AAA Cards Challenge 260: Sketch Challenge

The challenge at AAA Cards turned out to be a real easy one for me this week as I had the perfect set to just do the sketch "as is". I've used  a few of my oldest Altenew stamp sets; Painted Butterflies and Label Love. I'll also pop my card up in Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge with "Anything Goes".

The only tricky thing was getting 5 butterflies along an edge, so I made a bigger card (7" x 5") to squeeze them all in). 

I was stamping on a 6-3/4" x 4-3/4" mat when I decided I wanted to add some washi, at this stage the balance looked wrong to me, I was worried I had too much white space. I found an old striped black and white washi in my stash which I feel works perfectly. As I ended up "placing" the mat on the RHS directly I ended up cutting  off 1/4" off the top of the card to balance it all up and my final card's dimension is 6-3/4" x 5".

Pinkfresh Studio inks used for my colour combos (top > bottom; lightest > darkest):

• Cherry Blossom/Peony
• Sunkissed/Mimosa
• Limoncello/Bay Leaf
• Waterfall/Paradise
• Soft Lilac/Lavender

And the sketch which was my inspiration:

Just a reminder what CAS means to AAA Cards, we maybe the most restrictive of all the CAS Challenges but it also means the card is relatively easy to create. Now the trick is to make your images pop, and I hope I have done that today.

As always you have 2 weeks to rise to the challenge and I hope you can join us and please do check out the other fab designs on display at the AAA Cards blog. Thanks for popping in.

✿Karen✿