Sunday, March 11, 2018

CTC #169 - Sale-A-Bration

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where we take one of the lovely projects in a current Stampin' Up! catalogue and use it as inspiration in a project of our own.  The inspiration might come from the colour combination, layout or sketch, or some other feature.

This week we are looking at the current Sale-A-Bration catalogues, including the second release flyer.  This is the final month to earn Sale-A-Bration item for free before most of them are gone for good.

I took inspiration from the image on the 3rd page of the second release brochure. I have been quite drawn to these with my last Sale-A-Bration CASE coming from this set of cards too (the pink one), but this time I was drawn by the Rich Razzleberry and Pool Party combo of the bottom left card.

Much like my last challenge card I flipped the colours around so that I have Rich Razzleberry as the card base and accent, and Pool Party on the stitched circle Framelit piece. Instead of fussy cutting the leaves from DSP I cut them using the Petal Passion Bundle from the current Occasions Catalogue, choosing to use gold to bring out the small leaves on the DSP.  


I wanted to draw your attention to the sentiment for a moment, I have double cut it with another Framelit from the Petals & More Thinlit Dies, by this I mean that I cut it once then moved the Die along to make the window for the sentiment a bit shorter and a better fit.  The other thing I did with this was to cut three of the flourishy pieces, trimming one down to extend just beyond the sentiment, you can do this the same way by re-positioning the cut piece in the Framelit to cut a piece off.  I then added two more pieces to widen the piece so it created a border around the sentiment. I was totally surprised to find how well the layers lined up - zoom in on this picture and you can see where I have done the layering.  I was in a bit of a rush to make this card, so didn't take pictures of the steps, but will be doing this again soon as I  love the look and will do some step by step pictures then. 

I hope you are inspired to join in this week, just take your inspiration from one of the SAB catalogues and upload a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page

   
Time to hop on over and see what Rebecca has been inspired to create this week.


Happy Stamping
Monique



8 comments:

  1. Looks lovely. Love the touch of bling.

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  2. Wow, that's an amazing treatment for the greeting - and it looks wonderful!!! Thank you for the hints and tricks!! This is an awesome case.

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  3. Such a gorgeous Thank-you card! xxx

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  4. Because you explained it, I understood how to do this, the shorting of the banner. I just wouldn't have thought of it myself! Thank you so much for sharing!

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  5. Lovely colour combo - the gold really lifts it too!

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  6. snap! lovely card and great tip Monique.

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  7. Monique great use of this dsp and to highlight the gold was amazing.

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  8. Wow! How awesome is that sentiment framed with the Petals & More framelit. Awesome idea Monique!

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