Challenge #362 - Bits and Pieces

Of all of the types of challenges we offer, sketch challenges give you the best basis for constructing your card. You provide the colours and images, but the basic layout is done for you. It might be the most helpful of all our challenges. This week, our team mate, Jan C., has given us a more intricate design for our sketch, but I'm really excited to see the beautiful card designs that will arise from it! Here's the sketch:

Remember, you can turn the sketch on it's side, invert it, or change the shape of the focus shape in the middle, but please keep the integrity of the sketch, so it's recognizable.

Check out the work of our Design Team, using this sketch: 

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 #357 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 #361 - An Accelerated Apple a Day

Apples are a quick and easy snack! Maybe that's why they make a great theme for a quick and easy card! Anyway, some of you had a lot of fun with our apple theme for our Speed Stamping challenge over the past two weeks! You came up with some awesome designs! Once again you made the Design Team's job hard! But here are the results:

Our Top Pick is: Jolanda Johnstone

Wow! Jolanda has reached a new milestone in her speed stamping career. This sweet CAS apple card was completed in 4 minutes and 8 seconds! The mini apples are well coloured, the sentiment is tiny, but touching and the green gingham background makes the perfect backdrop. The Design Team, as always, loves Jolanda's comments in her blog as she describes the great techniques she uses to facilitate her speed stamping! Congratulations on Top Pick, Jolanda!

Our Featured Artist is: Christy Stanford

Christy, our winner, and Featured Artist, made her beautiful card in 8 min. 14 sec.! Her design is not complicated, but the combination of shapes, colours and finishing details really set it apart! Everything is coordinated, down to the embellishments and the sentiment! I love how the focal image panel has the stitched corners rounded and that Christy took the time to do a wonderful colouring job on the pie. Congratulations on the Featured Artist Award, Christy!

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

1. Johanna @ Lavender House Creations

4.  Birgit

5.  Loopyloo

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!     

You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #361 - An Accelerated Apple a Day

You still have a few hours left to play our Speed Stamping Challenge - An Accelerated Apple a Day at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 26th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

Challenge #361 - An Accelerated Apple a Day

 The next speed stamping challenge is upon us and the theme for this one, thanks to our team mate, Heather Heroldt, is "Apples"! So you are tasked with making a card with the theme of apples in 10 minutes or less!! Can you do it? Here's our Challenge Banner:

For all our Speed Stamping Challenges, you are allowed to plan your card in advance, and get out your tools and materials before hand. But once you add ink to stamp or cut a piece of paper, or die cut or emboss, you must start the timer!

Let's see what you can make in 10 minutes! You might surprise yourself!

Now, let's take a peek at what our Design Team threw together in the allotted time:

Deborah Wheeler

7m 27s

Heather Cooper

9m 24s

Heather Heroldt

9m 02s

Jan Clothier

7m 45s

Joanne James

10m 00s

LeAnne Pugliese

6m 32s

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 #357 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 #360 - Happy Harvest

We just loved all the entries that came with the Harvest Theme! They were all so beautiful! It was incredibly hard to choose winners!  All the produce looked amazing! Wouldn't you be proud if you'd raised those?

Here are the winners of Challenge #360!

Our Top Pick is: Christy Stanford

From the rich diagonal plaid background to the water-colour effect image, Christy's card really was a harvest of blessings! The colouring was skillful, the colour choices were inspired and there was some yummy texture behind the main image too! Congratulations on being awarded Top pick this week, Christy!

Our Featured Artist is: Karen Walker

The Design Team was unanimous in their admiration for Karen's workmanship and creativity. You can see the careful work and the beautiful colour choices, not to mention the beautiful texture represented on Karen's card. Add on the subtlety of shading which really enhanced the reality of the look! Congratulations, Karen, on being this week's Featured Artist!

                     

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

5. Jennie Maier

8. Julia Sager  

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 #360 - Happy Harvest

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

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 12th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #360 - Happy Harvest

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

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 12th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.