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CCMC182 - Sketch Challenge

 

WHEW...there's nothing like this week between Christmas and New Year's to just take a deep breath!  And while you are taking that deep breath...bring out your stamping stuff and join us for a GREAT sketch challenge!  You know you want to!  You KNOW you need to!  So get going on it!

And..are now LIVE and the you can join for the regular 6 week subscription price of $34.95!  That's 36 amazing projects with full tutorials that will not be seen anywhere but on Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012!  Why wait...join today...

6 Week Subscription Price - $34.95 US

 

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As a reminder...WE ARE STAMPIN' UP! ONLY challenge.  Please do not use non-SU stamps and papers, we will delete your link.

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 CCMC182 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, January 4th at 12 noon EST.

CCMC181 - Top 3

WOW...wasn't that color combo just stunning?  Yep...we LOVE EVERY ONE of the cards that were submitted!  We hoped that you really enjoyed it too!  As always, it was REALLY difficult coming up with the Top 3 but we did finally narrow it down....

Lynn Starzl

 

Eileen LeFevre

 

Karen G

Congratulations everyone!  In honor of our 'new look' we have a 'new badge' for you to display!  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 our sketch challenge and the continued chance to be our lucky winner for December!

     

Occasions Edition Early Bird Special Has Begun

Wooo hooo!  The Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012 banner is up and we are starting our Early Bird Special EARLY!!!   Can you tell we're excited about that?  What do you think of our new blog look?  We just LOVE the fun new look!  And we LOVE this edition of the Create with Connie and Mary as we feature not only products from our FABULOUS Occasion Mini but ALSO the Sale-a-bration brochure!

So...what do you need to know about Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012?  We're glad you asked!

• Our Preview Week is from January 8th through January 14th.  During this time Connie and Mary will be sharing with you a special project to show you what Create with Connie and Mary is all about!  These preview projects are FREE and give you a taste of what the normal full tutorials are like that we do for all of our projects!  Oh...and during Preview Week Connie and Mary along with each member of the Design Team will be offering BLOG CANDY!
• The Occasions Edition 2012 will run for 6 weeks starting Sunday, January 15th and ending Saturday, February 25th.
• What do you get for your subscription?  You will get 6 GREAT projects EACH week with a FULL DOWNLOADABLE TUTORIAL (and templates if appropriate) for EACH project.   That's a total of 36 fabulous projects!
• You get the opportunity to participate in our weekly challenges and have your name entered into our drawing for two FREE subscriptions to Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition 2012!  Our Saturday challenges are shared on our personal blogs for everyone to see, but only subscribers can win our drawings!  Also, our PRIZE PATROL drawing will award $75 gift certificates to TWO lucky subscribers...all you need to do is JOIN!
• ALL of our projects are EXCLUSIVE to Create with Connie and Mary Occsions Edition 2012.  You will NOT see the design team posting previews of the projects on their blogs or any public gallery.  The ONLY way to see the projects is to become a subscriber!

So don't miss out...subscribe today for only $34.95!

 

 

     

CCMC181 - Color Challenge and BLOG CANDY!

Since this is our last challenge before Christmas, we wanted to do a very special color challenge.  Stampin' Up! demonstrators get a monthly magazine filled with inspiration and back in November there was a GORGEOUS Whisper White and Silver Glimmer Paper project that just totally inspired us!  We thought this color challenge would be beautiful for this week!  If you don't have the FABULOUS Silver Glimmer Paper, the Brushed Silver paper or Silver embossing would work, too.

And remember...ONE LUCKY participate in our December challenges will win a FREE SUBSCRIPTION to Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012 (beginning mid-January!).  Wouldn't you love to win that?  Well...you have 5 chances to enter...that would be our five Thursday challenges this month! (You still have this challenge and one more next week!)

As a reminder...WE ARE STAMPIN' UP! ONLY challenge.  Please do not use non-SU stamps and papers, we will need to delete your link.

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 CCMC181 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, December 28th at 12 noon EST.

 

CCMC180 - Top 3

Such a busy season for most of us, but I'm glad to see some of you had a chance to play along.  I agree with most of your posts...that was a REALLY fun sketch!

Here is our top 3 selections...and it was REALLY, REALLY tough this week!  You all have been entered in our drawing to win a FREE subscription to the Create with Connie and Mary Occasions 2012...which will be starting SOON!  Remember, you have only ONE more week to be entered into the drawing...just for playing along!

 

Krystal

 

Diane

 

Holly

 

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 our color challenge and the continued chance to be our lucky winner for December!

 

CCMC180 - Sketch Challenge

It's getting closer!!!!  Before you know it, it will BE HERE!!!!  A funny thing I have noticed alot lately is, well at least for me (Mary), the beginning of December seems to be CRAZY as everyone tries to get things in early before everyone gets 'too busy' and then by mid-month...things are starting to quiet down so you can enjoy the month.  

We hope that is what is happening with you so you have some time to join in our wonderful sketch challenge this week!

Don't forget...ONE LUCKY participate in our December challenges will win a FREE SUBSCRIPTION to Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012 (beginning mid-January!).  Wouldn't you love to win that?  Well...you have 5 chances to enter...that would be our five Thursday challenges this month!

As a reminder...WE ARE STAMPIN' UP! ONLY challenge.  Please do not use non-SU stamps and papers as we will delete your link.

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 CCMC180 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, December 21st at 12 noon EST.

CCMC179 Top 3

WOW...Mary and I love seeing your creations each week...so many wonderful ideas!  This month, remember each time you enter our challenges, your name is entered into our Blog Candy drawing for a FREE subscription to Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012 - starting mid-January!  That is 5 chances to win if you play along each week!

Again, you all make it very hard to choose just three...

Margaret Raburn 

 

Jen Mitchell

 

Leslie Croghan

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 our color challenge and the continued chance to be our lucky winner for December!

 

         

CCMC179 - Color Challenge and BLOG CANDY

Ahh...can't you just feeling the EXCITEMENT (and the exhaustion!) of the season in the air!  LOL!!!  We just LOVE seeing all the fabulous decorations this time of year and thought for this first color challenge this month that we would go a LITTLE more traditional!  Okay...it's NOT Real Red and Garden Green traditional but it IS Red and Green!  For some of our design team...who can't do traditional colors if they try...this is about as close as it gets!

We do hope you will be able to join us this week...we know how busy you all are and we do LOVE to see what you do with our challenges each week!

And, as a reminder...ONE LUCKY participate in our December challenges will win a FREE SUBSCRIPTION to Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012 (beginning mid-January!).  Wouldn't you love to win that?  Well...you have 5 chances to enter...that would be our five Thursday challenges this month!

As a reminder...WE ARE STAMPIN' UP! ONLY challenge.  Please do not use non-SU stamps and papers we will delete your link.

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 CCMC179 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, December 14th at 12 noon EST.

CCMC178 - Top 3

WOW...it was just sooooo GREAT seeing all of your fabulous creations AGAIN this week!  And remember each time you enter our challenges in the month of December, your name is entered into our Blog Candy drawing for a FREE subscription to Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012 - starting mid-January!

Well we won't make you wait so on to our top three picks this week (again...a VERY tough one!)...

Jennie Maier

 

Sandy Mathis

 

CJ Thibault

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 our color challenge and the continued chance to be our lucky winner for December!

 

         

CCMC178 - Sketch Challenge and BLOG CANDY!!!

OH...MY...WORD...can you believe it?  DECEMBER!!!  How the heck did THAT happen?  Wasn't it just summer and then we blinked? 

Well HAPPY DECEMBER everyone and we hope that you get to actually ENJOY time with friends and family instead of all the crazy preparations this season seems to bring.

But we also want YOU to participate in our challenges this month...soooooo....ONE LUCKY participate in our December challenges will win a FREE SUBSCRIPTION to Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012 (beginning mid-January!).  Wouldn't you love to win that?  Well...you have 5 chances to enter...that would be our five Thursday challenges this month!

Our little elves (aka the Design Team) has been busy working up AMAZING projects as inspiration for you so we hope you can make a little bit of time to join the fun!

As a reminder...WE ARE STAMPIN' UP! ONLY challenge.  Please do not use non-SU stamps and papers we will delete your link.

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 CCMC178 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, December 7th at 12 noon EST.