Winners for Challenge #338 - A Window into the New Year

What a lovely group of creations our Window into the New Year sketch inspired! Some were holiday cards, but some of you have moved on into spring or other themes now! It was a breath of fresh air! The next time we meet it will be in 2025, so we at As You See It want to wish you the very best over the holiday season. We've really enjoyed bringing you the challenge blog this year, and are looking forward to hopefully providing more creative inspiration in the next!

Let me introduce you to our winners! Here they are:

Our Top Pick is: Amanda Mertz

Amanda created a beautiful spring-like birthday card with our sketch, The Design Team loved the birthday cake focal point and the creative banners that made up the horizontal elements in the sketch!  Along with the lovely wild flowers that embellish the card, the font on the sentiment was just one more element that made this creation one that is fit for Top Pick! Congratulations, Amanda!

Our Featured Artist is: Julia Sager

Our winning entry, Julia Sager, the Featured Artist, has created a card both festive and elegant! The Design Team loved the classic colour palette of red, green and gold, the embossed background, and the creative horizontal elements. Those embossing dies created very compelling poinsettias for this seasonal display. Congratulations on being our Featured Artist, Julia!

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

  1.Christy Stanford

  2. Johanna from Lavender House**

  4. Birgit

  8. Jennie Maier

 11. Jolanda Johnstone

**Johanna completed a year long goal with this challenge! Read her post to find out what it was! Congratulations Johanna!

Come back to our blog on January 10 for our first challenge of 2025, which will be a Colour Challenge with a chance for the winner to be a guest designer for a 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 #338 - A Window into the New Year

You still have a few hours left to play our Sketch Stamping Challenge #338 - A Window into the New Year, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Dec. 18th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.      

 

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #338 - A Window into the New Year

You still have time to play our Sketch Stamping Challenge #338 - A Window into the New Year, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Dec. 18th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.      

 

Challenge #338 - A Window into the New Year

Welcome to our last challenge of 2024! Wow! I can hardly believe that the year is over! We've enjoyed presenting our challenges to you and seeing your wonderful submissions so much! Our last challenge of 2024 is a sketch challenge and it is, fittingly, like a window, thanks to Team Member Jane, allowing us a peek into the coming year!

For a sketch challenge, feel free to reverse it or turn it on it's side, or alter the shapes, but make sure that the integrity of the sketch is still there; make sure that we can still recognize the challenge sketch. Here it is:

Let's see what our Design Team did with this layout:

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Jane Knudsen

Joanne James

Deborah Wheeler

Here are some guidelines for the challenges:

• 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#338 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.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners for Challenge #337 - Turbo Trees

You are all getting so adept at Speed Stamping challenges! You are learning all the hacks and shortcuts and using your strengths to come up with designs that do not look at all like you only took 10 minutes or less to make! But, the question is, do you still get that rush of adrenaline when you start your timer?

Here are the lovely winners this time, chosen by the Design Team:

Our Top Pick is: Alma Heijenk

Alma's pretty card, which only took her 3 minutes and 25 seconds, is a great testament to second generation stamping, which is a super technique for speed stamping. Alma created a little forest of trees with depth and dimension, using one stamp and one ink simply using this technique twice and adding an attractive sentiment! You don't have a die cutting machine, embossing machine, or something to heat emboss with? No worries! You can create wonderful things with stamps, ink and paper! Congratulation, Alma, on being our Top Pick this week!

Our Featured Artist is: Toni Maddox

Toni, our winner, and Featured Artist, took that same concept and added another stamp, some heat embossing and ink blending and at least another colour and created a real eye-popper! The Design Team loved the stag focal image and the softly shaded oval in the background. The tree image was perfect for the style of the deer as well. You can see how the darker colour of the stag drew your eyes to him. Congratulations on being our Featured Artist this week, Toni!

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

8. Erin T.

14. Toni Maddox

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Our winners today can pick up their badges on this page and display them with pride on their blogs or sites. Please check out our new Sketch Challenge on our blog tomorrow morning!  

You Still Have a Few Hours Left to Play As You See It Challenge #337 - Turbo Trees

You still have a few hours left to play our Speed Stamping Challenge #337 - Turbo Trees, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #337 - Turbo Trees

You still have time to play our Speed Stamping Challenge #337 - Turbo Trees, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

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

 

Challenge #337 - Turbo Trees

What do you call a fast evergreen? Why, a Turbo Tree, of course, and it turns out that it's the perfect title for our latest Speed Stamping Challenge, created by the queen of speed stamping, our team member, Jan! And since the holiday season is here, that makes it even more appropriate for this time. Check out the Challenge Banner for this one:

Now those of you who are familiar with our Speed Challenges know that basically you have to create a card to fit the theme in under 10 minutes. But you can plan your card first and get out all your materials first. However, the moment you cut paper, or add ink to a stamp, or begin to use a tool, you must start the timer! 

In your post, make sure you tell us how long it took you to create your card.

Let's see how long it took our Design Team to make their projects:

Heather Cooper

9m6s

Heather Heroldt

8m26s

Jan Clothier

8m14s

Jane Knudsen

10m0s

Joanne James

6m0s

Deborah Wheeler

7m18s

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#337 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.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners for Challenge #336 - The Seeds of a Corny Theme

What do you do with seeds and/or acorns? Well, we had an education for this past challenge as we saw such a variety of interesting ways of illustrating the theme! And it was one theme that worked in both northern and southern hemispheres, spring and fall! 

Here are the winners of Challenge #336:

Our Top Pick is: Toni Maddox

This colourful, postage-style card is an absolute delight! The rich oranges and browns highlighted with blue, gave a sunny, fall ambience! All the images were so  bright and whimsical, and you did such a great job of stenciling! Congratulations, Toni, on being our Top Pick this week. 

Our Featured Artist is:  Rachel Black

For those of you already planning your garden for the spring, Rachel's winning card will take you right into that happy place again! The progression from seed to seedling to full-grown plant is so well illustrated here, but the beautiful designs are displayed on a shaded, stenciled background of brick, wood, and script! The neutrals of the seed packets, pots and backgrounds are in contrast with the seedlings and foliage as little pops of green. All in all, a gardener's delight.  Congratulations, Rachel, on being Featured Artist this week!

                                           

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

4. Lilly B.

9. Erin T.

11. Jolanda Johnstone

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Speed Stamping 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 #336 - The Seeds of A Corny Theme

You still have a few hours left to play our Theme Challenge #336 - The Seeds of A Corny Theme, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 20th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.      

 

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #336 - The Seeds of A Corny Theme

You still have time to play our Theme Challenge #336 - The Seeds of A Corny Theme, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 20th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.      

Challenge #336 - The Seeds of A Corny Theme

It's Theme Week at As You See It and our theme this week is quite specific, thanks to team member, Heather H. The theme is Seeds & Acorns! That's a lovely idea for fall or spring, so it works in whichever hemisphere you happen to live in! Here's the challenge banner to look at:

Do you have either a stamp set, dies or patterned paper that you can use for this Theme Challenge? Will you have to go to your "Retired Shelf"? Let's see how the Design Team tackled this challenge:

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Jane Knudsen

will be back next challenge😊

Joanne James

Deborah Wheeler

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 #336 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.*

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners for Challenge #335 - Recipe for Thinking of You Warmly

Thanks to all the guest "chefs" who tried out our Recipe Challenge last week! Those warm colours mixed with the metallics were gorgeous! A real tip of the hat to Autumn! It was very hard to pick winners, but that's our job, so we did it and here they are:

Our Top Pick is: Deb Horst 

Deb created a beautiful "caffeinated collage"! Her ink layering in the background collage is just beautiful and includes some dry embossing, highlighted with ink! There is even a metallic charm included, but nothing looks out of place. And the texture that Deb has incorporated is just scrumptious! This card is so skillfully done, it really deserves the Top Pick! Congratulations, Deb.

And our Featured Artist this week:

Our Featured Artist is: LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne, our Featured Artist this week and winner, used the elements of the recipe in very creative ways! That orange  background paper is stunning and those two tags of differing sizes and all the autumn bits you have displayed on your card are remarkable! Also there is no shortage of delicious texture, which adds so much depth, as in the cross stitch embossed border down the side and the random embossing on the tag! Well earned Featured Artist award!  Congratulations, LeAnne!

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

    10. Birgit

    11. Yvon Doensen

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Theme 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 #335 - Recipe for Thinking of You Warmly

You still have a few hours left to play our Recipe Challenge #335 - Recipe for Thinking of You Warmly, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 6th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.   

You Still Have Time to Play Challenge #335 - Recipe for Thinking of You Warmly

You still have time to play our Recipe Challenge #335 - Recipe for Thinking of You Warmly, at As You See It Challenges! Why don't you give it a try, here.

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, Nov. 6th, at 11:55 pm Pacific time.                

Challenge #335 - Recipe for Thinking of You Warmly

I'm really excited about this Recipe Challenge because it has so many elements in it that I love to create with. That's probably because I created this challenge! But tags! Warm tones for October! Metallics! Embossed texture! It's all my favourites in one creation! I hope you love it too! 

You have to include all the elements in the recipe on your creation, but how you do that is up to you! Have fun and start your ovens, er...stamp sets!

We are so pleased to welcome our fifteenth guest designer, Annette Elias, (who was our Featured Artist on Challenge #333 a couple of weeks back) for this challenge.

And here is the beautiful card she made for it:

I wonder if the other Design Team members loved this challenge? Let's see what they did with it?

Heather Cooper

Heather Heroldt

Jan Clothier

Jane Knudsen

Still on a break this week

Joanne James

Deborah Wheeler

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 #335 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.*

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter