CTC 329: CASE The Mini Cover

 Hi!

How can it be the end of the weekend already??? This weekend has just flown by, but all good things must come to an end, and the weekend ends on a high note with the CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop.

This week we are asking you to CASE the cover of the new Mini Catalogue. I sort of CASEd the Kraft card in the middle, but also the cover itself.

The full image of the cover has a thin black line around the cards, so I replicated this with the thin black frame, cropped using two dies from the Stitched Rectangles set. I layered this over a background created using the Stitched Greenery Die, just for some extra interest!

The flower is cut using the Poinsettia Dies - it's really great how they cut and emboss, to give the extra detail in the leaves and petals. The 'merry' is from a long-retired set of SU dies, called Christmas Greetings.

I used the coordinating Poinsettia Petals Stamp set on the inside of my card, with a sentiment from Christmas To Remember.

That's all from me for tonight, but your part in our challenge is just beginning! Pop on over to our Facebook group, where you can upload your card that is inspired by the new Mini Catalogue cover.

Before you dash off, please do continue on with our Blog Hop. Next stop is the wonderful Peta, with her gorgeous Christmas card. Don't miss it!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #288: CASE A Kit Project

 Hi!

Thanks for joining me for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. I have two confessions for you tonight: first, I nearly missed the Hop. It's a long weekend here in Adelaide, so in my head the Hop was tomorrow because it's the last day of the weekend. Oops - luckily I remembered in time! I'll let you know my second confession later in my post.

This week we are challenging you to choose a Kit Card or Project from either catalogue to CASE. Unusually for me, I started my search for inspiration at the beginning of the Annual Catalogue. I soon came across the Gorgeous Posies Kit. I don't own it, but it's one I've admired. I absolutely love the Gold Foil outlines on some of the base cards.

It made me think of the (sadly) retired Magnolia Notecards, which have a Silver Foil outline. I'm much more of a silver person anyway!

I started by trimming a piece of Plush Poinsettia SP to fit within the Silver Foil outline and adhering it with Glue Dots. The Poinsettia Petals die cuts were then layered over the top. I love the texture that is added to the petals and leaves as you crop the shapes.

A couple of sprigs cut from Silver Foil were added to really highlight the Silver Foil on the card base. The flag end of the sentiment was cut using the Banners Pick A Punch.

I stamped the complete poinsettia from the Poinsettia Petals stamp set, and then masked it so I could add some leaves in behind. A sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas finished off the card, or so I thought...

So here is confession number two: I accidentally made two half cards, rather than one whole card. Another oops! The two notecards had stuck together, and it wasn't until after I'd glued my inside to what I thought was the card I'd just decorated the front of, that I realised. 

So now I have two half done cards that I will have to finish at a later date, as due to confession #1, I had no time to finish off both today before the blog hop. Oh dear!

I hope you have a better run than me when you make your card for this week's challenge. Once it's done, just post a photograph in our Facebook group. Don't forget to tell us which Kit you CASEd.

Before you go, please do continue on with our Blog Hop. Next up is the very clever Julia, who has been very inventive with her CASE!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #285: CASE The Sketch

 Hi!

Thanks for joining me once again for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. It's been a very long week for me - after a week of the rest of the family being home sick, I've finally caught their bug. Just a cold and not COVID, thankfully, but still not very fun. They are all well enough to go back to school/work tomorrow, so I think I'll have a quiet doona day at home.

This week our challenge is to CASE the cards on page 29 of the August-December Mini Catalogue. To make it a little easier, Rebecca has designed a sketch to follow.

It certainly helps to picture the card in a more simplified way, don't you think?

I decided to flip the layers of the sketch, and make the strips more of a feature on my card. My lovely friend, Judy, sent me a sample of the gorgeous flocked Plush Poinsettia Specialty Paper, and I thought it was too nice to hide behind other layers. I started by colouring the flocked parts with my Stampin' Blends, using Light Shaded Spruce, Light and Dark Cherry Cobbler and Dark Mango Melody. I have two hints: don't colour at night, unless you have super vision; and don't colour over one spot too much, or you will end up with a bald patch!

I trimmed the coloured paper into three strips and added them to my card, layered over a Gold Foil Stitched Rectangle piece. The rectangle was a little too long for my purposes, so I cropped out a section from the middle, which is hidden under the sentiment.

I used a left over piece from the coloured Plush Poinsettia Specialty Paper to finish off the inside. I didn't realise that I'd forgotten to stamp a sentiment on the inside until I went to photograph the card. I will blame it on a cold-addled brain! 

To play along with us in our challenge, all you need to do is join our Facebook Group and add your photo to the wall. We'd love to see what you would do with this sketch.

For now, though, please do continue on with our Blog Hop. Next up is my wonderful friend, Kathryn. I love the imaginative way she's used the sketch. So clever!

Bye for now,

Tina