Challenge #308 - Playing with Polygons

The sketch for Challenge #308, designed by Team Member Heather H., makes use of many 4 sided polygons (shapes, if you don't want to dredge up your geometry days)! Enjoy it, play with those polygons and get creative!

Feel free to rotate or flip the sketch, just keep the integrity of it, so we can recognize it. 

And what did the Design Team do with their polygons? Check out their projects:

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.
• Feel free to flip or rotate the sketch and to substitute one shape for another but we must still be able to see the sketch in your finished submission.
• 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 #AYSI308 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!

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Winners for Challenge #307 - Hasty Hobbies

What fun it was to read your posts about all your different hobbies! So much fun! Nobody claimed Speed Stamping as a hobby though. I wonder why??

Now on to our winners for this challenge! 

Our Top Pick is: Suzy Hinton

Suzy just nailed this speed challenge in the most adorable way possible! She used the fortunate die/DSP match to die cut that whimsical knitting llama to use for her focal point, saving big time on stamping and colouring! It's perfect that the llama just happens to have the same hobby Suzy does! Then she prepared a lovely background: Lemon Lolly ink blended on the same colour cardstock with water and black ink splatters, a cute sentiment and some little blossoms of the same colour! Top pick!!

Our Featured Artist is: Erin T.

Erin's action-filled design directs the eye straight to the sentiment and leaves no doubt about what her speedy hobby is - skiing! And what she plans to do this Christmas! The Design Team just loved the snow flakes, the action figures and the whole configuration of her card. And Erin's time of 5 minutes and 57 seconds was one of the fastest times in the whole challenge! Even so, she managed to die cut the front panel with a stitched rectangle die! Congratulations, Erin, on being our Featured Artist!

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

2. Johanna @LHC                                                   

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. Join us tomorrow morning for a new sketch challenge on our page at  As You See It Challenge.   

You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #307 - Hasty Hobbies

You still have a few hours left to play our Speed Challenge #307 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Sept. 20th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #307 - Hasty Hobbies

You still have time to play our Speed Challenge #307 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Sept. 20th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.    

Challenge #307 - Hasty Hobbies

For this challenge we are doing a Speed Stamping Challenge and the theme for the challenge, created by yours truly, is Hobbies! So you are making a card depicting pastimes, maybe your own, maybe your family's, perhaps something other than the obvious one of papercrafting. To get your adrenaline pumping, create a card or other project, in under 10 minutes, that illustrates the theme of hobbies! 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 10m0s 

Heather Heroldt 5m15s

Jan Clothier 7m46s

Jane Knudsen 9m55s

Joanne James 7m16s

                                    Deborah Wheeler 6m11s                                        

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 #AYSI307 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 #306 - At the Beach

At the beach is one of my favourite places to be and it feels like that is a common experience for many of you, if your creations are any indication! It was so hard to choose between all those creative expressions, but here are the winners for As You See It Challenge #306:

Our Top Pick is: Suzy Hinton

Suzy's serene beach scene has several layers with unique features that caught the eye of the Design Team. First, the kraft layer underneath has been stamped with shells on one end to add texture and interest, contributed by the linen thread bow. Then there is the water coloured background on the image panel, which is enhanced with sand speckles and grass, as well as a great sentiment. Finally, Suzy added perfectly scaled shells popped up on dimensionals to complete the scene. Well done, Suzy!

Our Featured Artist is: Vicky Hayes

Vicky has also used a water coloured background for her beach scene, but if you look closely, she has added acrylic paint in white and Wink of Stella to create the foam on the waves. The Design Team loved the soft colours and the use of coloured pencils on the shells and gull. Die cutting the scene with a label die and adding to the background really enhanced the professional look of the card and creating the 3D affect with the gull and the shells was great for depth and texture. Congratulations on being our Featured Artist this week, Vicky!

                                                      

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

2. Johanna @ Lavender House Creations

3. Kimberly Wiener

5. PJ's Projects

6. Emma 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 #306 - At the Beach

You still have a few hours left to play our Theme Challenge #306 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Sept. 6th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #306 - At the Beach

You still have time to play our Theme Challenge #306 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Sept. 6th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

Challenge #306 - At the Beach

As summer draws to a close in the Northern Hemisphere and begins to be a possibility in the Southern Hemisphere, we have a very summery Theme Challenge for you! The theme is "At the Beach"! What do you love to do at the beach? Explore the tide pools? Sunbathe? Swim? Build incredible sand sculptures? Read? Whatever it is, give us your version of a perfect day at the beach with your creation! We're looking forward to seeing your projects!

What do you think the members of the Design Team like to do at the beach?

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 #AYSI306 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 #305 - Recipe for Summer Sunshine

Thanks to all the testers who tried out our Recipe Challenge last week! I loved all the cheery yellows! They were very mood-lifting in a difficult week! We hope all of you enjoyed the uplift as well. Here are our lovely winners for you:

Our Top Pick is: Annette Elias

Annette has created a beautiful collage background in shades of yellow for her sea turtle. For the circle element of the challenge she created a circular window with a beautiful choice of patterned paper for the backing. Swimming lazily over the window is a beautiful sea turtle in shades of yellow and brown and his shell has been molded into a turtle shell shape! The distressed Thank You sentiment is the perfect touch along with the white enamel dots.

And our Featured Artist this week:

Our Featured Artist is: Kimberly Wiener

This beautiful design of Kimberly's caught the eye of our Design Team for the delicate yellow flowers with the vellum shadows. The arched background on the quilted-look card front is perfect for the lovely floral composition with the speckled patterned paper fronted with vellum as well! The bold, dark thank you really stands out against the delicate design! A Featured Artist-worthy card! Congratulations, Kimberly!

                                                

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

   2.  Erin T. 

   6.  Jennie Maier

 

 13.  Tenia Nelson

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 More Hours to Play Challenge #305 - Recipe for Summer Sunshine

You still have a few more hours to play our Recipe Challenge #305 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Aug. 23rd, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

You Still Have Time To Play Challenge #305 - Recipe for Summer Sunshine

You still have time to play our Recipe Challenge #305 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Aug. 23rd, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

Challenge #305 - Recipe for Summer Sunshine

Our Design Team member, Joanne cooked up this recipe challenge and I know why she picked shades of yellow! She recently revealed that in the UK, she can't wait for summer, to be able to experience some summer sunshine. Hence the circle and shades of yellow! 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, Lee Ann Barrett, (who was our Featured Artist on Challenge #303) for this challenge.

And this is her beautiful project for this challenge:

Lee Ann Barrett

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

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#305 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