CASE-ing The Catty Week 6 - Kids

Time for another CASE-ing the Catty Challenge, well actually I am a little late putting up my post for the challenge!  I thought I had done it mid-week only to find it had slipped my mind!  This week we are focusing on the "Kids" section f the catalogue starting at page 82.

 Challenge Guidelines:

• Create a new project for this challenge
• Mention CASE-ing the Catty in your blog post and link back to the challenge page 
• Make note in your post of which project from the catalogue gave you inspiration for your project
• Use Stampin' Up! only products (current or retired) in your project
• Have fun and inspire others

I don't make a lot of kids cards, so thought this might be a bit of a challenge (no pun intended) for me this week, then I realised that I didn't have to make a kids card, just be inspired by one that was in the catalogue.  I chose the sketch from page 86, also keeping to similar colours.  I added some Silver Glimmer Paper, secured with a cute little staple using the Handheld Stapler that is coming in the Holiday Catalogue.  I also added some silver stars to give some added bling!  The cake is from Sketched Birthday, and the sentiment from Age Awareness.

It would be really easy to change up the colours and give this layout a more masculine feel.

I hope I have helped inspire you to join in this week, if you need a bit more inspiration pop over to CASE-ing the Catty and see what the other design team members have created.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Polka Dot Birthday

What fun I had with these challenges!  Just Us Girls inspiration challenge, Stampin' Royalty colour challenge, and Friday Mashup which was to use polka dots and/or a fancy fold!  So really four challenges in one card.

This is the front of the card, I saw this fancy fold when surfing Pinterest, and when I saw FMU was a fancy fold I knew it was the perfect time to give it a try.  I can not find the original creator, but if you recognise them please let me know so I can give credit.  The strip of DSP gives the illusion of a single panel on the front of the card.

As the card opens up you can see the fancy fold and the little panels inside for messages and images.  The Sketched Birthday stamp set is just perfect for this card. along with the large sentiments from Perfect Pennants of course!  It is sort of like 2/3 of a tri-fold card.

 Here I have opened the card all the way so that you can see the different panels,  the blank area is great for writing your message, it will be hidden when the card is closed. I stamped the little party hat in StazOn ink onto the card base after adding the strip of DSP, then stamped again onto Daffodil Delight DSP before cutting out just the hat and adding it to the card.  A touch of Dazzling Diamonds on the candle and front cupcake image gives just a little sparkle.

I re-jigged the measurements to fit a standard A5 card front size (14.8cm x 10.5cm). A paper trimmer is just great for these sorts of cuts and folds.  Cut on the solid line and fold on the dotted lines.


Edit:
How very exciting, my card this week was chosen as the Top Pick in

The Friday Mashup!!!

and
Stampin' Royalty!!!!

Happy Stamping

Popping 18th

My daughter had a birthday celebration this weekend and of course looked to me to create a card for the birthday girl.  We had a discussion about a gift and she decided a gift certificate from one of the local cinemas was a good option.

 I had remembered seeing a card much like this one on the internet somewhere so decided to create one of my own.  To make this I cut a rectangle 9.5cm x 12cm.  Along the bottom I made a mark 1cm from each side and cut from there to the top corner.

I ran a piece of whisper white cardstock through the Fancy Fan embossing folder then used the 7/8" scallop circle punch to make each piece of 'popcorn'.  A little sponging with Daffodil Delight completed the look.  I adhered 7 of these to the top of the 'carton'.

The card is a pocket that holds a gift card (here my Costco card used for measurement purposes lol), I adhered 6 more pop corn pieces on top of this.  I left the bottom half of each piece unstuck so that it would overlap the main card.  I adhered a piece of Whisper White to the back for my daughter to write on, this also hides the tails of the ribbon wrapped around the middle. I used Memorable Moments for the 18, and adhered this to a white embossed image from Sketched Birthday.

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Sketched Birthday ... Take 3

Here is my third (and final) card using Sketched Birthday ...

I wanted to do a more traditional 'blackboard technique' for this one but also bring in a couple of our new In-Colours: Crisp Cantaloupe and Coastal Cabana.  I also had cut and offset the stamped image to add some dimension.

I have a little tip for you on how to use the Paper Piercing Template.  I find that sometimes it wriggles just slightly by the time I make it all around the pattern.  A simple solution is to lay your cardstock down on the Paper Piercing Mat and line up the template over the top, then use a couple of thumb tacks to secure it in place.  I found that putting them in diagonally opposite corners worked best. 

Finally
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Sketched Birthday Take 2

I hope you liked my last birthday card made with the Sketched Birthday stamp set.  I decided to take the colour coach and use a very different colour combo including two of the new refresh colours*: Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry* and Bermuda Bay*.

This is a much brighter card!  I decided to use some White Embossing Powder on the stamped image and replaced the ribbon with a strip stamped using the new Tape It stamp set.  I must say I overlooked this set on my first couple of browses through the catalogue, but having been lucky enough to have a play with it (my friend Cathy won a set as part of Prize Patrol at Convention) I can really see a lot of different applications, and it is now on my wish list! 

I have one more sample using Sketched Birthday and this layout, so pop back tomorrow to check it out.

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Sketched Birthday

Have you ever been stuck for ideas about what colour combo to use?  I am quite often, and today was no different, I was just back from my trip to Sydney and wanted to get busy creating but not sure where to start with colours.  I decided to pick up my new Colour Coach and pick a combo that included at least one of our new colours from the colour refresh.  I chose one of the combos on the back of the Wisteria Wonder colour card which was Wisteria Wonder, Soft Sky (new) and Sahara Sand.

I was really happy with how this card turned out, I used Sahara Sand for the base card and added the party hats and balloons from the Sketched Birthday stamped in Versamark for the background.  The ribbon is the Organza coloured with Soft Sky then heated with the heat tool to both set the colour and to gently wrinkle the ribbon.  I added some Dazzling Diamonds to the icing, you can see it better in the next picture.

The main image was actually reasonably small and felt a bit lost on the front of the card, so I stamped it in different colours (StazOn, Wisteria Wonder and Soft Sky). I coloured and then cut the cupcake by hand and raised it on a dimensional, cut the centre circle using my 1 1/4" circle punch, then the Soft Sky layer with the scallop circle punch.  By layering different the stamp like this, then mounting the whole thing onto the Window Frames shape it makes a great main image.   I used my paper piercing template and Wisteria Wonder Stampin' Write Marker to add the detail around the window frame.

I think I might go and try another colour combo from my Colour Coach ... 

Happy Stamping