Lavendar and Lace Snowy CAS Card

When life is busy I wish I was better at Clean and Simple designs. This one came naturally with all the white and snow. I had all of the materials close at hand so it only took a few minutes to assemble.

The card base is made using Petal cardstock with a couple of dry embossed lines (above and below the white panel) made with a stylus. Part of my "white space" is dry embossed. The lace is white even though it looks colored in the photo. A single lavendar snowflake with a lavendar sparkle adorns the corner. It was cut using my oldest Spellbinder's snowflake die. A darker shade of lavendar ink was used to stamp the sentiment using a Close To My Heart stamp.

I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge #61 - Lavender and Lace
The Paper Players #126 - CAS with snowflakes
Creative Craft Challenge - Non-traditional Christmas colors
Die Cuttin' Divas #95 - More holiday spirit ( used Spellbinders snowflake die)
CAS-ual Fridays #83 - 10 minute craft dash ( it took slightly less than 10 minutes)

PSC48 - All Creatures Great and Small

This week at The Perfect Sentiment the challenge is to USE A SENTIMENT FOR THE SEASON OR OCCASION OF YOUR CHOICE. The twist is to incorporate a critter somewhere on your card: teddy bears, mice, frogs, elephants, insects, etc. Our lovely sponsor is Crafty Sentiments Design.

They are offering 3 of their digis as a prize to one lucky, random winner! Today, I used one of their digis for my grandson's birthday card. We love to go exploring together, and recently watched frogs with some lily pads at a nature center.

I used this great sketch, CPS #281, using two blue punched circles topped with orange leaves and flying insect brads in place of the two smaller squares.  After coloring the image with alcohol markers, I cut out each element and glued it on a piece of patterned paper that looked like water and sky. I used dark green waxy flax for some rough stitching that reminded me of things we used to make when I was a Girl Scout at summer camp. The orange and blue patterned papers are from CTMH "Splendor," long retired. The green mat was Basic Grey's "Lemonade."

 

 

I hope you'll join our fun challenge with your project featuring creatures great or small!

 

 

I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge #54 - A Boy Thing (bugs and frogs)

Fairy Tale Challenge #49 - Anything with metal (insect brads)

Pattie's Creations Design Challenge #51 - Birthdays

The Craft Garden September Challenge - Inspired by Water

The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #201 - Animal Antics