Week 162: Weekly Winners!

It's time to announce our Weekly Winner and Honorable Mentions! 

Judy had the honor of selecting the Winner for Week #162 and here is her selection:

I love how Bhavana's patterned envelopes hold "love notes" and just pop 
against her clean, red card base.  Clean and simply lovely!

Congratulations, Bhavana! 

Below is a winner's badge to proudly display on your blog:

 

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Here are the Honorable Mentions chosen by the rest of the design team:

1. Ardyth's Choice: I love Aileen's fresh colour choice and use of vintage and modern imagery!	2. Tracey's Choice: Sarah masked her envelopes beautifully in pastel colours keeping her design CAS!	3. Joyce's Choice: I love the juxtaposition of the small colored 'stamp' image atop the sweet text background on Janet's card.
4. Jen's Choice: The white on white layers, soft shading and touch of shine on the heart make Rachel's card sweet, CAS perfection!	5. Melissa's Choice: l love Ren's framed sentiment & textured card base! Such a great CAS design!	6. Hazel's Choice: Lisa's prettily colored little girl, cleverly stamped off the page, is a CAS beauty.
7. Hannelie's choice : Gloria Lee's personalised card for her son caught my eye in beautiful blue!	8. Kymona's Choice: I love Shelly's use of that pretty purple with a lot of white space. It is super CAS!	9. Kimberly's Choice: Conil's card is elegant and just the perfect "note"!!! CONGRATS Conil!

Congratulations to all of you! 

Here is a badge to proudly display on your blogs: 

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Be sure to stop back in an hour for challenge #163!

Week 162: WRITE

Get your ink ready!  Interpret this cue word any way it happens to inspire you & then go brighten someone's snail mail box this week with your CAS creation!  We all like happy mail, after all!

The wonderful Cindy B Designs is returning to sponsor us and is offering this week's winner a $25 PayPal gift certificate!

Now let's take a look at what the design team & this week's guest designer created for inspiration!

Guest Designer:  Diana

 design defined:
Patterned paper in small doses can add extra interest.

Ardyth

design defined: 

When using stamps from different sets, choose a similar line-width to unify your design. 


Hannelie

design defined: 
'Over the edge' always adds interest to a CAS design.


Hazel

design defined:
Keeping the action in one corner keeps things CAS.


 Jen

design defined:

An ombre colour palette helps to keep a design simple. 


Joyce

design defined:

A simple color scheme works well for a CAS card.


Judy

 design defined: 

Keep your main image centralized to provide maximum white space.


Kimberly

 design defined: 

Try to use your stamps in new ways!  Balance your design with your sentiment and leave lots of uncluttered space for a CAS card! 


Kymona

design defined:

A clean, subtle background works well on a CAS design. 


Melissa

design defined:

Use subtle lines to draw the eye to your focal image. 


Tracey

design defined: 
A simple sentiment can make a big impact.

Go have fun creating your CAS design and don't forget to link up here on the challenge blog by Monday at NOON (CDT)!

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