CTC #577 - CASE Scenic Coast Colours

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 Scenic Coast DSP, these are Strawberry Slush, Crushed Curry, Balmy Blue, Blueberry Bushel, Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape.  These are some bold colours together and I wanted to find a way to show them off to good effect. 

I decided to "cheat" and include a sheet of the Scenic Coast DSP, but used it in a slightly different way, turning it on its side and trimming a strip off the bottom and re-attaching. By doing this it disguises the sunset/rise appearance of the DSP and creates an interesting background, I don't think you would know the left panel is supposed to be waves unless you had seen the original sheet. I went searching for a floral image that would allow me to use all of the colours and the Fragrant Layers was perfect, I used blending brushes to add Strawberry Slush and Crushed Curry to the small buds, and both shads of purple to the larger flowers, although it is difficult to tell with the distinctive style of the flowers. I stamped the outline in Blueberry Bushel and coloured the leaves Balmy Blue, because who says leaves can't be blue! I really loved how this looks even though not traditional leaf colours!

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the colours of the Scenic Coast 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 Peta has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #576 - CASE Your Favourite 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 our favourite DSPs in the new catalogue, for me this is the Moonlit Flora DSP pack, which I first got to play with at the Demonstrator On-Stage event back in March.

I was inspired by this card from page 37 of the Catalogue, I liked it general layout and use of die cut layers. 

I decided to use a new rising favourite DSP, Beautiful Ordinary Life which I first got to play with this weekend at another demo only event Creative Carnival. We also used the Garden Gatherings Bundle so while it was out I kept the theme of the retreat going and recreated elements from the original card using these products. I really like the layers of different die cut flours, vase and sentiment on the vellum circle.  

I finished off the inside of the card using an off-cut of the DSP panel on the front of the card inside the card to ground a stamped and die cut image from the bundle. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use projects using your favourite 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 the lovely Peta has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #575 - CASE A Technique

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 many techniques shown in the samples in the current catalogue.  What is a technique? A specific method of creating your project a few examples would be embossing (dry or heat), sponging, tearing, and water or alcohol colouring just to name a few. Still not sure, hop around the design team to see more examples.

I was inspired by this card from page 42 of the current catalogue, it wasn't the colours that drew me in but rather the number of techniques used on the card. I've underlined and bolded the techniques in my version below.  

I changed up the colours to use the brighter Costal Cabana, Granny Apple Green and Crumb Cake for my version and love how they work together. I started creating the card by stamping onto the background panel, initially stamping off with the leaf image then the other image in full strength crumb cake.  I used my Aqua Painter to add a light ink splatters to the background, then after it was dry tore the edge of large post-it notes and used them to apply masks and blended colour in uneven strips and intensities in Granny Apple Green.  Deciding that was enough for the background I used die cutting to create the two layers of leaves, adding gold heat embossing to the second layer.  I also used heat embossing in white for the sentiment before fussy cutting out the sentiment and adhering using dimensionals.  I haven't yet decided if my version of the card needs additional embellishments, let me know in the comments what you think.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any technique in the 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 Judy has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique