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:

Deborah Wheeler

9m 33s

Heather Cooper

9m 51s

Heather Heroldt

6m45s

Jan Clothier

5m17s

Joanne James

9m 36s

LeAnne Pugliese

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.*

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Winners for Challenge #348 - Spots or Stripes

We just loved all the entries that came with the Spots or Stripes Theme Challenge! They were all amazing! It was SOO hard to choose winners! To generalize, the spotty ones seemed to be playful and whimsical, while the striped ones tended to be more stately and sophisticated, but there were a few designs that blew that theory completely out of the water! However you slice it though, they were all beautiful!

Here are the winners of Challenge #336! We have two Top Picks:

Our first Top Pick is: Johanna from LHC

The Design Team loved the variety of stripes used on this lovely design of Johanna's this week. There were horizontal, vertical, diagonal, shiny, glittery and solid; this arrangement of stripes created a very sophisticated pattern for a masculine card or any card for that matter! The darker tones used just accentuated the designs. Congratulations,Johanna, on being one of our Top Picks this week. 

Our second Top Pick is: Erin T.

What's interesting about Erin's design is that even though dots usually give off a playful or whimsical vibe, Erin has managed to use them in a way that is decidedly sophisticated. With the black background and yellow dots, that background makes the focal point more on the formal side. We loved that Erin used a vellum circle to create that focal point as well, and along with her colour choices, everything worked together to make a very lovely Top Pick! Congratulations, Erin!

Our Featured Artist is: Milla

Milla didn't just use stripes in her creation today, she made the stripes work to enhance her whole design! The clean, straight lines of the stripes emphasized the clean lines of her florals and the preciseness of her copic colouring skills! The colour matching with the foliage and the stripes enhances the design as well! The stripes are perfectly juxtaposed with the arch of the main panel. Congratulations, Milla, on being Featured Artist  and winner this week!

                     

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

10.  Roseanne Mulhern

15.  Bobby

16.  Lisa Elton

18.  Christy Stanford

19.  Sandra Strobel

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 #348 - Spots or Stripes

You still have a few hours left to play our Theme Challenge #348 - Spots or Stipes at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

You Still Have Time To Play Challenge #348 - Spots or Stripes

You still have time left to play our Theme Challenge #348 - Spots or Stipes at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

Challenge #348 - Spots or Stripes

Spots or Stripes! Leopards or Tigers! Clowns or Convicts! Playful or conservative? Which do you prefer? It's Theme Week, and thanks to Jan C., we're making you choose this week!  Make a card with either spots or stripes and see how fortune favours you, but have a lot of fun doing it!

What do you think our Team Members did with this theme? Do you think they chose spots or stripes? Let's find out:

Deborah Wheeler

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Joanne James

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 #348 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 #347 - Recipe for a Colourful Zoo Crew

Well, we apologize profusely about our technical woes last week!! None of us are particularly technically gifted, and it was a real struggle to get our website back from our domain provider, who didn't really bend over backwards to help us, by the way, either! I'm sure it left many of you wondering if we had disappeared entirely and for good!

But, fear not! We are back and we intend to stay, so spread the word! Our entries were few, due to the problems, so we just have a Featured Artist and Top Pick this week! Hopefully, there'll be more next challenge!  Here are the winners of Challenge #347:

Our Top Pick is: Suzy Hinton

Suzy chose a really cute way to incorporate all the Challenge elements in her card!  The Design Team absolutely loved the pink piggy so full of character! The way his head is mounted separately makes him look like a bobble head, which would be really cute. The choice of paper and texture along with the cute and so appropriate sentiment and bow add so many awesome details! This card is so skillfully done, it really deserves the Top Pick! Congratulations, Suzy.

And our Featured Artist this week:

Our Featured Artist is: Johanna from LHC

Johanna, our Featured Artist this week and winner, used the elements of the recipe very cleanly! We loved her choice of embossing folder and the way she coloured the embossed paper with the pastel colours. The juggled bananas are displayed perfectly and that little monkey himself is so endearing! Well earned Featured Artist award!  Congratulations, Johanna!

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 #347 - Recipe for a Colourful Zoo Crew

You still have a few hours left left to play our Fill In The Blank Challenge #346 - A Blast From the Past at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, May 14th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.