Challenge #383 - Recipe for Fall Ambience

Need a good recipe? I've got one for you today. It's a Recipe for Fall Ambience! Concocted by our Team mate, LeAnne, it's a great way to celebrated the fall and Thanksgiving, which in Canada, where I live, is this weekend! When you do a recipe challenge, you are given 5 elements to include in your design. They must ALL be included in some way in your project, but how you do it is up to you.

Remember our Colour Challenge a couple of weeks ago? Well our Featured Artist from that challenge was given the opportunity to be a guest designer for this challenge. I'd like you to meet Kim:

And here is the beautiful card she designed for this challenge! Enjoy!:

Kim

Let's see how the Design Team put those 5 elements to work!

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 #382 - Christmas is A-Comin'

It seems that we are all in different stages of our Christmas Card making! Some of us are very well prepared, having been making Christmas cards all year long, now having so many of them in our stashes that we've lost count. Others of us, who enjoy the adrenaline rush of last minute panic are on our first few Christmas cards, and may be pulling a few all-nighters before the season is done! (I know the feeling well! Thank goodness for Hallmark movies!) But no matter how you like doing things, you all like making quality Christmas cards, well worth noting at As You See It!

And now... to our winners:

Our Top Pick is: Melanie H.

This sweet Christmas card has a little of everything! Check out Melanie's embossed background, the arched frame, topped with an elegant pink bow! Then there is that Christmas tree!! That really makes an impressive statement! How many shades of green are represented there? Yet they all blend so nicely, especially with that white with green tinged glimmer paper! Congratulations on Top Pick, Melanie!

 

Our Featured Artist is: Tracy

Take a really good look at the beautiful entry by our Featured Artist this week, Tracy! This gorgeous, pastel embossed Christmas creation was unanimously loved by the Design Team, and can you blame them? Those soft, festive colours in pastel format, the rounded edges of the embossed shapes, and the pops of red and gold, really make this card a feast for the eyes! Congratulations on being the Featured Artist, Tracy!

                                                      

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

10. Julia Sager

13. Jennie Maier

 

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Recipe Challenge and Guest Designer 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 #382 - Christmas is A-Comin'

You still have a few hours left to play our Fill in the Blank Challenge - Christmas is a-Comin' at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here:

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.     

 

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #382 - Christmas is -Comin'

You still have time to play our Fill in the Blank Challenge - Christmas is a-Comin' at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here:

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.     

Challenge #382 - Christmas is A-Comin'

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Christmas is a-comin'! Sooner than we think. In fact, there are only 3 months left. For those who like to send out homemade Christmas cards, that means we only have a couple of months left to get them constructed. How's your list coming along? This is the our Fill In The Blank Challenge this week and Teammate Joanne is asking you: "It's 3 months before Christmas and this will be the _____________ Christmas Card I've made. I don't know what your answer will be, but it can't be any worse than mine. My card will be the first Christmas card I've made this year, so I'd better get a move on if I want to have enough for our friends and family.

Here is the Challenge Banner:

I wonder how the Design Team will fill in the blank!

Deborah Wheeler

Deborah has lost count she has made so many of them!

Heather Cooper

This is Heather's first Christmas card! Ulp!

Heather Heroldt

This is around Heather's 80th Christmas Card made this year.

Jan Clothier

Jan has made 2 Christmas cards and this is the second one!

Joanne James

This is Joanne's 23rd Christmas card of the season!

LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne makes Christmas cards all year long so this is her umpteenth!

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 #381 - High Tech Handsomeness

We're excited to announce the winners of Challenge #381 because the Featured Artist will be our Guest Designer for the next Recipe Challenge on October 9th! Those industrial colours were great to work with and produced some intriguing final results! Check them out!

Here are the winners for this challenge:

Our Top Pick is: Suzy Hinton

Suzy has done a fabulous job with the challenge colours! That race car is perfect for the blues and grays, but the extras like the checkered flags, the tread marks and the spatters in the background really add another layer of excellence to it! Her choice of patterned paper for the background was brilliant, looking almost like tread marks, but drawing the eye to the focal point! What a great shape to use for the sentiment as well! Congratulations on Top Pick, Suzy!

Our Featured Artist is: Kim Findlater

As Featured Artist this week, Kim will also be invited to be our next Guest Designer! Kim's beautifully designed Snowflake scene using the challenge colours features great variety and dimension. The Design Team love the blended background and the beautiful Snowflake images in our challenge colours, stamped and die cut, singly and in a border. Congratulations, Kim, you will be our next Guest Designer for our Recipe Challenge in two weeks . We will be in touch!

                                                      

You might want to visit our Honorable Mentions on their websites:

 

   3. Gayle Chvrala

   4. Christy Stanford

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.     

You Still Have a Few More Hours to Play Challenge #381 - High Tech Handsomeness

You still have a few hours left to play our Colour Challenge - High Tech Handsomeness at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here:

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