Challenge #385 - Speedy Shades of Shamrock

 Are you ready to flex your speed stamping muscles again? Have we got a challenge for you! The Theme is Shades of Green and you have to make your card in 10 min or less!! You can use any shade of green and any neutral, but no other colours. This Speed Challenge was devised by our clever teamie, Deborah! Take a look at the Challenge Banner:

Think about what you're going to do. Plan what stamp sets and tools you will need and get them out. Mount your stamps, get out your inks and papers and embellishments, but as soon as you cut paper, or ink a stamp, or apply adhesive, you must start the timer! Have fun!  

Also, let us know in your blog post or where ever you post your photo, how long it took you to make your card!

This is becoming more and more of a problem. While we don't remove you from the gallery if you have entered 5 or more challenges with the card you entered in our challenge, we do not consider your card for any of the awards. We also may or may not comment on your card, depending when we realized it was entered in too many challenges. Please be aware of all the requirements before you enter. Your projects are too beautiful to leave out and it hurts our hearts to do so!

Let's see how our Design Team fared:

Deborah Wheeler

9 min. 18 sec.

Heather Cooper

9 min. 26 sec.

Heather Heroldt

8 min. 43 sec.

Jan Clothier

8 min. 21 sec.

Joanne James

9 min. 29 sec.

LeAnne Pugliese

2 min. 38 sec.

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 #382 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 #384 - A Feather in Your Cap

The Theme of Feathers presented a bit of a challenge for many it seems, but when you factor in birds, that gave everyone something to go with! And whether you used feathers on or off the bird, the images were spectacular! We are looking forward to sharing them with you today! So without further ado:

Here are the winners of Challenge #384 - A Feather in Your Cap!

Our Top Pick is: Jaydee

Jaydee took the theme seriously this week and created an amazing quill pen using stencilling, die cutting and painting skills! Isn't it an eye-catcher? Then she matched it up with a calligraphy-like sentiment with the nib of the pen finishing off a flourish of the sentiment! With a classic black and white antique background paper, what a great example for Top Pick this week! Congrats, Jaydee!

Our Featured Artist is: Erin T.

Erin managed to create a clean and simple look while still using a homemade paint chip background that really caught the attention of the Design Team. The feather is white, but with stitched details which carry over into the paint chips in the background and around the card edges. The inchies making the colour chips are cleanly presented and labelled so precisely that it looks professional. Congratulations on being our Featured Artist, Erin! 

                     

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

  6. Birgit 

11. Jolanda Johnstone

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 #384 - A Feather in Your Cap

You still have a few hours left to play our Theme Challenge #384 - A Feather in Your Cap at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here:

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 4th, 2026, at 11:55 pm Pacific time. 

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #384 - A Feather in Your Cap

You still have time to play our Theme Challenge #384 - A Feather in Your Cap at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here:

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 4th, 2026, at 11:55 pm Pacific time. 

Challenge #384 - A Feather in Your Cap

 Welcome to a new challenge, Papercrafters! This week, thanks to our very creative Team Mate, LeAnne, is a Theme Challenge, and the theme is Feathers! Have you all got feather stamp sets, or dies, or embossing folders with feathers? If not, how about real feathers! If you don't have those, how about birds? I'll bet everyone has a bird stamp set kicking around somewhere! Now, a peacock would be ideal, but even some chickens or quail would work well! If you're ready to start, I'm calling this one A Feather in Your Cap! because you figured out a way to do it! Way to be creative! Now have some fun with it!

Let's find out how the Design Team members managed this theme:

Deborah Wheeler

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Joanne James

LeAnne Pugliese

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 #382 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 #383 - Recipe for Fall Ambience

The Design Team were stoked with the designs of the entries in our Recipe for Fall Ambience 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 #383!

Our Top Pick is: Jennie Maier

Jennie's entry has that crisp, clean look of a well-designed card! She has chosen colours that really work well together and a ribbon that clearly enhances the design.

Jennie has included a variety of shapes and textures to provide interest but enough cohesiveness to create unity. And she didn't forget humour...check out her punny sentiment! Jennie, your card embodies Top Pick! Congrats!

Our Featured Artist is: Jaydee

The lack of pumpkin paraphernalia had our Featured Artist, Jaydee, getting really creative for this week's Recipe Challenge! She created the whole side of a house with a window with gingham curtains and put some small die cut pumpkins on the window sill. Her skills included stencilling the brick wall to locate the window in, ink blending to create depth on those tiny pumpkins, adding acetate on the windows for glass and heat embossing that sentiment. All these details contribute to the top award. Congratulations, Jaydee, on being this week's Featured Artist!

                     

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

  #4.  Amanda Mertz  

#10.  Margaret Wake  

#16.  Christy Stanford 

#18.  Suzy Hinton

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.        

You Still Have a Few More Hours to Play Challenge #383 - Recipe for Fall Ambience

You still have a few more hours to play our Recipe Challenge #383 - Recipe for Fall Ambience at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here:

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Oct 21st, 2026, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.