Krafty Chicks challenge #786 - CAS

Good morning lovely friends and welcome back 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 wanted to use the gifted Stamptember set once again; you may remember it was a Christmas bauble set, but I wanted to make a birthday card.  I only used the scallop circle stamp from the set but as I stamped it in black I feel it is the focal image.  My card is VERY clean and simple this time but I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and stamped the scalloped circle stamp 5 times across the top third of my panel using black ink.  I made sure to offset them and overlap them for some interest.  I die cut the word happy from scraps of card in rainbow colours and adhered them inside the circles using liquid glue.  I stamped the birthday sentiment below the circles on the right hand side.  At the last moment I decided to use my score board and add some scored lines above and below the stamped piece, although now I'm not sure if I should have left it as it was.  I added some scrap white card behind my panel for stability and adhered it to my card base with double sided tape. For the inside I cut another white panel and stamped two more scalloped circles in the bottom right corner using black ink.  Inside these circles I stamped a purple and pink heart to finish the rainbow from the front.  I stamped the sentiment in the upper centre with black ink and again added some scored lines around the stamping.  The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  I think this card would be suitable for anyone, any age or gender and the plus was it was super quick to make.

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

Addicted to CAS challenge - geometric

Colourful Options challenge - ATG

Craft Rocket challenge - dots and/or stripes

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - happy birthday

Simply Clean and Simple challenge - ATG CAS optional theme birthdays

Stamping Sensations challenge - CAS

The Male Room challenge - create your own background (I embossed the lines with a scoreboard)

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - birthday

Tic Tac Toe challenge - stripes, stamped image (the scalloped circles are stamped), embossing

Unicorn challenge - circles

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:

Simon Says Stamp - shiny baubles stamp

Simon Says Stamp - happy birthday die set

Simon Says Stamp - favourite puperoni stamp (for birthday and heart) - I think it's retired

Simon Says Stamp - birthday basics stamp (for inside greeting)

Limetree Crafts - 280gsm silky smooth white card

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

coloured card from scraps bin