Krafty Chicks challenge #812 - CAS

Good morning lovely friends, I hope you're having a good week so far. 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/empty 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.

As spring is in the air here in South Wales (at least for this week) I decided to make a spring themed card.  I picked a floral stamp set that I don't think I've ever used (naughty me) and I think it turned out really pretty.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the flowers:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" (although I do trim it down slightly later) and ink blended some green ink along the very bottom to replicate grass.  I stamped the images onto alcohol marker friendly card, coloured them with Promarkers and fussy cut them out.  I also added some white gelly roll pen highlights.  I added the yellow flower and all the leaves with liquid glue and popped up the other two flowers with foam squares.  I stamped the happy spring sentiment below the flowers with black ink.  It was at this point that I decided to trim my card down to 3 3/4" x 5".  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 another white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and ink blended the green ink along the bottom.  I stamped one flower directly onto the panel and coloured it with Promarkers, again adding some white gelly roll pen highlights.  I didn't add a sentiment as I thought I would add one later.  

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

AAA Card challenge - anything CAS goes optional twist zoo or animals

Addicted to CAS challenge - garden

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes optional mood board

Crafty Calendar challenge - spring

Creative Crafting Uncles challenge - spring and/or Easter

Creative Friday challenge - feminine

Daisy Chain challenge - flowers

I Love Promarkers - for the girls

Little Red Wagon challenge - signs of spring

Papercraft challenges - joy of spring

Pearly Sparkles challenge - mixed colour flowers

Simply Clean and Simple challenge - CAS optional baby animals

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - beautiful blooms

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - clean and simple

Stamping Sensations challenge - spring

The Four Seasons challenge - spring

Triple B challenge - use at least one bird, bloom or butterfly

Try It On Tuesday challenge - spring 

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:

Uniko - flower power #11 stamp

Uniko - everyday spring sentiments stamp

Uniko - everyday love sentiments stamp

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

*Gina K Designs - jelly bean green ink pad

*I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my link as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Thank you x