CTC #282: CASE Your Favourite Mini Catalogue Bundle

 Hi!

Wowee! Where did that weekend go? I had a very lovely weekend, because it was my birthday yesterday, but gee, it has flown by! The end of the weekend means that it's time for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. Woo Hoo!

This week we are asking you to CASE your favourite bundle from the August - December Mini Catalogue. Don't have one of the bundles? Then just CASE your favourite project made with that bundle, but using what you have. Easy!

My favourite bundle (suite, actually!) is the Coming Home bundle. I really love house stamps and dies, and this is one of the best that Stampin' Up! have released. Even better, for every stamp set sold, SU is donating money to charities that support people through adoption, foster care and infertility.

I decided to use this opportunity to try something that I've wanted to do since seeing the bundle - a double opening card. It's a great way to make a scene with a lot of dimension, but it can still be flat enough to mail easily. I started with a slightly smaller than card front pice of Whisper White card. I then  cut a flap from Pear Pizzazz cardstock using the sloped die with no trees. I folded a small section of the right side of the card around to the back and adhered it to the bottom right side of the Whisper White piece, ensuring that it lined up at the bottom. I then decorated with the house, wreath and trees.

The second flap was cut from Old Olive cardstock using the sloped die with trees. It was scored on the left and adhered to the left side of the Whisper White card, and again decorated with a house, wreath, trees and a card on a road. Most of the elements on the card were cropped from the DSP, but the car and wreaths were stamped and coloured before being added to the card.

When both side flaps are opened, the card reveals yet another house, this time with the mountains as a backdrop. The second storey of the house was cropped from the edge of the DSP. It was missing it's bottom half, but by turning it into a second level of another house it can still be useful. Conveniently, the stripes on both houses matched! 

All of these layers were attached to a card front sized piece of Misty Moonlight cardstock. It isn't a folding card base, just a flat piece. The flaps on the front will support the card to stand up, so it didn't need a folding base. I created another little scene on the back so that there was somewhere to write a message. It's not your usual card, but I'm thrilled with how it turned out.

As always, you can join in with our challenge by taking a photograph of your card and adding it to our Facebook Group. You don't need a blog or any fancy equipment, so it's super easy to enter!

Before you race off to get creating, don't forget to finish the blog hop! Next up is the wonderful Michelle, who just happened to have celebrated her birthday yesterday, too!

Bye for now,

Tina