Jugs 52 - Template Challenge

Welcome to another Just Us Girls Challenge! It's Maria here with this week's Template challenge! This week the design team was able to work with one of the My Time Made Easy templates called Tuck-ered Out. Take a look at what the design team came up with:

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team ♥♥

Lynn - September Featured Designer

Alicia

Andrea

Kathryn

Kristin

Lisa

Maria

Pam

Be sure to come play along with us and use a template. Use one of the amazing templates at My Time Made Easy or you use one of your own. We can't wait to see what you come up with this week.

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, JUGS52. 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, Sept 30. The Inlinkz form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Chick of the week # 51

Good Morning!

We had some awesome entries as usual this week!  When I chose these colors I thought more of lady bugs and summer things but as I saw many of you were inspired to create Christmas cards!!!  I guess it really is never to early to get a jump start on  that holiday because it sure does creep up fast!  Well the chick of the week goes to Melissa .  I just loved her beautiful Scarlette in a tub of bubbles along with the scrunched ribbon and embossed background. Congrats Melissa I will contact you shortly with your chick of the week badge!

Here are a  few others that caught my eye.

Vicki  The design papers she used to accent her sentiment made for a stunning card.

Linda   I loved her image and the texture she created with the different fibers she used.

Vannessa  I just loved the image she used for this beautiful Christmas card along with the bold black ribbon.

Be sure to come by tomorrow for an all new challenge!!!

JUGS 51 Color Challenge

Good Morning!
Kathryn here with this weeks' color challenge. I chose these colors because I'm just not READY to give into fallish colors just yet! LOL!!! Feel free to add a neutral color (cream, white or kraft) along with these colors. I hope you will play along with Just Us Girls this week! The girls along with our September guest designer Lynn Mangan have provided you with a little inspiration below.


Lynn

Kristin

Maria

Kathryn

Pam

Lisa

Andrea

Alicia

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, JUGS51. 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, September 23, 2010. The Inlinkz form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Chic of the Week #50 and a Winner!!!

Wow! Let me say that you all rocked the cracked glass technique!!! What a gorgeous batch of creations! A huge thanks to all of you who played along this week - we truly appreciate your support!

Also, a huge thank you to our oh-so generous sponsor, JustRite Stampers! Thank you, thank you thank you!!! We have a very generous prize package courtesy of JustRite;

• 2 JustRite Christmas Collection stamp sets of choice
• 2 JustRite coordinating stampers/mounts
• 5 Copic Sketch markers of choice, from JustRite’s offering
• 2 Memento full-sized ink pads of choice

One lucky winner was chosen randomly....

Lucky number 4... Mindy Y !!!! 

Email Just Us Girls for information on how to claim your prizes!!!

On to Chic of the Week - It sure was difficult to pick just one Chic! The gorgeous fall colors and simple but stunning layout caught my attention.

Congratulations to Giovana!!!!  
Gorgeous work! Email Just Us Girls to claim your Chic of the Week badge.

Since the decision was a very difficult one, I thought I'd point out a bit more eye candy...

Monique made this stunning card with fun patterned papers and stitching

Lori created this wonderful Halloween card and used cracked glass for the owls belly

Chupa made my jaw drop with this wonderful Christmas card

Shirley made this truly beautiful rockin' card

Kannadyjka stunned me with this absolutely gorgeous sympathy card

Wish I could have chosen more! So made gorgeous creations :)

Thanks again for your participation! Congrats to all the winners. See you on Saturday for a whole new new JUGS challenge!!!

Later!

Andrea M

JUGS #50 - A technique challenge that's JustRite!

Welcome friends!

It's Andrea here and I'm so excited to tell you all about this week's challenge. But first, I'm even MORE excited to tell you about our sponsor and their AMAZING giveaway!!!

We are so honored and privileged to have JustRite Stampers® as our sponsor this week!!!! Here's a little more information provided by JustRite...

JustRite Stampers has a huge collection of Christmas and holiday stamp sets from which to choose. Their entire collection can be viewed here. They also offer the full line of Memento full-sized ink pads and now a selection of 96 expertly-chosen Copic Sketch markers which may be purchased as singles, trios or quads! The number one question people have about Copic markers is which colors will work together nicely to give a great shading of color. Now the JustRite design team has done all the work for you -- their quad and trio sets are designed so that you can be assured they will work together to give you a perfect blending group! JustRite has a great 2-page reference guide you can download here. Also, make sure you check out the 12-Weeks of Christmas Blog Hop hosted by JustRite starting this week; the details can be found here. Every Wednesday for the next 12 weeks, the JustRite DT and various designers will showcase the JustRite Christmas Collection. As a part of that event, the JUGS gals will be hopping along with JustRite on November 3!!!! How FUN!!!!

Now I'm sure you read "giveaway" earlier in the post... and, holy moly, do we have one for you!!!! The wonderfully generous folks at JustRite have offered up the following prizes to one lucky, randomly selected participant this week...

• 2 JustRite Christmas Collection stamp sets of choice
• 2 JustRite coordinating stampers/mounts
• 5 Copic Sketch markers of choice, from JustRite’s offering
• 2 Memento full-sized ink pads of choice

WOW!

So now that I've dangled the carrot, I'm sure you're anxious to know what you've got to do to play along, right? We've reached the technique challenge in the JUGS weekly challenge cycle - the technique this time around is the cracked glass technique. If you're a newbie to this technique, there's a tutorial HERE provided by Splitcoaststampers. Just make a project using this technique for a chance to win!

Hope you'll all be inspired to create something with this technique - as always, we can't wait to see what you come up with!!!!! Of course, if you have JustRite stamps we'd love to see you use them!!!

Let's see what the JUGS gals have cooked up for this challenge, shall we?
First up is the work of our wonderful and talented September featured designer, Lynn Mangan.

Lynn Mangan

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team ♥♥

Alicia

Andrea

Dana

Kathryn

Kristin

Lisa

Maria

Pam

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, JUGS50. After you post to Inlinkz you can also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the weekly "Chic of the Week" and for the JustRite prize package is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, September 16, 2010. The Inlinkz form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Chic of the week #49

Wow...there were some wonderful cards created for this week's sketch challenge! It was fun looking at each and every one of them. There were several that I loved, but this one just popped out at me! This week's CHIC OF THE WEEK goes to Elise! Isn't this card wonderful! I loved that it was a Halloween theme! Thanks to all of you for playing along with our JUGS challenge.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Friday and comes back tomorrow to join us for another fun challenge!

JUGS 49 Sketch Challenge

It's JUGS Sketch Challenge Time! Hope you are ready for a great sketch this week! Alicia has one in store for you. Feel free to mix the butterfly up with a creation of your own! Maybe a cute fall card or maybe one for a wedding coming up! We can't wait to see all of your wonderful creations!

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team ♥♥

We would like to thank Lynn Mangan for joinging us for the month of September as our Featured Designer.

Featured Designer for September: Lynn Mangan

Maria

Andrea

Dana

Kathryn

Kristin

Lisa

Pam

Alicia

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, JUGS49. 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, Sept 9. The Inlinkz form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Chic of the Week #48 & Winner!

I can't believe how fast the summer went by and now it's September!

First off we want to thank our August Guest DT member: Jo Westfoot. Thank you so very much for being with us this month you totally rocked it.

Wow, what a fun week. Thanks to everyone who played along in our template challenge. Templates can be so much fun to make and give! Thank you to our fabulous sponsor Clear & Simple Stamps! We have some prizes to give away this week as well all courtesy of Clear & Simple Stamps! The Chic of the Week this week will get her very own "Spooky Treats" Clear & Simple Stamps set! And one randomly picked player will receive a $25.00 gift certificate to the Clear & Simple Stamps shop!

Let's start with our Chic of the Week. This is always a tough choice to make, I love all the templates! The winner of Chic of the Week is......

Tracy V and her Witch Tilda Shoe!!! I thought this was the coolest shoe, I want a pair! Fabulous job Tracy!! Congrats you will receive the CSS Spooky Treats set. Tracy please email us with your information and to get your Chic of the Week badge!

Now our randomly selected winner for a $25 Clear & Simple Stamps gift certificate is Denise!

Congrats Denise! Please be sure to send us an email with your information.


Thanks again to everyone who played along this week in our template challenge! Be sure to swing back here tomorrow for a new Just Us Girls challenge!

See you then!