Clean & Simple at Sparkles Monthly

Birthday, Clean and Simple, My Favorite Things (MFT), Ocassions

Hello friends!  I hope you’re having a wonderful week so far!  We’ve been getting some rain, which is great for the freshly planted flowers.  I enjoy being able to sit on my covered porch and listen to it rain as long as it doesn’t get too stormy!

Today starts a new challenge theme over at the Sparkles Monthly Challenge!  For this month, we’d like to see your CAS (clean & simple) creations!  I look forward to seeing the inspiration in the gallery, so I hope you can join!  Here’s what I’ve made for this challenge:

Sometimes I can really struggle with a clean and simple design because I always feel like I need to add something more.  The end result is in the minimal embellishments and design.  This one got stuck in my head and came together rather quickly and I like how it turned out.

Most everything used on my card came from My Favorite Things.  I started with watercolor (Bristol Smooth) paper and the Watercolor Wash stencil and blended a rainbow of colors over it.  While the stencil was still in place, I took a water bottle to spritz water droplets over it and removed the stencil.  I let it dry and then clear heat embossed the sentiment that was stamped in a black pigment ink.  (The key to this is to make sure the watercolor area is completely dry before you heat emboss anything over it.)

I cut out the panel with a wonky stitched rectangle die.  I’ve attached it to an A2 side folding black card base.  I was pulled to splatter over this, but thought I needed to keep it simple, so I took some drip drops in “cosmic” color and added them randomly to the design.  

  • So, what do you think?  Simple enough you can do it too and enter it in the challenge, right?  If you need more inspiration, check out the challenge blog to see what the other design team members came up with for CAS.

Thanks so much for stopping in today!  I hope you have an amazing week!

Challenges:

  1. AAA Birthday – #61 CAS birthday card
  2. CRAFT – Birthday (Happy 15th birthday!)
  3. AAA Cards – #265 Anything Goes Birthday (Happy 10th birthday!) 
  4. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2419 Anything Goes

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I'm so happy you found me! I love to share smiles with my handmade cards! I also enjoy papercrafts through art journaling, scrapooking and mixed media projects too! Thanks for stopping by!

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19 thoughts on “Clean & Simple at Sparkles Monthly”

  3. WOW Vicki, this CAS card is a real beauty! I love the colorful stenciled mix with the water droplets faded into it, and that black sentiment is a great contrast to those colors. The stitched edges and added dotted accents really made this card a special one. I have so much trouble trying to keep a card CAS, but you did a great job on this one. I love it!

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  4. Love this! It turned out great with the rainbow colors and water droplets! I used to struggle with CAS, too. It’s way too easy to just keep adding and adding, lol! You did a great job with this!

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  5. This is fabulous, great rainbow background and a die cut is great on it. Your droplets and just a few gems are great touches. I am trying to do more CAS but I agree, it is difficult.

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  9. I don’t think I could make a paint blog look clean and so beautiful like you did Vicki. That’s a really lovely card. I hope you’re having a great week. hugs-Erika

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  10. I LOVE the colours Vicki and how it all came together, the sttiching, paint, all of it, beautiful CAS design with so much impact with your colours and water splotches..gorgeous card..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  11. Vicki what a fab watercoloured rainbow “splat” which mimics the wee monkey’s balloons array of colours. It surely is a fun and happy card to give for someone’s birthday. Thanks so much for celebrating and sharing with us at AAA Cards as we turn TEN. PS Good luck with the prize draws too.

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  12. That’s a fun and fabulous rainbow watercolour splat, love how the colours mimic the array of balloon colours the wee monkey is holding. Thanks so much for celebrating our 10th Birthday Celebrations at AAA Card Challenges, its fab seeing all the fabulous cards in the gallery.

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  15. Vicki, I love the way you brought some vibrant colors together to create this charming and pretty CAS card…I too struggle with the concept that less can be more! The embellishments add so much to the look! Smiles, Kathy

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