CTC #243 - CASE A Card And Make A 3D Project

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where utilse 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 our inspiration from the cards in the catalogue and turn them into a 3D item.  Now I love doing 3D projects so I was really excited about this challenge.

I chose this card from page 75 as my inspiration, I love the Beautiful Promenade stamp set and coordinating dies and knew this would make a great 3D project.

While I liked the original card, I wanted to make one with a softer feel to it, so decided to use one of the new treat bags as they are just wonderful for colouring as it is a beautiful matte and takes up colour beautifully. For this project I spritzed it with Petal Pink to give it a pretty soft look and am so happy with how it turned out. I then scored on three sides at 1", trimmed off the zigzag edged opening, and made a little treat bag that stands up.

Wanting the main panel to stand out a little I coloured the background of one of the Magnolia Lane DSP sheets with Bermuda Bay Blends. I played around with a few colours to find the right one, but as I love Bermuda Bay with copper I settled on this one, using the copper foil to cut the doily from. A little bit of soft colouring on the flower image takes some of the starkness out of it and fits well with the overall look.  

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the card samples in the annual catalogue to inspire a 3D project, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

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

Happy Stamping
Monique

ESAD - Holiday Catalogue Blog Hop

Welcome to another ESAD Bog Hop, this one we are showcasing some of the new products in the Holiday Catalogue which goes live on 4 September.  This catalogue has so many wonderful products for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween and New Years, and I am excited to see what everyone has made for this hop.

I was really quite well behaved in the pre-order and only bought a few products including Gleaming Christmas Bundle, Brightly Gleaming Speciality DSP and 1/2" Classic Weave Ribbon. I decided to make two quite different cards with these products.

My first card I stamped and punched just the little ornaments, one with copper embossing and two with Night of Navy. I did use a copper pen I have in my stash to draw in the "string" for each of them. A small strip of copper foil along side the DSP strip really helps pull out the beautiful copper in the DSP.  For the sentiment I actually cut off the "&" from the sentiment as I will use it slightly far more this way. 

My second card has a more regal look with a copper foil frame over some of the subtly patterned DSP.  I then stamped and punched two of the large ornaments, on in Navy and one in Mossy Meadow, then used my aqua painter to add the opposite colour to the details. I love how this turned out and used the same technique to add colour to the small copper embossed ornament.  The sentiment is cut from the 1/2" ribbon, this is such an easy way to add a sentiment with gold embossing to a card!

  

Well, that's it from me, I hope you are inspired by my projects. I am loving this bundle of products and can't wait to get more Christmas cards made using them. Now its time to hop on over to Maree's blog and see what she has created with the wonderful new products.

Blog hop participant list:

• Sharon Dalton
• Cathy Pinchbeck
• Tanya Rees
• Sandra Mastello
• Shannon Kissane
• Rochelle Blok
• Lou Kitzelman
• Nicole Wilson
• Bronwyn Eastley
• Peta Stephen
• Siobhan Fitzsimmons
• Libby Dyson
• Jo Weedon
• Cheryl Algie
• Rochelle Laird-Smith
• Denise Buetler
• Rebecca Scurr
• Kelly Kent
• Monique Fielder   ---   You are here
• Maree McIntosh
• Melissa Gifford
• Barbara Williams
• Angela Meiritz-Reid
• Jackie Aitken
• Lauren Meiklejohn

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #242 - CASE Woven Threads DSP

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where utilse 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 our inspiration from the Woven Threads DSP and images on page 12 of the Annual Catalogue.

Here is a better look at the colours in this DSP, along with Whisper White they are Pretty Peacock, Seaside Spray, Purple Posy, Terracotta Tile, Rococo Rose and Sahara Sand.

I was inspired by this image, I liked the simplicity of the layout and they way it let the DSP shine. 

Now, I have a bit of a funny story for this challenge, which I wasn't going to join in with because I haven't yet purchased any of the new In-Colours, waiting until Purple Posy is available. But then I remembered that I had bought some of the lovely Noble Peacock DSP and Foil so decided to use that to make my card.  As you can see I accidentally chose the Blueberry Bushel rather than the Pretty Peacock!  I really liked how the card turned out though, so went ahead and made another... with the right colour!

This is the one with Pretty Peacock, I love the bigger images on this speciality DSP, they were just perfect for adding the rhinestones that I had coloured with Dark Crumb Cake Blends to help them match the Sahara Sand sentiment and trim.

Let me know which one you like best.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the samples on page 12 and the colours in the Woven Threads 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 Judy has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CI #61 - A Little Bit of Vintage

Welcome to another Colour INKspiration challenge, where we match Stampin' Up! colours to the ones from an inspiration photo, and use them to create our projects.

I love the neutral colours in these photographs, so rustic and pretty. The colours from this image for the challenge are Grey Granite, Soft Suede, Whisper White and Mint Macaron. 

In keeping with the feminine theme of the inspiration photos I decided to do a vintage card suitable for a birthday or just to give to someone who might need some encouragement. I think it would also look quite pretty just in a frame as a piece of home decor.  I layered Mint Macaron under the lacy die cut and I love the contrast of this against the Soft Suede base. I sponged Soft Suede and Grey Granite over the lace to give it an aged look and snuck just a little bit more Grey Granite into my project by stamping the centre of the flower and the sentiments.

It took me a couple of tries to get the centre of the flower just right, here are the two options I tried before settling on the pearl.

Firstly I simply left the centre stamped in Grey Granite, and while this is a perfectly pretty card, I felt that it just needed a little something extra.

Next I tried a silver faceted gem but the silver didn't quite work as well with the rest of the card, so I hunted around in my stash until I found the large pearl which I finally settled on.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in with this challenge, as I mentioned at the start of my post you have three weeks to complete this one, so grab your inks and papers then post a picture of your project to the CI Facebook Page.

  

Time to hop on over and see what the lovely Nikki has created with the colours.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #241 - CASE a Layout

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where utilse 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 our inspiration from the projects on page 101 of the Annual Catalogue.

I was inspired by the card on the bottom left of the page, I was drawn to the background and the pocket style banner. My CASE this week is a fairly loose interpretation of the original, and I think that is one of my favourite things about CASEing, is that you can make a project very similar to the original or just have an overall similarity to the original, it is completely up to you.

As you can see while the pocket style banner inspired me, I ended up doing a traditional banner instead!  I also decided against cutting out lots of shapes for the background, instead using the knot pattern on the DSP to give the same look of alternating shapes. 

While I purchased the Sailing Home Bundle of stamp set and dies some time ago, I only just ordered the coordinating DSP and Memories & More card pack and opened them up just before making my project, so its not surprising I chose products from them to make my card.  There is actually no stamping on this card with the ship image coming from a trimmed down M&M card, and the sentiments being part of the sticker sheets from the same pack.  I love how this has come together and might just use this for my dad's upcoming 80th birthday. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the samples on page 101 to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

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

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #240 - Every Occasions

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where utilse 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 our inspiration from the Everyday Occasions section of the catalogue, pages 12 - 71.

I chose this cute card on page 42 as my inspiration, I just love this die and how pretty it looks on the front of a card, and how fancy it makes this card look even though it is fairly easy to create.

I kept with the overall theme of the original but used my faviourite Blackberry Bliss as the base, and swapped out the hearts for flowers from Bird Ballad.  I liked the sentiment on the bottom of the original but having changed the actual sentiment from the original I decided to pop it on a panel on the lacework.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the samples in the Everyday Occasions section of the 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 Mel has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique