CTC #243: CASE A Card And Make A 3D Item

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Welcome to this week's CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop! As always, our blogs are linked in a circle - you may have come from Peta's blog, or starting here. It doesn't matter at all. Just keep hopping until you're back to where you started.

This week the challenge is to CASE any card from the Annual Catalogue, but you must turn it into some sort of 3D item. Hmmmm.... what to do????

I have been playing around with the Laser Cut cards for my classes this month, so I started there for my inspiration. This soft, gorgeous card caught my eye. I decided to recreate it as a mini album. I've also been wanting to play with my new Pigment Sprinkles, so I decided to combine the two.

I started with a piece of Shimmery White card, cropped to fit under the card front. I used my Bermuda Bay and Daffodil Delight sprinkles to create the backing. Isn't it gorgeous? I love the effect, and the shimmer is so beautiful.

I used the same shapes for my decoration, just in different sizes and combination. The flowers were fussy cut from some of the Bird Ballad DSP and layered under the Stitched Nested Label die cut. They didn't quite stand out enough from the background for me, so I added a Vellum circle under the whole piece. Much better!

I used two of the envelopes for the inside pages. There are heaps of tutorials out there on making Envelope Mini Albums, so I won't explain how here. The striped paper from the Bird Ballad pack was perfect for adding little bits of colour to the ages. I have more fussy cut flowers that I will add once I've chosen some photos to go in the album.

The centre pages feature the envelope flaps. I covered them with more floral Bird Ballad DSP and created an insert for each using more of the stripes.

The final pages are the same as the front, just in reverse. Now I just have to think about what photos to use in the album!

That's it for me this week. Have we got you thinking about what 3D item you could make? A box or a decor item? Remember, you must CASE a card from the Annual Catalogue. Then just upload your picture to our Facebook group. Easy!

For now though, continue on to Julia's blog to see her clever take on this week's challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

Blueberry Farewell Booklet

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LOL, I nearly typed 'Welcome to this week's Colour Creations...' before I remembered that we are finished. I hope you were inspired by our posts each week. I will try to continue to post on Tuesday evenings, as it's a good habit!

Tonight's card uses the new Noble Peacock Specialty DSP. Each of the sheets are heavy weight and have foil accents. The sheet I used is the Blueberry Bushel pattern, and I love that the design looks a bit like a stylised peacock tail.

I paired the Noble Peacock SDSP with some Black Foil cardstock, with some Silver Foil die cuts. The sentiment from Flourishing Phrases is very 'punny' for a musical themed card, don't you think?

When is a card not a card? When it becomes a booklet! This card was made for the members of the band I play in to sign so that we could farewell one of our musicians. Due to poor health, he's unable to continue playing. There's over 40 people in the band, so I needed to make enough pages to allow everyone room to write a message. I also added some ribbon as a belly band so that the booklet can be tied closed. I find that a card like this is preferable to a super sized card, as they are much easier for the recipient to store, and is therefore less likely to be thrown out!

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH February Blog Hop: Sale-A-Bration

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Tonight the Art With Heart team are sharing creative projects using products from the Sale-A-Bration brochure. All Sale-A-Bration products are earned for FREE with sales of $90+ (AUD).

• If you spend $90, you get one free level 1 product. 
• If you spend $180, you get one free level 2 product, OR two level 1 items. 
• If you spend $270, you have the option to choose three level 1 items or one level 1 item and one level 2 item.

The Sale-A-Bration promotion is current now until March 31st. Be sure to request your copy of the brochure today.

Sale-A-Bration is also a great time to join our fabulous team. Ask any of the girls on the hop!

I decided to use the Tutti Frutti Cards and Envelopes to make a mini album for my Blog Hop project. I used 4 of the cards (one of each pattern) and 5 envelopes. You get 4 each of the 4 cards and envelopes, so there was still plenty left over from the set after I made my album. I also used another Sale-A- Bration item on the front of the album - the Celebrate You Thinlit dies - to cut the word celebrate.

This is the first page. The checked paper is from the inside of one of the envelopes. The right side page is formed from the Lemon Lime Twist card. I scored a line 1 1/2 inches from the bottom and folded it up to make a pocket.

I've followed a bit of a theme in decorating the album, using hearts in a circle on many of my pages as a decorative element.

The small blue dotty flaps on this page were made using another of the card bases. I cut a 2 inch section off to use as a page, and then used the rest of the card to make the tags for the LLT page pockets.

I used a retired Circle die to cut a scalloped circle from the Daffodil Delight card base. I edged the left side of the page with some doily offcuts I had floating around on my craft desk.

This middle page is the only page that doesn't use one of the Tutti Frutti Cards or Envelopes. It's a piece from the Tutti Frutti DSP pack. After I cut all my pages to size, I layered them and then used my sewing machine to stitch all of the layers together along the spine.

It was a lot of fun mixing and matching the patterns and colours for each of the pages.

The ribbons were a fun little touch to the pages to add to some of the pages. A lot of them I stapled to the page and covered with a circle/heart combo, but this Night Of Navy Seam Binding was threaded through a hole in the page.

I'm not sure yet how I'll use this album, but it will likely be for a birthday. I have kept all of the offcuts so that I can add more decoration to the photos once they are in place.

Well, that's it from me for now. I hope you enjoyed looking at my Mini Album. I can't wait to finish it with some photos. Now you're off to the blog of the lovely Monika O'Neill.

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the participants below:

Caroline Manwaring

Rachel Palmieri

Leanne Mitchell

Rachel Woollard

Fiona Ryan

Rebecca Jacovou

Kate Morgan

Alisha Watson

Claire Daly

Tina Gillespie

Monika O’Neill

Kim Dallinger

Ros Davidson

Sharon Davern

Catherine Proctor 

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #327: Just Add Colour

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Ooops! Friday snuck up on me again!

Here we go with another Just Add Ink challenge, and this time it's a colour challenge. Jan has put together this lovely combo.

Isn't it lovely? I hadn't made a mini album in a while, and so I decided that I would make one for JAI this week.

I used this retired SAB paper from a couple of years ago to make the album covers. It wasn't until I was half way through that I realised the colour wasn't actually Soft Sky, but it was so close I don't think it really matters too much. I really love the floaty, dreamy look of the paper.

You can see that I used Dapper Denim for the hinges of the Gatefold Album, and Calypso Coral for the pages. I haven't added photos or other decorations to the album, as I will be giving it to a friend as a gift. She has two boys, so I can't imagine she'll want to pretty it up too much!

She will be able to fit up to 16 half sized photos in this album. I followed the tutorial here.


I hope you can join in the fun this week! See you over at the Just Add Ink blog.


Bye for now,


Tina

Let's Get Away to Matilda

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Do you like Project Life scrapbooking? I'm sure you know by now that I love it! I also love making mini albums, and now I've combined the two.


I used a retired kit for these, as it suited the theme of the album. The kit is Let's Get Away, and the purpose of the album was to spring a surprise trip to Melbourne on my daughter and her bestie.

I made the album to act as a Flip Book. On each page I wrote a little bit of information about the trip, and they needed to flip through each page to get the whole story. We took the girls to a café and got them to read the book out loud while I took photos and the other mum filmed them. It was very cute to see their reactions as they read each page of the book. You can see my layout about that here.

I made the girls a book each - thankfully there were enough cards in the kit to be able to make similar books.

I will take more cards from the kit on the trip so that the girls can write anything they'd like about the trip while it's still fresh. When we get home I will print off some of their photos to add to the book and they will have a mini album each to remember the trip. It's so easy!


Bye for now,


Tina

Layouts 77 and 78

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Today I am cheating on my 100 layouts a little and including a mini album as 2 layouts.  To be fair though, there was a HEAP of work in the mini album so I think it balances out.  The album has very little Stampin' Up product in it.  I actually did it at a class at my LSS, Seriously Scrapbooking, taught by the gorgeous Natalie May.  Her blog is called Happy Daks if you want to check her out.

I added a couple of extra pages to the album as I had more photos than pages.  The beautiful photos were taken by Mel Minnie Photography at the Botanical Gardens in March.

Bye for now,

Tina

Farewell I Am Me DSP

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I think the I Am Me DSP has well and truly been my favourite DSP in this catalogue.  I really love the combination of colours and patterns in the paper.  I used it to make this mini album, which I made for a Secret Santa gift last Christmas.  I think the recipient was fairly easily able to work out that I'd made it, so I'm safe to post it on my blog.

I made a chipboard cover for the album, which I covered using some of the I Am Me DSP.  I left the front blank so that a photo could be adhered there if desired.

I made a double page for each member of the family, but half of the pages had flaps to lift, so there ended up being 4 pages for each family member.

I also left some space at the front for some family photos.

I die cut each family member's name for their page and added some matts for photos.  All they need to do is trim the photos to size and adhere them in place.  Easy!

Under each flap I designed an "All About Me" page in My Digital Studio for each family member.  You can see the types of questions I had on the page.  I changed them for the adults, things like their workplace instead of school.

I hope the family had fun putting the rest of the album together.  I thought it would be a great memento of this particular point in time that they could look back on in years to come.

Bye for now,

Tina