Challenge #358 - My Favourite Autumn Things

 It's time for a new Fill In The Blank Challenge and this time, our clever Team Mate Deborah is going "Sound of Music" on you, by asking you what your "Favourite Autumn Things" are. Is it the colourful leaves? Is it jumping in leaf piles? Is it drinking pumpkin spice lattes? Warm fires? Wearing sweaters?

When you have that figured out, let us know on your blog or entry page how you filled in the blank, and make a card or project illustrating those words!

Let's find out what our Design Team's Favourite Autumn Things are:

Deborah Wheeler

Deborah loves the autumn colours in the leaves!

Heather Cooper

Heather's favourite fruit, the juicy Bartlett pear, gets ripe in the autumn!

Heather Heroldt

Heather loves everything pumpkin! Thanks, Trader Joe's!

Jan Clothier    

Jan loves the changing colours of the leaves!

Joanne James

Joanne loves the appearance of Autumn Beauty Sunflowers!

LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne loves PUMPKINS!!

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 #357 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 #357 - Gentle Sunset

We're excited to announce the winners of Challenge #357 because the Featured Artist will be our Guest Designer for the next Recipe Challenge in two weeks! Those Gentle Sunset colours were so delicate and beautiful to experiment with! Your entries reflected that!

Here are the winners for this challenge:

Our Top Pick is: Jolanda Johnstone

Jolanda created a clean and simple card using the challenge colours even though the main colour was the dark Secret Sea! The Design Team loved the small focal scene using the Challenge colours perfectly and the Cloud Cover matte, which really set it apart! The snowfall texture in the background was the perfect touch. Congrats on winning Top Pick, Jolanda!

Our Featured Artist is: Amanda Mertz

As Featured Artist this week, Amanda will also be invited to be our next Guest Designer! Amanda's beautifully designed vista using the challenge colours features such depth and variety. It makes me want to go camping there! She uses colour to indicate perspective and depth. Congratulations, Amanda, 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:

    3.  Kelly Schirmer

    7.  Margaret Wake

    9.  Jaydee

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 #357 - Gentle Sunset

You still have a few hours left to play our Sketch Challenge #357 - Gentle Sunset at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Oct. 1st, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.     

There is Still Time to Play Challenge #357 - Gentle Sunset

You still have time left to play our Sketch Challenge #357 - Gentle Sunset at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Oct. 1st, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.    

Challenge #357 - Gentle Sunset

What inspires your card making the most? Is it themes, sketches, or colours? Colours are a big influence for me, so I always look forward to our colour challenges! And even more so, since every colour challenge, we get to pick a guest designer for our next recipe challenge! So when you enter this challenge, keep in mind that our Featured Artist will have an opportunity to be our next guest designer! This colour palette is a beautiful combination, designed by team mate Joanne, using 3 of the 5 new In Colours. 

And just as a reminder, for our Colour Challenges, you must use all four colours only, except you may also use a neutral plus white. If you don't have the specified Stampin' Up! colours, use the inks you have that are the closest in colour. 

Let's see how the Design Team interpreted this:

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 #357 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 #356 - Rectangles & Circles

We loved the variety of thought and design our sketch brought to the entries for our Rectangles & Circles 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:

Our Top Pick is: DJ from Sendable Sentiments 

DJ paired autumn leaves with weathered wood and textured ribbon in her Fall design! The colours are wonderful, the texture is delicious and everything combines in a way that made good use of the sketch! The Design Team felt that it all adds up to a worthy Top Pick! Congrats, DJ !

Our Featured Artist is: Jennie Maier

Our winning entry, Jennie, the Featured Artist, has created a sympathy card uses a very soft blue and green plaid in the background that gives such a calming, comforting effect, that it is perfect for a sympathy card. She topped that by using such sweet flower shapes for her circle shapes in coordinating colours of yellows, blues and greens. And the sentiment sets just the right tone. Congratulations on being our Featured Artist, Jennie! 

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

  2. Erin T. 

 

  4. Deb Horst 

  7. Johanna @ Lavender House Creations

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 #356 - Rectangles & Circles

You still have a few hours left to play our Sketch Challenge #356 - Rectangles & Circles at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Sept. 17th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.