Thursday, November 30, 2017

Birthday Celebration Prize Winners!

Thank you to everyone who joined in our celebration of our blog's 5th birthday!  We hope that all of you had as much fun as our Design Team did!

As we mentioned in our Challenge #250 post, five of our Design Team members were offering giveaways on their blogs.  We've drawn names from the people who commented on our blogs during the challenge period, and here are the lucky winners:

From Cathy's blogKatheD
From Fiona's blogLynne in NI
From Karen's blogJen Mitchell
From Patricia's blogFiona Whitehead
From Samantha's blogAngelstamps

You five ladies should be on the lookout for an email from the Design Team member who chose your name!

We are thrilled to be awarding five prizes from our awesome and generous sponsor, Uniko!  Each of the following participants in Challenge #250 will receive their choice of an in-stock stamp set from Uniko.  Bev from Uniko will be emailing you with the details on claiming your prize.  Drum roll please...

#2 - Sundaystamper
#3 - Wei
#5 - !neke
#9 - Joyce M.
#15 - Sidan

Congratulations to all of our winners!  

Our blog would not have reached this milestone without our challenge supporters and participants, and we are truly grateful for all of you.  Here's to the next five years! 

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Challenge #251 - Sketch

Hello! It's Samantha here, with my final sketch for the month. It's been great to see everyone's creativity each week. I chose a nice easy sketch for this challenge. Looking forward to seeing what you all can come up with.


Feel free to flip or rotate the sketch when creating your card.

Here is some inspiration from the design team to jump start your creativity:

Beverley

Cathy

Emily

Fiona


Karen


Patricia

Guest Designer - Colien


Our challenge requirements are listed in the Challenge Rules tab. Please read them carefully before linking your card. Happy crafting!


Challenge End Time: 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time/11:00 p.m. London U.K. time Monday, December 4, 2017


Friday, November 24, 2017

Weekly Winners Sketch challenge #249

Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's challenge!  We loved seeing what everyone created! The Design Team has chosen the following cards as our Weekly Winners.  In order of entry into the challenge, we congratulate:

 



Awesome job, everyone! Please feel welcome to copy our winners' badge and display it on your blog:



If you haven't played along with us yet this week, there is still time to join in our current challenge: #250 - Colours. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time/11:00 p.m. London U.K. time Monday, November 27 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!


Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Challenge #250 - Colours & It's Our Birthday!

Welcome!  You're just in time for the party!  CAS Colours & Sketches is celebrating its 250th challenge and its 5th Birthday this week!  We are so thankful for our challenge participants who have made this incredible milestone possible.

In order to celebrate, we're giving out lots of birthday presents to our challenge followers!  Five of our Design Team members are having giveaways!  In order to be eligible to win one of those prizes, you'll need to leave a comment on their individual blogs, linked above their cards, before this challenge ends.  And in case that isn't exciting enough, we are teaming up once again with an amazing sponsor, Uniko!  Five of our participants in this week's challenge will be chosen to receive an in-stock stamp set of their choice from Uniko!  Awesome, right?!  Since you have to play in order to win, let's get on with the challenge details...

Samantha is here with some fun colors for our birthday celebration challenge. All of us are excited to see what you can create with these bright, cheery colors.


We've used Stampin' Up colour names for reference; however, you may use any companies' products for your cards as long as you match our colours as closely as possible. You may also use neutral colours (white, cream, kraft, brown, grey, or black) for card layers, sentiments, and image outlines. However, in order to be considered for our weekly winners, you must not use any other colours.

Here is some inspiration from the design team to jump start your creativity:

Beverley

Cathy

Emily

Fiona

Karen


Patricia

Guest Designer - Colien


Our Birthday Celebration prize winners will be announced on Thursday, November 30, 2017.  Our Weekly Winners for this challenge will be announced as usual on Friday, December 1.

We would like to extend a very special thank you to Uniko for sponsoring our challenge this week!



Our challenge requirements are listed in the Challenge Rules tab. Please read them carefully before linking your card. Happy crafting!


Challenge End Time: 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time/11:00 p.m. London U.K. time Monday, November 27, 2017

Friday, November 17, 2017

Weekly Winners Color Challenge #248

Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's challenge!  We loved seeing what everyone created! The Design Team has chosen the following cards as our Weekly Winners.  In order of entry into the challenge, we congratulate:

Awesome job, everyone! Please feel welcome to copy our winners' badge and display it on your blog:



If you haven't played along with us yet this week, there is still time to join in our current challenge: #249 - Sketch. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time/11:00 p.m. London U.K. time Monday, November 20, 2017 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!


Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Challenge #249 - Sketch

Hello, Samantha here. It's the second Tuesday, so that means a fun sketch for this week's challenge. I loved seeing everyone's cards last week and am looking forward to seeing what this challenge brings.


Feel free to flip or rotate the sketch when creating your card.

Here is some inspiration from the design team to jump start your creativity:

Beverley

Cathy

Emily

 Fiona

Karen


Patricia

Guest Designer - Colien

Our challenge requirements are listed in the Challenge Rules tab. Please read them carefully before linking your card. Happy crafting!


Challenge End Time: 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time/11:00 p.m. London U.K. time Monday, November 20, 2017


Friday, November 10, 2017

Weekly Winners - Double Challenge #247

A big thank you to everyone who joined in with our Double Challenge. We loved seeing all your ideas using the sketch and retired colours. The Design Team has chosen the following cards as our Weekly Winners.  In order of entry into the challenge, we congratulate:




Please feel welcome to copy our winners' badge and display it on your blog:



If you haven't played along with us yet this week, there is still time to join in our current challenge: #248 - Colours. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time/11:00 p.m. London U.K. time Monday, 13th of November to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!


Tuesday, November 07, 2017

Challenge #248 - Colours

Hello, Samantha here and I will be hosting the challenges for the month of November. I have some fun color and sketch challenges planned for you. The colors for this week's challenge are some of my favorite colors, so I'm excited to see what everyone will come up with.


We've used Stampin' Up colour names for reference; however, you may use any companies' products for your cards as long as you match our colours as closely as possible. You may also use neutral colours (white, cream, kraft, brown, grey, or black) for card layers, sentiments, and image outlines. However, in order to be considered for our weekly winners, you must not use any other colours.

Here is some inspiration from the design team to jump start your creativity:

Beverley

Cathy

Emily

Fiona

Karen


Patricia

Our November Guest Designer is no stranger to CC&S.  Although she was chosen from among our September Weekly Winners, we discovered while looking through our archives that she's been participating in our challenges since 2013!  We think you'll enjoy her CAS creations.  Please join us in welcoming Colien!  Here's the card she made for this week's challenge:


Our challenge requirements are listed in the Challenge Rules tab. Please read them carefully before linking your card. Happy crafting!


Challenge End Time: 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time/11:00 p.m. London U.K. time Monday, November 13, 2017