SUO Challenge 37, Favorites from the 2012 Occasions Mini Catalog
Oh, my – have I been having a blast since January 4th, since the 2011 Holiday Season was officially over and the new 2012 Stampin' Up! Occasions Mini Catalog was released! I can't believe all the wonderful new products in that wonderful Mini Catalog. But what's my favorite? What's YOUR favorite?
And that's our challenge for this time with the SUO Challenge Team – make a card or any paper-crafted project with your favorite product from the Stampin' Up! 2012 Occasions Mini Catalog (or, if you're in an area that doesn't have this mini catalog, what's your favorite product from your most current Stampin' Up! catalog)? If you're anything like me, you'll be hard pressed to come up with just one. So I "cheated" a bit and included more than one "favorite." Feel free to follow my example!
I hope you'll enjoy all of our Design Team entries this week – all of which focus on the 2012 Occasions Mini Catalog. We can hardly wait to see you YOU have to show off from YOUR favorites!
As always, please remember to use ONLY Stampin' Up! products and share only something that you've made in response to this challenge. For a complete list of the guidelines for the SUO Challenges, please refer to our write-up down on the left.
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Some of us have been having a bit of a trying week and I wasn’t able to get the votes compiled in time for an early announcement of our “Top 3.” But that announcement will be here by week’s end! Check back later to find out if YOUR entry was one of our “Top 3″!
SUO Challenge 36, New Techniques for a Whole New Year!
If you are anything at all like me, you often find yourself using the same paper crafting techniques over and over. My "go-to" techniques are heat embossing and 2-Step Stamping. Many of Stampin' Up!'s stamp sets lend themselves beautifully to these two techniques. So when the idea for today's challenge occurred to me, it wasn't hard to find a technique to use that I haven't used in a while.
What about you? Are you a technique junkie, or do you pretty much stick with the same-ol'-same-ol' techniques? Whichever you are, I'll bet you can point to a technique that you've never used – or that you haven't used in a long while. That's our challenge this time around – pick a technique that's something you use infrequently – or not at all – and share it with us here at Stampin' Up! Only Challenges!
Our design team members have come up with some great examples of techniques they rarely or never use, and it's been a lot of fun for me to see what they can do with them. One thing's for sure, though. Even with different techniques, they each have their own style and it comes through beautifully no matter which techniques they use. I'm sure yours will, too!
Please remember, use ONLY Stampin' Up! products and share only something that you've made in response to this challenge. For a complete list of the guidelines for the SUO Challenges, please refer to our write-up down on the left.
Heidi Baks – Bleaching and Watercolor
Deb Hoekstra – Stamping on a Coffee Filter
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Cindy Coutts – Using fabric cut with pinking shears, handmade rosettes, coloring pearls, coloring die-cuts
Jennifer Timko – Faux Delft Tile
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Karen Barber – Paper Piecing and Fussy Cutting
Michelle Laycock – Tea Bag Dyeing
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Pam Staples – Perpetual Card (Showing four "sides")
Robin Messenheimer – Watercolor
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SUO Challenge 35 – Our Top 3!
Punchy it was indeed around the Stampin' Up! Only Challenges Blog these past two weeks! What a great collection of marvelous ideas for using punches, especially the new builder and layer punches - this challenge created! Thank to you to everyone!
Because there were such super entries, the Design Team had a bit of a challenge itself to pick our Top 3. In fact, almost half of the entries received votes for the Top 3 – you all should be very proud of your projects, and we look forward to seeing more projects from all of you in the weeks and months to come!
But, as always, we DO pick a Top 3 and here are those for the "Feeling Punchy" Challenge. If you want to read more about each artist, just click on the picture of her project.
Robbie Rubala, with her super cute Airplane Card! Look at all the different ways she used punches- the clouds in the sky especially caught our attention, along with the way Robbie used the Doily Triple Layer punch for the tree tops. This really is Punch ART – from a true artist!
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Beth Rush with her drop dead cute lion made with the Owl Builder Punch. That face really does look like a cat (cute cat!), but you know you're dealing with a lion with the wonderful pleated "mane" behind that cute face. One of our Design Team said this, "Makes me roaring to punch one myself!"
Connie Babbert, a well-known "Queen of Creative Christmas Trees," who wowed us with this tree made from petals from the Blossoms Builder Punch.
Thanks again to all of you for your fabulous creations. We hope to see your creations in a lot more Stampin' Up! Only Challenges!
