And it all started with this:

It all started with this little pack of paper on August 1st what an amazing challenge for my girls on Stampin Trades and Treasured Friendships. Most of us started out as Stampin UP demo's then we explained our horizons and went outside the box. I would say over half of the girls are still SU demo's and most of us have been together in Cyber land for 3 years. I'm always trying to come up with a way to challenge the girls and so I sent each one of them this packet of paper and told them to use any or all of the paper. We had 10 people enter the challenge of which they could use any stamp they wanted and any embellishments but the finished products were coming back to me for my daughter to draw the winning card. All of these cards will go with my card donations to Cards for Hero's if your interested go to their website and check them out. http://cardsforheroes.org/

Well I have tons of ribbon so I'm going to send the winner a bunch of cool ribbons and the winner is:

Rhonda Sands from Connecticut is the WINNER with this amazing card using all the beautiful papers and she used a SU stamp set, wow this is amazing.
This card was done by Michele in Minnesota. She is one of our newest members, she is a SU demo and has a passion for SU. She is amazing and you will find that out when you go to her blog at http://www.atimetostamp.blogspot.com/.

This card was sent in by Marjori in Arizona and its a SU stamp set, beautiful with all that work on the tree and the pretty blue bird. Just amazing Marjori you can see more at her blog http://www.my-stamp-pad.blogspot.com/

Deedee in California sent me this card, ironically I sent her the image of Riley the Moose from Gina K stamps and I adore the card its so cute. You can see more of Deedee's stuff at her blog and she designs for Sweet N Sassy Stamps. http://www.stampingsunshine.blogspot.com/

Sandy in West Virginia sent in this cute card with all the beautiful flowers she is such an inspiration to me. Check out her blog at http://www.atimetostamp.blogspot.com/ Sandy also works with Sweet N Sassy Stamps.
Rainy in Georgia sent in this quilt type card and although its simple its so cute anyone would love to get it. She does such nice designs.
This is another card from Rhonda, she has lost a significant amount of weight last check was 75 pounds. She is amazing inspiration to all of us at STTF. The reason she did two is because I sent her two kits and true to form she made two beautiful cards and sent them back. I absolutely love the font on her card 'Thinking of You'.
'Hey there, Mama' is done by Micki in Kansas she is so much fun and busy as can be with designing cards for a website or two. You can see all of her beautiful and zany cards at http://www.artfulexpressions.net/ you will love her stuff as much as I do.

This card is done by my friend Debi in Missouri, she is so creative. Debi is so lucky to have a daughter that shares her love of stamping. Beautiful work I'm afraid my photo didn't capture the 3 dimensional work on this one, Debi does wonderful work.

Now this card was done by Karen in Maryland and she does beautiful watercoloring work, heck all her work is good but she does excellent work and you can see more of it at http://www.watercoloreddreams.blogspot.com/

Jeanna is a full fledged SU demo and does tons of workshops, parties and she enters several craft fairs in the Kansas. If you ever need something you can see her work and find out about SU at http://www.stampin4mysanity.blogspot.com/. I just love how she used every piece of paper I sent her.

I can't say much about this one I'm running out of words and what I did I didn't do to good. This was colored with Copic's and the girl that did it loves bling I love the blue pearls she added. Jeanine did this card and she's from Tennessee he he he.

I so enjoyed this challenge and I think all of you will agree that out of 10 women each and every card is beautiful, amazing and creative from the heart. We may come from all across the U.S.A. but we all share the same love of family, God and stamping. I was never really good with words and I wish I could have done justice by describing each woman's work. We have a very supportive, talented group of girls that I know will listen to my thoughts and not judge me but help and support me in anything need or have to do. Thank you Rhonda, Marjorie, Micki, Debi, Michele, Karen, Jeanna, Deedee, Sandy and Rainy you so inspire me to do my best each and every day.

God Bless.