Addicted to CAS: April 2016

Saturday, 30 April 2016

Challenge #87 - Plaid

Hello and happy Saturday! We have a brand new challenge starting right now and we hope you will play along!

Anja is your hostess this fortnight and here is her code word for you -

Definition -

noun

any fabric woven of differently colored yarns in a crossbarred pattern.

a pattern of this kind.

a long, rectangular piece of cloth, usually with such a pattern and worn acrossthe left shoulder by Scottish Highlanders.adjective

having the pattern of a plaid.

Play along and you could be the lucky winner of the prize from our amazing sponsor

Create a Smile

If you know and love CAS, and you enjoy playing along in challenges, then you arefamiliar with our next Guest Designer...The super talented and oh, so, sweet ~ Shona Chambers

"Hi everyone, my name is Shona Chambers and I live in Blenheim, New Zealand. I’ve been making cards now for just over two years and developed a love for the CAS style. I especially love die-cutting at the moment (which you can see by my card) and my ‘Dream Product’ would be a Mini Misti! Thanks so much for inviting me to be a Guest Designer at Addicted to CAS, as I’ve always loved joining this challenge. And I can’t wait to see all your ‘plaid’ CAS creations!!"

Here is our inspiration for you!

Shona (Guest Designer)

Anja (your hostess)

Over to you now! Have fun :)

Monday, 18 April 2016

Winners - Challenge #85

Hello everyone ~
We really enjoyed seeing all of your beautiful creations using Inlaid Die Cuts in our last challenge! Thank you all for playing along with us!

We are back to announce our winners. Sarah was our Hostess, and here are her choices:

Top 3 (In order of entry)

- LYNN #33

- JULIE B. #64

- JEN MITCHELL #68

Congratulations ladies! Please grab your badge to display on your blogs

And, the winner of our prize from

is... SHONA CHAMBERS #22

Happy Little Stamper

sCongratulations, Shona! Here is what Sarah had to say about your card:

A stunning example of clean, simple and crisp design! Despite the

simplistic look to the card, the intricate faceted die certainly isn't

a simple one to select for the inlaid die technique. Utilised to

perfection here though with total elegance and sophistication.

Please contact Kylie at Happy Little Stampers within 5 days to claim your gift certificate for $15.00 (kyliepurtell@gmail.com)

Here is your Winners Badge to display on your blog:

We hope you will all play along with our current challenge:

Saturday, 16 April 2016

Challenge #86 - Rain

Hello, happy Saturday and welcome to Addicted to CAS.

Thank you for your participation in our inlaid die challenge. We will be back again on Monday with our winners.

This fortnight we have another fun challenge for you that you are going to love. The incredible and talented Ceal is your hostess this time around and here is the code word she chose for you -

Use our code word to inspire you but please remember to keep it CLEAN AND SIMPLE. We aint called Addicted to CAS for nothing ;)

We have an amazing sponsor for you

and you could win a $10 voucher to the store!

Our incredible Guest Designer for this challenge is Caroline Paton at

Keep it Sweet & Simple

Hello there, my name is Caroline and I am excited to be with you as Guest Designer this week.

Thank you so much to all the DT girls for having me.

I'm a mum to 2 grown up girls, Maria and Annabel, and have been married

to my soulmate for 30 years.

We live in the beautiful spa town of Harrogate, North Yorkshire - rated as the

happiest place to live in Britain.

I've been making cards and blogging them, for 8 years now. Crikey!!

And I think I am finally starting to find my style ;-)

I love playing along with challenges and I am a bit of a magpie.

I am easily distracted by shiny things, and fairy lights, gitter, and sequins

make me happy :-)

I hope you have fun with this week's 'rain' challenge and good luck xxx

Here is our inspiration for you -

Caroline (Guest Designer)

How clever she is to use those pretty clear sequins as raindrops for her beautiful roses!

Ceal (your hostess)

Deepti

(using sponsor stamps)

WOW WOW WOW. This design team NEVER stops impressing me. Please don't forget to pop by and say hi to them.

Over to you now :)

Thursday, 7 April 2016

Winners - Challenge #84

Thank you for your entries in our last challenge. Wonderful examples for our Delicate code word.

We are back to announce our winners. Sweet Kobylkin was your hostess and here are her choices -

Our

#49 Jane

(Delicate image beautifully positioned in lower right corner leaving a lot clean space)

#45 KomMA - Wiebke

(Naive kind card with no odd details. No more chocolate bunnies from Lindt, I might cry)

#7 Magic Flying Boots

(Beautiful masking and stamping)

Congratulations ladies! Please grab your badge to display on your blogs :)

Our

and the winner of the prize from

#16 Caroline - KISS

Congratulations Caroline! Here is what Sweet Kobylkin had to say about your card!

"Absolutely delicate card created with repeatedly stamped image in different tender colours"

Please grab your badge for your blog and contact me at kyliepurtell@gmail.com within 5 days to claim your prize.

Our current challenge is

and we hope you will play along!

Sunday, 3 April 2016

Challenge #85 - Inlaid Dies

Welcome back everyone! We are so happy to bring you are next challenge -

Your hostess is the hugely talented Sarah and this is the code word she has chosen for you

Our wonderful sponsor this challenge is

and the prize is a $15 certificate to the shop :)

We are so happy to introduce our Guest Designer for this challenge

Shawna Standish

Firstly, I want to sincerely thank Addicted to CAS and the designers for this opportunity! What a joy to be guest designing here with such talented company.

So with that said, let me introduce myself. My name is Shawna Standish from TheGrandStampede. I am a forty year old mother of two, nicely nestled in Michigan, USA. I have been creating cards for about three years. It all started when I was faced with the possibility of becoming blind. It was not until then I started looking at color and objects with new vigor, soaking up everything, knowing I might not see in the future. Fortunately I am fine, and I live to see another day.

My crafting however, lead into an unstoppable obsession. I wanted to share my art with others who had similar interests. I ended up finding wonderful people from all around the world. I could not be more blessed to know my blog friends and to see their art which inspires so much of what I do. Again thanks to everyone at Addicted to CAS for this amazing opportunity to share my work with others.

All the best,

Shawna

On with our inspiration

Shawna (Guest Designer)