CTC #389 - CASE An Annual Catalogue Bundle

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where utilise the projects within the current Stampin' Up! catalogues 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 Bundles in the Annual Catalogue, you can find these at the back of the catalogue. 

I was inspired by this image from page 161, in fact it is the first of the bundles listed in this section. This card caught my eye because I really don't like the colour combination and it got me thinking that the layout was nice, and that I would see what it could look like using different products.

I have been in the swing of making Christmas cards recently, working on the theory that if I make them early enough I might actually send them in time!  The Boughs of Holly DSP was a great option for this card as it allowed me to use complementary and contrasting strips and background as well as fussy cut the poinsettias from one of the sheets to use instead of the butterflies. I popped one of the flowers up on Dimensionals and added Bronze Brushed Metallic Dots to the centres of the poinsettias for some subtle texture.  I also flicked some Wink of Stella onto the front of the card before adhering the flowers but as usual the photograph just doesn't pick this up. 

I am glad that I wasn't put off by the original card, as this is a great layout to use up those thin scraps you might have, and doesn't really need a lot in the way of supplies. You could use die cuts or stamped images if you don't like fussy cutting of course!

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

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC387– Case a Punch 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 that use punches, you don't need the punch used in the project, just take inspiration from the original card. 

I was inspired by this image from page 68 of the Mini Catalogue. I really love this stamp and punch from the Very Best Occasions Bundle. 

The original project inspired me to make a little gift bag, this one measures 2-3/4" x 4", and is 1" wide. This is a great size to hold a couple of the yummy Moser Roth chocolates from Aldi so makes a great little tree gift at Christmas. At this size you can get two from a sheet of 12"x12" DSP.  You could make them a little shorter and pop other goodies in there and get three from a sheet of DSP, but I like this size myself.  They would also make cute little desk gifts for colleagues if you work in an office environment. 

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the samples that use a punch 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 #385 - CASE A Glittery 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 any of the glittery projects in the Mini Catalogue, and boy are there a few of those as we have such a great range of glimmer papers in this catalogue. 

I was inspired by this image from page 10, created with the Sweet Candy Canes Bundle.

Now I haven't purchased this bundle (yet), but I did get to have a play with my friend Cathy's bundle when we had a recent craft catch up.  I decided to just use the background die and not the candy canes, rather combine some of my own purchases and use Leaves of Holly Bundle for the leaves and gold accents, and the Very Best Occasions Bundle for the sentiment.  This bundle comes with some great all purpose sentiments, and I particularly like the one I used on this sparkly card; it also has a trio punch which I used to punch the corners of the sentiment tag and create the little slits for the ribbon to pass through.  The ribbon is the Gold and Vanilla Satin Edged ribbon from page 31 of the mini catalogue which I have coloured with Stampin' Blends to coordinate with the colours in my card.  I love the subtle gold in this ribbon.

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

  

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

Happy Stamping
Monique