Poppy Moments for AYSI243

Welcome to the first colour challenge of the year at As You See It! In addition to changing up our look, we've changed some other things this year as well.  For the first time ever, we're introducing the chance for someone to join us as a Guest Designer in a future challenge. So the winner of this colour challenge will be invited to join in as Guest Designer for our next Recipe challenge. Not only this colour challenge, but all future colour challenges will come with the GD spot attached. 

Even though I'm busy exploring the new products from the January-June Mini, this challenge graphic reminded me of the glorious Poppy Moments dies and Painted Poppies stamps from the annual catalogue and I just couldn't get past them. So off the shelf they came! And I'm glad they did because I love these vibrant poppies.

Since the challenge only allowed one red, I wondered how I'd get variation in the layers of the die cut. Of course, the answer was both simple and effective. I added Poppy Parade ink with a blending brush to the card stock on the bottom layer so that it would appear darker in the centre. 

Before assembling the die cut poppies and leaves, I used the large splatter stamp from Painted Poppies to add in some Sahara Sand and the smaller one to add in a few touched of Garden Green.

I could have stopped there but decided to get out the retired Poppy sequin mix and added in some more touches of Poppy Parade and a hint of gold. (Surely gold is a neutral? 😉)

After white embossing the sentiment from Peaceful Moments onto the Basic Gray cardstock, I trimmed one end with the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch although I could equally well have used one of the dies from Painted Labels.

We'd love to see how you see this colour challenge and, of course, we'd love to have YOU join us as Guest Designer.  You can see what the rest of the team have done with it and link up your entry at the As You See It Challenge site.

If you live in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the Contact Me tab at the top of the page. You can shop with me from anywhere in New Zealand by clicking on the SHOP NOW button in the sidebar or clicking on any of products below.

Product List

Painted Poppies Cling Stamp Set

[151599]

$48.00

Peaceful Moments Cling Stamp Set (English)

[151595]

$44.00

Poppy Moments Dies

[151594]

$78.00

Poppy Parade A4 Cardstock

[121694]

$18.50

Sahara Sand A4 Card Stock

[121695]

$18.50

Garden Green A4 Card Stock

[108605]

$18.50

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock

[121689]

$18.50

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$20.50

Poppy Parade Classic Stampin' Pad

[147050]

$15.75

Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad

[147117]

$15.75

Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad

[147089]

$15.75

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$20.00

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109132]

$12.50

Pinewood Planks 3D Embossing Folder

[152320]

$21.00

Lovely Labels Pick A Punch

[152883]

$48.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$7.25

Heat Tool

[129056]

$60.00

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

$252.00

Celebrate Sunflowers for AYSI 232 Design Team Card

 This week at As You See It, we're back to a colour challenge: it's always colour challenge straight after sketch challenge. It's an interesting selection of colours and we picked them before the new In-Colours came out. I suspect that if we were doing it now, we might have called it as Bumblebee, Cinnamon Cider and maybe even Just Jade. What do you think?

I jot down future challenges in a notebook that I can quickly look up, so when I did this card I wasn't looking at the challenge graphic. Surprise.... Celebrate Sunflowers turned out to be the right choice. I think some of the other members of the team also subliminally channelled the graphic or were reminded of sunflowers by the colours. In any event, we'd love to see what you do with them: sunflowers or not. 

Today's card is a straight forward one and it looks great in many different colourways. 

I do love that great big sunflower stamp from Celebrate Sunflowers. It's got a pleasing heft and is extremely satisfying to stamp. I started with two stamped directly onto the Whisper White card base. The third, I stamped in Cajun Craze onto Crushed Curry before die cutting it and overlaying the pretty lacy sunflower die. 

I used a Water Painter to swirl around the ink to darken the centre of the die cut sunflower. Generally speaking, I don't put water straight onto ordinary card-stock because it tends to pill but if you're quick, and the Water Painter is not sloppily wet, you can (usually) get away with it. 😀

I did use the small sunflower stamp to stamp in Bermuda Bay onto the Bermuda Bay base to add a little more interest to the border. 

So you've got until August 26 to play along with us and show us how you see these colours. You can visit the As You See It challenge site to see what the rest of the team have done and to link up your entry.

If you live in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up Demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the Contact Me tab at the top of the page. You can shop with me from anywhere in New Zealand by clicking on the SHOP NOW button in the sidebar or clicking on any of products below.

Product List 

Celebrate Sunflowers Bundle (English)

[154065]

$107.00

Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay

[131286]

$18.50

Cajun Craze A4 Card Stock

[121683]

$18.50

Card Stock A4 Crushed Curry

[131288]

$18.50

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$20.50

Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad

[147096]

$15.75

Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad

[147085]

$15.75

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

[147087]

$15.75

Water Painters

[151298]

$25.25

As You See It Challenge is back!

If you used to play along with us at As You See It, you will have noticed that we've been absent for some time now. It's a long story but it's covered by saying we experienced extreme technical difficulties and after a lot of attempts to save the site, we've started afresh. Should anything go wrong this time round, it would pay to check in at our Facebook page for any updates or information. Like us here on Facebook anyway to keep up with the latest in challenges and winners!

So, it's with great pleasure we kick off the renewed As You See It Challenge with a fabulous sketch for you to play with.

I'm so enjoying the new Dragonfly Dreams and Detailed Dragonfly thinlits from Stampin' Up and so here they are again! The stitched square framelit made a lovely edging for the acrylic block stamped panel. The stitching is taking the place of the ornate mount in the sketch.

It's hard to see here but the dragonfly has a glimmer, courtesy of some clear Wink of Stella.

Remember, you have TWO WEEKS to join us in showing us how you see this sketch and we'd love to see what you do.

Ingredients

Card: Island Indigo, Garden Green, Whisper White

Stamps: Dragonfly Dreams, Awesomely Artistic, an acrylic block

Inks: Island Indigo, Garden Green

Other: Detailed Dragonfly thinlits, Hexagon embossing folder (retired but there's the new Hexagon Dynamic Textured embossing folder in the new Occasions catalogue that's even better!), rhinestones, clear Wink of Stella, dimensional.