02 December, 2022

Reduce (make it CAS)

Hello and welcome to another task of the Alphabet challenge, I'm your host tonight and I'll be picking the winners, too, so you're more than welcome to play along. To make sure you have plenty of creative freedom, I've chosen a rather simple "Reduce" theme, which can also be translated as "make it CAS", meaning that I'd like to see simple designs on your projects this fortnight. I'm sure you'll enter loads of winter/Christmas related cards, but in fact you can work with any occasion you like, and it doesn't have to be a card either. Without further ado, here's my DT inspiration for the CAS challenge (the lighting has been horrible in the past couple of days due to clouds & rain, but I'd like you to imagine an overall bright card with no weird shadows and/or grey tones). 
I knew that my challenge would be placed in the winter/Christmas time, but nevertheless, I decided to create a sympathy card. Or rather: I saw this motif of a falling feather on the cover of one of my scrapbook albums, and as I went along with it, this sympathy card happened. I didn't want to throw this beautiful motif away, so I carefully extracted it from the album cover. However, after I removed all the words, it ended up being this weird size - too narrow for a regular card base, and too small for a slimline. I solved the issue by adding an additional layer of light lilac paper. It doesn't show very well in the pictures, but the lilac colour goes well with the feather, and the lilac paper itself has a subtle shimmer. 
Since the feather is quite high on the card, I decided to surround it by a couple of tiny gemstones. Then I placed a sentiment in the lower part of the card base. I worked with a simple condolence message which I framed with a tiny piece of silver shimmering paper. 
What do you think of the result? Shimmer might be a weird flex on a sympathy card, but I thought it would complement the motif of a feather, which was the main reason why I used the paper in the first place. I understand that not everybody might be comfortable with a shimmering condolence card, but I thought there might be people who like it. Also, I tried to incorporate the glitz it in a very small amount while leaving lots of empty space in my card, so that the main focus would be on the falling feather, the subtle branches in the background, and the emptiness that remains when somebody passes away.

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10 comments:

  1. That is so beautiful in it's simplicity, Veronika! Thanks for giving us such a great theme this time round

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  2. This is gorgeous. Love the falling feather idea. So creative. Thank you for joining us over at Penny's Challenge. Best of luck, DT~Jana Forrest

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  3. Great card! Those gems are the perfect touch. Thanks for joining us at Little Red Wagon.

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  4. Beautiful CAS Design! Thanks for sharing at A Place to Start!
    Hugz,
    Chana

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  5. Beautiful CAS card! Thank you for joining us at CAS on Friday. xx Wilma

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  6. so pretty. Awesome card. So glad you shared over at Crafty Catz.

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  7. Very beautiful. Thanks for joining the challenge of Morgans Artworld. Hope to see you again. Greetings Helma DT

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  8. You have made a beautiful creation. Thank you for participating in the challenge of Morgan's Artworld. Greetings Helma DT

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  9. Fabulous creation! Thank you for sharing with us over at Morgan's ArtWorld.
    ~ Judy CT

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  10. A beautiful elegant card Cheiro! Thanks so much for sharing at Love to Craft. :)

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