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CCMC204 - Color Challenge

OH...say it AIN'T so!  It's the LAST day of the catalog!  LAST chance to use those 'out with the old' items!  Our color challenge is base on the FABULOUS Berry Blossom dsp.  But these fun incolors will be here for another year!  WOO HOOO!!!

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!

 

So get to those crafting areas and start creating!  Remember to use SU Only products, post to your blog or online gallery, label it CCMC204 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, June 6th at 12 noon EST.

CCMC203 Top 3 & Design Team Call

We will take submissions for ONE MORE WEEK until June 6th!  Would YOU like to be a part of our Thursday Challenge Design Team?  Send us an email at createwithconnieandmary@gmail.com with TWO card samples...one using Sketch CCMC203 and one using color challenge CCMC202 of Poppy Parade (Real Red), Pool Party, Basic Black and a neutral...along with the link to your blog! 

 

We'll choose two new members from our submissions!  This term will run from June 14 thru October 25 and requires one card per week based on our Color, Sketch or Inspiration Challenge!  We are SU Only!  Our Thursday Challenge Design Team is compensated with FREE subscriptions to our current Create with Connie and Mary subscriber editions!

 

 Wow...just like with the Challenge Team, we had quite a WIDE variety of different looks using this sketch!  Isn't that what makes sketch inspirations so much fun?  They are my (Connie) favorite challenges!  As usual, you've made it VERY tough for us to just pick our Top 3!  But...here goes for this week!

 

LeAnne Pugliese

 

Justin

 

Paula Sievers

 

Thanks to everyone who played along with this "challenging" sketch! Come back tomorrow for a fun color challenge and see what our Challenge Team has provided for inspiration!

Winners, grab our NEW badge for your blog and show off the fact that you were our Top 3 Pick!

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New Catalog Edition Early Bird Special Has Begun!

Wooo hooo!  The Create with Connie and Mary New Catalog 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 are going to celebrate under the Big Top this edition!  This edition is something to celebrate, too, because this is the first time we are doing the NEW CATALOG! 

Do you know what that means?  ALL the projects shared this edition will be good for the whole catalog year!  Running out of steam after the last mini?  Pull out one of these fabulous projects!  Looking for some fun creatitve ideas to punch things up any time during the catalog period?  We've 'got the ticket' for you!

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

• Our Preview Week is from June 10th through June 16th.  During this time the fabulous design team will be sharing with you special projects 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 New Catalog Edition 2012 will run for 5 weeks starting Sunday, June 17th and ending Saturday, July 21st.
• 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 30 fabulous projects with PHOTO directions!
• You get the opportunity to participate in our weekly challenges and have your name entered into our drawing for two FREE subscriptions to the NEXT edition of Create with Connie and Mary!  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 New Catalog 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!

 

CREATE WITH CONNIE AND MARY NEW CATALOG 2012 EDITON
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See you under the Big Top!

    

CCMC203 - Sketch Challenge

 WOOOO HOOO...it's time for another sketch!  Sometimes when trying to come up with ideas for a challenge, it's fun to go through catalogs and old catalogs for inspiration.  There are soooo many GREAT ideas in there.  I found this layout in a previous catalog and thought it would be fun to do!

Please remember...this is a SUO (Stampin' Up! only) challenge 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...

Would YOU like to be a part of our Thursday Design Team?  Send us an email at createwithconnieandmary@gmail.com with TWO card samples (one using this sketch and one using last week's color challenge of Poppy Parade, Pool Party, Basic Black and a neutral) along with the link to your blog!  We'll choose one or maybe two from our submissions!

 

 

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!

 

So get to those crafting areas and start creating!  Remember to use SU Only products, post to your blog or online gallery, label it CCMC203 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, May 30th at 12 noon EST.

 

CCMC202 - Top 3

Wow...you are really LOVED that color challenge!  What a BEAUTIFUL gallery to look at!  You again made it soooo difficult for us to choose but here are our top 3 picks for this week...

Erna Logtenberg

 

Jen Mitchell

 

Aimee Cretsinger

 

Thanks to everyone for playing along!  Tomorrow we have a fun color challenge for you to try...come on back and see what the Challenge Team has made to inspired you!

 

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

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CCMC202 - Color Challenge

Can you believe that it is almost time for us to lose 5 of our current In Colors?  Say it ain't so!  We've been trying to incorporate some of the retiring In Colors into our challenges so we can give them a proper farewell!

And speaking of farewell - we say a sad farewell to Nance Leedy!  We have so enjoyed her wonderful talent and we hop in the future she will be able to join us again!

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!

 

So get to those crafting areas and start creating!  Remember to use SU Only products, post to your blog or online gallery, label it CCMC202 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, May 23rd at 12 noon EST.

CCMC201 - Top 3 Pick

Wow...it was so fun to see all the different interpretations of the sketch this week!  Love the unique ideas on how to use the greeting along the side!

Here are our Top 3 picks for this week!

Cindy Hall

 

Riley Fitzgerald

 

Mary Calderwood

 

Thanks to everyone for playing along!  Tomorrow we have a fun color challenge for you to try...come on back and see what the Challenge Team has made to inspired you!

 

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

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CCMC201- Sketch Challenge

Well we're back to normal this week and on to a favorite - a sketch challenge!  One way of doing this sketch is to have a 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 card 'base' then the banner overhangs to make this a standard 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card (one of Mary's favorite ways to do odd looking sized cards!)

We also want to give a quick shout out to Nance Leedy who is leaving our Challenge Team after this week...but we hope just temporarily.  We do understand how life gets overwhelming sometimes.  We LOVE her work and will miss her weekly creations here on Create with Connie and Mary!  Thanks for all your hard work, Nance!

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 CCMC201 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, May 16th at 12 noon EST.

CMCC200 - Top 3 and WINNER!

Wow...we loved all the celebration cards!  Isn't it wonderful that we have so many things to celebrate?  Graduations, Mother's Day, Birthday's...the list is endless.  Everyone's cards were wonderful and we did get LOTS of ideas!  Thanks so much for playing along with our 100th Challenge Celebration!

But...I suppose you are wondering who is the winner of our BLOG CANDY and will get all those LOVELY Challenge Team cards, right?  Well...we put everyone's name in a basket and drew....

 

AIMEE CRETSINGER

 

Please contact us at createwithconnieandmary@gmail.com with your address so we can mail them to you!

And...here are our Top 3 picks for this week!

 

Judi Sparks

 

Kari Eklund

 

Alyson MacDonald

 

We hope you had fun celebrating our 100th Challenge.  Come back tomorrow for a fun SKETCH challenge!  

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

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CCMC200 - It's a Celebration & Blog Candy!

HAPPY 100!!!!  Yes...we are celebrating 100 challenges!  Now...I know that it says 200 up there but we started at 101 so it is a BIG HAPPY 100 today!  And we are so happy you are stopping by to join in the fun! 

Since this is a special challenge, we are doing a special theme...

• Make a celebration card
• Use your favorite designer series paper from the MAIN catalog (before it retires)
• OPTIONAL:  Use a banner or pennant on your card

You put all that together and it will be one big PARTY!!!!  And speaking of Blog Candy we have a little BLOG CANDY for today...

One lucky person who enters the challenge this week, will be winner of ALL THE CARDS from the design team!  But you have to join the challenge to win!

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 CCMC200 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, May 9th at 12 noon EST.