Challenge #381 - High Tech Handsomeness

It's a Colour Challenge and our Teamie, Jan, came up with a doozie! It's on the masculine side of things - see what you think! I called it High Tech Handsomeness! But check out our Challenge Banner:

I guess, looking at the Banner photo, you could also go rustic with this. We'll leave it up to you! In any case, that colour combo is striking!! Let's see what our Design Team did with it:

(By the way, don't forget that our Featured Artist this week will win an opportunity to become our guest designer on our next Recipe Challenge in two weeks!)

Deborah Wheeler

On holiday

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, and, in this case, metallics!
• 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 #381 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 #380 - Quadrants

Wow! What a great sketch! We got so many beautiful entries this time! We had Quadrants of masterpieces. It was lovely reading all your posts and beholding all your lovely creations: You all nailed it! It was so hard picking winners this time!!

But here they are:

The Top Pick is: Gayle Chvrala

Gayle's beautifully blended background quadrants with the contrasting black graphic designed leaves just popped in the gallery and caught the attention of the Design Team. The beautiful gold frame and sentiment were the icing on the cake and made for a perfect Top Pick! Congrats, Gayle !

Our Featured Artist is: Amy Koenders

Our winning entry, Amy, the Featured Artist, has created an Autumn Delight with her pumpkin quadrant design. The Design Team loved variety of colours and shapes of the pumpkins and the fall-like gingham background. The chalkboard-like sentiment also gave back-to-school vibes! Fall, incorporated! Congratulations, Amy, on being our Featured Artist!

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

    9. Debbie B.

  10. Cindy Major 

 

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 site.  

You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #380 - Quadrants

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

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Sept. 9th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #380 - Quadrants

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

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Sept. 9th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.    

As You See It Challenge #380 - Quadrants

Our lovely and creative Team Mate Heather H. is up this week, and we are moving on now to a sketch challenge that I am calling Quadrants and you'll see why when you see this week's challenge banner:

When you enter our sketch challenges, feel free to change certain shapes, flip or turn the sketches, but please make sure you keep the integrity of the sketch so it can be recognized easily. 

Let's see how our Design Team interpreted this sketch:

Deborah Wheeler

on holidays this week

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 #380 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 #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!        

You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #379 - Hastened Handicrafts

You still have a few hours left to play our Speed Challenge - Hastened Handicrafts at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here:

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Aug. 26th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.