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Clean & Simple at Sparkles Monthly

Hello friends!  We’re still having some very warm temperatures with humidity making it worse. With seeing the kids starting back up at school, I am so ready for Autumn weather to get here!  Notice I didn’t mention the “W” word…just Autumn! LOL  Hope your able to have stable conditions wherever you are.

Today is time to share a new challenge over at Sparkles Monthly and we have the theme of “CAS (Clean & Simple)”  this month.  I always find this theme great for making a quick card when you need one.  Here’s what I came up with: 

Although I’ve only used one flower image for my card, I’ve also added a few die cuts and simple foiling on the sentiment to elevate the design a bit.

The flower image is actually the July “freebie” from Taylored Expressions when you place any order with them.  I quickly colored it up with Copic markers and then die cut the panel out with the TE Petite Scallop Gallery Builder die set and cut out another panel for the scallop frame around it with TE Blueberry cardstock.

For the sentiment, I used the TE Foil-It Sundry Sentiment panels and used the coordinating die set to cut it out.  I then used some silver Deco Foil over it.

Here’s a closer view of the flower and foiled sentiment pieces.  I forgot to mention that I’ve also dotted the center of the flowers with a silver gel pen.

For the finished card design, I used a regular A2 sized top folding horizontal white card base and then I cut an additional white card front piece from the TE Petite Scallop Rectangle Stacklets dies.  I also used the TE Diagonal Stitched Rectangle Stacklets dies to make the slanted stitch marks on the inside of the scallop panel.  (this doesn’t cut anything out, it just makes those lines around the edge.)

I placed this panel along with the flower and sentiment pieces over top to finish the card.

  • Hope you’ve enjoyed my card today and that you’ll stop by the challenge blog to see what the rest of the design team has come up with.  You have a whole month to join in the fun with us!  Hope to see your creation in the gallery!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Challenges:

  1. Crafts Galore Encore – Anything Goes
  2. We Love Stamping – Flowers
  3. A Cut Above – Anything Goes with Die Cut(s)
  4. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2532 Anything Goes
  5. Penny’s – Anything Goes with Paper