Showing posts with label Challenges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Challenges. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 03, 2019

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:



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

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Challenge #349 - Sketch

Happy Thanksgiving to our US players.  Our last challenge for the month of November - and we have 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:


Guest Designer - Shannon


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 2, 2019

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

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Challenge #348 - Colors

Hi, folks! Karen here. We're half-way through November and I'm hosting these next two challenges. I have a very classic color scheme for you:


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.

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


Guest Designer - Shannon


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, November 25, 2019

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Challenge #347 - Sketch

Hello there everyone!  It's sketch challenge week at CC&S!  We want to see you get creative with this:


In the vast world of card making challenges, it's not always easy to come up with unique sketch ideas that follow our blog's clean and simple style of crafting.  This week we do ask that you try to keep the diamond-shaped element something angular, stretching to the left and right sides of the card.  You are welcome to rotate the sketch on its side or to squash it into a landscape-oriented rectangle if you would like.

Our design team has created the following cards to inspire you.  As shown in our samples, a lot of us are starting to get into a winter holiday mood, but of course you can make your card for any occasion you desire. 

Guest Designer - Shannon


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, November 18, 2019


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

Tuesday, November 05, 2019

Challenge #346 - Colors

Hello!  Welcome to November and to another month of challenges here at CC&S!  We're kicking off the month with a color challenge created by Patricia:


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 companies' products as long as you match the challenge colours as closely as possible.

Here is some inspiration from our design team:


We are continuing our Guest Designer program with someone who has been participating in our challenges for the last several months.  She was chosen from our September Weekly Winners.  Please join us in welcoming Shannon Lorenz-Hatch!  Here's her card using this week's colors:



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, November 11, 2019


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

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Challenge #345 - Double

Happy Timeless Tuesday! We've an extra Tuesday this month - and you know what that means: double the fun! This time, Patricia and Karen teamed up to bring you cool colors and a classic sketch! Make sure to use both the sketch and the color combo.


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:


We give our Guest Designers a break on Timeless Tuesday weeks.  Check back with us next Tuesday to find out who our Guest Designer will be during the month of November!
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, November 4, 2019

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