CAS at The Crafty Pad

Good morning, it's time for some fabulous new releases at The Crafty Pad. We are giving all our readers the opportunity to win the entire set, read on to find out more.

I was lucky enough to be given this gorgeous image called 'Bird Silhouette' to work with. As soon as I saw it I just knew I wanted to make a CAS card, as anyone who knows me will realise this is something quite different for me. My inspiration came from last weeks sketch over at Clean & Simple Stamping, unfortunately I'm to late to enter my card into their challenge.

I copied the image into word and changed the colour to match the Core'dinations card stock that I had decided to use, I then re-sized the image to fit inside my Spellbinders Scalloped Oval die. I did things the hard way and printed the image, cut it out and then placed it behind the die cut frame, when I thought about it later I realised I could have printed the white panel with everything on it in one go and just placed the die cut frame on top - I'll know next time.

The 'Thank You' text was created in word and printed directly onto the white panel. I cropped the little bird from the main image and re-sized it before cutting it out and adhering it to the finished card. The scalloped edge at the bottom of my card was made using a Martha Stewart edge punch.

I decorated the inside of my card to complement the front making sure that I left plenty of blank space to write my thank you note.

I did enjoy making this card, but although the style is clean and simple they certainly are not simple to make, you have to be really accurate in everything you do because the slightest imperfection really does show.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Card Makin' Mamas Challenge 46 - Feeling Punchy!
4 Crafty Chicks Challenge 92 - Branching Out
Little Miss Muffet Challenge 36 - Rainbows, Clouds or Wings
Shelly's Images Challenge - Pick at least Two (Blue, Digi, Monochromatic, Punched Border)
One Stitch at a Time Challenge 116 - Use a Digi
That Craft Place Challenge 12 - Trees and Nature
The Secret Crafter Challenge 188 - Anything Goes
The Cutie Pie Challenge 19 - Die Cuts & Punches
Quirky Crafts Challenge 12 - Up, Up and Away (or The Sky's the Limit)
Divas by Design Chalenge 37 - Anything Goes

Make sure you pop over the The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog and look at all the DT inspiration and then make a visit to The Crafty Pad Designs Shop and check out the new images.

For your chance to win the entire set, all you have to do is leave a comment on the Crafty Pad Challenge Blog and your name will go into the draw - for a second chance in the draw become a follower of The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog and leave us another comment telling us you are a follower, it's that easy!

Commenting will close 12pm BST on Monday the 11th of June and the winner will be announced on Thursday the 14th of June.

We hope you love the new release as much as we do. Don't forget, there is still plenty of time to get your entries in for this weeks Ribbon Challenge.

Thank you for stopping by today, please visit again soon.

Pauline
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