CI #193 - Gracefull Glass

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where we take inspiration from the projects in one of the current Stampin' Up! catalogues and use it in our own creations each week.

This week we are looking at the final section of the Annual Catalogue, Graceful Glass, on pages 164 - 179.

For my inspiration I chose the above image from page 172, I think it was the layers of banners that caught my eye.

I decided to shake up the stamps and colours a little bit but mostly keep the overall design of the card the same.  I haven't used the Burlap background stamp much lately but I love the subtle texture it gives and now its back on my radar I think you will be seeing more of it on my projects.  The flowers are of course from the Love What You Do stamp set, stamped and copper embossed before colouring with Mango Melody. By picking up just a little colour with a Blender Pen I was able to keep the colour quite subtle. The greeting from Itty Bitty Greetings, I love all the different sentiments and fonts in this set, and most can be cut out neatly with the Classic Label Punch. 

  

I hope you are getting inspired to join in the challenge this week, just take inspiration from one of the projects in pages 164 - 179 and use it as the basis for your own creation. Post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook Page. Don't forget to let us know which page of the catalogue your inspiration came from.

  

Time to hop on over and see what Rachel has created this week.

Happy Stamping

Monique

CI #40 - Non-traditional Christmas

Welcome to another Colour INKspiration challenge, this one will run for three weeks, so you have time to be inspired by the gorgeous image and the Stampin' Up! colours we have matched to it.

This beautiful image has the colours: Early Espresso, Old Olive and Gorgeous Gape, you can also add any of the basic colours (black, white and vanilla).

I have a bit of a story with my project this week, can you believe I started out with the tree from Rooted in Nature with the leaves sponged in Old Olive and Gorgeous Grape, but then ended up with this little Christmas treat bag!  Can you spot the connection with Rooted in Nature?  It is the wreath on the banner!  I used the single leaf stamp from the set.  The Stamparatus is just wonderful for creating circle patterns from other stamps. I added some metallic gold pearls to the wreath. With all the wood featured in the inspiration picture this week I couldn't go past adding the circle of wood-grain in the centre of the wreath.

The bag is one of our cute little striped treat bags that I have sponged with Olive and Grape to give it a fun look.  Although these is a bit of a non-traditional Christmas colour combo I really like how it turned out.  

  

I hope you are inspired to join in with this challenge, as I mentioned at the start of my post you have three weeks to complete this one, so grab your inks and papers then post a picture of your project to the CI Facebook Page.

  

Time to hop on over and see what the lovely Bronwyn has created with the colours.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #191 - Nature's Gift

Welcome to another CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where we take our inspiration from the projects in one of the sections in a current Stampin' Up! catalogue and use it as the basis of our own creations each week.

This week we are being inspired by the Nature's Poem section of the Annual Catalogue, pages 142 - 153.

I love this suite of products so it wasn't hard for me to find my inspiration on the first page, this cute little gift package on page 142.

I used the cute little Kraft Pillow Boxes and stamped directly on it with the big oak tree from Rooted in Nature using Early Espresso as I wanted the tree to stand out more than the original. I changed up the DSP and twin colours but otherwise kept my project fairly close to the original.

I received my pre-order from the new Holiday Catalogue this week and was inspired to make another gift box with a Christmas theme. For this one I used a combination of the new Joyous Noel Specialty DSP which has beautiful copper foil in one side of each of the sheets of DSP. The little tag is made using my faviourite bundle in the catalogue Tags & Tidings, one stamp to make 16 cute little tags, what's not to love? Enhancing the tag are stamped and die cut elements from Peaceful Poinsettia bundle with a few pearls coloured with Stamin' Blends. The focal tree image is from another Holiday catalogue set which has been created to coordinate with Rooted in Nature and Lovely as a Tree sets!

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just make a project inspired by the amazing samples in the Nature's Poem and add a picture of it to the CTC Facebook Page.

  

Time to hop on over and see what Sandra has been inspired to create this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CI #39 - Soft and Subtle

Welcome to another Colour INKspiration Challenge, where we usually take some of the Stampin' Up! colours from a beautiful image as our inspiration. However with the colour re-vamp in the current Annual Catalogue, we are using the first challenge of the month to feature one of the colour collections.

For this challenge we are using the colours from the re-vamped Subtles Collection, just choose three (3) of these colours to use in your creation. As usual for our challenges you can add any of the basics (Whisper White, Very Vanilla or Basic Black) to your project.

I am absolutely in love with the new Balmy Blue and thought it would make a lovely pairing with Highland Heather, and what better stamp to use them on than the beautiful dragonfly from Dragonfly Dreams!  Keeping with the combo I sponged them onto Whisper White cardstock before cutting out the sentiment.

I spotted a similar card to this on Pinterest some time ago created by the talented Rachel Tessman, and have wanted to try it out since then.  This seemed the perfect opportunity to do so, however unlike Rachel who used a lot of DSP, I wanted to keep a more subtle look to the card and used the embossed background, embossed on Very Vanilla and then sponged over in Soft Sea Foam.

The fun of this card is that the dragonfly is actually adhered to the inside panel of the card along the length of the body, allowing the wings to fold up and through the opening cut using the Classic Label Punch - how cool is that! I have left the inside of the card blank, sponging the edges of the card to soften the look.

  

I hope you are inspired to join us in this challenge, just pick three of the re-vamped subtles collection to use in your project, and add a photo of it to the CI Facebook Page. 

  

Time to hop on over to see which colours have inspired the lovely and talented Juila for this challenge.  

Happy Stamping

Monique

CTC #190 - Artistic Impressions

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where we take inspiration from one of the sections in the current Stampin' Up! Catalogues to create our projects each week.

This week we are taking inspiration from the Artistic Impressions section of the Annual Catalogue, pages 127 - 141. I liked this section of the catalogue so much I created two cards!

The first image to catch my eye was this one on page 127.

I decided to give it a bit of a different look, and use the flower from Love What You Do, applying the masking technique when layering the flowers on the main panel. I changed up the colours as well to coordinate with the Share What You Love DSP. I found that adding a little White craft in k to the embossed leaves on the background gave them more definition.

My second inspiration came from the top / central card on page 137.  

I don't have Tropical Chic used in the original so used the two floral images from Beautiful Promenade instead, I like the way using these two images creates a mirror effect on the outside panels.

  

I hope you are inspired to join us in the challenge, just post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook Page.

  

Time to hop on over and see what Megan has been inspired to create this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique