SUO Challenge 110, Marker Fun – Our Top 3!

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Thanks to everyone who participated in our challenge to feature a card using any kind of Stampin' Up! markers. 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.

Joanne James. What a great coloring technique Joanne showed off with her project. Embossing first with white on the dark background and then coloring in part of the images with Blendabilities creates a gorgeous design, and Joanne did it beautifully.

Jodi McKinney. What a cute winter shaker card! We would be thrilled to get this fun card in our mail boxes!

Rachel Palmieri. Rachel's coloring is so soft and pretty. What a beautiful way to personalize a milestone birthday.

SUO Challenge #110 – Marker Fun!

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With all the new Stampin' Up! stamp sets that have recently appeared to help us celebrate the winter holidays, we decided that it would be fun if we showed off how using Stampin' Up! markers can enhance our projects in so many different ways.

Your challenge for this SUO Challenge is to make any kind of a project using Stampin' Up! markers in any way – Stampin' Write Markers or Blendabilities. The projects do NOT have to be holiday projects – whatever you're inspired to create using markers is fair game for this challenge. Once you have your project done, post a photograph of it on your blog or in any other open online gallery, and then add a link to our Link Tool at the bottom of this post.

Need some ideas to get your creativity started? Then check out our Design Team projects – and have fun with you own project!

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 17, 2014. This is a NEW challenge! AND please mention and/or 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: November 18, 2014 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

November 29, 2014 (6 am USA Eastern Time)

As you include your link, please check the level of security on your blog site. While of course you may add as much security as you'd like, please understand that we will not be able to comment on your post if doing so takes too many steps. But we will still enjoy your projects. Just because we can't comment doesn't affect how we consider your project for inclusion in our Top 3.

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SUO Challenge 109, Thanks: Our Top 3!

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Thanks to everyone who participated in our challenge to feature a card with a Thank You or Thanksgiving Theme. "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.

Jodi McKinney. We loved the neutral colors in this delightfully vintage collage. Jodi's shading and stamping made this card just gorgeous.

Heidi Weaver. We lvoe the picture frame and all the bright colors that the darker neutral background show off so well. The say that Heidi scrunched up her leaves to mimic those in a pumpkin patch was delightful.

Cindy Brumbaugh. The turquoise looks so perfect and just makes the leaves pop in this beautiful Clean and Simple card. We liked that Cindy not only referred to the original card which she CASEd, but also included a photo of it on her blog. Nice touch!

SUO Challenge #109: Thanks!

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Those of us in the United States are looking forward to our November Thanksgiving Holiday. Those of us in Canada have already celebrated our annual Thanksgiving. And everywhere else, we are getting ready for holidays full of gifts, and Thank You notes are part of the season.

Your challenge for this SUO Challenge is to make a Thank You or Thanksgiving Seasonal card – using Stampin' Up! products only, of course!. Once you have your project done, post a photograph of it on your blog or in any other open online gallery, and then add a link to our Link Tool at the bottom of this post.