When I looked at this week's clean and simple challenge at Splitcoast, I had no ideas at all. I thought it over last night and at 1am, a glimmer of an idea came to me. It's not the same as what I ended up with but then my ideas never seem the same when put to paper. The challenge was to use dots in some way. It was stipulated that those dots could not be cuttlebugged or come from patterned paper. You could paper pierce or use markers. I chose to stamp and use ink.
Here is what I finally came up with. All stamps are from Papertrey. My initial idea was to use a polka dot stamp. I tried different polka dots and different placements but went with this one in the end.
I stamped the dots with SU rose red ink. It is probably one of my all time favorite Stampin' Up colors. I then stamped the sentiment in PTI chocolate ink and cut out the two layers with my nestibilities. Pop dot the sentiment over the dots and a true 5 minute card.
One note on card size......the length of the dot stamp is smaller than the length of an A2 horizontal card.. Rather than trying to line up the dots and stamp twice, I made the card slightly smaller than A2. Final size on this card is 4.5 x 4.25 inches.
Someone on SCS gave me an idea when she commented. She made the observation that this design would look good for stationary. I haven't made my March notecards yet so I may just consider doing the same sort of design on those. I'll do a little playing tomorrow in the studio. Have a great night!
very nice - very clean very simple. awesome card!
Posted by: Maria | March 09, 2009 at 06:19 PM
I LOVE this. I'm not good a CAS cards, (too much white space scares me) but I love seeing other peoples and this is fab.
Posted by: Kay | March 04, 2009 at 09:20 PM
Whoops - that was my comment above but I forgot to add my name! :)
Posted by: Holly | March 04, 2009 at 05:01 PM
I remember seeing this challenge and debated trying it, but just didn't get it together. I love your version! I'm fast become a big fan of the CAS design. I also LOVE cards with white as the main card color - beautiful job!
Posted by: | March 04, 2009 at 05:00 PM
This is really cute Laura. Love the red.
Posted by: bonnie | March 04, 2009 at 07:26 AM
Omgoodness! I love what you came up with!!! This is so clean yet stunning! Love it!
Posted by: Grace | March 03, 2009 at 11:18 PM
CAS is not easy, but you've done a great job here, made it look 'simple.' :) I have that set and love it!
Posted by: peggysue | March 03, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Beautiful card. Sometimes simple is very hard to do. This is perfect.
Posted by: Elizabeth | March 03, 2009 at 10:14 PM
I've been debating for awhile about getting the polka dot stamps from PTI. I think your card convinced me. So sweet!!
Posted by: Stephanie | March 03, 2009 at 10:09 PM