Winners for Challenge #317 - A Recipe for Robbie Burns

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, especially the plaid element! It's amazing how 5 different ingredients can be combined in so many different ways. Your cards took the concept of plaid in whole new directions and gave us some beautiful designs! Here are the winners:

Our Top Pick is: Jennie Maier

Jennie stenciled some lovely yellow plaid as a vertical element down the side of her card front, then used it as a showcase for the beautiful embossed and layered daisy die cuts. Her horizontal layers are lovely spring colours and give us the embossed element of the challenge as well. The cute sentiment boasts the adorable twine bow and the Design Team also loved the coordinating colours of the adhesive dots she used! Congratulations for the Top Pick award, Jennie!

And our Featured Artist this week:

Our Featured Artist is: Erin T. 

Erin, our Featured Artist this week, created the most intriguing plaid pattern that formed the whole background of her card! The die cuts were delicate gold foliage with gold cord loops forming the twine element of the challenge. That small white heart has been embossed and the team loved the mix of fonts in the sentiment and also the combination of yellow, gold and black as the palette of the beautiful card! Gold dots completed the look. Congratulations on a truly artistic project, Erin!

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

   3. Birgit

   5. Lilly B.   

 

 13. Suzy Hinton 

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 #317 - A Recipe for Robbie Burns

You still have a few hours left to play our Recipe Challenge #317 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Feb. 28th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.       

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #317 - A Recipe for Robbie Burns

You still have time to play our Recipe Challenge #317 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Feb. 28th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.      

Challenge #317 - A Recipe for Robbie Burns

Our Design Team member, Jane, cooked up this recipe challenge and it reminded me, because of the dominant element, of good old Scotland and the celebration of Scotland's own poet, Robbie Burns, just about a month ago, on January 23. I don't know which weaver came up with the plaid design, but they were ingenious. Imagine how complicated that could be to keep up with on a loom! Have fun with this recipe, and we can't wait to see how you use all 5 of these elements! 

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 twelfth guest designer, Amanda Mertz, (who was our Featured Artist on Challenge #315) for this challenge.

And this is her beautiful project for this challenge:

Amanda Mertz

Let's see how the Design Team express their inner Outlander:

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#317 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 #316 - Yes, I Do Need a Bigger Craft Room

What fun we had, reading all about your recent additions to your craft rooms and then getting to see what they could do! It was well worth the reading! We loved the variety of cards we had entered! Here are our winners:

Our Top Pick is: Johanna from LHC

We were really taken, as a Design Team, with Johanna's dramatic black and white design using those amazing dies, which are a new addition to her craft room. The positive and negative aspects of the design are perfectly balanced and the black and white really showcases them well. The addition of the sparkles added an extra dimension! Congratulations, Johanna!

 

Our Featured Artist is: Lee Ann Barrett

Lee Ann's stunning blue bird design using her new dies was a real eye catcher. The combination of the rays of the die cuts with the spattered background which was echoed on the spattered wings of the bluebird was so compelling! Add to that the perfect sentiment on a distressed panel and you have a Featured Artist's work of art! Beautiful card, Lee Ann!

                                                      

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

 9.  Amy Koenders

10. Jolanda Johnstone

16. Maggie H.

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.   

You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play with Challenge #316 - Yes, I Do Need a Bigger Craft Room

You still have a few hours left to play our Fill In the Blank Challenge #316 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Feb. 14th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.     

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #316 - Yes, I Do Need a Bigger Craft Room

You still have time to play our Fill In the blank Challenge #316 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Feb. 14th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.     

Challenge #316 - Yes, I Do Need a Bigger Craft Room

One of the most enjoyable parts of stamping, and probably most crafts, is adding to your craft supplies! Our brilliant Team Member Jan knows there are beautiful materials, ingenious tools, intriguing images! How can an artistic person resist these things? It's almost a hobby in it's own right! Right? What is YOUR latest craft purchase??

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!

  

Let's find out what the Design Team have been adding to their Craft Rooms lately!

Heather Cooper

Heather C. latest addition to her craft room is the Trusty Tools bundle, perfect for masculine cards!

Heather Heroldt

Heather H. 's latest stamp purchase is Quiet Reflection for an upcoming class!

Jan Clothier

Jan's newest acquisition is a brayer!

Jane Knudsen

Jane recently purchased Enduring Beauty stamps, stencils and dies!

Joanne James

The Hooray for Surprises Bundle is Joanne's latest acquisition.

Deborah Wheeler

Deb just added the Retro Hearts & Leaves set by ClarityCrafts to her collection.

• 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 #316 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