CTC #536 - CASE The Mini Catalogue

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 brand new September to December Mini Catalogue, released on 3 September. 

I was inspired by this card from page 49 of the mini catalogue, I am not sure what it was that caught my eye with this one as I don't usually make shaker cards. It might just have been the cute little squirrel!

I CASE'd the basics of the original card, but used products from the stunning Ornamental Christmas suite. This suite includes gorgeous gold embossed DSP, coordinating dies and stamps as well as shaker stars and gold hoops, and two spools of bakers twine.  I love this pattern from the DSP pack as it has mini images that match the stamp and die bundle. I embossed these with gold embossing powder to keep with the gold theme.

To create the shaker I cut a square from the DSP using the stylish shapes dies, flipping over the cut out piece to show the gold embossed star pattern on the back, and popped it into cello bag. The bag was a bit big so I folded it over and secured with tape  before adding the cute little Gold Shaker Stars (also from the new catalogue). 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the projects in the new September to December Mini 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 Kathryn has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Let's Craft Together - Craft With What You've Got

Welcome to the monthly Blog Hop by Let’s Craft Together and thank you for joining us. We are a group of multi-cultural Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators in Australia who have developed a strong friendship though our love of stamping and our admiration of each other’s style of crafting.

The challenge this month is to create a project with a mash-up of current products and things from your stash that might even be retired. 

Apart from DSP, the things I have most of in my retired items stash are embellishments and they often coordinate really well with current products. For my project I have also used a retired embossing folder for the background and paired these retired items with brand new products from the upcoming September to December (Holiday Mini) catalogue. The new products are mostly from a suite called Traditions of Christmas Suite Collection which has stunning DSP, two stamp and die bundles as well as embellishments and ribbon!  The catalogue goes live on 5 September and there will be a link on my side bar. I love that this suite uses traditional Christmas colours, but also brings in blues and pinks, and adds non-traditional flowers to the stamped and DSP images. 

Time to hop on over and see how the rest of the team have met the Craft With What You've Got brief for this challenge. 

Happy Stamping

Monique

CTC 535 - CASE The Annual Catalogue

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 2025 Annual Catalogue, which gives us a lot of projects to choose from. 

I was inspired by this card from page 53 of the Annual Catalogue, a card using the Beautiful Gallery Suite Collection.

I kept to the original layout and used the Branching Out Dies (a sneak peek from the new Holiday catalogue) to create the frame. I added some ink around the edge to give an aged look. I have to be honest that while I love the look of the Beautiful Gallery DSP, I have been a bit challenged to use it, but I love how this pattern looks as 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 Andrea has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #534 - CASE A Punch or Die 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 projects featuring dies or punches. 

I was inspired by this card sample that is part of the online exclusives from the online store.

I have recently ordered the Sweet Jar Builder punch and the Jar of Joy Christmas themed coordinating stamp set, so wanted to replicate the original card. I mixed old with new for this card, choosing carrying over Seasons of Elegance DSP and adding in the gorgeous new Traditional Sparkling Sequins and Black & White & Gold Bakers Twine.  These new products are coming out at the beginning of September from the Holiday Mini catalogue and online exclusives. I did change up the colour of my gingerbread as I like mine quite dark so used Pecan Pie and Early Espresso on the two step stamping. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use punch or die projects 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 #533 - CASE A Returning Favourite

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 returning favourites in the Annual catalogue, you can find these throughout the catalogue or in particular the returning stamps and dies can be found on pages 98-101. While there aren't samples in these pages there are lots of ideas in the on-line store to inspire your creation for this challenge.

I was inspired by this card from the on-line store here. I love this bundle and was so happy to see it as part of the returning favourites in the current Annual Catalogue.

You can see my card is almost identical to the original, but I did want to change up the colours and make them bolder and I have certainly achieved that goal!  I chose a sheet of the Floral Charm DSP, stamping the floral images onto it in Bubble Bath to achieve a very subtle pattern.  The Main floral image is stamped in Berry Burst and Blackberry Bliss, with the leaves in Granny Apple Green to add a bright pop. It was a great opportunity to add some Brushed Brass Butterflies.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use a sample featuring a returning favourite 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 532 - CASE A Project Featuring Animals

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 projects featuring animals. 

I was inspired by this card from page 48 of the Annual Catalogue, I liked the layers and little panels on this card, and even though I don't have the Turtley Cute Suite Collection I thought it would be fun to recreate in florals. 

I kept with the same general layout as the original, as I often do, but changed up the DSP and stamps, and chose a colour scheme that really isn't my usual combo.  I started with Florals in Bloom DSP and chose two of the greens featured in this, Summer Splash and Shy Shamrock.  While I stamped and coloured the leaves in shades of green I wanted a pop of colour, so stamped the floral image in Petunia Pop and coloured with a variety of Watercolour Pencils. The cute little sentiment is from Blooming Phrases and seemed to tie in beautifully with the botanicals on the card panels. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the projects that feature animals 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

Let's Craft Together - Masculine Birthday

Welcome to the monthly Blog Hop by Let’s Craft Together and thank you for joining us. We are a group of multi-cultural Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators in Australia who have developed a strong friendship though our love of stamping and our admiration of each other’s style of crafting.

The challenge this month is to create a masculine birthday card. I have a lot of birthdays in the family that are celebrated in the last half of the year so this was a perfect theme for me.

I have been wanting to use the Beautiful Gallery 6" x 6" DSP pack more and this seemed like the perfect opportunity.  I wanted to make a book fold card, and cut my DSP pieces with this in mind, then sadly couldn't find my A4 Secret Sea cardstock so did a little pivot and created a similar layout on a top opening card. I cut the front panel at 4cm up to the centre fold and then adhered that piece to the base.

The remaining 10.5cm x 10.5cm panel is left as the opening of the card as you can see in this picture. I had wanted to run some linen thread around the card under the sentiment, but unfortunately my linen thread has run off with my Secret Sea cardstock and both are AWOL.

Time to keep hopping around to see what other masculine birthday themed cards the team have come up with this month.

Happy Stamping

Monique

CTC #527 - CASE A Project Featuring 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 projects featuring DSP from the Annual Catalogue, and boy do we have some beautiful DSP in this catty!

I was inspired by this card from page 58 of the Annual Catalogue, part of the Kintsugi Inspirations Suite. I loved the simplicity of this layout and almost chose it for the Kintsugi Inspirations CASE challenge!

I used the Floral Impressions DSP as the basis for this card, as it has such pretty papers, and the best part is the "b" side of each sheet has a small colour on colour print that coordinates beautifully with the "a" side. So it was easy to choose patterns for this card.  Then it was easy to stamp flowers in coordinating colours using Impressions in Bloom stamp set.  In a nod to the original card I cut the sentiment using the Kintsugi Inspiration label. I finished off with 2025-2027 In-Colour Flat Pearls and a couple of thin strips of Gold Foil Sheets. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use projects featuring 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 talented Peta has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Let's Craft Together Blog Hop - Rustic Style

Welcome to the monthly Blog Hop by Let’s Craft Together and thank you for joining us. We are a group of multi-cultural Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators in Australia who have developed a strong friendship though our love of stamping and our admiration of each other’s style of crafting.

The challenge this month is to make a card in the Rustic style, which tends to be characterised by natural, organic, distressed or aged elements. I always reach for earthy tones for rustic cards and often distress the edges or crumple elements on the card. 

For this challenge I thought the Country Woods DSP pack would be great to have as my starting point. I decided to create a frame by using my trimmer to cut a rectangle from the centre and raising it on Dimensionals.  The flower images are stamped in Saddle Brown StazOn ink and coloured with my Blender Pen picking up small amounts of Pecan Pie for the petals, and Crumb Cake for the leaves. I purposefully kept the embellishments to a minimum, only using two of the Loose Frosted Dots coloured with Dark Crumb Cake Blends. 

Time to hop onto the next blog in the list below and see what the rest of the team have created for this Rustic Style Challenge. 

Happy Stamping 

Monique

CTC #525 - CASE Kintsugi Inspirations

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 Kintsugi Inspirations Suite on pages 58 to 60 of the Annual Catalogue.  I loved this suite based on the Japanese tradition of repairing broken pots with gold, part of a philosophy that views breaking and repair as part of one's history, celebrating imperfections and recognising resilience. I have loved this concept since I first learned of it many years ago, so was thrilled to see this suite in the catalogue. 

I chose this card from page 60, I love the simplicity but also the way it allows showcasing of different DSP panels. 

This morning I had a chat with a fellow demonstrator this morning, the lovely Jo Weedon, and we discussed that sometimes we get caught up thinking that products should only be used with the other products they coordinate with in the catalogue, and that in doing so our creativity can be impeded. So my additional challenge for this card was to create one in which I purposefully used products from very different suites. I used the dies, sentiment and design from Kintsugi Inspirations, but the DSP and floral stamped images from a new suite that is coming out as an online exclusive next month, the Floral Charm Suite.  I love how it turned out, thanks Jo!

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the projects on pages 58-60 of 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 Peta has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique