Beautiful Gallery for AYSI 349

 Time moves quickly and it's already rolled around to our most feared challenge of the roster - the SPEED CHALLENGE! For this challenge,  the theme is water but the time remains the same: create your card in ten minutes or less. 

Before you decide that's impossible, here's how it works.

1. Thinking time is not included. So you can have it all planned out before you start the timer.
2. Prepping equipment is not included. So you can get out the stamps and have them blocked up, the embellishments and dies can be on the table ready to go. The cardstock can be on the desk. 
3. Thankfully, clean up is not included either. 

BUT

The moment you ink a stamp, cut a piece of card, die-cut or emboss anything, then the timer has to start. 

Over the years of doing the speed challenge, I've worked out a couple of tricks. One is to use pretty papers so they'll do all the heavy lifting that time-consuming techniques would usually do. 

In this instance, I've turned to the Beautiful Gallery 6x6 DSP stack and I chose a moody water scene.

Part of the Gallery Blooms dies is one that cuts out three inset rectangles in a single pass. So I used it once on the scenic DSP and once on a piece of Cloud Cover. Then I replaced the centre scene rectangle with the matching Cloud Cover piece.

I stamped the sentiment, from Beautiful Motifs, in Secret Sea onto the Cloud Cover frame.  The whole thing was adhered to a Secret Sea card base. 

As I still had some time to spare, I added in three Secret Sea In Color Flat Pearls. 

How long did this take? I was pleasantly surprised to see that it only took...

The whole team would love to see what marvels you can create in ten minutes or less.  You can see what the rest of the team have done, and link up your entry, at the As You See It Challenge page. 

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