"Just Us Girls" Challenge: May 2010

Friday, May 28, 2010

Just Us Girls #35 - Wild Card Dry Embossing Challenge!

It's time for another JUGS challenge......are you ready? Alicia is your hostess this week and she chosen dry embossing for her challenge. You can do this however you choose....with an embossing folder, light table.....only requirement is that your project has dry embossing on it somewhere. We can't wait to see what you create. Be sure to link your creation to Inlinkz at the bottom. Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday weekend. Be sure to check back on Friday for the CHIC OF THE WEEK!

And a HUGE thank you goes out to Teresa Kline and LeAnne Pugliese for being such great guest designers this month! They certainly have a style all their own and brought so much to our Just Us Girls Challenges! Thanks so much, girls!

Guest Designer Teresa Kline

Featured Designer LeAnne Pugliese

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 Inlinkz form at the bottom of this post. If you upload to online galleries, please also use the keyword or tag, JUGS35. After you post to Inlinkz 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 3. The Inlinkz form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Just Us Girls #34 Chic of the Week and blog candy winner!

OK, let me just start off with W-O-W! Our participants were on FIRE with creative template projects and amazing design! I was absolutely blown away once again by our fabulous Just Us Girls participants this week. Could you make my job to choose just one any more difficult? I think not! ;) It was a joy to visit you all this week as blog hostess. Thank you for your participation! And now our Chic of the Week......

Inger

Can you say WOW?! This amazing project is my choice this week for all of the wonderful details plus the unique template style. Congratulations Inger! Please email me at paperdaydream at aol dot com for your chic of the week winners badge.

Also catching my eye this week are these creative ladies: Rosemary D, Tangii, Laurel S, and Debbie M.

And now onto the template gift certificate winner to My Time Made Easy:

#22 is Lindsay! Congrats Lindsay! Please contact me and I will get you hooked up with some shopping power at Lauren's wonderful store!

Thanks again everyone for a wonderful week of template projects. I hope you'll join us again tomorrow for a wild card challenge....we could throw any technique or challenge at you during wild card week so be sure and check back with us tomorrow morning for some *wild * good papercrafting fun! Have a good one and thanks as always for playing with Just Us Girls!

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Just Us Girls #34....Template Challenge

Welcome back for another week of fun with Just Us Girls! This week is template week so it's time to stretch your legs and let the horses run wild with templates and 3D endeavors. This challenge is sponsored by the lovely Lauren Meader with My Time Made Easy,LLC. One randomly drawn lucky participant will receive a FREE template from Lauren!

The JUGs DT is using their MTME template of choice this week so be prepared for tons of inspiration! If you have a MTME template (get a FREEBIE from Lauren here) we'd love to see you use it, or, you can use your template of choice from any source. And now, some creations from the DT...

Guest Designer, Teresa Kline

Featured Designer, LeAnne Pugliese

Deadline to be considered for the weekly "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, May 27. The Inlinkz form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Chic of the Week #33

Wow, everyone! You sure made my job difficult this week! You ALL rocked the color challenge this week! I could have chosen each and every one of you and not have been off the mark, but I must choose only one today. And ironically, I chose entry #1 by Jo. I just kept coming back to this one over and over.

I just loved how she incorporated all the colors (including the kraft) into this card and made it patriotic without being patriotic, if you know what I mean. :-) And on top of that, I LOVE strawberries! Congratulations, Jo! I'll be contacting you with the Chic of the Week badge!

There were also several other entries that I just have to mention.

Nikki created a little boy card that had a GREAT story behind it.

Tangii used one of my favorite fairies for a real sparkler.

Beverly created the most fabulous partriotic card.

Sam created the cutest sailboat shaped card.

Cheryl's sew happy card was very clever.

Thanks so much to all of you for entering our JUGs color challenge this week. We have our template challenge tomorrow, so please stop by and play along. Have a great week!

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Just Us Girls #33 - Color Challenge

Hi everyone...Lisa here with your color challenge for this week. Since Memorial Day is in two weeks, I thought patriotic colors were in order. (ETA: And after reading LeAnne's blog post, I found out that today, May 15th, is Armed Forces Day! How appropriate!)

Red, white, and blue with kraft as an optional color. Let's see what the JUGs girls have done.

Lisa

Alicia

Dana

Maria

Mona

Pam and friend Hanne (visiting from the Netherlands)

Teresa Kline - Special Guest Designer for May

LeAnne Pugliese - Featured Designer for May

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 Inlinkz form at the bottom of this post. If you upload to online galleries, please also use the keyword or tag, JUGS33. After you post to Inlinkz 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 20. The Inlinkz form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Have Fun!

Friday, May 14, 2010

Chic of the Week #32

Thanks so very much to all of you who played along last week in the fun, Pocket Card Technique challenge! :) There were so many fantastic entries however, I can only choose one for Chic of the Week.

This week's Chick of the Week goes to: Kristin:

All the wonderful detail - the embossing & pearls are so pleasing to the eye! Congratulations Kristin, I will be sending you the JUGs Chic of the Week badge!

Here are a few more projects to gaze upon:

Lesley

Andrea

Dianna

Suzana

Thanks again to all who played along! Hope to see you Saturday for a new color challenge!
Be Sweet!

Mona

Friday, May 7, 2010

JUGS32 - Technique Challenge

REMEMBER: JUGS is looking for a new Design Team member - for details please check out THIS POST. There have been some AWESOME entries - please keep them coming!!! :)

Hi Everyone! It's time to for a Technique Challenge with Just Us Girls! I am the Hostess & thought we would give the technique of making a Pocket Card of sorts a try! If you have not made one of these fun sort of cards before or if you have a need a little refresher, please click HERE for several great tutorials courtesy of Splitcoaststampers.

For some Just Us Girls DT inspiration:

Alicia

Hope these awesome samples get your creative MOJO jump started, you give this fun technique a try & play along! Can't wait to see what you create! Be Sweet!

Mona

How to play: You need to 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 Inlinkz form at the bottom of this post. If you upload to online galleries, please also use the keyword or tag, JUGS32. After you post to Inlinkz you can come also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the weekly "Chic of the Week" will be 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, May 13th. The Inlinkz submission form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on Friday morning following the deadline.

Chic of the Week #31

Thank you to everyone who played along with my sketch challenge this week. As always everyone did a fabulous job and it's never easy picking just one for Chic of the Week.

This week Chic of the Week is:

CHRISTINE!

Here is her awesome fun and bright creation!

Congrats Christine! I will send you your chic of the week badge!

I would also like to mention a few other which caught my eye:

Arielle - She had an awesome bright creation with a hot air balloon.

Sue - I loved the style on this one as well as the adorable image.

Andrea - Loved her floral image and her awesome colors.

Piali - Loved her dp and the image is super adorable.

Well that's it for now! Thanks to all who played along this week. I hope you will stop by again tomorrow for another fun challenge.

Till later....

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Jugs 31 - Sketch Challenge

JUGS is looking for a new Design Team member - for details please check out THIS POST.

Happy National Scrapbooking Day! It's Saturday again and time for a new challenge! This week it's time to get sketchy. Here is the sketch I have for you this week:

Are you ready to play? I have a little extra challenge for you if you are up for it, use this sketch for a scrapbook page! Now, if you don't scrapbook never fear that's not required. For those who do like to get scrappy I would love to see those pages. And for those who just love making cards I can't wait to see what you cook up! Our DT did a little of both this week so get ready for some awesome inspiration!

But first here are the important details:

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 Inlinkz form at the bottom of this post. If you upload to online galleries, please also use the keyword or tag, JUGS31. After you post to Inlinkz 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 6. The Inlinkz form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team ♥♥