SUO Challenge #124, Stars and Stripes

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It’s summer in the United States, and “Stars and Stripes” seems to refer to the USA Flag and the upcoming Fourth of July Celebration. BUT there’s much more to be done with this theme all around the world and for many occasions. For this challenge, create a project, using Stampin’ Up! products only, that features stars and stripes – or stripes and stars! Any color combo will do.

Need some ideas to get your creativity started? Then check out our Design Team projects – and have fun with your own project!

To participate in our challenge, make a card or other paper-crafted project and post a photo of it to your blog or a gallery on the internet. Then come back here and use our link tool at the bottom of this post to share the photo with us.

PLEASE remember this: We’re looking for projects posted to the internet AFTER June 8, 2015 This is a NEW challenge! AND please mention/link to the SUO Challenge Blog in your post!

Of course, your projects must be made with Stampin’ Up! products only. The products may be those that are in current catalogs, or they may be retired products. But (as our blog title says) SUO – Stampin’ Up! Only! This means that products from other papercrafting, rubber stamp, die-making or other companies may not be included in your project or in any other project included in your blog post if Stampin’ Up! sells a like product. For example, Stampin’ Up! does not sell sewing thread. So use of sewing thread from another company is just fine. Stampin’ Up! does sell the Sizzix Big Shot, so use of die-cuts, texture plates or other such products from another company is not fine. If you have a question, please send an e-mail to our Coordinator, Robin Messenheimer, and she’ll be glad to answer it!

Challenge Dates: June 9, 2015 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

June 20, 2015 (6 am USA Eastern Time)

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SUO Challenge 123, Sweet Treats – Our Top 3!

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Thanks to everyone who participated in our Sweet Treats challenge.. Thanks especially to our Top 3 whom we felt did the best job of capturing our theme for the week! Click on the pictures of their projects to go to their blogs or galleries for more details.

By the way – for those of you who are in our “Top 3” each week, we have the code for a blog widget over to the left. Be sure to grab the code if you’d like to announced this on your blog page!

Anita Leidtke

Lisa Walsh

Maria Vanderform

Stay tuned for the next posting…

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Hi all!

Our next challenge will be slightly delayed… Robin, our coordinator has been ill. She says she will be able to post again next week. In the meantime, feel free to look back at the lovely creations in some of our past challenges, and keep Robin in your thoughts!

Please come back next week!

Thanks!

SUO Challenge 34, Merry and Happy and Everything Joyous!

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It's mid-December, and all around me I hear holiday greetings. The greetings I most frequently hear are, "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays." But there are many other holiday greetings that we hear this time of year – Happy Hanukkah and Joyous Kwanzaa are just two more. Whatever the greeting, though, invariably they begin with Merry, Happy, or Joyous. And it's so much fun to make cards that express those bright, cheerful and joyous feeling of the holidays. So that's what our Design Team has done for our Stampin' Up! Only Challenge 34 – some card to inspire us to be happy with whatever we're celebrating this time of the year.

And we'd love to have you join in our fun! Just create a card to celebrate a December Holiday and add a link to it at the bottom of this post. I'm sure that there are quite a few of us and many of our readers will be thrilled to have some great ideas for last minute celebration cards!

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.