Clean and Simple Saturday

Christian Paper Crafts is hosting its "Clean and Simple Saturday" (also known as CAS in the card-designing circle) creative challenge today. The goal this week is to create a monochromatic design. Choosing one color and various values of that one color card designers are to create an eye-catching paper craft with only white or cream as a neutral. Can you imagine what the gallery of entries will look like? I'm excited to see what all transpires from this challenge. Designers can create greeting cards, ATCs,(artist trading cards) scrapbook layouts, or other altered art... I think I'll probably stick with greeting cards for this challenge. Purple is my favorite color; however, yellow is such a joyful, "spring-y" color... and I am all about Spring today. So, here is my entry:
And while you're on the 'net, why not pop on over to CPC and follow the links to see what others have done with CAS (remember: Clean and Simple) Saturday. Perhaps you'll be inspired to get crafty too.

After I posted "Shine" I was going through my stash of cards I had made earlier this week and came across this one. I like it better than "Shine" and it still falls in with the Clean and Simple design. This one is shades of orange and white.

Happy Birthday

More inspiration through card design sketches! This time, Christian paper Crafts Creative Blog has offered up a challenge in simplicity! 1+1+1=Fabulous! One piece of patterned paper, one embellishment, and one sentiment. That's it. Believe me...it's more challenging than one might think! Here is my entry:


The "Happy Birthday" is actually hand written in a really neat embossing pen ink which goes on clear. Then I sprinkled some embossing powder over it, poured the excess off and used a heat gun to set the powder. Heating the powder kind of melts the powder particles together. It's really a neat technique. I did the heat embossing on the He Is Risen card featured here on the Scripture and the three cross image. I would like to invest in some more colors of embossing powder because right now I only have gold and purple.