CTC #556 - CASE The Made With Love Suite

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 Made With Love Suite from the January to April Mini. I was initially a bit stumped as I don't have any of the products from this suite, but then I remembered that we are just taking inspiration from the projects so took a second look and picked one to CASE. 

I was inspired by this card from page 30 of the Mini Catalogue, I am not sure what it was that drew me in, but I decided to take it in a completely different direction from love hearts in pinks and reds. 

Instead, for my card I use the Nature Walk DSP as the starting off point, and used three of the different sized circles from Stylish Shapes dies instead of the hearts. I am so happy with how it turned out, I love this DSP and while I was initially going to have a Soft Seafoam base card, I decided the circles looked better on the Pretty Peacock background. I finished off with Moody Palette Glossy Dots from the current Online Exclusives, and a sentiment from Greenery Lane.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the Made With Love Suite 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 Judy has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Let's Craft Together Blog Hop - Make It Red

Welcome to the monthly Let's Craft Together Blog Hop, thanks for joining us. We are a group of multi-cultural Stampin' Up! Demonstrators in Australia who have developed a strong friendship through our love of stamping and our admiration of each other's style of crafting. 

Welcome to the monthly Let's Craft Together Blog Hop, thanks for joining us. We are a group of multi-cultural Stampin' Up! Demonstrators in Australia who have developed a strong friendship through our love of stamping and our admiration of each other's style of crafting. 

The challenge this month is to make a project using shades of red which seems appropriate with Valentine's Day around the corner!  Though it doesn't have to be a Valentine's card at all, let your imagination run wild. 

I have to say red isn't a colour I use often, so it was a little bit of a challenge, but then I pulled out the beautiful big flower stamp from Simply Beautiful and using my new Stamping Positioner stamped in Grey Granite onto water colour paper.  I then added colour with water colour pencils and used my Aqua Painter to activate the water colour and create depth.  This was such a calming process as I love colouring with pencils.  I then waited until it was completely dry before putting back into my stamp positioner and stamping in versa-mark and then using gold embossing powder to bring out the lines.  I find this works better than embossing before colouring.   The sentiment is from Greenery Lane from the Jan to Apr Mini Catalogue, as are the Beautifully Celebrated Dies used to cut the two layers. 

Time to hop on over and see what the rest of the team have created using this Make It Red theme. 

Happy Stamping

Monique

CTC #555 - CASE A Sketch

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 sketches on page 17 of the Mini Catalogue. 

Here is a a picture of all of the sketches, you can use any of them to create a tag, card, scrap page or even 3D item. Feel free to shake it up and use a tag sketch to make a card, or any thing you like!

I chose this sketch from the sketches on page 17, I liked the simplicity of it and thought it would be a great way to show off some of the new products I recently ordered. 

I kept my card really simple for this challenge, wanting the sketch to shine.  I realise that I didn't even add any embellishments, but I think with all that is going on with the floral panel additional distraction wasn't needed.  I used my new Lovely Arrangements Bundle for the sentiment and die cut, and cut a little slit in each side with a small punch from my stash, but you could use a precision blade or even trimmer to cut this for the ribbon.  The ribbon, like the DSP, is part of the Lovely Blossoms Collection that was in the January On-line Exclusive release. It is Cloud Cover Textured 5/8" Ribbon an is so lovely and soft, just perfect for this project, and although I didn't create a bow on this card it is soft enough to tie a pretty bow. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the sketches on page 17 to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

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

Happy Stamping
Monique

Product of the Month Collaboration - Fabulous Sayings

Welcome to the January 2026 Product of the Month (POM) Blog Hop!  If you've followed my blog for  while you will know that in previous years we have had a period of Sale-A-Bration (SAB) at the start of each year. Well Stampin' Up! have implemented a new initiative instead of SAB, and that is Product of the Month. For POM there is a new product released every month that can be earned for a greatly reduced cost, $9 in Australia, with the purchase of $125 in product.   So a group of demonstrators decided to help showcase these products we would run a blog hop each month to give ideas.

The Product of the Month (POM) for January is an amazing stamp set containing 10 sentiments, in the words of SU "This versatile stamping set features all-occasion sentiment stamps for birthdays, thank-you notes, love, friendship, and support cards. The mix of a handwritten script with a classic serif font pair beautifully with a wide range of card making and paper crafting styles."  You can check out some great samples in the SU on-line store here. 

I love the fonts used for this stamp set, and think this set will be a favourite of mine for some time to come. The sentiments are quite large, and you can see with the Happy Birthday they are great for cards like this one, where a piece of torn DSP and he sentiment stamped in a coordinating colour is all you need for a beautiful card. This is a great design if you need to make some quick and easy cards either at an event or to send out to friends and family.  The DSP is from the new Lovely & Beautiful pack featured in the Jan to Apr Mini Catalogue, I chose to add some Brushed Brass Butterflies which are still available in the on-line store, to finish the card. 

Time to keep on hopping and see what the rest of the team have created with this versatile stamp set, follow the links at the end of each blog post to make your way around the hop.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #553 - CASE The January Online Exclusives

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 images from the On-Line Exclusives. This is a great opportunity to check out some of these products and what the Stampin' Up! design team have created with them.

I was inspired by this card from the Lovely Arrangements Bundle, I liked the overall layout of the design, but was also taken with the use of the die cutting on the front panel. I don't often think of using die cuts in this way and wanted to have a go at my own version.

I kept with the layout and floral theme, but changed up the DSP, colours and the choice of cut out die/Here is my card. I used Nature's Symphony dies to cut the background and love how the Lost Lagoon peeks through the Pretty Peacock panel. These dies coordinate with the Nature Walk DSP so I chose one of the patterns from this pack as the basis of the colour scheme for my card, adding some of the gorgeous floral images from Beautifully Adorned Ephemera Pack. Given these lovely botanical images I had to add embellishments from the Flower Accents to match the gold.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the project samples in the on-line store for the on-line exclusives (you can find a link on my side bar) 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 Julia has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC#552 - 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 newly released January to April Mini Catalogue. 

I was inspired by this card from page 56 of the Mini Catalogue. I love the layout of this card, and while I think the colour combination is interesting, I thought I would like to play around with the colours and make a more natural toned card. 

For the basis of my card I chose one of the sheets from the Nature Walk DSP with lovely earthy tones and pretty cursive script.  From here I chose another pieces from the same DSP pack to cut out two of the leaf dies from the Greenery Lane Bundle which gave them a lovely mottled green look.  I chose other foliage stamps from the same bundle to create the rest of the collage as well as the sentiment.  I finished off my card with some of the Brushed Brass Butterflies for a little sparkle. Let me know what you think of my version of this Mini Catalogue card. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the projects in the new January to April 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 the lovely Rochelle has been inspired to created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #551 - Farewell To 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 projects in the September to December Mini Catalogue as a farewell to some wonderful products. 

I was inspired by this card from page 16 of the Mini Catalogue, mostly because this was a stamp that caught my eye on my very first look at the catalogue. Having said that I do have a confession that before this challenge I had not inked it up even once! So it was a clear choice for this challenge. 

Having such a large stamp it stands on its own with confidence, not needing a lot of embellishments added to create the wow factor. I stamped in Secret Sea on DSP from the Peaceful Garden pack, which I loved because it is such a subtle pattern that lets the sentiment shine. I couldn't help using one of my favourite products from this mini catalogue the gorgeous Traditional Sparkling Sequins, and to tie them in I mounted my DSP and Secret Sea layer on a Pool Party card base. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the projects in the Holiday 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 Judy has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Let's Craft Together Blog Hop - Monochromatic

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.

This month we are creating monochromatic projects, as defined as "containing or using only one colour", although this does allow shades of that colour to be used. 

Here is my card, my base colour being Blackberry Bliss, with the addition of Berry Burst which I always think of as a lighter shade. I stamped the flower and sentiment using the new Simply Beautiful stamp set, colouring the flower with my water colour pencils to lighten some areas even further and deepen others. 

Time to follow the hop along to see what the other design team members have created. The next in the hop is the lovely and talented Carolina you can find her blog link in the list below.

Happy Stamping

Monique