As You See It Challenge

Friday, May 15, 2026

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #372 - Beach Combing

You still have time to play our Theme Challenge - Beach Combing at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here!

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, May 20th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.

Friday, May 8, 2026

Challenge #372 - Beach Combing

One of my favourite activities is to go for a walk on a beach by the ocean and look for treasures. Where I live, in British Columbia, Canada, it's not that far to get to the Pacific Ocean and there are some spectacular beaches to walk along. Besides the expected sea shells and seaweed, you can find unusual things like driftwood, buoys, sea glass, and even the odd jellyfish (don't pick that up!)

Years ago, there was a television program called the Beachcombers that highlighted folks that lived on the coast of BC. Molly had a cafe called Molly's Reach; Nick had a boat called the Persephone, that he used to do some heavy duty beachcombing with; Relic was his sometimes sidekick, sometimes nemesis! It was quirky, as only Canadian broadcasting can be, but it ended up being syndicated and broadcast around the world. Let me know if you've ever seen it! Meanwhile, have fun with my Beachcombing theme!

Let's see what our Design Team thinks of when they get the theme of Beach Combing:

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 #371 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, May 7, 2026

Winners for Challenge #371 - Recipe for Framed Floral Success

The Design Team were overcome with the beauty of the designs of the entries in our Recipe for Framed Floral Success Challenge! It always amazes me how the same 5 elements can result in such a variety of entries, all of them uniquely beautiful. And that makes being the ones who have to pick the winners a very tough job! Nonetheless...

Here are the winners of Challenge #371!

Our Top Pick is: Loopyloo

What an elegant design we were treated to with the card Loopyloo entered in this recipe challenge! To start with, just look at the frame! It looks like something from Top Edwardian Designed Frames! The die cut florals are beautiful shades of pink with some foliage for contrast and the layers create incredible depth! Finally, that lovely understated sentiment banner adds the one word finish! Top Pick material! Congratulations, Loopyloo!!

Our Featured Artist is: Vicki Burdick

Vicki has made a card that also uses techniques to create a lot of depth in her design. She has the tulips growing up and out of the frame, which is a great way of indicating height, as well as being able to spot the background papers through the foreground! The Design Team loved the choice of striped DSP in pastels and the skillful colouring of the tulips. Congratulations, Vicki, on being this week's Featured Artist!

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

#10. Chisty Stanford

# 9. Nora

# 4. Erin T.

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Theme 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.

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

You still have a few hours left to play our Recipe Challenge - Recipe for Framed Floral Success at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here!

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, May 6, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.

Monday, May 4, 2026

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #371 - Recipe for Framed Floral Success!

You still have time left to play our Recipe Challenge - Recipe for Framed Floral Success at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here!

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, May 6, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.

Friday, April 24, 2026

Challenge #371 - Recipe for Framed Floral Success

In my little corner of the globe, spring has come with a vengeance! Or maybe that's the wrong way to put it, because the weather is so beautiful - like summer, really! In fact, we've been camping this week! And all the beautiful spring blossoms are showing their best faces right now! Our Team Mate, Deborah, couldn't have timed the elements of our Recipe Challenge any better if she had tried, with the framed florals in pink!

For a Recipe Challenge, you can design it any way you like, as long as you've included the 5 elements you see on the Challenge banner! How you do that is up to you.

If you can think back to our last colour challenge, we said that the winner of that challenge, the Featured Artist, would be the Guest Designer for this challenge. And the winner was Sonja :

And here's her beautiful card for this Recipe for Framed Floral Success challenge:

Sonja Zierer

Now, let's check in with the Design Team and see how they've interpreted the Recipe:

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 #371 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, April 23, 2026

Winners for Challenge #370 - Popular Cardable Occasions

It was exciting to find out what kind of cards everyone sends the most of around the world! Birthdays are very popular, but Thank Yous and Hellos, as well as Encouragement are frequently sent as well! I think we can say that the art of sending greeting cards is still alive and well!

And now... to our winners:

Our Top Pick is: Janet Katz

Look at that well-defined 3D embossing that Janet added to her beautiful lavender card front! Isn't that delicious? The team also loved the elegant sentiment tag Janet created for the design and the beautiful, pale violet flower that adorns it! With the large sequins adding a little bling, and the gold tones in the sentiment, Janet has created a true Top Pick design! Congratulations!

Our Featured Artist is: Carol McFarland

It's fair to say that most of the Design Team was completely charmed by Carol's boutique hotels by the sea Encouragement card! With the cobbled street, white picket fence and black & white striped awnings adorning the pink adobe brick buildings,the Team was blown away by her artistry! Most of us want to CASE this one! Congratulations on being the Featured Artist, Carol!

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

  3. Cat Craig

5. Karen Walker

11. Christy Stanford

17. Sandra Strobel

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.