Monochromatic With Brown On a Clean And Simple Card Sketch

Sizzix Die Was Used To Cut Hearts

 Yesterday, I saw the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge for monochromatic cards which also is to include brown.  Then I saw the sketch below from Clean & Simple Stamping and knew that I wanted to use both ideas.

159 From Clean & Simple Stamping

 The base is textured CTMH retired Colonial White cardstock. It is almost a bamboo color. The inside of the card is a lighter color, which is perfect for stamping and writing a note. This is the same paper from which the smaller hearts are made. The larger Very Vanilla (SU!) hearts were embossed with the Kassie's Brocade Cuttlebug folder. The added texture looks very nice in person.

Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch with Brown Pearls

The butterfly was punched from white cardstock and then dyed with Tim Holtz Distress Ink and spritzed with a water/Pearl Create-a-Shade paint mixture.  

Martha Stewart Doily Lace Edge Punch Above Sentiment

The stamp set is retired from Close To My Heart. It fit this card so perfectly, don't you think?  I wanted to use the same embellishments on the inside, but still keep the card CAS. So, I used the same little self-adhesive pearls on the butterfly inside the card.

4" x 6" Card

This card is entered into the following challenges:

Clean & Simple Stamping 159 Sketch

CFC #21 Mostly Monochromatic 3+1 Challenge

4 x 4 Square Kraft Clean and Simple Card

Images from the CTMH Treasure Life stamp set embossed in white

I love the simple, sweet elegance of white on kraft paper.  This is one of my favorite stamp sets and I find that I use it a lot!  When I saw that CFC #20 was for a mini-card, I knew that I was going to make this card to enter the challenge.  

Rolled Flower using Martha Stewart Heart Chain Edge Punch

Rolled flowers are easy to make with edge punches.  One of the nice things about rolled flowers is that they can be made in a variety of sizes.  This is on the small-ish side, about 1 1/2" across.  The strip of paper was 12" long.

A simple white grosgrain ribbon and fork bow complete the card

This is also a one layer card,  in that there is no matting.  The images were stamped onto the card base.

Please visit the following sites to see the challenges for which I have entered this sweet little card.

CFC #20 - Mini Cards - http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/

Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge Week 73 - One layer card - http://marksfinestpapers.blogspot.com/

Thank you so much for stopping by today.  I appreciate you visiting my blog.
Beverly

Paper Piecing on Autumn Cards Take Two

Halloween Paper Pieced card using CTMH Spook Alley stamp set

My post yesterday was motivated by CFC 19 at CAS-ual Fridays.  However, I didn't submit that card because I didn't love it.  I'm not sure I Love this one, but I do like it a lot. It is more in keeping with my personality.  Especially, the goofy, google-ly eyes!

Paper pieced Frank with 5 different B & T papers

Clean and simple used to be my style in card making and scrapbooking.  I'm not sure if Tim Holtz is to blame thank, or what exactly happened... but I don't do much that is CAS any longer.  My "style" is more hybrid-eclectic now.
I love CAS, though. So this won't be the end of my checking out the CAS-ual Fridays challenges.

Asided from the eyeballs, everything else is CTMH

The bottom border stamp has 8 different colored papers used for piecing. Some were used more than once, i.e., the stars.  I used a Bonding Memories Glue Pen to adhere all those itsy bitsy pieces of paper.  This stamp set is retired and so are some of the papers.  The Mischief B & T is new this season.