Hey there Friend -- Clean and simple

Sometimes when you make a clean and simple card, it is just like eating a potato chip: you can't just have one.  That's what I frequently find after doing a clean and simple card.  My mindset is still concentrating on how simply I can create a card and yet still make it striking (or fulfil a challenge). This is what happened to me today.

I really like the colour challenge at the Colour Me...! challenge blog.  It is very, very simple.  Two colours and a neutral are what they asked for.







 




 At the CASology challenge blog they had a cue card that simply said "three".




So those are the two challenges which I decided to enter and for which I decided to design my card.

The colours immediately made me think of the stamp set that I used yesterday:  Sea Street.  Wouldn't those little starfish be the perfect "three"?  And what better colour for them than Hello Honey.  For my background I decided to use a stamp from yet another set:  By the Tide.  I love the simple script of one of the stamps and, stamped in the Coastal Cabana, it provided a perfect "sea" background for my little starfish.  Of course it meant I had to mask the starfish in order to do that, but I'm getting used to fussy-cutting.

I added a spatter of Hello Honey to the left top and right bottom of the card using one of the My Paper Pumpkin stamps that I have and, from the same package, added the sentiment using Coastal Cabana.

My base cardstock is Naturals White followed by Hello Honey and then a layer of Coastal Cabana.  Finally my stamped piece is Whisper White.  It's a clean and simple card.  I'm happy with it.

For more cards using these colours, check out Colour Me...!

For more cards interpreting the cue card, three, check out CASology.