Challenge #352 - The Shape of Things to Come

Do you have a favourite shape that you use on your cards? What if there was an alien invasion and they only allowed you to take along 1 shape of die on the spaceship when they abducted you? Which one would you choose? Which shape could you not craft without? Our creative team member, Joanne, needs to know!

With a Fill In the Blank Challenge, you answer those questions, fill in the blank, then make a card with the answer in mind! How much fun is that? 

 Let's see what shapes our Design Team can't live without:

Deborah Wheeler

Deborah's favourite shape is a square.

Heather Cooper

Heather really couldn't do without the boring old rectangle!

Heather Heroldt

Heather can't go with using circles on her cards.

Jan Clothier

Jan has captured the market on swoopy circles!

Joanne James

Joanne cornered her share of the market in swoopy circles, but specialized in red!

LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne is going for circles as her favourite shape here although one could make a case for hearts!

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 #342 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 #351 - Tropical Florals

We're excited to announce the winners of Challenge #351 because the Featured Artist will be our Guest Designer for the next Recipe Challenge in two weeks! Those Tropical Floral colours were so bold to play with! Your entries were unique  and very hard to choose winners from!

Here are the winners for this challenge:

Our Top Pick is: Sandra Strobel

Sandra created a beautifully detailed floral card using the challenge colours! The Design Team loved the different values of the challenge hues used on the flowers, while the background has pure white die cuts. The choice of the peach background sheet with the small polka dots, gives a fragile look to the card, reinforced by the twine bow and the clear embellishments. Congratulations on Top Pick, Sandra!

Our Featured Artist is: Jenny Engelke

As Featured Artist this week, Jenny Engelke will also be invited to be our next Guest Designer! Jenny's delicate yet elegant card uses a beautifully stamped and expertly water-coloured floral focal image in foreground.  She enhances that with lots of textures, gold embossing, ink blending and a beautiful gold edged ribbon in a bow!  Congratulations,Jenny, you will be our next Guest Designer for our Recipe Challenge in 2 weeks time. We will be in touch!

                                                      

You might want to visit our Honorable Mentions on their web sites:

    6. Angel Shaver 

  11. Kim Findlater

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 #351 - Tropical Florals

You still have a few hours left to play our Colour Challenge #351 - Tropical Florals at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, July 9th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #351 - Tropical Florals

You still have time left to play our Colour Challenge #351 - Tropical Florals at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, July 9th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

Challenge #351 - Tropical Florals

These hot colours and rich green just scream tropical florals and vegetation to me, how about you? I don't use Melon Mambo often, so this gives me a chance to bring it out again, and Garden Green often only sees a lot of action at Christmas, so a new opportunity for it. But some may see something entirely different, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you see in these colours. And don't forget, by entering, there is a chance you might win the opportunity to be a guest designer for a week with us!

Let's find out what was on the Design Team's minds when they used these colours:

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 #342 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 #350 - Triptych

We loved the variety of thought and design our sketch brought to the entries for our Triptych challenge! It brought about our biweekly Conundrum session: "However are we going to pick winners from all these beauties!" But somehow we managed to swing it once again!

Therefore, let me introduce you to our winners! Here they are:

Our Top Pick is:  Christy Stanford

Christy's design made good use of the sketch to create a habitat for the little crab. The Design Team loved the bubbles and the colours in the triptych that represented the ocean. The orientation of the sketch was perfect for the crab, and Christy picked the perfect colour for him, echoed by the twine she used.  Great fun sentiment and everything adds up to a worthy Top Pick! Congrats, Christy !

Our Featured Artist is: Julia Sager

Our winning entry, Julia Sager, the Featured Artist, has created a card that flips the sketch on it's side and uses some interesting DSP that reminds me of water colour swatches in summer colours. The yellows, blues and greens looks like they could have been mixes of 3 primary colours in differing amounts. The bee and sun images reinforces the summer theme in such a cute way! Congratulations on being our Featured Artist, Julie!

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

  5.  Deb Horst

 

  8.  Jennie Maier

 10. Amanda Mertz

Join us tomorrow for our next challenge, a Colour Challenge with a chance for the winner to be a guest designer for a 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 Hours Left to Play Challenge #350 - Triptych

You still have a few hours left to play our Sketch Challenge #350 - Triptych at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, June 25th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.