Krafty Chicks Challenge #829: CAS

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

 

 Are you ready for this week's challenge?? On the third week of the month, I'm the hostess and we are looking for CAS. I always have a difficult time with the true CAS design of lots of white space but I've come to realized after all this time that there's a wide interpretation to CAS (Clean And Simple). So just have fun with it.

#829 CAS

I waited to the very last minute this week to create my CAS card. I have the youngest grandson visiting with us this week and it's been tough to sneak away to my craft space. I almost decided to skip this week and call it a holiday but I did manage to eek out a few minutes before my July Card Class. I followed the new layout at Freshly Made Sketches and the card took no time at all.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: June 2026 Paper Pumpkin kit: Bikes & Blooms, Supremely Awesome
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White, Lost Lagoon
• Ink Pads: Memento, Lost Lagoon
• Stampin' Blends: Lost Lagoon
• Accessories: Blending Brush, Stampin Dimensionals 

 

No card is complete without finishing the inside and envelope with a coordinating image and a strip of card stock. Keep it simple!

Want some more inspiration?? Go check out the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to see what the Design Team has created. Hope you play along and upload your project so that we can see what's happening in your craft space. Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Krafty Chicks Challenge #821: CAS

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

 Are you ready for this week's challenge?? On the third week of the month, I'm the hostess and we are looking for CAS. I always have a difficult time with the true CAS design of lots of white space but I've come to realized after all this time that there's a wide interpretation to CAS (Clean And Simple). So just have fun with it.

#821 CAS

Today I am showcasing an alternate card using the April Paper Pumpkin kit: Lakeside Retreat. It has serene vibes and a little bit of a masculine feel. I just started playing with this kit and have already created the three suggested card to get my creative mojo going and two more alternate designs. This one for CAS week and another for next week's Masculine Challenge. And I have so many more idea flowing.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: April 2026 Paper Pumpkin kit: Lakeside Retreat
• Card Stock: Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie
• Ink Pads: Pecan Pie
• Accessories: April 2026 Paper Pumpkin kit die cuts, Blending Brushes, Woodland Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Stampin Dimensionals 

 

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating element like the "drift wood". As the envelopes from the kit already had a pattern, I left it alone. Keep it simple!

Want some more inspiration?? Go check out the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to see what the Design Team has created. Hope you play along and upload your project so that we can see what's happening in your craft space. Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Krafty Chicks Challenge #816: CAS

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

 Are you ready for this week's challenge?? On the third week of the month, I'm the hostess and we are looking for CAS. I always have a difficult time with the true CAS design of lots of white space but I've come to realized after all this time that there's a wide interpretation to CAS (Clean And Simple). So just have fun with it.

#816 CAS

With all the hustle and bustle of the last two weeks, I created this card this morning, last minute and I think it turned out great. You'd never know it though. I found the inspiration from the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge. 

 I love this layout! I first thought flowers. It is spring after all! Or in Alberta trying to speed up spring. But thumbing through which stamp set I wanted to play with, the soccer one screamed "Pick Me"!

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Match Day
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White
• DSP: A Wonderful Match
• Ink Pads: Memento
• Stampin' Blends: Real Red, Basic Black, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, and Color Lifter
• Accessories: Match Day dies, Stampin Dimensionals
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating image and a little DSP. Same goes for the envelope. Keep it simple!

Want some more inspiration?? Go check out the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to see what the Design Team has created. Hope you play along and upload your project so that we can see what's happening in your craft space. Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Krafty Chicks Challenge #812: CAS

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

 Are you ready for this week's challenge?? On the third week of the month, I'm the hostess and we are looking for CAS. I always have a difficult time with the true CAS design of lots of white space but I've come to realized after all this time that there's a wide interpretation to CAS (Clean And Simple). So just have fun with it.

#812 CAS

This card was created quick and last minute. I've been down with a nasty head cold since Saturday afternoon. I haven't been in the mood to do much, I even took Sunday off work to rest up and slept through most of it. I do feel like I'm on the mend now though.

Here's a close up of the focal element. #2 was my youngest grandson's jersey number. He loves this sport!

 

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Match Day
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Gold Sheet
• Ink Pads: Memento, VersaMark
• Accessories: Match Day dies, Heat Tool, White Embossing Powder, Wonderful Stars Puffy Stickers, Stampin Dimensionals
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating image. Same goes for the envelope. Keep it simple!

Want some more inspiration?? Go check out the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to see what the Design Team has created. Hope you play along and upload your project so that we can see what's happening in your craft space. Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Krafty Chicks Challenge #808: CAS

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Are you ready for this week's challenge?? On the third week of the month, I'm the hostess and we are looking for CAS. I always have a difficult time with the true CAS design of lots of white space but I've come to realized after all this time that there's a wide interpretation to CAS (Clean And Simple). So just have fun with it.

#808 CAS

I've been playing with the January 2026 Paper Pumpkin kit: Special Delivery this past week and created a few alternative designs. If you're looking for an easy, no thinking craft with pretty cards at the end, then Paper Pumpkin kits are the perfect thing for you. And if you're an avid crafter who loves creating something different with the same components, then Paper Pumpkin kits can do that too.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Special Delivery January 2026 Paper Pumpkin kit
• Card Stock: Basic Beige (card base)
• DSP: Kit envelope cut to size 
• Ink Pads: Blueberry Bushel
• Accessories: Kit die cuts, Blending Brush (changed the colour of the sentiment from pink to blue), Stampin' Dimensionals
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating die cut and DSP (envelope). Same goes for the envelope. Keep it simple!

Want some more inspiration?? Go check out the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to see what the Design Team has created. Hope you play along and upload your project so that we can see what's happening in your craft space. Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Krafty Chicks Challenge #802: CAS

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Are you ready for this week's challenge?? On the third week of the month, I'm the hostess and we are looking for CAS. I always have a difficult time with the true CAS design of lots of white space but I've come to realized after all this time that there's a wide interpretation to CAS (Clean And Simple). So just have fun with it.

#803 CAS

Another goal of mine for this year is to use up the extra card kits I have. I know I will find this challenging as I like to create, not necessarily stamp and assemble. So we will see how that goes. This kit was from March 21, 2024.

 Another CAS design. I ditched the ribbon and added an Old Olive matte. I think this was one of my best TRUE CAS cards. *honk,honk* (tooting my own horn).

Products used:

• Stamp Set: With You In Mind
• Card Stock: Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Basic White
• Ink Pads: Daffodil Delight, Old Olive
• Accessories: Gems (retired), Stampin' Dimensionals
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating image. Same goes for the envelope. Keep it simple!

Want some more inspiration?? Go check out the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to see what the Design Team has created. Hope you play along and upload your project so that we can see what's happening in your craft space. Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Krafty Chicks Challenge #799: CAS

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Are you ready for this week's challenge?? On the third week of the month, I'm the hostess and we are looking for CAS. I always have a difficult time with the true CAS design of lots of white space but I've come to realized after all this time that there's a wide interpretation to CAS (Clean And Simple). So just have fun with it.

#799 CAS

We are just one week away from Christmas, I hope you're ready. My cards have been done months ago, but they haven't made it to the post office yet. EEK! I still have two more gifts to buy and then wrapping. The menu is finalized. So not much more to worry about here.

I think this flower looks like a peony or it could be a double poppy too. For this card, I went with bright pink because I wish my peonies were this colour. Mine are a light soft pink, still pretty and very fragrant. I used my blending brush and Melon Mambo ink to create the ombre effect on the embossed specialty paper.   

 

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Simply Said, Garden Blooms
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White, Basic Black
• DSP: Irresistably Yours 
• Ink Pads: Memento, VersaMark, Melon Mambo
• Stampin' Blends: Melon Mambo, Old Olive, Pool Party 
• Accessories: Heat Tool, White Embossing Powder, Blending Brush, More Messages Die, Gallery Blooms Die, Banner Die, Purple sequins
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating banner. Same goes for the envelope. Keep it simple!

Want some more inspiration?? Go check out the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to see what the Design Team has created. Hope you play along and upload your project so that we can see what's happening in your craft space. Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Krafty Chicks Challenge #795: CAS

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

 Are you ready for this week's challenge?? On the third week of the month, I'm the hostess and we are looking for CAS. I always have a difficult time with the true CAS design of lots of white space but I've come to realized after all this time that there's a wide interpretation to CAS (Clean And Simple). So just have fun with it.

#795 CAS

You can't imagine just how much fun I had creating this week's cards. It was so fun that I created two, one in pinks and one in blues.

 

I was inspired by Denise, one of the other Design Team members of the Krafty Chicks. See the card on her blog The Crafty Den. I'm also playing along with a couple of other challenges, one from Stampin' Up! and the other from a Stampin' Up! Demo Facebook group. They can be found in my fun/inspo Facebook group: Diane's Craft Space . It's a colour combo and use snowflakes.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Festive Friends, Delicate Pines
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White 
• Ink Pads: Memento, Coastal Cabana, Flirty Flamingo, Afternoon Azure, Melon Mambo
• Stampin's Blends: Pool Party, Pumpkin Pie, Flirty Flamingo, Melon Mambo, Afternoon Azure 
• Accessories: Blending Brushes, Paper Snip Scissors, Foam Adhesive Strips or Stampin' Dimensionals.
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating image. I also used a strip of cards stock. Same goes for the envelope. Keep it simple!

Want some more inspiration?? Go check out the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to see what the Design Team has created. Hope you play along and upload your project so that we can see what's happening in your craft space. Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog