CTC #303 - CASE the Sale-A-Bration 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 Sale-A-Bration (SAB) catalogue. There are some really cute projects, colour combinations and layouts to be inspired by in this little catalogue so pick your favourite and use the products you have to recreate it in your own style. 

I was inspired by this image from page 3, I usually like things nice and symmetrical but something about the offset DSP panel on this card appealed to me. 

I took the general concept and then changed up the colours to coordinate with the Fine Art Floral Suite.  For the sentiments I added stamped and die cut images from the Forever & Always Bundle. One of the things I love most about Stampin' Up! is how well products from different suites work so well together.

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the samples in SAB 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 Rachel has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #302 - CASE A Floral Project

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 floral projects from either catalogue, so there is no lack of projects to inspire you as we have so many different styles of florals from line art to water colour. I can't wait to see what has inspired everyone this challenge.

I was really drawn to this project from page 63 of the Mini Catalogue, I love the black and white with just a splash of colour.  I also think it is really funny when I see flowers in shades of blue.  When we were preparing for our wedding my parents asked my then fiancé what colours he would like the bridesmaids to be and he replied "blue" to which I responded I can't have blue because there are no blue flowers!  From their telling of the tale there was a wall of blue flowers behind me at the time, to this day I still hold that they were not actually blue but looked blue-ish because of the coloured lighting.  Either way ever since, about 33 years since we had that discussion, every time anyone sees a blue flower they make a point of showing me. My mum even cut out newspaper clippings when she saw one about the development of a blue rose.

My Project for this challenge has kept reasonably similar in layout to the original but I have used True Love DSP and fussy cut one of the gorgeous floral images. I love this paper as it is all black and white and so is easy to add your own colour to coordinate with any project.  The sentiment is from Happiest of Birthdays, which I have to say is one of my favourite birthday sentiment sets ever, I love the variety of sizes and fonts in this one, and it also has one that is for belated birthdays!

Its a bit hard to see in the full picture of the card but I added some splatter using my aqua painter and some Pool Party ink. The Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels also add some bling, I just love using these so much. 

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the floral samples in either 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 Rachel has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #301 - CASE The Sale-A-Bration 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 projects in the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue and all the projects within its pages. 

I was inspired by this image from page 15, I loved the simplicity of this card and how wonderfully it shows of our lovely DSP.

My Project for this challenge I chose the pretty floral DSP from the Paper Blooms pack, adding some Night of Navy ribbon from Boho Indigo Medley. Keeping the layout simple I added a sentiment from So Sentimental. This was such an easy card to create, and I had some spare crafting time on my hands so decided to make a second stepped-up card.

I kept the DSP as the focal point of the card but cut it slightly smaller than the card-front so a layer of Night of Navy frames it. The sentiment is also the same but I have added some sparkle with gold thread from the Forever Greenery Trim as well as my new favourite Gold Glitter Enamel Dots. 

Here are the two cards side by side, which do you prefer?

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the samples in the Sale-A-Bration 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 Lauren has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #300 - CASE The Mini 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 any of the projects in the newly released January to June 2021 Mini Catalogue, I think I am just going to call this the JJ Mini because that is some title!  I love getting a new catalogue, and not just to pour over all of the new exciting products, but also to see the wonderful projects the creative people at the home office have produced for us.  I love seeing new colour combinations, layouts and take a lot of inspiration from these projects, and this catalogue does not disappoint. There are a lot of soft colours and pretty designs, but also some bolder ones as well, and for this challenge you can choose any of the projects to inspire your own creation.

I didn't have to go far to find this lovely card on page 3.  The thing that stood out to me the most with this card was how the DSP was used, taking three very different patterns from a DSP pack and using them together as the background. 

Because I haven't used as much of the Forever Greenery DSP I thought this would be a good opportunity to dust it off and use it for this project.  I have used a Soft Sea Foam card base and layered Pretty Peacock which is a bit different to the original but I wanted to wrap my ribbon around that layer and find that the DSP isn't sturdy enough for my liking. I also really like how this frames the DSP against the soft base. Adding a pop of metallic with Copper Foil and Champagne Rhinestones gave the project a bit of a lift I think. Then it was just a matter of layering stamped and die cut leaves from Forever Fern Bundle until I was happy with the layout. 

  

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

  

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

Happy Stamping
Monique

ESAD Blog Hop - January to June Mini and Sale-A-Bration 2021

Can you believe it's time for another ESAD Blog Hop for new catalogues?  While it is a bit sad to say farewell to the holiday items in the last mini catalogue, it is great fun to see the wonderful new products in the January to June 2021 Mini.  To give you some inspiration ESAD demonstrators have been busy at work with their pre-orders to create some wonderful projects. 

My project for the hop uses the stamps and dies from the Simply Succulents Bundle, page 39; as well as the stunning Opal Rounds that are part of the Sea & Sand suite on page 41. 

I absolutely love succulents and so knew as soon as I saw this bundle that it would be the first thing on my pre-order.  These are the succulents we used to decorate the tables at my daughter's engagement party, and they were great inspiration to my colouring of the succulents on my card.  The stamp set contains a gorgeous pot as well as four succulent images and four sentiments!  The great thing about the coordinating dies is that they include options to cut out all of the succulent and pot images as well as additional succulent shapes and four new stitched label framelits for sentiments. Not only that it also includes a stunning background image which you can see layered behind my focal image.

My project for this hop uses the main succulent image as well as one of the smaller succulents to create a layering effect.  I coloured the pot with Stampin' Blends, and the succulents with Water Colour Pencils, I find I get a better colour mix with pencils then run over each section with a Blender Pen. Once coloured I went over the outline for the main succulent in the bunch with a Mint Macaron marker to add more definition to the individual leaves. 

I added some colour to the Opal Rounds with a Stampin' Blend to coordinate with my project and love that the sparkle within each round still shows through the colour. I know you are going to be seeing a lot of these on my projects in the coming months they are just so gorgeous and versatile. 

I also wanted to share how versatile this bundle is as I used the stamps and dies to help decorate my daughter's engagement party on 29 December which  had a bit of a succulent theme as she also loves these cute little plants.

The labels were perfect for identifying the juices on the Pimp My Prosecco Bar ...

And on the sauce bottles that were part of the desert platter.  I just printed out the words on Mint Macaron cardstock and cut with the cute label dies in the Bundle and then added to the bottles with Tear n Tape. They stayed on really well even with the concensation on the bottles.

We also covered the side of our shed with hessian so it looked a bit nicer and coordinated with the table runners. There was a section of the shed that didn't have anything to attach the hessian with so we used little clip magnets decorated with one of the individual succulents stamped on Mint Macaron and sponged with Rich Razzleberry.

  

I hope you are enjoying the hop so far, now it is time to hop on over and see what Richelle has created with her new products.

Here is a full list of the blog hop participants:

• Rachael Lewsley
• Nicole Wilson
• Denise Buetler
• Narelle Fasulo
• Lou Kitzelman
• Rebecca Scurr
• Cheryl Algie
• Monique Fielder
• Richelle Fletcher
• Rochelle Laird- Smith
• Odette Kermode
• Jenny Hayward
• Wendy Hodkinson

Happy Stamping
Monique