Week 284: Weekly Winners!

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

Joyce had the honor of selecting the Winner for Week #284 and here is her selection:

Caroline cleverly used 2 different sentiments together to create the message on her adorable card.  The hearts and top hat are such fun finishing touches.

Congratulations, Caroline!

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. Melissa's Choice: Ant's design is CAS at it's finest! Clean fonts, simple color and one layer!	2. Jacquie's Choice: Tristan's placement of the sentiment and the adorable image is CAS perfection.	3. Janet's Choice: Ishani created a cute card with sense of movement and kept her card CAS.	4. Jen's Choice: Great pop of colour, white on white layers & dotted detail on Claire's hilarious card!
5. Rachel's Choice: Sarah's gorgeous stenciling and fun sentiment are CAS perfection!	6. Anna's choice: Beautiful clean, crisp and monocromatic design. Perfect take on the cue as well.	7. Karen's Choice: Beautiful image coloring and gradient sentiment provide tons of interest!

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 #285!

Week 284: LATE

It's time for a brand new cue word again and you don't want to be late submitting your entry this week!

**PLEASE NOTE:  We have made a slight change to the challenge end time, so be sure to keep that in mind when linking up your cards this week!  Don't be late!

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!)

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

Guest Designer:  Joanna

design defined:

A colourful die cut piece along with repeating colour and/or pattern keeps the design cohesive.

Anna

design defined:

Keep "things" together to keep the design CAS.

Jacquie

design defined:
Black & white with a pop of color helps keep a design CAS.

Janet

design defined:

Layering and keeping it to one third keeps it CAS.

Jen

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

Joyce

design defined:

Add interest by die cutting and stacking part of your sentiment.

Karen

 design defined: 
You can collage on your card, just remember to keep white space.

Melissa

design defined:

Using colorless embellishments helps keep the overall design uncluttered.

Rachel

design defined:
Remember the rule of thirds!

Go have fun creating your CAS design and don't forget to link up here on the challenge blog by Monday at 9 A.M. (CST)!