You still have time to play with our Colour Challenge #291 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?
The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Feb. 8th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.
Friday, February 3, 2023
Friday, January 27, 2023
Challenge #291 - Paint Pour
January and February can be so blah in the Northern Hemisphere and really need an infusion of colour to add some life into the grey world. This colour challenge is a little pick-me-up designed to do just that! Imagine a paint pour featuring these colours, dark colours opening up to light, blues and pinks contrasting! Let's see how that stokes your imagination! (Note: You don't have to create a paint pour for this challenge!)
Each time we have a colour challenge, the Featured Artist will have a chance to become a Guest Designer for our next Recipe Challenge 4 weeks from now. So enter with that in mind! We're so excited to work with you for a challenge!!
Remember, if you don't have the Stampin' Up! colours, use the colours you have that are the closest. Your project should use all these colours only and 1 neutral. (Neutrals include black, white, vanilla or Crumb Cake.)
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 #AYSI291 when uploading to a public gallery.
- If you’re unsure about ‘the rules’, check the details under the Challenge Guidelines tab.
- 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!
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Winners for Challenge #290 - Border Beauty
Our sketch challenges aim to give you a framework to enhance your creativity! There was a lot you could do with our last sketch, from florals to Valentine designs! We enjoyed all the variety and imagination.
Let me introduce you to our winners! Here they are:
We have a tie for top pick!
Our first Top Pick is: Yvon from Blue Heart Stamping
Yvon created a beautiful collage design with gobs of texture and metallic accents! The Design Team loved her choice of paper for the borders and her composition within the sketch guidelines. This is a great example of creativity while maintaining the integrity of a sketch. Lovely, Yvon!
Our second Top Pick is: Stef Perry
Stef created an elegant card by flipping the sketch on its side. She took the embossed cardstock in the background and added some white ink to highlight the raised areas which really enhanced the technique! Her butterfly and sentiment really steal the show with the silver die cuts on the white matte. We loved her treatment of the borders as well.
Our Featured Artist is: Tenia Nelson
Tenia's whimsical design used a torn paper reveal for the border treatment and special details with sequins and staples to highlight it. Her hand painted cupcake definitely looks good enough to eat and she created a lot of vertical variety with her layers! What a great representation of the sketch! Congratulations, Tenia.
And we think you may want to check out the following Honorable Mentions on their site:
!3. Kris Kilkenny
Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Colour Challenge tomorrow morning here on our blog with a chance at winning the right to be our new Guest Designer for our Recipe Challenge in two weeks time! Our winners today can pick up their badges on this page and display them with pride on their blogs or sites.
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
You Still Have a Few More Hours to Play Challenge #290 - Border Beauty
You still have a few hours left to play with our Sketch Challenge #290 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?
The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Jan. 25th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.
Friday, January 20, 2023
You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #290 - Border Beauty
You still have time to play with our Sketch Challenge #290 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?
The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Jan. 25th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.
Friday, January 13, 2023
Challenge #290 - Border Beauty
Happy New Year, everyone, and welcome back to our regular rotation of challenges for 2023! We are really excited about the ideas we have for you this year, and we can hardly wait to see what you will do with them.
The lovely Jane gave us a sketch challenge this week with lots of white space in it so we can fill it (or not) with our creative notions!
Feel free to rotate or flip the sketch, just keep the integrity of it, so we can recognize it.
How did the Design Team handle those borders? Check out their projects:
Here are some guidelines for the challenge:
- Create any card, scrapbooking page, 3D project or packaging project that fits the challenge.
- Feel free to flip or rotate the sketch and to substitute one shape for another but we must still be able to see the sketch in your finished submission.
- 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 #AYSI290 when uploading to a public gallery.
- If you’re unsure about ‘the rules’, check the details under the Challenge Guidelines tab.
- 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, January 12, 2023
Thanks to the keeners who came out to play our Bonus Holiday Challenge #289b. You created some lovely cards for this project. Here are the winners
Our Top Pick is: Fiona Whitehead
Fiona's card definitely has a medieval vibe going here with her neutral tones and the antiquing that she has done. The music background picks up on the music theme from our inspiration photo and manages to look like a medieval music score as well. The main image of the vase with the flowers and the bird also picks up on a theme from the photo as well as colours in the photo, but keeping the colours muted adds to the overall antique look of the whole card. Just lovely!
Our Featured Artist is: Yvon from Blue Heart Stamping
There are so many amazing details in Yvon's card that make up a beautiful project worthy of Featured Artist. First, the strip of music score on the right to pick up on the music theme in the Inspiration Photo. Then the lovely stenciled and splattered polka-dotted background that makes the perfect background for the masterfully coloured roses and foliage, which boasts the colours of the photo. The design team also loved the gold twine arranged so that it curls just right through the images and exits with a flourish! Well done!
And we think you may want to check out the following Honorable Mention on their site:
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.
Tomorrow is our first regular challenge of 2023 and it's a sketch challenge! Be sure to join us and start the new year off As You See It!!
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