On page 16-17 of the Stampin’ Up! Mini Catalogue, you will find a display of our Mix & Match products. I just love the projects on these pages and the Ephemera Packs that are offered in this catalogue are beautiful. For today’s CASEing the Catty Challenge CTC487 we are CASEing a project from these pages.

I CASEd the card bases which are shown on these pages. The Gold Dipped Mix & Match Cards & Envelopes are perfectly coordinated for our range of ephemera and will create quick cards. However, I set about creating my own card bases using inks and embossing powder.

To create this effect you need 2 ink colours from the same colour range – blues, reds, pinks etc. I started with a piece of Basic White Cardstock.

• Blend Blueberry Bushel ink lightly with a Blending Brush about halfway across the Cardstock
• Swip the Blueberry Bushel ink pad lightly down the Cardstock (use the edge of the ink pad without a lip)
• Turn the Cardstock around and repeat the swiping so the ink is applied well on the opposite end too.
• Next, swipe the Night of Navy ink pad top to bottom and repeat from bottom to top. This section will be larger than the Blueberry Bushel area.
• Dry completely or use heat gun to speed up the drying process
• Swipe the Versamark ink pad along the edge of Cardstock to create an uneven border.
• Heat emboss in Gold. I repeated this process a couple more times to get a thicker edge.

For this card I also added a little bit of Balmy Blue fading out towards the left edge.

I used the edge of the largest frame from the Radiating Stitches dies to create a border from Night of Navy Cardstock. This was adhered to a strip of Designer Series Paper from the A Little Bit Festive pack of specialty paper. This pack contains 3 sheets of double sided paper and 3 sheets of die cuts, some of which I used on this card.

One of the die cut wreaths was cut in half and added under my border strips. I just love the little drums from these die cuts which are super cute. The white layer was adhered to a Blueberry Bushel matte layer which I blended Blueberry Bushel ink around to create a contrast from the card base.

A Gold ribbon and some peppermint embellishments complete this fun card. I love how the stripes on the peppermints worked in with the stripes on my paper.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you try this fun technique and see what fun colour palettes you create. Next on our hop is Michelle Strazds.

• Julia Quinn
• Rochelle Laird-Smith (you are here)
• Michelle Strazds  
• Judy May
• Andrea Sargent
• Rochelle Blok

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO CASE?

To CASE is to Copy and Selectively Edit and when you CASE you can be copy the project directly or be inspired by elements of it to make it your own.

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