JUGS 134 - Template Time!

Good morning and happy Saturday to all,
Pam here... it is time for our monthly 3D or template challenge. With mother's day right around the corner we thought that perhaps this was a great week to challenge you to package up a gift for a special woman in your life, be it your mom, grandma, daughter, niece, or special friend.

Sometimes packaging your gift up with a little tender loving care and a splash of creativity says 'WOW" all the more! SO, if you've never tried it and even if you have - come on and get crafty with JUGS this week.

On a personal note, I will be stepping down from this amazing team. For full details read about it on my blog. It's a very hard and very sad thing for me to do since I helped to co-create this challenge site and it's been a special "from the heart" project ever since. Life changes and so do our priorities sometimes. THANK YOU to every one who follows JUGS and participates in these weekly challenges. You have rocked my world!! Keep it going girls!!!

How to play: Please copy and use our graphic on your post. 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, JUGS134. After you post to Linky Tools you may also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, May 3rd. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", will be announced on the following Friday morning.

We want you to be inspired so drop by our design team and see what they have in store for you then come play along with JUGS this week.

Just Us Girls Design Team

Pam

Lynn

Vicki

Lisa

Elise

Thank you again from the bottom of my stamping heart for all the love and loyalty you girls have shown to the JUGS site and the JUGS team. It is my sincere hope and desire that JUGS continues on strong and awesome for years to come. I'll be following! 

Hugs and smiles and a few tears, too.

Stampin' Pam

PS - My bad -- CHICK OF LAST WEEK:  #10 LINDSEY!!

Please contact lisajugs@roadrunner.com for your Chick of the Week Badge!  Congrats!! ~~Vicki

Just Us Girls #133 - Color Challenge

With Spring being so close, I wanted to brighten up everyone's day! The colors this week are Lime Green, Hot Pink and Orange.

Pretty bright, and I love it! Here are our samples to inspire you to make your bright and fun card~

 Lynn

Elise

Maria

Vicki

Lisa

Dana

How to play: Please copy and use our graphic on your post. 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, JUGS133. 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, April 26th. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", will be announced on the following Friday morning. We can't wait to see your interpretation of this technique! Thanks for playing along with Just Us Girls!

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Chic of the Week #133

Hi all!  I'm so sorry that this is getting posted this late!  Yesterday was my birthday and I guess I did too much celebrating and forgot to do the post last night!  So sorry!

I'm so glad everyone liked this challenge!  I fell in love with it when I saw it on the Stamp TV blog.  There were so many great cards posted this week, but I just loved this one by Ruza!

I love the butterflies and the bright and fun colors!  Congratulations Ruza!  Please contact me at lisajugs@roadrunner.com to get your Chic of the Week badge!

Thanks to all for playing with us this week!  Tomorrow Vicki has a great color challenge for us, so please stop by!

Lisa

Just Us Girls #132 - Technique Challenge

Hi everyone! Lisa here with this week's technique challenge. I found a fun one that I've been wanting to try and so I'm bringing it to you. It's from Stamp TV and it's called Sponging a Layer. You can watch the video from Gina K and Stamp TV here to learn the technique and then play along.

Here's some inspiration from the JUGs design team.

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team ♥♥

Andrea

Dana

Lisa

Lynn

Maria

Vicki

Elise

How to play: Please copy and use our graphic on your post. 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, JUGS132. 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, April 19th. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", will be announced on the following Friday morning.

We can't wait to see your interpretation of this technique! Thanks for playing along with Just Us Girls!

Chic of the Week: 131

It's Friiiiday!

Let me first apologize for the tardiness of this post. Ugh - life is so busy sometimes.

Thanks for all who played along with the sketch this past week - truly GORGEOUS creations! I hope you all had fun :)

Our Chic this week is…

Chupa

You all made it such a hard decision but it was that fantastically colored pup that won me over! I love the sentiment, the DP, the ribbon, just everything! Congratulations Chupa!!! Please email me at andrea dot matth at yahoo dot com for your Chic of the Week badge.

Hope you'll join us again this weekend for a technique challenge hosted by Lisa!

JUGS #131: Sketch Challenge

Happy weekend everyone! Happy Easter to those of you folks that observe the holiday!

Andrea here with a sketch challenge that'll hopefully get your mojo cookin'.

But before I get to the sketch, I've got some very sad JUGS news…

...our lovely and talented Kathryn has decided to step down from the DT. *SNIFF* Kathryn, you have been an amazing teammate and friend and we'll miss you 'round here immensely! It's been such an honor and pleasure creating along side you during our time with JUGS. It's especially sad for me as Kathryn and I started on the JUGS team at the same time - she is my "twin" :) We wish you all the best in any further endeavors Kathryn!!! Please take a moment to stop by Kathryn's blog and wish her all the best!

On to our sketch...

Can't wait to see what you all come up with!!!

Now let's see what the talented JUGsters created :)

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team ♥♥

Andrea

Dana

Lynn

Maria

Vicki

Pam

Lisa
Elise

How to play: Please copy and use our graphic on your post. 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, JUGS131. 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, April 12th. The Linky Tools 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 #130!

Fabulous, innovative and DARLING friends of Just Us Girls!
I love your spirit, SO! Thank you, thank you, thank YOU for
your participation and excitement this week. I KNOW this
was an unusual challenge and called for flexing of muscles you
may not have known you had - I thank you for even CONSIDER-
ING joining us, and to THOSE OF YOU WHO DID create a card
using "zipper" as creative material - all I can say is THANK YOU,
from the bottom of my heart: you are ALL FIERCELY creative!

~Yee HAW!~

As for my choice for Chic of the week - {I WANT you ALL!}
But since there is only ONE, I present you with THIS lovely lady
Maya, and her FANTASTIC creation!


Something about Maya's use of zipper makes me want
to dress for spring and DO my thing! {!} It's THAT kind
of fun! Thank you, Maya! Please email me,
mamacow@comcast.net, and I'll get you your
Chic of the week badge for display on your blog!

THANKS, one and ALL! I was awestruck by the team's
samples and thought that those of you who got into the game,
REALLY shared the spirit of crafty fun, expertly!
THANKS, again!

Hope you'll join us tomorrow for a BRILLIANT sketch
challenge brought to you by our AMAZING Andrea!
YIPEEEE!