As You See It Challenge

Friday, September 4, 2026

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #380 - Quadrants

You still have time to play our Sketch Challenge - Quadrant at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here:

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

Friday, August 28, 2026

As You See It Challenge #380 - Quadrants

Our lovely and creative Team Mate Heather H. is up this week, and we are moving on now to a sketch challenge that I am calling Quadrants and you'll see why when you see this week's challenge banner:

When you enter our sketch challenges, feel free to change certain shapes, flip or turn the sketches, but please make sure you keep the integrity of the sketch so it can be recognized easily.

Let's see how our Design Team interpreted this sketch:

Deborah Wheeler

on holidays this week

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 #380 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.*

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Winners for Challenge #379 - Hastened Handicrafts

Hasten means Speeding up an event: Causing an action, process, or result to occur much earlier than it normally would.

And all of you hastened to make your speed challenge card with the craft theme, but it's hard to tell that it took you 10 minutes or less. All of your entries look very professional! Well done! Here are the winners of our challenge:

Our Top Pick is: Gayle Chrvala

Can you believe that this is Speed Stamping entry?? There's a lot of ink blending to do with those masks in order to make that beautiful quilt focal point! Not one's usual choice for a speed stamping challenge! Then the background makes a whole other texture and depth statement of note! And to tie it all together - a cute and catchy sentiment! All in 8 minutes and 45 seconds! What a more could you want?! Perfect for Top Pick! Congratulations, Gayle!

Our Featured Artist is: Christy Stanford

Christy, our winner, and Featured Artist, used a tried and true method of speed stamping, DSP! But she used it in such a powerful way that many of the Design Team were smitten with her card! Not only did she choose some stunning patterned paper (DSP) with sewing as her craft, she displayed it in an eye-catching way, with well-chosen colours matting the layers of DSP. She made use of dies to create shapes around the edges of the shapes and the sentiment tag! Congratulations on earning Featured Artist, Christy!

And we think you may want to check out the following Honorable Mention on her site:

8. Lilly B.

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!

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #379 - Hastened Handicrafts

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

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

Friday, August 21, 2026

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #379 - Hastened Handicrafts

You still have time to play our Speed Challenge - Hastened Handicrafts at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here:

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

Friday, August 14, 2026

Challenge #379 - Hastened Handicrafts

Attention, all you speed demons! It's another challenging, but rewarding Speed Challenge this time around, brought to you by yours truly! I'm sure you're going to love it, because the theme is Crafting, and what do we know more about??

So all you really need to know about this challenge is: it has to be about crafting and you have to make it in 10 minutes or less!! You're allowed to plan your card, get out all your tools and materials, mount your stamps, open your ink pads, but the moment you cut cardstock, ink up a stamp, or die cut, or fussy cut something, you must start your timer. Enjoy!!

Let's see how long it took the Design Team to make their projects:

7 min. 38 sec.

7 min. 13 sec.

4 min. 29 sec

7 min. 28 sec.

4 min. 29 sec.

3 min. 29 sec.

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 #379 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.*

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Winners for Challenge #378 - Summer Days

Everyone loves those lazy Summer Days, the theme for our latest Theme Challenge! The Design Team loved the heightened feeling of nostalgia they got looking at all the beachy theme designs! Apparently, lots of people love the beach!

Here are the winners of Challenge #378!

Our Top Pick is: Christy Stanford

Simple, but artistic, Christy's creation is a summer feast for the eyes, with a great use of contrast and design! The yellow abstract sun stamp in the background contrasts with the blue and white patterned paper, and blue and white sentiment and shadow that reminds one of an ocean wave! Then those adorable little flip flops really become the focal point and an iconic summer symbol! What a great classic for Top Pick this week!

Our Featured Artist is: Cindy Major

Cindy's wonderful lemonade card is full of wonderful texture and contrasts everywhere you look! The Design Team was delighted with the colours, shaker lemonade pitcher, texturized lemon rind areas, specialty items, and so many things that make this card a stand out! Congratulations on being our Featured Artist, Cindy Major!

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

10. Jolanda Johnston

12. Jennie Maier

15. Jenny Engelke

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.