CTC #228 - Favourite Retiring Stamp Set

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where we take a look at one of the sections of a current Stampin' Up! catalogue and use the projects within it to inspire our own creations.

This week we are taking our inspiration from the retiring stamp sets in either the Annual or Occasions catalogue.

I am taking my inspiration from this card on page 38 of the Occasions Catalogue, it is made with the Needlepoint Nook Suite. I really liked this suite but realise that as the catalogue comes to a close I didn't use it nearly as much as I thought I would. One of my favourite pieces of this suite is the Framelit that makes the beautifully stitched image you can see on the Crushed Curry panel on this card. 

As usual I kept my card similar to the original as I really wanted to use the stitched background but decided the Share What You Love DSP would make the perfect background. It keeps with the floral theme but also lets me use another of my favourite retiring products, this paper is just gorgeous and is something that I have used a lot, great for 3D items too because it is a little more robust than normal DSP.

  

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

  

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

Happy Stamping
Monique

Memories & More - Storage Solution

I wanted to do a quick post today to share how I am storing my Memories & More card packs, as I thought others might find it useful. While it isn't a new thing to use one of the Full Wide Stamp Cases to store M&M kits, I don't like the way they all flop around inside, so I decided to work on a solution.

I decided to make little pockets out of Thick Whisper White cardstock that let me slip the cards inside, it keeps the little 3" x 4" cards in two sets on the left, and the 6" x 4" cards in one set on the right.  I then discovered that when I closed up the case the little cards on the top would just fall out!

My solution?  This little folded piece of Thick Whisper White that slides in under the cards and fills the gap between the two sets of cards to stop them moving around! In this image you can see it partly slid out, it is easy to remove and comes right out of the case.

This image shows the way the card cases are scored and cut: score on the lines then cut out the two corners. Then fold on the score lines to make a box with an open back that you can adhere to the inside of the Full Wide Case.

Here are the measurements:

Large Cards

• Cut 1 out of Thick Whisper White ...  6-1/8" x 5-1/8"
• Position the longest side to the top of the score board and score at 5/8" and 1" on each side.
• Score again along one of the other sides 
• Fold, cut and adhere to the inside of the case

Small Cards

• Cut 2 out of Thick Whisper White ...  5-3/8" x 2-1/2"
• Position the longest side to the top of the score board and score at 1/4" and 1/2" on each side.
• Score again along one of the other sides 
• Fold, cut and adhere to the inside of the case, one against the top edge and one against the bottom.

Slide

• Cut 1 out of Thick Whisper White ... 4-1/4" x 5"
• Position the shortest side to the top of the score board and score at 1-1/4"; 1-5/8"; 2-5/8"; and 3"
• Fold into shape and slide under each set of the small cards to hold in place.

I haven't yet decorated mine, as I want to make more cards!  Hope this has been helpful, let me know how you go. 

Happy Stamping

Monique

CTC #227 - Retiring Bundle

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where we take a look at one of the sections of a current Stampin' Up! catalogue and use the projects within it to inspire our own creations.

This week we are taking our inspiration from projects in the catalogue made with the retiring bundles.

I was inspired by this image from page 10 of the Occasions Catalogue, featuring products from the Floral Romance Suite. I am sure it is no surprise to those of you who have visited my blog recently that I am going to really miss this suite of products!

As usual when I keep to a fairly similar layout to the original card I do like to switch up the colours just a bit. Although I was tempted to use more of the gorgeous Floral Romance DSP, I decided to switch it up and use three of the patterns from the All My Love DSP also from the Occasions Catalogue which will be retiring soon.  To keep me from getting too sad about all the retiring DSP I added sentiments, both printed and die cut, from the Well Said Bundle which will be carrying over into the annual catalogue, though not as a bundle. For the Happy, I used a sponge dauber to add colour to the top half to give an ombre look which also helped it stand out against the two different DSPs I used. Instead of die cut leaves I added a fussy cut flower and leaves cut from the same DSP to add to the sentiment. 

  

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

Happy Stamping
Monique