Just Us Girls #61 - 3-D Challenge

Hello my lovely JUGS friends! Kristin here hosting a different take on our Week 4 challenge than what you're used to. Today I'm challenging you to simply add a 3-D holiday embellishment to your project! Yep, easy as that! You don't have to use a template, but you're certainly welcome to...I just want to see your fun, creative 3-D holiday embellishments! Now that your tummies are full, and you're all shopped out, hopefully you'll find time to get creative this weekend :]



Check out the fab projects our team came up with! HUGE thank you to the wonderfully talented Cheryl Rowley who was our fab guest designer for the month of November ♥ We loved all of your beautiful projects, friend!

Cheryl Rowley ~ November Guest Designer

Andrea

Dana

Kathryn

Kristin

Lisa

Pam

Alicia



Aren't they fabulous?! I love adding dimension to my projects and hope to find lots of new ideas from all of you for my holiday creations ♥ Please add a direct link to your project below and use keyword JUGS61 in any online galleries so that we can easily view your work. You have until December 2nd at 9pm to play along and be considered for our next Chic of the Week. Have fun!!

Chic of the Week #60 and Blog Candy Winner

Hi everyone! I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving and are still not too stuffed from all that fabulous food yesterday!

Today, I get to choose the Chic of the Week....another difficult task, but in the end I chose this beautiful card made by Alyssa S.I just loved her choice of dp and that poinsettia she colored is amazing! Congrats Alyssa! Please contact us at our JUGs blog address to pick up your Chic of the Week badge!

I'd also like to acknowledge these fine cards.

Julye made the most amazing medallion using the challenge colors.

Anne T's paper piecing on her Pure Innocence girl was so sweet!

Carla Suto never ceases to amaze me with her beautiful creations each week! I quickly becoming her biggest fan!

Nikki's game night card was so fun! I'd love to receive this invitation!

Lynn's penguins made me smile!

Now for the blog candy winner. I used Random.org to choose the winner (but could not figure out how to get the widget on the blog) and the winner is: #12 Julie Hoffman! Congrats! Please contact us here at our JUGs address with your address so we can send out your prize to you! Thanks for playing with us this week! Come back tomorrow for our 3D/Template challenge!

Just Us Girls #60 - Color Challenge

Hi everyone! As I sit here on Thursday morning and write up this post, we now have 700 followers! Woohoo!!! That is fabulous! Thanks so much for liking our challenge blog so much!!! As such we have just a little "Thank you" gift for one lucky participant this week. We have a JustRite stamp set and a Spellbinders Impressability to offer up.

It's my turn to choose the colors, and I was looking for inspiration to decide which colors to use. That's when I happened to look at my Vera Bradley laptop case in the Pirouette pattern. Love these colors! Kristin did a fabulous job with the graphic for it! So here is what the DT girls did with them.

Cheryl Rowley, November Featured Designer

Alicia

Andrea

Dana

Kathryn

Lisa

Maria

Pam

Kristin

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, JUGS60. 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, November 25th. 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 #59

Hello!
Well I had fun seeing all the different and creative ways you all created with your gate fold cards. As usual it's always hard to pick that one card.  Here we go the Chic of the week goes to Lisa S.  I love her Magnoloia angel floating on the musical paper along with the neutral colors.  Congratulations Lisa I will be contacting you shortly with your Chic of the week badge.

JUGS Technique challenge #59

Good Morning!

Here we are in the second week of November already (where does time go?)! It's me Kathryn here with this weeks technique challenge. I thought it would be fun to make a gate fold card it's not a difficult technique but a fun one and there are loads of possibilities in the shapes and sizes! So I hope you can put your creative caps on this week and play along with Just Us Girls! I can't wait to see what y'all come up with! Here is a link for a tutorial on Split coast Stampers on how to make a gate fold card here. With out further ado here is a little inspiration to get your creative juices flowing from "Just Us Girls" along with this months featured designer Cheryl Rowley.

November Featured Designer

Cheryl

***Just Us Girls Design Team***

Kathryn



Maria

Pam

Andrea

Lisa

Kristin

Dana

Last but definitly not least...a little birdie has told us that it is Dana's Birthday tomorrow the 14th. We couldn't just let the day pass without giving her a shout out on her special day! So do stop by her blog and wish her a Very Happy Birthday!!!!

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, JUGS59. 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, November 18th. The Inlinkz form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Please leave a direct link to your project here. We will be showing a thumbnail of your project so your name will be limited to 10 characters.



Chic of the Week #58

Let me start by saying WOW!!! I was in awe of all the wonderful creations and interpretations of the sketch. You all do such beautiful work :)
In fact, I spent hours pondering who would be Chic of the Week!!!! Back and forth.... back and forth... you're all just too good!!! What's a girl to do? :)

Sadly, I could only choose one. This week's Chic stunned me with a beautiful card that has so many wonderful elements. Not only that, she wowed me with just a super creative way to give the card! Take a look for yourself...

Congratulations Anne!!!!

Just AWESOME creativity!!! You have to swing by her blog to check out her project's full details!

I had to recognize a few other stunning creations. Please take a moment to check out these lovelies (in no particular order)...

Lisa's card was absolutely fabulous! I LOVE the flower she made using die cuts!!

Karen Lee had such a playful, fun take on the sketch with just beautiful results!

Lynn created a beautiful, elegant, CAS card in gorgeous neutral tones!

Monique wowed me with this stunning Christmas card with fabric poinsettias!!!

Terrie's card had so many beautiful elements - GORGEOUS!

Anne, please contact me (andrea.matth at yahoo dot com) for your Chic of the Week badge! We hope you will wear it proudly :)

Thank you all for playing along with the sketch challenge - we appreciate each and everyone of you!!! Hope we'll see you back here on Saturday for a whole new challenge hosted by the lovely Kathryn!
See ya!

Gettin' Sketchy - JUGS #58

Happy Saturday!!! Time for a new sketch challenge!

It's Andrea here, with a sketch that'll hopefully get your mojo jumpin' :) If you're sizing up the sketch to figure how best to tackle it, and you think that you've got something that will work instead of the flower depicted in the sketch, please feel free to use it. The flower is merely a suggestion - it could be a square or other shape, a bird, a butterfly.... the sky's the limit :) 

It's the beginning of the month which means we sadly have to bid Selma adeiu - Selma, we are so glad you could join us for the past month - your creations were truly inspirational!!! 

We have a new featured designer for the month of November. Please join us in giving a hearty welcome to Cheryl Rowley!!! Can't wait to see what wonderful things you have in store, Cheryl! 

Cheryl Rowley, November Featured Designer

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team ♥♥

Alicia

Andrea

Dana

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, JUGS58. 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, November 11. The Inlinkz form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Looking forward to see what all you talented folks do with the sketch!!!

Chic of the Week #57

Wow!  What a week!  Let me start by saying I was BLOWN AWAY by the gorgeous fabric flowers submitted for this week's challenge.  I also loved reading each person's experience with the burnt edge technique, or where they got their fabric etc.!  All kinds of experiments happening!  How excellent is that?

I was torn between several cards this week and in the end, I chose this gorgeous card by Carla Suto!

First off, bravo on the burnt edge flower Carla!  I love the deep red fabric that Carla chose and the pretty pearl center. Outside of the rose itself, the gorgeous layers of lace, trim, vintage looking Webster's paper and that amazing stamped frame all add up to wonderful!  Please join me in congratulating Carla on being the Chic of the Week this week. Carla, please email me at paperdaydream at aol dot com for your winner's badge. 

Thank you to all of our Just Us Girls players.  We surely do treasure your participation week after week.  Be sure and join us saturday for a new sketch challenge!  See you then!

Christmas Blog Hop with Just Rite Stampers

Click HERE for this week's Just Us Girl's challenge.

Just Us Girls is teaming up with JustRite Stampers to bring you Week 9 of their Twelve Weeks of Christmas Blog Hops. In celebration of JustRite’s 9th and 10th weeks of Christmas Blog Hops, they have a huge surprise for you -- take 25% off  All JustRite Original Christmas Stamps  now through November 15^th with free shipping in the U.S.

Please visit these designers’ blogs to see what fabulous JustRite Christmas inspiration they have for you on the hop today!

JustRite Inspiration Blog

JustRite Design Team:

Debbie Olson

Sharon Harnist  

Heidi Blankenship

Kazan Clark

Stephanie Kraft

Barb Schram

Michele Kovack

Angela Barkhouse

Kathy Jones 

Just Us Girls Design Team:

Alicia Weiman

Andrea Matthews

Dana Gustafson

Kristin Bueter

Maria Levine

Kathryn Berthiaume

Lisa Kind

Pam Imholz

Thanks for joining us today - Be sure to check out our current JUGS challenge in addition to the fun and inspirational Christmas Blog Hop.  THANK YOU to JustRite for the opportunity to allow Just Us Girls to show off your beautiful line of Christmas stamps.