Winners for Challenge #313 - Supersonic Stars

Stars seem to us to be fixed in their position in the sky, but they are all actually moving in space, as is our star, the Sun! In the outer edges of our Milky Way galaxy, some stars reach velocities more than 700,000 mph (1.1 million km/h)! So you could really say they are Supersonic Stars! Some of you are Supersonic Stars as well, making stunning creations in under 10 minutes! Well done!

So here are the Supersonic Stars, the winners for this challenge! 

We have a tie for Top Pick:

Our first Top Pick is: LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne absolutely crushed this speed stamping challenge by using a star stencil with a little Crushed Curry ink and, in just five and a half minutes, a star was born! She even stamped a sentiment on the inside in that time! Wow! Congratulations, LeAnne! This little beauty even has star sequins to add a bit of bling to it!

Our second Top Pick is: Birgit

Although Birgit's card is more complex, it also took almost twice as long to make. Without any commentary by the creator, we are assuming that Birgit used mostly die cuts to make her beautiful birthday card, with the vibrant colours. It is an eye catcher for sure. and Birgit had to have had a very organized plan for her card in order to have finished in nine and a half minutes! We love the end result, though, and gave it one of the two top picks!

Our Featured Artist is: Jolanda Johnstone

Jolanda used stars embossed in white, trees and sentiment embossed in black and a spectrum of pink to blue ink blended over the images and sentiment to create a winter night scene reminiscent of the Northern Lights. It can be difficult to do a good job of ink blending and especially when you have a time limit. Jolanda not only completed the creative assignment on time, but she also created an atmosphere of peace, silence and awe...probably the opposite of what she was feeling as she participated in our speed stamping challenge!! 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:

8. Jennie Maier

9. Yvon Doensen

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. Although this was our last challenge for 2023, we will be back on January 5th, 2024 with a whole new roster of challenges for the new year! See you then, and in the meantime, we want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and thank you all for participating in our challenges throughout 2023!

You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #313 - Supersonic Stars

You still have a few hours left to play our Speed  Stamping Challenge #313 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Dec. 13th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.    

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #313 - Supersonic Stars

You still have time to play our Speed  Stamping Challenge #313 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Dec. 13th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

Challenge #313 - Supersonic Stars

For this challenge we are doing a Speed Stamping Challenge and the theme for the challenge, created by the lovely Deborah, is Stars! To get your adrenaline pumping, create a card or other project, in under 10 minutes, that illustrates the seasonal theme of stars! Please let us know how long it took you to make it in your description.

When we do a speed challenge we are not expecting a detailed masterpiece from you. We want you to have fun and see what you can create in under 10 minutes! You can design it in your head or sketch it out first. You can gather all your supplies ahead of time. But once you start the cutting/stamping/die cutting/embossing /etc. process, you must start the timer!

You have 10 minutes! Let us know, with your entry, how long it took you to complete your card or project! The key is to KISS!! Keep It Simple, Stamper!

Now we'll see what our Design Team did with the theme in under 10 min.:

Heather Cooper 8m 48s 

Heather Heroldt 4m 56s

Jan Clothier  6m 53s

Jane Knudsen 10m 00s

Joanne James 10m 00s

                                    Deborah Wheeler 9m 03s                                        

Here are some guidelines for the challenge:

• Create any card, scrapbooking page, 3D project or packaging project that fits the challenge.
• You can come up with your design and gather materials before you start the clock, but once you start work, you have to complete your design in 10 min. State in your blog or description, how long it took you to make it.
• Use the given theme in your project.
• 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 #AYSI313 when uploading to a public gallery.
• If you’re unsure about ‘the rules’, check the details under the Challenge Guidelines.
• 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 #312 - The Most Wonderful Time

If there is any theme that encourages your creativity, Christmas has got to be a major one! Wow! So many of you had so many unique ideas and beautiful designs! It was so hard to choose between all those creative expressions, but here are the winners for As You See It Challenge #312:

Our Top Pick is: Vicky Hayes

Vicky has created an artistic masterpiece here with stamped snowy mountains, blended ink sky, and stamped misty forests! The embossed sentiment looks so regal against this backdrop and all the extra touches, such as the snow falling create a vista that you have to look at twice or even three times to be sure that it's not patterned paper to start with. Beautiful work, Vicky!

Our Featured Artist is: Kelly Schirmer

Kelly's beautifully crafted entry really caught the attention of the Design Team. Between her lovely choice of colours, her baking theme and sentiment pun, the crisp frame around the edge and the inclusion of holiday foliage and berries, this card just said "The Most Wonderful Time" to us! Check out her beautiful, muted background panel, and the splatters on the berries, to the candies in the cookies and the little baking pan! This card is a well-earned Featured Artist Award! Congratulations, Kelly!

                                                      

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

8.  Cat Craig

9.  Ashwini Rao

10. Milla

26. Suzy Hinton

28. Carol Mc

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 #312 - The Most Wonderful Time

You still have a few hours left to play our Theme Challenge #312 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 29th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #312 - The Most Wonderful Time

You still have time to play our Theme Challenge #312 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 29th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

Challenge #312 - The Most Wonderful Time

Christmas is rapidly approaching! And I mean rapidly! Christmas shopping is well underway and I'm starting to see Christmas lights and Christmas trees showing up around the neighbourhood! And it's only mid-November! What makes Christmas the most wonderful time of the year? Can you turn that into a card or other papercraft project? Thanks to Team Member, Joanne, we're looking forward to seeing your projects!

What do you suppose the members of the Design Team think about it all?

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier 

Jane Knudsen

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.
• 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 #AYSI312 when uploading to a public gallery.
• If you’re unsure about 'the rules’, check the details under the Challenge Guidelines.
• 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 #311 - Recipe for Holiday Spirit

Thanks to all the testers who tried out our Recipe Challenge last week! We all loved the elements you included to fulfill the recipe requirements! It's amazing how 5 different ingredients can be combined in so many different ways. Your cards were beautiful holiday designs, and so many delightful whimsical ones, as well. Here are our winners!

Our Top Pick is: Suzy Hinton

Suzy's whimsical elf design is both bright and bold! She has chosen the big, bold polka-dot pattern for her background and adorned it with other elements of the recipe challenge! The Design Team loved her embossed textured tab and the foil flag under the fun sentiment. But the best part was the adorable elf hat, complete with yellow ribbon and red feather perched on top of it! When it was all placed on the red card base, it just screams, Merry Christmas! Congrats, Suzy!

And our Featured Artist this week:

Our Featured Artist is: Cindy Coutts

Cindy's stunning card fulfilled all the requirements of the Challenge, but in subtle ways that enhanced rather than drove the design she created! The colours are gorgeous, subtly festive, and so perfect for the elements she chose. The thoughtful and sumptuous layers and details are so carefully coordinated! This was a clear choice for Featured Artist for this challenge! Congratulations, Cindy!

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

   1. Jolanda Johnstone

   2.  Rae

   4.  LeAnne Pugliese

 

 12.  Rachel Black

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Theme 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 #311 - Recipe for Holiday Spirit

You still have a few hours left to play our Recipe Challenge #311 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 15th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #311 - Recipe for Holiday Spirit

You still have time to play our Recipe Challenge #311 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 15th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

Challenge #311 - Recipe for Holiday Spirit

Our Design Team member, Jane, cooked up this recipe challenge and she has the holidays on her mind! She wants to holiday themed cards with patterned paper (it doesn't have to be plaid, by the way) with dry embossing, die cuts and ribbon! I can't wait to see what everyone does with these elements! This is going to be such a fun challenge!

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!

We are so pleased to welcome our eleventh guest designer, Jennie Maier, (who was our Featured Artist on Challenge #309) for this challenge.

And this is her beautiful project for this challenge:

Jennie Maier

Let's see if the Design Team has the Holiday Spirit:

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Jane Knudsen

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.
• 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#311 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

Winners for Challenge #310 - Vellum Favourites

Well, it was fun finding out different things you can do with vellum. There were some old favourites and some new ideas out there, but let's find out who our winners are!

Our Top Pick is: Maggie H.

Maggie's vibrant background depicts fall beautifully with her colourful leaves and acorns and the speckled accents. Then she has used vellum in her favourite way, as a layer between the background and the sentiment, to create a buffer between the business and brightness of the background and the bold sentiment. It creates a little softness, almost a halo around the words to give them prominence! As much as the Design Team loved the background, we were also taken with the ink blended label and the softly scalloped layer of vellum in between. Well done!

Our Featured Artist is: Kristin Sluhan

The Design Team were in love with Kristin's beautiful yellow gold and kraft colour scheme and her gorgeous embossed and die cut vellum maple leaves! The beautifully stamped pumpkins look great on that yellow and brown plaid paper, backed with those amazing leaves! So many great textural details! And that inlaid sentiment looks amazing! Thanks for playing along with your amazing talent, Kristin! Congratulations!

                                                      

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

4.  LeAnne Pugliese

6.  Jolanda Johnstone

8.  Yvon Doensen

12.  Suzy Hinton

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.