SUOC 197: Favorite Florals

Hello there and welcome to SUO Challenges. We have a fabulously fun challenge for you today!

I think the majority of us have had pretty awful and unusual weather this Spring and are eagerly awaiting a full-blown summer. What better way to beat the Spring snowstorms than to visualize the lovely flowers that we’re starting to see?

Our theme this week is flower/floral images from the Annual Catalog. With the close of Sale-A-Bration and the Spring Occasions Catalog still in full swing, it’s nice to go back to the Annual Catalog.

For today’s challenge, our Design Team takes on the theme of flowers. We hope you are inspired by them to create and enter your own projects. I would also like to encourage you to stop by the design team’s blogs to see all of their incredible work and get to know our new designers too!

We hope you enjoy the wonderful talent we have on board and what they’ve created for your inspiration this week. When uploading your project to social media, please use the keyword SUOC197. We can’t wait to see what you create! InLinkz is provided for you below to participate.

Please welcome 3 new designers! A big shout out to Eva, Raquelle, and Tracie! We are all incredibly happy to have them on the team and your favorites will be returning for our next challenge.

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SUO Challenges #183: Autumn Colors!

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Before this challenge is over, we’ll be full into Autumn here in the Northern Hemisphere. So many kinds of projects come to mind for Autumn, but all of them involve autumn colors. What’s your favorite autumn color or set of colors? Your challenge this time is to create a paper crafting project – using Stampin’ Up! products, of course, that feature your favorite Autumn Colors!

Here are the projects from our Design Team. I hope they will inspire you to get out YOUR Autumn Colors!

Robin Messenheimer

Connie Babbert

Mary Brown

Julie Gearinger

Julia Quinn

Cindee Wilkinson

Karen Barber

Design Team member, Pam Staples, missed the last two challenges due to emergency surgery. This time, her church has asked her to provide temporary lodging for a family that was evacuated from Florida due to Hurricane Irma. So she’s been a busy lady! But we hope to have her lovely projects back here before too very long!

PLEASE remember this: We’re looking for projects posted to the internet AFTER September 11, 2017.

Dates to Add Links: September 12, 2017 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –
September 23, 2017 (6 am USA Eastern Time)

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

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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

Julia Quinn

Cindee Wilkinson

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)

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SUO Challenge #171 – A Favorite April Theme!

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April is almost here, and with it April Showers, Spring Flowers, Weddings, and, this year, even Easter. What’s your favorite April theme? Is it one of these or something completely different? Whatever it is, your challenge this time is to create and share with us a paper-crafted project showcasing your Favorite April Theme.

Here are the projects our Design Team made for this challenge. Click on their names under the photos of their projects to find out more about them. I hope they inspire you to make your own and share them with us! BUT BEFORE YOU SHARE – Please review our guidelines over at the left. If you have any questions, please Contact Us.