Winners for Challenge #346 - A Blast from the Past

It was so much fun, and entertaining, too, reading about everyone's favourite retired crafting tools and how they use them! There were definitely some of my old favourites in the lists! And when you see the same tool listed time after time, you KNOW it was an oldie but a goodie!  And here are your winners for Challenge #346!

Our Top Pick is: Milla

Milla's favourite tool is a retired stamp set with an adorable, whimsical image of a bird and a wreath! There might be some argument about a stamp set being a tool, but you really couldn't stamp without stamps, so they are tools in the wide sense of the word. Milla has created a beautiful CAS card here with it, using cool colours, lots of textured white space, and a great background paper! The scalloped edged die cut was the perfect display panel for the stamped die cuts! Congratulations, Milla!

 

Our Featured Artist is: Sandra Strobel

Our Featured Artist, Sandra Strobel, has created a steampunk project in a collage formatl! The Design Team loved that there were so many gears, chains, and other mechanical details, thanks to Sandra's favourite punches that she has kept, but also that the light coloured wood and blue theme, kept it from being overpowering! It's a feast for the eyes! Congratulations on being the Featured Artist, Sandra!

                                                      

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

  4. Donna

  6. Christy Stanford

 11. Liz Williams

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Recipe 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 #346 - A Blast From the Past

You still have a few hours left to play our Fill In The Blank Challenge #346 - A Blast From the Past at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Apr. 30th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #346 - A Blast From the Past

You still have time left to play our Fill In The Blank Challenge #346 - A Blast From the Past at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Apr. 30th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.    

Challenge #346 - A Blast from the Past

Not all of us are hoarders, but I bet that most of us keep some retired or discontinued crafting tools that we love, that we swear that we'll NEVER get rid of! What tools are those, in your case? Care to share what they are and why you are keeping them?? When I concocted this challenge I thought maybe we'd not only find out some interesting stories, but maybe we'd find some new uses for tools that we were unaware of! I'm really looking forward to this one!!

Let's find out what retired tools our Design Team vow to keep until life as we know it comes to an end:

Deborah Wheeler

Deborah wants to keep this Stained Glass Easter Window stamp in perpetuity!

Heather Cooper

Heather C. has an unhealthy desire to hoard all her punches!

Heather Heroldt

Heather vows to never part with her Stamp-a-ma-jig!

Jan Clothier

Jan has a life-long relationship with the Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder!

Joanne James

Joanne will never part with her Bunny Builder Punch ... or itty bitty flower punches, or Scalloped Contours Dies!

LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne will never let go of her polka dot embossing folder!

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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