CTC #458 - CASE This Sketch

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 inspiration from the sketch on page 4 of the Sale-A-Bration catalogue.

Here's that card broken down into its basic sketch to make it easier to follow. 

We are on the countdown to the end of Sale-A-Bration for 2024 at the end of February, so I wanted to use my Flight & Airy DSP. This is such soft and pretty DSP and the little birds are fussy cut from one of the sheets. The sentiment is from So Sincere and is one of my favourites from this set, it's been cut with the new Hexagon punch. 

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the sketch above 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 #457 - CASE A Project Featuring Dies

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 inspiration from projects that feature dies, and you can choose them from any of the current catalogues, Annual Catalogue, Mini Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration Catalogue. 

I was inspired initially by the card on the right from page 17 of the SAB Catalogue. However the more I thought about it the more I liked features of the card on the left as well, so decided aspects from both of the cards and meld them to create my own version. I just love the tree trunk and leaf dies from the card on the left, and couldn't resist the vines and sloths from the card on the right and it grew from there. 

One of the great things about the tree trunk die is that it doesn't have a correct up and down which means you can flip it "upside down" without making it look weird; this let me  add one to each side of the card, more in keeping with the card on the right. I enhanced the groove marks in the trees with Blending Brushes and Stampin' Write Markers to give more depth.  The backing DSP comes from Stargazing DSP pack, who would have thought an outer space DSP would work for a jungle card! I coloured the sloths with my Stampin' Blends, I coloured all over with one colour and then coloured over it with another (pale over dark, then dark over pale) and it gave this lovely mottled look which I think suits these cute sloths perfectly.

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use projects that feature dies from any 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 Julia has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #455 - CASE Forever Love

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 inspiration from the Forever Love section of the Mini Catalogue, pages 14-21.

I was inspired by this card from page 17 of the Mini Catalogue, I love the look of the three windows with the leaves poking through.

I played around with a few different dies to get the window cut outs that I wanted, and settled on the larger label from the Waves Dies, I initially overlooked this one because of the intricate nature of the label, but the outside shape of the label was the perfect shape!  I layered DSP and sentiment behind the cut outs, and was going to add some of the die cut leaves that originally caught my eye, but I thought the use of DSP with the botanical images was sufficient.  I finished off with some lovely faceted gems and linen twine. 

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the projects in the Forever Love section of the mini 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

Let's Craft Together: Let's Use DSP

Welcome to the monthly Blog Hop by Let’s Craft Together and thank you for joining us. We are a group of multi-cultural Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators in Australia who have developed a strong friendship though our love of stamping and our admiration of each other’s style of crafting.

The challenge this month is to use our DSP, to chop it and use it.  I know for me its been difficult to use up the pretty papers for fear of not having them when I want them.  But something that I have learned over time is that Stampin' Up! is consistently bringing out more beautiful papers all the time, so now I try to use them up before the next pack catches my eye.  

One of the things I like to do when I get a new pack of paper is to cut a 2" strip of each of the different sheets (usually 6 of the 12).  I cut this into 2 x 2" and 2 x 4" pieces.  The 2" pieces I stick onto plain cardstock and add to an A5 folder I have, cutting a small circle of the coordinating cardstock colours.  The 2"x4" pieces I punch a hole in the top of each piece and add to a ring to use as a reference. This serves two purposes: 1) it gets me to cut into the DSP; and 2) it gives me two reference points that I can go to quickly when looking for a DSP option.

One of the great techniques that I use to play with new DSP is the Triple Cut and Shuffle process. Simply take three pieces of DSP cut to fit on your card front, stack them together and cut them into three pieces, usually on the diagonal. Then you shuffle the pieces to have one of each on three card fronts, so its a great way to quickly make a stack of cards.

 

For my cards I just had to use the gorgeous Perennial Lavender 12"x12" DSP from the new mini catalogue. As a bit of an added extra, on this version of the card I covered the joins with a thin strip of coordinating cardstock.  The sentiments on the first two cards are made with the Heartfelt Hexagon Punch which is a great size for a number of different sentiment stamp sets. On the first card I used the Coordinating Heartfelt Hexagon Stamp Set and the second I used a sentiment from Perennial Postage which is part of the Perennial Lavender Collection.

My third card uses the Perennial Postage Dies paired with Go To Greetings.  I have embellished this card using one of the pretty paper butterflies and bling from the Perennial Lavender Collection.

I am happy to report that I have used quite a bit of this DSP, I made a second set of these cards using the same technique, but gave them away before photographing them.  Let me know in the comments what your favourite way to use DSP is. 

Time to follow the hop to Tracy's blog to see how she uses her DSP!

Happy Stamping
Monique