Winners for Challenge #271 - Flash Dry

Speed stamping challenges are fun! They really are! I wouldn't lie to you! Getting your adrenaline pumping is exhilarating! Getting back to basics but still making a beautiful card is a good skill to have! Planning out your design ahead of time is a different way of creating and trying something different is good for our development as artists, isn't it? Just reading the blogs of our few entries this week will convince you that a good, albeit hair-raising time was had by all! Thanks to the few who gave it a go!

Now on to our winners for this challenge! Because we had only a few entries, we will not be awarding Honorable Mentions this time.

Our first Top Pick is: Deborah Wheeler

The wonderful way that Deborah matched her colourful patterned paper with the inspirational sentiment makes this card stand out and you wouldn't believe that it was completed in just over 8 minuntes! The Design Team just loved the colourfulness of her project and the great way it illustrated the "Staying Dry" theme, because to stay dry you don't come outside until the rainbow appears, right?

Our Featured Artist is: Jolanda Johnstone

Jolanda's beautiful card is a testament to the way that detailed pre-planning and use of a stamp-positioning tool can aid your success in a speed stamping challenge! Would you believe it if I told you that her card was finished in 8 minutes and 54 seconds? If you want to learn how to do a speed challenge then read Jolanda's blog entry. It should be the textbook on the subject! And look at the beautiful colours she has used with her umbrella filled with flowers! Congratulations, Jolanda!

                                                   

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come back and join us tomorrow morning for our next challenge, a sketch 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 to Play Challenge #271 - Flash Dry

You still have a few hours left to play with our Speed Challenge #271 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Apr. 6th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.    

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #271 - Flash Dry

You still have time to play with our Speed Challenge #271 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Apr. 6th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

Challenge #271 - Flash Dry

For this challenge we are doing a Speed Stamping Challenge and the theme for the challenge created by Design Team member Heather H. is Staying Dry! So to get your adrenaline pumping in the most enjoyable way, create a card or other stamped project in under 10 minutes that illustrates the theme of staying dry in some form or another! Please let us know how long it took you to make it in your description.

When we do a speed challenge we are not expecting a detailed masterpiece from you. We want you to have fun and see what you can create in under 10 minutes! You can design it in your head or sketch it out first. You can gather all your supplies ahead of time. But once you start the cutting/stamping/die cutting/embossing /etc. process, you must start the timer!

You have 10 minutes! Let us know, with your entry, how long it took you to complete your card or project! The key is to KISS!! Keep It Simple, Stamper!

Let's see what the theme means to our Design Team in under 10 min.:

Heather Cooper 9m34s 

Heather Heroldt 7m40s

Jan Clothier 

Taking a break this week

Jane Knudsen 10m0s

Joanne James 10m0s

                                    LeAnne Pugliese 9m51s                                        

Here are some guidelines for the challenge:

• Create any card, scrapbooking page, 3D project or packaging project that fits the challenge.
• You can come up with your design and gather materials before you start the clock, but once you start work, you have to complete your design in 10 min. State in your blog or description, how long it took you to make it.
• Use the given theme in your project.
• 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 #AYS271 when uploading to a public gallery.
• If you’re unsure about ‘the rules’, check the details under the Challenge Guidelines.
• 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.*

*Just a note: These last two guidelines have been stated all along under the Challenge Guidelines tab on our site, but with the number of entries that have been exceeding the number of challenges entered guideline lately, we thought it would be a good idea to bring it to your attention. Why do we have this guideline? The spirit of our challenges is that we want them to inspire you rather than just be one of a list of challenges that just happens to fit a card that you've already created.

  

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