CTC 401: CASE The SAB Catalogue

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Welcome back to the first CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop for 2023! We like to challenge you to use the wonderful resource that are the Stampin' Up! catalogues, by CASEing ideas from them.

This week, we are starting with the brand new Sale-A-Bration Catalogue. I started browsing at the back of the catalogue, and found this beauty on page 16.

I loved the way that the scene carried across the front of the card, even over the split in the DSP. I also loved the mix of sentiments on the card, and how they connected the two parts of the scene.

I wanted to use the boat punch on my card, and so I changed the orientation of my card. I was a bit worried that the boat would be a little lost on a landscape card.

The background sea, sky and sun are all masked and inked using Daffodil Delight, Balmy Blue and Pacific Point ink onto Whisper White cardstock. I cropped the edges using my Basic Borders Dies, and the sentiments were from Biggest Wish and Label Me Bold (retired). The birds are from Beautiful Moment (retired).

The little Daffodil Delight flags were so fiddly, but worth it, I think! I just punched a scrap of card with the mast part of the boat punch and used my snips to trim it to size. A tiny dot of Tombow glue holds it in place.

To play along with our challenge, you just need to join our Facebook group (if you aren't a member already) and add a photo to the group of your card for the challenge before our next blog hop starts next Sunday night. Easy! We'd love to see how the catalogues inspire you.

Please keep hopping and visit all of our blogs. There's lots of gorgeous SAB inspiration to be seen. The next stop is the lovely Julia Quinn, with what I'm sure will be a gorgeous project,

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 375: CASE Your Favourite Retiring Product

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It's always a but of a sad day when the retiring list comes out at the end of a catalogue. There'e nearly always something on the list that I'm sad to say goodbye to. This week at CASEing The Catty, we are asking to to give your Favourite Retiring Product one last hurrah.

For me, it's hands down the Butterflies & Flowers Layering Decorative Masks. They will certainly be finding a permanent home in my stash.

I chose to CASE the butterfly card for a few reasons. I hadn't yet used the butterflies masks, so that had to be rectified! I liked that the butterfly was inked over DSP, and the little peeps of zig-zag trim at the top and bottom of the card.

I hadn't yet used my Heart & Home DSP yet, so it was well past time to cut into it! I'm a blue girl, so this piece caught my eye. I cropped the square from the DSP and flipped it over to use as the base for my butterfly. Instead of zig-zags, I layered it over a scalloped square die cut.

I thought that the woodgrain in the DSP sort of mimics the strips of DSP in the original card. The solid layer of the butterfly was inked using Fresh Freesia ink, with the detailed layer in Misty Moonlight. You can't really see in the photo, but the centre of the butterfly got a swish of Wink Of Stella.

I inked the exact same butterfly on the inside of my card. Sadly, this time the Wink Of Stella smudged into the Fresh Freesia ink. I may have to hide it with a die cut butterfly over the top!

What's your favourite retiring product? There's a lot to choose from! I hope that you can make a card and enter our challenge. You just need to post a photo in our Facebook group before next Sunday's blog hop.

Our Blog Hop continues tonight, with the next stop along the way. I wonder what Rebecca Scurr's favourite retiring product will be? Only one way to find out!

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 598: Just Add Colour

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Thanks goodness for Friday's, hey! I've had a busy week and I'm looking forward to a more relaxed weekend - how about you? Why not start it off by joining in with our new challenge at Just Add Ink?

Chantell has chosen this gorgeous colour palette to play with. It's definitely a combo on the more masculine side of the scale, don't you think? I was in the mood for quick and easy, so I went for a bit of a modern, graphic feel to my card.

I'm a bit sad that the Stitched Triangles Dies are retiring - I don't feel like I've used them anywhere near enough. They are a great basic set to have, and I will certainly be keeping hold of them. I used one of the middle sized isosceles triangles to crop a triangle from each of the challenge colours. I pretty much then just dropped them onto my Whisper White card base to see how they fell. After a little nudging, I settled on the above arrangement.

The sentiment is from Biggest Wish, which is carrying over to the new Annual Catalogue -yay!! The little cluster of crosses is also from the stamp set, but often overlooked. It's a great little gap filler!

The second stamp set that I used is Label Me Bold. I liked the look of it layered over the top of the large Biggest Wish stamps.

That's all from me for tonight, but your part in the challenge is just beginning. Jump on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design Team cards. You can also link up your card for our Colour Combo challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 574: Just Choose Two

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Hey there! Are you ready for the new Just Add Ink challenge? This week Nikki has challenged us to Just Choose Two.

Hmmm, which two to choose? It's a tough choice, but in the end I went for Silhouettes and Stars on my card. I struggled for a long time to think about which products I owned that could be used for the silhouette part of the card, and then I remembered my Eat Your Heart Out stamp set from Ink Road Stamps.

Do you recognise the hair silhouettes? I'm a huge fan of this movie (and it's sequel), but even the one at the bottom left stumped me! Who do you think it is? The stars on my card are from the retired Label Me Bold stamp set.

I haven't played much with the Be Dazzling Specialty Paper, and now Sale-A-Bration is finished! I'm sure you'll be seeing more of it. This time, I coloured it with my Dark Basic Black Blend. It looks a lot like snake skin, I think! Colouring it is such a cool effect, and it doesn't lose any sparkle in the process.

The sentiments I've used on the inside come from a Kindred Stamps set, called Electrifying. It goes with the Ink Road set perfectly, as they are based on the same fandom. Black and pink are iconic colours, so I've stuck with them for the whole card.

Now that I've told you more 😉 about my card, I'm flying out of here! I hope you're peachy keen, jelly bean, to join in with our challenge! You can link your card and see what the rest of the Design Team have created this week over on the Just Add Ink blog. See you there!

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 573: Just Add A Sketch

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Welcome back to a new week of Just Add Ink, and a fresh challenge for you to sink your teeth into. This week Jan has designed a sketch for us to work with.

I like this one! The strip down the side adds a little touch of something extra to an already versatile sketch, don't you think? My son, Alex was invited to a birthday party, and so I used the sketch to create a fun card for the birthday boy.

I started with that cheeky strip down the side. I purchased the paper many, many years ago, and this was one of the last strips left from it. I don't have any information about which company made it, sorry! The rest of the card base was Basic Black card, embossed with the Subtle 3DEF folder. I popped it up over the strip of Lego paper.

The little figure was from a Kindred Stamps set, called Building Blocks. I coloured him with my Copic Markers and popped him up over the stamped Number Of Years numbers, finishing with a sentiment from Label Me Bold. Lots of retired products on this card!

I stamped the figure on the inside, but this time I gave him glasses. I did this because Alex wears glasses, but the birthday boy does not. It was probably too subtle a touch for either of them to notice, but it tickled my funny bone!

That's all from me for the new challenge, but please do pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you will find the rest of this week's Design team cards. They've done an amazing job with this sketch! You can also link up your card in our challenge. I can't wait to see what you create.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 333: CASE The SAB Catalogue

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Thanks for once again joining me for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. It's a great way to end the week - I always enjoy hopping with the Crew and seeing their gorgeous creations.

This week we are asking you to CASE any project from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue. It may be a little catalogue, but there's plenty of gorgeous inspiration to choose from. I couldn't go past the cuteness of this card, featuring the Penguin Playmates DSP.

I love that there are so many cute critters in the DSP to choose from, however I chose to use a different, but similar DSP, Sweet Stockings. Instead of polar animals, the DSP features domestic pets in fun Christmassy shenanigans.

I can never go past the goofy look on the Golden Retriever's face! Isn't it hilarious? Combined with the grumpy cat with reindeer ears, it makes such a fun card.

It's really, really hard to see, but I stamped some stars from the retired Label Me Bold in the background, similar to the snowflakes on the original card. The sentiment was cropped using one of my Stitched So Sweetly dies.

I chose another sentiment from Christmas To Remember for the inside. With all the animals on the card, I liked the reference to friends in the saying. They all look like they are wonderful friends, having a very holly, jolly Christmas together!

We'd love for you to play along with our challenge this week. All you need to do is make a card and upload a photo of it to our Facebook Group. Easy!

That's all from me for tonight, but please do continue on with the Blog Hop. Next up is my lovely friend, Rachel, who I'm sure has toothpicks holding open her eyes after a big weekend attending an online SU Leader's conference!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #273: CASE The Colours of the Playing With Patterns DSP

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Thanks for joining me on a cold and wet Sunday evening for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. It's the perfect weather for a cuppa and a Blog Hop!

This week we are CASEing the colours in the Playing With Patterns DSP. As a side note - I realised as I was pulling out my cardstock that there is one colour from each of the colour families. I wonder if that was deliberate, or by chance?

I didn't CASE one particular card, but I did take elements from a few. The diagonal stripes from the card on page 100, and the patterns peeking through the letter die cuts on page 101. The letter dies are from the new catalogue, and are fabulous! $59 for the 58 alpha, numerical and punctuation dies in the set. Bargain!

I started my card by cutting 1cm strips of the different colours in the DSP, except Whisper White. I then adhered a piece of Adhesive Sheet to a piece of copy paper and layered the cardstock strips on an angle. I used copy paper so that I could easily die cut the piece using my Stitched Rectangles Dies. Another layer of cardstock might have been too thick to cut. Once cropped, I adhered it straight to the card base. The Playful Alphabet Dies were used to crop the word 'Happy' from a piece of Thick Whisper White that had been cut using a smaller Stitched Rectangles Die. This piece was popped up over the base.

When I was planning my striped piece for the front, I ensured that I made it slightly bigger, so that I could have a piece for the inside of my card. I don't have the patience to do a tiny strip like this on it's own! It was cropped using the bag strap die from the All Dressed Up Dies.

That's all from me tonight. To enter our challenge, all you need to do is to make your card, photograph it, and then post it to the wall in our Facebook Group. Just tell us which card you are CASEing and you're done! Easy!

Next up is the fabulous Shannon, with a card that I absolutely adore. The bundle she's used is near the top of my 'must have' list!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #270 Week 2: CASE Your Favourite Retiring Punch Or Die

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Wow, what a contrast in weekends! Last weekend was sunny and we just had to get out and enjoy it, but this weekend was wet and cold, so perfect for staying home and crafting! I got into a cleaning/sorting mood yesterday, so I may have even done some online shopping to get myself some pretty containers from IKEA. I amongst that, I did get my card made for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. We are mid way through our current challenge, which is to CASE our favourite retiring punch or die.

As I did a die last week, I looked to my collection of punches for this week's card. I settled on the Decorative Ribbon Border Punch. After searching the Annual Catalogue, this Bird Ballad card, from page 15, was the only sample I could find that used the punch, so that's what I CASEd.

I have used the punch in the same way as on this card a lot - as a subtle little edge underneath a piece of DSP or card. I tend to use the small scallops, as I like that side best. For my card today, I decided to again use the little scallops, but to make them a bit more of a feature.

To do this, I punched the ribbon four times - three in Blackberry Bliss, and one in Gold Foil. You can see that on the bottom edge of the Best Dressed DSP I layered the punched ribbon, offsetting the scallops each time. The final punched ribbon went along the top of the DSP.

At this angle you can see the impact of the Gold Foil a bit more. The dreary weather made photography difficult today! To bring the Gold into the card a little more, I used a second retiring punch, Pretty Label, as a base for the fussy cut Best Dressed flower and Label Me Bold sentiment.

I used the Decorative Ribbon punch again on the inside. I like a little strip of cardstock under the DSP, but the scallops just add a little sweet touch to the card. The sentiment is from the Peaceful Moments stamp set.

That's all from me this week. To join in the fun with our challenge, you simply need to become a member of our Facebook group, and then start adding your pictures. Easy!

Before you go do that, don't forget to finish the blog hop! Next up you can float on over to Siobhan's blog, where you might go above the clouds!

Bye for now,

Tina