Just Us Girls challenge - guest designer

Good Morning lovely friends and welcome to February.  I have a busy day on my blog today; this is the first of 3 cards that I will be sharing with you!  I was honoured to be asked to be a guest designer for the Just Us Girls challenge for February and immediately said yes.  They have fun weekly challenges and I hope you will join in.  

They have set themes for each week so it is always easy to play along.  Here is the schedule:

Week 1. Color theme

Week 2. Word prompt

Week 3. Mood Board

Week 4. Anything Goes using a stencil

Week 5. Case a DT Member

Obviously I will only be sharing 4 cards with you (as I'm only a guest) but I will definitely playing along on Week 5 and casing a DT members card. 

So as it's Week 1 we have a colour theme for you to use; here is the graphic:

This is the perfect colour scheme for the upcoming Valentine celebration; however I wanted to make a card for a crafty friend, so used the colours as my starting point.  Here is my card:

a close look at my cute coffee cups:

plus I decorated the inside:

I began by die cutting the sweet coffee cups from white card, the sleeve from pink card, the tops from black card and the hearts from red card.  I added the sleeve with foam squares and the top and hearts with liquid glue.  I also added crystal glaze onto the hearts for some extra shine.  I took a white card panel cut to 3 3/4" x 5" and ink blended some red ink into the centre and then using the same ink I stencilled some hearts over top.  I die cut the friend word from the red card and used a pre-printed sentiment which I die cut with a strip die.  I arranged the coffee cups in the centre of my card, added the strip sentiment overlapping them slightly and placed the friend word below (all were added with liquid glue).  The panel was then added to my card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I lightly blended the red ink at the very bottom of my panel and again stencilled the hearts over top.  I stamped the greeting in black ink and then adhered the panel into the card with double sided tape.  I kept the layers to a minimum as I knew I would be posting my card overseas.   I'm really happy with my card and think it turned out really cute.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

AAA Cards challenge - anything CAS goes option Valentine's Day

Cardz for Galz challenge - red and/or pink hearts

Cut It Up challenge - this makes me happy (coffee makes me happy!)

Moving Along With The Times challenge - love hearts

Pearly Sparkles challenge - love/have a heart

Scrapping 4 Fun challenge - ATG

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - have a heart

Tic Tac Toe challenge - heart, red, die cut

The Color Hues challenge - red and pink

I hope this colour scheme inspires you to create something for the challenge and I cannot wait to see what you make.  I will be back in a little while with another card so don't go too far away!

I really appreciate all your lovely comments and thank you so much for visiting me today. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Spellbinders - I dance die set (for coffee cups)

Spellbinders - sweet treat box die set (for stitched heart)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - friend word die

Creative Expressions - Wordies sentiment sheet - birthday

Simon Says Stamp - falling hearts stencil

Gina K Designs - sentiment strips die

Gina K Designs - cherry red ink cube

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card

CC Designs - happy day stamp set (for inside greeting)