Just Us Girls #57 Wild Card technique challenge!

Hello Just Us Girls challengers! First off, long time no blog! Boy have I missed joining my JUGs friends for challenges this past month. Glad to be back in the saddle so to speak. This week is wild card week meaning that the hostess (that's me, Dana) has free choice on what the challenge will be.....ready???

This week I am challenging everyone to try burnt edged fabric flowers. Now, challenge requirements....try the burnt edge technique and make a fabric flower with that technique. The resulting flower can be used on anything you like....a card, a scrap page, decor, fashion, etc.... Here is a great link to a tutorial by Simply Vintage Girl to help you get started. I'd like to note that Simply Vintage Girl uses silk for her gorgeous flower...but other types of fabric work well too and produce varied effects. Also, despite the fact we are all grown ups here, the mother in me wants to send out a warning of "be careful" ;) This involves flame and fabric so working on a heat proof surface is important, keeping hands away from the flame, maybe some ventilation is a good idea, ya know, be safe!

If burning fabric sends chills down your spine (and not the fun Halloween kind!) then you can show up to the challenge with your best fabric flower offering. The key word here is fabric OK?

Here is some amazing inspiration from the Just Us Girls DT:

Featured Designer, Selma Stevenson!

Alicia

Andrea

Kathryn

Pam

Lisa

Maria

Dana

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, JUGS57. After you post to Inlinkz you can also leave a comment here if you'd like.

Deadline to be considered for the weekly "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, November 4. The Inlinkz form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Before I send you on your way to burning fabric, there is another kind of burning going on...the BIRTHDAY CANDLE kind!!! Our talented and sweeter than sweet KRISTIN is celebrating her birthday this week and on behalf of all the JUGs girls out there, Happy, HAPPY Birthday to our dear Kristin! I hope it is a great one girlfriend!

Thanks for stopping by. Can't wait to see your fabulous flowers!!

Chic of the Week #56

Well girls - thanks for playing along with Just Us Girls this week.  We loved seeing the variety of templates that you chose to work with. As usual, it's always hard to pick just one for our Chic of the Week award.  After much viewing and re-viewing, I'm pleased to say that this week's Chic of the week is

Lori

I just loved her fun and unusual template - the bright colors and a great idea for a teacher gift.  Lori please email us for your Chic of the Week badge.

Here are links to some of the other fabulous projects that really caught my eye:

Tangii

Monique

Christine

Karli

Pattie

And now, our winner of the My Time Made Easy Template and Digital Paper pack goes to....

drumroll please...

#11 belongs to Anne T - Congratulations Anne. Please contact us (see our sidebar for email) and we'll get you the info on how to claim your prize.

Finally,  thanks to all who played along this week and for all your support - see you again on Saturday for a WOW challenge that you are going to want to come and join us for. I LOVED it!!!

In Suspense with JUGS

Good morning! It's Pam here with another template challenge for you from Just Us Girls. You are going to LOVE this week's template challenge. The Design Team members are all featuring Lauren Meader's fabulous new "In Suspense" template from My Time Made Easy. As you know, Lauren has a soft spot for "JUGS" and loves to sponsor our template challenges. This week is no exception so let's get those templates out and make some gift packaging! T'will soon be the season!

In Suspense is the perfect template to use when you want to surprise someone with a cute little door hanger goodie. You are welcome to use any template you would like but we'd also love to have you use your My Time Made Easy templates if you've got them. Lauren offers a free one that you can find here.

Now take a look at our design team projects - they have some great eye candy for you. AND one lucky participant will receive a free template and digital paper pack from My Time Made Easy so play along! It's easy :-)

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team ♥♥

Andrea

Kathryn

Kristin

Lisa

Maria

Pam

Be sure to also stop and visit our Featured Designer, Selma Stevenson!

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, JUGS56. 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, October 28. The Inlinkz form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Thanks for stopping by. Just Us Girls is thrilled to have so many faithful followers. :-) Have a great weekend. Can't wait to "see your stuff".

Chic of the week #55

What a fabulous job everyone did this week with the color challenge! It was very hard to decide, but I went with Bronwyn Eastley's creation. I just loved how she used the circle's to create her card. Thank you to everyone for playing along this week!

JUGS #55 - Color Challenge

Today Alicia has a great color challenge for you! These colors could be used for just about anything. You could make this elegant, simple, masculine...there are lots of ideas this color scheme could be used for so let's see what you can come up with. Can't wait to see all of your creations. Be sure to link up your card for a chance at "Chic of the 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, JUGS55. 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, October 21, 2010. 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 ♥♥

Alicia

Andrea

Kathryn

Kristin

Lisa

Maria

Pam

Our Guest Designer...Selma

Chic of the Week #54

Hi everyone! We had some great acetate entries this week! Some of the techniques used I had never heard of before. The one that really caught my eye, because of the different techniques she used, was Janine B!I loved how she added the glitter and used alcohol inks around the edges. Very pretty! Janine, please contact me for the Chic of the Week badge!

A few of the others I really liked were:

LeAnne: She had a great inspiration piece to work with and I loved her snowflakes on the acetate.

Marianne: She created the cutest snowglobe with the acetate.

Jo: I just loved her witch in the acetate window!

Silvia: She sanded her acetate for a distressed look.

Kerrie: She used the acetate to create a gable box.

Congrats to all of you and please come by tomorrow for our color challenge!

Just Us Girls #54 - Technique Challenge

Hi everyone! Lisa here starting the second year of challenges from Just Us Girls! We so appreciated everyone hopping and playing along with us last week! Congrats to all the winners and thanks to all the sponsors!

We also want to send out a very special belated Happy Birthday to our very own JUGs girl Alicia! She celebrated her birthday last Wednesday during our anniversary celebration. We hear she had a very nice day with her family!

Now, on to the challenge for this week. The technique I've chosen is using acetate on your card. This means making a clear card or using it as an accent. I searched the Resources section of Splitcoast Stampers and they have a bunch of different techniques using acetate. Just type "acetate" in the search box and they'll come up.

Here's what the JUGs crew has come up with using acetate. I must say that a some of the team either accidentally used the wrong technique or used vellum instead of acetate, but their cards were so darn cute we let them slip by instead of not posting this week! (grin!)


Selma ~ October Guest Designer

Alicia (the birthday girl!)

Andrea
Kathryn

Kristin

Lisa

Pam (she did two cards!)

Maria

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, JUGS54. 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, October 14. The Inlinkz form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.Can't wait to see what you do with acetate! Have fun with it!

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!