Introducing Milka Gubo!

Happy Monday!  We have more exciting news for you today!  Milka Gubo of Crafty Milka is joining the CASology team!

I’m Milka, a 38 year old crafter/card maker from Croatia. I live in a small lovely town near our capital, in Ivanic-Grad. I live with my partner, my best friend and great life supporter. By profession, I’m a graduate traffic engineer and economist. I have worked as a secretary, accountant, sales person, elementary school teacher of Mathematics, Physics and Technics, but currently do not work anywhere.

I’ve been crafting for as long as I can remember. I love all sorts of crafts: knitting, crocheting, modeling, origami folding etc., but card making is my number one love. When I’m not spending time in my craft room, you’ll find me cooking, gardening, reading, riding a bike or solving Math and Physics problems.

Although I have made cards since I was a kid, mostly for my mom, I fell in love with card making in autumn 2006, recently after I moved from Ivanic to Dubrovnik. I had to stay in bed for weeks due to some health issues at that time. I accidentally ran into a card making challenge on the Internet and discovered a whole new world to me. Stamps, challenges, blogs, card makers from all over the World: I was in love. I’ve started making cards on a daily basis, started my own blog, started playing in challenges, joined some design teams...and now I’m here, joining the CASology Design Team. I didn’t think twice when I was asked to join, as CAS design is my favorite card making design. I’m super happy and looking forward to working with the super talented CASology Design Team.

We're thrilled to have Milka joining the team and think you'll love her clean & simple style!  You can follow her work over on her blog or on her Instagram account.  Go say hello!  Inspiration awaits!

Are You Playing?

There is still time to play along with the current challenge at CASology! You have until Monday at 9:00 a.m. (CDT) to submit your creation and we'd love to have you join us!

Week 348: SHIMMER

Time to shimmer and shine this week!  We're looking forward to a pretty gallery!

**Please note:  This particular challenge will be three weeks long due to scheduled vacation time!  That just means everyone will have an extra week to join in the fun!

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!)

STAMPlorations is returning as our wonderful sponsor and is offering this challenge's winner $25 off their next online order!

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

Guest Designer:  Maria

design defined:
A simple color scheme & one small embellishment makes the design.

Deidre

design defined:
A dark background can make a dramatic statement!

Jacquie

design defined:
A touch of gray shadow helps ground an image.

Janet

design defined:
Group elements and keep to a one tone palette.

Jen

design defined:

Use the Rule of Thirds for a quick and easy CAS layout.

Joyce

design defined:
Use a simple color scheme.

Karen

design defined:
Make the extra details the same color as the card base so they stay in the background.

Nancy

design defined:
Adding a small matte of colour creates visual interest and dimension.

Sue

design defined:
Overlapping sentiment and image leaves plenty of white space.

Go have fun creating your CAS design and don't forget to link up here on the CASology blog by Monday, August 5, at 9:00 a.m. (CDT)!

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