Week 230: Weekly Winners!

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

Jen had the honor of selecting the Winner for Week #230 and here is her selection:

Anita's gorgeous vellum backed snowflake, with it's subtle touches of bling, shows how a large image can be used for a CAS creation.

Congratulations, Anita!

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. Sherrie's Choice: Bev's happy,fun fussy cut tissue box is the perfect cure for the common COLD!	2. Joyce's Choice: Cornelia's night sky is so beautiful and is perfect contrast for her snowy scene.	3. Jacquie's Choice: Everything about this sweet, fun card is clean & fresh! Just perfectly CAS, Milka!	4. Judy's Choice: Lisa's adorable sledding bear is keeping it cool and CAS! I love the snowy sky!
5. Janet's choice: Trina's touch of turquoise shading adds a frosty feel to the cute bird.	6. Melissa's Choice: Claire's white on white design kept elements to the lower third. So cute!	7. Kymona's Choice: Monika's card is so realistic! I can feel the "cold"! Perfectly CAS! Congrats!	8. Hannelie's choice: Rose's trio of inviting cocktail glasses are a fun an beautiful take on the cue!
9. Rachel's Choice: Claire's gorgeous ombre inking really makes the snowflake pop!	10. Deidre's Choice: May's card is a great CAS design in kraft and white! Such a sweet & chilly scene :)

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 #231!

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There is still time to play along with the current challenge at CASology! You have until Monday at NOON (CST) to submit your creation and we'd love to have you join us!

Week 230: COLD

It's time for the first challenge of 2017!  Being January and the middle of winter for many in the world, we thought this cue word might be fitting.  Of course, if you're in the middle of some warmer season, maybe this will remind you of a cold drink!

As always, remember the following CAS guidelines when creating your design:

1. One main image
2. Lots of open space, uncluttered
3. Limited layers & embellishments
4. Quick & easy to recreate (Note: It may take a while to create a design you like, but once you have that design, making more should be a piece of cake!)

Rubber Dance Stamps is returning as our wonderful sponsor and this week's winner will receive the Frosty Friends stamp set!

Let's take a look at what the design team and this week's guest designer created for inspiration!

Guest Designer:  Wendy

design defined:

Limited layers, a simple colour scheme & lots of white space help keep a design CAS.


Deidre

design defined:
Selective coloring and lots of white space keep a card CAS!

 

Hannelie

design defined:
Faux embossing adds interest and preserves white space.


Jacquie

design defined: 
Masking allows you to layer images and keep to the one third rule for a CAS design.


Janet

design defined:
You can use patterned paper in small amounts and still keep it CAS; and keeping to one third of the card is a good rule to follow.


Jen

design defined:

Patterned paper in small doses adds interest to CAS designs.


Joyce

design defined:
Adding just a few pops of color can spice up a mostly white CAS design.


Judy

design defined:

Masking and inking around an embossed frame adds dimension to a one-layer card.

Kymona

design defined:
Basic coloring keeps your card CAS!!

Melissa

 design defined:
Monochromatic color schemes work well in CAS design.


Rachel

design defined:

You can create a fun winter background and still keep it clean and simple by using white on white.


Sherrie

design defined:

Embossing paste adds subtle texture to a CAS card.

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

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