Challenge #360 - Happy Harvest

Happy Halloween! We have a Theme Challenge for you this week and the theme topic is Harvest, thanks to yours truly! Take a look at the Challenge banner:

Because most of us are urbanites these days, harvest has more of a decor meaning than a food meaning, unless we have a backyard garden, but we do like those cozy autumn images! 

Let's see how our Design Team interprets the Harvest theme:

Deborah Wheeler

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Joanne James

LeAnne Pugliese

Here are some guidelines for the challenges:

• Create any card, scrapbooking page, 3D project or packaging project that fits the challenge.
• Stampin' Up! colours are used for reference but any matching colours are welcome. You can use black/neutral for outlines and sentiments but don’t use any other colours. Make sure you use all the colours in the challenge banner. Neutrals include black, white, vanilla, Crumb Cake.
• Please include the challenge graphic and link back to the challenge in your blog post. Turn off word verification so we can send you lots of feedback. Make sure you link the post not the whole blog to the Linky. Use AYSI #357 when uploading to a public gallery.
• You can combine our challenge with up to 3 other compatible challenges.*
• We do reserve the right to delete, or not consider, entries that do not comply with these guidelines.*

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners for Challenge #359 - Recipe for Autumn Florals

The fun part of our job as a Design Team is checking out the blogs of every entry in our challenges and especially fun when it's a recipe challenge! Everyone gets exactly the same five elements, but the variety of cards we get is endless AND beautiful! The not-so-fun part of our job is trying to pick winners from amongst those lovely entries, but once again, we bit the bullet and got the job done! Here they are:

Our Top Pick is: Sandra Strobel

Sandra put in so much effort for this Recipe Challenge! She has added surprise after surprise with the five card elements that had to be added, and so much more! The texture and the rich colour just envelope your senses! This card is so skillfully done, it really deserves the Top Pick! Congratulations, Sandra.

And our Featured Artist this week:

Our Featured Artist is: Loopyloo

Loopyloo (Lynda), our Featured Artist this week and winner, used the elements of the recipe with creative style. The Design Team particularly loved the arrangement of the die cut flowers and foliage in the frame and the unique background texture! Also, a strategically chosen "happy" sentiment! Well earned Featured Artist award!  Congratulations, Lynda !

And we think you may want to check out the following Honorable Mentions on their sites:

      1.  Erin T.

     

      4.  Jolanda Johnstone

      5.  Deb Horst

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Theme Challenge tomorrow morning on our blog! Our winners today can pick up their badges on this page and display them with pride on their blogs or sites.      

  

You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #359 - Recipe for Autumn Florals

You still have a few hours left to play our Recipe Challenge - Recipe for Autumn Florals at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Oct. 29th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time. 

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #359 - Recipe for Autumn Florals

You still have time left to play our Recipe Challenge - Recipe for Autumn Florals at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Oct. 29th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.     

 

Challenge #359 - Recipe for Autumn Florals

There are some varieties of flowers that we associate with fall like asters and chrysanthemums, and colours of flowers like oranges, yellows, and rusts. This next Recipe Challenge puts me in mind of autumn flowers with its colours and elements. It also has one unique element: the frame! What will you use to create that? Remember, you must use all the elements shown here in the banner, in your project, when you do this recipe challenge designed by our team member, Deborah!

Remember our last Colour Challenge? Well, the winner of that challenge, Amanda Mertz, won the right to be a guest designer on today's challenge:

Here's Amanda:

and here's her wonderful card. I love the colours and textures: 

Amanda Mertz

 How did our Design Team whip up this recipe?

Deborah Wheeler

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Joanne James

LeAnne Pugliese

Here are some guidelines for the challenges:

• Create any card, scrapbooking page, 3D project or packaging project that fits the challenge.
• Stampin' Up! colours are used for reference but any matching colours are welcome. You can use black/neutral for outlines and sentiments but don’t use any other colours. Make sure you use all the colours in the challenge banner. Neutrals include black, white, vanilla, Crumb Cake.
• Please include the challenge graphic and link back to the challenge in your blog post. Turn off word verification so we can send you lots of feedback. Make sure you link the post not the whole blog to the Linky. Use AYSI #357 when uploading to a public gallery.
• You can combine our challenge with up to 3 other compatible challenges.*
• We do reserve the right to delete, or not consider, entries that do not comply with these guidelines.*

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners for Challenge #358 - My Favourite Autumn Things

It was a little predictable, but sometimes surprising to find out what you favourite things about autumn were, after all, it's such a comforting time of year! It's time for a clean slate, as well, as a new school year starts, and work picks up after summer breaks. Let us introduce the winners of Challenge #358 to you!

Our Top Pick is: Kelly Schirmer

Kelly's favourite thing about autumn is Thanksgiving and so she has created a card tribute to the holiday with a lovely fancy fold creation with beautiful oval panels containing beautifully coloured leaves, meaningful sentiments, and glistening highlights! It's a project that really catches the eye! Congratulations on Top Pick, Kelly!

 

Our Featured Artist is: Sandra Strobel

It's pretty hard to compete with this textural masterpiece by our Featured Artist, Sandra Strobel, whose favourite thing about autumn is pumpkins. Just feast your eyes on all the details, colours and textures she has included in this fantastic entry! The Design Team was blown away by her artistry! Congratulations on being the Featured Artist, Sandra!

                                                      

And we think you may want to check out the following Honorable Mention on their site:

  5. Erin T.

   

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Recipe Challenge tomorrow morning on our blog! Our winners today can pick up their badges on this page and display them with pride on their blogs or sites.  

 

 

You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #358 - My Favourite Autumn Things

You still have a few hours left to play our Fill In The Blank Challenge #358 - My Favourite Autumn Things at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Oct. 15th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.