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CCMC190 - TOP 3!

Housekeeping note:  Before we get to the Top 3 post, we'd like to put in a request to our Blogger/Blogpost friends.  We love to see your creations and leave comments for you.  However, Blogger recently changed their Word Verification program to help prevent spam, but it is SO hard to read the words/letter combinations they randomly create.  It is taking our Challenge Team (and others teams we've heard!) almost twice as much time to leave comments than before.  If you have a Blogger blog, please consider turning off the Word Verification feature and using comment authorization instead.  You are still protected from unwanted spam hitting your blog, you'll just need to go in and authorize comments instead of them automatically appearing.  We'd certainly appreciate it!  We love to see your work and would love to be able to recognize you for playing along with us!  Thank you!

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Thanks to all of you that played along with our sketch challenge this week.  It was a fun one and looks like you all enjoyed it, too!  As usual, you've made it REALLY hard to choose just 3...but here goes!

Lana Horton

Mindy Backes

Narelle Farrugia

 

Thanks to everyone who played along this week.  Come back tomorrow for a wonderful COLOR challenge and to see what the Challenge Team created!

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

<br> <a href="http://www.createwithconnieandmary.com/" target="blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.createwithconnieandmary.com/occasions12_graphics/>
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And the Winners Are...

During the Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012, our subscribers had the opportunity to win prizes.  We would like to thank all of our subscribers for participating in our Occasions Edition...it was AWESOME!!! 

And our winners for the Occasions 2012 Edition are...

FREE subscription to Create with Connie and Mary NEW CATALOG edition...

• Margie Dore
• Corina

And the winners of the $75 Stampin' Up! Merchandise...

• Debbie Neuman
• Chellie Beudot

CONGRATULATIONS LADIES!!!!

To redeem your prizes please contact us at createwithconnieandmary@gmail.com prior to March 5th... we look forward to hearing from you!

So...hopefully we will see you all in June for our NEXT EDITION!!!  And once again...THANK YOU!!!

 

     

Occasions Edition Farewell...

It is truly hard to believe that we have come to the end of another FABULOUS edition of Create with Connie and Mary!  Just when we think the design team could not possibly come up with better ideas then the last one, they do!  INCREDIBLE!  Since this is the last challenge, it is just for the design team. 

 

Winners of our challenge contest for one of two FREE subscriptions to the next edition of Create with Connie and Mary will be announced tomorrow.  And we will announce the winners of our $75 gift certificates tomorrow, too...no need to enter anything for those...everyone who is a subscriber for this session was eligible to win!

It's not too late to join...you can still access all the fabulous projects for up to a year after the Edition ends.  Many projects can be easily applied to other stamp sets and materials. 

 Create with Connie and Mary Occasions 2012  $34.95 US

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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

From all of us at Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012 - THANK YOU!!!!  We hope you continue to play along with our Thursday Challenges...until the NEXT Create with Connie and Mary Edition!

 

     

CCMC190 - Sketch Challenge

Housekeeping note:  Before we get to the Challenge post, we'd like to put in a request to our Blogger/Blogpost friends.  We love to see your creations and leave comments for you.  However, Blogger recently changed their Word Verification program to help prevent spam, but it is SO hard to read the words/letter combinations they randomly create.  It is taking our Challenge Team (and others teams we've heard!) almost twice as much time to leave comments than before.  If you have a Blogger blog, please consider turning off the Word Verification feature and using comment authorization instead.  You are still protected from unwanted spam hitting your blog, you'll just need to go in and authorize comments instead of them automatically appearing.  We'd certainly appreciate it!  We love to see your work and would love to be able to recognize you for playing along with us!  Thank you!

Oh my...it's our LAST challenge of February!  Where did the month go?  We hope that no matter where you are located, you have a had a great month! We have!  And so has Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012!

Although we are coming to the end of Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012, it's not too late to join!  For $34.95 you will have access to all the projects shared so far and those still to come!  6 weeks FILLED with great Occasions Mini ideas!  Subscribe today!

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Please remember...this is a SUO (Stampin' Up! only) challenges and cards submitted using non-SU items - stamps and paper - will be removed.

And now for our sketch challenge and the amazing inspiration from our FABULOUS design team...

Connie Babbert - Inkspired Treasures

 

Mary Brown - StampCamper's Corner

 

Carrie Sampsel - Carrie's Scrapyard

 

Deb Currier - ARTfelt Impressions

 

Debbie Henderson - Debbie's Designs

 

Julie Edmonds - Inkredible Stamping

 

Lisa Martz - Get Your Stamp On!

 

Nance Leedy - Canopy Crafts

So get to those crafting areas and start creating!  Remember to use SU Only products, post to your blog or online gallery, label it CCMC190 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, Feb 29th (happy Leap Day!) at 12 noon EST.

CCMC189 - Top 3 picks

Housekeeping note:  Before we get to the Top 3 post, we'd like to put in a request to our Blogger/Blogpost friends.  We love to see your creations and leave comments for you.  However, Blogger recently changed their Word Verification program to help prevent spam, but it is SO hard to read the words/letter combinations they randomly create.  It is taking our Challenge Team (and others teams we've heard!) almost twice as much time to leave comments than before.  If you have a Blogger blog, please consider turning off the Word Verification feature and using comment authorization instead.  You are still protected from unwanted spam hitting your blog, you'll just need to go in and authorize comments instead of them automatically appearing.  We'd certainly appreciate it!  We love to see your work and would love to be able to recognize you for playing along with us!  Thank you!

 

Now...on to the fabulous creations you submitted for this week's Sketch Challenge!  Weren't those colors fun?  We loved them!  Here are our top 3 selections...you made it VERY hard for us to just pick 3!

 

Jen Mitchell

 

Erna Logtenberg

 

Kari Eklund

 

Thanks to everyone who played along this week.  Come back tomorrow for a wonderful SKETCH challenge and to see what the Challenge Team created!

 

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

<br> <a href="http://www.createwithconnieandmary.com/" target="blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.createwithconnieandmary.com/occasions12_graphics/>
conmar0cc12winner.png"/></a

     

How Sweet It Is!

We have come to the end of our fifth week in Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012!  And this week things got really sweet over there as we played with the Sweet Shop collections and other delightful summer treats!

But if you are not a subscriber, you won't be able to see them.  We can take care of that right now!  Join Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition today for only $34.95.  You will get to see the 30 AMAZING projects we shared the past there weeks and then get to see the 6 incredible projects still to come! 

 

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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 color combo...

 

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

 

You are welcome to play along and post a link to your card in the comments...we'd love to see it!  But you are only eligible for the prizes if you are a subscriber...JOIN TODAY!!!

     

CCMC189 - Color Challenge

We hope that you all had a good Valentine's Day filled with sweet things (both chocolate and otherwise!)  And speaking of sweet things..

We are in Week 5 of Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012 amazing projects!  Our designers are just the MOST CREATIVE FOLKS!  Not a subscriber?  It's not too late to join!  For $34.95 you will have access to all the projects shared so far AND get to rest the projects still to come!  6 weeks FILLED with great Occasions Mini ideas!  Subscribe today!

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Please remember...this is a SUO (Stampin' Up! only) challenges and cards submitted using non-SU items - stamps and paper - will be removed.  Please also do a DIRECT LINK to your project so we can find it easily!

And now for our color challenge and the amazing inspiration from our VERY OWN design team...

Connie Babbert - Inkspired Treasures

 

Mary Brown - StampCamper's Corner

 

Carrie Sampsel - Carrie's Scrapyard

 

Deb Currier - ARTfelt Impressions

 

Debbie Henderson - Debbie's Designs

 

Julie Edmonds - Inkredible Stamping

 

Lisa Martz - Get Your Stamp On!

 

Nance Leedy - Canopy Crafts

 

So get to those crafting areas and start creating!  Remember to use SU Only products, post to your blog or online gallery, label it CCMC189 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, Feb 22nd at 12 noon EST.

CCMC188 - Top 3

As usual...you've made it extremely hard to choose our Top 3...more like Top 10 or 12!  But, here is who caught our eyes with the CCMC188 Sketch Challenge from last week!

 

Geradine Andrade

 

Connie Plaumann

 

Jennifer Horton-Motter

 

Thanks everyone for playing along!  We hope you stop by tomorrow for a pretty color combination!

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

<br> <a href="http://www.createwithconnieandmary.com/" target="blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.createwithconnieandmary.com/occasions12_graphics/>
conmar0cc12winner.png"/></a

     

A Little Treat for Someone Sweet

We have come to the end of our fourth week in Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012!  And this week the we decided to give the designers 'free reign' as we had a designer choice week!  And if you hadn't guessed it already...the projects were absolutely DELIGHTFUL and such variety!

But if you are not a subscriber, you won't be able to see them.  We can take care of that right now!  Join Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition today for only $34.95.  You will get to see the 24 AMAZING projects we shared the past there weeks and then get to see the 12 incredible projects still to come!  And you will be able to participate in this week's challenge (and the 1 more to come!) and have your name entered into the draw for a FREE subscription to the next edition Create wtih Connie and Mary!  But only subscribers can participate!

 

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Although we all LOVE doing the sketch and color challenges, it's always fun to throw in a special theme challenge.  We think everyone likes ideas for little treat holders to give to someone (especially with both Valentine's Day and Easter on its way) so this week our challenge is to make...

A LITTLE TREAT FOR SOMEONE SWEET!

We hope that you all will take the opportunity to participate in one of our challenges so your name is entered into our drawing for one of two FREE subscriptions to the next edition of Create with Connie and Mary!  Remember, each week the challenge goes until Friday at 12 noon.

To get your creative juices flowing, the design team has been busy creating too.  Here a little inspiration from the team...

 

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

 

You are welcome to play along and post a link to your card in the comments...we'd love to see it!  But you are only eligible for the prizes if you are a subscriber...JOIN TODAY!!!

     

CCMC188 - Sketch Challenge

WOW...another Thursday and another Thursday Challenge from all of us here at Create with Connie and Mary!  We have a fun, and we think different, sketch challenge for you.  But before we get to that...

Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition 2012 is in full swing, filled with incredible projects!  But the only way to see them is to be a subscriber!  Not a subscriber?  It's not too late to join!  For $34.95 you will have access to all the projects shared so far AND get to rest the projects still to come!  6 weeks FILLED with great Occasions Mini ideas!  Subscribe today!

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Please remember...this is a SUO (Stampin' Up! only) challenges and cards submitted using non-SU items - stamps and paper - will be removed.

And now for our sketch challenge and the amazing inspiration from our FABULOUS design team...

Connie Babbert - Inkspired Treasures

 

Mary Brown - StampCamper's Corner

 

Carrie Sampsel - Carrie's Scrapyard

 

Deb Currier - ARTfelt Impressions

 

Debbie Henderson - Debbie's Designs

 

Julie Edmonds - Inkredible Stamping

 

 

Lisa Martz - Get Your Stamp On!

 

Nance Leedy - Canopy Crafts

 

So get to those crafting areas and start creating!  Remember to use SU Only products, post to your blog or online gallery, label it CCMC188 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, Feb 15th at 12 noon EST.