Winners for Challenge #379 - Hastened Handicrafts

Hasten means Speeding up an event: Causing an action, process, or result to occur much earlier than it normally would.

And all of you hastened to make your speed challenge card with the craft theme, but it's hard to tell that it took you 10 minutes or less. All of your entries look very professional! Well done! Here are the winners of our challenge:

Our Top Pick is: Gayle Chrvala

Can you believe that this is Speed Stamping entry?? There's a lot of ink blending to do with those masks in order to make that beautiful quilt focal point! Not one's usual choice for a speed stamping challenge! Then the background makes a whole other texture and depth statement of note! And to tie it all together - a cute and catchy sentiment! All in 8 minutes and 45 seconds!  What a more could you want?! Perfect for Top Pick! Congratulations,  Gayle!

Our Featured Artist is: Christy Stanford

Christy, our winner, and Featured Artist, used a tried and true method of speed stamping, DSP! But she used it in such a powerful way that many of the Design Team were smitten with her card! Not only did she choose some stunning patterned paper (DSP) with sewing as her craft, she displayed it in an eye-catching way, with well-chosen colours matting the layers of DSP. She made use of dies to create shapes around the edges of the shapes and the sentiment tag! Congratulations on earning Featured Artist, Christy!

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

8. Lilly B.

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!