CTC #466 - CASE Favourite Mini Catalogue 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 our favourite projects in the mini catalogue, sadly this lovely catty has just over a week before many of the products are gone for good. 

I was inspired by this card from page 43 of the mini catalogue.  I was drawn to the layers rather than the colours for this one, which I think are a bit dull for my liking.

Because I wanted to stay fairly true to the original I recreated mine closely in layout, but changed the main colour to Pretty Peacock with hints of gold.  I love how this card turned out and I realised that it is also a good reminder, that while we are sad to see products go, we get new products in their place ... I was beyond happy when Pretty Peacock returned as a core colour!

Because I love the layers so much I thought I'd show you a close up, you can see for the splatter effect I have used Wink of Stella which gives such a lovely sparkle across the whole card, but particularly where the larger splatters have landed.

 

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use your favourite project in the mini 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 Tina has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Chain Card Blog Hop - Tracy

At the beginning of October, Tracy started me on a fun journey with 10 other Australian demonstrators. We called it a "Chain Card Swap", a card version of what is called "Chinese Whispers" in Australia, also known as "Telephone" in the US and "Broken Telephone" in South Africa. Each of us designed a card (round 1) and sent it off to one of the other participants. That person CASE'd (Copy And Share Everything) the card and send their version on to the next person. Each card made its way around until finally a version came home to the maker. This was such a fun journey, and so interesting to see how the cards evolved with each round. We are going to have a blog hop for each of the card designs to share the fun and amazement at the evolution.

For our final post in this swap we have Tracy's beautiful floral gate-fold card as our starting off project. If you haven't started at her blog I would strongly encourage you to go to her blog now and follow the hop order in the link at the end of this post so you can see the progression of this lovely card.

My card came in at round 8, so a little bit down the creative path.  Similarities that remain are the central focal image, use of DSP and floral theme; and at a stretch a fancy fold!  I really love this card and the Perennial Lavender DSP I've used, I am so happy that this is actually carrying over into the  new Annual Catalogue so I'll get to keep using it for another year!

Time to keep hopping to see how my card was interpreted

Happy Stamping
Monique

Chain Card Swap Blog Hop - Sharni

At the beginning of October, Tracy started me on a fun journey with 10 other Australian demonstrators. We called it a "Chain Card Swap", a card version of what is called "Chinese Whispers" in Australia, also known as "Telephone" in the US and "Broken Telephone" in South Africa. Each of us designed a card (round 1) and sent it off to one of the other participants. That person CASE'd (Copy And Share Everything) the card and send their version on to the next person. Each card made its way around until finally a version came home to the maker. This was such a fun journey, and so interesting to see how the cards evolved with each round. We are going to have a blog hop for each of the card designs to share the fun and amazement at the evolution.

Sharni made the first card in this round, and I love the simplicity of this layout, clean elements. If you haven't started at her blog I would strongly encourage you to go to her blog now and follow the hop order in the link at the end of this post so you can see the progression of this lovely card.

My card was fourth in this chain, and you can see how the elements of Sharni's card have flowed through into my own. Unfortunately my card got a touch of moisture so the ink has run slightly since leaving my hands.  I just loved this specialty DSP and am hoping for something similar in this year's holiday mini, not that I'm ready for Christmas just yet!!!

Time to keep hopping to see how my card was interpreted

Happy Stamping
Monique

Chain Card Swap Blog Hop - Nancy

At the beginning of October, Tracy started me on a fun journey with 10 other Australian demonstrators. We called it a "Chain Card Swap", a card version of what is called "Chinese Whispers" in Australia, also known as "Telephone" in the US and "Broken Telephone" in South Africa. Each of us designed a card (round 1) and sent it off to one of the other participants. That person CASE'd (Copy And Share Everything) the card and send their version on to the next person. Each card made its way around until finally a version came home to the maker. This was such a fun journey, and so interesting to see how the cards evolved with each round. We are going to have a blog hop for each of the card designs to share the fun and amazement at the evolution.

Nancy made the first card in this round, if you haven't started at her blog I would strongly encourage you to go to her blog now and follow the hop order in the link at the end of this post so you can see the progression of this lovely card.

My card was the final card in this round and you can see that it had quite a change from the original, although it does resemble the card I was CASEing. I love all the texture on this card, from the embossed background to the layers of die-cut leaves, twine and embossed sentiment.  I think the monochromatic colour scheme really lets these other elements shine. 

If you didn't start with Nancy's card, hop on over to her blog and see the creative journey the chicken took from her to me.

Happy Stamping
Monique