Winners for Challenge #280 - Christmas in July

Crafters are known for their early start on Christmas projects! And why not? Christmas projects are so much fun to do and give you so much scope for your imagination and mojo! We loved that you all put your jingle bells on in July (and August) and got into a festive mood for us!

Without further ado, I want to introduce you to our winners! Here they are: 

Our Top Pick is: Jolanda Johnstone

Jolanda featured some beloved past colours and some glittery snowflakes to get into that holiday spirit! Blues and silvers make a great Christmas palette and Jolanda found some creative ways to use it: dry emboss it with dies, heat emboss on blue with silver embossing powder, brayer blue ink onto a piece of white DSP with a silver foil accent that resists the ink, use a specialty silver foil, and, last but not least, die cut on glimmer paper! The result is stunning!

Our Featured Artist is: Cindy Major

Cindy's stunning corner easel card is almost more of a diorama, as there is so much to feast your eyes on. And when I say feast, I mean look at all the festive colour and joy! The red accents are heightened by that delicious, antique-looking pale mint colour and the background papers and images really continue that theme! The Design Team love the tag idea for addressing it to friends and family when you're ready to send it out! That's the way to start the holiday crafting season with a project full of inspiration, Cindy! Thank you!

                                                      

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

1. Colleen Begley

2. Shirley Gentry

5. Jennie Maier

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 #280 - Christmas In July

You still have a few hours left to play with our Fill in the Blank Challenge #280 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Aug. 10th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time. 

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #280 - Christmas in July

You still have time to play with our Fill in the Blank Challenge #280 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Aug. 10th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time. 

Challenge #280 - Christmas in July

Team mate LeAnne came up with a unique Fill in the Blank challenge this week. It's the last week in July but most crafters have their sights turning toward Christmas crafting starting about now. We want to know what kind of Christmas stamping you like to do most in the summer? Cards? Home décor? Gifts? Craft Fair Novelties? Ornaments? Let us know by filling in the blank in the Challenge Banner.

For a Fill in the Blank Challenge, you complete the sentence by filling in the blank, then you make your project based on the words you used to fill in the blank. How would you fill in this blank? Now, take on the challenge of making something amazing with it!

 And make sure to tell us, in your blog post, how you Filled in the Blank!

     

Here's what the Design Team like to make for Christmas in July:

Heather Cooper

Heather C. likes to make a Christmas Stationery Gift Set each year.

Heather Heroldt

Heather H. loves to use this Santa's Vacation stamp set!

Jan Clothier

Jan's favourite Christmas in July creation is Mini Crackers!

Jane Knudsen

Jane's favourite Christmas in July creation is a Christmas card in non-traditional colours!

Joanne James

Joanne likes to make home décor and festive table favours. 

LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne fills in the blank with Vintage Christmas.

• Create any card, scrapbooking page, 3D project or packaging project that fits the challenge.
• Fill in the blanks with the words that are right for you and then create your project with those words in mind. Tell us, in your blog or on your site, what words you used.
• 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#280 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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Winners for Challenge #204 - Christmas in July

We're full of Christmas Spirit after two weeks of looking at our Christmas in July recipe challenge entries! They inspired us to start thinking of Christmas designs and we're looking forward to Holiday Catalogues! Anyway, we had many beauties to choose from so it was hard, but in the end these three cards were our choices, with a tie for Featured Artist:

Our Top Pick is: Shirley Gentry

The Design Team loved the sweet wintery scene Shirley created using all the elements of the recipe challenge. The white background with the pops of red, green and gold was very effective. We also loved the sense of depth created by the texture of the embossed trees behind the die cut snowbank! Beautiful card, Shirley.

Our first Featured Artist is: Heather Heroldt

We loved Heather's hand stamped and coloured background paper with the swirls and curls of the strings of Christmas lights, peppered with stars. They are so colourful and really convey the sparkle of Christmas! The Design Team found this to be a great design including all the elements in the recipe!

And our second Featured Artist is: Eunice Stoneman 

Eunice has created an awesome card that looks like a folded quilt fabric star! The Design Team loved how she layered stars of coordinating colours, patterns and textures. It almost creates an optical illusion! The narrow borders on her paper panels has allowed her to mix patterns with great success! A Christmassy masterpiece!

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! I hope you'll come back and check out our new theme challenge tomorrow! Our winners 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 #204 - Christmas in July

You still have a few hours left to play with our recipe challenge #204 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, July 17th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #204 - Christmas in July

You still have time to play with our recipe challenge #204 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, July 17th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.

Challenge #204 - Christmas in July

We've changed the name of this next type of challenge from collection challenge to recipe challenge, because it better describes what you are to do with it. The elements on the Challenge Banner are basically your recipe - all of them have to be included on your project! But how you go about doing that is where your creativity can flow!

This next challenge is a recipe challenge created by Design Team Member Jane Knudsen, who was obviously hearing the far off peal of Christmas bells and channeling her inner ELF, for a Christmas in July kind of Recipe Challenge:

Let's see how the Design Team managed to get their stars aligned:

Amy Jasper

Heather Cooper

Jan Clothier

Jane Knudsen

LeAnne Pugliese

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#204 when uploading to a public gallery.
• If you’re unsure about ‘the rules’, check the details under the Challenge Guidelines tab.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter