Sunday 5 August 2012

August Meeting - Clean and Simple

Hello everyone,

Hope you are all well and that I can find some craft mojo from somewhere, I haven't managed to make anything since having Izzy.

I thought we could have a go at some Clean and Simple cards, these are the main requirements for a CAS card:

Clean & Simple (CAS)

A design of card with clean lines, minimal elements, areas of white space and few or no embellishments.

White Space

An area of the card which has no image, layer or embellishment.This can be any colour dependent upon the colour of the card blank.

One Layer Card (OLC)

One piece of card folded in half with no additional layers and minimal embellishments, where the image is stamped or printed directly onto the cardstock.

So for all you paper fearing people and those that aren't great at colouring in or simply need a quick card these are ideal.There are a few blogs that are dedicated to cards like this, if you want to take a look the links are below.

I will bring some sketches with me as a starting point - the rest is up to you.

Less is More
Clean and Simple Stamping
A Load of Old Pickle



You will need basic card making materials, sentiment stamps and smaller images work well as do coloured inks such as Distress inks, scraps of papers, gems and ribbons are useful too.

It's Margaret Brown's birthday this month.

See you on the 14th