Challenge #335 - Recipe for Thinking of You Warmly

I'm really excited about this Recipe Challenge because it has so many elements in it that I love to create with. That's probably because I created this challenge! But tags! Warm tones for October! Metallics! Embossed texture! It's all my favourites in one creation! I hope you love it too! 

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 fifteenth guest designer, Annette Elias, (who was our Featured Artist on Challenge #333 a couple of weeks back) for this challenge.

And here is the beautiful card she made for it:

I wonder if the other Design Team members loved this challenge? Let's see what they did with it?

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Jane Knudsen

Still on a break 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 #335 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 #334 - Using Spaghetti to Craft

Wow! We really learned a lot from your posts this week! Some of you had some unique faves that you love to craft with! And then some of you love the same things that many of us do, but you create beautiful techniques with them. I really loved this challenge, but I confess, I was hoping that someone would use spaghetti to craft!! However, we must carry on with our job and announce the winners of Challenge #334:

Our Top Pick is: Bronwyn Eastley

If you hadn't already guessed, Bronwyn's favourite thing to craft with is pretty paper, and has she ever used it to full capacity with this card, creating a beautiful vista from the farmhouse porch, over the fence and out to the pastures beyond, all created from beautiful 6" x 6" designer paper! Then she also fashioned the perfect white picket fence to frame it! With a birthday sentiment and great colour palette, this card is a real Top Pick!! Congratulations, Bronwyn !

 

Our Featured Artist is: Sandra Strobel

Our Featured Artist, Sandra Strobel, has created an autumn project rich in texture, composition, shading and detail! The Design Team were so thrilled with beautifully coloured and blended pumpkin, gourd and leaves, as well as the embossed background and shiny bow. And just look at the weathered fence with the edging behind it and the details down to the raindrops. Congratulations, Sandra, amazing work!

                                                      

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

 2. Teresa S.

 3. Jenny Engelke

 4. Suzy Hinton

 15. Annette Elias

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 #334 - Using Spaghetti to Craft

You still have a few hours left to play our Fill-In-The Blank Challenge #334 - Using Spaghetti to Craft, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Oct. 23rd, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.               

 

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #334 - Using Spaghetti to Craft

You still have time to play our Fill-In-The Blank Challenge #334 - Using Spaghetti to Craft, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Oct. 23rd, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.               

Challenge #334 - Using Spaghetti to Craft!

Welcome to our newest challenge, a fill in the blank challenge!  With a fill in the blank challenge, you finish the sentence in the challenge, then take the words you used to be the basis of the project you enter in it. Let's take a look at the Challenge Banner, for an example:

So, how would you fill in the blank in the above statement: My favourite item to craft with is:____________________________  

Let's say you filled in the blank with 'spaghetti'! Then you would make your project using spaghetti to craft with and enter it in the challenge. Don't forget to tell us, in your blog post, the words you used to fill in the blank! 

Got it? Good!

Let's see what favourites the Design Team have:

Heather Cooper

Heather loves to craft using embossing dies!

Heather Heroldt

Heather's favourite thing to craft with is the Blends Markers!

Jan Clothier

Jan loves to use embossing folders in her crafting!

Jane Knudsen

Jane is on a break this week!

Joanne James

Joanne loves her die cutting machine and designer series paper!

Deborah Wheeler

Deb's fave items are Clarity's embedders for embossing frames (and her Pergaliner pencils)!

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

Winners for Challenge #333 - Almost Analogous

We're excited to announce the winners of Challenge #333 because the Featured Artist will be our Guest Designer for the next Recipe Challenge in two weeks! We love to work with our winners! Those Almost Analogous colours were so much fun to play with! Your entries were unique and artistic and very hard to choose winners from!

Here are the winners for this challenge:

Our Top Pick is: Amanda Mertz

Amanda's entry was unique because she concentrated on the blue instead of the two greens in the trio of colours in the challenge. Her fluffy bear (in a neutral) was the focal point in a sea of white snow and blue sky with snowflakes falling! The little star, the greenery boughs and the beautiful blue ribbons were all highlights in our Top Pick entry! Congratulations, Amanda!

Our Featured Artist is: Annette Elias

As Featured Artist this week, Annette will also be invited to be our next Guest Designer! She has made the most creative watercolour complete with texture, then cut into strips and added to the card base! Then she stamped and coloured the focal point bottles with alcohol markers so realistically that you had to look twice to be sure they weren't real! Beautifully done! Congratulations, Annette, you will be our next Guest Designer for our Recipe Challenge in 2 weeks time. We will be in touch!

                                                      

You might want to visit our Honorable Mentions on their web sites:

    8. wildroseandpearl

    6. Jennie Maier

    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 #333 - Almost Analogous

You still have a few hours left 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.      

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.