You still have time left to play our Fill in the Blank Challenge Challenge #352 - The Shape of Things to Come at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.
The Challenge will close on Wednesday, July 23rd, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.
Friday, July 18, 2025
Friday, July 11, 2025
Challenge #352 - The Shape of Things to Come
Do you have a favourite shape that you use on your cards? What if there was an alien invasion and they only allowed you to take along 1 shape of die on the spaceship when they abducted you? Which one would you choose? Which shape could you not craft without? Our creative team member, Joanne, needs to know!
With a Fill In the Blank Challenge, you answer those questions, fill in the blank, then make a card with the answer in mind! How much fun is that?
Let's see what shapes our Design Team can't live without:
Deborah's favourite shape is a square.
.jpg "Heather Cooper")
Heather really couldn't do without the boring old rectangle!
Heather can't go with using circles on her cards.
Jan has captured the market on swoopy circles!
Joanne cornered her share of the market in swoopy circles, but specialized in red!
LeAnne is going for circles as her favourite shape here although one could make a case for hearts!
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 #342 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.*
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Winners for Challenge #351 - Tropical Florals
We're excited to announce the winners of Challenge #351 because the Featured Artist will be our Guest Designer for the next Recipe Challenge in two weeks! Those Tropical Floral colours were so bold to play with! Your entries were unique and very hard to choose winners from!
Here are the winners for this challenge:
Sandra created a beautifully detailed floral card using the challenge colours! The Design Team loved the different values of the challenge hues used on the flowers, while the background has pure white die cuts. The choice of the peach background sheet with the small polka dots, gives a fragile look to the card, reinforced by the twine bow and the clear embellishments. Congratulations on Top Pick, Sandra!
Our Featured Artist is: Jenny Engelke
As Featured Artist this week, Jenny Engelke will also be invited to be our next Guest Designer! Jenny's delicate yet elegant card uses a beautifully stamped and expertly water-coloured floral focal image in foreground. She enhances that with lots of textures, gold embossing, ink blending and a beautiful gold edged ribbon in a bow! Congratulations,Jenny, 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:
6. Angel Shaver
11. Kim Findlater
Join us tomorrow morning for our next challenge, a Fill In the Blank Challenge. Our winners today can pick up their badges on this page and display them with pride on their blogs or sites.
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
You Still Have a Few More Hours to Play Challenge #351 - Tropical Florals
You still have a few hours left to play our Colour Challenge #351 - Tropical Florals at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.
The Challenge will close on Wednesday, July 9th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.
Saturday, July 5, 2025
You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #351 - Tropical Florals
You still have time left to play our Colour Challenge #351 - Tropical Florals at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.
The Challenge will close on Wednesday, July 9th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.
Friday, June 27, 2025
Challenge #351 - Tropical Florals
These hot colours and rich green just scream tropical florals and vegetation to me, how about you? I don't use Melon Mambo often, so this gives me a chance to bring it out again, and Garden Green often only sees a lot of action at Christmas, so a new opportunity for it. But some may see something entirely different, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you see in these colours. And don't forget, by entering, there is a chance you might win the opportunity to be a guest designer for a week with us!
Let's find out what was on the Design Team's minds when they used these colours:
.jpg "Deborah Wheeler")
_inPixio.jpg "Heather Heroldt")
_inPixio.jpg "Jan Clothier")
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 #342 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.*
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Winners for Challenge #350 - Triptych
We loved the variety of thought and design our sketch brought to the entries for our Triptych challenge! It brought about our biweekly Conundrum session: "However are we going to pick winners from all these beauties!" But somehow we managed to swing it once again!
Therefore, let me introduce you to our winners! Here they are:
Our Top Pick is: Christy Stanford
Christy's design made good use of the sketch to create a habitat for the little crab. The Design Team loved the bubbles and the colours in the triptych that represented the ocean. The orientation of the sketch was perfect for the crab, and Christy picked the perfect colour for him, echoed by the twine she used. Great fun sentiment and everything adds up to a worthy Top Pick! Congrats, Christy !
Our Featured Artist is: Julia Sager
Our winning entry, Julia Sager, the Featured Artist, has created a card that flips the sketch on it's side and uses some interesting DSP that reminds me of water colour swatches in summer colours. The yellows, blues and greens looks like they could have been mixes of 3 primary colours in differing amounts. The bee and sun images reinforces the summer theme in such a cute way! Congratulations on being our Featured Artist, Julie!
And we think you may want to check out the following Honorable Mentions on their site:
5. Deb Horst
8. Jennie Maier
10. Amanda Mertz
Join us tomorrow for our next challenge, a Colour Challenge with a chance for the winner to be a guest designer for a challenge! Our winners today can pick up their badges on this page and display them with pride on their blogs or sites.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #350 - Triptych
You still have a few hours left to play our Sketch Challenge #350 - Triptych at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.
The Challenge will close on Wednesday, June 25th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.
Sunday, June 22, 2025
You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #350 - Triptych
You still have time left to play our Sketch Challenge #350 - Triptych at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.
The Challenge will close on Wednesday, June 25th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.
Friday, June 13, 2025
Challenge #350 - Triptych
Are you ready for another sketch challenge? We've got your layout, all you need to do is add paper, colour, stamps and designs! This one is called Triptych because it has 3 panels or cut outs on the top of the card front, like an old art installation in three parts or three panels, often hinged together. This sketch was designed by our clever Team Mate Joanne. You can keep the shapes as is, or change them, but keep the sketch recognizable. You can also change the orientation of the sketch. Let's see what you come up with!
And how did our Design Team use the sketch? Let's check in:
.jpg "Joanne James")
.jpg "LeAnne Pugliese")
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 #342 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.*
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Winners for Challenge #349 - Rapid Water
Some of you are literally amazing at doing speed challenges! You are learning all the hacks and shortcuts, coming up with designs that make it hard to believe you only took less than 10 minutes to make! And some of you are just experiencing this kind of challenge for the first time, putting your adrenaline on the line! Are we still having fun?
Here are the lovely winners this time, chosen by the Design Team:
Our Top Pick is: Jenny Engelke
Jenny's unique card, which only took her 9 minutes and 45 seconds, uses a fun fold, no less! A double Z fold! The paper used for the construction of the double z folds is very striking in colour and texture as is the die cut sail boat itself. This was an ambitious and exciting project for a speed challenge! Congratulation, Jenny, on being our Top Pick this week!
Our Featured Artist is: Johanna from LavenderHouseCreations
Johanna, our winner, and Featured Artist, made her comical, whimsical card in 9 min. 57 sec., through no fault of her own. It's the Speed Stamping Principle at work (the Murphy Principle for stampers taking part in a speed stamping challenge. I experience it frequently!) The Design Team just love the yoga-practising frog, (such great stretches and poses) as he bounces from puddle to puddle in the rain! Did you know he was the second prototype? You rock, Johanna, making two of them in the time limit! Congratulations, Johanna, on being our Featured Artist this week!
And we think you may want to check out the following Honorable Mentions on their sites:
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!
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #349 - Rapid Water
You still have time left to play our Speed Challenge #349 - Rapid Water at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.
The Challenge will close on Wednesday, June 11th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.
Friday, June 6, 2025
You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #349 - Rapid Water
You still have time left to play our Speed Challenge #349 - Rapid Water at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.
The Challenge will close on Wednesday, June 11th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.
Friday, May 30, 2025
Challenge #349 - Rapid Water
Time to get out your stopwatch again...it's a Speed Challenge, and this speed challenge has the theme of Water, thanks to former team member, Jane! What kind of water, you ask? Any kind you want! Be creative, but also, be quick! You want to create your card in 10 minutes or less from the time you start cutting or stamping. Feel free to gather all your materials, and plan your project ahead of time, but as soon as you cut or fold a piece of paper, or ink up a stamp, or emboss something you have to start the timer! Then it's full speed ahead!
It is possible to create some amazing projects in under 10 minutes. Just check out our previous Speed Challenges. Read how people managed it. Then give it a try. We think you'll be pleasantly surprised!
Let's see how quickly our Design Team were able to create a Water Themed card:
9m 33s
.jpg "Heather Cooper")
9m 51s
6m45s
5m17s
.jpg "Joanne James")
9m 36s
8m 30s
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 #342 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.*
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