Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Happy Holidays!

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

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

The team and I would like to wish the happiest of holidays to all of our followers, and the best of everything to you in the coming year.  No matter what festivities you celebrate, we hope you will feel the love, wonder, peace, joy, and magic of the holiday season.

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 #450 will continue to run through 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time Friday, December 31, 2021.  Our next new challenge will begin on January 4, 2022.  Until then, take care, stay healthy, and keep crafting! 
 

Friday, December 17, 2021

Weekly Winners - Color Challenge #449

Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's challenge!  We know it's a busy time of year for a lot of people, so we appreciate your taking time to join us.  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:
 

Carte CC&S449 - P1290218

 
 
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: 450 - Celebrating a Milestone with a Clean and Simple Seasonal Challenge! You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time Friday, December 31, 2021 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!




Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Challenge #450 - Celebrating a Milestone with a Clean and Simple Seasonal Challenge!

Welcome!  It's party time here at CAS Colours & Sketches because we are celebrating our 450th challenge!  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 with us since our blog was founded nine years ago!  We thank all of you for your support!  We hope that you will continue to join in our challenges, creating our favorite style of cards.  

For this challenge, we're 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 2021.  You can even create your own double challenge by combining 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:

  Patricia - Challenges #404 and #440
  
Bhavya - Challenge #437

 Holly - Challenge #430

Jeanne - Challenge #431 and #443

Jenny - Challenge #422

Joanne - Challenge #443

Julie - Challenge #415

 Samantha - Challenge #417

Shannon - Challenges #415 & #420

Vicky - Challenge #434

Wei - Challenge #404

YoonYoung - Challenge #447


We unfortunately are saying goodbye to several of our team members at the close of this challenge.  Holly, Jenny, Julie, Vicky, and Wei, thank you for all the wonderful cards you've shared as part of our team!  We are sad to see you go, but we wish all the best in the future to each of you!

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

Cécile - Challenge #434

Michal - Challenge #401

  Nancy - Challenge #412


  Valérie - Challenge #408



As stated at the beginning of this post, we are also marking a milestone with our 450th challenge this week!  We're celebrating that, and showing our appreciation to our challenge participants, with a couple of prize giveaways!  Two lucky winners whose cards meet our challenge requirements will be chosen from our participants in this week's challenge, and each will receive one of the following prizes:
 
A $20 USD gift certificate from STAMPlorations (to be issued as a prize code)



California-based STAMPlorations™ offers clear stamps, stencils, thin metal dies, and coloring pages for stampers, card makers, scrapbookers, mixed media artists, and all other kinds of crafters. 
 
 
A $15 USD gift certificate from Altenew
Based in New York, Altenew strives to bring elegant, natural and versatile designs in paper crafting products such as stamps, dies, inks, and stencils.
 
 
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!

One last announcement:  This will be our last challenge of 2021.  Because it's a special event challenge, we're keeping it open until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time Friday, December 31, 2021!  We'll announce the Weekly Winners and the celebration prize winners on Friday, January 7, 2022.

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 Friday, December 31, 2021

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

Click here to enter

Friday, December 10, 2021

Weekly Winners - Double Challenge #448

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:


Carte CC&S448 - P1280905

CCS 448



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: #449 - Colors. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time Monday, December 13, 2021 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!



Tuesday, December 07, 2021

Challenge #449 - Colors

Hello there, and welcome to another challenge at CC&S!  Patricia is your hostess for December.  Our first challenge this month is a color challenge that can work for any late-minute Christmas cards you need, or for any other occasion.

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:

  
 

 




Wei
~ taking a break ~

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 13, 2021

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

Click here to enter

Friday, December 03, 2021

Weekly Winners - Sketch Challenge #447

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



Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Challenge #448 - Double Challenge

Hello crafty friends! It's Joanne here with my final challenge for the month as your hostess. 

It's the fifth Tuesday of November so you know what that means: a Timeless Tuesday Double Challenge! I have prepared a new colour combo using some favourite retired Stampin' Up colours and a sketch from one of our previous challenges. Have fun crafting and don't forget to link up your crafty creations below.  


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. 

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 ~
 


Patricia
~ taking a break ~

Samantha
 
Wei
~ taking a break ~

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 6, 2021

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

Click here to enter