You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #350 - Triptych

You still have time left to play our Sketch Challenge #350 - Triptych at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

Challenge #350 - Triptych

Are you ready for another sketch challenge? We've got your layout, all you need to do is add paper, colour, stamps and designs! This one is called Triptych because it has 3 panels or cut outs on the top of the card front, like an old art installation in three parts or three panels, often hinged together. This sketch was designed by our clever Team Mate Joanne. You can keep the shapes as is, or change them, but keep the sketch recognizable. You can also change the orientation of the sketch. Let's see what you come up with!

And how did our Design Team use the sketch? Let's check in:

Deborah Wheeler

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Joanne James

LeAnne Pugliese

Here are some guidelines for the challenge:

• 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 #342 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 #349 - Rapid Water

Some of you are literally amazing at doing speed challenges! You are learning all the hacks and shortcuts, coming up with designs that make it hard to believe you only took less than 10 minutes to make! And some of you are just experiencing this kind of challenge for the first time, putting your adrenaline on the line! Are we still having fun?

Here are the lovely winners this time, chosen by the Design Team:

Our Top Pick is: Jenny Engelke

Jenny's unique card, which only took her 9 minutes and 45 seconds, uses a fun fold, no less! A double Z fold! The paper used for the construction of the double z folds is very striking in colour and texture as is the die cut sail boat itself. This was an ambitious and exciting project for a speed challenge!  Congratulation, Jenny, on being our Top Pick this week!

Our Featured Artist is: Johanna from LavenderHouseCreations

Johanna, our winner, and Featured Artist, made her comical, whimsical card in 9 min. 57 sec., through no fault of her own. It's the Speed Stamping Principle at work (the Murphy Principle for stampers taking part in a speed stamping challenge. I experience it frequently!) The Design Team just love the yoga-practising frog, (such great stretches and poses) as he bounces from puddle to puddle in the rain! Did you know he was the second prototype? You rock, Johanna, making two of them in the time limit! Congratulations, Johanna, on being our Featured Artist this week!

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

3. Christy Stanford

9. Gayle Chrvala

10. 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 #349 - Rapid Water

You still have time left to play our Speed Challenge #349 - Rapid Water at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #349 - Rapid Water

You still have time left to play our Speed Challenge #349 - Rapid Water at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

Challenge #349 - Rapid Water

Time to get out your stopwatch again...it's a Speed Challenge, and this speed challenge has the theme of Water, thanks to former team member, Jane! What kind of water, you ask? Any kind you want! Be creative, but also, be quick! You want to create your card in 10 minutes or less from the time you start cutting or stamping. Feel free to gather all your materials, and plan your project ahead of time, but as soon as you cut or fold a piece of paper, or ink up a stamp, or emboss something you have to start the timer! Then it's full speed ahead!

It is possible to create some amazing projects in under 10 minutes. Just check out our previous Speed Challenges. Read how people managed it. Then give it a try. We think you'll be pleasantly surprised!

Let's see how quickly our Design Team were able to create a Water Themed card:

Deborah Wheeler

9m 33s

Heather Cooper

9m 51s

Heather Heroldt

6m45s

Jan Clothier

5m17s

Joanne James

9m 36s

LeAnne Pugliese

8m 30s

 Here are some guidelines for the challenge:

• 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 #342 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 #348 - Spots or Stripes

We just loved all the entries that came with the Spots or Stripes Theme Challenge! They were all amazing! It was SOO hard to choose winners! To generalize, the spotty ones seemed to be playful and whimsical, while the striped ones tended to be more stately and sophisticated, but there were a few designs that blew that theory completely out of the water! However you slice it though, they were all beautiful!

Here are the winners of Challenge #336! We have two Top Picks:

Our first Top Pick is: Johanna from LHC

The Design Team loved the variety of stripes used on this lovely design of Johanna's this week. There were horizontal, vertical, diagonal, shiny, glittery and solid; this arrangement of stripes created a very sophisticated pattern for a masculine card or any card for that matter! The darker tones used just accentuated the designs. Congratulations,Johanna, on being one of our Top Picks this week. 

Our second Top Pick is: Erin T.

What's interesting about Erin's design is that even though dots usually give off a playful or whimsical vibe, Erin has managed to use them in a way that is decidedly sophisticated. With the black background and yellow dots, that background makes the focal point more on the formal side. We loved that Erin used a vellum circle to create that focal point as well, and along with her colour choices, everything worked together to make a very lovely Top Pick! Congratulations, Erin!

Our Featured Artist is: Milla

Milla didn't just use stripes in her creation today, she made the stripes work to enhance her whole design! The clean, straight lines of the stripes emphasized the clean lines of her florals and the preciseness of her copic colouring skills! The colour matching with the foliage and the stripes enhances the design as well! The stripes are perfectly juxtaposed with the arch of the main panel. Congratulations, Milla, on being Featured Artist  and winner this week!

                     

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

10.  Roseanne Mulhern

15.  Bobby

16.  Lisa Elton

18.  Christy Stanford

19.  Sandra Strobel

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Speed 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.