CTC #269 - Favourite Retiring Bundle - Week 2

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 our inspiration from the retiring bundles in both catalogues. I was inspired for this week's project by the Peaceful Moments Bundle from the Occasions Catalogue.  

In particular it was this little gift back that caught my eye, I love the simplicity of the design and used it as the starting point for my project this week. You can find it on page 27 of the Occasions Catalogue.

I decided to make a card instead of a gift bag and used a layer of the coordinating DSP which is sadly one of the lovely products which is retiring. I love the water colour feel to this DSP and will very much miss its rich colours. I did want to mute them a little so the large poppy stood out, so like my inspiration project I added a layer of vellum keeping it slightly smaller than the DSP layer to create a border.  The inside of the poppy was coloured by sponging Blackberry Bliss onto Whisper White and then cutting it out with the dies and layering the Blackberry Bliss layer over the top. I love the centre of this flower and the texture that the two layers of die cuts and Perennial Essence Floral Centre creates. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the retiring bundles 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 #269 - CASE A Favourite Retiring Bundle - Week 1

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 our inspiration from one of the retiring bundles, you can find them easily on the On-Line store, but really any bundle from either the Annual or Occasions Catalogues is officially retiring as even if the individual items remain current they are only sold as a bundle for one catalogue.

My favourite bundle has been Bird Ballad ever since I first laid eyes on it, so the choice of bundle was easy.  The project to CASE using the bundle was a bit trickier as there are so many that I really like. I decided to go with this one from page 91 of the Annual Catalogue. I love how pretty it looks, and really how simple the layout is.

I used the Stitched Lace Die to cut a Petal Pink panel for the front of the card, then stamped the pretty flowers from Free As A Bird Stamp Set in Crused Cury, Petal Pink and Granny Apple Green.  I think I like my colour combo more than the original, what do you think?

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the samples that feature your favourite retiring bundle to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

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

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #268 - CASE The Colours of Ornate Garden 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.

I was inspired by the colours in the new Ornate Garden Suite.

Mint Macaron

Old Olive

Crushed Curry

Terracotta Tile

Early Espresso

As with most colour based challenges I start by putting out on my desk ink pads for all the colours involved and see if it sparks an idea. I decided to make it easier for you and replicate the colours here.

This set of colours immediately made me think of leaves across the seasons, from the green of spring to the oranges of autumn and I reached for my Rooted in Nature stamp set.  I just built up layers of the leaves using full strength and stamped off leaves going from Mint Macaron to Terracotta Tile.  I love how this turned out, even better than I had imagined!  

I knew i wanted to use a fussy cut sentiment rather than one on a banner. Now one thing I struggle with is fussy cutting around sentiments, I never seem to get the distancing right.  Then I noticed the red rubber left over from the stamps and knew it would be perfect!

First I stamped the sentiment, then lay the rubber over it so it was centred, then used a pencil to trace around the rubber. I took this picture with the sentiment on my scratch paper and you can see all my stamped off leaves ... I think they even look good here!

To finish off I trimmed the sentiment using the pencil line as a guide!  How easy is that? You can expect to see a lot more fussy cut sentiments from me in the future.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the colours of the Ornate Garden 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 Julia has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique