You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #288 - We Know What You Did Last Summer!!

You still have time to play with our Theme Challenge #288 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 30th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

Challenge # 288 - We Know What You Did Last Summer!!

Actually, we don't know what you did last summer, or winter, or whenever you go on vacation - but we're going to find out, when you tell us, through your projects what activities you like to do when you go on holidays! Are you rugged outdoors people who like to hike, climb, camp and canoe? Do you prefer to stay in a luxury hotel and relax by the pool? Do you like new experiences and adrenaline rushes? Are you an eco-tourist or a voluntourist? Let us know with your creation!

What do the Design Team do on their vacations?

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier 

Taking a break this week

Jane Knudsen

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.
• 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 #AYSI288 when uploading to a public gallery.
• If you’re unsure about 'the rules’, check the details under the Challenge Guidelines.
• 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!

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Winners for Challenge #287 - Recipe for the Earthy Blues

Thanks to all the test craft cooks who tried out our Recipe Challenge last week! You combined Earthy and Blue tones into a masculine design and it made for some handsome creations! We had everything from a shirt puzzle to lighthouses and a travel map to a graphic design for a Hebrew get well card! Oh, and a clever gift card holder! Where you have the challenge of creating, we have the challenge of choosing from among such talent! Here are the winners of our Recipe Challenge:

Our Top Pick is: Deb Horst

Deb's card features masking to give dimension and depth to her wonderfully masculine lighthouse tucked in behind the die cut picket fence and framed by the sea grasses. She has also die cut the stitched rectangles that feature the images and back the image panel. Deb has used some muted tones of blue and warm earth tones to fulfill those requirements from the challenge, and the Design Team loved the big chunky twine to complete the design.

And our Featured Artist this week:

Our first Featured Artist is: Suzy Hinton

Suzy used Night of Navy and Balmy Blue for her shades of Blue, and Early Espresso, Crumb Cake and Soft Suede for her Earth Tones in this attractive design! The die cut twigs, fir branches, and tag really add to the masculine tone of the card. The sentiment she chose is perfect, as is the DSP she chose! A masculine Christmas card without being over the top! Congratulations on being our Featured Artist this challenge, Suzy!

                                                

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

 1. Jolanda Johnstone

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 #287 - Recipe for the Earthy Blues

You still have a few hours left to play our Recipe Challenge #287 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 16th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #287 - Recipe for the Earthy Blues

You still have time to play with our Recipe Challenge #287 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 16th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

Challenge #287 - Recipe for the Earthy Blues

Although she is no longer a member of our Design Team, LeAnne Pugliese designed this Recipe Challenge at the beginning of 2022 when she still was and it's a blessing to have it to look back on and remember our time with her on the team! This is such a fun recipe, using both Earth Tones and Blue Tones to create a masculine themed card!

You have to include all the elements in the recipe on your creation, but how you do that is up to you! Have fun and start your ovens, er...stamp sets!

We are so pleased to welcome our eighth guest designer, Cindi Copeland, (who was our Featured Artist on Challenge #285) for this challenge.

And this is her beautiful project for this challenge:

Cindi Copeland

Let's see how the Design Team has subtly combined their elements:

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Jane Knudsen

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.
• Use every element in the recipe, but the possibilities within those parameters are endless.
• 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#287 when uploading to a public gallery.
• If you’re unsure about ‘the rules’, check the details under the Challenge Guidelines tab.
• 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 #286 - Boo!

We hope you had fun celebrating  or not celebrating Halloween! And we hope you managed to avoid whatever scares you the most about it (and according to our entries - spiders win the prize for the scariest thing about Halloween!) We thoroughly enjoyed reading your entries and looking at your creations! There's just something engaging about the colours of Halloween!

Without further ado, I want to introduce you to our winners! Here they are: 

Our Top Pick is: Tenia Nelson

Tenia's winsome little ghost takes on a spooky air with that watery purple hue it has taken on to blend with the background! And that awesome sentiment is so perfect! Tenia always has an innate sense of what elements to add to enhance her designs with texture and surprise and never overdoes it! This design is balanced just right!

Our Featured Artist is: Jolanda Johnstone

Using a stand-out palette of black, white, orange and purple, Jolanda created a tribute to the number one fear of our very informal poll of the scariest things about Halloween - spiders! She made great use of embossing, on the spiders, threads, and bold sentiment, glitter from Wink of Stella, on the web itself and the sentiment and unique elements - check out the threads the spiders are hanging from! So cool! Put those all together with a great layout and you have a card worthy of Featured Artist! Congratulations, Jolanda.

                                                      

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

3. Deb Horst 

7. Suzanne from Stamp n' Sip

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 #286 - Boo!

You still have a few hours left to play with our Fill In The Blank Challenge #286 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 2nd, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #286 - Boo!

You still have time to play with our Fill In The Blank Challenge #286 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 2nd, at 11:55 pm Pacific time. 

Challenge #286 - Boo!

Team mate Heather H. came up with a seasonal Fill in the Blank challenge this week. My grandkids have pretty much worked out their Halloween costumes now and one of them has one of those inflatable TRex costumes. It's hilarious! Definitely not spooky in the least, but this challenge wants to know what you find spooky about the event and then make a card about it! Feel free to be funny if you want. Some of the design team were, and we're still chuckling!

For a Fill in the Blank Challenge, you complete the sentence by filling in the blank, then you make your project based on the words you used to fill in the blank. How would you fill in this blank? Now, take on the challenge of making something amazing with it!

 And make sure to tell us, in your blog post, how you Filled in the Blank!

     

Here's what freaks the Design Team out on Halloween:

Heather Cooper

Heather C. is always worried about keeping her black cat safe!

Heather Heroldt

Heather H. finds her neighbour's Haunted House the spookiest thing on Halloween!

Jan Clothier

Jan's finds the spookiest thing about Halloween is people lurking in the dark!

Jane Knudsen

The scariest thing for Jane at Halloween is pumpkin spice flavour!😂

Joanne James

Joanne finds the spookiest thing about Halloween is....even MORE spiders!! 

Deborah Wheeler

Deborah finds celebrating the darkness of Halloween the scariest thing.

• Create any card, scrapbooking page, 3D project or packaging project that fits the challenge.
• Fill in the blanks with the words that are right for you and then create your project with those words in mind. Tell us, in your blog or on your site, what words you used.
• 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#286 when uploading to a public gallery.
• If you’re unsure about ‘the rules’, check the details under the Challenge Guidelines tab.
• 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 of Challenge #285 - Aurora

We're excited to announce the winners of Challenge #285 because the Featured Artist will be our Guest Designer for the next Recipe Challenge in two weeks! We're very keen to work with the winner! Our entries certainly did the colour challenge justice!

Here are our winners:

Our Top Pick is: Lisa K.

Lisa skillfully used the colours as a blended background with the lighter colours as a backdrop for the starlight. The black became the silhouettes and the backing panel (along with the dark blue). This gave her Christmas themed card a moody, mysterious look that really enhances the star as the focal point!

Our Featured Artist is: Cindi Copeland

As Featured Artist this week, Cindi will also be invited to be our next Guest Designer! We loved that she used a slimline format to get more of our Challenge Colours in her design. The chevron design in the background has chevron in all three colours on a black card base and then the flowers are a cascade of colour down the front of the card. So lavish and pretty! Even her envelope uses the colour palette!

Congratulations, Cindi, you will be our next Guest Designer for our Recipe Challenge in 2 weeks time. We will be in touch!

                                                      

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

  2. Tammy Fite 

 3. Christy Stanford

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.     

You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #285 - Aurora

You still have a few hours left to play our Colour Challenge #285 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Oct. 19th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.

You Still Have Time To Play Challenge #285 - Aurora

You still have time to play with our Colour Challenge #285 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Oct. 19th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.

Challenge #285 - Aurora

We're into October now and for some of us, it's a month marked by coloured leaves and Halloween. These colours are reminiscent of fall and witches' cauldrons, but equally, they could be sunset colours or a seascape or the aurora borealis, so have fun with this beautiful combination in whatever way you see the colours being used!

Each time we have a colour challenge, the Featured Artist will have a chance to become a Guest Designer for our next Recipe Challenge 4 weeks from now. So enter with that in mind! We're so excited to work with you for a challenge!!

Remember, if you don't have the Stampin' Up! colours, use the colours you have that are the closest. Your project should use all these colours only and 1 neutral. (Neutrals include black, white, vanilla or Crumb Cake.)

How did the Design Team use these colours this week?

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Jane Knudsen

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 #AYSI285 when uploading to a public gallery.
• If you’re unsure about ‘the rules’, check the details under the Challenge Guidelines tab.
• 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