SUO Challenge #165 – New Year, New “Stuff”!

Happy New Year to All!

With a New Year in the Stampin’ Up! world, we’re always ready for some new Stampin’ Up! “stuff” to help us continue with our paper crafting fun. Our Design Team members are all demonstrators, and so all have had a chance to order from the Stampin’ Up! 2017 Occasions Catalog which goes live on January 4th. So they’re sharing their really new stuff with all of us today. If you have some new Stampin’ Up! products – whether they’re from the new catalogs (Sale-a-bration also starts January 4th) or just new to your crafting studio, we’d love you to share a photo of one of the projects you’ve made with it! That’s your challenge this time around.

Here are our Design Team members’ projects.. I hope they inspire you to make your own and share them with us! BUT BEFORE YOU SHARE – Please review our guidelines over at the left. If you have any questions, please Contact Us.

Karen Barber

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Julia Quinn

Mary Brown

Julie Gearinger

Pam Staples

–Cindee Wilkinson

Connie Babbert

Robin Messenheimer

Jason Loucks

Jason is among those of us having an extended Holiday season.
He’ll be back with us next time!

J-

–PLEASE remember this: We’re looking for projects posted to the internet AFTER January 2, 2017.

Challenge Dates: January 3, 2017 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –
January 14, 2017 (6 am USA Eastern Time)

An InLinkz Link-up

SUO Challenge 123, Sweet Treats – Our Top 3!

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Thanks to everyone who participated in our Sweet Treats challenge.. 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.

By the way – 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!

Anita Leidtke

Lisa Walsh

Maria Vanderform

SUO Challenge #123, Sweet Treats!

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It's that time of the year for lots of parties! Besides the usual weddings, showers, and birthdays, there are graduations and holiday barbecues. Oh, and there are surely Bar and Bat Mitzvahs and Quinceanera celebrations. And more! For this challenge, think about how you'd show off or present a party's treats. Or think about a card you might send with an image of a sweet (think cake?). Your challenge is to make a project – card or other paper crafted project – with sweets as a theme.

Need some ideas to get your creativity started? Then check out our Design Team projects – and have fun with your 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 May 25, 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: May 26, 2015 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

June 6, 2015 (6 am USA Eastern Time)

An InLinkz Link-up

SUO Challenge #94, It’s Easter Time!

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Spring is here and Easter is on its way!! Your challenge this time is to make a card or other papercrafted project that features Easter. 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. 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!

Of course we have guidelines and they are detailed at the left and summarized below,, including the dates that this challenge is open.

Please remember this is an SUO (Stampin' Up! Only) challenge. Projects using non-SU! images, paper, embellishments, etc., will be removed. We also ask that you do not have advertisements for products (e.g., classes and subscription services) in your post. Please respect our criteria.

And now on to some inspiration from our talented design team for this week's challenge!

PLEASE remember this: We’re looking for projects posted to the internet AFTER April 7, 2014. 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: April 8, 2014 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

April 19, 2014 (6 am USA Eastern Time)

An InLinkz Link-up