Little Red Wagon # 221 - Keep It Clean and Simple

Hey everyone, it's Wednesday and that means another fun challenge over at Little Red Wagon.

For this week's challenge Joanne is asking for us to keep it Clean & Simple (CAS)! What exactly does that mean? Well to those of us that tend to be a bit "CAS challenged", it means we panic a little........okay a lot! What it really means is cutting back on the layers (a few layers anyway). It's a card that is not busy or cluttered and has more "white" space. 

For my card I wanted to play around with the chalkboard look. I recently used this technique on a sign for my daughter's upcoming "Art" party and I really loved how it turned out. So, although my card is "clean" with lots of open space (black in my case), it was not so clean in the literal sense. I did have quite the mess of embossing powder covering my workspace.

Using one of the clear stamps from Tiddly Inks called "Sweets for my Sweet" I stamped the image and sentiment on black card stock using Versa Mark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

My initial card, was just the black and white layered with the pink card stock and the twine (American Crafts), however the card seemed too plain. I decided more colour would really finish this card, so the experimenting began. I tried a few different ways to bring colour to my card which included: heat embossing coloured powders on the black and on white card stock, on coloured paper, colouring the image with Copics, and finally using ink.

I guess with all of my experimentation, the "simple" of the CAS may have gone out the window. Oh well, it was fun (messy) and I now know which technique I like best.

I heat embossed white powder onto white cards stock and then applied Distress Ink (squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry, salty ocean, shaded lilac and spiced marmalade) directly to the embossed image (no applicator tool). The embossing resists the inks. I cut out the newly coloured lollipop and letters and paper pieced them to my chalkboard image. Just a few layers, but still CAS.

To finish the inside of my card, I added my sentiment; this one is from Hero Arts (CL351 Friends) and I re-stamped the cute image of Wryn and her lollipop.

Inside

Please stop on over to Little Red Wagon and check out what the super talented Girlfriends have created for this weeks challenge. We would love for your to show us your clean and simple style and play along with this weeks challenge. Thank you for stopping by to check out my creation. I hope you will come back soon!

Challenges:

CAS-Friday: CFC126 Colour Blocks
Papertake Weekly Challenge: Bow and/or Dies
Through The Craft Room Door: January 21-27 Anything goes
Cute Card Thursday: #304 Warm it up (the pop of colour reminds me of spring/summer)

Tracy