SUO Challenge 32, Thankful

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Here in North America we're right in the middle of our traditional Thanksgiving celebrations, with our Canadian Stampin' Up! community having already celebrated their annual Thanksgiving Holiday in October and our United States Community planning to celebrate their traditional Thanksgiving in just a bit more than a week. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

But Thanksgiving is not the only time or season for thankfulness. We frequently have something for which to be thankful, whether it's for a plentiful harvest for the community or for a simple act of kindness for us personally. So our challenge to you this week is to make a card or gift to express your thankfulness – for anything or anyone – and share it with us here at Stampin' Up! Only Challenges!

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.

To help you get started, here is some inspiration from our talented Design Team members!

Deb's Card

Cindy's Card

Heidi's Gift

Jennifer's Card

Karen's Card

Pam's Card

Mary's Card

Robin's Card

SUO Challenge 31, Thinking of You!

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With all of the very specific kinds of greeting cards to make, you'd think that we could all keep busy with those! But so much of the time, I just want to make a card that uses that special stamp set or that special Designer Series Paper or that technique that I just read about on the Internet, and I don't really have any other purpose in mind. Until, that is, when I get to the end of the design process and realize that I really do want to "say" something with the card. More often than not, I end up using a simple greeting such as, "Friend to Friend," or "Thinking of You." But what do you do when you START with the idea of making a "Thinking of You" card? That's what we'd like to find out in this week's challenge.

So join with us in today's challenge – to make a greeting card just for the purpose of sending to someone to say you're thinking about them. I've already used the card I made for today's challenge to send to someone who's going to be undergoing some medical tests. I want her to know that I'm thinking about her as she approaches this day that will be somewhat of an ordeal. I can hardly wait to see what kind of card YOU would make to say, "Thinking of You"!

Here, as always, are some cards from our Design Team to get you started as you design your own card. Please remember to post your card using the InLinkz tool at the end of this post – and be sure to use Stampin' Up! products ONLY, and post only cards that you've made in response to (that is, after) we've posted today's challenge.

SUO Challenge 10, Welcome Baby!

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Welcome to Challenge #10. This is an easy challenge … make a baby card. You can use whatever colors you like, whatever stamps you enjoy and whatever ideas inspire you.

Here are samples from the members of our design team. I hope some of these will give you the push to get started stamping or get you to try something new in 2011.

Winners of SUOnly Challenge #9

Thank you so much for all of the beautiful entries to our last challenge, "Bring on the Bling". If you missed that challenge be sure to check it out. There was lots of bling, in the form of glitter, rhinestones, embossing powders and so much more.

The winner from the challenge is card #14 by Lisa Young, followed by card #7 by Donna Centamore and finally, card #25 by Elizabeth Price.

Thank you so much for playing along ladies. Please pick up your badge from this webpage and display it proudly on your blog.

Grand Opening on September 7!

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Welcome to a new Stampin' Up! Only Challenge Blog! Our first challenge will be on Tuesday, September 7. We are just here to have a lot of fun, get inspired, and to make new friends. Our challenges will be every other Tuesday, but if this really takes off, then we'll go weekly. We will also pick our favorite Top 3 for each challenge and you'll get a very cool blog badge to sport! This blog is not for Stampin' Up! sales or advertising, it's just a place to play and that's it.

We have an awesome design team for you that I would like to introduce you to whom we all know and love. There's the fabulous Michelle Laycock, Karen Barber, Jenn Diercks, Amy Fink, Deb Hoekstra, Melina Pylant and Cindy Coutts.

In the meantime, Michelle's going to make us a few new blog badges and we love and appreciate the wonderful job she's done putting our blog together. We hope to see you back on September 7 and tell your friends about us!