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CCMC157 - Sketch Challenge

My...oh my...oh my...we have come to the end of another month.  Where did the month go?  We are all looking forward to the NEW CATALOG (hmmm...I think we might have mentioned that before...oh, we LOVE NEW STUFF) and all the goodies that brings!  Nothing like NEW RUBBER to get the creative juices flowing!

This is a bit of a different sketch for us.  (What WAS Mary thinking when she come up with it?)  But we think you will have fun working with it!  Here's the fun things that the design team came up with to help inspire you...

 

Connie Babbert - INKspired Treasures

 

Mary Brown - StamperCamper's Corner

 

Carrie Gaskin - Artistic Avenger

 

Deb Currier - ARTfelt Impressions

 

Debbie Henderson - Debbie's Designs

 

Nance Leedy - Canopy Crafts

 

 
Lisa Martz - Get Your Stamp On!

 

So get to those crafting areas and start creating!  Remember to use SU Only products, post to your blog or online gallery, label it CCMC157 and link back here if you can to Create with Connie and Mary.  Then come back and use the inlinkz tool below to share your creation with everyone!  We LOVE seeing what you do!

CCMC156 - Top 3

Boy oh boy...where does the week go?  It seems you blink and it's time for our top three picks and to get the next challenge up!  WOW!!!  Are you ready for the weekend?  They have already started to celebrate the 4th in my (Mary) neighborhood and usually go ALL month!  My dogs do...not...like...it...one...BIT! 

You all seemed to LOVE our bright and happy color challenge!  DELIGHTFUL....just DELIGHTFUL!!!  So...here's our top three picks for this week...

 

Amy West

 

Laura BeMent-Jaroscak

 

Carrie Sampsel

 

So ladies...CONGRATULATIONS!!! 

Winners:  Grab this code for your Blog and show off the fact that you were our Top Pick!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thank you ALL for playing along this week and don't forget to come back tomorrow......and get those inks outs...it's a sketch challenge and wow...the design team went all out on this!

            

CCMC156 - Color Challenge

Summertime...and the living is easy!  That is probably one of my (Mary) favorite George Gershwin songs.  And to me nothing says SUMMERTIME like the colors in this week's color challenge. 

Hopefully by now everyone is getting to enjoy their summer some.  Maybe those April Showers (and around here all the May showers too) are gone and we are enjoying the sunshine!  We hope you are too.

So...let's see some 'summer' shine with this color combo!  Here's where the design did this week...

 
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Connie Babbert - INKspired Treasures

 

Mary Brown - StamperCamper's Corner

 

Carrie Gaskin - Artistic Avenger

 

Deb Currier - ARTfelt Impressions

 

Debbie Henderson - Debbie's Designs

 

Nance Leedy - Canopy Crafts

 

 
Lisa Martz - Get Your Stamp On!

 

So get to those crafting areas and start creating!  Remember to use SU Only products, post to your blog or online gallery, label it CCMC156 and link back here if you can to Create with Connie and Mary.  Then come back and use the inlinkz tool below to share your creation with everyone!  We LOVE seeing what you do!

CCMC155 - Top 3

Sorry I'm a little late.  With all the storms around here...I was having Internet problems for most of the evening!

Thank you everyone for joining us this week!  Again...you all ROCKED the challenges.  We do love seeing what you do with our challenges.  This was a little tougher of a sketch but you all rose to the occasion!

Well...here you go...top 3 picks...

Holly

 

Regina Cornelius

 

Sandra

So ladies...CONGRATULATIONS!!! 

Winners:  Grab this code for your Blog and show off the fact that you were our Top Pick!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thank you ALL for playing along this week and don't forget to come back tomorrow......and get those inks outs...it's a color challenge that will get those creative juices flowing!

            

And the Winners are...

We would like to thank all of you who joined us for Create with Connie and Mary Summer 2011 Edition and for our weekly Saturday subscriber challenges!  We can hardly believe that our session is over.  Where does that time go?  And before you know it...we will be starting work on Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition 2011! 

Don't forget to join us HERE every Thursday to see what our Challenge Team does with the Thursday Challenge...and we love for you to play along with us!

Well we know that you are anxiously waiting for the winners so here they are...

 

$75 Stampin' Up! Merchandise Gift Certificate winners...

• Elaine Uhl
• Carol Parcell

 

FREE Subscription to Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition 2011...

• Martha Ludeking
• Nancy Lempinen

CONGRATULATIONS to our WINNERS!!!  Please email us by June 27th to redeem your prize (and for more details!). 

Oh...and mark your calendars everyone...Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition 2011 coming September!!!

THANK YOU!!!!

         

Time goes by FAST!

WOW...that was just an AMAZING Summer Edition of Create with Connie and Mary!  We hope that we gave our subscribers lots of ideas to use.  And just remember, even though the products might go away, the ideas are great for other NEW products!  And to think...there were 30 full tutorials in this edition for ONLY $29.95!  And yes, if you missed it, it is not to late!  Sign up today and you will have access to them all right now!

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Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition $29.95 US

At the end of each edition, the design team does one challenge just among ourselves as a way to say good-bye.  Tomorrow we will announce the winners of the two $75 merchandise gift certificates and the two FREE subscriptions to Create with Connie and Mary Holiday 2011 Edition...BUT you needed to be a subscriber who played along with our challenges to have the opportunity to win!

The challenge for our design team was to make something with the scraps of their Playful Polka Dots Simply Scrappin' Kit that we have been playing with all week.  And so as a final good-bye from the design team...

 

 
Connie Babbert - Inkspired Treasures

 

Mary Brown - StamperCamper's Corner

 

Rochelle Gould - I Stamp, I Create, I Have Fun!

 

 
Elizabeth Price - Seeing Ink Spots

 

Debbie Henderson - Debbie's Designs

 

We want to thank our WONDERFUL design team for all their hard work this session.  We also have a SPECIAL THANKS to our SURPRISE Guest Designers...weren't they AMAZING!  And finally....a HUGE THANK YOU to all of you who were part of Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition!

See you in September!

        

 

CCMC155 - Sketch Challenge

We like to go easy on you...and then we like to get a little more challenging on you.  We have to make you stretch a bit every now and then!  So this one has more elements on there to make you (and the design team too) work a little harder!  That is good.  Besides...we are all sitting around PATIENTLY (NOT) waiting to be able to order from the new catalog! 

So get busy creating and here's some inspiration from the design team to get you going...

 

 
Connie Babbert - INKspired Treasures

 

Mary Brown - StamperCamper's Corner

 

Carrie Gaskin - Artistic Avenger

 

Deb Currier - ARTfelt Impressions

 

Debbie Henderson - Debbie's Designs

 

Nance Leedy - Canopy Crafts

 

Lisa Martz - Get Your Stamp On!

 

So get to those crafting areas and start creating!  Remember to use SU Only products, post to your blog or online gallery, label it CCMC155 and link back here if you can to Create with Connie and Mary.  Then come back and use the inlinkz tool below to share your creation with everyone!  We LOVE seeing what you do!

 

CCMC154 - Top 3 Picks

Did we stump some of you with the colors challenge this week?  It really was a different combo but that's what challenges are for...to stretch a bit!  LOL!!!  I know I've (Mary) have found some of my favorite, and most unique color combos by doing challenges that at first I say "what...is that person COLOR BLIND????  Those colors don't go together!"  What can I say...I tend to be a bit expressive at times!

Thank you all for joining us...we really do appreciate it!  You are ALL winners for working with that color combo!  Next time you need a bright, happy card...try this one again!

We are coming to the end of Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition and what an AMAZING edition it has been!  It's not too late to join us!  You would have access to all the AMAZING ideas (and full tutorials) already shared and our projects are not just for the summer mini products but can easily be changed to use with ANY of our wonderful Stampin' Up! projects!  So...use the paypal below and join us!

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Okay...for our top 3 picks...

Carol Parcell

 

Jennie Maier

 

Julie Gearinger

So ladies...CONGRATULATIONS!!! 

Winners:  Grab this code for your Blog and show off the fact that you were our Top Pick!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thank you ALL for playing along this week and don't forget to come back tomorrow......and get those inks outs...it's a color challenge that will get those creative juices flowing!

SUNNY DAYS ARE HERE!

I don't know about the weather in your area, but we went from a cool and rainy spring to HOT, HOT, HOT summer days!  Schools ended this week for most of the area suburbs and the pools have been packed!  We've come to the end of Week 4 of the Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition!  We've been thrilled with the projects this past week (well...and throughout the session, actually!).  Some really great ideas for classes and gifts!

It's not too late for YOU to join!  Our session is 5 weeks...30 FANTASTIC projects EACH with a FULL TUTORIAL for only $29.95!  You will be able to access all the projects shared the first four weeks and then will be able to see each of the daily projects to come!

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Check out what the Create Design Team did this week with the sketch!

 

Connie Babbert - Inkspired Treasures

 

Mary Brown - StamperCamper's Corner

 

Rochelle Gould - I Stamp, I Create, I Have Fun!

 

Elizabeth Price - Seeing Ink Spots

 

Debbie Henderson - Debbie's Designs

 

So, hope you are inspired by our Design Team this week!

 

 

 

 

CCMC154 - Color Challenge

Oh...here's  fun color challenge for you all to try!  This is one of those 'happy' color combos that you can't help but LOVE!!!  It uses some of the colors that were 'brought back' during the color renovation and then paired up with a color we sometimes 'forget' to use.  So just have some fun with it and let's see what you do!

As a reminder...we are a Stampin' Up ONLY challenge!  Your submissions need to us Stampin' Up images and designer paper.  Non Stampin' Up! projects linked to our challenge will be removed.

To get you started...here's what the design team has come up with...

 
Connie Babbert - INKspired Treasures

 

Mary Brown - StamperCamper's Corner

 

 
Carrie Gaskin - Artistic Avenger

 

 
Deb Currier - ARTfelt Impressions

 

Debbie Henderson - Debbie's Designs

 

 
Erica Cerwin - Pink Buckaroo Designs

 

Lisa Martz - Get Your Stamp On!

 

So get to those crafting areas and start creating!  Remember to use SU Only products, post to your blog or online gallery, label it CCMC154 and link back here if you can to Create with Connie and Mary.  Then come back and use the inlinkz tool below to share your creation with everyone!  We LOVE seeing what you do!