Friday, October 16, 2009

Chic of the Week #2 & Blog Candy Winner

Well girls - ALL you girls - who played along with the first BIG Just Us Girls challenge, I am blown away by the number of participants we had this week, AND 96 followers, too! You girls totally rocked our little blog!!!

Ok - It's time to announce this week's blog candy winner - (this is the easy part) - drumroll...... our lucky winner - according to Random.org is #38 .  That number (on Mr. Linky) belongs to Rosemary D!! Congratulations, Rosemary. You have won a $25 gift certificate to EITHER Gina K Designs or PaperTrey Ink. Please email your choice along with your name, real address and email to justusgirlschallenge AT gmail.com (A clickable JUGS email address is not posted here to prevent web bots from getting it then spamming our account but just use @ where it says at and use NO spaces.)


NOW for the really hard part - Chic of the Week - last week we had about ten entries to choose from and that was really hard - well, this week we had 78 entries (by the posted deadline) so the job is ALMOST impossible. You are ALL winners in my book and I wish I could recognize each and every one of you who played along. The cards that were made to support breast cancer were amazing (I hope they will get sent to someone who needs them). Many of you took up the option to add pink so I've been tickled pink all week *grin*. After a couple of sleepless nights and countless trips through the gallery over and over, I finally selected this creation by Broni. Her sassy AddyTude just totally captured my attention - she reminds me of me *grin* and I couldn't pick a better sentiment - I wish more of our young girls felt this way today. Broni's coloring is divine and the paper she picked for piecing is just crazy, fresh and fun! Congratulations, Broni. I will send you your Chic of the Week badge right away. We hope you will "Wear it Proudly."

Meanwhile I want to recognize these entries as a few additional eye catchers this week... Way to rock the challenge!

Jennie - The trees look fabulous with this fun paper and using the white Flower Soft for the snow was just a wonderful idea. (It's ironic that this is one of the few without pink! LOL!)

Wendy The sleeve on this dress just looks SO life like I have to keep looking to see if it's fabric or paper.  Add to it an adorable layout and paper pieced coffee cup and background and it's a real LOOKER!

Lee  I love the way Lee was able to combine two totally different designer papers on the jacket AND the background and pull it off for a totally FUN look. The bling for buttons on this letter jacket made me smile.

Julie-Ann I love these non-traditional colored stockings and the simple yet striking layout.

Theresa  I liked the non-traditional approach to paper piecing in this one - with the piecing being behind the focal image but with Theresa's amazing coloring what's NOT to like?!? The whole scene just glows and I think I can smell the smoke from that wood fire.

Remember, Saturday morning Just Us Girls will bring you a whole new Color Challenge. Hope to see you all back on the blog! Thank you for all the support this week.

14 comments:

Elise said...

This is what I get for being a night owl...!{hee hee} Congratulations, ladies! Rockin' cards! Yipeee!

Julie-Ann Wells (Jewels) said...

Congrats to the winner & The Chick of the Week!

It was a lot of fun to play and I am definitely keeping my eyes open for the next challenge! Thanks for the Shout out!!! I am tickled {pink} ironically enough!!

Tammy Hershberger said...

Woo hoo! Congrats Broni, and all the top picks!

LeAnne said...

We always knew that Broni dared to be different! Congratulations! woohoo!

Broni said...

Woo hoo! Thank you girls SO MUCH for choosing me "Chic of the Week". You just don't know how honored I am and how special I consider this!! I will wear my badge PROUDLY and I plan on being back often!!

Rosemary said...

Congrats to Broni!! Her card is fabulous!! I can't believe that I won the gift certificate!!! Woohoo!!! Thanks to sweet Elise for alerting me!! She is the best!!!

dpkennedy said...

Way to go! Congrats to everyone! Am I the only CTD girl not to go JUGS? I'd better get a move on!!

Dana Gustafson said...

Yeah girls! YOu all did so amazing!

Mona Pendleton said...

Congratulations to all of you girls! You all did a SPECTACULAR job!

AKiteFlier said...

Huge shout out to ALL our participants - thanks for a great kick off week! :-)

Melissa said...

Congrats to the winners!!

Lisa Kind said...

Congrats to everyone! All the entries were so fabulous, and there were so many wonderful entries! Thanks to all of you for playing along!

Kristin Eberline said...

Congratulations, Broni!! Congrats to the top picks also. This week had an awesome turn out, and we are delighted that everyone seems to be enjoying our fun challenges! Except Danielle...yep, better get a move on girly :O) LOL

Anonymous said...

Hey, can I get a WOOP WOOP!!! Thanks for the shout out girls, I can use all the help I can get! LOL Thanks for the great challenge! See you next week!

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