CTC #594 - 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 inspiration from projects using punches. I sometimes think the humble punch can be overlooked with all the intricate dies we have, and it's worth remembering them as great easy to use tools.

I was inspired by this card from page 42 of the catalogue. I liked it's simple lines and focal image.

Now having said it is easy to skip over our punches with all our intricate dies, I have in fact reached for those dies from my stash!  This card took some turns during development, I extended the note paper die cut as I was intending to add a gift card behind it, but veered away from that during the creative process.  I love this Whispering Woods DSP pack, and the colours were perfect to team up with the hot foil and masked butterflies I had left over from another project. Initially this was going to be a Christmas card with Holly Jolly Branches trees instead of the butterflies, but I let the creativity flow and this is where we ended up.  The sentiment is from Sending Salutations and fit nicely with the calming tones of this card. Let me know in the comments below whether you tend to stick with a plan or go with the flow when creating, or perhaps it is a little of both!

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the punch projects in the catalogue or online store 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 Judy has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Card Swap Chain - Series 6 - Sue's Card

In April 2026 we started the sixth series of the Card Swap Chain, arranged by the lovely Tracy Held. The idea behind this is that everyone in the group made a card, then sent it to one other person in the group. Each of us CASEd the card we received and posted it to the next person in the chain, there were 10 of us in total. Each time the card was CASEd it was changed slightly until the last round when the final copy of our first card was returned to us.  This is such a fun process, and it is now time to reveal each of the cards in the chain. With 10 of us in the chain there is definitely opportunity for a few variations to sneak in between the first and the last card, so join us on this blog hop journey through the CASEing process.

This chain started with this pretty card from Sue. If you haven't started the hop at her blog I would encourage you to do go there first, even though I directly CASEd Sue's card, you will learn more from her about the products she used on this lovely card. You can find her blog listed at the top of the participant list below.

I was second in the chain so you can see the two cards have remained very similar. I used the pretty Bloom Boutique DSP for my quilt effect and I love the soft look of this paper. The base of my card is Golden Glow, a colour I wasn't really sure about when I first saw it but it is growing on me as time progresses! The sentiment is from my favourite Mix and Match Greetings for All Ephemera Pack, if you don't have these yet, I would really encourage you to do so, they make creating quick and easy cards so simple. 

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

CTC #593 - CASE A Bundle

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 bundles featured in the catalogue, this can be a punch or die bundle. I love a bundle, not just for the 10% discount, but also for the coordination they provide for my projects. 

I was inspired by this card from page 43 of the catalogue, I think this little koala is so cute and I loved the varied fonts used for the sentiment. 

I used the Creative Celebrations Mix & Match 6x6 DSP pack for this card, not just the background panel, but this DSP pack also has sheets of punch out ephemera which I used for the wreath. The sentiment I chose is from Pretty Poinsettia, in part because it had the mixed font, allowing me to fussy cut it and separate the two words to reflect the original project. I was a bit sneaky in how I cut the "Joy", I didn't cut out the centre of the O, rather I stamped it again on a piece of the scrap background DSP and cut the centre out of DSP and adhered it to the word. This was much easier than trying to trim out the centre!  Do you have any tricks you use to make life a bit easier when you craft? Let me know in the comments below.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the projects associated with the bundles 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 Judy has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique