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: Smoky Slate

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Welcome back to my blog for the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. We are nearing the end of this round, starting the final month with Smoky Slate. It's a lovely, pale grey from the Neutrals colour family. I decided to pair it with some retiring dies that will find a place in my permanent collection - Suit & Tie Dies.

There's nothing particularly fancy about my card tonight, but that's OK. I think masculine cards tend to be less fancy on the whole. What do you think?

To get a faux fabric look, I embossed the Smoky Slate cardstock with the Tasteful Textile 3DEF. Very sadly, this embossing folder is retiring. The stamp set that I used, A Good Man, is (you guessed it) also retiring. 

I used some Smoky Slate DSP to create the ties for my card. I cropped the full tie, and then a second piece for the knot. I like how it gives a more 3D effect with very little extra effort.

That's all from me for tonight - short and sweet, as I celebrate my 20th Wedding Anniversary with a special dinner with my family! 

The next stop along the way is my love friend, Rachel Palmieri. I'm sure she's got a cracker of a card to see!

If you get stuck, pop on over to Catherine Proctor's blog - she has a list of all participants to help get you back on track!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 359: CASE A Die Project

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Thanks for joining me at the end of another weekend that has gone by in a flash! I need another weekend to recover from my weekend, LOL! But the end of the weekend means the start of the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop, so it's not all bad 😁

This week we are asking you to CASE a Die Project from any current catalogue. I decided to choose a die bundle from the Annual Catalogue that hasn't seen any love for a few weeks - my Perfect Plants Dies.

I chose this card to CASE, as I liked that the background DSP was cut on an angle - I quite like little quirks like that! 

I'm really not much of a gardener, but I wish I was! I chose my background DSP because I'd love to have a lush garden like that, but I'm realistic enough to know that it's beyond my talents. I can have it in paper form instead!

I used the Perfect Plants Dies to cut all of the focal elements - the hanger (trimmed), the pot and the different leaves in the pot. All but the hanger were cropped from the Bloom Where You're Planted DSP. I really must buy another pack of this paper before it retires in a few months!

I used my off cut DSP from the front to decorate my inside. It's also a great opportunity to use up images from the sides of your DSP that may not be full images. In this case, the pot was cropped at the side, so I just lined it up with the edge of my card.

We'd love for you to join in with us for our challenge. Do you have a favourite set of dies? Just CASE a card from the Annual or Mini catalogue made with those dies and you're good to go! Add a photo to our Facebook group to inspire us all.

As always, thanks for stopping by, but please do continue your way around our Blog Hop - there's plenty more inspiration to be found. My lovely friend Rachel Palmieri is next, with an absolutely stunning card!

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Pumpkin Pie

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It's time for Pumpkin Pie! Sadly, not the food, but the colour. Well, maybe 'sadly' isn't the right word - the colour is a nice one, I'm just hungry as I'm writing the post! Anyway, enough with the rambling, on with the card.

I struggled a lot with the card this week, and the end result was vastly different to the card I had planned originally. The daisy was meant to be on a tone-on-tone Pumpkin Pie background, but it didn't look good and ended up in the bin. The striped DSP was an attempt to bring a bit more orange into the card.It kinda makes me think of tigers, though! I would totally have used Foxy Friends instead of the daisy if it was still current.

After I made the card I googled to see if tiger daisies were a thing - and they are! Phew! The daisy and the tiger stripes are a justifiable combination. LOL!!

I pulled out my trusty Stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp the daisy on the inside. Some things just can't be done on a Stamparatus!

Thanks for stopping by for a little taste of Pumpkin Pie (pun intended!). Please continue your way around our blog hop tonight by jumping on over to my lovely friend, Andrea Sargent's blog. You won't be disappointed!

Head baker for tonight (oh geez, I have to stop with the pie jokes!) is the fabulous Catherine Proctor, so if you run into problems hop on over to her blog, where she has a list of all tonight's participants.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 356: Heart & Home Colours

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Oh, boy! Where did that weekend go? But happily, the end of the weekend means that it's time for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop.

This week we are asking you to CASE the colours of the Heart & Home DSP. You can see a list of them in the graphic above.  I chose to sort of CASE the piece of DSP that you can see under the SU logo in the graphic. I liked the white design over the Fresh Freesia base.

I started with a card front sized piece of Freesia cardstock which I embossed with the Tasteful Textile 3DEF. I then used a Blending Brush to ink the edges with coordinating ink. It was very hard to photograph - but it really makes the flowers pop off the background.

I cropped both layers of the Many Layered Blossoms Dies from Whisper White card. I first adhered a piece of Adhesive Sheet to the back of the card that I cropped the finer layer from - it makes it much easier to stick down to the bottom layer. The whole piece was popped up on Dimensionals. A Tasteful Labels die was used to crop the Peaceful Moments sentiment.

I cropped a smaller piece of the fine layer of Blossoms for the inside of the card. You can hopefully see that I've applied some Freesia ink first.

We'd love for you to play along with our challenges each week. It's as easy as making an appropriate card and then uploading a photo to our Facebook Group.

Once again, I am the last stop on the Blog Hop if you joined us from the start in the Facebook group. If you joined part way through, please keep hopping until you get back to where you started. The net stop is my fabulous friend, Rachel Palmieri, who has a very sweet card for you to see.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Mossy Meadow

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Thanks for joining me as the Colour Creations Blog Hops return for 2022. We've got another four months of Blog Hops to go before we reach the end of the series. This week it's Mossy Meadow's turn to shine. It's a dark, forrest green that's a part of the Neutrals colour family. It's not a colour I use a lot of, but I do like the place that it has in the colour line-up.

I purchased the Inspiring Canopy Dies late last year, but had yet to use them. I thought that this was a great opportunity. I also saw a card made using them by the SU Artisan, Melanie Joyner, that I decided to CASE. Her card was in pinks and square, so I had to make a few changes to suit my purpose.

To get the canopy part of the trees, I coloured a half sheet of Watercolour paper with Mossy Meadow ink. I made sure that the colour went on very unevenly so that the end result had plenty of variation in shades. When dry, I cropped as many of the leaf dies as I could fit from the paper.

I'd trimmed the right-most tree from the die cut, so that I would have room for my sentiment on the front. It was easy to make use of it for the inside of the card, with some of the extra leaf die cuts. I haven't made this card with anyone in mind, but it never hurts to add Sympathy cards to your stash for when you do need them.

The next stop on tonight's Blog Hop is my friend, Rachel Woollard. She's bound to have something fabulous for us to see!

If you run into any problems along the way, with broken links or similar, please jump on over to Catherine Proctor's blog. She has a comprehensive list of all who are participating this week.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Mint Macaron

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Thanks for once again joining me for a new Colour Creations Blog Hop. It's the second last hop for 2021, but definitely not the last in the series, as there are lots more colours to come. We are just taking a little, well-deserved, break over Christmas and will be back in the new year.

This week we are looking at Mint Macaron, one of my all time favourite Stampin' Up! colours. Originally an In Colour, I may have squealed a little bit when I found out it was returning to the colour line up in a Colour Refresh.

Coincidentally, I also used the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set for last year's Mint Macaron card. It wasn't a conscious choice again this year, more that it was the best stamp set I had for the look I wanted to achieve. The large sunflower was stamped in Stazon ink on Shimmery White cardstock and then I used a Water Painter to colour the negative space with Mint Macaron ink. I added two layers on ink to ensure that the darker tones were close to the petals, and the colour faded away as it stretched further out from the bloom. I was quite pleased with the effect.

To finish the card I added a strip each of Basic Black and Mint Macaron cardstock underneath the sentiment layer. I definitely wanted the focus on the gorgeous flower.

The sunflower was stamped again, this time in stamped-off Mint Macaron ink, on the inside. I probably included too much of the flower, especially as it's a smaller, 4" square card, but I couldn't resist!

Next up in tonight's Hop is my gifted friend, Andrea Sargent. You definitely won't want to miss her card!

Tonight's Hop is hosted by Christine Blain. Please pop on over to her blog if you tun into any problems with links on the Hop. He'll have a list of all tonight's participants.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Just Jade

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Hooray, It's time for the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are playing with Just Jade, which is one of the 2020-22 In Colours. It's a lovely green, and it's one that I quite like.

I was once again a bit time poor this week, so I googled Just Jade cards for inspiration, and decided to CASE one I found that was made by Kayla Renee, of Stampin With Kayla. Her card was very pretty, and quite simple, so it was definitely a winner for me!

I pretty much only changed the sentiment part of the card, by using the Black Glittered Organdy ribbon, Sweet Strawberry and the Tasteful Labels Dies. The Matte Black Dots and Just Jade Enamel Dot were another addition on my version.

That's all from me for tonight, but there's still plenty of inspiration left to be seen! Please continue your way around our Blog Hop by jumping on over to the lovely Caroline Manwaring's blog. She always has something delightful to see!

As always, our fabulous host is Catherine Proctor. If something goes awry, please head on over to her blog where you'll find a complete list of all Hoppers. You can pick up your trail there!

Bye for now,

Tina

Heart Of Christmas Week 15

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Well, hello, and welcome back to this week's Heart Of Christmas Blog Hop. I hope that you've been enjoying all of our Christmassy inspiration each week - it's been a lot of fun hopping with my fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator friends.

This week's cards have jumped back to using the Hostess DSP, Pattern Party. Although the paper isn't Christmassy at all, the patterns and colours are suitable if you like a less-traditional colour scheme or theme for your cards. In this case, I've emphasised the Granny Apple Green and Poppy Parade to make the colour combo a bit more traditional.

The diagonal stripes are a little like a candy cane, don't you think? My kids often get ones that are a rainbow of colour rather than the traditional red and white.

As always, I have made four cards this week, using the August 2020 Sheetload Of Cards template. It really takes the stress out of making the cards - all the planning and measuring has been done for me (except adjusting to non-US sized cards), I just need to cut, stamp and assemble.

It's time to hop on over to the next blog, which belongs to the wonderful Catherine Proctor. I can't wait to see what she's created for tonight's hop.

Our blog hop is hosted this week by my lovely friend, Sharon Davern. If you find a broken link, just pop on over to her blog, where you will find a list of all of tonight's participants. You can pick up your trail there.

Bye for now,

Tina