Winners for Challenge #330 - Antique Beauty

For some of us, creating layers and layers, adding lots of embellishments, distressing and sponging edges, adding ribbon, ink splatters and stamped script is food for the soul. For those who love a clean and simple look, it seems like total overkill! But to each their own and it's nice to provide opportunities for the shabby chic lovers to sponge to their hearts content once in awhile! Thanks to all who entered, whatever style you may prefer!

Here are the winners of Challenge #330:

Our Top Pick is: Sandra Strobel

This vintage style  card is an absolute delight! The rich reds and browns served to highlight the wonderful softly sponged fern and those good-enough-to-eat mushroons.  The dark sponging at the edges turned it into a perfect nature vignette. Whoever is lucky enough to receive this couldn't help but be delighted. Congratulations, Sandra, on being our Top Pick this week. 

Our Featured Artist is:  Sandra Strobel

This card was an absolute masterclass in vintage/shabby chic style! The warm tones of brown and gold worked well with the richness of the blues. The softly distressed sheet music provided a charming base for the luscious layers of blue and gold foliage.The wash of blue was a restful spot to highlight the glorious pumpkins. All in all, a vintage delight. I don't know if it's happened before but huge congratulations on being both our Top Pick AND Featured Artist this week!

                                           

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

4. Christy at Snapdragon Stamps

8. DJ at Sendable Sentiments

11. Johanna at Lavender House Creations

13. Suzy at Stamp n' Sip

 

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.  

You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play Challenge #330 - Antique Beauty

You still have a few hours left to play our Theme Challenge #330 - Vintage Beauty, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Aug. 28th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.              

You Still Have Time To Play Challenge #330 - Antique Beauty

You still have time to play our Theme Challenge #330 - Vintage Beauty, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Aug. 28th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.             

Challenge #330 - Antique Beauty

Thanks to our creative team member, Jan, we all have an opportunity to indulge our Victorian character with this challenge. Yes, it's a theme challenge and the theme is Vintage or Shabby Chic! Get out those sponges, those ribbons, those distressing tools, and go to town! I'm saying this gleefully, cause that's my jam, from way back when I started stamping! Just have some fun going a bit overboard. Here's the challenge banner:

 Let's see how the Design Team handled the Shabby Chic:

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Jane Knudsen

Joanne James

Away this week

Deborah Wheeler

Here are some guidelines for the challenge:

• Create any card, scrapbooking page, 3D project or packaging project that fits the challenge.
• Use every element in the recipe, but the possibilities within those parameters are endless.
• 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#330 when uploading to a public gallery.
• If you’re unsure about ‘the rules’, check the details under the Challenge Guidelines tab.
• 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.

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