Clean And Simple Cards. CASology #3 ~ Fruit; and One Layer Wednesday #98 ~ Summer!

And back around again to Friday!

I love me some CAS cards and really enjoy that now I have two wonderful challenges to play in featuring clean and simple cards.  This week, it so happens, I could join the two and make one card to fit each. 

First, we have the creative CASology challenge where this week the DT has this inspirational cue word:

And, secondly, Cheryl is hosting this week's One Layer Wednesday (OLW) challenge where the inspiration is to make a one-layer card with a summer theme!

I made a one-layer card of blackberries, mmm, or maybe purplish raspberries, up to you.  Raspberries used to grow wild along the east property line at Grandpa's during the early part of summer.  Uncle Shike, who lived with Grandpa, would pay us with a pack of Black Jack gum if we picked a whole bowl.  That was very hard to do, even as much as we loved that gum, because our little hands would not stop popping the berries in our mouths instead of our bowls!

I used my Versamark embossing pen for the first time, that I can remember, even though I've had it for years.  I first embossed the leaves and then the fruit.  And then I did the fruit again with a glitter embossing powder.  The image part of the card, I have to say, I am really happy with.

You just concentrate on that and not on the scoring.  Dang.  Notice how I hid the card in the flowers?  I shall be practicing my scoring and planning better so that the next time I want to score, especially score a frame or multi-layer frame like some people (Bonnie!) are able to do, I will do the scoring first.  That way if the score tool pops out of its groove and goes awe rye, I don't have a panic attack and keep making more lines and then more lines and then stop cold in a flop sweat because I don't want to completely ruin what is otherwise a really nice card, punctuating the whole scene with a naughty word, even if the Playhouse windows are wide open, I don't care.  Phew!  Lean on back, can you feel it?  That was a close one.

But it's all good.  It's all good.  The focal pocus of the card is what matters.

Enjoy your day!  Have a wonderful weekend if I don't see you around!  As always, thank you for stopping by to visit.   Special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower or leave a comment!

Paper:  PTI white

Stamps:  Image and sentiment

  are both SU, unknown sets

Ink:  Versamark pen; Marvy markers;

  Gelly Roll markers: #522, #530

Embossing Powders:  Embossing

  Arts Co. very violet; SU olive; and

  Creations Unlimited, fairy magic