CTC #258: Wrapped In Plaid

Hi!

Hello, and welcome to our second last CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop for 2019. After next week's challenge, the DT will be taking a little break until January. This week, though, we are looking at the Wrapped In Plaid suite in the Holiday Catalogue. Did you come from Siobhan's blog, or are you starting here? You know the drill - just keep going until you get to where you started!

I have a little confession to make - I really dislike plaid! There are some really gorgeous projects in the suite, but I just can't get past the plaid. So when I was looking at the cards, trying to decide which one to CASE, I had to think a bit laterally. In the end I chose this card from page 15.

The colours really appealed to me, so that's what I chose to CASE - the colour combo. The colours used in the catalogue card are Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Garden Green, Pretty Peacock, Cherry Cobbler and Gold Glimmer. I used all of these, except I swapped Very Vanilla for Whisper White, on my card, plus Blushing Bride and Balmy Blue.

I was so thrilled with how this turned out. I stamped the cake from the new Sale-A-Bration set, Happy Birthday To You, in Stazon on watercolour paper, and then coloured the image using my Aqua Painter and ink pads. I chopped a piece of Pretty Peacock Scalloped Linen Ribbon in half longways and added it to the top and bottom of my image panel. I also used some retired Gold Thread to bring in some more of the gold in the colour combo.

Speaking of gold, it's a little tricky to photograph, but the flower centres, buds and the cake plate are all coloured with Golden Glitz Delicata ink. I simply tapped the inkpad onto a clear block and then used my Aqua Painter to pick it up and paint it on, just like our regular ink.

I also used the Golden Glitz ink to stamp the cake again on the inside of my card.

Do you like the Wrapped In Plaid Suite? Luckily for me, you don't have to like it to enter our challenge, you can take your inspiration from anything in pages 12-17 of the Holiday catalogue. You can add your card to our Facebook group to enter.

Thanks for stopping by! You can continue the hop by clicking on the next button below. This will take you to Julia's blog - I'm pretty sure she falls into the 'love' category with the Wrapped In Plaid Suite!

Bye for now,

Tina