Create with Connie and Mary

Holiday Edition 2011 Winners

We have just wrapped up Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition 2011!  What an incredible collection of unique ideas!  Before we get to the winners...from all of us at Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition 2011 to all of our wonderful subscribers....

THANK YOU!!!!!

We so appreciate you being part of our edition this time!  We had so much fun sharing all of our ideas and loved all your comments and your participation in our challenges!  It makes each edition so much fun!

We know you stopped by to see who the winners were of our Saturday challenges.  Every Saturday for the first five weeks, we had a challenge for our subscribers.  Each time they entered, their name was put into the drawing for our prizes.  So...here our our winners from the Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition 2011...

Winners of the two subscriptions to Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012...

• Susan Joyce
• Jane Giggy

Winners of the two $75 Stampin' Up! merchandise gift certificates* are...

• AnneMarie Bryant
• Heather Donahue

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

Please contact us by Sunday, November 6th at createwithconnieandmary@gmail.com to claim your prize!!  *Prize order must be sent to a US address.

And once again...thank you to everyone who were a part of our edition!  Oh...and mark your calendars...coming soon...Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012!!

          

CCMC-HOL6 Saturday Design Team Challenge

WOW...it is AMAZING how time flies when we are busy creating...especially with all the FANTASTIC products and sets in the Holiday Mini.  Over at Create with Connie and Mary Holiday 2011 Edition, we have had just the BEST TIME working together and creating interesting and unique projects just for our wonderful subscribers! 

This week is a challenge just for the design team.  We will be announcing the winners of the TWO $75 Stampin' Up! Merchandise Gift Certificates and TWO FREE subscriptions to Create with Connie and Mary Occasions 2012 Edition on Monday, October 31st at 12 noon for those subscribers who played along during the Holiday Edition. 

So for our very last 'challenge' we asked each member of the team to do...

BAG or BOX and matching TAG!

A little something to hold a gift for Christmas!  So for the last time here is the design team and their inspiration...

 

Connie Babbert - Inkspired Treasures

 

Mary Brown - StamperCamper's Corner  NOTE:  I have the link to how to make this cool box from one 12 x 12 piece of dsp on my blog (the link contains both written instructions and a video!)  This is NOT my original idea but a VERY cool origami box!

Elizabeth Price - Seeing Ink Spots

 

Debbie Henderson - Debbie's Designs

 

Robin Messenheimer - Robin's Craft Room

 

Carrie Sampsel - Carries Scrapyard

 

Thank you for your support of Create with Connie and Mary Holiday 2011 Edition!  And do you know what?  It won't be long until it time for Create with Connie and Mary Occasions 2012 Edition!  You won't want to miss it!

THANK YOU!!!

          

CCMC173 - Color Challenge

WOW...Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition 2011 ends this SATURDAY!!!  We can hardly believe it...it went so fast and soooooo many FANTASTIC ideas! 

Looking for ideas for the holiday?  You can still join!  You will have access to all the projects shared to date and the few more we have to finish the session off!

 

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This color combo is REALLY cool...there are just so many different ways you can go with it!  We can't wait to see what you do and we'll get you started with ideas from the design team...

The challenge team has some GREAT inspiration to get you going...

 

Connie Babbert - Inkspired Treasures
Gift card holder, Inside view on my blog!

 

Mary Brown - StampCamper'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!

 

Renee Van Stralen - Stampin for Sanity

So get to those crafting areas and start creating!  Remember to use SU Only products, post to your blog or online gallery, label it CCMC173 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!  This challenge will close Wednesday, November 2nd at 12 noon EST.

CCMC172 - Top 3

What wonderful cards this week!  We love sketch challenges because there is just such variety!  Here's our top three picks for this week...

Mary Jo Price-Williams

 

Diane Vander Galien

 

Mary Davidson

Congratulations to everyone!

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 for a great color challenge!

 

         

CCMC-HOL5 - Saturday Sketch Challenge

On Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition 2011, we just celebrated our second week filled with wonderful Christmas ideas!  I know the weather around here (Ohio) has been a bit colder this week so those Christmas ideas were nice to see! 

If you are new to Create with Connie and Mary, Saturday is a special day here as the we offer a challenge to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY!  Each week we have planned a challenge for our subscribers to participate in.  Each time they enter a challenge, their name is entered into our drawing at the end of the edition.  We are giving away two $75 Stampin' Up! Gift Certificates and two FREE subscriptions to Create with Connie and Mary Occasions 2012 Edition.  The only way to be entered into this drawing is to participate in the Saturday Challenges and you MUST be a subscriber.  There are 5 challenges total - this is our third one!

Saturday Challenges are the only time you will see anything shared on both the subscriber only pages and on our blogs.  The design team posts their challenge project to their blogs and public galleries but only the challenge project!  All other projects are exclusive to subscribers only! It's not too late to join....click the paypal button below and join the fun!

6 week $34.95 - that is less than $1 a project with FULL TUTORIAL on each project!

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To get your creative juices flowing, the design team has been busy creating too.  Here is what we came up with for this sketch...

 

Connie Babbert - Inkspired Treasures

 

Mary Brown - StamperCamper's Corner

 

Elizabeth Price - Seeing Ink Spots

 

Debbie Henderson - Debbie's Designs

 

Robin Messenheimer - Robin's Craft Room

 

Carrie Sampsel - Carrie's Scrapyard

Enjoy the inspiration this week from our talented designers!

 

CCMC172 - Sketch Challenge

The end is near on Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition 2011!  We have the rest of this week and then one more AMAZING week filled with Christmas ideas!  Don't miss out!  Join today and have access to all we have shared so far and the rest to come!

Although we are almost to the end of week 5 (out of 6) there is still plenty of time to join and see all we have done and the 1 week left! Don't delay!  This week we have continued sharing our FABULOUS Christmas ideas!  DELIGHTFUL!

So...sign up today and you get to see all we have shared so far and all that is still to come!

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It's this a fun sketch?  Nice and simple but LOTS of possibility!  So much possibility in fact check out what the design team has done...

 

Connie Babbert - Inkspired Treasures

 

Mary Brown - StampCamper'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!

 

Renee Van Stralen - Stampin for Sanity

So get to those crafting areas and start creating!  Remember to use SU Only products, post to your blog or online gallery, label it CCMC172 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!  This challenge will close Wednesday, October 26th at 12 noon EST.

CCMC171 - Top 3 Picks

WOW...that was a unique color combo this week and we just LOVE the creativity you all showed!  We think we had a little bit of everything!

So...instead of making you wait...here's our top three picks this week...

LeAnne Pugliese

 

Anne Marie Hile

 

Julie Gearinger

Congratulations to everyone!

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 for a fun sketch challenge!

 

         

CCMC-HOL4 - Saturday Color Challenge

On Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition 2011, we just had a FABULOUS week FILLED with Christmas so we  couldn't resist having a color challenge using Christmas colors! 

If you are new to Create with Connie and Mary, Saturday is a special day here as the we offer a challenge to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY!  Each week we have planned a challenge for our subscribers to participate in.  Each time they enter a challenge, their name is entered into our drawing at the end of the edition.  We are giving away two $75 Stampin' Up! Gift Certificates and two FREE subscriptions to Create with Connie and Mary Occasions 2012 Edition.  The only way to be entered into this drawing is to participate in the Saturday Challenges and you MUST be a subscriber.  There are 5 challenges total - this is our third one!

Saturday Challenges are the only time you will see anything shared on both the subscriber only pages and on our blogs.  The design team posts their challenge project to their blogs and public galleries but only the challenge project!  All other projects are exclusive to subscribers only! It's not too late to join....click the paypal button below and join the fun!

6 week $34.95 - that is less than $1 a project with FULL TUTORIAL on each project!

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Here is what our design team came up with using these colors...

 

Connie Babbert - Inkspired Treasures

 

Mary Brown - StamperCamper's Corner

 

Elizabeth Price - Seeing Ink Spots

 

Debbie Henderson - Debbie's Designs

 

Robin Messenheimer - Robin's Craft Room

 

Carrie Sampsel - Carrie's Scrapyard

 

Enjoy the inspiration this week from our talented designers!

 

 

CCMC171 - Color Challenge

What a wonderful week we've had on Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition 2011!!!  It's been Christmas EVERY WHERE over there! 

Although we are almost to the end of week 4 (out of 6) there is still plenty of time to join and see all we have done and the 2 weeks left! Don't delay!  This week we started sharing our FABULOUS Christmas ideas!  DELIGHTFUL!

So...sign up today and you get to see all we have shared so far and all that is still to come!

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The challenge team has some GREAT inspiration to get you going...

 

Connie Babbert - Inkspired Treasures

 

Mary Brown - StampCamper'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!

 

Renee Van Stralen - Stampin for Sanity

So get to those crafting areas and start creating!  Remember to use SU Only products, post to your blog or online gallery, label it CCMC171 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!  This challenge will close Wednesday, October 19th at 12 noon EST.

CCMC170 - Top 3 Picks

Thank you everyone for joining us this past week!  It was such a fun sketch and different from ones we had done in the past!  Since you stopped by to see the top three picks...here you go...

Sandra Conner

 

Narelle Farrugia

 

Joan Jeffery

Congratulations to everyone!

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 and you LOVE our color challenges!  Oh...and this one...FABULOUS!!!