Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Addicted to Stamps and More! Challenge #49 - CAS

Hello to my fabulous friends and followers!  Time for another challenge over at Addicted to Stamps and More! ATS&M Challenge #49 is the ever popular CAS (Clean and Simple).  CAS is a hot trend in card making right now and one that I had struggled with for a bit, but am finally feeling more comfortable with it. For those of you who aren't familiar with CAS, it means that the card has a clean design with limited embellishments and lots of white space (white space can be a color other than white, but is generally not DSP or other busy patterns) and the image or sentiment is the main focal point and really stands out as part of the design.  This is an easy card that I could easily mass produce with the rest of the stamps from this set and send to a friend as a gift.  The overall size is 4" square.

I used a retired SU hostess stamp set for this cute little elephant (inked up with my markers to get the different colors).  I did add the tiniest of rhinestones to the middle of the flower and embossed the white frame with the clouds texture folder (one of my favorites right now).  I used my circle Sizzix dies to make the cut out area around my image.

Hope you enjoyed this card and that I've inspired you to join us this week at ATS&M.  If you would like more inspirations there is a whole bunch of it from our other talented DT members.  To visit the challenge site and then each of their blogs you just need to click here to get started.  

Thanks so much for stopping by to visit me today - I'm sure glad that you did. Til next time... hugs and happy crafting! D

10 comments:

  1. Hi Danielle. That is the sweetest elephant ... love him done in the island indigo (one of my favorite of the new permanent colors for SU!). And the little flower is adorable with the rhinestone center. Loll xx

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  2. What a sweet card! The stamp is sooo cute (and the sentiment too), I love the blue colors. I think the elephant would work also for a baby card/ happy birthday card for a 1 year old etc. Really adorable!

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  3. So cute Danielle, love the flower on the trunk and that is a great embossing folder x

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  4. I so love this elephant. I have found that he suits CAS perfectly. You have created a wonderful card, my friend! xx

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  5. Hi D, Beautiful card. Love this.
    Hugs, Florence xx

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  6. Very sweet card, love the elephant.. :)

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  7. Lovely! I do like the colours and that elephant is so cute!

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  8. Lovely CAS card, Danielle, great layout and the blue and white looks fab!

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  9. Hi Danielle. Perfect CAS. Love your card. The flower really stands out, love that delicate touch. Have a great day. Hugs Monika xxx

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  10. Very sweet! I really like that elephant image!! :)

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