Friday, May 27, 2022

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #275 - Recipe for Subtle Beauty

You still have time to play with our Fill In the Blank Challenge #275 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?



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The Challenge will close on Wednesday, June 1st, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

Friday, May 20, 2022

Challenge #275 - Recipe for Subtle Beauty

Our Design Team member, Jan has come up with an interesting recipe for this challenge. I've titled it Recipe for Subtle Beauty. It must include subtle colours and something that starts with a B, along with the other elements in the recipe, seen in the challenge banner below. 

I want to clarify a few questions you might have. Your "B" item is not restricted to bears, boats and balloons. Anything that starts with B is okay (within propriety of course, ahem!) The subtle colours are based on the Stampin' Up! Subtles but any pastels are okay. 

You have to include all the elements in the recipe on your creation, but how you do that is up to you! Have fun and start your ovens, er...stamp sets!

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We are so pleased to welcome our sixth guest designer, Shirley Gentry, (who was our Featured Artist on Challenge #273) for this challenge.


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Let's see how the Design Team has subtly combined their elements:

heather cooper




heather heroldt
 



jan clothier




jane knudsen




Here are some guidelines for the challenge:

  • Create any card, scrapbooking page, 3D project or packaging project that fits the challenge.
  • Use every element in the recipe, but the possibilities within those parameters are endless.
  • 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#275 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!

Click here to enter

Thursday, May 19, 2022

Winners for Challenge #274 - The Meaning of Mama

Mothers have a special place in our hearts. It goes without saying, and it's nice to pay tribute to them at any time of year. Thanks to all who took part in our Fill in the Blank Challenge for their lovely  projects!

Without further ado, I want to introduce you to our winners! Here they are: 

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Our Top Pick is: Claire


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Claire did a fabulous job of colouring those luminous roses embossed in gold on her card! Don't they just light up the day? But what really made the Design Team take a second look was the faux frame she created by drawing a line around the flower area and pulling the grey colour into the center making the center look as though it is lower than the outside! Fabulous design! We also liked the way Claire filled in the blank for our challenge: The best thing about mothers  is inner strength!



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Our Featured Artist is: Stef Perry


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Stef's stunning card with it's eye-catching red rose is meant to honour what would have been her mother's 100th birthday. As her mom loved Mr. Lincoln roses, this beautiful image has been masterfully coloured in red with deep green leaves looking like you could almost smell their perfume! The Design Team loved the image as well as the subtly stenciled background and the bold gold 100th birthday numbers! This is a beautiful tribute to Stef's mom's unconditional love!

                                                      
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There were no Honorable Mentions this week due to too few entries.



Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Recipe 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.  

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #274 - The Meaning of Mama

You still have a few hours left to play with our Fill In the Blank Challenge #274 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?



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The Challenge will close on Wednesday, May 18th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.    

Friday, May 13, 2022

You Still Have Time to Play with Challenge #274 - The Meaning of Mama

You still have time to play with our Fill In the Blank Challenge #274 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?



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The Challenge will close on Wednesday, May 18th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

Friday, May 6, 2022

Challenge #274 - The Meaning of Mama

It's my turn this week to come up with a Fill in the Blank Challenge, and seeing as how it's Mother's Day in North American this weekend, I wanted to know what you think makes Moms so special. How would you fill in the blank: "The Best Thing about Mothers is: ______________."?

For a Fill in the Blank Challenge, you complete the sentence by filling in the blank, then you make your project based on the words you used to fill in the blank. How would you fill in this blank? Now, take on the challenge of making something amazing with it!

 And make sure to tell us, in your blog post, how you Filled in the Blank!


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Here are the best attributes of mothers according to our Design Team:



heather cooper

Heather Cooper
Heather C. thinks that the best thing about mothers is unconditional love.



heather heroldt

Heather H. thinks of her mom's presence and drinking tea together.



jan clothier

Jan says the best thing is sharing moments great and small!



jane knudsen

Love is how Jane would fill in the blank!



joanne james

Joanne James
Joanne also thinks unconditional love is the best thing about mothers!




LeAnne Pugliese
LeAnne's is taking a break this week.


  • Create any card, scrapbooking page, 3D project or packaging project that fits the challenge.
  • Fill in the blanks with the words that are right for you and then create your project with those words in mind. Tell us, in your blog or on your site, what words you used.
  • 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#274 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!

Click here to enter

Thursday, May 5, 2022

Winners of Challenge #273 - They Call It The Blues

We're keen to announce the winners of Challenge #273 because the Featured Artist will be our Guest Designer for the next Recipe Challenge in two weeks! We're very excited to work with the winner! We were definitely not singing the blues about the entries we received for our monochromatic palette for this challenge. They were "blue"tiful!

After deliberations we were "azure" about our winners and here they are:


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Our Top Pick is: Lisa K.

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Lisa's beautiful floral image is stunning, stamped in Versamark and Navy ink and clear embossed, then masterfully coloured in using the challenge blues with just the right touch, giving an airy lightness to the bouquet and a luminous quality as well! Lisa, you made the blues glow!


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Our Featured Artist is: Shirley Gentry


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Shirley created her own background paper that she calls SSP (Shirley's Special Paper) using the challenge colours and white. It has just the right feel for this jaunty, adventurous little card. The Design Team loved the look of the 3D sails and how the little sailboat seems to come alive, sailing right off the card front in nautical navy! 

Congratulations, Shirley, you will be our next Guest Designer for our Recipe Challenge in 2 weeks time. We will be in touch!
                                                      
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And we think you may want to check out the following Honorable Mentions on their sites:



  7. Ingen

 

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Fill in the Blank 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.   

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

You Still Have a Few Hours To Play Challenge #273 - They Call It The Blues

 You still have a few hours to play with our Colour Challenge #273 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?



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The Challenge will close on Wednesday, May 4th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.