Winners for Challenge #329 - Forest Bathing

Thanks to all the guest "chefs" who tried out our Recipe Challenge last week! The beautiful greens in your projects were almost as soothing as Forest Bathing! It's amazing how 5 different ingredients can be combined in so many different ways. Your cards gave us some beautiful designs! Here are the winners:

Our Top Pick is: Jolanda Johnstone

Jolanda used some beautiful patterned paper in shades of green to satisfy that ingredient in our recipe, then stepped it up by embossing that paper with leaves. She added a vertical column and used a different embossing folder for that. The focal point is a medallion of white with lovely tree shapes stamped on in different shades of green and a birthday sentiment, satisfying each element of the recipe when you include the baker's twine around the vertical layer. With the contrast between the green rays and the white medallion, Jolanda has given us a striking composition worthy of Top Pick! 

And our Featured Artist this week:

Our Featured Artist is: Teresa S.

Teresa, our Featured Artist this week and winner, used the elements of the recipe in very creative ways! The Design Team loved her sparkly green palm trees and the embossing she used on the trunks! The many and varied places the shades of green showed up, including the palm fronds and the hammock, as well as the background paper, were interesting and eye-catching.  And look at the clever way Teresa incorporated the twine in her project, as the ties for her green hammock! Wow! Well earned Featured Artist award!  Congratulations, Teresa!

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

    2. Johanna @LHC

    3. Erin T.

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Theme 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 As You See It Challenge #329 - Forest Bathing

 

You still have a few hours left to play our Recipe Challenge #329 - Forest Bathing, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Aug. 14th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.             

 

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #329 - Forest Bathing

You still have time to play our Recipe Challenge #329 - Forest Bathing, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Aug. 14th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.             

 

Challenge #329 - Forest Bathing

Our Design Team member, Heather H., cooked up this recipe challenge and it is full of natural elements! Have you heard of Forest Bathing? This challenge reminds me of that!  Have fun with this recipe, and we can't wait to see how you use all 5 of these elements! 

You have to include all the elements in the recipe on your creation, but how you do that is up to you! Have fun and start your ovens, er...stamp sets!

We are so pleased to welcome our fourteenth guest designer, Carol McFarland, (who was our Featured Artist on Challenge #327 a couple of weeks back) for this challenge

And here is the beautiful card she made for this challenge:

Carol McFarland

Let's see how dramatic the Design Team is:

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Jane Knudsen

Joanne James

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#329 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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