Bright & Cheerful Garden Gatherings

It has been a while since I joined a challenge that I haven't been on the design team for, but today I went looking for some inspiration and decided to join the TGIF Colour Challenge paired with the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge.  Check them out if you haven't visited before, there are some great inspiration projects.

I thought the simple floral image from Garden Gatherings would be great for this even though neither Coastal Cabana or Lemon Lime Twist are traditionally the colour of flowers, they do go really well together.  The DSP is from Modern Christmas which adds a touch of gold to the black and white sheets; I did add some LLT ink to the background to soften the starkness of the DSP.  The sentiment is from Lily Of The Valley which is so pretty just fully cut out and added on dimensionals.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #577 - CASE Scenic Coast 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 colours in the Scenic Coast DSP, these are Strawberry Slush, Crushed Curry, Balmy Blue, Blueberry Bushel, Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape.  These are some bold colours together and I wanted to find a way to show them off to good effect. 

I decided to "cheat" and include a sheet of the Scenic Coast DSP, but used it in a slightly different way, turning it on its side and trimming a strip off the bottom and re-attaching. By doing this it disguises the sunset/rise appearance of the DSP and creates an interesting background, I don't think you would know the left panel is supposed to be waves unless you had seen the original sheet. I went searching for a floral image that would allow me to use all of the colours and the Fragrant Layers was perfect, I used blending brushes to add Strawberry Slush and Crushed Curry to the small buds, and both shads of purple to the larger flowers, although it is difficult to tell with the distinctive style of the flowers. I stamped the outline in Blueberry Bushel and coloured the leaves Balmy Blue, because who says leaves can't be blue! I really loved how this looks even though not traditional leaf colours!

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the colours of the Scenic Coast 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 Peta has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #576 - CASE Your Favourite 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 our favourite DSPs in the new catalogue, for me this is the Moonlit Flora DSP pack, which I first got to play with at the Demonstrator On-Stage event back in March.

I was inspired by this card from page 37 of the Catalogue, I liked it general layout and use of die cut layers. 

I decided to use a new rising favourite DSP, Beautiful Ordinary Life which I first got to play with this weekend at another demo only event Creative Carnival. We also used the Garden Gatherings Bundle so while it was out I kept the theme of the retreat going and recreated elements from the original card using these products. I really like the layers of different die cut flours, vase and sentiment on the vellum circle.  

I finished off the inside of the card using an off-cut of the DSP panel on the front of the card inside the card to ground a stamped and die cut image from the bundle. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use projects using your favourite 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 the lovely Peta has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique