SUO #137, Cards and Gifts for Children!

12 / 8 / 1512 / 7 / 15

The holidays are definitely here! No matter where you are, there is an important fall or winter holiday coming within the next month. So that means all of use paper crafters will be in full gear making cards and gifts for the season. Your challenge this time is to make a card or gift for a young child.

To get you started with ideas, our Design Team has come up with a lovely assortment of cards. We look forward to seeing what you do with this challenge. And remember – it’s not just cards for this challenge! We’d love to see some ideas for gifts – Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or just plain winter holidays in general!

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 December 7, 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: December 8, 2015 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

December 19, 2015 (6 am USA Eastern Time)

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SUO Challenge 123, Sweet Treats – Our Top 3!

6 / 8 / 156 / 9 / 15

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 #114 – Dots, Dots, and More Dots!

1 / 13 / 151 / 13 / 15

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!

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 #112 – Merry and Happy!

12 / 16 / 1412 / 16 / 14

Christmas, Hannukah and other winter holidays are oh so close! And many of us are undertaking our last minute card and gift making. Your challenge for this SUO Challenge is to make a project that includes something that conveys the season greetings of Merry or Happy (and the words are not necessary!). 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 December 15, 2014. This is a NEW challenge! AND please mention/link to the SUO Challenge Blog in your post!

Challenge Dates: December 16, 2014 (3 am USA Eastern Time) –

December 27, 2014 (6 am USA Eastern Time)

An InLinkz Link-up