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

Featured Designer: Shona Chambers

 

Today, we're back with another Featured Designer!  This time, Shona Chambers is in the spotlight for the next four weeks!  Please give her a warm welcome and be sure and go leave her some blog love on her blog where she's sharing more photos of her home and some cards she's made!

Hi everybody, my name is Shona Chambers and I come from a tiny town called Blenheim in New Zealand. I am married to Dave and have two children, Phoebe 11yrs and Max 9yrs. We also have two cats Spilly and Scribbles, and at the moment two golden retrievers Bella and Oscar. We live in 106 year old villa which we have nearly finished renovating. I love to garden and have a lot of roses everywhere, mainly David Austin. I also garden for a living which keeps me out of mischief!!

I found out about craft blogs etc a few years ago when I went to a local craft fair. I met Lowri from Papervine, which is an online craft store. Her blog was the first one I had ever looked at and I discovered this whole craft world online!! A few months later my Dad died suddenly. It made me realize that life is short and I should try something new, so I started my blog ‘Twine Around’. I was making all sorts of craft with twine until I came across the blogs of Jennifer McGuire and Kristina Werner. They introduced me to card making and from there I was hooked!!

I look back at my old cards and realize I was definitely ‘style-less’ at the beginning. Even though I like to try out different techniques my cards are mainly CAS in style now. I love lots of white space and not many embellishments. I’m always happy when I can create a one-layer card and have designed a few that if they were anymore CAS, they would be blank!!

I finally got up the courage to join in a few challenges and that’s when I found the CASology Challenge!! I love the ‘one word’ inspiration and have come up with all sorts of weird and crazy designs. I’m very lucky and honoured to be part of a few different Challenge Design Teams and have even recently joined the Design Team at CAS-ual Fridays, which is a dream come true!! My blog will be 3 yrs old this September and I can’t believe how far I have come in that time and how many amazing friends I’ve made in the crafting world.

Thank you so much Melissa for inviting me to be the Featured Designer for the next four weeks and I hope you will join me as I show off my crafting area (eek!!) and share some of my favourite CAS cards with you. I look forward to seeing you next Friday!!

Week 194: MOM

Less than a month from now, Mother's Day will be arriving on the calendar.  We figured we'd get a head start on making cards.  You can thank us later.

STAMPlorations is returning as our wonderful sponsor and this week's winner will receive their choice of either a $10 gift certificate to the online store OR 2 ARTplorations stencils!  Remember, the weeks STAMPlorations sponsors us here at CASology, our readers receive 10% off using code CASOLOGY in the online store!  Don't forget to take advantage of this savings!

Did you know STAMPlorations now has FOUR subscription plans to suit any crafter's budget?

Also, be sure and check out the ARTplorations stencil sale going on until April 22!  Take 15% off all stencils (+ 10% off with the CASOLOGY code!).

The April 2016 new release sets are now available as a bundle at 20% off until April 24 and the new release blog hop will be happening April 25-29 on the STAMPloration blog, so mark your calendars!

Now let's take a look at what the design team & our guest designer created this week to inspire you!

Guest Designer:  Elizabeth

 design defined:

Bold sentiments can be CAS, especially when framed in white to preserve "white" space.

Ardyth

design defined:
Having your sentiment as your focal point allows you to preserve white space!


Deidre

design defined:
Multi-colored stamping can still be CAS if you leave plenty of white space.


Hannelie

design defined:
A small pop of pattern adds interest and keep your design clean.


Hazel

design defined:
Clustering your images to create a focal point keeps things CAS.


Jacquie

design defined:
Working with analogous colors helps keep the design CAS.


Jen

design defined:
White + 1 colour = CAS!


Joyce

design defined:
A single image and simple sentiment is always CAS.


Judy

design defined:
Use multiple inks on one sentiment for interest in a CAS card.


Kymona

design defined:
Adding a bow, keeps the card CAS!


Melissa

 design defined:
 A monochromatic color scheme works well for CAS design.

Sherrie

design defined:

Using light colored ink for text heavy stamps to keep it CAS. 

Tracey

design defined:

Bright colours in small doses is a good CAS design principle.

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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