Handmade Baby Cards – Stampin' Up! Only Challenges

As many of you know, I've been traveling for most of the month of October. While members of the SUO Challenge Design Team have kept the challenges going during my absence, we decided to leave the work of compiling and publishing the Top 3 for the last two challenges until I returned home. Shhhhh! Don't let the rest of the Design Team members know that I have so much fun compiling and publishing the Top 3 Posts that I selfishly kept this for myself!

The team's votes didn't disappoint me either! As always, I am amazed at how many of you received votes for the Top 3 honors. We truly do have a talented group of people participating in our challenges! But, oh – that's not my favorite part of this particular group of Top 3 designers! Two of the three are from the UK, and the third is from New Zealand! I'm so excited to have these three Stampin' Up! Demonstrators join in our challenge AND win Top 3 honors! Of course I delight in all our entrants and their projects, but having all the Top 3 from outside North America is definitely a thrill for us. To read more about their projects, just click on the pictures.

Nicky Dexter, from Colchester, UK. What a delightful use of colors for this Welcome Baby card! Those tiny handprints are so nicely framed with the Coastal Cabana die-cut shape. But our favorite part of this card was the use of the images from the Baby Tees Jumbo Wheel as a perfect embellishment!

Margaret King from Northamptonshire, UK. We especially liked that the front of this card was personalized with the baby's name! What fun is that! But our favorite parts of the project are those beautifully shaded and highlighted balloons. They look so real they could be popped with a pin!

Karren Johnson from Christchurch, New Zealand. What a great Clean and Simple (CAS) card this is. Our favorite part of this card is the embossed and sanded cardstock that looks just like real fabric ribbon!

It's time for another Stampin' Up! Only Challenge, and this time the challenge is to make a card – or other paper crafted project! – for a baby. Some of you may still have some Stampin' Up! fabric around, and making something with that would qualify for this challenge, too!

The details of our guidelines are over at the left. But I summarize them at the end of the post, including the dates that this challenge is open. If you have any questions about linking your project or problems in creating the link, be sure to let the challenge coordinator, Robin Messenheimer, know. We cheerfully help crafters out just about every challenge, so don't be bashful about asking for help!

And now for the entries from the ladies AND gentleman of our Design Team!

To participate in our challenge, make a card or other paper-crafted project and post a photo of it to your blog or a gallery on the internet. Then come back here and use our link tool at the bottom of this post to share the photo with us.

PLEASE remember this: We're looking for projects posted to the internet AFTER September 23, 2013. This is a NEW challenge! AND please mention/link to the SUO Challenge Blog in your post!

And, of course, your projects should be made with Stampin' Up! products only. The products may be those that are in current catalogs, or they may be retired products. But (as our blog title says) SUO – Stampin' Up! Only! This means that products from other papercrafting, rubber stamp, die-making or other companies may not be included in your project or in any other project included in your blog post if Stampin' Up! sells a like product. For example, Stampin' Up! does not sell sewing thread. So use of sewing thread from another company is just fine. Stampin' Up! does sell the Sizzix Big Shot, so use of die-cuts, texture plates or other such products from another company is not fine. If you have a question, please send an e-mail to our Coordinator, Robin Messenheimer, and she'll be glad to answer it!

Challenge Dates: September 24, 2013 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

October 7, 2013 (6 am USA Eastern Time)

Tag Archives: Handmade Baby Cards

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