CTC 410: CASE An Embossing Project

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Welcome back to the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. We enjoy CASEing from the Stampin' Up! Catalogues, and we hope that you do, too.

This week we are asking you to CASE any Embossing Folder project from either of the two current catalogues. There's a lot to choose from! I recently purchased the Legendary Ride bundle, so I went for that section of the mini catalogue first.

Embossing our foil cardstock is a favourite technique of mine, so this card caught my eye straight away. I also loved the layout of the card, and the addition of the feminine flowers to the masculine elements.

I didn't buy the Metal Plate 3D Embossing folder, so I substituted for the splatter folder in the Stripes & Splatters 3D Embossing Folders set. I think it works, as it looks a bit like oil splatters. I used the darkest silver foil from the Silver Foil Specialty Pack. It has a bit of a purple tint to it, so that dictated the colours of the rest of my card. I used the same foil for the metallic parts of the motorbike.

Speaking of the motorbike, there's a LOT of layers, but doesn't it look spectacular? It's difficult to see in this photo, but the Blackberry Bliss layer has some embossing on it to represent the engine parts. In fact, quite a few of the dies also emboss different elements of the bike. You can see it on the Fresh Freesia and Silver Foil elements.

I stamped one of the motorbikes from the stamp set on the inside, as I'd run out of Adhesive Sheet backed pieces of cardstock. I was too lazy to make up some more to die cut another bike! 

That's all from me for now, but your part in this challenge is just beginning. We'd love for you to play along - all you need to do is make a card that is a CASE of one from either catalogue that uses an embossing folder. Then take a photo and add it to our Facebook group. Easy!

Do make sure that you finish our Blog Hop before you get creating. I'm actually the last stop in the Blog Hop if you started in the Facebook group, but if you joined somewhere along the way, please keep on hopping until you get back to where you started. The next stop is my wonderful friend, Judy May.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 405: Sale-A-Bration Sketch

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Welcome back for our regular CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. Do you enjoy CASEing from the Stampin' Up! catalogues? Then we are the challenge for you!

This week we are asking you to CASE the card on page 5 of the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue, using it as a sketch.

Here's a closer look at the sketch. I like the strong horizontal lines - do you? I decided to flip the sketch somewhat. Instead of coloured strips on top of a white base, I went for white strips over DSP.

The DSP I've chosen is the new Dandy Designs DSP, which is one of the rewards in the SAB Catalogue. I love the mix of Balmy Blue and Coastal Cabana on this paper. Such soothing colours!

I die cut the white piece using a Stitched Rectangle Die, embossed it using the retired Tasteful Textile 3DEF, and then cropped it into four strips. It's one less than is in the sketch, but my tired brain couldn't work out how to get 5 equal strips from a 4" length! (Haha, obviously my brain was VERY tired - the sketch only has 4 stripes!) The ribbon was created by colouring some White Seam Binding with my Dark Pool Party Stampin' Blend. A very handy trick when you don't have the right colour ribbon!

The two sentiment stamps from Biggest Wish said exactly what I needed them to say. Don't you love that?

We'd love for you to play along with us this week. All you need to do is make a card using the sketch for inspiration, take a photo and add it to our Facebook group. No blog necessary!

Speaking of blogs, the next stop on our Sale-A-Bration Sketch blog hop is my lovely South Australian friend, Michelle Stradz. She's used one of my favourite stamp sets from the new Mini Catalogue.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Gray Granite

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Welcome back to my blog once again for the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. It's Gray Granite week this week, and I will certainly admit that it's a tricky colour to make the hero colour of a card!

Brian King paired it with Crushed Curry and Basic Black, in a combo that I really liked. Neutrals with a pop of bold colour is always a winner.

I thought that it was quite a masculine colour combo, so I pulled out my Tech Support stamp set. I am still struggling with inspiration for this set, but the colours were a great starting point. Who doesn't think of old school computers and gaming units when they see a pale gray?

I really liked the use of the three Stitched Rectangles as a base for my other layers. The strip of Crushed Curry anchors them all together. I originally had the other part of this sentiment stamp on the front of the card, but I couldn't make it work with the rest of the elements. A Stylish Shapes banner to the rescue!

I couldn't not have the rest of the sentiment, so I put it to use on the inside, along with a few more Beautiful Shapes hexagons to match the front. 

Thanks for stopping by, but please do continue your way around our hop tonight. The next stop is my lovely friend, Kate Morgan.

Catherine Proctor is once again hosting the blog hop tonight, so if you run into any problems with links, just jump on over to her blog, where you'll find a list of all of tonight's participants.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 389: Annual Catalogue Bundle

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It's time once again for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. Our challenge works by asking you to CASE different aspects of Stampin' Up!'s catalogues. CASEing is a great way to spark your creativity.

This week we are asking you to CASE a card from the Bundles Section of the Annual Catalogue. In flicking through the section, I discovered that I don't own a single bundle from the catalogue! I'm not quite sure how that happened, so I had to think extra creatively this week.

I ended up choosing this butterfly card from page 161. I really liked the white die cuts layered over the stripes of coloured cardstock. They really pop against the colour.

I recently purchased the Rugged Icons Dies, after my fellow CTCer, Rachel, posted some fabulous masculine cards using them. I thought that this card was a great opportunity to use them. After much debate I went for the mountains die - although I see pyramids every time I look at it! I'm sure they are meant to be mountains, as I don't think there are trees like that around the pyramids.

I layered some Garden Green, Daffodil Delight and Balmy Blue cardstock on some copy paper before cropping it with the largest hexagon in the Beautiful Shapes Dies. I applied some Foam Adhesive Sheet to the back of a piece of Whisper White card and cropped it with the Rugged Icons die before adhering it to the hexagon.

I used a second die cut, in Balmy Blue, to decorate the inside. The sentiments are from the stamp set that's in the Light The Candles kit.

That's all from me for now, but we'd love for you to join us in making a card for this challenge. Do you have a favourite bundle from the Annual Catalogue? Or are you like me with no bundle, but a lovely card in the section that has caught your eye to CASE? Just add a photo to our Facebook group when you've made your card.

In the meantime, please do continue your way around our blog hop. The next stop is the lovely Peta Stephen, with a gorgeous Christmas card.

 Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 388: CASE An Embossing Project

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Welcome back to a new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. It's been a few weeks since I have played along - life just got a bit busy. It's good to be back!

This week we are asking you to CASE an Embossing Project. It can be from either catalogue, and can be heat, dry or paste embossing.

I chose this card from page 38 of the Mini Catalogue to CASE. I'm usually a bit lazy about getting my heat embossing stuff out, but it already happened to be out because I'd used it on another card. I also loved the distressed look to the dry embossed background on the card.

I changed the card to be a regular sized card, rather than the mini slimline in the catalogue. I also made the dry embossed panel smaller, so that more of the Celebrate Everything Host DSP underneath can be seen. To get the distressed look on the Melon Mambo card, I simply swiped my Craft White ink pad over the top, after it had been embossed with the Whimsical Woodland 3DEF.

I stamped the tree, as in the sample, with the Trees For Sale stamp set. I stamped the baubles over the top, and then realised I hadn't opened my Pearlised Enamel Effects yet. Perfect opportunity! It's so easy to use - just a little dot of the thick liquid over the stamped bauble and let it dry! I cut the panel with my Beautiful Shapes Dies before stamping and adding the Enamel.

I'd made a full card front sized panel when I did the embossing and distressing for the front of the card, so I was able to use the offcuts for the inside. I couldn't resist adding more Enamel to the tree, too. Isn't the dimension wonderful?

That's all from me, but we'd love to see which embossing project you will CASE this week. When you've decided, just add a photo of your card to our Facebook Group before next Sunday's blog hop.

My fellow South Aussie, Michelle Strazds, is the next stop in our blog hop this week. She's created a super-sweet card that you won't want to miss! It's so pretty.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Crushed Curry

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Thanks for stopping by for our new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week it's Crushed Curry's turn to be the feature colour. Do you like Cushed Curry? I think it's one of those polarising colours. I'm not a huge fan, and I really struggled with my card.

As ever, Brian King was the source of a fantastic colour combination featuring Crushed Curry. I had in mind to do a masculine card, but nothing I tried really worked. In the end, I tried something completely different.

At a recent stamping day with friends, I took the opportunity to crop a few of these flowers from the Artistic Dies in white. I thought about colouring the die cut, but it seemed to be a fiddly job, so I kept thinking! The coordinating stamp set is designed to layer with the die cuts, so how could I get a similar look without the stamps? Different dies! I used the hexagons from Beautiful Shapes Dies to go underneath the flower.

I really like how it turned out! I used my retired Hexagon punch to crop the sentiment. It's slightly smaller than one of the hexagon dies, so it layers beautifully.

I completed the inside with a partial die cut using a similar technique as the front of the card.

Thanks again for joining me for the hop tonight, but please do continue your way around all the blogs to see how lovely Crushed Curry can be. The next stop is my wonderfully artistic friend, Kathryn Ruddick.

If you run into any problems with links, please jump on over to Cathy Proctor's blog. She does a fabulous job of keeping us all organised, and will have a list of all of tonight's participants on her blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Calypso Coral

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Welcome back to my blog for the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week it's Calypso Coral's turn. Like Cajun Craze, it's a colour that isn't a favourite of mine, but I do think that it has a valuable place in the colour range.

Brian King has paired it with two of our newer In Colours, Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen. Isn't it a gorgeous combo? I decided to pull out an older set of dies and play with some watercolouring, as July is Watercolouring month.

I started by washing some Calypso Coral ink over a piece of Watercolour Paper. Once it dried, I cropped some of the solid poppy die from the Poppy Moments Dies. I repeated the process with Soft Succulent and the solid leaf die. The outline dies were used to crop the same colour cardstock, with Basic Black for the centres of the flowers.

I used a gorgeous piece of Lovely Linen DSP for the background. It features both of the greens with Basic White. I had the three Stitched Rectangle frames floating around on my desk, so added them to the card on a whim. I think it provides a nice base for the flowers to sit on, rather than floating in space.

I used the offcut DSP from the front to frame the inside of the card. The sentiments on my card are from Peaceful Moments, another old favourite. It's easy to forget about the oldies with the excitement of new stuff!

Please continue your way around our Calypso Coral blog hop by jumping on over to Theresa Gerrard's blog. You won't want to miss her gorgeous card.

If there are broken or missing links, the lady in the know is Catherine Proctor. Pop over to her blog, where you'l find a list of all of tonight's participants and you can get yourself back on track.

Bye for now,

Tina