Krafty Chicks challenge #782 - CAS

Good morning lovely friends and welcome to my little corner of blogland.  It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week we are on Week 3; and as always the theme is 'CAS (clean and simple)' and Diane is our hostess. Now we know that CAS is subjective but generally it's lots of white space, no embellishments (or very few) and an uncluttered design. It can be a difficult design to pull off but we hope you will take on the challenge and come over and join in the fun with us.

I received some new butterfly dies from Craft Addiction UK recently and thought this challenge would be the perfect time to show them some love.  I love the calming monochrome colour scheme and I think this card would also work well as a sympathy card.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the butterflies:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and using a light green ink cube I blended a soft hue of colour, darker in the centre and fading out to white.  I took two different sized square dies and cut them out of white card, I then used the smaller sized squares from the set to cut out the centres to create a frame.  Usually I would stack them up for dimension but as I wanted to keep the layout CAS and almost one layer I added the frames onto the background with liquid glue.  I die cut two of the butterflies from a shimmery green card and the bodies from gold mirror card and adhered them together with liquid glue.  I stamped a tiny sentiment along the top of one of the larger frames using the same ink cube that I used for the background.  I did adhere the butterflies with foam squares for a little dimension and I also added a a few pieces of scrap white card behind the panel for extra stability.  The panel was added to the card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another panel 4" x 5 1/4" and ink blended the green ink along the bottom third.  I die cut two more frames and 1 more butterfly and adhered them with liquid glue in the lower right corner. Using the same ink cube I stamped a sentiment in the centre of the panel.  This was then adhered to the card base with double sided tape. It is such a soft and delicate looking card and looks really pretty in real life.  

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

AAA Cards challenge - anything CAS goes optional twist 'all green'

A Cut Above challenge - ATG but must have at least one die cut

Addicted to CAS challenge - squares

Allsorts challenge - I spy something beginning with B - butterflies

Classic Design challenge - ATG optional twist 'happy birthday'

Creative Friday challenge - square (I've used squares in my background)

Double D challenge - butterflies

Halloween & Other Occasions challenge - birthday

Inkspirational challenge - clean & simple optional twist 'flowers'

Simply Clean and Simple challenge - anything CAS goes optional twist 'cute animals'

Triple B challenge - ATG but must include birds, blooms or butterflies optional mood board

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 supplies:

Craft Addiction UK - wings of elegance die set

Spellbinders - classic squares large die set (for frames)

Spellbinders - nature's dance stamp (for inside sentiment)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - teeny tags stamp (for outside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - medium spruce ink cube

Limetree Crafts - 280gsm silky smooth white card

green shimmer card & gold mirror card from scraps bin