Friday, February 7, 2025

Challenge #341 - Recipe for a Pastel Celebration

It's time for another Recipe Challenge and I think you'll have some fun with this one, thanks to our team mate, Jan! First, you can play with beautiful pastel colours and heat embossing, and, second, your project will be good for any kind of celebration, so that's wide open! With our Recipe Challenges, you must include all 5 ingredients in your project, but how you do that is up to you!


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You'll perhaps recall that our winner from our Colour Challenge #339, Michele Ferguson, won the right to be our Guest Designer for this challenge.

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And here is her beautiful card for this challenge:



 And now let's see how the other members of the design team mixed up the ingredients to the recipe:





heather cooper





heather heroldt






jan clothier






Jane Knudsen
Not available this week





joanne james






deborah wheeler



Here are some guidelines for the challenge:

  • 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 #334 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

Thursday, February 6, 2025

Winners for Challenge #340 - Pesky Resolutions

It was so much fun, and enlightening, too, reading everyone's crafting resolutions for 2025! I have to admit that this was the first time that I'd thought of even making them for the crafting aspect of my business! Some of your resolutions were oh, so familiar, but with great ideas to accomplish them, while some were unique and thought-provoking. And before I get too philosophical, let's get back to the delightful task at hand, which is naming our winners!


Wouldn't you know it? We have a tie for Top Pick:

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Our first Top Pick is: Michele Ferguson

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Michele's crafty resolution for 2025 is to find workarounds for products she doesn't have instead of having to buy them. She proved this is more than possible when she made this beautiful card with the extra layer ending just short of the top. Instead of buying an edger die, she used a word shadow die and adapted it to make it an edger die, then added the word to it as well. This bold sentiment is accompanied with a beautifully stamped and coloured bird in a budding tree.  So worthy of a Top Pick! Congratulations, Michele!

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Our second Top Pick is: LeAnne Pugliese

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LeAnn resolved to use more embossing folders in 2025 and she got a good head start by using no fewer than three of them in this vintage beauty. She layered 3 panels of distressed, embossed cardstock just like embroidered ruffles, each layer different from the other 2. By adding the scalloped Crumb Cake edging, the Cherry Cobbler twine and the heart designs, she bumped the whole project up a notch or two. So worthy of a Top Pick! Congratulations, Michele!

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Our Featured Artist is: Sandra Strobel



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Our Featured Artist,Sandra, has created an masculine project in a collage formatl! The Design Team were so thrilled not only the richly coloured paper she chose for the backgrounds, but also the array of cool designs she added - filmstrip, car, gears, among many others. The longer you look, the more things you find, like the edging and the sprinkling of rhinestones. Congratulations, Sandra, amazing work and a great start on your resolution of creating more masculine themed cards!!
                                                      
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And we think you may want to check out the following Honorable Mentions on their sites:


 8. PJ


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.      

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #340 - Pesky Resolutions

You still have a few hours left to play our Fill In the Blank Challenge #340 - Pesky Resolutions, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a tryhere.



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The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Feb. 5th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

Friday, January 31, 2025

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #339 - Pesky Resolutions

You still have time to play our Colour Challenge #340 - Pesky Resolutions, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a tryhere.



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The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Feb. 5th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.       

Friday, January 24, 2025

Challenge #340 - Pesky Resolutions

January is the time for making and, yes, breaking, New Year's resolutions. Do you make resolutions about your crafting activities? What are they this year? Thanks to Team member Heather H, we have a Fill-In-The-Blank Challenge this week asking all about them! Take a look at our Challenge Banner:


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For a Fill-In-The-Blank challenge, the idea is to finish the sentence by filling in the blank, and then make a card or project based on the words you used to fill in the blanks. Then, let us know, in your blog or post, how you finished the sentence.

Let's see what our Design Team are resolving to do this year:



heather cooper

Heather Cooper

Heather is resolving to enter more card challenges this year.



Heather Heroldt

Heather is planning on making more Christmas cards as she ran out of them this past year.



jan clothier

Jan Clothier

Jan's crafting resolution is to make time to play along with challenges just for fun!



Jane Knudsen

Jane wants to use ink blending and colouring more this year.


joanne james

Joanne James

Joanne has decided to actually complete the kits she orders!



deborah wheeler

Deborah Wheeler

Deborah vows to make 1 Christmas card a week through 2025!


Here are some guidelines for the challenge:

  • 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 #334 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

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Winners for Challenge #339 - Winter Frost

We're excited to announce the winners of Challenge #339 because the Featured Artist will be our Guest Designer for the next Recipe Challenge in two weeks! Those Winter Frost colours were so pretty to play with! Your entries were unique and artistic and very hard to choose winners from!

Here are the winners for this challenge:


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Our Top Pick is: Amanda Mertz


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Amanda made great use of the challenge colours! The brighter ones create a great floral focal point, while the more subdued grays give a soothing background. The Design Team really liked the script circle stamped in Smoky Slate for a background design, and the way the sentiment was embossed in white on the basic gray banner for the way it showed up! Congratulations, Amanda!

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Our Featured Artist is: Michele Ferguson


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As Featured Artist this week, Michele will also be invited to be our next Guest Designer! She has made the most beautifully coloured gardenia with our challenge colours! Her colouring skill is amazing! On the white background with the lattice work and the layer of soft gray leaves, the flower has so much depth that our Design Team was blown away! Congratulations, Michele, you will be our next Guest Designer for our Recipe Challenge in 2 weeks time. We will be in touch!
                                                      
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You might want to visit our Honorable Mentions on their web sites:


    6. Johanna @ LHC

    14. Suzy Hinton


Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Fill in the Blank 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.     

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

You Still Have a Few Hours Left To Play Challenge #339 - Winter Frost

You still have a few hours left to play our Colour Challenge #339 - Winter Frost, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a tryhere.



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The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Jan. 22nd, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.