JUGS131 - Sketch

Time for a Saturday morning sketch challenge brought to you by JUGS~~ Hope you will join us for a fun challenge this week!

Here's my card this week - decided on a masculine card for a change.

Stamps are from JustRite Stampers and the sentiment is a PTI. Paper is from my stash.

Be sure to stop by and check out the design team's offering - they are all listed on the JUGS page and then join us and post YOUR creation!

To those of you who celebrate it,  have a blessed Easter.

Hugs n Smiles,
Stampin Pam

JUGS sketch week

Good morning! It is SKETCH time again with Just Us Girls. Nice n easy this week (I'm the hostess so it's my sketch and I can say that LOL). Let's see what you do with it...

 

 I had fun with this card this week - just because I like to color BUT I sure hope someday I can take a copic class - I can't get the highlights the way SOME gals do...

I started with the Magnolia stamp as my centerpiece - pulled the dress colors from the BG paper. The rest was just embellishments, ribbons etc.  Hope y'all can join us. I've got a busy weekend ahead so this is short but please play along!

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

Kylie Kueter

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team  ♥♥

Andrea

Dana

Elise

Kathryn

Lisa
Lynn

Maria
Vicki

Hugs n Smiles,

Stampin Pam

Getting Sketchy with JUGS

Hi all,
Quick post cause we have a holiday party to get to - it's JUGS Saturday and time for this week's sketch.

Here's my take on it - I flipped it on it's side then proceeded to get to work.

I used PTI's Rustic Snowflakes paper - several of the patterns - I love the color combo of red, aqua, soft green and white. Used a favorite winter stamp set from SU - called Flaky Friends - discontinued :-( but one I still love to use. A touch of ribbon and a couple of buttons from PTI, some Spellbinders to cut my ovals and a bit of twine to tie it all off... Voila! Great sketch!

Come play with us... after a little bit of inspiration!

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team  ♥♥

Andrea

Dana

Elise

Kathryn

Lisa

Lynn

Maria

Vicki

♥♥ Be sure to stop and visit our new Featured Designer for the month ♥♥

Lenet Mos

Have a great weekend, all.

Hugs n smiles,

Stampin Pam

100 - REALLY?? - 100?!?!

Yes indeedy - this morning marks the 100th Challenge from Just Us Girls. Never, in my wildest imagination, did I think we'd get this far when our little challenge blog started out. We've now grown to over 1000 followers so me thinks you "Girls" are liking Just Us Girls.

OK - here we go - for #100 we are looking back to #1!!! We are reposting our very first sketch for this challenge - there are so many new techniques and ideas that we're SURE this sketch will be just a fresh and fun as it was in 2009!!

Here is my card. Now - I know that all the rest of the girls have nice right cheery colors but with my current achilles injury I'm very limited in the time to get UPSTAIRS to my stamp room so I'm making cards as I need them. Sadly, I lost a DEAR friend, and ex-administrator colleague this past week to cancer. She was only 61 and battled valiantly. This card is for her mother since my friend was not married. We NEVER expect that we will outlive any of our children so I know her mom is grieving and I can only hope this will bring a little moment of comfort. 

I used Designer paper and CS from PTI,  seam binding ribbon from Debbie Marciniewicz, stamps from MyTimeMadeEasy and assorted pearls and embellies for final touches.

And now - ladies and gents - here's MY blog candy offering for this week's fun with JUGS...

TWO beautiful stamp sets from JustRite Stampers! I love JustRite stamps and am donating two sets to one lucky winner who follows all the "rules" for this challenge... GOOD LUCK!

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 the JUGS POST.

Now show us what you've got up your design sleeve - can't wait!
Have a great Labor Day Weekend.

Hugs and smiles,
Stampin Pam

Saturday Sketch Time

G'day mates! I just returned from Australia - if you want to see more - check out this post!

Meanwhile - today it's time to get sketchy with Just Us Girls.  Here's the sketch I've put up for you.
(It's really simple so come play along!)

And here's my card:

Just a quick and simple birthday card - I used two strips of lace and now that I see the final I should have lined up the pattern on the lace but I barely had enough to cut this strip in half soooo offset it what you get :-)

I used two sets from JustRite stampers but I don't have the names at the moment. Sorry :-(  Paper is from PTI. I added some PINK rhinestones on the purse, the shoes and on the sentiment too.

Please pop over to the JUGS page and in the meantime check out the JUGS Design Team (in my sidebar -->) for some FABULOUS inspiration!

Hope to see you all play along!

Getting Sketchy with JUGS

It's JUGS week #87 - Oh Me - Oh My! Where has the time gone??? It's JUNE?!? Here's your sketch by our lovely hostess, Kathryn. Hope you'll come play along with us this week.

Here's my take on it - I flipped the sketch on its side and used some background patterned paper made for me by my special friend, Hanne! Thanks, Hanne!! Some flower dies were layered for the flower and the BG was run through my cuttlebug for texture. Sentiment is from Signature Greetings (PTI).

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team  ♥♥

Andrea

Dana

Elise

Kathryn

Kristin 

Lisa

Maria

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

Rosemary Dennis

Thanks everyone - have a great weekend!
Hugs n smiles.

Jugs Sketch Saturday

Hey girls! It's Saturday and I am your hostess this week for Just Us Girls sketch challenge. Easy peasy right? Here's the sketch.

And here's my take on the sketch. I was very straight forward with my interpretation of the sketch today.

I used some new digi paper from My Time Made Easy as my starting point and inspiration. The brown and yellow paper is from the set called Bee Mine.  I inked up my cuttlebug folder with Chocolate Chip ink and ran the yellow paper through. The rest of the card was just layering. The images are from Bee-Loved by MTME also - the bee is just too cute - his wings are glittered with Dazzling Diamonds. The sentiment is from MTME's Sentimental Occasions.

Next up I decorated the inside - I wanted to "cover" up the ribbon on the inside so I used the same digi paper on the top half of the inside.

Now swing by and visit the rest of the design team. (In my sidebar) then get sketchy with JUGS. I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Finally, I'd like to wish a sincere and warm Happy Mother's Day to all of you who are moms. It's a difficult day for me since I lost my mom 9 years ago - Mother's Day just hasn't been the same since. I'm looking forward to spending time with my DH, daughter and son-in-law though. If the weather cooperates they are taking me geocaching - now that's a dedicated family!!! Willing to spend a day with mom doing what mom loves! Love it.

Hugs n smiles all.

Jugs Sketch Saturday

Hi gals
Well I'm back (sort of). It's been a bit of a rough haul but I got my daughter off on her next assignment - my son celebrated his first birthday without us  :-(  and I had a relatively uneventful 15 hour drive home in my daughter's car. (Well uneventful except for the visit and "present" from the Ohio Turnpike State Patrol!) UGH - picking on little red cars with out of state plates is NOT fair.  THANK you for your kind words, your good thoughts and your prayers. Means a lot to me! Ok - on to stamping.

SO - I'm trying to get my groove back on - I think my Mojo is still enjoying the cherry blossoms in DC but here's this week's JUGS Sketch.

I flipped the sketch on it's side and used my new PTI doilie die. WOW it punches beautifully. It took a little bit to punch out the "pieces" but the result is really pretty.

I'm using some older SU! stamps for this set plus the word "BEST" from this month's new MTME release. My best friend has given up stamping (oh so sad for me) and she gave or sold me anything I wanted from her stash. SO this little card is for my "best friend" to say you will be missed but you can come stamp with me ANY time and use ANYTHING from my stash.

Purple is her favorite color and she loves butterflies and the symbol of new beginnings - and that's where she is in her life - at a new beginning.

Please stop over and visit the rest of the JUGS team and this month's Featured Designer, the über talented Teresa Kline! Then get out your goods and get sketchy with us!

Hugs n Smiles,

JUGS Sketch #74

Good morning girls - I have TWO posts today so be sure you see them both. The other post is for My Time Made Easy.

Time for this week's JUGS challenge and since it's the first Saturday of the month it's SKETCH time. Here's your sketch:

And here's MY take on it:

I started with some fun papers called Brassy Botanicals created by Sara for My Time Made Easy. I added a sentiment from the new Keep Strong stamp set also from MTME. I filled in with a branch and flowers from the new Singing Silhouette and added a lovely rectangular bit o' bling. An organdy double bow made with the Bow Easy and some ribbon from my stash was my final piece!

Here's a close up

And the inside:

Now make sure you get on over to the rest of the team (sidebar -->) I promise some MOJOLICIOUS examples for you.  Also please give a WARM JUGS WELCOME to our March Featured Designer, Alyssa Scritchfield!

Have a great weekend. I was a LUCKY WINNER of front row seats to see George Strait, Reba McEntire and Lee Ann Womack so I plan on having a REALLY, REALLY good weekend!!

Hugs n Smiles,

An American Hero! for JUGS

I have two posts today - this one for JUGS and another one for My Time Made Easy - please be sure to check them both :-)

It's a Just Us Girls Saturday sketch challenge today and we have a fabulous sponsor this week... Want2Scrap! Be sure to visit the W2S blog - our very own Dana (our JUGS hostess this week) has a fabulous tutorial up there about creating 3D peonies!

You can find them on Facebook too! Click the icon to go there...

Here's the sketch this week

Want2Scrap generously supplied each of us with a few goodies :-) With such a WIDE VARIETY of accessories I had a hard decision but one item that I chose was this laser cut title called American Hero.

I shared on my blog about my son's best friend Ian returning from Afghanistan on THIS POST and since then I knew I wanted to do some sort of scrapbook page as a tribute to Ian. This was the perfect opportunity!

Here's my scrapbook page - using as much of the JUGS sketch as I could work in. It's square instead of rectangle and I will put it in one of the 12x12 frames when I get out to Michael's to buy aother one.

I added lots of baby bling pearls (from Want2Scrap) as accents around the page. They are a fun, tiny size - I have both red and blue ones on my page. Honor - Courage - Commitment are the Core Values of the Marine Corp so I worked those into my layout. I printed these on my computer.

Hope you will play along with us this week. Want2Scrap is offering up a $25.00 gift certificate (and that will buy you a LOT of bling) to one lucky winner this week so get sketchy and post your creations on the JUGS site.

Our Featured Designer for Just Us Girls this month is Lori Kalus - be sure to stop over and leave her a warm JUGS welcome.

Hugs n smiles,

New Years Wishes from MTME & JUGS

Happy New Year! I cannot believe it's already 2011. Let's get the new year off to a great start. I am combining TWO events into this one post. It is January 1 and time for Lauren's new release from My Time Made Easy AND it's a Saturday which means it's time for the first Just Us Girls sketch challenge of 2011.  I know we've all been a little quiet, enjoying time with our families over the holidays but we're ready to go - are you??

It's my pleasure to introduce the newest MTME template called So Fortunate. It's a cleverly designed "chinese style" take out box and it's SO cute. I paired it with fabulous new digital papers designed by Kristin and an outstanding new stamp set from Catherine also called So Fortunate.

I used two of the new papers from the Fun and Fortune set.  I printed off the pink pattern onto white card stock to use for my template. The decorative panels were made from the beautiful paper called Blooms from the same set. I just love Cherry Blossoms and this paper is spectacular!

So many ways you can decorate this cutie and so many goodies you can put in it.  I decided to make a little coffee gift pack using some Keurig cups. Here's the before and after of my Kcups. To each cup I just added a bow, a prima rose and a top made from a couple of layers of papers finished off with the three sentiment stamps from the new stamp set.

The template is a nice size - three of these K-cups fit perfectly inside.

Here's the top of the closed box.  I added ribbon, primas and a leaf and then tied on a sweet tag too.

Detail of the stamped image from the front of the box:

NOW for a card to go with this cute gift box.  Just Us Girls has a sketch to kick off the new year so I decided to use the JUGS sketch to make my card to go with this set.  Here's the sketch from Kathryn.

I repeated the papers and used the same sweet image that I used on the front of the box.

I varied from the sketch just a little by hanging my sentiment on a tag from the ribbon instead of stamping it under the image but otherwise stayed pretty true.

I used the cherry blossom stamp from So Fortunate to stamp a sprig of blossoms on the inside of the card as well. These stamps are GORGEOUS!!!

A final look at the ensemble.

I hope you will kick off the new year and join us over at JUGS for the sketch challenge AND I hope you'll slip over to My Time Made Easy and check out the new template, papers and stamps.

Please visit Jeannie DeGruccio our guest designer at MTME and our JUGS Featured Designer this month, Carla Suto.   The rest of the MTME team and the JUGS team are in my sidebar -->

Thanks for making 2010 a great year and for all of your kind and encouraging comments. My kids are going to be all over the world so I'm dealing with lots of "separation" and "empty nest" issues right now. My son moves to Dallas, my daughter leaves Germany but is going to Afghanistan and my step son will be studying in Australia. Talk about CHANGES!  My other daughter lives about 25 min. away so I hope she wants lots of mom company this year. :-)

Wishing you a year filled with laughter, love, hugs and smiles.

Supplies from My Time Made Easy LLC:

Pretty Packaging Templates:   So Fortunate

Pretty Impressions © Stamps:  So Fortunate

Pretty Printable © Digital Paper: Fun and Fortune

Other Supplies:

Cardstock: Gina K Pure Luxury white

Ink: Memento Summer Sky, Memento Tuxedo Black

Embellishments: Organdy ribbon (HL), pearls, primas, silk leaf

Tools: Nesties 

Baby It's COLD Outside

Oooh yeah - it really is - 18º today, Friday, as I write this post and we should see our first snow of the season by tomorrow morning.  So appropriate for my card for today's Just Us Girls challenge. It's a sketch challenge and Alicia has come up with a good one.

Now isn't that just adorable???

So here's my take on it - I was lucky to be able to play with the new PTI Banner stamps and dies - borrowed from a friend! Super fun set but timely for this challenge.

I cut out the two layers of the dies I wanted to use - I chose the rounded ones since they were big enough to use my letters cut with my cricut. The triangle banners were a bit smaller. I stamped and embossed the light blue layer with several of the different stamp patterns. Then adhered the letters on top. Added the various tops to each pennant. SO cute! Sentiment is from PTI.

I added a few embellishments - snowflakes as my banner "ties" and rhinestones in the centers of the snowflakes on my CB background.

Here's the inside too - simple yet sweet. This will go to one of my California friends when it's cold again like this in January - always makes me ask myself WHY did I move here????

Please give a WARM welcome to our new Featured Designer for December - the very talented and funny Elise Durenberger (aka Mamacow!). Please stop by her blog and check out her project :-)

And here's the rest of the team - we LOVE all of our JUGS participants and really, sincerely thank you for playing along with us and making us so successful! Can't wait to see what YOU do with our sketch.

♥♥ Just Us Girls Design Team  ♥♥

Alicia
Andrea

Dana
Kathryn
Kristin 

Lisa

Maria

Hugs n smiles and happy holiday preparations. Happy Hanukkah to all of our Jewish friends as well.