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Thursday, 16 July 2026

Krafty Chicks challenge #829 - 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 (doesn't have to be white), 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.
When I was searching through my stash recently I came across this die set that I have had for years but never used and thought it was time to show it some love.  It has a retro, 60's vibe so went with bright and funky colours.  I think it turned out really fun and I hope you like it too. 
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".  I die cut the retro squares frames from black card and the inner pieces from yellow, orange and pink and adhered them together using liquid glue.  I added the strips vertically on the left side of the panel again using liquid glue.  I found a fun scripty 'hi' sentiment that fit the space to the right of the strips and stamped that using black ink.  The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel and adhered the black frame using liquid glue and filled the gaps using a mix of the yellow, orange and pink inners.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre using black ink and adhered the panel to the card base with double sided tape.  Once the die cutting and glueing was done this was a super quick card to make.  

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

A Cut Above challenge - ATG with a die cut
Cardz 4 Galz challenge - for a friend or friendship
CAS on Friday challenge - only dies and word stamps
The Neglected Stuff challenge - the dies were released in 2012 and this is the first time I've used them!
Unicorn challenge - no design paper

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:
MFT - retro squares die-namics
MFT - winter wreath clear stamp (for 'hi')
MFT - everything wonderful clear stamp (for inside sentiment)
Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)
Limetree Craft - 300gsm smooth white card
Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad
coloured card from my scraps bin

8 comments:

  1. Such a funky card love the bright colors. Great job friend. Have a good day! Hugs, L

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  2. What a fun card! It reminds me of little plastic blocks my granddaughter used for math in Kindergarten during the Covid shutdown. They connected to each other like this!

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  3. thank you for sharing this card with us at C4Galz Friendship

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  4. This is way cool! What a fun and unique die cut. Thanks for sharing with A Cut Above's July Anniversary Challenge. Happy to have you play along with us.

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  5. Very retro and very FUN!!
    Thank you for joining our challenge at The Neglected Stuff!
    Diane
    {Nellies Nest}
    The Neglected Stuff Co-Owner

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  6. This is such a fun card!!
    Thanks for playing along at Cardz 4 Galz!

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  7. This is so neat, friend!! Love the funky die cut design you used - great job! xoxoxo

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  8. Cool card!! Clean and simple...YES!! Thanks for joining the fun and playing along with our "Use Dies & Only Word Stamps" challenge over at CAS on Friday!! Deb Horst, DT #338

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