Stamping With MoniQ: January 2019

Sunday, January 27, 2019

CTC #213 - Floral Romance

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where we take a look at one of the sections of a current Stampin' Up! catalogue and use the projects within it to inspire our own creations.

This week we are taking our inspiration from the Floral Romance section of the Occasions Catalogue, pages 10 - 13.

I was inspired by two images from this section, the card on the left from page 10 for the layout, and the bright butterfly card on the right from page 13 for the colour scheme.

I started with a base of Granny Apple Green and used my Blends to colour vellum in the same colour before cutting them out with framelits. The little flowers are stamped in Melon Mambo and coloured with Lovely Lipstick Blends. I was planning on using more of the pinks in my project, but decided I liked it with just a hint of pink.

I love wax seal element from the original card and decided to try and create one of my own with Copper Embossing Powder and the little butterfly stamp. It didn't turn out quite like I was hoping so I cut the butterfly out with my punch and used it as a cute little embellishment instead. I love how this turned out, what do you think?

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the samples in the Floral Romance section of the catalogue to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

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

Happy Stamping
Monique

Sunday, January 13, 2019

CTC #211 - All My Love

This week we are taking our inspiration from the All My Love pages of the Occasions Catalogue, pages 4 - 9. This section has such pretty samples, and not all in pink! I chose the little pink card from page 4, featured in top left our image for this challenge.

I decided to do a full sized card, and while I started off with the pretty pink DSP from the pack, I ended up going with this lovely Crumb Cake based sheet, as I liked the richer colours that it allowed me to play with. This is the first time I have played with this pretty flower corner framelit and I love it! It did take some fiddling with to get my pane the right size, but once I got that sorted out it was fine. The little flower and leaves are cut from another of the sheets of the DSP. The sentiment, from Forever Lovely, is stamped in VersaMark and embossed with White Embossing Powder so it popped.

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the samples from the All My Love section of the catalogue to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

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

Happy Stamping

Monique

Sunday, January 6, 2019

CTC #210 - Love is in The Air

This week we are taking our inspiration from all of the pages in the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue!

I was inspired by this image from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue, I love the little pillow boxes and the pinks look so pretty against a Crumb Cake background.

I decided to make mine into a card instead of a pillow box, and used the cute little hearts Forever Lovely in White Craft Ink on the background to replicate the polka dots on the boxes. The other images and sentiment are also from the same stamp set and I love the fonts used in this set, like we are seeing in many of our sets this one also has mixed font sentiments which look so beautiful.

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the samples in the All Is Bright section of the catalogue to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

Time to hop on over and check out the lovely card that Kathryn has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Happy Stamping
Monique

ESAD Blog Hop - New Occasions To Sale-A-Brate!

Welcome to another ESAD Blog Hop, this time we are featuring products from the new Occasions and Sale-A-Bration Catalogues. Sale-A-Bration is Stampin' Up's! biggest promotion of the year and everyone can earn free products!

Wanting to make the most of Sale-A-Bration I chose a selection of products that coordinate together to make simple easy cards. The feature stamp set is Incredible Like you, I love the two-step stamping and the sentiments are so lovely and versatile, perfect for a new stamper. I have showcased a different sentiment on each of my cards.

This is a picture of the products I used to make my projects for this blog hop. They come to a total of $AU90 which earned me the butterfly DSP from Sale-A-Bration! I chose the Narrow Note Cards & Envelopes because not everyone sends cards in the post anymore, and these are super cute and perfect to add to a special gift, or just pop on a colleagues desk or in a loved one's lunch box.

I chose Melon Mambo, Mango Melody and Granny Apply Green as they are bright and bold colours, making them great to use with the distinctive stamps in this set. They also layer well together without the colours becoming muddy which can happen. When starting out I think it is really important to have two colours that work well for flowers, and another that works well for stems and leaves. By choosing bright colours like these they also give extra versatility in shading with stamping off technique.

Now onto my projects:

This first card showcases how versatile a Sponge Dauber and black and white paper can be! I have used them to add quite dark layers of colour to the butterflies on the DSP and just a touch of green to the background. I also added light green colour to the background of the dsp using a barely inked dauber and a light touch. Adding a little strip from the black and white gingham piece of DSP adds a defining border.

My second card again uses the DSP, the large butterfly is fussy cut from one of the sheets, and the DSP strip is again coloured to coordinate with the butterfly I chose. Because the original colour of the big butterfly was Calypso Coral I used my dauber to add a layer of Mango Melody and Melon Mambo to again tie it in with my three colours.

This next card does add another product, a Melon Mambo Stampin' Write Marker, but this is entirely optional and the card looked great without the faux stitching. The little stems in the background have three different types of flowers that can be stamped onto them, all are super cute and make it really versatile.

This was to be my final card and is a little stepped up from the other three. I added two strips cut from the DSP and again used my daubers to colour them in coordinating colours. The darker layered piece has the same butterflies as my second card, but this time I kept them all Melon Mambo and because most are covered they don't really look like butterflies, but do add a nice touch of colour and definition. I have again used Sponge Daubers to add the two tones to the sentiment, initially sponging the top half of the sentiment in Mango Melody then the bottom half in Melon Mambo, where the two colours overlap they create a pretty ombre look.

I was thinking how great the narrow cards were, and wondered what they would look like on a card front. The only additional items required for this card are a pack of Mango Melody cardstock and some Metallic Thread, I used Basic Black but only because I misplaced my current colours in a recent tidy up!

I think this "Moni Bundle" would be great with any of the following colour combos: