Krafty Chicks challenge #751 - 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 and this week we are on Week 3; as always the theme is 'CAS' (clean and simple) and Diane is our hostess.  Everyone interprets CAS very differently but as long as there is some 'white' space and not too many embellishments you're all good.  We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

I wanted to make a thank you card for our kitchen fitter and feel that most men prefer clean and simple cards (in my family they do anyway) so this was perfect timing for me.  I went with a large sentiment over some card strips for a bold card.  I hope you like it. 

Here is my card:

A close up look at the sentiment:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by die cutting the large thank you sentiment from black shimmer card 4 x times and adhered them together with liquid glue.  I cut 7 strips of coloured card in rainbow order and adhered them to some thin copy paper using double sided tape so that they could be attached to my card panel in one piece.  I cut my white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and added the rainbow strips with double sided tape into the centre.  I added the large sentiment die cut with a mix of liquid glue (to the middle section) and some thin foam squares (to the top and bottom) so that it would all be on the same level.  I used a die to cut the tiny circles from the same black card and added them with liquid glue.  I didn't add anything else as I liked it the way it was.  For the inside I cut another white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and another rainbow of strips and adhered them to the bottom with double sided tape.  I stamped the simple sentiment in the upper centre with black ink and finished off with a few more die cut circles.  The panel was added to the card base with double sided tape.  A bright and cheerful card but perfectly CAS I think.  

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

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - any occasion

Alphabet challenge - T for thank you 

Colorful Options challenge - yellow, purple, green or rainbow inspired

Crafty Catz challenge - ATG optional twist clean and simple

Daisy Chain challenge - no design paper

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - all things bright and beautiful

Moving Along with the Times challenge - thank you 

My Time To Craft challenge - use a sentiment 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - clean and simple

The Male Room challenge - clean and simple

Word Power challenge - make the sentiment the focus of your creation

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:

Lawn Fawn - giant thanks so much die

Gina K Designs - lots of dots die set

Clearly Besotted - sugar and spice clear stamp (for inside sentiment) - retired

All card from my scraps bin 

Versafine - onyx black ink pad