As You See It Challenge

It's theme week!! 

How many of you include animals on your cards normally?  Not me.  Maybe, for a baby shower card but that's about it.  

So I scrounged around in my stamp room and came across this elephant that I have always liked.  He's such a party animal so a happy birthday card it became.  

Please play along with us at www.asyouseitchallenge.com this week & show off your animal inspired project!  

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Happy Stamping! 

House of Blues, speed style! 

Are you ready for a new style of challenge?  This one is sure to get your heart pumping.  

Here's the rules:  You need to focus on shades of blue and do it in 10 minutes or less! 

I have to admit this challenge did make me panic a bit, but in the end it all came together.  I used the Best Mate stamp set from Stampin' Up!'s occasions catalog along with matching paper.  

Please play along with the challenge at www.asyouseeitchallenge.com

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It's Friday!!!  

Phew, thank goodness.  It has been one of those weeks for me.  Mainly because it continues to snow in Michigan.  Enough already with the snow Mother Nature.  I am so ready for sun & warmth.  

This week is another great sketch put together by Amanda from the design team.  

 

I'm not sure if tags ever went out of style but I do know that they are back in!  What a quick and easy layout for this week.  You can adapt it to fit your needs of course, but we would love it if you would play along with us.  

I had to show off the great Sale-A-Bration paper that Stampin' Up! has available now.  However it will be gone forever on the 31st.  It's free with any $50 product purchase.  

I'm trying to get ahead in planning for my daughters birthday in April, so these may be the invites for it.  I'm thinking it fits Adventure Baby for sure, bright with a cupcake!  :)

Please play along with us at www.asyouseeitchallenge.com

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Have a great weekend!

It's theme week!!!  

Ahh, Polaroid cameras, love them, love them.  My dear hubby actually gave me one for my birthday last summer, but that has nothing to do with my project for this week. :)  

This week theme is: 

Stampin' Up! has a great framelit set that includes the Polaroid Frame and the camera that I used.  I also used gold foil paper and washi tape that's straight out of the Occasions Catalog.    

Fun times don't you think?  

Of course please play along with this weeks sketch at www.asyouseeitchallenge.com

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As You See It Challenge

It's another week and another challenge.  Are you loving the new inspiration each week that you find with the challenges?  I know I'm glad that they are keeping me stamping & creating.  

What a great & simple design!  Plus, those thought bubbles are all the rage right now.  

Here is my sample using some of the wooden pieces that Stampin' Up! brought out in the Occasions Catalog.  I just quick stamped the sentiment on it with Staz-On black ink. Easy peezy.  

Don't forget to play along at www.asyouseeitchallenge.com  

Happy Stamping!  

Love is in the air.  

Ah, another week, another challenge filled with hearts and love!  

This weeks challenge is a totally different style for me but I do love all the different elements in it.  

Check it out:

Here is my version of the card. 

Did you notice the new products from the Stampin' Up! Occasions Catalog?  New paper, new stamp sets, ah love. 

Hope you enjoy it!  

Please remember to play along with the As You See It Challenge at www.asyouseeitchallenge.com

As You See It Challenge #22

It's another week and another challenge.  If your week was anything like mine you were probably snowed in at home.  It has been snowing like crazy in Michigan for the past week with another storm to arrive on Saturday.  I'm ready for spring.  

Here is this week's challenge!  

Gotta love a great open ended challenge right!  Ok, I have to admit I am not a purple gal at all.  I do like Elegant Eggplant but Wisteria Wonder I have never used.  * Confession:  I had to take the plastic wrap off my Wisteria Wonder ink pad after about 2 years!!  Yikes!  *Confession #2: I think I really like the color and should of used it long ago, sigh. 

Here is the card I ended up with.  I'm going to call it a sunburst card.  There are a bunch of great YouTube videos out there with instruction on how to make them.  I just switched it up a bit by using card stock and sliding the layers.  The Whisper White is actually the base layer.  

Hope ya like it!  

As always please play along with the challenge at www.asyouseeitchallenge.com

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As You See It Challenge! 

It's that time again for another challenge from the AYSI design team.  I really like this sketch and how easy my project came together.  

Here is the scrapbook page that I came up with of Adventure Baby & our dog Marley.  My daughter loves this dog so much & the dog loves her.  They are peas in a pod.  Marley was a new addition to our family this summer, so we are still working on some things, like don't run on the leash.   

Now it's your turn to take the challenge.  Link up your project to the As You See It Challenge blog.

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As You See It Challenge #12

There is nothing like a good challenge right?  This week's sketch is a keeper that's easy to change to whatever your occasion is.  

 What an easy layout, right?  

I decided to make a quick and cute easy Christmas card.  I also ran washi tape through the big shot to make the rick-rack piece.  I attached it to whisper white card stock first though.  

Please make sure that you play along this week!  We will be giving away blog candy!  The winner of this weeks challenge will receive (you have to live in North America) a pop-n-place kit.  It's a great kit! Make sure you link up to www.asyouseeitchallenge.com with your project.  Good luck!  

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As You See It Challenge

Remember way back when....you know when you would play the telephone game in school or youth group?  It would start out as Sally got a new dog & end up as George went to a concert.  

So my understanding is that this week's challenge is called a telephone design.  I'm not so sure why that is but it is.  I'm thinking because we give you the items to use and you do the design.  

So here it is!  

The challenge is to use all the items listed above in your card.  

I 'may' of cheated a bit and made my card a 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 sized card.  The beauty on this size card is you can still mail it in a normal card envelope.  

I used my Sizzix Big Shot to cut out the flowers and stamped the background using my favorite set Gorgeous Grunge.  Love that stamp set!  Next I stamped Thanks and assembled the card.  Quick, easy, and cute, my type of card.  

Please play along in the As You See It Challenge this week but linking up at www.asyouseeitchallenge.com

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