Weekly Winners - Seasonal Challenge #351

Thank you to everyone who got into the holiday spirit with us in last week's challenge! The Design Team loved seeing all of the creative entries!

The intent of our Seasonal Challenge was to have our participants turn our challenges from 2019 into festive cards.  We felt that for our Weekly Winners voting, we needed to focus our attention on the clean and simple cards that best represented the sketch challenge or color challenge chosen by the participants.  With that in mind, here are our Winners, listed in order of entry into the challenge:

#1 - Evgeniya

 

#4 - Jennie Maier
(Jennie deserves an additional round of applause for using a sketch challenge and a color challenge!)

 

#10 - Lori Tecler

 

#12 - A. Rose

 

#13 - Dawn

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

Thank you to all of our challenge participants who played along with us in 2019! We wish all of you a joyous holiday season, and we hope to see you creating with us again in the new year!  Be sure to join us on Tuesday, January 7, 2020 as we start another year of clean and simple color and sketch challenges.

Holiday Greetings!

Hello, everyone!  It's Patricia here, blog manager of CC&S.

On behalf of the CAS Colours & Sketches Design Team, I want to extend our appreciation to our challenge participants for the support you give us by joining in our challenges each week.  We love  seeing your creative takes on our color combinations, sketches, and Timeless Tuesday double challenges.  *YOU* are what keeps our blog going, and we are genuinely grateful for all of you!

We would like to wish the happiest of holidays to all of our participants, and all the best to you in the coming year.  No matter what festivities you celebrate, we hope you will experience the love, happiness, wonder, peace, and magic of this special season.

We are going to be taking a break for a few weeks so that our followers and our design team will be able to spend time with their families and loved ones.  We'll be back for another year of challenges on Tuesday, January 7, 2020.  Until then, keep crafting, and take care!

Winners for Challenge #350 and our Birthday Celebration!

Thank you to everyone who joined in our Birthday Celebration challenge!  We loved seeing all the creative submissions, and we hope that all of you had as much fun as our Design Team did.  Our challenge blog would not be successful without the support of our participants, and we are truly grateful for each of you!

The Design Team has chosen the following cards as our Weekly Winners.  In order of entry into the challenge, we congratulate:

#1 - Kath

#10 - Jen Mitchell

#12 - Loopyloo

#20 - Kim S

#21 - Jo Jo's Spot

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

As we mentioned in our Challenge #350 post, five of our Design Team members have offered prizes.  We've drawn names from our challenge participants, and here are the lucky winners:

From Holly:  Bonnie in Kersey

From Jeanne:  Junebug Creations

From Patricia:  Lavender House Creations

From Samantha:  Karen Ksenzakovic
From Wei:  Ma-Mi

Congratulations!  You five ladies should be on the lookout for an email from the Design Team member whose name is beside yours.  They will be contacting you to find out where to send your prize! 

If you haven't played along with us yet this week, there is still time to join in our current challenge: #351 - A Clean and Simple Seasonal Challenge. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time/11:00 p.m. London U.K. time Monday, December 16, 2019 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!

Challenge #351 - A Clean and Simple Seasonal Challenge

Hello!  Here at CAS Colours & Sketches we're getting ready for the upcoming holiday season by going back through our challenges from the past 11 months and turning them into seasonal creations.

You can choose to make your seasonal card using any of our color, sketch, or double challenges from 2019.  If you're feeling ambitious, you can even combine one of our sketch challenges with one of our color challenges!  The graphics from all of our challenges can be found by clicking on the Past Challenges tabs at the top of the page. Our usual guidelines for all of our challenges apply to this challenge.  Remember to keep your card clean and simple in style! 

We ask that in your blog post, you note which of our challenges you've used for your card, as our Design Team has done:

Holly - Challenge #342

Jeanne - Challenge #328

Karen - Challenge #332

Patricia - Challenges #347 and #350

Samantha - Challenge #349

Wei - Challenge #305

YoonYoung - Challenge #314

We're excited to announce that we are adding two new members to our Design Team!  Please join us in giving a warm welcome to them:

Julie - Challenge #329

Shannon - Challenge #300

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all of our challenge participants throughout the year.  We enjoy creating with you and we love seeing your artwork each week!  

We will be taking a holiday break after this week's challenge so that our challenge followers and our design team can spend time celebrating with their loved ones.  The winners of this week's challenge will be announced on December 20, 2019.  We'll be returning with new challenges on January 7, 2020.

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, December 16, 2019

Please link your card below. We look forward to seeing what you create!

Click here to enter

Weekly Winners - Challenge #349 - Sketch

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 Beverley


#7 Lavender House


#14 Kim S.


#15 Jennie

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: #350 - Colors. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time Monday, December 9 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!

Challenge #350 - Colors, and a Birthday Celebration!

Welcome!  It's party time here at CAS Colours & Sketches because we are celebrating our 350th challenge and our blog's 7th Birthday this week!  We are very thankful for our challenge participants who have made this amazing milestone possible.  Some of you have found us recently.  Others have been playing along over the years.  We thank all of you for your support!  We hope that you will continue to play along with us, creating our favorite style of cards. 

Patricia has chosen some festive colors for this week's challenge:

For our color challenges, you must use all of the stated challenge colors.  You may also use neutrals; however, the challenge colors should be the most noticeable ones featured on your card.  In order to be considered for our Weekly Winners, you must not use any other colors.  We've used Stampin' Up color names for reference; however, you may use any companies' products for your card as long as you match our colors as closely as possible.

Here is some inspiration from our Design Team:

Holly

Jeanne

Karen


Patricia

Samantha

Wei

YoonYoung

It wouldn't be much of a birthday celebration without some presents... and we have some awesome gifts for five of our participants in this week's challenge!  Our team members are giving away the following brand-new, never-used items:
Holly - "Enveloper Hugs" stamp set from Waffle Flower
Jeanne - "A Bear Kind of Winter" stamp set from Picket Fence Studios
Patricia - "Sending my Love" stamp set from Unity Stamp Company
Samantha - "Snowflakes Turnabout" stamp from Concord & 9th
Wei - "Birthday Buddies" stamp set and coordinating dies from My Favorite Things
Disclaimer:  These prizes are being given through the generosity of our design team members, and are not sponsored by the companies listed.
In order to be eligible for the prize drawing, all you have to do is create a clean and simple styled card following our challenge guidelines and the challenge graphic at the top of this post, and link it via the linky tool below before the challenge closes at 6:00 p.m. Eastern United States time Monday, December 9, 2019.  The prize winners will be announced on Friday, December 13, 2019 along with our Weekly Winners for this week's challenge. 

Since we know this is a busy time for most people, we will have only two challenges this month.  We're putting our guest designer program on hold until January so we don't short change anyone from a normal guest term of four challenges.  Beginning December 17, we'll take a break and return with new challenges in January 2020.

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, December 9, 2019

Please link your card below. We look forward to seeing what you create!

Click here to enter