CTC #324 - CASE A Retiring Mini 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 the projects associated with the products retiring at the end of the Jan to Jun mini catalogue. If you aren't sure what is retiring you can check the on-line store under Sales & Specials, then Last Chance Products to find them.

 

I was inspired by this image from page 8 of the Jan to Jun Mini Catalogue which showcases the Flowering Cactus Product Medley.

I liked the elements on this card and thought it would be fun to recreate with products carrying over and new products.  I have used the spray of leaves and flowers from Sweet Strawberry and one of the sheets of Hand-Penned DSP. I love how easy it is to decide on a colour scheme when you choose your DSP first, just match the colours in the DSP because you know they are going to look good together. I finished off the little flowers with some Genial Gems to add a little sparkle. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the samples in the new 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 Kathryn has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #323 - CASE a Card Featuring Food

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

 

I was inspired by this image from page 87 of the Annual Catalogue, I love the colours of the Ombre Gift Bag, and the clever idea to make a window in the front of the bag so you can see inside. 

Instead of cutting a window in my bag, I decided to do a faux window for my project, more of about that in a minute. I decorated the panel with lots of the plant and pot images from the Bloom Where You're Planted DSP, cutting some by hand and using the coordinating dies for others, I love how easy this DSP makes decorating a card. The sentiment is from one of my new favourite sentiment stamp sets Biggest Wish which has greetings in the big bold font and the lovely cursive font that look so great mix and matched. 

The faux window is made with a piece of Basic White and one of the Paper Lattice pieces cut to the size of a small cello bag, slipped inside the bag and then the top of the bag folded over and the whole thing adhered to the front of the Evening Evergreen Ombre Gift Bag.  I had been thinking of making a shaker card but think with all the plants that the lattice looks nicer without shaker bits. 

Inside the bag is this cute little panel which I have also decorated with more images from the DSP. Your message would go on this side of the panel and then it would be really easy to add a pocket to the back of the panel to hold a gift card, or a packet of seeds.  The topper of the card is made with the Elegant Tag Punch and decorated with ribbon and a tassel made from Baker's Twine. 

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the samples in the new 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 #322 - CASE The Birthday Section

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 birthday section of the Annual Catalogue, pages 60 to 67.

 

I was inspired  by the image  in the lower right of the above image from page 63 of the 2021 - 2022 Annual Catalogue. I like the simplicity of this one, it just lets the sentiment and DSP shine.

I have just purchased the Tidings of Christmas Suite and thought it would be a good layout to use for Christmas cards, partly because I like having a stash of Christmas cards that are easy to create but still look lovely.  I chose a Thick Basic White base, adding a 6.5 x 10.5cm piece of DSP then added the Evening Evergreen Chevron Weave Ribbon over the join and adding a bow. This ribbon is so lovely to work with as it is nice and soft and tying a bow is easy.   I did do the stamping before adhering the DSP just in case I messed up the stamping ... which I almost did! I used the Coordinating Tidings & Trimmings Stamp Set which has a mix of Christmas images as well as sentiments for the front and inside of your cards. You could also add some additional bling with Rhinestones to this card to step it up a little.  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the samples in the new 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 Judy has created this week.

Happy Stamping

Monique

CTC #321 - CASE A Layout and Give It A Masculine Twist

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 a Jan to Jun Catty project and giving it a masculine twist. How fun is that?

 

I was inspired by this image from the bundles section in the back of the catalogue, page 76. This section can sometimes be overlooked but there are some really lovely sample projects and Stampin' Up! make the projects in this section to be different colours than in the main pages of the catalogue so that you can see the bundle in action with a different look. 

I haven't yet really had a good play with my Whiskey Business stamp set and thought it would be a good place to start for a masculine card.  I coloured this with Watercolor Pencils as I had difficulty getting the look I wanted with Blends. I am really happy with the colouring on this one.  I did struggle to work out what to do on the background, so decided to replicate the technique I used last week in the challenge and use my blends on Vellum to create a colour coordinated background.  I love how this looks, and how easy it makes it to have a coordinating "DSP". 

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the samples in the new 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