Krafty Chicks challenge #743 - CAS

Good morning lovely friends. I hope you're all doing ok and having a great week so far. It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge. This week is Week 3 and as always the theme is 'CAS' and Diane is your hostess. You are free to make whatever creation you like but we want to see lots of open, unadorned, space on your projects.  We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

I made another Christmas card this week, although I'm not really sure I need any more, but it's always handy to have a few spares isn't it.  I went extreme CAS this week but I like the finished result, I hope you do too.  I think the kraft and gold give it a rustic feel and it would be suitable for a man too.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the tree:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 2 1/2" x 5 1/2" and heat embossed a sentiment about 2/3rds down the panel using gold detail embossing powder.  I stamped the tree in green ink and cut it out with scissors then took an embossing pen and added dots to the tree to resemble baubles; I again heat embossed them with gold powder.  I wanted the star to be the same gold as everything else so I swiped a piece of white card with an embossing pad, sprinkled embossing powder over it, melted it and then when cool die cut a star from it.  I added the tree and star above the sentiment with foam squares.  I added the white panel to my kraft card base with foam tape.  I resisted the urge to add anything else and moved on to the inside.  For the inside I cut a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and stamped part of the tree in the bottom left corner, again adding another heat embossed die cut star and added a small sentiment in the centre of the panel with black ink.  The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  The embossing looks really pretty in real life and goes perfectly with the kraft card. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

* to be updated *

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'CAS' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori.  

Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate your lovely comments. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Uniko Stamps - Christmas pop clear stamp

Uniko Stamps - rustic Christmas clear stamp (for outside sentiment)

Uniko Stamps - pure florals: poinsettia clear stamp (for inside sentiments)

MFT - blueprints 13 die set (for star) - retired

Gina K Designs - grass green ink pad

Cosmic Shimmer - bright gold detail embossing powder

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card - currently oos

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

kraft card from stash