Happy Sunday! We’re starting a new week over at the Paper Players. Anne Marie is hosting a Masculine Themed CAS Challenge. CAS is an acronym for Clean and Simple. The rules for a CAS design are: lots of white space, few or no layers and little or no embellishments. It’s simple!
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Coming up with a Clean and Simple design is easy for me. I tend to go more toward a cleaner card design. Finding a masculine theme was a little more challenging. I don’t necessarily think about creating a masculine card unless I know I’m going to be needing one. After going through my stamp archives, I decided on the Sailing Home stamp set and matching Smooth Sailing dies. Both have been around for a while and are still going strong in Stampin’ Up!’s current Annual Catalog.
Let’s Talk About Today’s Card
This card came together very quickly. For a CAS design like this one, I would recommend using the Thick Basic White cardstock. It has a beautiful pure white color and is smooth to the touch The cardstock weight gives the card layer substance and helps the design look and feel better.
I die cut the ship’s wheel and seaweed in Misty Moonlight and Soft Succulent cardstock. The sentiment and anchor are stamped with Soft Suede ink. All of the die cut images are attached with Multipurpose Glue. By design, my anchor is on top. I thought stamping the anchor rather than using a cardstock die cut image would show off the detail in the stamp.
So, pull out a masculine themed stamp set, die cut a few elements, add a layer and create something clean and simple to link up with us over at the Paper Players. We always love to see your amazing cards.
…the only inspiration is your imagination!
For details on the supplies I used today, you can click on the images below.
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Love your nautical card…great idea for the challenge!
Debbie, this is CAS perfection! You make it look so easy. I struggle with CAS. I love this nautical theme and all the elements are perfect! Have a great week!
An amazing masculine card, Debbie! The die cuts are perfectly placed. This is clean and simple perfection! Have a wonderful week!
I love love love this! Definitely CAS, lovely elements and perfect stamping! Well done, I may have to CASE this myself!
Debbie, you brought all those elements together beautifully. Love the colors, too. Fabulous CAS card
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jaydee
Perfectly CAS Debbie and a great masculine card – your trio of elements make a great corner detail. Great job!
I like the soft yet still masculine colors for this nautical card! And I don’t think to do masculine until I need one and then the pressure is on lol! Hope you have a fun weekend planned!
This is great, Debbie! Love the fresh and fun look with this stamp set and dies and the colors you chose are so awesome together.