CTC #274 - CASE The Masculine Projects

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 masculine cards in the Annual Catalogue. You can choose any of the masculine themed cards and use it to create your own version, or use an aspect of it in your project for the challenge. 

I was inspired by this image from page 95 of the catalogue, I was taken with the idea of an acetate card and wanted to give it a go.

I swear this card started out being more masculine!  But over the course of the creative process I just went with what I felt was right.  I do love how many of our stamp sets are great to use together, here I have paired Forever fern with Rooted in Nature. I stamped the trees in the background in VersaMark ink and love how it gives a subtle tone on tone softer look.  I added a larger piece of DSP and kept it right to the bottom of the front panel so that the message inside the card could be written and be covered by it more easily.  I originally stamped the sentiment on Whisper White, but felt it was a bit stark so repeated the process on Sahara Sand to match the background. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the Masculine samples in the Annual 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 Rebecca has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #273 - Colours of Playing With Patterns

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 Playing With Patterns DSP.  You can find this in the Annual Catalogue on page 100 to 102.

I find it helpful to pull out the stamp pads for all the colours in a colour challenge, so here they are all lined up.

I was initially going to create a card using my Forever Fern bundle, but after playing around I couldn't quite make it work.  So I reached for my other new bundle Celebrate Sunflowers and am so happy that I did.  I wanted to get the feel of a picnic in the outdoors with sunflowers in bloom so tried to replicate a picnic blanket with Buffalo Print background stamp to which I added the Pretty Posy and Coastal Cabana stripes using the tip and side of the brush end of the Stampin' Write Markers. I coloured the leaves and added a little extra Calypso Coral to the petals of the sunflower using Water Colour Pencils.  I inked up the sentiment in Coastal Cabana, and then used the Night of Navy Stampin' Write Marker to colour the "celebrate", I really love how versatile our various colouring options are. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the colours of the Playing With Patterns 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 Judy has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

ESAD New Annual Catalogue Blog Hop

Welcome to the ESAD Annual Catalogue Blog Hop where we are showcasing products from the new annual catalogue.  Boy is this a great catty!  I have fallen in love with quite a few new products and can't wait to see what my fellow demonstrators have created on this hop.  Just follow the links at the bottom of each post until you get back to the blog you started from.

I decided to showcase products from one of the suites that caught my eye when I looked through the catalogue for the first time, the Forever Fern Bundle and Forever Gold Laser-Cut Speciality Paper, from the Forever Greenery Suite on page 110. 

I think it was around Christmas last year that I really started to fall in love with Pretty Peacock, it reminds me of the beautiful blue green leaves of some of our gum trees and so I wanted to have it as the base of my card. I have struggled a bit in the past with laser cut sheets, but this time the panels are already cut out of the larger sheet and are so easy to use on your projects. I just love how the panel on this cards adds a touch of elegance without over powering the lovely stamped and die cut images from the coordinating Forever Fern Bundle.  I have found the easiest way to use this bundle is to cut out a few of each leave design and then play around with how to layer them until you like the result. I now have a mini stamp case with lots of spare leaves for my next projects. 

  

Time to hop on over and see what the lovely Sharon has created from our amazing new catalogue products.

Here is a full list of the blog participants:

1. Nicole Wilson
2. Lou Kitzelman
3. Denise Buetler
4. Libby Dyson
5. Lauren Meiklejohn
6. Narelle Fasulo
7. Jenny Hayward
8. Maria Henderson
9. Sharni Haines
10. Monique Fielder
11. Sharon Dalton
12. Kayla McCreadie
13. Rebecca Scurr
14. Bronwyn Eastley
15. Lynsey McCord
16. Cathy Pinchbeck
17. Melissa Gifford
18. Kelly Kent

Happy Stamping
Monique

Product List

Forever Gold Laser-Cut Specialty Paper [152493]	Forever Fern Bundle (English) [154094]	Label Me Lovely Punch [151296]	Pretty Peacock A4 Cardstock [150886]
Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550]	Pretty Peacock Classic Stampin’ Pad [150083]	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [147090]	Petal Pink Classic Stampin' Pad [147108]

CTC #271 - Week 2 - New Catalogue

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 new Annual Catalogue, now that the catalogue is "live" we can now post pictures of some of the amazing projects within its' pages. What an exciting challenge week this will be! I love a new catalogue and always find that the design team members will have picked a project I haven't noticed before, its a fun way of exploring the new catalogue.

I didn't get far into the catalogue before this card on page 5 caught my eye. I think it is because the Forever Fern is one of the first stamp sets I have bought from the new catty and I just love all of the layers it allows you to easily add to a card.

I kept the layout and elements very similar to the original but made a couple of changes to my version.  Firstly I used DSP from Flowers for Every Season DSP and used copper instead of grey for the fern, I love how this gives the card a bit more lift.  Now I realise that since finishing this card I have used a retired ribbon, but it did go so prettily with the card I decided to just leave it as it is.   Instead of the curled corners, I was a bit worried how they would hold up over time so I just did some paper tearing instead.  I finished off the sentiment panel with some of those cute little enamelled dots that you would have seen on my projects a fair bit lately.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the samples anywhere in the 2020 to 2021 Annual 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 Sandra has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Social Stamping Blog Hop

Welcome to the Social Stamping Blog Hop, a lovely endeavour started by my stamping buddy Kelly Kent. You can read a bit about why this all started here.  This is the 11th week of the hop, and my second time joining in.  The theme of this hop is New/Normal, which I thought long and hard about what that actually means to me and more so how I could represent it in a craft project.

My project represents new on a couple of fronts, firstly this is a card made with my new products, but really that is too simple.  To me new things are fresh and clean, and so for this project I kept to the Crumb Cake and Whisper White theme, to let the images shine without the distraction of colours.  For this project I used the Forever Gold laser cut Specialty DSP, I just turned the piece so the gold was at the back and used the pristine white side, I love how this looks and fits so well with my project.  I was also very happy to discover that the images from Forever Fern look beautiful as embossed images using White Embossing Powder as they do in ink, they have kept the Distinctive Stamping look.

I chose this sentiment because now is the time, a restrictions are lifted and we enter the "new normal", that we are able to get back to the things we used to do and can now do again, and that the loss of them has given us a new appreciation of them. All a bit deep but I took for granted being able to just hug my daughter when she would come to visit, now I see it as a blessing and each hug means so much more because of the ones we couldn't have.  Let me know if there are any of those things that hold new meaning for you now.

  

If you started with Kelly's blog post you have come to the end of the hop, but if you started with one of the other talented hoppers, keep on hopping by following the link above to Kelly's blog post and keep going until you get back to where you started. 

Happy Stamping

Monique