CTC #568 - CASE Your Favourite Annual Catalogue Stamp Set

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 stamp set in the soon to be discontinued Annual Catalogue.  As always its a bitter sweet time coming to the end of a catalogue, and more so this time as this will be our last annual catalogue, as Stampin' Up! transitions to a single catalogue three times a year.

I was inspired by this project from page 53, created with the Gallery Blooms Suite, one which caught my eye the very first time I looked at this catalogue.  I just love this floral spray and I think it and the other floral stamp from this are my most used stamps over the last year so it was an easy choice for this challenge. 

I wanted to keep to the original sketch, but made it using a more traditional card base, layered with the leafy paper from Moonlit Flora DSP pack from the new catalogue.  The frame was cut from Natural Hues Textured DSP which adds some lovely texture without any additional embossing.  The sentiment is another from Greetings For All Ephemera Pack which I am so happy is carrying over into the new catalogue, this is such a go-to set of sentiments and would have to be my second favourite product this past year.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the projects in the Annual Catalogue that feature your favourite (or any) stamps 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 very talented Andrea has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #567 - CASE Your Favourite Annual 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 any of the projects in the Annual Catalogue, which is our way of saying goodbye to the concept of Annual Catalogues as from May 2026, Stampin' Up! will be releasing three stand alone catalogues each year as well as Online Exclusives. This is a simpler approach to having an Annual Catalogue that overlaps with seasonal mini catalogues throughout the year. Let me know if you would like a copy of the new May to August Catalogue, alternatively I will be posting a link to a pdf version from 5 May.

I was inspired by this card from page 37 of the Annual Catalogue, I think I often overlooked this image because I generally am not drawn to orange, but I liked the simple layout with the gold edged tag.

For my card I chose the lovely new Peaceful Pines card base, this is one of the new In-Colours that will be available in the catalogue available from 5 May.  I cut the bicycle from a sheet of the new Waterside Retreat DSP also in the new catalogue, the seagulls and water reeds are from the April Paper Pumpkin stamp set. I preferred the tag with some colour so added some Peaceful Pine and Cloud Cover to give more sense of a background. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the projects in the Annual 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 the lovely and talented Rochelle has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Card Swap Chain Series 5 - CASE-ing Sharni

Back in November 2025 we started the fifth series of the Card Swap Chain, arranged by the lovely Tracy Held. The idea is the we each made a card and sent it to another person in the chain. That person would CASE (Copy and Share Everything or Copy and Selectively Edit) the card and send it to the next person who would in turn CASE it and send it on. There are 10 of us in this chain so definitely opportunity for a few variations to sneak in between the first and last card, and these blog hops take you on the journey through the CASEing process. 

Sharni's Card

This chain started with Sharni's pretty purple card with this fun split layout. I love the monochromatic colour scheme of her card, and purple is one of my favourite colours.  If you didn't begin this hop with the first blog, I would recommend you pop back there to start the hop and learn a bit more about the original card.  

I was seventh in this chain and it is great to see that the overall sketch of the card is still very recognisable, the additional layers of cardstock are missing but even the floral theme and very similar colours although I have added blue tones. I love this Floral Charm DSP and am so glad that it is still available in the online store. The flowers are from Lovely Arrangement stamp set and cut with the coordinating dies, the sentiment is from the same stamp set and fussy cut out. I love how the multi layered bow of Linen Thread looks, I choose four pieces of thread and made a bow from them in one go, then attached with a glue dot. 

Time to keep hopping to see how this card was interpreted for the rest of the chain, and if it is still recognisable by the end of the chain What elements do you think made it all the way down the line?

Happy Stamping

Monique