Extremely CAS...

Good afternoon, dear Blogger friends!  Hope you're having a good start to the week and that the weather is being a little kinder, especially for those of you being affected by the horrendous floods, here in the UK!  We actually had a dry day yesterday and the sun even shone - it makes such a difference to have the brightness, it seems to lift my mood!
Now, I LOVE clean and simple (CAS) cards, but often feel that they are not enough in some way for me to share here on Blogger - I always feel that I should add more to them or show more technique, but for a change, I decided to make something VERY clean and simple...

...I love this little image which is from the Rosie Collection over at Digi Stamp Boutique and thoroughly enjoyed colouring her up with my Pro/Flexmarkers. Here's the list of colours I used :

Skin - Blush, Dusky, Sinkissed Pink, Coral

Hair - Champagne, Sandstone, Caramel, Cocoa, Umber

Top - Soft Aqua, Cool Aqua, Duck Egg, Marine Blue

Leg warmers - Cerise, Shocking Pink, Vermillion (one of my fave marker combos!)

Hairband - Buttercup, Mustard, Sunflower

Grass - Meadow, Leaf, Bright Green

I printed my image quite big (I used the 10 x 15cm print option in Photo Viewer) so decided that I wanted to simply frame the image in some way.  I created the white and aqua frame using square dies and mounted using 3D foam pads to give it some lift.  I then mounted onto a nice hot pink matt to bring in the colour of her leg warmers...

...I have seen paper bows around a lot recently and had C&C on in the background whilst having my dinner the other day - I noticed that the paper bows shown looked very similar in shape to an XCut tag die that I have and so decided to experiment!  I cut 4 of the tag shapes, which have a hole in each end, then cut the ends of two them to create the fishtail ends.  I curled the other two with my pokey tool and then attached them together by threading the stem of a paper rose through the holes and twisting around the centre to secure!  I am really pleased with how it turned out and shall be having a play with some of my other tag dies to see what they look like!

Hope you like my CAS creation and thanks so much for dropping by to see me!  Don't forget there's still a little time to enter into this week's Have a Heart Challenge over at Passion for Promarkers - a new challenge starts tomorrow morning!

Big crafty hugs,

Lisa x

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges :

DigiStamp Boutique

February Custome Competition

Brown Sugar Challenge

Use a die cut or punch

(I've used my square dies for the frame and tag dies for my bow)

MilkCoffee Challenge

Girly

Top Tip Tuesday Challenge

Girly

Challenges 4 Everybody 

Anything Goes (2nd entry)