Celebrating Sale-A-Bration Creative Challenge

Our most anticipated promotion of the year—Sale-A-Bration—kicked off last week and runs through the end of March. So it’s only natural to shine the spotlight on Sale-A-Bration for the February Creative Challenge.

Sale-A-Bration runs simultaneously in all markets, and is an exciting opportunity for everyone associated with Stampin’ Up! (customer, hostess, and demonstrator) to receive free product! That means that anyone and everyone can create a project for this challenge . . . all you have to do is use at least one Sale-A-Bration product on your project.

So have fun and celebrate this amazing Stampin’ Up! tradition by sharing your creativity with us!

Love Is in the Air Creative Challenge Winners

The holidays are over, and I’m already looking forward to Valentine’s Day . . . at least in terms of stamping projects. Looking over the Love Is in the Air Creative Challenge projects totally got me in the mood for creating projects for those people I love!

There weren’t as many projects submitted this month as there usually are. . . chalk it up to being the holidays, right? I appreciate those of you who took time out of your busy schedule to share, and I really did enjoy seeing all the great ideas.

Congratulations to the winners!

And just a quick note—when you post a project, please make sure that your link is accessible to the public. There were several submissions from last month that I wasn’t able to open. Please make sure that your link is accessible to all So Shelli readers; I want everyone to be able to view winning projects. Thanks for keeping that in mind.

December 28--Connie Babbert

http://inkspiredtreasures.com/cards/december-tour-de-freaks-fashionable-hearts/

 December 29: Ashley Marostica

http://allicreate.blogspot.com/2011/12/now-that-christmas-has-come-and-gone-i.html

December 31: M Markey Dwyer

http://images.splitcoaststampers.com/data/gallery/500/2011/12/31/F4A96-20111231I_love_you_-_trifold_card_markey_by_Markey.jpg?ts=1325364638

December 31: Connie Collins

http://www.constantlystamping.com/constantly_stamping/2011/12/sweet-mds-hybrid-valentine-treat-bag.html

Simply Stunning Creative Challenge

This holiday I really made a concerted effort to keep things simple—our gifts were simple, our plans were simple, our entertaining was simple. That’s kind of been my mantra recently . . . I’ve realized that life is too short to stress out over making things complicated.

Moving forward into the new year, I’m committed to learning how to simplify my life in all areas—even the way I stamp! And for me, that will be difficult, because I do like textures and layers and bling. I’m sure that occasionally I’ll still have to give in and do something completely over the top, but I really am going to try to keep things simple this year.

So I thought we’d start with this month’s Creative Challenge—the Simply Stunning Card Creative Challenge. I know it’s possible to create cards that are simple yet stunning; I’ve seen several this holiday season . . . cards that are so simple yet eye-catching and amazing.

Making this change in my life isn’t going to be easy, but I’m very excited about it! And I know you’ll help inspire me with your creations!

Neighbor Gift Challenge Winners

I loved looking through the neighbor gift projects--there were some wonderful ideas and great execution, and they sparked fun creativity--I can use these ideas years to come! I hope you've taken the time to check out these projects; I'm sure you'll find some great ideas too. Thanks to everyone who shared with us during a very busy, hectic time! And congratulations to this month's winners!

November 22: Melissa Davies

http://rubberfunatics.blogspot.com/2011/11/neighborly-challenge.html

November 25: Ros Davidson

http://rosdavidson.typepad.com/ros_davidson_live_life_an/2011/11/christmas-theme-blog-hop.html

November 26: Mary Rindal

http://www.maryrindal.com/2011/11/kraft-gift-boxes-with-spice-cake.html

November 30: Erica Cerwin

http://pinkbuckaroodesigns.blogspot.com/2011/11/even-naughty-deserve-something-nice.html

Love is in the Air Creative Challenge

Oops. I'm posting a few days late. . . so sorry! I try to get the new Creative Challenge posted by the first of every month, but I slipped up this month. I hope you'll still share your creative ideas though!

It might feel a little early to be talking about Valentine's Day (we haven't even celebrated Christmas yet!), but all you demonstrators know that it always pays to look ahead to and plan for the next holiday. And that's Valentine's Day! Besides, it's never too early--or late--to express love to the most important people in your life.

So this month, I'd love for you to share a Valentine's Day project; it can be a card, a gift, a favor, a page. . . whatever. I can't wait to see your projects, and I suspect others will be looking for great love-themed projects too!

Good luck--and I do hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!