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SUO Challenges 182: A Blast From the Past – and Blog Candy!

It’s our 7th Anniversary! This fun occasion is a great excuse to look back over the past 7 years of SUO Challenges and Stampin’ Up! in general and celebrate something fun from the past. Our challenge this time is to create a project with the theme, A Blast From the Past. That can be whatever you want it to be, and I’m sure  you’ll have fun posting about this on your blog or wherever you show off  your projects. For our Design Team members, we suggested an old project with new products; a new project with old products, or even a reprise of something they’ve made for the SUO Challenge blog in the past. Just have fun with it.

Speaking of our Design Team: In looking back over the 7 years of SUO Challenge posts, I discovered that the fabulous Karen Barber has been a team member from the very start. I can’t imagine this team without her, and now I know why. Thanks for all the years of great projects, Karen!

Now onto the challenge with contributions from our current Design Team. I’m sure you’ll want to know the story behind each of these “Blast From the Past” projects, so be sure to click on their names below their projects to go to their blogs to find out the story! Oh – and there’s blog candy this time for our Top 3. A party has to have gifts! We’ll send each of our Top 3 for this challenge a brand new pack of Delicate White Doilies from Stampin’ Up! and a handmade card to go with it.

Karen Barber

Robin Messenheimer

 

Connie Babbert

Mary Brown

Julie Gearinger

PLEASE remember this: We’re looking for projects posted to the internet AFTER August 28, 2017.

Dates to Add Links: August 29, 2017 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –
September 9, 2017 (6 am USA Eastern Time)


Our Top 3 for Summer Fun Will Be Posted Late!

It’s not that we didn’t love your projects! But our coordinator, vote counter, and chief cook and bottle washer is traveling for the next couple of weeks. She’ll be sure to post it just before we share the Top 3 for tomorrow’s Challenge!

But never fear – tomorrow’s challenge is all ready and Design Team Member, Mary Brown, will make sure it gets posted on time. Thanks, Mary!

SUO Challenge 173, All That’s Feminine – Our Top 3!

Thanks to all of you who participated in our challenge to make a project featuring the theme, All That’s Feminine. We especially liked those whose projects our Design Team voted as the Top 3 of all those wonderful submissions! Click on the pictures of their projects to go to their blogs or galleries for more details.

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 announce this on your blog page.

Joanne James

Rachel Macleod

Jo Morris

SUO Challenges 163, Holiday Elegance – Our Top 3!

Thanks to all of you who participated in our challenge to make a project showing off the theme of Holiday Elegance. We especially liked those whose projects our Design Team voted as the Top 3 of all those wonderful projects! Click on the pictures of their projects to go to their blogs or galleries for more details.

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 announce this on your blog page. Our blog has a fresh, new design, and so does our Blog Widget! Be sure to grab it!

Debbie Mageed

Maria Vanderform

Patty Coone

We are sorry to say that several entries for this challenge did not follow the guidelines that we have set for this Stampin’ Up! Only challenge. Those entries that did not feature ONLY Stampin’ Up! products, as we’ve defined that in our blog posts, have been removed from the gallery. Those entries whose posts did not mention that they were being entered in the Stampin’ Up! Only Challenge remain in the gallery, but they were not considered for the Top 3 entries for this challenge. We are so pleased that our “real” Top 3 all followed our challenge guidelines, and we hope you will all join us again!