Monday, March 18, 2024

CTC #461 - CASE The Lighter Than Air DSP 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 Lighter Than Air DSP, these are such soft lovely colours, and for this challenge you can make any project you like that includes them.

Here is a closer look at the pretty colours. 

I've just been away to OnStage, an in-person Stampin' Up! event, and what fun we had!  Among the lovely gifts we were given was one of the soon to be released Kits called Hooray for Honeycomb.  I won't give too much away but some of the sentiments are balloon shaped, and when I first saw them they made me think of Easter Eggs, and so this challenge was the perfect opportunity to see how they'd go.  Stampin' Up! includes multiple language sentiments in the kits so I used three of the balloons, covered them in adhesive and added strips of cardstock from the challenge.  For the background I tried a simple technique that I have never tried before, adding ink over the top of images stamped in VersaMark, I love how this turned out, though had to add way more ink than I thought I would to ensure the flowers were visible. 

I did want to share the original card from the kit that inspired these cute Easter Eggs, so here is the one that I made in my Make n Takes at OnStage. 

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the colours of Lighter Than Air 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 Judy has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Monday, March 4, 2024

Let's Craft Together Blog Hop - Colour Challenge

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 a colour challenge chosen by myself!  I just loved this inspiration image with the dark background and the pop of bright colours.  I think the Stampin' Up! colours that best represent this image are Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green, Pretty Peacock, and Basic Black.  You can of course add Basic White. 

Whenever I have a challenge with greens in it I always think of plants or flowers, depending on the other colours.  While the inspiration image is quite dark, I wanted to lighten the look of my card and so focused heavily on the Crushed Curry for the solid part of the flowers and tiny dots around the bunch, and just used the Pumpkin Pie for the line stamp that is part of this set's two step stamping.  I did a similar thing with the leaves, Pretty Peacock on the lines and Granny Apple Green on the fill in.  I thought the checked ribbon added a grounding element to the bunch of flowers. 


Inside the card I used some of the DSP from the front, from Fresh As A Daisy, and some additional stamping.  I hope you enjoyed visiting my blog, time to use the link below to follow the hop to the next blog. 


Happy Stamping
Monique

Sunday, February 25, 2024

CTC #458 - CASE This Sketch

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 sketch on page 4 of the Sale-A-Bration catalogue.
Here's that card broken down into its basic sketch to make it easier to follow. 


We are on the countdown to the end of Sale-A-Bration for 2024 at the end of February, so I wanted to use my Flight & Airy DSP. This is such soft and pretty DSP and the little birds are fussy cut from one of the sheets. The sentiment is from So Sincere and is one of my favourites from this set, it's been cut with the new Hexagon punch. 

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the sketch above to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

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

Happy Stamping
Monique

Sunday, February 18, 2024

CTC #457 - CASE A Project Featuring Dies

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 that feature dies, and you can choose them from any of the current catalogues, Annual Catalogue, Mini Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration Catalogue. 

I was inspired initially by the card on the right from page 17 of the SAB Catalogue. However the more I thought about it the more I liked features of the card on the left as well, so decided aspects from both of the cards and meld them to create my own version. I just love the tree trunk and leaf dies from the card on the left, and couldn't resist the vines and sloths from the card on the right and it grew from there. 

One of the great things about the tree trunk die is that it doesn't have a correct up and down which means you can flip it "upside down" without making it look weird; this let me  add one to each side of the card, more in keeping with the card on the right. I enhanced the groove marks in the trees with Blending Brushes and Stampin' Write Markers to give more depth.  The backing DSP comes from Stargazing DSP pack, who would have thought an outer space DSP would work for a jungle card! I coloured the sloths with my Stampin' Blends, I coloured all over with one colour and then coloured over it with another (pale over dark, then dark over pale) and it gave this lovely mottled look which I think suits these cute sloths perfectly.

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use projects that feature dies from any 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 Julia has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique