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It is the tradition with the CAS favorites thread to post a New Year's Eve thread with our favorites of the year. So here we are for 2014.
Each year I download my favorites to my computer and delete most of them from my faves folder. Only way I know to keep that folder manageable! But I had almost 400 left to pick from, so I decided to include as many different people as possible...and only one (sometimes two) from each one.
This thread is open to everyone and is a great way to recognize the work of SCS's many talented CAS artists. There are really only two "rules" here on the thread:
The Gallery posts you link to should be in the CAS style...
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And what does it mean to be Clean and Simple?
It's all about the design.
* Uncluttered
* lots of white or open space
* one main focal point
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...and they should be from all of 2014!
Did you find your way to this thread because someone listed one of YOUR creations as a favorite? In addition to saying thank you, we encourage you to pay that smile you're probably wearing right now forward by sharing a few of the cards/projects YOU favorite-ed this week.
Need help linking your Favorites? Follow these steps:
1. Load this week's Favorites thread in your first browser tab. Scroll down and click the Go Advanced button.
2. Open a second tab (or a separate window). Go to the Gallery and click on "My Favorites."
3. Click on a card you have saved. At the top, highlight the web address. Hit Ctrl+C to copy.
4. Switch back to the first tab and hit Ctrl+V to paste your link there. Hit Enter twice to add a blank line. Repeat as many times as needed for all your links.
5. Click the Preview Post button and check that your links work. Then click the Submit Reply button.
Diane, I can't tell you how surprised I was to receive Susan's comment that my cards were chosen by you as a CAS favorite for 2014. I maintain that CAS is one of the hardest styles....no loading on of "stuff" to make it appealing. : ) So accept my heartfelt thanks...I feel honored. Thank you, Susan, for this incredible news! Happy, Healthy and Creative New Year to everyone on SCS! Hugs, Sallie
Oh my goodness gracious.....what a lovely surprise!! Thank you so much Diane for including my card in your faves of the year.....a true honour!! Thank you Susan for letting me know!! Happy New Year ladies!!!
Hugs,
Jo
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Jo
Proud Fan Club Member
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My first thought was "oh my goodness" when I read Susan's comment that my Smile card was a CAS favorite of 2014. Thank you so much, Diane, for including it in your favorites and thanks, too, to Susan for notifying me.
I found that feathers were my favorite image in 2014, and I had two CAS cards in my Favorites that included feathers. And wouldn't you know, they were both done by the same person.
Thank you so much Diane! I'm thrilled that you like my cards enough to include a couple in your favorites for 2014! Thanks to Susan for letting me know! xx
Goodness Diane - what a delightful surprise to hear the news of one of my cards being a CAS favorite for 2014 - you sure know how to make a girl smile! Thank you so very much. Hugs and Happy New Year.
Kia
Oh, wow, Diane -- THANK YOU!!! It's an honor to make someone's weekly list -- it is way cool to make the annual one. You sure know how to end a girl's year on a high note. Thanks, too, to Susan for letting me in on the happy news. Will be back on the weekend to pay the happy forward to several very deserving CAS artists!
What a wonderful way to wrap up 2014...Thank you so much Diane, for listing me among one of your favorites for this year. What a honor. Happy New Year!
Diane, I was absolutely blown away when Susan notified me that you had chosen one of my cards as a favorite for the whole year! I am so very appreciative and deeply honored. That sounds like an acceptance speech at the Oscars, or something, LOL, but heartfelt just the same. Thank you!
And Susan, thank you for letting me know. What a way to spend New Year's Eve - bringing happiness!
Happy New Year, everyone!
__________________ JodyLynn - "Love me - love my cats!" DTGD12, DTGD14, HYCCT12, HYCCT13, HYCCT14, HYCCT15, Love Fest 2013, Love Fest 2014 CAS and CC guest designer QFTD 258
I am going to try to pick just one CAS Favorite for all the months of 2014. That means I will be leaving out many of my favorite cards and CAS Stampers. I have been so Inspired this year and am looking forward to another amazing year of creative and gorgeous CAS cards. TFS my friends and sure hope you get to join in the fun and add your CAS favorites for 2014.
Wishing you all a Happy, Healthy and Creative 2015 :p
January 2014 Biggan..CAS255 Hugs..Gorgeous soft colors and filled with dimensional art in Birgits unique CAS Style.
February 2014 suen WT466 Smile..Beautifully creative Angled card :p
What a joy looking at all my favorites, but so difficult getting down to 1 card a month except for September. Please know there were many more favorites, but just not enough time and space. TFS all you amazingly talented CAS Stampers :-)
Wow Diane!! Not just one but 2! of my cards made your list. Thanks so very much for including them. I am really honoured and you have made my birthday even more special.
Thanks Susan for letting me know...you girls are just the best!!!
And another WOW! Thanks so very much Nancy for the mention of my card in this amazing year of CAS. I am so lucky to belong to such a wonderful community of talented, kind and supportive friends.
You have really made my day special.
thanks,
hugs,
Karen
Diane, you are a rock star, plain and simple! Thank you for mentioning one of my cards as a 2014 fav. Also, thank you to all the lovely ladies who keep the CAS favourites thread thriving Here's to an awesome 2015!
Thank you so very much, Nancy, for listing my Copper for Dad card as one of your favourites of the year! A real honour! And a great way to start the first day of the New Year. Thanks, Diane, for letting me know.
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My SCS gallery is here should you care to look! Or please visit my blog, Cardmaker's Garret.
oh my gosh, this is so cool to wake up and find happy mail from you guys for this thread
Thanks Linda for the mention and thanks to Susan & Diane for the love
I have a few I'd like to mention. ( I have not looked to see if they were already mentioned or not but, they are definitely worth a second view if so)
Thank you SO much Linda and Nancy for including my cards in favorites of the year! Oh my gosh I was so thrilled to discover that this morning! You are both such talented designers and I am honored to be included! Diane, thanks for the notifications!
Kia what a thrill it is to have one of my cards listed in the Best of 2014 - thank you so much!! Diane thank you for the notification!! Happy new year to everyone!
__________________ Harriet aka hskelly
My blog: Allycatcards
Now for my favourites. It was so difficult to narrow it down as there are so many cards I love. To make my list more manageable for the person doing the notifications, I've limited to one card only by any given stamper even though I might have wanted to list several! You CAS stampers are such an inspiration to me!
Thank you so much Susan for mentioning my Grunge card as one of your CAS favorites for the year. It is really, really special to be on an annual list :-) BTW, I will notify the stampers on your list for Diane #26-#30, but it will be in about an hour. Then you can get your #31- #35 list. Happy New Year my friend :-)
P.S. What fabulous choices by everyone for an amazing 2014 CAS cards :-)
Thank you, Stacy and Susan, for each including a card of mine on your "Best" lists. I am truly thrilled and honored....and most appreciative. Happy and Healthy New Year to all.
When I saw that my ‘Moments’ card had a comment on it my first thought was that someone had gone way back in my gallery to see it and wasn’t that nice! To see that Linda (Holstein) had put it in her Best of CAS2014 list really blew me away! Thank you so much Linda and a huge thank you to Diane (Fionna51) for letting me know!
Here are some of the CAS cards this year that have had an impact on me in some way this past year. They may have introduced me to a technique or inspired me to try something new. I get so much from this site and the people who upload to it that I really have no words to describe it.
Thanks, Nancy, for including my Joyful Christmas card on your annual list. Knowing how much you pared down your list, I feel especially lucky to have made the list. Thanks to Diane for sharing the happy news with me.
Wow, Thank you Stacy and Susan for including my card in your favorites of 2014! This knocked my socks off since CAS is a struggle for me! You have really made my day! Nancy, thank you for the notifications!
Oh, Susan thanks so much for adding my card to your Best of 2014 list!! Since CAS is the most difficult style for me, I am truly honored! Thank you, Nancy for letting me know- hugs to both of you and Happy New Year!!
Wow...I just finished notifying Susanbri's and Dockside's lists of Amazing CAS Best of 2014 Stampers. Wow, Wow, Wow....this year has been amazing with all the new and old CAS stampers really loving this style. Hope you get to admire and comment on many of these beauties.
2 happy notes in 1 day...2015 has been pretty darned special so far, I'd say! Thanks to Susan (susanbri) for mentioning one of my cards on your 2014 list and to Nancy for taking time during the football bowl extravaganza to let me know.
Wow, Thank you Ann for including me in your favorites of the year! My gosh, what a surprise to be included! I'm so thrilled to be included! Thanks again, Nancy for the heads up!
I have been known to say, it would be easier to donate a kidney than do CAS!! You can imagine my surprise when I read my name and CAS Favs of 2014 in the one sentence. Thank you SO much Stacy for listing my card, you have blown me away!! Thank you Susan for the happy mail.
__________________ Susie
Please don't take your organs to heaven - heaven knows we need them here.
I am speechless....good thing it doesn't take speaking to type, right?!
Seriously, I am moved to my toes to have 5 cards mentioned as CAS Best of 2014! I wish I could give REAL hugs to Nancy(nancy littrell), Stacy, JBGreendawn), Susan(susanbri) and Kia (kiagc)- Oh my! 3!!!!