CTC #596 - 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 techniques in the catalogue, or in my case I used a technique to replicate my inspiration card. 

I was inspired by this card from page 50 of the catalogue, I love the big JOY as the feature of the card and thought it would be fun to use a gel pen technique to replicate the stamped patterns on the three letters. 

I started with Secret Sea cardstock and my white gel pen, I initially cut the letters out first and then added the details with my gel pen, however for the J I found it easier to re-do this one creating the scallop lines on a piece of cardstock before cutting out the letter.  I wasn't able to recreate the small dash pattern on the Y so instead did a smaller dot pattern.  I love how well our gel pen works and how smoothly the ink runs allowing me to achieve this outcome. I didn't have a wreath die, so instead used patterned DSP from Creative Celebrations Mix & Match 6x6 DSP pack, which I think worked really well with my card.  I added a layer of Peaceful Pine Pearlized Specialty DSP on the base of the card and used some retired embellishments from last year as I really wanted some sparkle and to add some more red to the card. 

  

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

  

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

Happy Stamping
Monique