SUO Challenge #114 – Dots, Dots, and More Dots!

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For our first Challenge of 2015, we've got a brand new theme we've never featured before – Dots! Your challenge this week is to make dots of any kind or size a feature of your project. How simple is that!

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 January 12, 2015 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: January 13, 2015 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

January 24, 2015 (6 am USA Eastern Time)

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SUO Challenge #113 – Project Life by Stampin’ Up! Products

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As we are about to get into the New Year, many people who are involved in Project Life are getting ready for their first scrapbook pages of the year. But, while Project Life by Stampin' Up! (PLxSU) is wonderful for scrap booking types of projects, they are equally fun for using in greeting cards and other paper crafted projects. Among the PLxSU products are cards, embellishments and lots of stamps! Your challenge this time is to make something using PLxSU products in some way – and not just for scrapping!

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

PLEASE remember this: We’re looking for projects posted to the internet AFTER December 29, 2014. This is a NEW challenge! AND please mention/link to the SUO Challenge Blog in your post!

Challenge Dates: December 30, 2014 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

January 10, 2015 (6 am USA Eastern Time)

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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!

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!

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 #108: The Treat’s the Thing

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As we get closer to the fall and winter holidays, we begin to think of making fun treats for all our holiday events. There's Halloween and Trick or Treat. Then there's Thanksgiving (in the USA and Canada) with favors and treats for the holiday table. And finally there are Hannukah and Christmas and other winter holidays where treats are all around us.

Your challenge for this SUO Challenge is to make a treat or a container for a treat – 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.

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

PLEASE remember this: We’re looking for projects posted to the internet AFTER October 20, 2014. This is a NEW challenge! AND please mention/link to the SUO Challenge Blog in your post!

Challenge Dates: October 21, 2014 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

November 1, 2014 (6 am USA Eastern Time)

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