Just Us Girls Challenge #18 - Wildcard - MAKE A PENNANT BANNER :-)

Hello everyone! It's time for another challenge with Just Us Girls! ♥ ♥ This week is a wildcard challenge... as such I challenge all of you to make a pennant banner with an optional bonus challenge of a love theme for your banner. ♥ ♥ (The "love" theme is optional but the banner is not).

Banners have been popping up all over the place! They show up as home dec, in miniature on cards and scrapbook layouts, made of paper, fabric and anything else you can string along a line of ribbon, etc. The pennant part of your banner can be any shape whatsoever and each pennant may be a symmetrical match of its partners or treated as it's very own canvas. A little something for everyone right? So come on and show us your best banners! There is a wonderful tutorial on how to make these on the SCS web site. You can find it here.

Ready for some inspiration from Just Us Girls? I want to also take a moment to thank our January Guest Designer, the fabulous Gabby Arriaza! This is her final guest spot with us and we want to send her HUGE hugs and thanks for creating with us this month. She is an inspiration to us all! Gabby is dealing with some huge life challenges and all of the Just Us Girls design team want to send her our thoughts and prayers for strength.

Gabby Arriaza, January Guest Designer

Mona

Kristin

Pam

Running late today :[

Tracey

Lisa

Alicia

Maria

Dana

How to Play: Upload your project using this week's challenge to your online blog or public photo gallery. Leave a link that goes directly to your project in the Mr. Linky form at the bottom of this post. If you upload to an online gallery, please use keyword or tag, JUGS18.

Deadline to be considered for "Chic of the Week" will be 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, February 4th. Our "Chic of the Week" will be announced on Friday morning following the deadline. (You may still post to the Mr. Linky after the deadline, but your project won't be eligible for the "Chic of the Week" spot.)

Can't wait to see what you create this week with Just Us Girls!

Chic of the Week #17

What a fun week of templates it's been. We had a little glitch yesterday where we lost our Mr. Linky! Oh the horror that was, but it found it's way back fairly quickly. I had a blast going through all your entries this week and it's always so hard to pick just one for Chic of the week.

So, this week's Chic of the Week is Debbie who submitted this fabulous shabby chic style valentine house. Check it out:


I was drawn to this little house as soon as I saw it. I just love the colors and the shabby chic style it has. It's so hard to pick one but I kept going back to this little house. Thanks for playing Debbie and congrats! You can email me for your Chic of the Week badge.
As I went through everyone's fabulous creations there were a few that stood out to me that I wanted to share with you in no particular order:

Vladka: created this great little doll closet. With such fantastic details from a template she created on her own!

Kathryn: Kathryn used the "In A Pinch" template by Lauren. I loved the simplicity & elegance of it.

Christine: Christine created a lovely house for her mother from one of the My Timeless templates at Paptertrey Ink. She did a great job putting it together and I loved the colors & details.

Terri: Terri submitted a creation using Lauren Meader's All A Flutter template. Butterflies are always so much fun and I love how she decorated this one.

Charlene: Charlene submitted a fabulous pick me up set in black and red colors. Too cute and will definitely make someone smile.

Finally.... this week our amazing sponsor was Lauren of My Time Made Easy who so generously donated a wonderful prize of a $25 gift certificate to her store! I used Random.org and the winner is:
#20 Mandy! Congrats Mandy! I know you will find some fun things in Lauren's store! Please contact us with your details. (email is in sidebar)

If you get a chance you will want to take a swing by everyone's creations because they were all wonderful! Thank you to everyone who participated this week and we hope that you will come back on Saturday for another fun challenge with our hostess of the week Dana!
Till later....

Just Us Girls Challenge #17 - Template Challenge

EDITED:

Mr. Linky had gone missing earlier tonight but now he's back~ Thanks for your patience - the outage affected ALL blogs that had Mr. Linky on them - not just JUGs.

It's Saturday again and time for another challenge with Just Us Girls! This week we have an amazing sponsor for our template challenge. Many of you may be familiar with the amazing Lauren Meader, well Lauren now owns her own store called My Time Made Easy! In one fabulous place you can get Lauren's wonderful templates, digi papers and stamps. Lauren has one fabulous design team in place which include a few of our own here at Just Us Girls. Here is this week's challenge:

I hope you will take time this week to play along with us in this template challenge. If you don't already have one of Lauren's templates she offers a free one in her store called Cutesy Cover Template, so please check that out. We would LOVE IT if you would use one of Lauren's new templates if you have one. However, we want everyone to be able to play so you may use any template that you have. Please just share with us where your template comes from. 

BLOG CANDY!!! Lauren has also generously donated a $25 gift certificate to her store My Time Made Easy for one lucky winner. All you have to do is play along with us and link your creation to the Mr. Linky below. We will draw one lucky winner at random from all the qualifying participants and post the winner next Friday with our Chic of the Week. Remember your entry needs to link directly to your post or gallery photo of your entry. Feel free to also leave us a comment as we love to hear from everyone and what you think of the challenges.

And now "Just Us Girls" presents a little inspiration to get you started. All of the fabulous creations you will see are big sneak peeks for Lauren's February 1 release! So get ready for some fabulous eye candy! First up we'll show you what Lauren has come up with. Isn't this just too cute?!? Just Chickin' In! What a cute and clever sentiment!

Lauren

Alicia



Dana


Lisa


Mona


Maria

Pam

Kristin

Tracey

Gabby Arriaza - Our January Guest Designer

How to Play: Upload your project using this week's challenge to your online blog or public photo gallery. Leave a link that goes directly to your project in the Mr. Linky form at the bottom of this post. If you upload to an online gallery, please use keyword or tag, JUGS17.

Deadline to be considered for "Chic of the Week" will be 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, January 28th. Our "Chic of the Week" will be announced on Friday morning following the deadline. (You may still post to the Mr. Linky after the deadline, but your project won't be eligible for the "Chic of the Week" spot.)

Can't wait to see what you create this week with Just Us Girls!