Chic of the Week #53 and Anniversary Winners!

Hi all!  First I'd like to say a huge THANK YOU not only for participating this week but also for helping to spread the word about breast cancer awareness.  Such a worthy cause, and education is key!!  I read a lot of hearfelt stories that brought tears to my eyes.  I'm so thankful that my mother's brush with breast cancer and her lengthy treatment and recovery are behind her.  I pray the same result for those of you who are faced with this horrible disease, and that any of you who are in remission continue to live a long, healthy life - cancer free! 


With that, and without further adieu, lets get down to our Chic of the Week and our prize winners!  I selected Ms. Theresa Winslow's card as our JUGS53 Chic of the Week!  Not only is it beautiful, it completely relative to our breast cancer awareness informational campaign this week.  Theresa's testimony is one that brought tears to my eyes ♥

Isn't her card just lovely?!  Please swing by her blog and leave her a little love ♥  Theresa, please email me and I'll send your badge straight away!


Now, onto our prize winners selected via random.org:

#79 - Heather Mills [email entry] - My Time Made Easy Prize Package!


#93 - Theresa Pollack [email entry] - Gina K Designs Prize Package!

#11 - Gramma Carma - Joan's Garden Gift Certificate!

#6 - Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Paper Makeup Stamps Gift Certificate!

#75 - Melissa Hubert [email entry] - Clear and Simple Stamps Prize Package!

#28 - Lisa Eisner - WPlus9 Prize Package!

#4 - Carla Suto - Pixie Petals Gift Certificate!

#38 - Gail - Just Rite Prize Package!

Winners, please email Just Us Girls with your snail mail address to claim your prizes!

Thank you again for being such loyal followers and supporting our humble challenge site we started a year ago ♥ We love keeping our challenges fresh and fun and checking out your awesome projects each week! Thank you also to our AWESOME sponsors who made this week such a huge success!  We truly appreciate your support also ♥

Please be sure to swing by Saturday for another special challenge ;]

Have a great (and hopefully LONG) weekend!

Just Us Girls Anniversary!! JUGS 53 - Sketch

Today is a VERY special day at Just Us Girls! If you didn't notice our post title, it's the JUGS one year anniversary! Yes, we started our humble little challenge blog one year ago today. Our group name was conceived when Lauren Meader decided to pursue her new, My Time Made Easy business and disbanded her challenge DT. "Just us girls" ventured off on our own, changed the lineup of challenges a tad bit, and started JUGS. It was an intended pun to use this name because most of the JUGS ladies have been affected by breast cancer in some way. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, so the start of our group and the name had significant meaning in a couple of ways :]

We are proud to boast over 650 followers, many of whom faithfully play along every week. You all make us so proud every time you link your gorgeous work to our challenge blog. We are honored to share your company in this wonderful, paper crafting world ♥

So, in honor of our anniversary, we have a simple, yet FUN sketch:

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we are not asking for you to donate to a specific organization, rather, we would like to provide a few popular links that support breast cancer awareness and research. If you donate, we are grateful, if you don't, feel free to share the links and spread the word!

♥ Avon Foundation for Women - Breast Cancer Crusade
♥ Breast Cancer Awareness
♥ The Breast Cancer Site
♥ BreastCancer.org
♥ CDC - Breast Cancer Awareness
♥ National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc
♥ Susan G. Komen for the Cure

We also have several, GENEROUS sponsors this week! The list of prizes that have been supplied by some of our FAVORITE stamp companies is listed below. HUGE THANK YOU to every company who donated!!!

• My Time Made Easy - A Secret Surprise Stamp set PLUS In Suspense Template!

• Gina K Designs - Fanciful Tags stamp set


• Joan's Garden - $25 gift certificate to spend at Joan's store!!

• Paper MakeUp Stamps - $25 gift certificate!!

• Clear and Simple Stamps donated the following prize package:

(1) Awareness Darling stamp set
(1) Awareness button mix sampler (includes buttons from I'm a Princess Pink, You're Such a Gray-cious Host, and A Blanc Check color stories)
(1) I'm a Princess Pink Ribbon sampler (1 yd)
(1) Limited Edition Attitude mini stamp
**All products are made in the USA, ribbon is double-faced satin, and stamp sets are 100% photopolymer.

• WPlus9 TWO stamp sets of the winner's choice!!!

• PixiePetals - Etsy - $10 Gift certificate


• JustRite Stampers From the JUGS team - we'd also like to give away a stamp set and block.

We are donating Homemade Treats and Wood Stamper 2-3/8" with Bonus 25 pt Font set



In order to earn two entries into the random drawing for one of the prizes, you can do the following:

1 - simply play along this week and post a direct link to your project using InLinkz at the bottom of this post.


2 - Collect our group of 8 letters that spell out a phrase, by hopping to everyone's blog in the order our cards are listed in this post! Your last stop is JUGS! Send the phrase to our JUGS email for your second entry! **DON'T take the time to hop to everyone's blog and collect the letters only to share with everyone in the comments area (you're doing the work for them!). If you comment, please just tell us how much you love our challenges or better yet, tell us how breast cancer has affected you - directly or indirectly.

Now for the big reveal of the gorgeous projects our talented design team made:

1 - Alicia

2 - Andrea

3 - Kathryn

4 - Kristin

5 - Lisa

6 - Maria

7 - Pam

8 - Selma ~ Our October Guest Designer

9 - JUST US GIRLS - Last stop on the hop!! Your letter is "K"

That's all there is to it! The challenge closes on Thursday, October 7th at 9pm. We will announce not only our esteemed, Chic of the Week, but also our prize winners! Be sure to check back!!!

Thanks for playing along this week!

Chic of the Week #52

Are you ready for this week's Chic of the Week? I loved all of the template entries, thanks to all who played along with us!

As always it's hard to pick just one for our Chic of the Week but this week's Chic is:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz !!

This is Debbie's entry that caught my eye and I simply adored:

Big congrats to Debbie!! Debbie I will be in touch with your Chic of the Week badge!
Get ready because tomorrow we are celebrating our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Can you believe it's been one whole year already?? So be sure to stop back tomorrow for a super fun challenge that you don't want to miss out on!!
That's it for now!
Thanks for stopping by!