Clean and Simple

Hi,

For today's post I would like to share a clean & simple card; this is a little different to my usual style but was fun to do and will suit a variety of occasions.  The finished card has some pretty pastel tones of creamy yellow and pink, with plenty of the open, clean space typical of CAS cards:

Technique:

For the card base I used a white 7 x 5 inch, 300gsm, card and masked off a 2 inch stripe with paper and removable tape.

Using a brush I inked up the 2 inch stripe with Distress Ink (Wild Honey), then covered the area with the "Chinese Lanterns" stencil by Claritystamp.  The lantern design was inked onto the yellow stripe using Memento Ink (Rhubarb Stalk) with a small amount of teal blue ink (Memento: Teal Zeal) added to darken the base and stalks of each lantern.

The "Chinese Lanterns" design is my favourite go-to stencil at the moment,  I just love the stripy pattern on the lanterns and it looks great whether using its full 6 x 6 design or just a small section.

The "hello" stamp is from a L'Aquarelle Design set by Ultimate Crafts, I stamped this on a piece of white card approximately 3 x 1.5 inch and heat embossed with Wow super fine embossing powder (Metallic Platinum).  I added a pierced border around the sentiment and the Wild Honey inkpad was run along the edges to link into the background colour of the main stripe.

Finally the sentiment was placed on the finished card with 3D foam tape to lift it slightly above the patterned stripe.

I hope you have enjoyed reading my post, and many thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn x

This card is being entered in the following challenges:

Less Is More: Stripe Challenge

Cards In Envy: Pretty-Pastels-Card-Challenge