COW for Week 202!

Oh it was so pretty seeing all the shades of blues!  I'll get by to comment on the rest of the cards, [I did look at them all anyway!], but I need to get this post out [I am so late - sorry]!

The winner for the Color challenge #202 is #14 CAROL --

The framing and the cute die cut birds are just fabulous!!

Congrats Carol!!  Email me at vdutchr@cox.net to get your Chick of the Week badge!!

Be sure and stop by tomorrow for the fun inspiration photo Tangii has chosen!!

See you then -

Chic of the Week #161

Good morning!  There was so much fabulous inspiration from all of you with our sketch challenge! I loved looking through the gallery and I'm popping in to share our Chic of the Week!  I loved everything about Lisa's card below.  The gorgeous flower, the layering, the stitching...all around beautiful!

Lisa, please email me a lmangan at cinci.rr.com for your Chic of the Week badge!

Chic of the Week!

Good morning and happy Friday!  I hope today gets your weekend off to a fabulous start. There were so many gorgeous entries to choose from this week.  I had a very hard time narrowing it down to just one, but here we go....our winner this week is Colleen.  Her take on the sketch is absolutely stunning.

Here are the details I loved...

• That the borders on the left and right are different but so beautiful balanced.
• The stamping on the patterned cardstock.
• The emphasis on the stunning black butterfly.
• The extra feminine touches in the pearls and button/twine.

All around gorgeous!  Colleen, please email me at lmangan @ cinci dot rr dot com for your Chic of the Week badge!

Chic of the Week

Hi there, I had an amazing time looking at all the gorgeous entries into our collage stamping challenge.  It was great to here how many of you tried this technique for the first time.  I am pleased to announce our winner Leeanne!  Please pop over to Leannne's blog and check out her gorgeous creations.    Leanne please email me at lmangan @ cinci.rr.com for your Chic of the Week badge!

Of course, I choose a few other cards too.  There was a lot of wonderful creations to choose from.  Here are just a few:

• Hannelie's Card - Love the way she created the scallops.
• Janine's - Lovely set of cards here
• Colleen's Paris Collage here
• Mynnette's Card here
• The masking on Deb's card here is gorgeous.

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow for another great challenge!

Chic of the Week and Winners!

Well girls you have done it again - you've come up with some truly fabulous AND inspiring projects this week. You make it really, really hard to choose ONE Chic of the Week. It was fun to see such a variety of stamps and images and colors - that's one thing that's so cool with sketch challenges is the endless variations.

Ok - so back and forth - over and over - finally a Chic of the Week #40 has emerged. Just Us Girls is pleased to announce that this week's Chic (pronounced SHEEK) with this card ...

...is Selma Stevenson! Congratulations Selma - the soft color pallet, beautiful bow, gorgeous floral and dainty pearls - just a lovely card that made us smile! Email us for your Chic of the Week blog badge please.

We also had some other wonderful entries - here are some note worthy cards.... WELL DONE ladies!! Thank you ALL for supporting the JUGS challenge sponsored by JustRite this week. :-)

Darsie

Tracey

Alyssa

Mel

Cheryl

Meanwhile - we also have some delicious goodies to give away...

Our random winner of the fabulous prize from JustRite (the 2 Christmas sets plus a stamper plus an Idea book and Catalog) is.....

Lucky number 58 belongs to... Gini Cagle!! Congratulations Gini - please email us with your information so we can ship your goodies out to you.

AND for the BONUS drawing - all the names of you gals who used JustRite stamps on your project went into a basket and the lucky name drawn was....  Rosemary D!  Congrats Rosemarie - you won the JustRite Breath of Spring set and an Oval Wood Stamper! Please email us so we can send off your stamp set.

Thank you again to JustRite for a wonderful sponsorship!! and Thanks to ALL YOU GIRLS for making this a successful challenge week again. See you again on Saturday for a fun new challenge hosted by Maria!

Chic of the Week #18

Well!  What a week of wonderful banners!  I want to congratulate everyone who took on the challenge and made a pretty banner for your home or to decorate a card.  I enjoyed visiting each and every entrant.  As always, it is difficult to pick just one  but I found myself coming back to the wonderful details of the banner crafted by Melissa Sauls!

Melissa treated each panel as it's own masterpiece and also created her own DP with stamps.  I adore the glitter letters and crepe paper pinwheels.   I hope you'll click on the photo to zoom in on the wonderful details.  Marvelous Melissa!

Also, help yourself to more eye candy at Debbie's blog and a wonderful home banner in miniature is a delight on the card made by Vladka!

Thanks again for participating in our challenge this week.  We hope you'll be back on saturday for a Sketch challenge from Tracey!

Chic of the Week #9 & Blog Candy Winner

Hello Ladies! Thank you so much to all of who could play along with us this week in the Holiday Gift Packaging Template challenge! Each and every template gift box/bag were decorated so spectacurly! While I would LOVE to showcase all of the entries, I have to narrow it down to just one winner! Before the announcement of the Chic of the Week, I would like to share with you the randomly selected winner of the blog candy pictured below:
The winner is participant......#19 DianeCongratulations Diane! I will be contacting you soon to get your mailing address so I can send your prize to you! Thank you so much for playing along with Just Us Girls!

After revisiting all the entries, I had to narrow it down to one. The Just Us Girls Chic of the Week #9 goes to the super creative, Cindy from Royal Things, who entered this amazingly detailed gift box bottom bag:

Cindy REALLY put her imagination to work when she created this gift bag. There is so much eye catching detail: from the glittered snowflakes & melting snow, to the fun flock on the penguin's chest! I think this gift bag is a gift all in itself! Congratulations Cindy! I will be sending you your winner's badge right away. We hope you'll wear it proudly :)

I would also like to share a few of my other favorite Holiday gift packaging:

Andrea
Lisa
Davi
Mary Anne
Donna

For pure inspiration & for your viewing pleasure, I highly recommend that everyone takes the time if you haven't already, to view all the entries! You just may see a template you want to give a try!

REMEMBER: Saturday morning Just Us Girls will bring you an entirely new & exciting Sketch Challenge! The lovely Pam will be our Hostess. Thank you for all of your support this week!

Chic of the Week #7

WOW!

So now I know what all the other girls have felt like each week!  You ladies have made it awful rough on me to pick a winner for chic of the week, but I must say a big heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who came out and participated in our challenge this week.  I've had a blast looking through all of the entries (trying to finish commenting too - getting there!) There were a few that I kept going back to, again and again, and I had it narrowed down to 2...and then finally decided that

Karla Kroese

is our 7th Chic of the Week!

Karla made this beauty

I'm not sure what it was, but this card just makes me feel happy.  The colors - fabulous.  The layout - fabulous. The finishing touches? Fabulous.  I do have a hankering for some cocoa now tho ;).

Karla I'll be e-mailing you your chic of the week badge shortly, we hope you'll "wear" it with pride!

I hope that you all took a moment to check out the other entries this week, as there were LOTS of beauties out there.  Here are a few peeks at some more of my FAVES from this week.  (clicking on the peek will take you to the blog post with the full size picture).

So, thanks again to all who participated, and a HAPPY FRIDAY to all!!!

Be sure to stop back tomorrow for a GREAT color challenge from Lisa Kind!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Chic of the Week #4 and blog candy winner!

Hello Ladies! ALL the girls & myself here at Just Us Girls would like to thank each & everyone of who could play along with us this week in the 3-D flower challenge! There were a whopping 90 FABULOUS entries this week & we currently have 167 friends :) While I would LOVE to showcase all of the entries, I have to narrow it down to just one winner! Before the announcement of the Chic of the Week, I would like to share with you the randomly selected winner of the blog candy tin & fleurettes as pictured below:
The winner is participant number.......42 Betty BentonCongratulations Betty! I will be contacting you soon to get your mailing address so I can mail your prize to you! Thank you so much for playing along with Just Us Girls!

Here is the moment you've all been waiting for.....After viewing & revisiting EVERY entry personally, I finalized my decision by selecting this GORGEOUS card created by LeAnne:LeAnne's card is very ELEGANT & CLASSY! The chiffon ribbon & rhinestone embellishments add such a RICH touch. Congratulations LeAnne! I will be sending you your winner's badge right away. We hope you'll wear it proudly :)

For pure inspiration & for your viewing pleasure, I highly recommend that everyone takes the time if you haven't already, to view all the entries! You may even learn a new technique!

REMEMBER: Saturday morning Just Us Girls will bring you an entirely new & exciting Wild Card Challenge! The lovely Kristin will be our Hostess & she will have a little something special to share with all who play! Thank you for all of your support this week!

Chic of the Week #3 and blog candy winner!

Ladies, ladies, ladies!  You are all so amazing!  I skipped from blog to blog checking out color challenge entries and let me just say, I had no less than FIFTEEN projects that were my personal favorites this week.  That is FABULOUS...unless you have to pick just one to highlight here on the blog as Chic of the Week.  LOL!  I just want you to know, having never done this before, I have new respect for the folks who pick projects to highlight in magazines and on blog sites.  It is way hard...there is just too much talent out there!  I am humbled ladies, just humbled!

But before the Chic of the Week, let me announce the randomly selected winner of the blog candy seen below.

The winner of the handmade posies is participant number................

Congratulations Silke! I'll be contacting you soon to get your mailing address so I can deliver your prize!  Thanks so much for playing along with Just Us Girls!

OK, now on to the Chic of the Week ....DRUMROLL please......after much deliberation, the highlighted project this week is this card from:  GWEN SNATER!!

Gwen's card caught my eye for it's perfect simplicity without looking simple! :)  The luscious red satin bow is wonderfully accented with the bright snowflake and the embossing with red gems looks like fine upholstery  matched up with the elegant scroll work of the die cut label.  Great job Gwen!  Congratulations!  I will be contacting you soon with your winner's badge.  We hope you'll wear it proudly :)

I hope everyone takes some time to click through all of the entries.  There are so many truly inspiring projects, pure eye candy I tell you!

I can't wait to see what you all come up with for JUGs challenge #4!  Get all the details here on saturday when our own Mona Pendleton demonstrates a fabulous technique by VIDEO!  You won't want to miss it! 

It's been a blast hostessing this round of creativity with Just Us Girls!  You all make me glad to be a GIRL!  :) Thanks so much for the great reception.  See you saturday!

Chic of the Week #2 & Blog Candy Winner

Well girls - ALL you girls - who played along with the first BIG Just Us Girls challenge, I am blown away by the number of participants we had this week, AND 96 followers, too! You girls totally rocked our little blog!!!

Ok - It's time to announce this week's blog candy winner - (this is the easy part) - drumroll...... our lucky winner - according to Random.org is #38 .  That number (on Mr. Linky) belongs to Rosemary D!! Congratulations, Rosemary. You have won a $25 gift certificate to EITHER Gina K Designs or PaperTrey Ink. Please email your choice along with your name, real address and email to justusgirlschallenge AT gmail.com (A clickable JUGS email address is not posted here to prevent web bots from getting it then spamming our account but just use @ where it says at and use NO spaces.)

NOW for the really hard part - Chic of the Week - last week we had about ten entries to choose from and that was really hard - well, this week we had 78 entries (by the posted deadline) so the job is ALMOST impossible. You are ALL winners in my book and I wish I could recognize each and every one of you who played along. The cards that were made to support breast cancer were amazing (I hope they will get sent to someone who needs them). Many of you took up the option to add pink so I've been tickled pink all week *grin*. After a couple of sleepless nights and countless trips through the gallery over and over, I finally selected this creation by Broni. Her sassy AddyTude just totally captured my attention - she reminds me of me *grin* and I couldn't pick a better sentiment - I wish more of our young girls felt this way today. Broni's coloring is divine and the paper she picked for piecing is just crazy, fresh and fun! Congratulations, Broni. I will send you your Chic of the Week badge right away. We hope you will "Wear it Proudly."

Meanwhile I want to recognize these entries as a few additional eye catchers this week... Way to rock the challenge!

• Jennie - The trees look fabulous with this fun paper and using the white Flower Soft for the snow was just a wonderful idea. (It's ironic that this is one of the few without pink! LOL!)

• Wendy The sleeve on this dress just looks SO life like I have to keep looking to see if it's fabric or paper.  Add to it an adorable layout and paper pieced coffee cup and background and it's a real LOOKER!

• Lee  I love the way Lee was able to combine two totally different designer papers on the jacket AND the background and pull it off for a totally FUN look. The bling for buttons on this letter jacket made me smile.

• Julie-Ann I love these non-traditional colored stockings and the simple yet striking layout.

• Theresa  I liked the non-traditional approach to paper piecing in this one - with the piecing being behind the focal image but with Theresa's amazing coloring what's NOT to like?!? The whole scene just glows and I think I can smell the smoke from that wood fire.

Remember, Saturday morning Just Us Girls will bring you a whole new Color Challenge. Hope to see you all back on the blog! Thank you for all the support this week.