Friday, September 30, 2011

Chic of the Week #103

Hey there! My apologies for coming in SOOO late with Chic of the Week this week. But let's just get to it.

Thanks so all who played along last week in my alter a box challenge. I loved all the entries but as we know only one person can win Chic of the Week.

This week Chic of the Week is:

JEN from Cubbyhole Creations!

Congrats Jen! Please contact us for your Chic of the Week badge!

Be sure to swing on by tomorrow for Oct 1 and our sketch challenge!

Saturday, September 24, 2011

JUGS #103 - Fall 3D challenge




REMINDER - JUGS is looking for a new DT member! Check it out here.

Happy Saturday and welcome to another challenge with the girls! Maria here this week with 3D/template challenge!

It is finally fall! I LOVE fall! I just hope we'll get some fall weather here in the northeast soon, it's been rather hot and muggy!

This week's challenge is to think fall as a theme and alter a box that you have in the house. Think recycling! Take that empty tissue box, pop tart box etc. Go ahead and alter it to your hearts content. BUT keep with the theme of FALL!

Now here is some fabulous inspiration from the Just Us Girls rockin DT:










Pam




{OUR mega-star, guest designer and sweetheart extraordinaire!}



Here are the 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 Linky Tools form at the bottom of
this post. If you upload to online galleries, please also use the keyword
or tag, JUGS103. Extra love for YOU if you use our beautiful graphic!

After you post to Linky Tools, I hope you'll leave a comment here...{!}

Deadline to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM,
EST on Thursday, September 29nd. The Linky Tools form will close
at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", will be announced
on the following Friday morning.


Friday, September 23, 2011

Chick of the WEEK! #102



And a whole lot more....


She's so much more than a chic {k}... She's like a splendid EAGLE, soaring
with detailed layers of colorful magic, and I could not forget this breath-
taking piece... CHIC of the WEEK goes to the, ever so crafty, Chupa!
I love this card for so MANY reasons, mostly color, color, and ever so much
wonderful use of color!!! But I'm a sucker for detail, and that tiny flower
peeking out of the upper right corner just STOLE THE SHOW! Congrats,
dear! YOU da-CHIC-y! Please email me {mamacow@comcast.net} for your
lovely badge! Yipeeeee!

BUT, wait - there's MORE! Here's the other stunners who wowed me with
a capital WOW! I was bowed over with PROUD to see how beautifully, all-
o-you played with these colors! - Here's the rest of my top five!

Cheri - SHE just knocked my PSL lovin' socks off! Go PUMPKIN!

Samantha - Oh, just GO there - you've got to see her darling card!

Michele & Josee` - THESE gals know how to party! I want them
in my corner, if my life ever kicks me. What a great post & project!

Deena - I needed waders to navigate her AMAZING techniques!!

Thank you, one and ALL for sharing your glorious creations
with us! I always feel blessed to see your inspiration - AND
extra thanks to those of you who share our graphic! It really
means a lot! Hope to see you again, NEXT round! Yee Haw!

Don't miss our current DT call! We are looking for YOU!!!

See you, tomorrow, when MARIA {I just met a girl named.... MARIA!},
astounds us with a WONDERFULLY seasonal and useful challenge...

'Nuff said! Ciao!


Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Design Team Call for JUGS

This week's JUGS challenge can be found here:  Color Challenge 102

Hey gals... Just Us Girls is conducting a call for a new Design Team member. Our sweet, talented and crafty Kristin has decided that with all of life's callings and activities, she needs to step down. Kristin and I co-founded this crazy little venture almost two years ago so she will remain an "Honorary Member of JUGS". She won't play on a regular basis but will be welcome to participate whenever time allows. We will surely miss her talent and her designing. She has done most of our graphics in the past two years!!! HUGS and huge thank yous to you Kristin - be sure to play when you can! We love your crafty self!

SO.... Now we would like to add a new permanent member to the team. If this is something you'd like to be considered for, here are a few things you need to know.

1. Each Design Team member needs to have a blog due to the nature of how we all post every week.
2. We ask you to play along with each challenge and to have your project to the hostess and your personal post ready to go by Friday night. (We know sometimes there are emergencies and that's ok.)
2. We ask each team member to hostess a challenge about once every 6-8 weeks. When you are the hostess you need to write up the blog post, and are ultimately responsible for choosing the Chic of the Week for your challenge week.
3. All DT girls vote on their favorite Chic of Week when we select our Featured Designer for the month.
4. We like each team member to comment on our participant's entries as often as possible. (Based on feedback from our participants, this is one of the big reasons JUGS has been so popular.)

Now - if that sounds like something you can handle and commit to and you are interested in being considered, here are your TWO assignments for the DT call. Please read and follow all instructions carefully.

1st - we want you to create a card or scrapbook layout based on the sketch we included below.

2nd - since we conduct a monthly 3D template (or gift package) challenge, we want you to pick your favorite 3D template and assemble and decorate it then share it with us. There are many free ones out there if you don't have any of your own.

3rd - Please write up ONE blog post and include both of your projects on that post.

4th - Post a DIRECT LINK to that blog post with your Design Team call project to the Linky at the bottom of this post.

The Linky will close on Tues. Sept 27 at 9:00 PM EST so be sure to get your submission in before then.
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. We hope to choose our new DT gal quickly once submissions are in.

OK - here's your sketch for part 1.


Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. We are super excited to offer up this opportunity to a crafter out there who is interested in being a DT member!

Hugs and Smiles from me and all the JUGheads!
Stampin Pam!

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Just Us Girls #102 - COLOR CHALLENGE




Hi, friends! It's your, exuberant, JugHead - friend, Elise!
I've got a MIGHTY fun challenge to share with you...

COLOR!

{How'd you guess?}


I'm SO thrilled to be celebrating some of my FAVORITE colors
of the season - YOU KNOW THE ONE... Autumn! In its earliest
stages, but I'm seein' it and feelin' it - EVERYWHERE? Truly, I
think it's the BEST time to be a crafter! So, I'm kickin' down some
seriously interpretable pairings... I was so excited, I made this:




I'm SOOOOOO not a graphics person, but that doesn't seem to
stop me from trying, every once in a while...! Just bare with me.
{And maybe, just MAYBE, be inspired! Ooooowww! Maybe?}

Check OUT what fun creations we have assembled for your
crafty pleasure this round - I'm SURE you'll see the one that
is "just your size" for colorful and delightful inspiration....







Pam






Monique
{OUR mega-star, guest designer and sweetheart extraordinaire!}

So, THAT'S our creative scoop! ALL the goods to get your colors
stirring and popping with AUTUMN anticipation and splendor...
CAN'T wait to have you play with US!

Here are the 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 Linky Tools form at the bottom of
this post. If you upload to online galleries, please also use the keyword
or tag, JUGS102. Extra love for YOU if you use our beautiful graphic!

After you post to Linky Tools, I hope you'll leave a comment here...{!}

Deadline to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM,
EST on Thursday, September 22nd. The Linky Tools form will close
at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", will be announced
on the following Friday morning.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Chic of the Week 101

Well ladies!  You are all text-ing royalty!  What a fun week seeing what our Text Me challenge brought out in all of your creative entries.  Always so hard to chose however, choose we must.


I loved the way Samantha really worked her text for awesome texture in the background and her decision to use only gray and black for the text on a this colorful card.  Brilliant girlfriend!  Samantha, please drop me an email and I'll send you your winner's blinkie! 
paperdaydream at aol dot com

OK JUGs fans, ready for another great week of challenges?  Elise is back with some fab colors tomorrow.  I sure do hope you can tune in for that!

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Techinique Challenge #101....."Text Me!"

Hi Just Us Girls fans! For those of you who were able to join us last week for our 100th challenge, we sure do hope you had fun! We all had some BLOG CANDY to offer up so be sure you pop over to each of the DT's blogs to see if you were a winner!!! We have all posted our winners on our blogs. However, our sweet Kathryn is in the hospital for some surgery so we're going to post her winner here since she can't get on the computer.  Drum roll.... The winner of Kathryn's blog candy is... Mindy Young!!! Mindy - please contact Kathryn with your snail mail info. Thanks again to everyone who participated last week... Ok 'nuff said - let's move on to this week's WONDERFUL challenge.

This week it's all about "text"! No, not the kind you do on your cell phone, the stamp and/or digital kind! Your challenge is to get out a variety of text stamps and make a collaged text only background or focal point for your project. This is your chance to let all those sentiment stamps play and shine together. Or maybe you are a whiz at word collaging on your computer? That works too!

Here is some text-y inspiration from the girls....


Be sure to also stop and visit our Featured Designer for the month...

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 Linky Tools form at the bottom of this post. If you upload to online galleries, please also use the keyword or tag, JUGS101. After you post to Linky Tools you can also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, September 15th. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week"will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Ok, time to get your text on! Go for it crafters!

Friday, September 9, 2011

Chic of the Week #100

Well girls you have done it again! Y'all just rose up to our little ol' "Fall Back" sketch challenge and whipped up some DOOZIES! The JUGS team loves what you came up with. Of course, selecting a chic of the week is the hardest part of being on the JUGS team. It's a little bit like someone asking which of your children you love the best. They are ALL unique in their own personalities and traits and so it is with your projects.

Thank you ALL for your fantastic support of the JUGS challenge blog. We appreciate your participation and enthusiasm.

SO - after much hemming, hawing, looking, and looking again it comes down to this card...


Created by Theresa Winslow. Well done, Theresa. Your coloring is beautiful and your card is just stunning!!

Now we had quite a few more that captured our fancy to so we want to give up some Yippees and Yee Haws and Atta-Girls to these as well...






Now - as for the BLOG CANDY - Each Just Us Girls DT gal will be posting their winner on their personal blogs on Saturday so pop back and have a look at the new challenge AND the winner from this week. We appreciate all of the lovely comments and encouragement. You gals are THE BEST!!

Have a great weekend and come back on Saturday for a whole new challenge...

Saturday, September 3, 2011

100 Challenges with JUGS

Good morning guys n dolls everywhere. We are about to launch our 100th CHALLENGE here on the Just Us Girls blog. It's hard to believe that we've been doing this for almost two years. SO are you READY? Want to come play with JUGS this week? We have a SKETCH challenge for you and we decided for our 100th Challenge we would take a LOOK BACK to our VERY FIRST challenge which was also a sketch. With new stamping ideas, new techniques etc. we thought it would be a lot of fun to see what our amazing followers (well over 1000 now!!) come up with this time.

Without further ado - here is our very FIRST sketch for you - all we have done is renumbered it to reflect that this is challenge #100.

NOW - if that's not enough to get you moving to grab your papers, and ribbons, and stamps (Oh MY!) and play along, well this will get you for sure...

We have some fabulous BLOG CANDY for a few lucky participants this week. Now we're not saying who's givin' what - but there are a FEW RULES to be eligible for some DEEEELICIOUS candy this week.

1. Create a CARD based on the sketch - although it's just a "starting point" we should be able to tell that your card was created with this sketch in mind.
2. Become a FOLLOWER of our blog if you are not already.
3. Leave a COMMENT on the JUGS challenge page.
4. Visit EACH Design Team member AND our Featured Designer and LEAVE a COMMENT for each Jughead (they have all worked really hard and this would be a great week to leave some love).
5. Post your project per the instructions at the bottom of this post...

FINALLY - to further encourage you to visit each DT blog, we are posting just snippets of each creation that they made for this challenge. You'll want to see the FULL projects on each of their blogs. Each DT girl will draw ONE lucky winner at the end of the week so be sure to visit them all and leave your comments!


Get READY --- Get SET --- GO!!!
Just Us Girls Design Team


Be sure to also stop and visit our Featured Designer for the month...

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 Linky Tools form at the bottom of this post. If you upload to online galleries, please also use the keyword or tag, JUGS100. After you post to Linky Tools you can also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, September 8th. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", along with our BLOG CANDY winners will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Hope to see you. Meanwhile have a delightful LABOR DAY WEEKEND. Can you believe summer is almost over?!?!? YIKES!


Friday, September 2, 2011

Chic of the Week #99

Hi everyone! I was amazed at the beautiful creations you all created for our 3-D Back to School challenge. I had a difficult time, but decided on this one for the Chic of the Week by Cheri!  She created this lovely star book with these fabulous Graphic 45 papers!  Just so lovely!  Pleaase contact me at lakind@roadrunner.com to get your Chic of the Week badge!  Congratulations Cheri!


There were a few others that really caught my eye.

Amy created the cutest school house.  It reminded me of a "Little House on the Prarie" school house!

Catz altered a book in the most fantastic way.

And this marker holder made from old jeans (the creator wrote in Polish and I'm not sure of her name).

Thanks for all for participating this week!  Tomorrow is our 100th challenge and we have some fun planned for you!  See  you then!

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