Challenge #348 - Spots or Stripes

Spots or Stripes! Leopards or Tigers! Clowns or Convicts! Playful or conservative? Which do you prefer? It's Theme Week, and thanks to Jan C., we're making you choose this week!  Make a card with either spots or stripes and see how fortune favours you, but have a lot of fun doing it!

What do you think our Team Members did with this theme? Do you think they chose spots or stripes? Let's find out:

Deborah Wheeler

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Joanne James

LeAnne Pugliese

Here are some guidelines for the challenge:

• 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 #348 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 #347 - Recipe for a Colourful Zoo Crew

Well, we apologize profusely about our technical woes last week!! None of us are particularly technically gifted, and it was a real struggle to get our website back from our domain provider, who didn't really bend over backwards to help us, by the way, either! I'm sure it left many of you wondering if we had disappeared entirely and for good!

But, fear not! We are back and we intend to stay, so spread the word! Our entries were few, due to the problems, so we just have a Featured Artist and Top Pick this week! Hopefully, there'll be more next challenge!  Here are the winners of Challenge #347:

Our Top Pick is: Suzy Hinton

Suzy chose a really cute way to incorporate all the Challenge elements in her card!  The Design Team absolutely loved the pink piggy so full of character! The way his head is mounted separately makes him look like a bobble head, which would be really cute. The choice of paper and texture along with the cute and so appropriate sentiment and bow add so many awesome details! This card is so skillfully done, it really deserves the Top Pick! Congratulations, Suzy.

And our Featured Artist this week:

Our Featured Artist is: Johanna from LHC

Johanna, our Featured Artist this week and winner, used the elements of the recipe very cleanly! We loved her choice of embossing folder and the way she coloured the embossed paper with the pastel colours. The juggled bananas are displayed perfectly and that little monkey himself is so endearing! Well earned Featured Artist award!  Congratulations, Johanna!

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 #347 - Recipe for a Colourful Zoo Crew

You still have a few hours left left to play our Fill In The Blank Challenge #346 - A Blast From the Past at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #347 - Recipe for a Colourful Zoo Crew

You still have time left to play our Fill In The Blank Challenge #346 - A Blast From the Past at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

 

Challenge #347 - Recipe for a Colourful Zoo Crew

I hope you're in the mood to cook something up today, because it's a new Recipe Challenge from As You See It Challenges! Thanks to Team Member Heather H., we have a great recipe to work from that features animals, texture and colouring, as well as die cuts and twine. I think you're really going to have a good time with this recipe, so put on your aprons and start your mixers, er...your die cutters! Have fun!

Remember our last Colour Challenge? Well, the winner of that challenge, Christy Stanford, won the right to be a guest designer on today's challenge:

Here's Christy:

and here's her wonderful card. I love the colouring and texture: 

Christy Stanford

Now, let's see how the As You See It Team Member used all their ingredients:

Deborah Wheeler

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Joanne James

LeAnne Pugliese

Here are some guidelines for the challenge:

• 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 #342 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 #346 - A Blast from the Past

It was so much fun, and entertaining, too, reading about everyone's favourite retired crafting tools and how they use them! There were definitely some of my old favourites in the lists! And when you see the same tool listed time after time, you KNOW it was an oldie but a goodie!  And here are your winners for Challenge #346!

Our Top Pick is: Milla

Milla's favourite tool is a retired stamp set with an adorable, whimsical image of a bird and a wreath! There might be some argument about a stamp set being a tool, but you really couldn't stamp without stamps, so they are tools in the wide sense of the word. Milla has created a beautiful CAS card here with it, using cool colours, lots of textured white space, and a great background paper! The scalloped edged die cut was the perfect display panel for the stamped die cuts! Congratulations, Milla!

 

Our Featured Artist is: Sandra Strobel

Our Featured Artist, Sandra Strobel, has created a steampunk project in a collage formatl! The Design Team loved that there were so many gears, chains, and other mechanical details, thanks to Sandra's favourite punches that she has kept, but also that the light coloured wood and blue theme, kept it from being overpowering! It's a feast for the eyes! Congratulations on being the Featured Artist, Sandra!

                                                      

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

  4. Donna

  6. Christy Stanford

 11. Liz Williams

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 Challenge #346 - A Blast From the Past

You still have a few hours left to play our Fill In The Blank Challenge #346 - A Blast From the Past at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Apr. 30th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #346 - A Blast From the Past

You still have time left to play our Fill In The Blank Challenge #346 - A Blast From the Past at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Apr. 30th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.    

Challenge #346 - A Blast from the Past

Not all of us are hoarders, but I bet that most of us keep some retired or discontinued crafting tools that we love, that we swear that we'll NEVER get rid of! What tools are those, in your case? Care to share what they are and why you are keeping them?? When I concocted this challenge I thought maybe we'd not only find out some interesting stories, but maybe we'd find some new uses for tools that we were unaware of! I'm really looking forward to this one!!

Let's find out what retired tools our Design Team vow to keep until life as we know it comes to an end:

Deborah Wheeler

Deborah wants to keep this Stained Glass Easter Window stamp in perpetuity!

Heather Cooper

Heather C. has an unhealthy desire to hoard all her punches!

Heather Heroldt

Heather vows to never part with her Stamp-a-ma-jig!

Jan Clothier

Jan has a life-long relationship with the Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder!

Joanne James

Joanne will never part with her Bunny Builder Punch ... or itty bitty flower punches, or Scalloped Contours Dies!

LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne will never let go of her polka dot embossing folder!

Here are some guidelines for the challenge:

• 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 #342 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 #345 - Spring Freshness

We're excited to announce the winners of Challenge #345 because the Featured Artist will be our Guest Designer for the next Recipe Challenge in two weeks! Those Spring Freshness colours were so pretty to play with! Your entries were unique and spring-like and very hard to choose winners from!

Here are the winners for this challenge:

Our Top Pick is: Amanda Mertz

 Amanda made great use of the challenge colours! The soft, pastel bokeh background was subdued but gave depth to the card. We loved the combination of the large florals with combined challenge colours, and the sprinkling of small florals and sequins adding interest! Congratulations on Top Pick, Amanda !

Our Featured Artist is: Christy Stanford

As Featured Artist this week, Christy will also be invited to be our next Guest Designer! Christy has made some bold choices for this colour challenge. Her intense  and busy background would be hard to use in most designs but she managed to keep her focal point from being overwhelmed by it with the use of the paper strips from the sketch in the brighter colours! It just moved the lovely florals right to the foreground.  Congratulations,Christy, you will be our next Guest Designer for our Recipe Challenge in 2 weeks time. We will be in touch!

                                                      

You might want to visit our Honorable Mentions on their web sites:

    1. Erin T.

    2. Birgit

    9. Johanna @LHC

  11. Jolanda Johnstone

Join us tomorrow morning for our next challenge, a Fill In the Blank Challenge. 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 #345 - Spring Freshness

You still have a few hours left to play our Colour Challenge #345 - Spring Freshness at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Apr. 16th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.    

You Still Have Time To Play Challenge #345 - Spring Freshness

You still have time left to play our Colour Challenge #345 - Spring Freshness at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Apr. 16th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.    

Challenge #345 - Spring Freshness

I love colour challenges for their inspiration, so I'm grateful to our team member, Jan C. for giving us such a beautiful one to work with this week. The colours are fresh and springlike, hence the name of the challenge - Spring Freshness! Here's the Challenge Banner to check out:

I can hardly wait to see your creativity blossom with these beautiful colours! (As always, if you don't have these ®Stampin' Up!© colours, try to approximate them as closely as possible.)

Every time we have our regular colour challenge, it's a chance for a new person to become our guest designer for a challenge, by winning Featured Artist on our Colour Challenge. If you do, you will be our Guest Designer on the next Recipe Challenge in four weeks. Keep that in mind as you enter!

Also, we are thrilled to welcome back a dear friend onto our Design Team. LeAnne Pugliese was off on a needed sabbatical for a while, but is back, ready to grace us with her beautiful designs again. Welcome back LeAnne!

Now let's see how our Design Team used these colours to create their projects:

Deborah Wheeler

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Joanne James

LeAnne Pugliese

Here are some guidelines for the challenge:

• 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 #342 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