Challenge #296 - The Double

Hi folks! Karen & Patricia are teaming up to bring you this month's Timeless Tuesday challenge. We've paired up a previous sketch challenge with a lovely retired-colors palette. Take a look:

For our colour challenges, you must use all of the stated challenge colours.  You may also use neutral colours; however, the challenge colours should be the most noticeable ones featured on your card.  We use Stampin' Up colour names for reference, but you are welcome to use any other companies' products as long as you match the challenge colours as closely as possible.

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

Our design team has created the following cards to inspire you:

Karen
 

Beverley

Fiona

Jeanne

Patricia

Samantha

Wei

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 5, 2018

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Weekly Winners - Colour Challenge #294

Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's challenge!  A lot of lovely cards were created  using our challenge colors.  Unfortunately, a few entries that did not follow our Challenge Rules had to be eliminated from the Design Team's Weekly Winners voting.  Due to the limited number of submissions, we have only three Weekly Winners this time, and in order of entry into the challenge, we congratulate:

#5 - Linda Parker

#6 - Holly Lau

#10 - Jo Mo

Nice work, ladies!  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 sketch challenge: #295.  If you entered our Design Team call last week, you must also participate in this week's challenge so that we can see your work in both colour and sketch challenges.  You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time Monday, October 29, 2018 to link your card to the challenge post.  We'd love to have you join us!

Design Team Call and Challenge #295 - Sketch

We are looking for some new members

to add to our Design Team!

Our blog is dedicated to creating greeting cards in the Clean and Simple style of crafting, alternating between colour challenges and sketch challenges. Design Team responsibilities include designing cards for our challenges and sharing them on your own blog, commenting on challenge entries and voting for our Weekly Winners each week, and acting as our host and creating challenge ideas for at least one month during the year.

If you would like to be considered for a position on our team, you must have participated in last week's colour challenge and this week's sketch challenge so that we can see your work in both types of challenges. Please add the letters "DT" after your name when you link your cards for the two challenges, and make sure that your cards follow our Challenge Rules. Applicants will be contacted during the month of November.  Our new members will join us as our Guest Designers in December and start on the team full-time in January 2019.

Hello, Bev here!

October is another multi-hostess month and this week I am your hostess and have this fun sketch to inspire your clean & simple card making...

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

Our design team has created the following cards to inspire you:

Beverley

Fiona

Karen

Jeanne

Patricia

Samantha

Wei

Guest Designer - Maja

Unfortunately for us, Cathy is resigning from our Design Team.  We will miss her and her cheery cards!  We wish her the best and hope she will join in with our challenges when she is able. 

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 Monday, October 29, 2018

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Weekly Winners - Sketch Challenge #293

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:

#5 Birgit/Biggan

#8 Sundaystamper

#13 Lori

#17 Laurie

#20 Skye

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: #294. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time/11:00 p.m. London U.K. time Monday, October 22, 2018 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!

Design Team Call and Challenge #294 - Colours

We are looking for some new members

to add to our Design Team!

Our blog is dedicated to creating greeting cards in the Clean and Simple style of crafting, alternating between colour challenges and sketch challenges. Design Team responsibilities include designing cards for our challenges and sharing them on your own blog, commenting on challenge entries and voting for our Weekly Winners each week, and acting as our host and creating challenge ideas for at least one month during the year.

If you would like to be considered for a position on our team, you must participate in this week's colour challenge and next week's sketch challenge so that we can see your work in both types of challenges. Please add the letters "DT" after your name when you link your cards for the two challenges, and make sure that your cards follow our Challenge Rules. Applicants will be contacted during the month of November.  Our new members will join us as our Guest Designers in December and start on the team full-time in January 2019.

Hello there!  It's Patricia here as this week's challenge host.  Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I've come up with a challenge to incorporate some of the shades of pink associated with that cause:

For our colour challenges, you must use all of the stated challenge colours.  You may also use neutral colours such as white, ivory, black, grey, and metallics; however, the challenge colours should be the most noticeable ones featured on your card.  We use Stampin' Up colour names for reference, but you are welcome to use any other companies' products as long as you match the challenge colours as closely as possible.

Our design team has created the following cards to inspire you:

Patricia

Beverley

Cathy
~ taking a break ~

Fiona

Karen

Jeanne

Samantha

Wei

Guest Designer - Maja

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, October 22, 2018

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Weekly Winners- Colour Challenge #292

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:

#2 Flo

#6 Tracy

#7 Skye

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: #293. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time/11:00 p.m. London U.K. time Monday, October 15 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!

Challenge #293 - Sketch

Design Team Call - Coming Soon!

Are you interested in becoming a CC&S Design Team member? We'll be holding a Design Team call starting with next week's challenge, and you'll need to participate in both the #294 and #295 challenges.  All the details will be given next week.  We hope you'll consider joining in the fun and creativity!

Happy Tuesday!  It's Jeanne as your hostess this week.  During the month of October some of the CC&S design team members are each taking a week as challenge hostess and this week it's a sketch!

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

Our design team has created the following cards to inspire you:

Jeanne

Beverley

Cathy
~ taking a break ~

Fiona

Karen


Patricia

Samantha
~ taking a break ~

Wei

Guest Designer - Maja

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, October 15, 2018

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