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SUO Challenge #162 – Holiday Cuteness!

By the time this blog post goes live, we’ll have just about finished anything to do with Thanksgiving in the United States, and all around the world we’ll be starting to focus on Christmas and other December Holidays. There are so many different kinds of projects that we all make for this time of the year that it was hard to figure out how to narrow a challenge down. But we always come up with something! This time, let’s focus on cuteness! That’s your challenge – make something cute for whichever holiday you celebrate and share it with all of us here at SUO Challenges!

Here are our Design Team members’ Holiday Cuteness projects. I hope they inspire you to make your own and share them with us!

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–Cindee Wilkinson

–connie

Connie Babbert

merrymice

Robin Messenheimer

 

jason–

Jason Loucks

karen

Karen Barber

–julia

Julia Quinn

mary

Mary Brown

julie

Julie Gearinger

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–PLEASE remember this: We’re looking for projects posted to the internet AFTER November 21, 2016.

Challenge Dates: November 22, 2016 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –
December 3, 2016 (6 am USA Eastern Time)


SUO #137, Cards and Gifts for Children!

The holidays are definitely here! No matter where you are, there is an important fall or winter holiday coming within the next month. So that means all of use paper crafters will be in full gear making cards and gifts for the season. Your challenge this time is to make a card or gift for a young child.

To get you started with ideas, our Design Team has come up with a lovely assortment of cards. We look forward to seeing what you do with this challenge. And remember – it’s not just cards for this challenge! We’d love to see some ideas for gifts – Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or just plain winter holidays in general!

Julie

Julie Gearinger

Connie

Connie Babbert

Robin

Robin Messenheimer

Pam

Pam Staples

Julia

Julia Quinn

Mary

Mary Brown

Cindee3

Cindee Wilkinson

Karen

 Karen Barber

 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 December 7, 2015  This is a NEW challenge!  AND please mention/link to the SUO Challenge Blog in your post!

Of course, your projects must 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:  December 8, 2015  (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

December 19, 2015 (6 am USA Eastern Time)


SUO #136, Holiday Colors – Our Top 3!

Thank you very much to everyone who participated in our challenge to make projects with your Favorite Holiday Colors. Thanks especially to our Top 3 whom we felt did the best job of capturing our theme for the week. 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 announced this on your blog page.

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Joanne James

DeleteLindsey

Lindsey Bowe

DeleteCrystal

Crystal Komara (Super Stamp Girl)

SUO Challenge 136 – Favorite Holiday Colors!

The holidays are definitely here! No matter where you are, there is an important fall or winter holiday coming within the next month. So that means all of use paper crafters will be in full gear making cards and gifts for the season. Your challenge this time is to share with us your favorite set of holiday colors to use in your crafting.

To get you started on thinking about Holiday Colors, our Design Team has come up with a lovely assortment of cards. We look forward to seeing what you do with this challenge.

 Karen

Karen Barber

Julie

Julie Gearinger

Connie

Connie Babbert

DiagonalDoubleFoldCards

Robin Messenheimer

Pam

Pam Staples

Julia

Julia Quinn

Mary

Mary Brown

Cindee

Cindee Wilkinson

 

 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 November 23, 2015  This is a NEW challenge!  AND please mention/link to the SUO Challenge Blog in your post!

Of course, your projects must 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:  November 24, 2015  (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

December 5, 2015 (6 am USA Eastern Time)