CTC #326 - CASE A Layout and Step It Up

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 our inspiration from the projects in the Annual Catalogue with a twist, and that is to step them up in some way. Stepping up a project just means to add some extra features to the card, such as layers, embellisments, ribbon, techniques etc.  It doesn't have to be fancy or over the top, just adding a couple of simple extra elements steps it up from the original.

 

I was inspired by this image from page 36 of the Annual Catalogue, I liked the feature boxes on the front.

My project is stepped up with some DSP panels layered on die cut scalloped rectangles and the sentiment also die cut.  The edges of all of these panels are also sponged which is a great technique for helping layers to stand out.  I also used a panel of DSP instead of just stamped images on the card base like the original.  My last bit of stepping up was to add some Genial Gems for a bit of sparkle.  Any one of these would have been stepping up the card, I just decided to step up in a few different ways.

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the samples in the new 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 Julia has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique