CTC #567 - CASE Your Favourite Annual Catalogue 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 inspiration from any of the projects in the Annual Catalogue, which is our way of saying goodbye to the concept of Annual Catalogues as from May 2026, Stampin' Up! will be releasing three stand alone catalogues each year as well as Online Exclusives. This is a simpler approach to having an Annual Catalogue that overlaps with seasonal mini catalogues throughout the year. Let me know if you would like a copy of the new May to August Catalogue, alternatively I will be posting a link to a pdf version from 5 May.

I was inspired by this card from page 37 of the Annual Catalogue, I think I often overlooked this image because I generally am not drawn to orange, but I liked the simple layout with the gold edged tag.

For my card I chose the lovely new Peaceful Pines card base, this is one of the new In-Colours that will be available in the catalogue available from 5 May.  I cut the bicycle from a sheet of the new Waterside Retreat DSP also in the new catalogue, the seagulls and water reeds are from the April Paper Pumpkin stamp set. I preferred the tag with some colour so added some Peaceful Pine and Cloud Cover to give more sense of a background. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the projects 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 the lovely and talented Rochelle has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Card Swap Chain Series 5 - CASE-ing Sharni

Back in November 2025 we started the fifth series of the Card Swap Chain, arranged by the lovely Tracy Held. The idea is the we each made a card and sent it to another person in the chain. That person would CASE (Copy and Share Everything or Copy and Selectively Edit) the card and send it to the next person who would in turn CASE it and send it on. There are 10 of us in this chain so definitely opportunity for a few variations to sneak in between the first and last card, and these blog hops take you on the journey through the CASEing process. 

Sharni's Card

This chain started with Sharni's pretty purple card with this fun split layout. I love the monochromatic colour scheme of her card, and purple is one of my favourite colours.  If you didn't begin this hop with the first blog, I would recommend you pop back there to start the hop and learn a bit more about the original card.  

I was seventh in this chain and it is great to see that the overall sketch of the card is still very recognisable, the additional layers of cardstock are missing but even the floral theme and very similar colours although I have added blue tones. I love this Floral Charm DSP and am so glad that it is still available in the online store. The flowers are from Lovely Arrangement stamp set and cut with the coordinating dies, the sentiment is from the same stamp set and fussy cut out. I love how the multi layered bow of Linen Thread looks, I choose four pieces of thread and made a bow from them in one go, then attached with a glue dot. 

Time to keep hopping to see how this card was interpreted for the rest of the chain, and if it is still recognisable by the end of the chain What elements do you think made it all the way down the line?

Happy Stamping

Monique

Card Swap Chain Series 5 - CASE-ing Danielle

Back in November 2025 we started the fifth series of the Card Swap Chain, arranged by the lovely Tracy Held. The idea is the we each made a card and sent it to another person in the chain. That person would CASE (Copy and Share Everything or Copy and Selectively Edit) the card and send it to the next person who would in turn CASE it and send it on. There are 10 of us in this chain so definitely opportunity for a few variations to sneak in between the first and last card, and these blog hops take you on the journey through the CASEing process. 

Danielle's Card

This chain started with this cute Christmas card from Danielle, who has used a great technique, cutting the tree image from a Memories and More card to let the strips of DSP show from behind. If you didn't begin this hop with the first blog, I would recommend you pop back there to start the hop and learn a bit more about the original card. 

My card was second in the chain, so there aren't many differences between Danielle's and my own card. I didn't have any Memories and More cards to use so stamped tree images onto a piece of 3"x4" of Basic White, and then cut a slightly different Christmas tree images. To create more of a contrast with the green trees I chose reds and golds for the strips behind the focal image.  I stamped the sentiment straight onto the base card which always makes me nervous that I won't stamp it straight!! Are you like that?

Time to keep hopping to see how this card was interpreted for the rest of the chain, and if it is still recognisable by the end of the chain What elements do you think made it all the way down the line?

Happy Stamping

Monique