Winners of Challenge #344 - Stacked Shapes

What a lovely group of creations our Stacked Shapes sketch inspired! It was almost impossible to choose winners! But as your Design Team, we are trained to accomplish the impossible!

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

Our Top Pick is: Amy Koenders

Amy used 3 cocktail glasses in watercolour style for the stacked shapes in the sketch, to top effect. The citrus-coloured cocktails with their garnishes create such a cheery note against the tropical-feeling DSP and the embossed sentiment really packs a punch on the darker cardstock.  This whole card feels like a holiday and really adds up to a worthy Top Pick! Congrats, Amy!

Our Featured Artist is: Sandra Strobel

Our winning entry, Sandra Strobel, the Featured Artist, has created a card both serene and elegant! The Design Team loved the neutral colour palette, the embossed lower panel, and the sketch flipped on its side with the 3 shapes turned into peekaboo holes. The scalloped lace and floral die cuts, along with the ornate cross, turn this into a beautiful Easter or sympathy card. Congratulations on being our Featured Artist, Sandra!

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

  1. Erin T.

  4. Amy Tsuruta

 10. Birgit

 13. Jennie Maier

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 #344 - Stacked Shapes

You still have a few hours left to play our Sketch Challenge #344 - Stacked Shapes at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Apr. 2nd, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.    

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #344 - Stacked Shapes

You still have time left to play our Sketch Challenge #344 - Stacked Shapes at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Apr. 2nd, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

Challenge #344 - Stacked Shapes

 Our Team Mate, Deborah Wheeler, has come up with a sketch challenge we're going to call Stacked Shapes. Now the shape she chose was a circle, but, according to our rules, you can replace the circle with the shape of your choice, hence the title! Take a look at the sketch in our Challenge Banner:

This is a simple sketch that leaves you all sorts of room for creativity! I can hardly wait to see what you will do with it!

Before I show you what our Design Team has done, we have a sad good-bye to acknowledge. Our long time friend and teammate, Jane Knudsen, has decided she is no longer able to remain on our Design Team, due to a variety of personal factors. We wish her well, and will definitely miss her as a friend and as an amazing contributor to As You See It Challenges!

Now let's see how the team interpreted the sketch:

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Joanne James

Deborah Wheeler

 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 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.*

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Winners for Challenge #343 - Peppy Punches

Some of you are literally amazing at doing speed challenges! You are learning all the hacks and shortcuts and using your strengths to come up with designs that do not look at all like you only took 10 minutes or less to make! Is it still fun to do these challenges? 

Here are the lovely winners this time, chosen by the Design Team:

Our Top Pick is: LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne's unique card, which only took her 4 minutes and 16 seconds, has a great display of different blue plaids punched with one of the Pick a Punch set! But what the Design Team had their collective eye on, was the sweet sentiment, stamped in Lost Lagoon in around the top right corner of the card! It's so effective! The little star, again made using two coordinating star punches really packed a - you guessed it - PUNCH!   Congratulation, LeAnne , on being our Top Pick this week!

Our Featured Artist is: Jolanda Johnstone

Jolanda, our winner, and Featured Artist, made her bold and beautiful speed stamping creation in an incredible 2 minutes and 8 seconds!! If that is hard to believe, then you must go to her blog and read how she tackles a speed stamping challenge! She is the ultimate authority on it! Take lessons, if you want to get faster! I know I could learn a lot from her! The Design Team loved how she based her design colours on the piece of DSP she used for her background! They looked even more fabulous in jumbo size! Congratulations on being our Featured Artist this week, Jolanda!

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

4. Suzy Hinton

9. Deb Horst 

14. Erin T. 

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 #343 - Peppy Punches

You still have a few hours left to play our Speed Challenge #343 - Peppy Punches at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Mar. 19th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #343 - Peppy Punches

You still have time left to play our Speed Challenge #343 - Peppy Punches at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Mar. 19th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.