Krafty Chicks challenge #790 - 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 open 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 thought I would follow a colour challenge for a change but instead of colouring my image with the colours I went with blocks of colour in my background and an uncoloured image.  I really like the finished card and it took no time at all (once I had figured out what I was going to do lol!).  I hope you like it too. 

Here is my card:

A closer look at the image:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and used this as the backing to line up my coloured card.  I cut each piece of coloured card to 4" x 1/2" and adhered them to the white panel with liquid glue, leaving a tiny gap so that the white would show through.  I stamped the gorgeous roses image, along with the sentiment from the same stamp set, with black ink and cut them out using the coordinating dies.  I also cut another 2 of each from white card so that I could stack them up.  At this point I decided to add some interest with a stitched edge so used a die from ML14 and cut out the panel.  I adhered the rose image and sentiment on to the panel with liquid glue.  I added some scrap white card behind the panel and adhered it to the card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut thin strips of the coloured card and adhered them to the bottom of another white panel with liquid glue and then used the stitched rectangle to cut it out.  I stamped the rose image in the centre with a light grey ink and stamped the sentiment over top with black ink.  I love the simplicity of this card and I think it really makes the image pop with the colour blocks behind it.  

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

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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:

Gina K Designs*:

sketched roses stamp & die

Master Layouts 14 (for stitched rectangle)

birthday cheer stamp set

Other:

Limetree Crafts - 280gsm silky smooth white card

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

coloured card from scraps bin

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Thank you x