Winners for Challenge #345 - Spring Freshness

We're excited to announce the winners of Challenge #345 because the Featured Artist will be our Guest Designer for the next Recipe Challenge in two weeks! Those Spring Freshness colours were so pretty to play with! Your entries were unique and spring-like and very hard to choose winners from!

Here are the winners for this challenge:

Our Top Pick is: Amanda Mertz

 Amanda made great use of the challenge colours! The soft, pastel bokeh background was subdued but gave depth to the card. We loved the combination of the large florals with combined challenge colours, and the sprinkling of small florals and sequins adding interest! Congratulations on Top Pick, Amanda !

Our Featured Artist is: Christy Stanford

As Featured Artist this week, Christy will also be invited to be our next Guest Designer! Christy has made some bold choices for this colour challenge. Her intense  and busy background would be hard to use in most designs but she managed to keep her focal point from being overwhelmed by it with the use of the paper strips from the sketch in the brighter colours! It just moved the lovely florals right to the foreground.  Congratulations,Christy, you will be our next Guest Designer for our Recipe Challenge in 2 weeks time. We will be in touch!

                                                      

You might want to visit our Honorable Mentions on their web sites:

    1. Erin T.

    2. Birgit

    9. Johanna @LHC

  11. Jolanda Johnstone

Join us tomorrow morning for our next challenge, a Fill In the Blank 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 Left to Play Challenge #345 - Spring Freshness

You still have a few hours left to play our Colour Challenge #345 - Spring Freshness at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Apr. 16th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.    

You Still Have Time To Play Challenge #345 - Spring Freshness

You still have time left to play our Colour Challenge #345 - Spring Freshness at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Apr. 16th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.    

Challenge #345 - Spring Freshness

I love colour challenges for their inspiration, so I'm grateful to our team member, Jan C. for giving us such a beautiful one to work with this week. The colours are fresh and springlike, hence the name of the challenge - Spring Freshness! Here's the Challenge Banner to check out:

I can hardly wait to see your creativity blossom with these beautiful colours! (As always, if you don't have these ®Stampin' Up!© colours, try to approximate them as closely as possible.)

Every time we have our regular colour challenge, it's a chance for a new person to become our guest designer for a challenge, by winning Featured Artist on our Colour Challenge. If you do, you will be our Guest Designer on the next Recipe Challenge in four weeks. Keep that in mind as you enter!

Also, we are thrilled to welcome back a dear friend onto our Design Team. LeAnne Pugliese was off on a needed sabbatical for a while, but is back, ready to grace us with her beautiful designs again. Welcome back LeAnne!

Now let's see how our Design Team used these colours to create their projects:

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.*

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