SUO Challenge #66 – Easter Parade – and More!

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So very many of us have already started to make our Spring greeting cards, not just for Easter but also for other celebrations such as the Spring Equinox and the Festival of Passover. There are so many stamps and embellishments that we can use for all of these kinds of cards that Stampin' Up! provides for us that it's definitely a fun time of the year for us to show off our creativity.

Your challenge over the next two weeks is to show YOUR creativity for your favorite seasonal celebration. Most of our design team members are showing off Stampin' Up!'s Easter Stamps. But you are definitely NOT limited to Easter and we are really looking forward to lots of different ideas from all of you!

As always, the rules for the Stampin' Up! Only Challenge blog are at the end of this blog post. Be sure to let us know if you have any questions. For now, we hope you'll enjoy getting some inspiration from our Design Team!

PLEASE remember this: We're looking for cards posted to the internet after March 11, 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: March 12, 2013 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

March 23, 2013 (9 am USA Eastern Time)

SUO Challenge #65 – Going Green!

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It's hard to believe that, before the end of this week, March will be here! And once March is here – at least in the northern hemisphere – we are going to be beginning to be seeing lots of green! Already I have seen photos of crocuses with their green leaves peeking through some snow.

And of course there are those of us who have fun with St. Patrick's Day Green! I remember going to school on St. Patrick's Day and making sure that I had at least something green or else it was open season on pinching! This month St. Patty's Day is a Sunday and I'll be sure to have my favorite green sweater no matter where I head that day!

But whether you celebrate the green of spring or the green of a bit of the Irish, or just one or more of the fun greens that are in the Stampin' Up! collection, I hope you'll join in our Going Green Challenge.

Our Design Team has a fun variety of Green to help you with some inspiration –
and we're looking forward to your challenge entries. All the rules are at the end of this post.

Mary Brown

PLEASE remember this: We're looking for cards posted to the internet after February 25, 2013. This is a NEW challenge!

Challenge Dates: February 26, 2013 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

March 9, 2013 (9 am USA Eastern Time)

SUO Challenge #64, Our SAB Top 3!

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Stampin' Up!'s annual Sale-a-bration event is definitely popular if the number of entrants that we had during this challenge is any indication! What fun we had with all of the samples that all of you shared with us. As always, though, we have chosen our Top Three and, as always, we had a tough time picking those Top Three! You are all so talented. Thanks for everyone who joined us for this challenge.

So now for our Top Three!

Julie Wadlinger. This is a very unique layout for this card! There are so many different elements that are parts of this project – so creative!

KarrenJ. Karren constructed the Saffron and Black to make such a clean, beautifully designed card.

Christie. We loved the way she used the papers and stamps and colors to make such a fun box!

SUO Challenge #64 – It’s Sale-A-Bration Time!

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This post of the Stampin' Up! Only Challenges blog finds us right in the middle of Stampin' Up!'s annual Sale-a-bration festival. It's a time of the year when those of us who purchase Stampin' Up! products can get something free as well. Of course, not everything that's free as part of Sale-a-bration is brand new – there are quite a few products that are in the main Stampin' Up! catalogs that are available – even including the "Getting Started Card Stock Pack"!

Our challenge this time around is to use something that's included in this year's Sale-a-bration catalog in a card or other project. If you've already taken advantage of this special sale time and have something new from this year's Sale-a-bration Catalog, bring it on – we'd love to see what you do with it! But if you haven't, you can do something as simple as featuring a color that's in that Card Stock Pack. There are 12 colors in that pack, from Basic Black to Whisper White and all kinds of colors in between!

I hope that our Design Team samples will inspire you to get out your paper and ink and stamps and enter this week's challenge! As always, the instructions are at the bottom of this post:

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. We're looking for cards posted to the internet after February 11, 2013, and (of course!) 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: February 12, 2013 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

February 23, 2013 (9 am USA Eastern Time)