CTC #577 - CASE Scenic Coast Colours

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 colours in the Scenic Coast DSP, these are Strawberry Slush, Crushed Curry, Balmy Blue, Blueberry Bushel, Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape.  These are some bold colours together and I wanted to find a way to show them off to good effect. 

I decided to "cheat" and include a sheet of the Scenic Coast DSP, but used it in a slightly different way, turning it on its side and trimming a strip off the bottom and re-attaching. By doing this it disguises the sunset/rise appearance of the DSP and creates an interesting background, I don't think you would know the left panel is supposed to be waves unless you had seen the original sheet. I went searching for a floral image that would allow me to use all of the colours and the Fragrant Layers was perfect, I used blending brushes to add Strawberry Slush and Crushed Curry to the small buds, and both shads of purple to the larger flowers, although it is difficult to tell with the distinctive style of the flowers. I stamped the outline in Blueberry Bushel and coloured the leaves Balmy Blue, because who says leaves can't be blue! I really loved how this looks even though not traditional leaf colours!

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the colours of the Scenic Coast 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 Peta has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #576 - CASE Your Favourite 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 our favourite DSPs in the new catalogue, for me this is the Moonlit Flora DSP pack, which I first got to play with at the Demonstrator On-Stage event back in March.

I was inspired by this card from page 37 of the Catalogue, I liked it general layout and use of die cut layers. 

I decided to use a new rising favourite DSP, Beautiful Ordinary Life which I first got to play with this weekend at another demo only event Creative Carnival. We also used the Garden Gatherings Bundle so while it was out I kept the theme of the retreat going and recreated elements from the original card using these products. I really like the layers of different die cut flours, vase and sentiment on the vellum circle.  

I finished off the inside of the card using an off-cut of the DSP panel on the front of the card inside the card to ground a stamped and die cut image from the bundle. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use projects using your favourite 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 lovely Peta has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #575 - CASE A Technique

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 many techniques shown in the samples in the current catalogue.  What is a technique? A specific method of creating your project a few examples would be embossing (dry or heat), sponging, tearing, and water or alcohol colouring just to name a few. Still not sure, hop around the design team to see more examples.

I was inspired by this card from page 42 of the current catalogue, it wasn't the colours that drew me in but rather the number of techniques used on the card. I've underlined and bolded the techniques in my version below.  

I changed up the colours to use the brighter Costal Cabana, Granny Apple Green and Crumb Cake for my version and love how they work together. I started creating the card by stamping onto the background panel, initially stamping off with the leaf image then the other image in full strength crumb cake.  I used my Aqua Painter to add a light ink splatters to the background, then after it was dry tore the edge of large post-it notes and used them to apply masks and blended colour in uneven strips and intensities in Granny Apple Green.  Deciding that was enough for the background I used die cutting to create the two layers of leaves, adding gold heat embossing to the second layer.  I also used heat embossing in white for the sentiment before fussy cutting out the sentiment and adhering using dimensionals.  I haven't yet decided if my version of the card needs additional embellishments, let me know in the comments what you think.

  

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

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #574 - CASE The Waterside Retreat 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 projects associated with the Waterside Retreat Suite in the current catalogue.

I was inspired by this card from page 21 of the catalogue, I liked the woodgrain background and collection of fussy cut images from the DSP. It was also a great way to use one of the trinkets from this suite which I often forget to do!

I decided to keep the idea of a woodgrain background, however swapped out the one from the Waterside Retreat DSP and instead used this colourful one from Country Woods DSP pack. I then chose the fussy cut images based on what I thought would coordinate with the colours in my background DSP.  I think if I made this card again I would use a blending brush to add just a hint of Crumb Cake behind the fussy cut images to create more of a shadow behind the so they'd pop a little more against the more colourful background.  The card was finished off with a pre-printed sentiment and some sequins and trinket for another No-Stamp card! 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use projects featuring the Waterside Retreat Suite products 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 wonderfully talented Julia has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #573 - CASE A Punch 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 punches. 

I was inspired by this card from the on-line store, it is one of the projects showcasing the 2" Circle Punch. I loved the simplicity of this design and the fun idea to emboss the punched images. 

For my version I used the Stylish Shapes Dies and Fern & Flora Bundle and Embossing Folder and am so happy with how this turned out.  Although I had some difficulty photographing a white on white card!

Here it is with the light coming from a different angle and it really shows the embossing much better. I used a three string linen thread bow and Dew Drop Embellishments to finish off this lovely card. 

  

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

Happy Stamping
Monique

Let's Craft Together Blog Hop - Black & White & Bright

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 create a project that is black, white and bright!  How exciting is this challenge!!!

I thought the easy way to approach this would be to use a black and white DSP, but I didn't have any so I put my thinking cap on and decided to pull out some of the cardstock in the brights collection. I then narrowed it down to a rainbow and used Poppy Parade, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lime Twist, and then I pulled a couple of colours from the subtles collection to finish it off with Balmy Blue and Highland Heather. I then cut 1cm strips of each and stuck them together in rainbow order, I turned it 90 degrees then cut 1cm strips (each colour is 1x1cm) then staggered them to create this fun rainbow background. I finished off my card with the very cute Floral Flight Accents which were just perfect for this challenge. I only adhered down the body of the butterfly so the wings lift off the card.  I used some Antique Pearls coloured with a black Sharpie pen, and added a sentiment from the Greetings For All Ephemera pack.  

Time to keep hopping to see the other wonderful projects the team have created for this blog hop.

Happy Stamping

Monique

CTC #572 - CASE A Bundle

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 using the stamp and die bundles in the new catalogue, you can find them on pages 36 to 42. There are lots of inspirational images on these pages so I am excited to see what the Design Team and participants create. 

I was inspired by this card from page 42, I liked the simplicity of the layout and where I usually am all about symmetry the main elements on my card, this one had the focal panel toward the lower half of the card so I wanted to give that a try.

I decided to use the Waterside Retreat DSP as my starting point and this cut out panel was just perfect, I did trim a little bit off the right hand side. I used the woodgrain piece behind the focal image, and because I wanted to use up scraps, this isn't one panel but rather two small strips, the important thing when doing this is to make sure the pattern lines up!  

I cut the other images of the life ring and vest from other sheets of the DSP and finished off with a sentiment from the coordinating Relaxing Waterside stamp set. I love the muted colours on this card it feels so calming.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the projects in the bundles section of the catalogeu 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 and talented  Julia has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #571 - CASE The Bloom Boutique 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 Bloom Boutique Suite, pages 16 - 19 of the catalogue. This is such a pretty suite using all of the new incolours!

I was inspired by this card from page 17 of the catalogue, I love the big scalloped circles and floral accents. 

I wanted to replicate the layout and bundle used in the original but also to change it up a little with the colour choice and a couple of different techniques.  The first one being that the floral and leaf images are stamped onto DSP using black ink, I love how the variations in the DSP colourings give them such a pretty look.  I also used some White Gel Pen on the edge of the larger scalloped circle to mirror the stitching on the inner layer, and if you look closely I have speckled the base card and the floral images with gel pen also to add some additional highlights and interest.  The ribbon is the Barely Blush ribbon coloured with Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie Blends to give it a variegated appearance to coordinate with the rest of the card. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the projects in the Bloom Boutique Suite 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