the cuttlebugged snowflakes as well.

Here's a detail shot of the snowman so maybe you can see a bit of the glitter.

To play along this week with the Color Challenge, create a new card and post it to your blog or online gallery, then provide a DIRECT link to your project on the Mr. Linky on the Just Us Girls Challenge site for JUGS3. Deadline to post to Mr. Linky to be considered for our "top pick" stamper called our "Chic of the Week"  is Thursday, October 22, 9:00 PM EST.  We will post the winner on the Just Us Girls blog on Friday Oct. 23.  I really hope you will play along!

For more inspiration please hop along to the rest of the Design Team and see what they have "colored up" for you:

Kristin
Dana
Lisa
Mona
Maria
Tracey

Have a fabulous weekend, girls. I'll be by your blogs and galleries to comment on your creations when I get home.