Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Holiday Greetings!

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

On behalf of the CAS Colours & Sketches Design Team, I would like to wish the happiest of holidays to all of our participants, and the best of everything to you in the coming year.  No matter which festivities you observe and celebrate, we hope you will feel the peace, joy, love, wonder, and magic of this special season.

The team and I wish to extend our appreciation to our challenge participants for the support you give us by joining in our challenges each week.  *YOU* are what keep our blog going, and we are genuinely grateful for all of you!  We love seeing our challenge gallery brightened by the creativity you share with us.  

We will not be starting any more challenges this year, but we'd like to take this time to remind you that our Milestone Celebration Seasonal Challenge #500 will continue to run through 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time Saturday, December 31, 2022.  You'll see a few changes to our routine in 2023, but we'll be back on January 3 to start another year of clean and simple challenges.  Until then, take care, stay healthy, and keep crafting!  

Friday, December 16, 2022

Weekly Winners - Color Challenge #499

Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's challenge! We loved seeing the colorful cards that 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: #500 - Celebrating a Milestone with a Clean and Simple Seasonal Challenge!  You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time Saturday, December 31, 2022 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

CHALLENGE #500!!! Celebrating a Milestone with a Clean and Simple Seasonal Challenge!

Welcome!  We are in a celebratory mood here at CAS Colours & Sketches because this is our 500th challenge!  It is amazingly incredible to think that we've been creating here for TEN years!  We are extremely grateful to you, our wonderful challenge participants who have supported us, whether you have been crafting with us for many years or just a few weeks. 

For our 500th challenge, we're going back through our challenges from the past 11 months and turning them into seasonal creations.  Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and any other holidays celebrated this time of the year are all welcome!  Or, you can create just a generic wintry card (or summery if you live in the southern hemisphere). 

You can choose to make your seasonal card using any of our color, sketch, or double challenges from 2022.  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:

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

Patricia - Challenge #485

Cécile - Challenge #484

Jeanne - Challenge #497

Joanne - Challenge #478


Michal - Challenge #480


Nancy - Challenge #482


Shannon 
~ taking a break ~

Valérie - Challenge #456


YoonYoung - Challenge #489


Bhavya has resigned from our Design Team.  We thank her for all the fantastic cards she has shared as part of our team, and we wish her all the best in the future!

On a happier note, we are thrilled to announce that we are adding three new members to our Design Team! Please join us in giving a warm welcome to them:

Lucy - Challenge #454

Rachel - Challenge #465

Sue - Challenge #451


To further celebrate our milestone 500th challenge, and to show our appreciation to our challenge participants, we have some fantastic prizes to give away!  FOUR lucky people whose cards meet our challenge requirements will be chosen after the challenge ends, and each will win one of the following great prizes:
 
A $20 USD gift certificate from Avery Elle

 A $25 USD gift card from Lawn Fawn
 

 
A $25 USD gift certificate from My Favorite Things
 

An in stock clear stamp set (any value) of the winner's choosing from Uniko 
Uniko

Thank you so much to these generous companies!  We hope you'll check out their websites and thank them for their support of our challenge blog.  We also are very thankful for our challenge participants who have made this amazing milestone possible. Our blog's success is due to those of you who join in our challenges!

A few final things to note:  This will be our last challenge of 2022.  Because it's a special event challenge, and because this is a busy time of year for many people, we're keeping it open until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time Saturday, December 31, 2022!  We'll announce the Weekly Winners and the celebration prize winners on Friday, January 6, 2023.  We will resume our challenges on Tuesday, January 4, 2023.
 
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 Saturday, December 31, 2022

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

Click here to enter

Friday, December 09, 2022

Weekly Winners - Double Challenge #498

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: #499 - Colors. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time Monday, December 12, 2022 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!


Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Challenge #499 - Colors

Hello there!  It's Patricia here, finishing up the year as December challenge host at CC&S.  For this week's challenge, we're going back to the basics with the three primary colors:


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

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


 ~ taking a break ~

Jeanne

Joanne


Michal


Nancy


Shannon


Valérie


YoonYoung




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 12, 2022

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

Click here to enter

Friday, December 02, 2022

Weekly Winners - Sketch Challenge #497

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: #498 - Double. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time Monday, December 5, 2022 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Challenge #498 - Double

Hello everyone. Cécile here with the final challenge for the month of November.  This is the fifth challenge of the month, this means we have a special double challenge for you... you have to work with both the sketch AND the colours. 



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:


~ taking a break ~

Jeanne
~ taking a break ~

Joanne


Michal


Nancy


Shannon

Valérie


YoonYoung




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 5, 2022


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

Click here to enter