Challenge #370 - Popular Cardable Occasions

Some say the tradition of sending a greeting card is dying, or has died. I like to think that it has undergone a change. I think people still like to receive cards, but with the Internet there are all sorts of ways to send people greetings on special occasions, so the compulsory aspect is gone. I think that's a good thing. Those who like to make and send cards can do so for both the giver's and the receiver's mutual enjoyment. Others can send greetings by email or text, or a phone call.  Our challenge this week is a Fill In The Blank Challenge dreamed up by Team Member Heather H. She and your Design Team want to know:

Besides Christmas, what event has you mailing more cards than any other?

And what does the challenge require? Make us a card for that event and post it in our gallery along with your entrance information! In your blog or on your website, tell us with what words you filled in the blank!

Let's see what that event is for our Design Team members:

Deborah Wheeler

Birthday Cards

Heather Cooper  

Birthday Cards

Heather Heroldt

Thank Yous

Jan Clothier

Birthday cards

Joanne James

Thank You cards

LeAnne  Pugliese

Birthday Cards

Here are some guidelines for the challenges:

• 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 #370 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 #369 - Soft Spring Colours

We're excited to announce the winners of Challenge #369 because the Featured Artist will be our Guest Designer for the next Recipe Challenge on April 24th! Those sweet spring pastels were great to work with and produced some beautiful final results! Check them out!

Here are the winners for this challenge:

Our Top Pick is: Jolanda Johnston

 Jolanda created a charming pastel spring composition containing lots of effects with stencils, textures using 3D embossing folders and die created embellishments. The whole effect is soft and pretty and full of spring! Congrats on winning Top Pick, Jolanda!

Our Featured Artist is: Sonja Zierer

As Featured Artist this week, Sonja will also be invited to be our next Guest Designer! Sonja's beautifully designed tropical holiday scene using the challenge colours features great variety and dimension. The Design Team love the gorgeous tropical flower and foliage on the carefully prepared background. Congratulations, Sonja, you will be our next Guest Designer for our Recipe Challenge in on April 24th. We will be in touch!

                                                      

You might want to visit our Honorable Mentions on their websites:

    5. Smilyn Stef

    7. Christy Stanford

    9.  Ashwini Rao

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 #369 - Soft Spring Colours

You still have a few hours left to play our Colour Challenge #369 - Soft Spring Colours at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #369 - Soft Spring Colours

You still have time left to play our Colour Challenge - Soft Spring Colours at As You See It Challenges and earn an opportunity to be our next guest designer! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

Challenge #369 - Soft Spring Colours

Although Winter is not leaving without a fuss, we've had some really warm days here and the bulbs are up and blooming, so spring is inevitably on it's way to stay, and with it, all the beautifully soft pastel spring colours. That's what this challenge reminded me of when I saw it:

These colours are really perfect for Easter as well, which will be here in a week. Just a couple of reminders: If you don't have the Stampin' Up! colours, use whatever you have that's closest to them. In a colour challenge, you use only the 3 or 4 colours given (3 in this case) plus outline can be stamped in black, white can be used as a base and you can include a neutral. 

And in case you don't remember, the winner of this challenge, the Featured Artist, will have the opportunity to be our Guest Designer for Challenge #371, the Recipe challenge in a couple of weeks after this one.

Now, let's see how our Design Team used these beautiful colours:

Deborah Wheeler

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Joanne James

LeAnne Pugliese

Here are some guidelines for the challenges:

• 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 #369 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 #368 - Floral Sketch Design

We loved the variety of thought and design our sketch brought to the entries for our Floral Sketch Design challenge! We faced the challenge of choosing winners once again.. and we were able to pick winners from among all the beauties entered!

Here they are:

The Top Pick is: Kathy Schweinfurth

Kathy's lovely layered cone flowers made a perfect shape for the main image in the sketch and her trimmed, mixed font sentiment works so well with the double blooms! The Design Team felt that it all adds up to a worthy Top Pick! Congrats, Kathy !

Our Featured Artist is: Teresa S.

Our winning entry, Teresa S., the Featured Artist, has created a gorgeous tropical bouquet with gold highlights! The flowers are all 3D and the accents and sentiment banner are touches of gold. The Design Team loved the gold accents as well as the jewel centers and the subtle floral background! Congratulations on being our Featured Artist,Teresa! 

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

    6. Christy Stanford

    7. Erin T.

  16. Deb Horst

  17. Suzy Hinton

Join us tomorrow for our next challenge, a Colour Challenge with a chance for the winner to be a guest designer for a 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 #368 - Floral Sketch Design

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

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Mar. 25th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

You Still Have Time Left to Play Challenge #368 - Floral Sketch Design

You still have time left to play our Sketch Challenge - Floral Sketch Design at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Mar. 25th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.    

Challenge #368 - Floral Sketch Design

We begin our new round of Challenges with a Sketch Challenge, AYSI #369, Floral Sketch Design! It's a fun, springy design created by Team Member, Joanne! To play along, just make your project using our sketch as a guide! Feel free to change the shapes you see in the sketch as long as we can tell it's our sketch that you used! Likewise, you can flip or rotate the sketch, but keep the integrity of the sketch! Have fun with this one!

 Let's do the big reveal of our Design Team's Artistry:

Deborah Wheeler

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Joanne James

LeAnne Pugliese

Here are some guidelines for the challenges:

• 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 #368 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 of Challenge #367 - Lickety Split Lavender

"Lickety split" as an expression first appeared in the 1800s, mimicking the sound of a railroad car going over the tracks quickly, and so came to mean rapid movement. And, of course, lavender is a light shade of purple.  So lickety split lavender means speedy purple, just what we needed for our speed challenge with a purple theme! And I think you all had fun with it, at least that's how your blogs made it sound! Your cards were so lovely! We had a heck of a time picking winners! But here they are:

Our Top Pick is: SmilynStef

The Design Team loved that April-like floral paper Stef used for the card base – what a lovely spring feeling she started with! Then she added the purple strips and those gorgeous butterfly stickers to grab our attention and topped it off with that snappy sentiment and embellishments! Congratulations on Top Pick,Stef!

Our Featured Artist is: Jenny Martin

Jenny Martin, our winner, and Featured Artist, chose an orchid as her purple flower for the speed challenge, and what a great choice it turned out to be!  She stamped the bold outlines then added a small amount of purple in the middle and leaves, buds and centers in green. She managed this, plus bold sentiment and die-cutting an elegant frame in the challenge deadline of 10 minutes! Congratulations on earning Featured Artist, Jenny!

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

1.   Johanna of Lavender House Creations

10.  Christy Stanford

11.  Jolanda Johnstone

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. Please check out our new Sketch Challenge on our blog tomorrow morning!      

You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #367 - Lickety Split Lavender

You still have a few hours left to play our Speed Challenge #367 - Lickedty Split Lavender at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

You Still Have Time To Play Challenge #367 - Lickety Split Lavender

You still have time left to play our Speed Challenge #367 - Lickety Split Lavender at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

Challenge #367 - Lickety Split Lavender

Are you prepared for our next challenge, because it's a Speed Challenge - one of our most exciting challenges! It's one that will get your adrenaline pumping and test your dexterity and have you experiencing all the feels in a very short time period! Here's our Challenge Banner:

So the Theme for this Speed Stamping Challenge is Purple! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a project, using the colour purple, in under 10 minutes!  You may plan your project ahead of time, gather your equipment, mount your stamps, etc., but the moment you ink up a stamp, or cut a piece of paper or cardstock, you must start the timer!  Good luck and have fun!

How fast can our Design Team put a purple card together? Let's see:

Deborah Wheeler

9 min 31 sec

Heather Cooper

5 min 42 sec

Heather Heroldt

5 m 55 s

Jan Clothier

8 min 14 sec

Joanne James

5 min 31 sec

LeAnne Pugliese

9 min 30 sec

Here are some guidelines for the challenges:

• 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 #367 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