SUO Challenge 14, Favorite Retired Stamp Sets!

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Do you remember Watercolor Garden? Button Bear? Stella Stamper? Think of all of those great retired Stampin' Up stamp sets that are sitting on your shelves. The ones you just can bear to part with. The ones you pull out as your "go to" stamp set for a quick card.

The challenge this week is use your favorite RETIRED Stampin' Up stamp set and make a card. This means that it is a set that you can no longer purchase from a Stampin' Up demonstrator because it isn't available anymore.

Here are some of our favorites to inspire you.

Sale-a-bration Challenge Winners

Thank you so much for all of the wonderful entries for the last challenge. There were so many beautiful choices that it made the decision making process very difficult.

We had a two way tie for first place.

Julie B with a soft and elegant style and Anne Marie with a bright and bold style. Both very different styles, but we liked them just the same.

Our other winner was Connie Babbert with a card that is just "sew suite".

Thank you ladies. Pleas pick up your badges and display them on your website.

We hope you all will play along this week.

SUO Challenge 13, Sale-a-Bration creations!

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Once again, it is our favorite time of year. No, not the holiday season already. It is Sale-a-bration time with Stampin' Up! During this time of year, everyone earns a free sale-a-bration item for every $50 (US) that they spend in Stampin' Up products. This year's products include stamp sets, designers series paper, embellishments and more.

If you haven't see the Sale-a-bration brochure, please call your demonstrator and ask for one, or you can see it online here.

If you have already earned some free SAB items, please use them in your creations for this challenge. If you haven't earned any yet, check out the inside cover of the SAB booklet. There is a whole list of stamp sets from the main catalog that are also eligible to be earned free during this time period.

Grab your Stampin' Up supplies and show us what you are working on this week. We can't wait to see your creations.

Get Wheelin' Winners

Thanks so much to all who participated last week. I hope you realized how much fun your Stampin' Around wheels can be. Now that they are dusted off, keep them rolling.

In third place, with a very elegant black and white card, Vickie-Lee Mueller.

In second place, with a bright and cheery baby card, Gayle Wheeler.

And, finally, in first place, Kathy Tanner with a beautiful soft, vintage feeling card.

If you are one of our winners this week, please pick up your badge and display it on your blog.

Thank you to everyone who participated.

SUO Challenge 12, Get Wheelin’ with Stampin’ Around!

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Welcome to another great Stampin' Up! Only challenge. This week we are focusing our challenge on Stampin' Up!, Stampin' Around Wheels. You can use regular sized wheels or jumbo wheels on your projects. Please make sure that you use only Stampin' Up products on your submissions.

Now, here are designs from our Design Team. You can see that some cards used wheels as a background and some used them as the main image. Wheels are so very versatile. Dust off your handles and get rolling on this week's challenge.

Valentine Challenge

We had a wonderful response to our last challenge, which was for Valentine creations. You can see all the creations here. As a Design Team, we voted and chose #9 – Jenn Picard's class as our favorite. You can see Jenn's card at her website. In second place was Melissa Huie, and in third was Kasey. Ladies, please pick up your badges from this page and display then to let others know you won an SUOnly Challenge.

Thank you to everyone who participated. We love sharing our ideas with you and looking at all of your great creations.

SUO Challenge 11, Valentine’s Day Creations!

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Love is in the air! Think back to the first cards you ever gave and received as a child. Most likely they were Valentine's. Pretty little notes secretly exchanged at school, in a pretty shoebox covered with foil and red hearts. Remember how much fun it was to sit at your desk and open each little envelope. It made you feel so special to have so many cards that were just for you.

Let's try to recapture that this Valentine's Day. This holiday day doesn't require gifts. A card is the traditional "gift" on Valentine's Day. Be kind to your friends and loved ones and make them a special card this year. Hopefully our samples here will give you some inspiration. Use what you have, order some new products, however you choose to do it, just do it.

Baby Card Challenge

We were so impressed with all of the beautiful cards for last week's baby challenge. Thank you so much to everyone who participated.

Our vote for #1 card from last week goes to Kez with a beautifully simple, yet elegant baby card. Make sure you check it out on her blog.

Second place goes to Traci with the adorable clothesline card and third place goes to Kasey with the very cute bear card.

Ladies, please pick your badge up from this page and display it on your blog to let others know you have won the baby card contest.