Winners of Challenge #273 - They Call It The Blues

We're keen to announce the winners of Challenge #273 because the Featured Artist will be our Guest Designer for the next Recipe Challenge in two weeks! We're very excited to work with the winner! We were definitely not singing the blues about the entries we received for our monochromatic palette for this challenge. They were "blue"tiful!

After deliberations we were "azure" about our winners and here they are:

Our Top Pick is: Lisa K.

Lisa's beautiful floral image is stunning, stamped in Versamark and Navy ink and clear embossed, then masterfully coloured in using the challenge blues with just the right touch, giving an airy lightness to the bouquet and a luminous quality as well! Lisa, you made the blues glow!

Our Featured Artist is: Shirley Gentry

Shirley created her own background paper that she calls SSP (Shirley's Special Paper) using the challenge colours and white. It has just the right feel for this jaunty, adventurous little card. The Design Team loved the look of the 3D sails and how the little sailboat seems to come alive, sailing right off the card front in nautical navy! 

Congratulations, Shirley, you will be our next Guest Designer for our Recipe Challenge in 2 weeks time. We will be in touch!

                                                      

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

  2. Jolanda Johnston

  6. Deborah Wheeler

  7. Ingen

 

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Fill in the Blank 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 To Play Challenge #273 - They Call It The Blues

 You still have a few hours to play with our Colour Challenge #273 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, May 4th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #273 - They Call It the Blues

You still have time to play with our Colour Challenge #273 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, May 4th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.  

Challenge #273 - They Call It The Blues

I look at the banner for today's challenge with that amazing photo of the geode in shades of blue and I have an old Elton John song running through my head, "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues!" It's a monochromatic type of colour challenge this time around and it's in shades of blue - beautiful ones! I hope our team member LeAnne wasn't in a blue mood when she came up with this challenge, but it's really going to result in some gorgeous projects!

Each time we have a colour challenge, the Featured Artist will have a chance to become a Guest Designer for our next Recipe Challenge 4 weeks from now. So enter with that in mind! We're so excited to work with you for a challenge!!

Remember, if you don't have the Stampin' Up! colours, use the colours you have that are the closest. Your project should use all these colours only and 1 neutral. (Neutrals include black, white, vanilla or Crumb Cake.)

Let's see how the Design Team played with the blues this week :

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Jane Knudsen

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 #AYSI273 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.*

*Just a note: These last two guidelines have been stated all along under the Challenge Guidelines tab on our site, but with the number of entries that have been exceeding the number of challenges entered guideline lately, we thought it would be a good idea to bring it to your attention. Why do we have this guideline? The spirit of our challenges is that we want them to inspire you rather than just be one of a list of challenges that just happens to fit a card that you've already created.

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