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Week 276: CHEER

It's time for some holiday cheer!  With Thanksgiving this week and more holidays fast approaching, we thought we'd put a little positive in the gallery!

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 a $15 gift certificate to the online store!  Remember, during the weeks STAMPlorations is sponsoring us, you can refresh your craft stash with the help of the 10% off discount code, CASOLOGY!

Let's see what the design team and this week's guest designer created for inspiration!

Guest Designer:  Nicole

design defined:

One cute critter makes a perfect focal point for a CAS card!

Anna

design defined:
Black & White with pop of one color works good on a CAS design.

Deidre

design defined:
Neutrals (including metallics) with a pop of color always work in a CAS design!

Jacquie

design defined: 
A bold sentiment can be the focal point of a CAS design.

Janet

design defined: 
Subtle distressing can add depth to a CAS card.

Jen

design defined:
Sometimes a bold sentiment is all you need for a CAS design.

Joyce

design defined:
White on White die cuts add interesting texture.


Judy

design defined:
An embossed border around your main sentiment can add interest to a CAS card.

Kymona

design defined:

Using different ink colors give the CAS card added interest.

Rachel

design defined:

Use subtle ink blending to add interest to a one layer card.

Sherrie

design defined:

Keep design confined to one-third of your card to preserve white space.

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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Week 275: Weekly Winners!

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

Melissa had the honor of selecting the Winner for Week #275 and here is her selection:

Karen combined simple die cuts, texture and inking with perfection on her beautiful clean & simple design!

Congratulations, Karen!

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

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Here are the honorable mentions chose by the rest of the design team:

1. Janet's Choice: Annie's Stylish Stag - pure CAS elegance with spunk!	2. Anna's choice: Love Barb's delicat, classy and perfectly CAS design. So beautiful!	3. Sherrie's Choice: Bharati's dimensional focal point and white space make her card a CAS standout.
4. Jen's Choice: Wendy's cactus is perfect for the cue. Love the white on white layers & splatter!	5. Rachel's Choice: Marina's adorable bunny looks absolutely perfect with pops of red!	6. Judy's Choice: Izzy's sharp angles and sharp, classy CAS card design fit the cue perfectly!
7. Joyce's Choice: ElizStewart's darling scene just stole my heart.	8. Jacquie's Choice: I love the way the asymetrical frame adds fun and interest to Bobby's card!	9. Deidre's Choice: Angie's musical kitty hits all the right notes for our cue card this week! Purrr-dy

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 #276!