CTC #556 - CASE The Made With Love 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 Made With Love Suite from the January to April Mini. I was initially a bit stumped as I don't have any of the products from this suite, but then I remembered that we are just taking inspiration from the projects so took a second look and picked one to CASE. 

I was inspired by this card from page 30 of the Mini Catalogue, I am not sure what it was that drew me in, but I decided to take it in a completely different direction from love hearts in pinks and reds. 

Instead, for my card I use the Nature Walk DSP as the starting off point, and used three of the different sized circles from Stylish Shapes dies instead of the hearts. I am so happy with how it turned out, I love this DSP and while I was initially going to have a Soft Seafoam base card, I decided the circles looked better on the Pretty Peacock background. I finished off with Moody Palette Glossy Dots from the current Online Exclusives, and a sentiment from Greenery Lane.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the Made With Love Suite projects 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

Let's Craft Together Blog Hop - Make It Red

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. 

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 make a project using shades of red which seems appropriate with Valentine's Day around the corner!  Though it doesn't have to be a Valentine's card at all, let your imagination run wild. 

I have to say red isn't a colour I use often, so it was a little bit of a challenge, but then I pulled out the beautiful big flower stamp from Simply Beautiful and using my new Stamping Positioner stamped in Grey Granite onto water colour paper.  I then added colour with water colour pencils and used my Aqua Painter to activate the water colour and create depth.  This was such a calming process as I love colouring with pencils.  I then waited until it was completely dry before putting back into my stamp positioner and stamping in versa-mark and then using gold embossing powder to bring out the lines.  I find this works better than embossing before colouring.   The sentiment is from Greenery Lane from the Jan to Apr Mini Catalogue, as are the Beautifully Celebrated Dies used to cut the two layers. 

Time to hop on over and see what the rest of the team have created using this Make It Red theme. 

Happy Stamping

Monique

CTC #555 - CASE A 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 sketches on page 17 of the Mini Catalogue. 

Here is a a picture of all of the sketches, you can use any of them to create a tag, card, scrap page or even 3D item. Feel free to shake it up and use a tag sketch to make a card, or any thing you like!

I chose this sketch from the sketches on page 17, I liked the simplicity of it and thought it would be a great way to show off some of the new products I recently ordered. 

I kept my card really simple for this challenge, wanting the sketch to shine.  I realise that I didn't even add any embellishments, but I think with all that is going on with the floral panel additional distraction wasn't needed.  I used my new Lovely Arrangements Bundle for the sentiment and die cut, and cut a little slit in each side with a small punch from my stash, but you could use a precision blade or even trimmer to cut this for the ribbon.  The ribbon, like the DSP, is part of the Lovely Blossoms Collection that was in the January On-line Exclusive release. It is Cloud Cover Textured 5/8" Ribbon an is so lovely and soft, just perfect for this project, and although I didn't create a bow on this card it is soft enough to tie a pretty bow. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the sketches on page 17 to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

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

Happy Stamping
Monique