CASE-ing the Catty #7 - Home Decor

Time for another CASE-ing the Catty Challenge, this week is all about taking inspiration from the Home Decor section of the catalogue starting at page 94.  You don't have to make a Home Decor item, just use the images in that section as an inspiration for your project.

  Challenge Guidelines:

• Create a new project for this challenge
• Mention CASE-ing the Catty in your blog post and link back to the challenge page 
• Make note in your post of which project from the catalogue gave you inspiration for your project
• Use Stampin' Up! only products (current or retired) in your project
• Have fun and inspire others

I chose to make a card this week, taking inspiration from the canvas with the beautiful big Swallowtail butterflies on page 94. I like the colour duo of Hello Honey and Smokey Slate, and so kept this in my design.

The middle butterfly I stamped in Smokey Slate and then stamped onto Vellum, then before allowing it to dry added a mix of Dazzling Details and Clear Embossing Powder to emboss.  The vellum was punched out and added to the card panel.  I used the darkest of the Daffodil Delight Blendabilities to colour pearls and rhinestones for the bodies of the butterflies.

I hope this has helped inspire you to give the challenge a go, just pick something from the Home Decor section and link up to CASE-ing the Catty Blog.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CASE-ing The Catty Week 6 - Kids

Time for another CASE-ing the Catty Challenge, well actually I am a little late putting up my post for the challenge!  I thought I had done it mid-week only to find it had slipped my mind!  This week we are focusing on the "Kids" section f the catalogue starting at page 82.

 Challenge Guidelines:

• Create a new project for this challenge
• Mention CASE-ing the Catty in your blog post and link back to the challenge page 
• Make note in your post of which project from the catalogue gave you inspiration for your project
• Use Stampin' Up! only products (current or retired) in your project
• Have fun and inspire others

I don't make a lot of kids cards, so thought this might be a bit of a challenge (no pun intended) for me this week, then I realised that I didn't have to make a kids card, just be inspired by one that was in the catalogue.  I chose the sketch from page 86, also keeping to similar colours.  I added some Silver Glimmer Paper, secured with a cute little staple using the Handheld Stapler that is coming in the Holiday Catalogue.  I also added some silver stars to give some added bling!  The cake is from Sketched Birthday, and the sentiment from Age Awareness.

It would be really easy to change up the colours and give this layout a more masculine feel.

I hope I have helped inspire you to join in this week, if you need a bit more inspiration pop over to CASE-ing the Catty and see what the other design team members have created.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Cover Up

Don't you just hate it when you have a card all planned out, cut out, elements ready to go and the last bit of stamping you do has the shadow edge of the rubber stamp onto your card - I know I do.  Well that happened to me making a cute Christmas card. 

I had already adhered the DSP layer on the flip card, and so didn't want to just waste the whole card and start over.  I have to say usually I trim down the rubber around all my stamp images before mounting, but with Clear Mount, which Bright & Beautiful star is from, I don't worry unless I have a problem.

The easy solution - add a sentiment banner to the card to cover the mistake!  I love this little santa from Get Your Santa On from the new Holiday Catalogue that goes live on 28th August. I coloured him in Cherry Cobbler Blendabilities and used Dazzling Details on the trim of his suit. The DSP is also from the same catalogue.  The glimmer paper is the new Silver Glimmer Paper and has much more of a silver look to it that the one recently retired.  The exciting thing about the upcoming Holiday Catalogue is that for the first time ever it goes live in all the parts of the world where Stampin' Up! are active - no longer do the US get it a month before us!  Of course as demonstrators we get a sneak peek order from the catalogue a month early.

Happy Stamping
Monique