CTC #574 - CASE The Waterside Retreat 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 projects associated with the Waterside Retreat Suite in the current catalogue.

I was inspired by this card from page 21 of the catalogue, I liked the woodgrain background and collection of fussy cut images from the DSP. It was also a great way to use one of the trinkets from this suite which I often forget to do!

I decided to keep the idea of a woodgrain background, however swapped out the one from the Waterside Retreat DSP and instead used this colourful one from Country Woods DSP pack. I then chose the fussy cut images based on what I thought would coordinate with the colours in my background DSP.  I think if I made this card again I would use a blending brush to add just a hint of Crumb Cake behind the fussy cut images to create more of a shadow behind the so they'd pop a little more against the more colourful background.  The card was finished off with a pre-printed sentiment and some sequins and trinket for another No-Stamp card! 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use projects featuring the Waterside Retreat Suite products 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 wonderfully talented Julia has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #573 - 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 featuring punches. 

I was inspired by this card from the on-line store, it is one of the projects showcasing the 2" Circle Punch. I loved the simplicity of this design and the fun idea to emboss the punched images. 

For my version I used the Stylish Shapes Dies and Fern & Flora Bundle and Embossing Folder and am so happy with how this turned out.  Although I had some difficulty photographing a white on white card!

Here it is with the light coming from a different angle and it really shows the embossing much better. I used a three string linen thread bow and Dew Drop Embellishments to finish off this lovely card. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the projects featuring punches 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

Let's Craft Together Blog Hop - Black & White & Bright

Welcome to the monthly Let's Craft Together Blog Hop, thanks for joining us. We are a group of multi-cultural Stampin' Up! Demonstrators in Australia who have developed a strong friendship through our love of stamping and our admiration of each other's style of crafting. 

The challenge this month is to create a project that is black, white and bright!  How exciting is this challenge!!!

I thought the easy way to approach this would be to use a black and white DSP, but I didn't have any so I put my thinking cap on and decided to pull out some of the cardstock in the brights collection. I then narrowed it down to a rainbow and used Poppy Parade, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lime Twist, and then I pulled a couple of colours from the subtles collection to finish it off with Balmy Blue and Highland Heather. I then cut 1cm strips of each and stuck them together in rainbow order, I turned it 90 degrees then cut 1cm strips (each colour is 1x1cm) then staggered them to create this fun rainbow background. I finished off my card with the very cute Floral Flight Accents which were just perfect for this challenge. I only adhered down the body of the butterfly so the wings lift off the card.  I used some Antique Pearls coloured with a black Sharpie pen, and added a sentiment from the Greetings For All Ephemera pack.  

Time to keep hopping to see the other wonderful projects the team have created for this blog hop.

Happy Stamping

Monique