Just Us Girls #266 - Trend Week

This week at Just Us Girls it's Trend Week.  Chris is our hostess and she has picked the trend of Chalkboard.  Here is a link to a video at Make It Monday on this technique.  My card was very simple because I happened to have a stamp set made especially for this look, but you can create something similar using the stamps you have on hand.

Here's my card

The stamp set I used is called Poster Board Sentiments, and is available at Gina K. Designs.  I decided to make my chalkboard brown because it looked better with the colors I had planned to use. When I was in school all of the chalkboards were black, but today with the many different colors of chalkboard paint available, they come in all colors.  So have fun with it!  I put my chalkboard sentiment on a cute little tag and added some dash lines around the edge.  With the addition of some ribbon, a button and some enamel dots, the tag was complete.  The patterned paper I chose was some from my stash.  I know it came in a 12 x 12 pack, but the cover was torn off a long time ago, and I don't remember the name on it.  Thanks so much for coming by to look!

The Recipe:

Gina K. Designs Poster Board Sentiments

Reverse Confetti Tag Me Too

Spellbinders Tags & Flags

MME enamel dots

GKD Dark Chocolate & Mixed Berries buttons

Offray gingham ribbon

Patterned Paper from my stash

Doodlebug twine

Please visit the Just Us Girls blog to see the beautiful cards the rest of the team and our GD, Tajanna, have created this week using the Chalkboard Effect.  I can't wait to see how you are inspired!

If you win Chic of the Week in any of our November challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen as our Guest Designer for the month of January.  Good luck!

Seize the Birthday - Black & White

It's time for another Seize the Birthday Challenge.  Seize the Birthday is always "Anything Goes", but this time we have a topping of Black & White.  If you are not into black and white, you can skip the topping. It is always an option.

Here's my card

I really love the crisp, clean look of a black and white card.  I need to make them more often.  I used a set from Gina K. Designs called Poster Board Sentiments and white embossed the flag and focal image.  The background was created with a Cuttlebug embossing folder called Happy Birthday.  I added a trio of black enamel dots.

Please visit the Seize the Birthday blog to see the beautiful cards the rest of the team have created for this challenge.  I hope you will come and play along.