Last week's features Cards:

Thanks to all of you who entered last week's alternative Valentine challenge - great cards - especially for the guys.

Here are the 3 that I've picked, although you can see them all via the links below:

Firstly a real cool card from Anita:

with SU UK Stamp Set - Short Order Alphabet and I think there's plenty of other stamps in our cattie to get a similar effect with the hearts and things.

You can see Anita's blog at: http://www.anitastamps.com/

The 2nd & 3rd cards are by Kathy - both really gorgeous but very different cards:

This one uses Unfrogrettable Set and the last one uses SU Summer by the Sea Set. You can get the details for both these cards at Kathy's blog at http://kraftinwithkathy.blogspot.com/ (dated 30 Jan.)

Thanks also to Alison - http://paperpiecing.blogspot.com/, Claudia - http://rosaswelt.blogspot.com/2008/01/heart-3x3-notebox-with-lid.html and Kylie - http://kraftykylie.blogspot.com/2008/01/have-i-toad-you-lately.html for joining in too.

Su

Valentines Day Challenge #1

Welcome again!

I went to the SU Open Night in Bristol tonight with Helen from our church crafters club - we had a fab time (more on my blog tomorrow!)

Well, this week's challenge is unusually not a layout (I do plan to mainly do sketch layouts.)

Seeing as we are all probably focusing on Valentines Day which is just around the corner, I thought we could have a challenge for Valentines Cards.

Your mission - should you choose to accept it - it to make a card that contains at least one heart (it doesn't have to be stamped) but should not contain any red or pink, anywhere on the card! Naturally, it needs to contain at least one SU Stamp from the current Stampin' Up! UK catalogue.

I am really looking forward to these! As it's been a late night out, I will have to post mine tomorrow for you!

Su

Our First Challenge

Hi!

Welcome to our first Challenge using stamps from the Stampin' Up! UK Catalogue. This challenge is based upon the following sketch / layout and you can use anything you like as long as it includes at least one stamp from the current (and only) UK Stampin' Up! Catalogue - and it must not use any other make of stamp.

Here is the layout:













And here are a couple of my cards to get you going:










I used 2 different flowers from the SU Mixed Bouquet set for this one.
(For instructions, see my other blog -http://SuStampinStudio.blogspot.com/)

and then the following card uses the so cute elephant stamp from the Year After Year Set, and the greeting comes from the Birthday Best set.

To take part all you need to do is post your creations on your blog, stating which SU Sets your stamp(s) comes from, link back to this challenge post AND post a comment here to let everyone know about it or if you aren't able to do that, email me instead, add your comment and I'll then upload them onto my other blog, linking your entry back to here. Then each Monday, I'll choose 3 of the best to publish on this blog.

I am so looking forward to seeing your creations!

Enjoy!

Su

Welcome!

Welcome to the Stampin' Up! UK Challenge Blog!

It seems like there isn't a challenge site for us UK Newbies to Stampin' Up! and as we are only on our first stash of SU stamps/first UK SU Catalogue, I thought a weekly challenge was in order to get us going!

Of course, there are a lot of fantastic cards with Stampin' Up! stamps out there, including more and more from UK stampers each day, but wouldn't it be nice to have a central blog/challenge showcasing just the Stamps available to us in the UK (so for now, just from the first UK SU Catalogue)?

I hope you agree - and that you'll rise to the challenge and join me every week!

So - the Card, ATC, gift or papercrafting item will have to use a Stamp or other product from any UK Stampin' Up! Catalogue (of course the only one at present!) based upon the challenge.

Naturally this doesn't exclude any of you from outside the UK - and I expect most of the stamps we have in our SU UK Cattie are already out there in America, Australia and NZ, etc. So please join in the fun!

The Stampin Links on this site will be devoted to SU cards etc. so if you know of a good one that isn't listed, do let me know. And if you have any suggestions for this site, again please let me know.

I'll be posting the Challenges every Tuesday - from next week - 22nd January.

To take part all you need to do is post your creations on your blog, stating which SU Sets your stamp(s) comes from and link back to the relevant challenge post or if you aren't able to do that, email me instead and I'll upload them onto my other blog (http://SuStampinStudio.blogspot.com/) linking your entry back to here. Then each Monday, I'll choose 3 of the best to publish on this blog.

And of course, there will be blog candy every now and again!

Look forward to seeing your creations and hoping that we will be able to inspire each other!

Su