Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Top Tip Tuesday Clean & Simple Cards

Hello and welcome here!  It's time for another Top Tip Tuesday Challenge!  This time the challenge is C&S which means Clean & Simple...which was a challenge for me, lol.  Samantha has a great Tutorial on creating C&S cards.

Challenge - Clean & Simple
Tutorial - C&S Sketch by Samantha

I couldn't stop at just one card so I have several to show you.  Here are the first 2 I made.

Card Sizes: 4.25" x 5.5"
Recipe: Digital Stamp-Bugaboo Hummingbird Flowers, CTMH SS-Card Chatter Sympathy, CTMH CS-Petal, White Daisy & Sweet Leaf, CTMH Ink-Petal, Sweet Leaf & Black, Black Fine Tip Felt Pen, Pearls.

I love how quickly these cards came together.  My TIP for this week is by drawing a line around the edge of your card you 'ground' your image without having to add a lot of embellishments.  

A big THANKS to Bugaboo for letting me use Hummingbird Flowers for my cards.  I printed the image on white CS, and then added the black line with a felt tip pen.  I finished the cards off with a sentiment and a couple of pearls, super easy!

Some close-ups of the 2 cards:


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Here are a few more C&S cards using Hummingbird Flowers:

Card Sizes: 4.25" x 5.5"
Recipe: Digital Stamp-Bugaboo Hummingbird Flowers, Flourishes SS-Tag Lines, CTMH CS-New England Ivy, Sweet Leaf, Pansy Purple, Petal & White Daisy, CTMH Ink-Black, EF-Craft Concepts Budding Vine & Provocraft Textile, Spellbinders-Big Scalloped Circles Lg, Foam Squares, Pearls.

For these 2 cards, I embossed a piece of CS, matted it with a darker piece of matching CS, and cut out the image with Spellbinders Scalloped Circles. My fingers itched to use ribbon and some border punches, but alas the challenge was C&S, lol.  I really like how they turned out though.


And last, but not least, I made a couple of 3x3 cards.  I sized the image a little smaller than the ones I printed for the larger sized cards....that's the beauty of Digital Stamps!!
 Recipe:  Digital Stamp-Bugaboo Hummingbird Flowers, CTMH SS-Say It In Style, Flourishes SS-Tag Lines, CTMH CS-Petal, Indian Corn Blue, Outdoor Denim, Blush & White Daisy, CTMH Ink-Black, Black Fine Tip Felt Pen, Copic-BG0000, Spellbinders-Lacey Squares & Classic Squares Sm., Pearls & Foam Squares.

I used Copic Marker BG0000 to add a touch of colour to the image on the blue lacey card.  I used the black felt pen to add lines to the 2 other cards.

Don't forget to pop on over to Top Tip Tuesday to check out the other C&S cards by rest of the DT.
Enjoy,
Deneen

4 comments:

  1. Ummmm Deneen...I just have to tell you that these are the most elegant C&S cards I think I've ever seen. I absolutely LOVE what you've created here. :)

    I stink at C&S,but if I could CASE all your stuff, I'd be okay..LOL. Awesome work.

    Hugs,
    Lisa x

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  2. This is proof that less is more. Absolutely lovely set of cards. Great job!

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  3. Stunning Deneen these designs are fabulous and so clever too! Love the Top Tip also! what a clever idea! hugs me xx

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  4. These are stunning Deneen! Love the layouts and the beautiful colours. That embossing is gorgeous too :)

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