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.

SUO Challenge 9, Bring on the Bling!

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The New Year celebration is upon us and what better time to add bling to your life! Sparkly glitter… light-reflecting rhinestones… shimmery brads… rich gold and silver metallics! All of these embellishments are sure to make your New Year's eve glitzy and fun!

Bling is this week's challenge! Get out the sparkles and create! If you are new and just joining us, create your lovely project with bling and link it to this post with the link option at the end of the post! We'd love to see your artwork! Please join in!

Here are the cards our design team came up with. Some are New Year's cards, some of them celebrate the holiday season, and one of them (Jen Timko's card) is as she puts it "a New Year's Resolution" card! Her New Year's Resolution is to make and send more cards this coming year! This is the first card she is sending out!

Winners for last challenge (Dry embossing with Bravo Burgundy, More Mustard and Very Vanilla):

Thank you for playing along at the last challenge. We had 5 brave souls that took us up on the challenge during this busy Christmas week! Bravo to you!!

These are all lovely cards and choosing was difficult. With the votes in, here are the challenge winners for this round! Please make sure you choose your badge from this blog and display it on your blog to show that you won! Congratulations!

Mary Brown – very out-of-the-ordinary layout, lots of layers and accessories, nice placement

Jennifer Weide – We love the spritz speckles on this one and nice to see see nature in the dead of winter!

TrishG – I think several of us must like kitties, because we had several votes for Trish's kitty card! Very cute!