Challenge #368 - Floral Sketch Design

We begin our new round of Challenges with a Sketch Challenge, AYSI #369, Floral Sketch Design! It's a fun, springy design created by Team Member, Joanne! To play along, just make your project using our sketch as a guide! Feel free to change the shapes you see in the sketch as long as we can tell it's our sketch that you used! Likewise, you can flip or rotate the sketch, but keep the integrity of the sketch! Have fun with this one!

 Let's do the big reveal of our Design Team's Artistry:

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 #368 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 of Challenge #367 - Lickety Split Lavender

"Lickety split" as an expression first appeared in the 1800s, mimicking the sound of a railroad car going over the tracks quickly, and so came to mean rapid movement. And, of course, lavender is a light shade of purple.  So lickety split lavender means speedy purple, just what we needed for our speed challenge with a purple theme! And I think you all had fun with it, at least that's how your blogs made it sound! Your cards were so lovely! We had a heck of a time picking winners! But here they are:

Our Top Pick is: SmilynStef

The Design Team loved that April-like floral paper Stef used for the card base – what a lovely spring feeling she started with! Then she added the purple strips and those gorgeous butterfly stickers to grab our attention and topped it off with that snappy sentiment and embellishments! Congratulations on Top Pick,Stef!

Our Featured Artist is: Jenny Martin

Jenny Martin, our winner, and Featured Artist, chose an orchid as her purple flower for the speed challenge, and what a great choice it turned out to be!  She stamped the bold outlines then added a small amount of purple in the middle and leaves, buds and centers in green. She managed this, plus bold sentiment and die-cutting an elegant frame in the challenge deadline of 10 minutes! Congratulations on earning Featured Artist, Jenny!

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

1.   Johanna of Lavender House Creations

10.  Christy Stanford

11.  Jolanda Johnstone

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 #367 - Lickety Split Lavender

You still have a few hours left to play our Speed Challenge #367 - Lickedty Split Lavender at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

You Still Have Time To Play Challenge #367 - Lickety Split Lavender

You still have time left to play our Speed Challenge #367 - Lickety Split Lavender at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

Challenge #367 - Lickety Split Lavender

Are you prepared for our next challenge, because it's a Speed Challenge - one of our most exciting challenges! It's one that will get your adrenaline pumping and test your dexterity and have you experiencing all the feels in a very short time period! Here's our Challenge Banner:

So the Theme for this Speed Stamping Challenge is Purple! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a project, using the colour purple, in under 10 minutes!  You may plan your project ahead of time, gather your equipment, mount your stamps, etc., but the moment you ink up a stamp, or cut a piece of paper or cardstock, you must start the timer!  Good luck and have fun!

How fast can our Design Team put a purple card together? Let's see:

Deborah Wheeler

9 min 31 sec

Heather Cooper

5 min 42 sec

Heather Heroldt

5 m 55 s

Jan Clothier

8 min 14 sec

Joanne James

5 min 31 sec

LeAnne Pugliese

9 min 30 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 #367 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 #366 - Candy is Dandy

The Design Team  had so much fun looking at all the entries that came with the Candy Theme! They were all so delicious! It was incredibly hard to choose winners!  And it activated our collective Sweet Tooth!

Here are the winners of Challenge #366!

Our Top Pick is: Deb Horst

Deb's whimsical creation was such a fun depiction of our theme! The twin lollipops with the polka dot designs echoed the delightful background paper and that punny sentiment really tied everything up with a bow! No, wait.....that was the red and white Baker's Twine around the lollipop sticks! You did such a good job with this challenge, Deb, and your project is definitely Top Pick material! Congratulations!!

Our Featured Artist is: Johanna from Lavender House Creation

Johanna created a card that looks just like a beautiful box of top of the line chocolates, from the delicious looking confections themselves, to the luxury look of the "box" they come in, using gold and copper foil! The chocolates even come with sprinkles on them!! More than one of the Design Team had to go on a chocolate hunt after reading about your card!  And how appropriate that it's for a Thank You card for a friend. Congratulations, Johanna, on being this week's Featured Artist!

                     

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

11. Erin T.  

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 #366 - Candy is Dandy

You still have a few hours left to play our Theme Challenge #366 - Candy is Dandy at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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