CTC #560 - CASE A Project Featuring Animals

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 animals, these can be from the Annual Catalogue, or from the January to April mini catalogue, and trust me there are some very cute projects that meet this brief.

I was inspired by this card from page 51 of the Mini Catalogue, although I do not have these cute little sheep in my collection I did like the card layout so decided to recreate it with other products. I don't in fact have any animal stamps in my collection so that made decisions easier!

I used the gorgeous Lovely & Beautiful DSP as the starting point for my card, adding Garden Green to the foil sheet using my Blending Brush. The flowers are cut using the Simply Beautiful dies and the leaves are cut using the Lovely Arrangements dies. I am really happy with how the layers on this card came together, and when looking for a sentiment the Happy Easter seemed appropriate.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any project featuring animals 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

CTC #558 - CASE The Colours of the Easter Joy 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 the very pretty colours of the Easter Joy DSP. These are Lemon Lolly, Pretty in Pink, Peach Pie, Balmy Blue, Shy Shamrock, and Crumb Cake. 

As usual when doing a colour challenge I got out my ink pads and thought about how the colours could work together. I have to say when there is a green and colours that would work for flowers I do reach for my floral stamp sets. So it was easy to pick Lovely Arrangements set. I was left wondering how I could incorporate Balmy Blue and Crumb Cake, then realised the coordinating dies would let me include them as the card base and some peep through elements. From there the card came together really easily, even the sentiment embossed in white on a strip of Balmy Blue.  I love how this turned out and can't wait to pop it in the post to a special someone.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the colours of the Easter Joy 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 Julia has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Product of the Month Collaboration - February's Painted Illusions

Welcome to the January 2026 Product of the Month (POM) Blog Hop!  If you've followed my blog for  while you will know that in previous years we have had a period of Sale-A-Bration (SAB) at the start of each year. Well Stampin' Up! have implemented a new initiative instead of SAB, and that is Product of the Month. For POM there is a new product released every month that can be earned for a greatly reduced cost, $9 in Australia, with the purchase of $125 in product. So a group of demonstrators decided to help showcase these products we would run a blog hop each month to give ideas. This month the POM is some really lovely 12"x12" DSP, 12 sheets in the pack. 

I wanted to make a card that really shows off the beautiful paper, and this fancy fold really does that beautifully.  I have made two cards to show two off the different patterns.  This first card features the beautiful sentiment from Memories in Bloom stamp set. I have finished off this card with some of the pretty gold vellum embellishments from the Beautifully Adorned Ephemera Pack.

Here you can see the card opened, as you can see most of the front cardstock panel has been removed so that the back of the DSP panel is visible. I'll pop the measurements at the end of this post. 

Here is the second card I made, showing a second of the patterned papers. This card uses the gorgeous Layered Thoughts for the sentiment embellished by another strip from the Beautifully Adorned Ephemera Pack and finished off with some Moody Palette Glossy Dots.

Here is the inside of the second card, don't these colours look so lovely together. You will certainly want to get your hands on this lovey DSP while it is still available. 

Now for how to make these cards, each one uses a piece of DSP that is 6"x6", so you can make four from a piece of 12"x12".  These instructions are in metric, but are easy to translate into imperial.

• Card base 13.5x14.5cm; scored at 3cm
• DSP 14x15cm; cut two strips off each 2.5cm wide
• Basic White panel 10x14cm
•  Adhere one of the small strips to the thin front panel, and one to the piece of Basic White. Use opposite sides of the paper
• Adhere the larger piece to the back of the thin front panel so that when the card is open or closed you can see both patterns of the DSP

Time to keep on hopping to see what the rest of the team have created with this lovely paper. 

Happy Stamping
Monique