JUGS #86: Father's Day 3D Project

Hi there JUGS fans!!! Happy Memorial Day weekend to you all!!! Hope you have fun activities planned but also time to play along with a fun template/3D challenge :)

Andrea here with a masculine-themed challenge in honor of the Dad's in our lives :) All you need to do is create a template or 3D project for Father's Day! So lets see you whip something up for those extra special men :)

But first... this is the last Saturday of the month which sadly means Clare's stint as Guest Designer has come to an end… boooooo!!!! Clare, it has been so wonderful to have you design for us this month!!! Thanks so very much!

On to the challenge deets;

How to play: You need to upload your project for this week's challenge to your online blog or 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 also use the keyword or tag, JUGS86. After you post to Linky Tools you can also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the weekly "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, June 2, 2011. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Clare Buswell - May Featured Designer

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team ♥♥

Andrea

Elise

Kathryn

Kristin

Lisa

Maria

Pam

Can't wait to see what fabulous Father's Day projects you'll create!!!

Chic of the week #85

Dear friends, thank you for brightening our week with your beautiful rainbow colored projects!  I loved how each of you expressed your own personal style while using all 6 delicious colors. 

I was inspired by so many projects and some of my personal favorites were:
Melody
Leisa
Maureen
Veronica
Laurel
Erica
Jen
Deborah
Rosemary

Let me tell you girls, you made it tough to pick just one! 
Congratulations to Maureen on being the Chic of the Week!  Please email me at paperdaydream at aol dot com for your chic of the week badge.  Thanks so much for playing everyone!  I loved your creations!

Also, one last note....I want to make sure that you all knew I visited and commented on every entry.  For some reason blogger/google was giving me a log in error on several of your blogs.  It wouldn't even let me comment anonymously grrrrr!  So I apologize if those comments did not post because I sure did try!

I hope you had fun with us this week.  Come back tomorrow for a fun template challenge!

Just Us Girls #85 color challenge!

Are you ready to take the challenge? This week the JUGs girls are challenging you to use a rainbow of colors! "Rainbow" is truly one of my favorite "colors"! Whenever someone asks what my favorite color is, I can never pick just one so, oftentimes, I sing the old song..."RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, don't forget there's PURPLE too! ;) Soooo, that's what I'm asking you to do, use all six colors in your creation.

For your inspirational pleasure, our design team and featured designer projects....

Clare Buswell - May Featured Designer

Dana

Kathryn

Lisa

Maria

Andrea

How to play: Simply upload your project for this week's challenge to your blog or public photo gallery. Leave a link that goes directly to your project in the Linky Tools form at the bottom of this post, and use keyword JUGS85 in any online galleries.

Deadline to be considered for the weekly "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, May 26th. The Linky Tool form will close at that time. Our "Chic of the Week" will be announced the following Friday morning.

Wishing you a rainbow of happiness!!!

Chic of the Week #84

**Sorry this post is late.  I scheduled it for midnight but just realized it was sent back to draft.  Aargh...don't know why it always happens to me...congrats, ladies!**

Hiya, JUGhead friends :]  Kristin here to announce the Chic of the Week 84!  I'm so glad some of you took the plunge and tried your hand at Kissing with a Twist!  You all did amazing work...and made my job of selecting our Chic difficult!  BUT, alas, I DID select a beauty.  Check out this lovely, CAS card by Chrissie!

Isn't it fresh?!  I love this girly, CAS layout with the stark white bg...just stunning IMO!  Congratulations, Chrissie!  Please email me for your Chic of the Week badge!!

There were also a few other projects that really caught my eye...check em out:

Carma
Janine
Sue

Be sure to swing by tomorrow for a fab color challenge hosted by Dana!  You don't wnat to miss this one!  Have a great night.

Kissing...Just Us Girls Style :]

Happy Saturday, JUGS friends!  Kristin here with an easy, FUN technique..."Kissing with a Twist" - literally!  Most of us have at least heard of the kissing technique, but the "twist" is new to me :]  I hope it's new to you as well, or a trusted, go-to technique that will allow you to show us a thing or two.  Take a gander at the awesome tutorial over at Splitcoaststampers by clicking HERE.

Our amazing DT came up with some gorgeous projects to further inspire you to give it a try!  Check em out:

Clare Buswell ~ Our May Featured Designer

Andrea

Dana

Elise

Kathryn

Kristin

Lisa

Pam

Now it's your turn to show us your *kissing with a twist* ;] 

How to play: Simply upload your project for this week's challenge to your blog or public photo gallery. Leave a link that goes directly to your project in the Linky Tools form at the bottom of this post, and use keyword JUGS84 in any online galleries.

Deadline to be considered for the weekly "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, May 19th. The Linky Tool form will close at that time. Our "Chic of the Week" will be announced the following Friday morning.
Have a fab weekend!!

Chic of the Week #83

Good morning. It's Friday morning and time to announce this week's Chic of the Week. I appreciate those of you who played along - I know we had a funky sketch for you and I was pleased to see how everyone handled it. Great job girls!!

NOTE: This post was supposed to go live at midnight but Blogger has been down. I even have screen shots to prove it was down but Blogger server is rejecting all attempts at uploading photos. GRRRR

Ok - meanwhile drum roll please............

This week's Chic is Lisa Sumpter!!!

(I can't post the pic of her card since Blogger is still not allowing any photos to be uploaded). Also, since blogger has been down for a couple of days apparently they were unable to restore some of the posts that happened during that time. Lisa, please contact me for your Chic of Week badge.

And a couple of additional "Honorable Mentions" go to

Anne

Hannelie

Cindy Van Oorschot

Come back tomorrow for a Technique Challenge hosted by Kristin!

JUGS Sketch #83

Happy Mother's Day weekend to all the mom's reading this!!!

And good morning JUGs fans. It's the first Saturday of the month so it's time for a new sketch. Pam here as your hostess this week with a pretty straight forward sketch. Here it is...

Remember a sketch is a starting point - so flip it, turn it, interpret the "flower" as ribbon or a shape - be creative and enjoy. We can't wait to see what you do with the sketch. Meanwhile - to get you started - here's a little inspiration from the JUGS team to get your mojo movin!

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team ♥♥

Andrea

Elise

Kathryn

Lisa

Maria

Pam

Please also give a warm JUGS welcome to our new Featured Designer for the month...

Clare Buswell

How to play: You need to upload your project for this week's challenge to your online blog or 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 also use the keyword or tag, JUGS83. After you post to Linky Tools you can also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the weekly "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, May 12. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Have a great weekend and all you moms - ENJOY your day.

Chic of the Week #82

WOW! You all BLEW ME AWAY with the fabulous creations present for the emboss resist technique!!! So much inspiration - I really mean it!!! I got so many wonderful ideas from seeing all of your eye candy! Thanks!!!

In fact the creations were so beautiful that I had the HARDEST time picking a Chic!!! The. Hardest. Time. EVER!

In the end, it was this CAS, STUNNING creation I kept coming back to…

There's just so much to love about Sue's card!!! I love the dark ink used for the resist (will be doing that in the near future!) and the fabulous layout. Love the subtly colored embossed background too. It's so CAS - perfect for a warm, thoughtful sympathy card. Congratulations Sue!!! 

Please email me at andrea(dot)matth(at)yahoo(dot)com for your Chic of the Week badge! We hope you'll wear it proudly!!!

Hope to see you all again on Saturday for an all new sketch challenge hosted by our dear Pam!!! Thanks again for playing along with us!!! We love seeing you creations week after week!