Thank you to everyone who played along with my colour challenge last week. It seems lots of people enjoyed the bold colours because there were wonderful cards in the gallery and choosing my Headliner was difficult.
Christy has a Clean and Simple theme for us this week at The Paper Players. It's a double challenge: create something with a Baby Animal theme AND create in a Clean and Simple Style.
At The Paper Players, by Clean and Simple we mean minimal layering, minimal use of embellishments and lots of open space.
As soon as I saw Christy's theme, I knew exactly which (retired) set I wanted to use. Little Elephant was such a favourite of mine, especially for baby cards. Maybe it was my need for a baby card that brought the set to mind but once I'd thought of it, I couldn't see my way to using anything else. I'm sure a few of you will have it sitting in your stamping library too. 😀
Anyway, I also thought it was a good chance to try out some of the new In-Colors that will be available 5 May. When I first saw them, I thought they'd make good baby cards so I gave four of the five a run.
In each of the cards, the sponged grass line is in Peaceful Pine, which is a really useful green unlike any of our current greens.
Then I went for a boy card, a girl card and a gender neutral card using Hydrangea Hue, Barely Blush and Golden Glow. Note the new ink pad design, which at the moment is only available for the new In Colors but will coming to other colours over time.
The little hearts in each card are in Barely Blush, and I used coordinating embellishments for each colour.
Originally, I'd planned on just using the elephant scene and sentiment on a coloured base but I let myself be persuaded to add a strip of In Color Painted Patterns DSP to each one as well. CAS or not-CAS? What do you think? I think I'm on the CAS side of the cusp. 😀
The team are all looking forward to seeing what you do with the baby animal theme and in a CAS style. You can see what the rest of the team have done and link up your own entry at The Paper Players.
Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:
- Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
- Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
- Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
- Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
- Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!
Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.
Anne Marie Hile (on leave)
Jan Clothier - You are here
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