Let's Craft Together Blog Hop - Mother's Day

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 make a Mother's Day card.

For my card I am featuring some new products from the Annual Catalogue that goes live on 6 May, as well as a couple of products from the current catalogue. The sneak peek products are from the Beautiful Gallery Suite Collection and include the lovely floral image, Damask Designs Embossing Folder and coordinating Beautiful Gallery DSP. 

I wanted to create the look of a glass dome over the flowers, Beauty and the Beast style. I layered window sheet over the DSP and flowers and created a frame with one of the new In-Colours Secret Sea. I am not sure if it achieved that look exactly but I do love the depth the layers give the finished card. The sentiment is from Greetings For All Mix & Match Ephemera Pack.

Time to keep on hopping to the next blog by following the link under my name below:

Happy Stamping

Monique

CTC #513 - CASE The Beautiful Bokeh Suite

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 Beautiful Bokeh Suite on pages 38-41 of the mini catalogue. This suite has really pretty soft DSP as well as butterfly stamp and die bundle and shaker shapes. 

I was inspired by this card from page 38 of the January to April Mini Catalogue, I liked the three panels with off-set butterflies. 

I decided to dust of my cute little dinosaurs from the Darling Dinos bundle, to create this cute kids card.  I have tied in the Beautiful Bokeh paper behind each of the dinosaurs which gives a nice mottled look. I have used some of the images from the stamp set to decorate the DSP and base cardstock to add a little more detail. I am so happy with how this turned out.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the projects that are part of the Beautiful Bokeh Suite to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

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

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #512 - CASE Mini Catty Mix & Match Projects

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 Mix and Match "Get Inspired" projects on pages 14 and 15 of the Mini Catalogue. As usual you can choose a sketch, colour combo, images or technique as your inspiration.

I was inspired by this card from the lower middle of pages 14 & 15 in the Mini Catalogue, or part of the Spring Celebrations Ephemera Pack in the on-line store.  I loved the way it uses a frame of flowers around the focal image and sentiment. 

I started off doing a very simple version of the original card, but it felt a bit bare to me, so I added some layers and texture to mine.  The plaid DSP was not the first one I thought of using for this card, but so glad I tried it out, I love how a good portion of the floral images is covered by the sentiment, leaving what I coloured as succulents as the dominant image. I coloured the image using a combination of pale version of blends, then added depth and colour variation with my watercolour pencils.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the samples on pages 14 and 15 of the Jan to Apr 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 Kathryn  has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #511 - CASE The Colours of the Wildflower Birthday DSP

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 colours in the Wildflower Birthday Specialty DSP from the January to April Mini Catalogue. 

Here are the colours for the challenge, Pretty in Pink, Peach Pie, Soft Sea Foam, Pool Party and Gold. 

I wasn't really sure what to do with these colours, so I thought I'd share my process.  I started off by pulling out the inkpads for the challenge colours, then chose a stamp set with a few different elements that would accommodate those colours.  In this instance I chose one of the new On-Line Exclusives Textured Notes stamp set, I paired up a stamp with each of the colours and then used them to layer the images. I did think about masking but liked this effect more.

Once stamped I trimmed down the focal image and sponged the two corners with the stamped images, then used my scissors to rough up the edges and did some light sponging across all the sides of the panel.  I was going to just add the butterflies to meet the gold  element of the challenge, but wanted a little more bling so cut down some of the gorgeous Gold Open Weave Trim.  Wanting a bit more interest in the background I used the Mini Corrugated 3D embossing folder, using an Aquapainter to splatter Old Olive and Pool Party ink to add a grungy look. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the colours in the Wildflower Birthday DSP 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