Winners for Challenge #260 - Perpendicular

There's something so satisfying about right angles. Maybe that's why they call them "right" angles! At any rate, they make for a lovely card layout and the entries in our latest challenge, Perpendicular, really did them justice! Here are the winners:

Our Top Pick is: Deborah Wheeler

Deborah did an amazing job ink blending for the horizontal AND vertical elements of this sketch!  The Design Team loved the way the colours in both of these elements echoed each other. The were the perfect background for the beautiful lined stamp of the heron! All in all, an artistically beautiful entry!

Our Featured Artist is: Akiko Sudano

This week's Featured Artist, Akiko, has created a stunningly beautiful landscape that deserves to be framed! From her subtle but lovely sponged sunset in the background, to the masked birch trees she has stamped to the details of the land and the leaves and the textured layers, this is a work of art! The Design Team was unanimous!

                                                      

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

7.  Amy Koenders

8. Stef Perry

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Colour Challenge tomorrow morning on our blog! The Featured Artist from the Colour Challenge tomorrow will be invited to be a Guest Designer for one up-coming 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 #260 - Perpendicular

You still have a few hours left to play with our Sketch Challenge #260 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Oct.13th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #260 - Perpendicular

You still have time to play with our Sketch Challenge #260 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Oct.13th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.

Challenge #260 - Perpendicular

Perpendicular elements are a sure thing in a sketch, and thanks to Design Team member, Jane, we have a great sketch making use of them this week. Have some fun with it, especially with the main image panel. The sky's the limit with what you can include on that!

Feel free to rotate or flip the sketch, just keep the integrity of it, so we can recognize it. 

How graphic did the Design Team get with the sketch? Let's see:

Amy Jasper

Heather Cooper

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.
• Feel free to flip or rotate the sketch and to substitute one shape for another but we must still be able to see the sketch in your finished submission.
• 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 #AYSI260 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

Winners for Challenge #259 - Speed Humour

I hope you get a chance to go through all the entries in our last As You See It Challenge! It was so much fun because not only was it a speed stamping challenge, but it had a humour theme as well! I got a lot of chuckles looking at the entries and reading through the blog posts for them all! Thanks to all who braved the adrenaline rush of entering in a speed stamping challenge! It was the usual difficult job of picking winners but without further comment, here they are:  

Our Top Pick is: Heather Heroldt

From all accounts, Eleanor Roosevelt was a witty woman, and we've always loved this quote of hers! Heather ingeniously came up with her own design of a teabag using vellum for her card, and must have had it all figured out in her head before she started, because she finished her card in 8 min and 33 sec! This is a great example of creativity under pressure! 

Our Featured Artist is: Jules

Jules obviously has a great sense of humour and the Design Team loved her army of Grey Hares, looking like they all have some greater purpose in life! (Probably to bring us grief and a sense of passing time, right?)  We loved the little touches that she included such as the stitching around her image panel - very brave for a speed stamping challenge and the little pop of blue in the otherwise monotone grey palette. Jules completed her project in 9 min and 13 sec, well under the 10 minute deadline! Well done and so funny, Jules!

                                                    

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

 #3.  Rachel Davis

#10. Jolanda Johnstone

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Sketch 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 #259 - Speed Humour

You still have a few hours left to play with our Speed Challenge #259 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Sept.29th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.

You Still Have Time To Play Challenge #259 - Speed Humour

You still have time to play with our Speed Challenge #259 at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here?

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Sept.29th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.