Hello friends, Welcome to our CASEing the Catty Challenge and for CTC484. Today we get to CASE anything from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue. Well, you know when the there is such a large selection, it’s harder to make a choice!
I really loved the ‘You inspire me’ square card on Page 74 of the catalogue. There are so many elements in this card to be inspired by such as the background stamping, layout or square card.
What I really loved in this card was the colour palette so I selected these colours for my card.
I flipped the colours around a bit, making Summer Splash the predominant colour.The matte layer was embossed with the Changing Leaves hybrid embossing folder and I added some ink blending over it in Summer Splash to highlight some of those embossed leaves.
The leaves were stamped on Fluid 100 Watercolour Cardstock. I stamped 2 leaves in Saddle Brown Stazon ink and watercoloured them in Calypso Coral, Petal Pink and Wild Wheat using ink refills.
The larger leaf was stamped in Calypso Coral onto Fluid 100 Cardstock. Then I added some Calypso Coral and Wild Wheat onto the stamp using a Water Painter. As the stamp set is photopolymer, I was able to align the image over the previously stamped image. The slight dampness which was on the Water Painter was sufficient to create movement on the ink and create some areas of deeper colour.
Some glimmer die cut sprigs from the Flowers of Beauty Dies were added inbetween the watercoloured leaves and placed on a die cut circle from the Spotlight on Nature dies. I added some tone-on-tone shading with Petal Pink around the circle.
A heat embossed sentiment on black and some Drusy Adhesive Backed Embellishments (from the upcoming catalogue) complete this card.
Thank you for stopping by and I hope you are inspired to try some of these techniques. Please leave a comment as you follow through to see Monique Fielder’s project.
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Hello friends, Welcome to our CASEing the Catty Challenge and for CTC48S we are shaking things up as we CASE Shaker Cards from the Annual Catalogue.
I was inspired by this card from Page 123 of the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue which uses a watercolour wash Designer Series Paper for the background.
To recreate this look, I blended Lemon Lolly and Soft Sea Foam ink to place at the back of my card. I used the Iconic Imagery dies to create my window and added a piece of Window sheet behind to see my shaker elements. The window was filled with some Loose Frosted Dots and die cut stars.
To create the die cut stars, I adhered Petunia Pop Glimmer Paper back to back so that when I die cut the stars, they would have colour on both sides when inside the window.
I blended Petunia Pop and Soft Sea Foam ink on Basic White Cardstock and stamped the sentiment from the Iconic Imagery stamp set to give a lovely shaded look to my sentiment. This was fussy cut and added to my celebratory cake from the Attention Shoppers bundle.
For a contrast, I added some striped Petunia Pop Designer Series Paper at an angle on the base of the card. A double bow with Petunia Pop and Gold brings my card together.
Thank you for stopping by to check out my project today. Please follow our hop through to see all fabulous inspiration and click on the Next button to check out Julia Quinn’s lovely project.
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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Hello friends, Welcome to our CASEing the Catty Challenge and this week we are CASEing this fun sketch which is on Page 25 of the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue.
I’ve created a Christmas card using the Golden Greenery bundle which is part of our Online Exclusives collection.
The suite this bundle is part of includes some beautiful Designer Series Paper which is in tones of green and I wanted to give this card a slightly softer look by changing the colours. Of course, I went with pink!
I created 2 square frames using the Stylish Shapes dies and added a piece of Graceful Greenery Vellum behind it. I love how the Vellum adds that softness while still being able to see the Bright and Beautiful Designer Series Paper behind it. From 6th – 31st August you can get this paper and several others on sale at 15% discount so make sure to hop back and check that out.
The outline of the bells were stamped in Petunia Pop, stamped off and the main image was stamped in Pretty in Pink, stamped off. I added detail onto the bells with Watercolour Pencils. I die cut some leaves from Basic White Cardstock and blended a range of colours to add some shading to them, trimming them down so they fit around they bells.
A trio of white flowers, coloured with Bubble Bath and Flirty Flamingo Stampin’ Blends, layered together, created the flower which is on top of a bow which was also made from Bright & Beautiful DSP.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this alternate take with this bundle. Let me know what you think of it by leaving me a comment. I love hearing from you.
Please click on the Next button to follow through to see Michelle Strazds’ project and follow through our hop for more ideas with this sketch.
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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Hello friends, Welcome to our CASEing the Catty Challenge and this week we are CASEing an embossing ptoject from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue. Embossing could be heat embossing or dry embossing and I’ve gone with a bit of both for CTC480.
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.
I loved this project from Page 103 of the catalogue which uses the Sweet Peas stamp set and includes some heat embossing and CASEd the sketch for my card.
Following with the heat embossing on the original card I used the sprigs from the Heartfelt Hexagon and Layering Leaves stamp sets to heat emboss on the background of the Lemon Lolly layer. Then I blended Lemon Lolly ink over the top section of the panel.
For an additional embossing feature, I added a panel of Lemon Lolly Cardstock embossed with the Dashing Designs Embossing Folder.
I used the flowers from the Labeled with Love stamp set for my focal image. A small butterfly from the Something for Everything Mix & Match Ephemera Pack, was coloured in and fussy cut. These images from the Ephemera Packs are ready to pop out and add to your projects. As I didn’t want a border around mine, I fussy cut around it.
The sentiment was heat embossed on the Unbounded Beauty DSP to follow the look and layout of the original card.
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Thank you for stopping by to see my inspiration this Sunday. I hope you are inspired to try some embossing for some pretty texture to your cards. Click on the Next button to see Andrea Sargent’s beautiful project. Please follow the hop for lots more creativity.
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Hello friends, Welcome to CASEing the Catty Challenge CTC479. To CASE is to Copy and Selectively Edit and this week we are CASEing the Mediterranean Blooms Suite from Page 34 of the Annual Catalogue.
I’m CASEing the card on the top right with the frame and the 2 features of lemons on either corner. I’ve swapped out the lemons for the flowers from the Enduring Beauty Stamp Set. This stamp set comes with a set of dies and masks. For my card, I coloured the image with Stampin’ Blends wanting to create a riot of bright colourful flowers (trying to combat our cold winter!).
I used the same background frame from the Citrus Blooms dies, die cutting the image out 3 times and layering to create depth in the frame. As this was an intricate die I adhered an Adhesive Sheet to the back of Basic White Cardstock prior to cutting the die cuts which made this a much easier task.
I then die cut my floral image with the outer frame so it kept the same shape as the frame, adding some extra flowers and leaves for depth. This was a new technique for me and I really enjoyed it. Hope you give it a try.
I used the outer part of the frame to die cut the Full of Life Designer Series Paper and adhered the layered white frame onto it. On the card base I added a matte layer of embossed Berry Burst cardstock which was blended with Berry Burst ink for a deeper shade adding shadow and depth.
A simple sentiment completes my card along with some shiny sequins.
Our Bonus Days promotion runs until 31st July. Every $90 you spend in store will earn you a $9 coupon which you can redeem in August. Shopping List for this project can be found at the end of this post.
Thank you for stopping by to see my inspiration this Sunday. Next on our hop is Peta Stephen. Please follow the hop for lots more creativity.
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Hello friends, This week in our CASEing the Catty Crew blog hop for CTC478 we are CASEing a masking project from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue. You can find a range of these projects suggested on Pages 124-125.
I chose a technique of using Masking Paper to mask of areas of my cardstock and then blend colour onto it. You can see an example of this in the catalogue with the butterfly project where the colour has been brayered on. However, for my project I blended the colours.
I cut 1 cm strips of Masking Paper and adhered it diagonally across a piece of Cardstock to form a pattern. Then I blended Melon Mambo and Crushed Curry across the sheet.
TIP: As the Masking Paper is very sticky, before placing it onto the Cardstock, apply it to your clothing to reduce the stickiness. This will help when you need to peel it off the Cardstock.
Once the ink had dried (you can use your heat tool to speed up the process), I stamped the Leaf Collection background stamp in Versamark and heat embossed it in Clear embossing powder. This created a beautiful, subtle image across the blending. I also splattered some dots with a Black Stampin’ Blend.
The label under the sentiment was die cut from Fluid 100 Cardstock on which I watercoloured Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry and Basic Gray ink to tie in with the background.
Those little flowers were all die cut in one go with the you-beaut die that’s in the Flowers of Beauty dies. There’s one strip that cuts 8 flowers in one pass. Before I die cut the flowers, I dabbed on some Crushed Curry ink with a Blending Brush onto the Pretty in Pink Cardstock to give the flowers some shading.
I trimmed down the length of the card base to better fit the size of the Radiating Stiches dies for A4 Cardstock, with a finished card front of 10.5 cm x 13.9 cm.
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It’s been lovely having you stop by my blog and I hope to see you back soon.
Next on our hop is Michelle Strazds. Please follow the hop for lots more inspiration.
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