Just Us Girls #173 - Inspiration Picture

Hi everyone, Marisa here.  It's my turn to host our  inspiration challenge and I found this yummy picture (no pun intended) to use this week.  I know it has fall colours, but with all the pinks and reds of Valentine's Day cards flooding blogs and on line galleries, I thought it would be a nice change of pace.  

Here's a larger picture of our inspiration for this week.

As you can see below, the Design Team came up with some great cards to get your inspiration going.

Lisa

Marisa

Vicki

Maria

Tangii

Elise

How to play: Please copy and use our graphic on your post. You need to upload your project for this week's challenge to your online blog or to a 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 use the keyword or tag, JUGS173. After you post to Linky Tools you may also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, January 31st. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", will be announced on the following Friday morning. 

Thanks for joining us this week and I look forward to seeing your creations!

Chic of the Week #172

I loved seeing all your wonderful creations with one of my favorite color schemes!  You all just rocked it and, made it sooooooo very hard to chose the COTW.  However, it must be done.  The lucky Chick of the Week for #172 is..................

#24 -- Nancy L

I just love the pop of lime green with those gorgeous background flowers!  Beautiful job Nancy!!  Please contact me with your email so I can get your badge to you!  [vdutchr@cox.net]

Thank you all for playing, I am thrilled you liked the colors~  Be sure and return tomorrow for the amazing Inspiration Photo that Marisa found. It is just stunning!

See you !

JUGS #172 - Color Challenge

Hi everyone!  I can't believe it is Saturday again.  My the weeks are flying by with this new year too.  For this week, the colors I chose are White, Gray and Lime Green. 

If you are like me, you also like to see just what the Team has come up with.  Let's go looking:

Vicki 

Maria

Tangii

Marisa

Lisa

Elise

How to play: Please copy and use our graphic on your post. You need to upload your project for this week's challenge to your online blog or to a 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 use the keyword or tag, JUGS172. After you post to Linky Tools you may also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, January 24th. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", will be announced on the following Friday morning. Thanks for playing with us this week!

Thanks for stopping by!

Chic of the Week #171

So sorry for coming in so late this week!  Thanks to all those who played along with our embossed technique.  Our challenge was to try the fabulous Double Embossed Enamel technique or to just ink your embossed images.

This week's Chic of the Week is the one chickie who did try the double embossed enamel technique and posted not one but 2 cards using it!

So this week's CHIC is Sue from Cards By Q!  Here are her two double embossed enamel cards:

 

Thanks Sue for playing along and trying this cool technique!  Be sure to contact us for your Chic of the Week badge!

Maria

JUGS #171 - Technique Week

Hello all!  This week Maria here with your technique challenge!  We are going to do some dry embossing!  So pull out your embossing folders and get ready!  BUT the "twist" to this dry embossing is to add INK to your embossing you can rub some on for a great effect or there is a awesome tutorial on SCS called Double Embossed Enamel.  SO we can't wait to see what YOU do.

Here is what our Design Team came up with:

Maria

Tangii

Vicki

Marisa

Lisa

Elise

Here's all you need to do to play along:

How to play: Please copy and use our graphic on your post. You need to upload your project for this week's challenge to your online blog or to a 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 use the keyword or tag, JUGS171. After you post to Linky Tools you may also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, January 17th. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", will be announced on the following Friday morning. Thanks for playing with us this week!

Thanks for stopping by!

Chic of the Week: JUGS #170

Time to announce this weeks Chic...thanks so much to everyone who took on the sketch! I loved seeing all the varied and beautiful interpretations!

And without further adieu, Chic of the Week for JUGS #170 is no other than....

Sue!!! I loved the clean and simple layout and the sweet little hearts!

Awesome card Sue! Please contact me at andrea dot matth at yahoo dot com for your Chic of the Week badge - we hope you'll wear it proudly!

Here are a few more beautiful projects that caught my eye...

Macarena

Terry

Pauline

Melissa

Paula

Thanks again for playing along! I can't tell you how much we love seeing your projects! Please join us again for a new challenge on Saturday.

Just Us Girls #170

Hello all! Happy new year!

Before we move into this week's challenge we have some exciting news! Tangii Crain of The Inking Spot of Crain Creations has joined the Just Us Girls family and we couldn't be happier!!! Welcome Tangii! We are so privileged and glad to have you join us!!! I'm sure Tangii will have wonderful things in store for all of us!

On behalf of the JUGS gals, it's Andrea here to hopefully tempt you with a sketch!

As always, feel free to interpret it any way you please. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Here's how our fabulous DT saw the sketch:

Tangii

Vicki

Marisa

Lisa

Elise

Andrea

Here's all you need to do to play along:

How to play: Please copy and use our graphic on your post. You need to upload your project for this week's challenge to your online blog or to a 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 use the keyword or tag, JUGS170. After you post to Linky Tools you may also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, January 10th. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", will be announced on the following Friday morning. Thanks for playing with us this week!

Thanks for stopping by!

Andrea

Chic of the Week #169

Hello there!

I want to thank all those who participated in our New Years Sparkle challenge.  I loved all the creations submitted!

This week's Chic of the Week is:

Tracy!

I just love this layout and the image and papers used.  And the use of sparkle for the challenge is perfect.  Simple and not over done, works great with this card.  A sparkly dress and the sparkle doily like trim is perfect.  Thanks Tracy!  Be sure to contact us for your badge.

Come back here tomorrow for a new challenge and it's Sketch week here at Just Us Girls!!

Thanks!!

Maria