Skating Fun

Morning all.

It's time for a brand new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz and the theme chosen by Helen is right up my street -

CAS

You all know I'm a clean and simple girl and the CAS style is perfect for making masculine cards!

Here is another one for the Christmas stash with my take on the theme.

My starting points were the challenges at CAS Christmas, Dogs and or Cats, still trying to keep the flow of Christmas cards coming, and CAS Mix Up, stencil heat embossing. 

Max would never forgive me for going down the cat route, so I hunted out the doggy images from my Christmas stash, finally settling on this LOTV image of Patch the dog, skating with his rabbit friend, who I trimmed off for the purposes of this card. After colouring with my Copics, I fussy cut him out added some Wink of Stella to the "ice" and set him to one side to dry.

The back panel of falling snow was made by using embossing paste over a freebie falling snow stencil on a panel of white card, which I then heat embossed with a holographic EP to get just a little twinkle, well it is for a bloke when all said and done! I was unsure as to my layout to start with, so after a quick whizz through my old designs I decided to stick with one of my tried and tested layouts. I chose kraft as the base, its more masculine I think, and popped the panels and Patch on pads over the embossed background. (White space on a CAS card doesn't mean you can't use coloured backgrounds.) A white heat embossed sentiment from Altenew completes. I trimmed the completed panel to leave a small border when it was attached to an A6 kraft base card.

If you are new to the CAS style then here are a few pointers

 

Keep the image to 1/3rd of your card front

Keep embellishments and layers to a minimum

Ensure there is lots of "white" space to your design

Remember LESS is MORE

Finally make sure its MASCULINE!

Hope that helps, but why not check out what the rest of the team have come up with here, then dip your toes into CAS!

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