CTC 368: CASE A New Catalogue Favourite

 Hi!

Welcome back to the start of a new challenge week for CASEing The Catty. This week we are delving inside the new Annual Catalogue and asking you to CASE your favourite project.

I'm sure that, like me, you'll find it super hard to narrow it down to one favourite! Alas, it must be done! I found this stunner on page 28 and loved it immediately. 

The white borders, simple layers and the gorgeous bouquet all caught my eye and insisted that I *must* make this card! I don't own the stamp set, nor the Dots & Spots Die used to make the background, so I substituted for things that I had in my stash. 

I kept the monochrome theme for the background, however I used the recently retired Friendly Hello SAB DSP in Fresh Freesia. I really loved the splatter effect of the paper. 

If you're thinking that you've missed this stamp set in the Annual Catalogue, it's because it's actually from the  Bouquet Of Hope Paper Pumpkin box. It's currently on the Clearance Rack at half price! It was also used to stamp the flowers behind the oval. it was a dreary day when I photographed my card, so you can't see that I 'coloured' those flowers with my Wink Of Stella pen.

I repeated the bouquet again on the inside, coloured with Fresh Freesia, Granny Apple Green, Petal Pink and So Saffron Stampin' Blends. Hopefully my mum will love this card - it's on the way to her now.

W'd love for you to play along with us for our challenge. I'm sure that the hardest part will be choosing a project to CASE. Once you have your card made, just upload a photo to our Facebook Group before next Sunday's challenge begins. Too easy!

Please don't forget to finish our blog hop, though. There's plenty more inspiration to be seen, starting with the very lovely Michelle Stradz.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 358: CASE An Embossed Project

 Hi!

Welcome back to my blog for a new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. I missed out on playing last week, so it's good to be back!

This week we are asking you to CASE a project that uses embossing from any of the three current catalogues. It can be heat embossing or dry embossing - whatever takes your fancy!

I'm a bit of a lazy crafter, so dry embossing is my first choice. After perusing the Mini Catalogue, I settled on the above card from page 57. I really liked the striped background, and especially how it uses both DSP and embossed cardstock in the matching colours.

I chose to use the SAB reward DSP, Friendly Hello, on my card. The colours are Pool Party, Petal Pink and Fresh Freesia, on a base of Misty Moonlight. The latter isn't from the DSP, but I thought it was a nice base to ground the design. The strips were embossed with the Hive 3DEF.

Hand-Penned Petals and Biggest Wish were used on the front of the card, coloured with the same colours as the background strips. I cropped them with the Beautiful Shapes Dies.

If you've followed me for a while, you'd know that I try to use up my scraps. The inside of the card is the perfect opportunity to do so. The offcuts from the front of the card were used to decorate the inside.

That's all from me for tonight, but your part in this challenge is just beginning! We'd love for you to play along, which is as easy as making a card based on an embossing project in any of the current catalogues and then uploading a photo to our Facebook Group.

Your other job is to continue on with the blog hop! There's plenty of Crew inspiration to be found, so just keep on hopping until you complete the circle. You won't want to miss the awesomely fun card that Michelle Stradz has created!

Bye for now,

Tina