Clean and Simple Challenges on Splitcoaststampers

So, over on Splitcoaststampers (SCS as it is lovingly referred to) there is a new weekly challenge. It is the CAS (or Clean and Simple) challenges!! I was so excited to find them. My blogging friend Susan pointed me in the right direction ... and she is really the queen of Clean and Simple....and, in fact, is one of the DT's for the challenges this quarter!!! You have to go check out her work, she amazes me!!

Anyway, the challenges are posted for Monday mornings (but often get posted Sunday nights, a bit early!!). I couldn't wait so I was browsing through the 12 challenges that have been posted so far to date. I decided to do a bunch of them...

Here is the first one for CAS #2 - One Button. The challenge....obviously was to use one button on your clean and simple card.

Supplies - Stamps - Guide Lines Two, Demask Designs (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Brilliance Graphite Black (Tsukineko), silver (Hero Arts); Paper - Whisper White, Basic Black (Stampin' Up!), Pure Poppy (Papertrey Ink); Other - one button (from my stash), Labels One die (Spellbinders), Cuttlebug.

This card is for CAS #7 - Punches...where we were obviously asked to use punches on our CAS cards.

This one was inspired by that awesome piece of orange plaid...which I've had so long that I don't even know made it!! But it looks awesome as a piece of fruit :D

Supplies: Stamps - Borders & Corners{square}, Mixed Messages (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Brilliance Graphite Black (Tsukineko); Paper - Basic Black, Groovy Guave (Stampin' Up!); Other - apple punch (Martha Stweart).

Here is my card for the CAS challenge # 8 where there was a sketch to follow. It was a fairly simple sketch ... of course, being a CAS challenge. I love, love, love this border stamp from Stampin' Up and bought it just before it retired even though I had adored it forever! Anyway, I'm just glad to have it and actually put it to some use. The brad is one I've had forever and it says "be" on it. I love the pop of orange with these other subtle colors.

Supplies: Stamps- Garden Annuals (Stampin' Up); Ink - Versamark; Paper - Sahara Sand, Basic Black (Stampin' Up!); Other - white embossing powder, prima flowers, brad (Making Memories, I think).

My last card is for the CAS challenge#12 - Little Bits of Ribbon. This is the latest CAS challenge posted.

For this challenge I decided to use these cute little babies. I got them a few years ago during the free stamp event with Stampin' Up...you know, where if you buy so much money you get a free stamp set. Well, I got all the free sets that year and one of them, Very Punny, included this little baby. I've never used it!! I colored the images with Copic markers and added the Little Bits of Ribbon with a staple.

Supplies: Stamps - Very Punny (Stampin' Up!), Mixed Messages (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Brilliance Graphite Black (Tsukineko); Paper - Whisper White, Regal Rose (Stampin' Up!), blue (from my scrap stash); Other - RV11 Pink and B14 Light Blue markers (Copic), gingham ribbons (from my ribbon scrap stash), brown pencil crayon (Prismacolor), stamples and stapler, dimensionals (actually I just used 4 layers of cardstock because I'm out of dimensionals!!).

Well, I hope you enjoyed the cards. They were a ton of fun to make and acutally did wonders at kickstarting my creative flow again!! I will definately be around tonight to see what the newest CAS challenge will be!!

Donelda