You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #333 - Almost Analogous

You still have time to play our Colour Challenge #333 - Almost Analogous, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Oct. 9th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.              

 

Challenge #333 - Almost Analogous

I think you could call our colour triad for this week's colour challenge, Analogous Colours. If you check the colour wheel in the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue, they only skipped blue green in the side by side categories, Azure Afternoon being categorized as a pure blue, but they are close enough that we could call them Almost Analogous! I'm sure you'll agree that this trio, chosen by Team Member Deborah, work beautifully together!

Each time we post a colour challenge, the Featured Artist will have a chance to become a Guest Designer for a Recipe Challenge in four weeks from the day the colour challenge posts, 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 of your choice. Neutrals include black, white, vanilla, Crumb Cake.

Let's see how our Design Team handle Almost Analogous:

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 AYSI #333 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 #332 - Geometric Elements

What I liked about our sketch challenge this week was that, even though it was titled geometric elements, our entries blended those elements organically into shapes that just made sense in their beautiful designs. Yet the basics of the sketch were still there to see. And the delicious colour schemes of fall were a recurring theme, so I know you'll enjoy browsing the gallery!

Let me introduce you to our winners! Here they are:

Our Top Pick is: Amy Koenders

Amy used our sketch to evoke fall with beautiful background paper choices and fall-inspired imagery. The Design Team loved the pairing of plaid and polka dots and the use of the Everyday Details dies that created the polka dot border on the label for the sentiment!  Amy's masterful colouring and clean cuts made this creation one that is fit for Top Pick, for sure! Congratulations, Amy!

Our Featured Artist is: Teresa S.

Our winning entry, Teresa S., the Featured Artist, has created a card both festive and whimsical! The Design Team loved her playfulness, the choice of confettied background paper, and the adorable characters who form the rectangular element of the card. Again, the colouring is outstanding, the die cuts are so precise, and the sentiment is bold and eye-catching. Teresa took the creative step of swapping positions of the geometric elements to suit her design, but has kept the integrity of the sketch in doing so. Congratulations on being our Featured Artist, Teresa!

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

  4. LeAnne Pugliese

  9. Birgit

 13. Deb Horst

 14. Erin T.

  

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Colour Challenge tomorrow morning here on our blog with a chance at winning the right to be our new Guest Designer for our Recipe Challenge in two weeks time! 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 #332 - Geometric Elements

You still have a few hours left to play our Sketch Challenge #332 - Geometric Elements, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Sept. 25th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.               

You Still Have Time To Play Challenge #332 - Geometric Elements

You still have time to play our Sketch Challenge #332 - Geometric Elements, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Sept. 25th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.              

Challenge #332 - Geometric Elements

It's time for a sketch challenge and I'm going to call this one geometric elements, thanks to the circle, and rectangles on the front. As always, you may change the shapes of the different elements, but we want to be able to recognize our sketch so you might want to be careful which shapes you change or how you change them. Our sketch is thanks to our creative team member, Joanne, and we hope it helps you to come up with many card ideas. Let's see what you can do with it!

For our Sketch Challenge, feel free to invert the sketch and use any shape for the circle, but please keep the integrity of the sketch so we can recognize it.

How did the design team interpret this simple sketch? Take a look:

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

 Jane Knudsen

Joanne James

Deborah Wheeler

Here are the challenge guidelines:

• Create any card, scrapbooking page, 3D or packaging project that fits the challenge.
• For a Recipe Challenge use all elements of the recipe - the possibilities within those parameters are endless.
• For a Colour Challenge use all of the given colours and only those colours with these exceptions:
• White and Very Vanilla are free colours.
• In addition, you may use of ONE of these neutrals: Basic Black, Basic Gray, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige.
• For a Speed Stamping Challenge you must tell us the time it took to make your project and it must be finished in under 10 min.
• Please include the challenge graphic and link back to the challenge in your post.
• Make sure you link the specific post and not the whole blog to the Linky. Use AYSI#326 when uploading to a public gallery
• Please turn off word verification so that we can send you lots of feedback.
• You can combine our challenge with up to 3 other compatible challenges.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners for Challenge #331 - Fast Fruit

You are all getting so adept at Speed Stamping challenges! You are learning all the hacks and shortcuts and using your strengths to come up with designs that do not look at all like you only took 10 minutes or less to make! But, the question is, do you still get that rush of adrenaline when you start your timer?

Here are the lovely winners this time, chosen by the Design Team:

Our Top Pick is: Christy Stanford 

In a blast from the past, Christy has given us a nostalgic, retro look with a well-loved former suite featuring patterns and colours from a 1970s farm kitchen at harvest time! Her choices of colour and pattern mixed, and the lovely stamping job in the short completion time of just over 7 minutes, make this design a real Top Pick! Congratulations, Christy!

Our Featured Artist is: Jolanda Johnstone

Jolanda maintains that in a speed situation like this challenge, her fussy cutting is faster than die cutting for a simple image, and when you look at her entry this week, you'll see why! The Design Team loved the black, white and red palette, and especially the black and white gingham background for the apple! The colouring and cutting was well done and the whole design was simple enough for speed stamping, but striking enough for Featured Artist! Congratulations, Jolanda!

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

3. Birgit

4. Jennie Maier

8. Suzy Hinton

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

You Still Have a Few Hours Left To Play Challenge #331 - Fast Fruit

You still have a few hours left to play our Speed Challenge #331 - Fast Fruit, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #331 - Fast Fruit

You still have time to play our Speed Challenge #331 - Fast Fruit, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

 

Challenge #331 - Fast Fruit

Welcome to our next As You See It Speed Challenge! Wait! What?? Did I hear a cheer, or was that a big, fat raspberry! If that was a cheer then hooray, you've learned to love Speed Challenges!  

And if that was a raspberry, well, you might be interested to know you're right on track for the theme of our speed challenge this week, thanks to team member Jane! Check out the Challenge Banner: 

Now those of you who are familiar with our Speed Challenges know that basically you have to create a card to fit the theme in under 10 minutes. But you can plan your card first and get out all your materials first. However, the moment you cut paper, or add ink to a stamp, or begin to use a tool, you must start the timer! 

In your post, make sure you tell us how long it took you to create your card.

Let's see how long it took the Design Team to make their cards:

9 minutes 52 seconds

Heather Cooper

7 minutes 21 seconds

Heather Heroldt

7 minutes

Jan Clothier

9 minutes 58 seconds - 2 seconds to spare!

Jane Knudsen

5 minutes 32 seconds

Joanne James

9 minutes 47 seconds

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#329 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 can play along with us until Wednesday September 11, 11.59pm Pacific Time.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners for Challenge #330 - Antique Beauty

For some of us, creating layers and layers, adding lots of embellishments, distressing and sponging edges, adding ribbon, ink splatters and stamped script is food for the soul. For those who love a clean and simple look, it seems like total overkill! But to each their own and it's nice to provide opportunities for the shabby chic lovers to sponge to their hearts content once in awhile! Thanks to all who entered, whatever style you may prefer!

Here are the winners of Challenge #330:

Our Top Pick is: Sandra Strobel

This vintage style  card is an absolute delight! The rich reds and browns served to highlight the wonderful softly sponged fern and those good-enough-to-eat mushroons.  The dark sponging at the edges turned it into a perfect nature vignette. Whoever is lucky enough to receive this couldn't help but be delighted. Congratulations, Sandra, on being our Top Pick this week. 

Our Featured Artist is:  Sandra Strobel

This card was an absolute masterclass in vintage/shabby chic style! The warm tones of brown and gold worked well with the richness of the blues. The softly distressed sheet music provided a charming base for the luscious layers of blue and gold foliage.The wash of blue was a restful spot to highlight the glorious pumpkins. All in all, a vintage delight. I don't know if it's happened before but huge congratulations on being both our Top Pick AND Featured Artist this week!

                                           

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

4. Christy at Snapdragon Stamps

8. DJ at Sendable Sentiments

11. Johanna at Lavender House Creations

13. Suzy at Stamp n' Sip

 

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Speed Stamping 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 #330 - Antique Beauty

You still have a few hours left to play our Theme Challenge #330 - Vintage Beauty, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Aug. 28th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.              

You Still Have Time To Play Challenge #330 - Antique Beauty

You still have time to play our Theme Challenge #330 - Vintage Beauty, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Aug. 28th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.             

Challenge #330 - Antique Beauty

Thanks to our creative team member, Jan, we all have an opportunity to indulge our Victorian character with this challenge. Yes, it's a theme challenge and the theme is Vintage or Shabby Chic! Get out those sponges, those ribbons, those distressing tools, and go to town! I'm saying this gleefully, cause that's my jam, from way back when I started stamping! Just have some fun going a bit overboard. Here's the challenge banner:

 Let's see how the Design Team handled the Shabby Chic:

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Jane Knudsen

Joanne James

Away this week

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#330 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 #329 - Forest Bathing

Thanks to all the guest "chefs" who tried out our Recipe Challenge last week! The beautiful greens in your projects were almost as soothing as Forest Bathing! It's amazing how 5 different ingredients can be combined in so many different ways. Your cards gave us some beautiful designs! Here are the winners:

Our Top Pick is: Jolanda Johnstone

Jolanda used some beautiful patterned paper in shades of green to satisfy that ingredient in our recipe, then stepped it up by embossing that paper with leaves. She added a vertical column and used a different embossing folder for that. The focal point is a medallion of white with lovely tree shapes stamped on in different shades of green and a birthday sentiment, satisfying each element of the recipe when you include the baker's twine around the vertical layer. With the contrast between the green rays and the white medallion, Jolanda has given us a striking composition worthy of Top Pick! 

And our Featured Artist this week:

Our Featured Artist is: Teresa S.

Teresa, our Featured Artist this week and winner, used the elements of the recipe in very creative ways! The Design Team loved her sparkly green palm trees and the embossing she used on the trunks! The many and varied places the shades of green showed up, including the palm fronds and the hammock, as well as the background paper, were interesting and eye-catching.  And look at the clever way Teresa incorporated the twine in her project, as the ties for her green hammock! Wow! Well earned Featured Artist award!  Congratulations, Teresa!

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

    2. Johanna @LHC

    3. Erin T.

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.