You still have time left to play our Theme Challenge #342 - For the Birds at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.
The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Mar. 5th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.
Friday, February 28, 2025
Friday, February 21, 2025
Challenge #342 - For the Birds
I recently watched a documentary saying that birds are definitely evolved from dinosaurs! They made a convincing case! Whether or not you believe that, birds are certainly a dominant species on Planet Earth! And the varieties are so different from each other in colour and form. So I hope you have a lot of fun with our Theme Challenge this week, where the theme is...you guessed it...Birds!
Let's see how the Design Team treated the subject of birds:
Jane Knudsen
No card this week.
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.*
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Winners for Challenge #341 - Recipe for a Pastel Celebration
Thanks to all the guest "chefs" who tried out our Recipe Challenge last week! Those pastels were soft and so pretty! And greetings to all the new players! Lovely to welcome you! It was very hard to pick winners, but that's our job, so we did it and here they are:
Our Top Pick is: Sandra Strobel
Sandra's gorgeous project is a 60th birthday card. The Design Team absolutely loved the amazing floral layers that included vellum, watercoloured die cuts, a beautiful wreath and delicious texture in the background. This card is so skillfully done, it really deserves the Top Pick! Congratulations, .
And our Featured Artist this week:
Our Featured Artist is: Suzy Hinton
Suzy Hinton, our Featured Artist this week and winner, used the elements of the recipe very cleanly! We loved her choice of patterned paper and the way she displayed it with the little pocket as the focal point. The pastel flowers with their pastel gem centers were perfect adornments and the touches of gold with the die cut tassels and the gold and white Baker's twine bow, and embossed sentiment were a showy contrast! Well earned Featured Artist award! Congratulations, Suzy!
And we think you may want to check out the following Honorable Mentions on their sites:
3. Bobby
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.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #341 - Recipe for Pastel Celebrations
You still have a few hours left to play our Recipe Challenge #341 - Recipe for Pastel Celebrations at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.
The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Feb. 19th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.
Friday, February 7, 2025
Challenge #341 - Recipe for a Pastel Celebration
It's time for another Recipe Challenge and I think you'll have some fun with this one, thanks to our team mate, Jan! First, you can play with beautiful pastel colours and heat embossing, and, second, your project will be good for any kind of celebration, so that's wide open! With our Recipe Challenges, you must include all 5 ingredients in your project, but how you do that is up to you!
You'll perhaps recall that our winner from our Colour Challenge #339, Michele Ferguson, won the right to be our Guest Designer for this challenge.
And here is her beautiful card for this challenge:
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And now let's see how the other members of the design team mixed up the ingredients to the recipe:
Jane Knudsen
Not available this week
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 #334 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.*
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Winners for Challenge #340 - Pesky Resolutions
It was so much fun, and enlightening, too, reading everyone's crafting resolutions for 2025! I have to admit that this was the first time that I'd thought of even making them for the crafting aspect of my business! Some of your resolutions were oh, so familiar, but with great ideas to accomplish them, while some were unique and thought-provoking. And before I get too philosophical, let's get back to the delightful task at hand, which is naming our winners!
Wouldn't you know it? We have a tie for Top Pick:
Our first Top Pick is: Michele Ferguson
Michele's crafty resolution for 2025 is to find workarounds for products she doesn't have instead of having to buy them. She proved this is more than possible when she made this beautiful card with the extra layer ending just short of the top. Instead of buying an edger die, she used a word shadow die and adapted it to make it an edger die, then added the word to it as well. This bold sentiment is accompanied with a beautifully stamped and coloured bird in a budding tree. So worthy of a Top Pick! Congratulations, Michele!
Our second Top Pick is: LeAnne Pugliese
LeAnn resolved to use more embossing folders in 2025 and she got a good head start by using no fewer than three of them in this vintage beauty. She layered 3 panels of distressed, embossed cardstock just like embroidered ruffles, each layer different from the other 2. By adding the scalloped Crumb Cake edging, the Cherry Cobbler twine and the heart designs, she bumped the whole project up a notch or two. So worthy of a Top Pick! Congratulations, Michele!
Our Featured Artist is: Sandra Strobel
Our Featured Artist,Sandra, has created an masculine project in a collage formatl! The Design Team were so thrilled not only the richly coloured paper she chose for the backgrounds, but also the array of cool designs she added - filmstrip, car, gears, among many others. The longer you look, the more things you find, like the edging and the sprinkling of rhinestones. Congratulations, Sandra, amazing work and a great start on your resolution of creating more masculine themed cards!!
And we think you may want to check out the following Honorable Mentions on their sites:
8. PJ
9. Tammy Fite
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, February 5, 2025
You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #340 - Pesky Resolutions
You still have a few hours left to play our Fill In the Blank Challenge #340 - Pesky Resolutions, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.
The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Feb. 5th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.
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