SUO Challenges 72, Weddings – Our Top 3!

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Thanks to all of you who participated in our challenge to make projects that would be appropriate for weddings! While there were not as many entries as we usually have, our Design Team agreed that, what we lacked in quantity, you certainly made up for in quality! More than half of our entrants for this challenge received votes in our Top 3 selection!

So congratulations to all of you – but especially to our Top 3 for the Weddings Challenge! Click on the pictures of their projects to go to more details on their blogs. We hope our Top 3 winners will take a copy of the Top 3 banner and add it to their blogs – it's down towards the bottom of this blog on the left side.

Sharon Green. All the details in Sharon's card make for an absolutely gorgeous wedding card. For those of you not yet familiar with the latest Stampin' Up! catalog, there is a Simply Sent Kit called Simply Fabulous, and Sharon used part of the laser-cut card front to accent her fabulous border. Now I can see that this is going to have to go on my next shopping list! The ribbon and the glimmer butterfly accenting the glimmer paper under the border really make this a special card! Stunning!

Amanda Burditt. We loved the way that Amanda cut all those little white hearts with the Hearts a Flutter framelits and adhered them all together to make the embossed-looking background. Adding the red heart made with the same framelit added the perfect accent to make this a beautiful Clean and Simple card. Lovely!

Charissa Laarman. The layers and the colors in this card make this a very special Wedding card. Sharon skillfully used the Adorning Accents embossed hearts and the crochet ribbon trim as layers of their own with the other beautifully coordinated layers under the wedding dress. I personally really like the rock and roll technique that she used on the wedding dress, which highlighted the shabby chic look of the entire card. Gorgeous!

SUO Challenge #72 – Time for June Weddings!

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Many of us in the world of Stampin' Up! may forget that June is NOT just the month for the new Stampin' Up! Catalog! It's first and foremost one of the most popular months of the year for weddings. I'm not going to pretend to having researched any of that; it's just my impression. And based on that impression, we in the SUO Challenge Design Team have decided to devote the first challenge of June to Weddings!

So this is your challenge – to make a card, a gift, a favor or anything that might be appropriate for a wedding. Of course, as always, the challenge is to make this with Stampin' Up! products only. The rules are printed over to the left and embellished a bit at the end of this blog post.

To get you started thinking about what you might make, here are the entries from our Design Team. Just because they're all cards doesn't mean at all that your projects have to be cards. We love to see any kind of paper crafted art! If you have any questions, please contact Robin Messenheimer, the blog coordinator, and she'll definitely to her best to help out!

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 June 3, 2013. This is a NEW challenge!

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: June 4, 2013 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

June 15, 2013 (6 am USA Eastern Time)

SUO Challenge 21, For the Bride and Groom

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June is traditionally THE month for weddings. When I was young, all of my friends wanted to be June brides and weddings came right on the heels of college graduations. I still personally think that June weddings are the most romantic, and I was thrilled when my best friend had her wedding in June not too many years ago. It was so lovely and I remember every moment of it.

And every wedding deserves lovely stationery – made with Stampin' Up! papers and inks and embellishments! Our design team members have created some beautiful and whimsical cards just for the occasion, and what fun it is to share them with you all! But cards aren't the only element of a collection of wedding stationery – think place cards, favors, guest books, memory albums!

Please join us by creating and submitting a wedding card or other paper-crafted items for your favorite bride or groom – Stampin' Up! Only, of course!

Heidi Baks' Wedding Card

Heidi Baks

Jennifer's Card

Jennifer Timko

Karen Barber

Michelle Laycock's Wedding Card

Michelle Laycock

Deb's Card

Deb Hoekstra

Pam Staples' Wedding Card

Pam Staples

Robin Messesnheimer's Wedding Card

Robin Messenheimer

Melina's Card

Melina Pylant

This challenge was created for fans of Stampin' Up! products and demonstrators to participate in and draw inspiration from. Hence the name of the blog, Stampin' Up! Only Challenges, we ask that you respect this by using only Stampin' Up! products. Retired Stampin' Up! product is welcome, as well as any outside products that you would normally see in any Stampin' Up! catalogs or publications, i.e., sewing on your card, stick pins, etc.

WHAT IS ALLOWED: Submitting creations and linking to the creation and recipe/instructions in your blog.

WHAT IS NOT ALLOWED: Submitting a creation that you are Selling a tutorial for and that you won't freely share a recipe/instructions without requesting a fee. If you are selling instructions/recipe for a creation, do not submit it for the challenge. It's okay if you advertise for-profit tutorials in your sidebar and if people go to the post to view the challenge card they may see the "ads" in your sidebar, it just can't be the post with the card/creation recipe and instructions you are submitting to the challenge.

SUO Challenges is an advertising-free zone and is a challenge that is for fun only. Respect our guidelines set forth above. Violators of these guidelines will be banned from this website. Help keep your favorite challenge clean and play by the rules. If you find a participant who has violated our guidelines, please email us. Thank you for your cooperation. Play fair and keep the challenge fun for everybody.

WINNERS OF OUR FATHER'S DAY CHALLENGE!

1. Sara Hoogendoorn – We all loved the layout and the beautiful monochromatic look of this card. The sponging did a wonderful job of tying the whole picture together!

2. Joan Jeffrey – This is a delightfully different way of using this stamp set. The way that you used the Jumbo Eyelet perfectdly accents the other circular elements .

3. Margaret – Your use of the pastels on this card is just stunning, as are the sponged accents on the textured layer. Love the colors!

Congratulations to you all and don't forget to pick up your badges!