CTC #239 - CASE a Layout

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where utilse the projects within the current Stampin' Up! catalogue to inspire our own projects each week. We also invite you to join with us in the challenge each week by using this inspiration in your own creations and uploading a photo to our Facebook page.

This week we are taking our inspiration from the projects on page 103 of the Annual Catalogue. The secondary challenge is to also change the theme, so I took the thank you card and made it into a birthday card. 

I chose this cute little card featuring the cute rhino from Animal Outing, I loved the look of the strips of DSP behind the focal panel. 

I have to let you in on my process that led to this card.  I started with the stunning DSP from Perennial Essence because it has such beautiful deep rich colours, but I just could not get it to come together in a way that I liked, so I put all those pieces aside and reached for Bird Ballad instead, the colours are so soft and were easy to layer with Whisper White.  I totally love how this turned out, the cute magnolias were stamped and cut using Good Morning Magnolia Bundle. I love using products from two different suits together as I think we sometimes forget that so many of SU products coordinate really well across the board.

Seeing as I loved my card so much I pulled out the pieces I had from the original and decided to finish off a card with them. I am still not quite happy with this card, but I like how the Blackberry Bliss sits against the gold foil.  I think maybe I should have done darker sponging on the flower.  Let me know which one you like better. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the samples on page 103 and CASE one of the layouts and change the theme!  Then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

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

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #238 - All About the Greens ...

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where utilise the projects within the current Stampin' Up! catalogue to inspire our own projects each week. We also invite you to join with us in the challenge each week by using this inspiration in your own creations and uploading a photo to our Facebook page.

This week we are taking our inspiration from the colours in the Garden Lane DSP, which is a lot of greens!  When I first saw this challenge I had a bit of a cringe because I don't use a lot of the greens we have regularly, so this was a challenge.

Mossy Meadow

Pear Pizzazz

Garden Green

Mint Macaron

Soft Sea Foam

Whisper White

Here are those gorgeous greens!

This is my first card which I made using the Magnolia Lane Note Cards and Envelopes. Do you recognise the "DSP"? It is cut from the piece of decorative paper that is usually used for lining the envelopes! I thought it was just too pretty not to include here. To get a few more of the challenge colours into my card I coloured the background DSP with Soft Sea Foam and Pear Pizzazz, which I think gives it a pretty look. My card does have a sneaky bit of Old Olive in the Reversable Ribbon, but it was too pretty not to include.  I love this sentiment and frame from the Stitched All Around bundle, it makes creating a special card so easy.

I was on a bit of a roll with the concept for this card so made a second one with just a touch more colour. I love how easy these Note Cards and Envelopes make it to create beautiful projects without a lot of fuss.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just the pretty greens in the Garden Lane DSP to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

Time to hop on over and see what the lovely Judy has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #237 - CASE a Layout Page 151

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where utilse the projects within the current Stampin' Up! catalogue to inspire our own projects each week. We also invite you to join with us in the challenge each week by using this inspiration in your own creations and uploading a photo to our Facebook page.

This week we are taking our inspiration from the layouts of the projects on page 151 of the annual catalogue.

I was inspired by this image, I liked the simplicity of the card and wanted to do something a little different.
  

For my card I made my own background paper using the compass from Com Sail Away and white craft ink, dragging the ink across the cardstock to give a similar look to the original.  I just love the seaweed from the coordinating dies and cut some in both Sahara Sand and Night of Navy. The darker one wasn't showing up very well so having seen my friend Cathy's addition of dots on the seaweed, I was inspired to do the same. I love the texture that this gives, and it does help it to stand out from the background. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the samples on page 151 to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

Time to hop on over and see which card Julia CASE'd this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique