Challenge #378 - Summer Days

Walkin' on Sunshine! Summertime and the livin' is easy! In the summertime, when the weather is hot...! It's our Theme Challenge Weeks! Summer days always bring to me a sense of relaxation, taking a break, growing season, activities that involve lying back, soaking up the sun, and resting or playing! What kind of images come to your mind when you think of summer days? Please show us in a card, or scrapbook layout, or other papercrafting project!

 Let's see how the Design Team views summer days:

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 #376 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.*

 Inlinkz link party!

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Winners for Challenge #377 - Recipe for Happy Yellow Flowers

The Design Team were stoked with the designs of the entries in our Recipe for Happy Yellow Flowers Challenge! It always amazes me how the same 5 elements can result in such a variety of entries, all of them uniquely beautiful. And that makes being the ones who have to pick the winners a very tough job! Nonetheless...

Here are the winners of Challenge #377!

Our Top Pick is: Cat Craig

Cat's entry shows that all is not lost when that stamp gets the better of you! Cat used a full card stamp and the two of them had words, but she showed incredible creativity in the remediation, by making use of the big, bold sentiment in the recipe challenge and adding drop down shadows to give a couple of smudges more meaning IRL! And look at the adorable result: Happy Yellow Flowers with a big, bold Thanks! Cat, your card embodies Top Pick! Congrats!

Our Featured Artist is: Teresa S.

Teresa has used a masks to make some astounding sunflowers, the iconic  yellow flower of summer. Notice the skilled work of her ink blending as she used the masks. The bold sentiment in gold appears to be layered to make it 3D! And the dark green of the leaves really provide a contrasting backdrop. Congratulations, Teresa, on being this week's Featured Artist!

                     

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

#1. Lilly B. 

#12. Sonja Zierer

# 14. Suzy Hinton

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Theme Stamping 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 #377 - Recipe for Happy Yellow Flowers

You still have a few hours left to play our Recipe Challenge - Recipe for Happy Yellow Flowers at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here!

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, July 29th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #377 - Recipe for Happy Yellow Flowers

You still have time to play our Recipe Challenge - Recipe for Happy Yellow Flowers at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here!

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, July 29th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

Challenge #377 - Recipe for Happy Yellow Flowers

Cooked up anything tasty lately? Tried any good recipes? Well, today, we've got one for you thanks to our team member, Joanne: a Recipe for Happy Yellow Flowers, and at this point in July, I think we might be talking either sunflowers or cone flowers! Any others that you can think of? Asters or chrysanthemums? Anyway, a Recipe challenge requires you to use all 5 elements given to you in the recipe, but how you do it is up to you! We always get delightful surprises every time we have a recipe challenge! Have fun with it!

Remember our Colour Challenge a couple of weeks ago? Well our Featured Artist from that challenge was given the opportunity to be a guest designer for this challenge. I'd like you to meet Jaydee:

And here is the beautiful card she designed for this challenge! Enjoy!:

Jaydee

 

Let's see how the Design Team put those 5 elements to work!

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 #376 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 #376 - Embossed

It was exciting to find out which are your favourite Embossing Folders! It turns out there were many old favourites, but they all gave beautiful results and you also demonstrated some great techniques using embossing folders as well, so it was educational as well as decorative!

And now... to our winners:

Our Top Pick is: Rosanne Mulhern

Does anyone remember this lovely stamp set and embossing folder? You can create the most beautiful watercolour country home designs and tin roof backgrounds as Rosanne has done here! The Design Team loved her masterful colouring techniques and the choice of background papers matching the crisp texture of the embossed cardstock! Congratulations, Rosanne on Top Pick!

 

Our Featured Artist is: Jaydee

I'd venture to say that most of the Design Team was completely charmed by ombre varieties of pasta! This embossing folder is one of the most engaging we've encountered in a while and the way Jaydee has done the ink blending really highlights the content including the whimsical die cuts and punny sentiment! Most of us want to CASE this one! Congratulations on being the Featured Artist, Jaydee !

                                                      

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

  1. Hilary

  7. Deb Horst - Sendable Sentiments

 

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Recipe Challenge and Guest Designer 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 More Hours to Play Challenge #376 - Embossed

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

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