Week 203: CONGRATULATIONS

We'd like to congratulate those who played along last week!  There were so many perfectly clean & simple designs in the gallery!  Way to go!  This week's cue word should leave plenty of room for a wide variety of brainstorming ideas!  Life is so full of events that deserve a congrats!

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 week's winner their choice of either a $10 gift certificate to the online store OR 2 ARTplorations stencils!  Have you seen their newest release?!  Go take a look and then refresh your craft stash with the help of the 10% off discount code, CASOLOGY!

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

Guest Designer:  Angela

 design defined:
Manually changing your clear stamps so they mimic the curved edge can be visually pleasing.

Ardyth

design defined:
Grab attention with a bold stroke of colour in lots of white space!


Deidre

design defined:
A skewed sentiment can punch up the look of a CAS card.


Hannelie

design defined: 
Make your sentiment the focal point and keep it CAS. 


Hazel

design defined:
Lines can give a sense of movement to a CAS card.


Jacquie

design defined: 

Open images can help preserve white space and keep the design simple.


Jen

design defined:
White space doesn't have to be white.


Joyce 

design defined:  
Cluster and layer your elements to create a focal point.


Judy

design defined:

Using stickers combined with stamps can still be CAS.


Kymona

design defined:
Staying within 1/3 of the card, with a pop of color creates a CAS card!


Melissa

 design defined:
Remember that groupings of three are great when designing!


Sherrie

design defined:

Stamping your sentiment over your main image can help preserve white space.


Tracey

 design defined:
Using glitter paper in small doses keeps your design CAS.

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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