CTC 390: Santa's Express Colours

 Hi!

Thanks for joining me for a new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. We like to get inspiration from CASEing projects from the Stampin' Up! catalogues, and we hope that you do too!

This week we are asking you to CASE the colours of the Santa Express DSP. I didn't CASE a particular card in the Mini Catalogue, I literally just used some of the colours in the papers.

I started by cutting three pieces of Whisper White that were 4 x 2 3/4". I used Blending Brushes to apply the colours in pairs on the cardstock, creating an ombre effect. I used Mint Macaron with Evening Evergreen, Petal Pink with Poppy Parade, and Granny Apple Green with Shaded Spruce. Some water was splattered over the top before I used my Spruced Up Outline Dies to crop the smaller Christmas Tree shape twice from each piece. Thankfully, I remembered to put some Adhesive Sheet on the back first!

I used the leftover pieces to layer under my Whimsical Woodland 3DEF embossed card, and the cropped trees over the top. I added some Daffodil Delight stars too, and a sentiment from Christmas To Remember.

The inside of my slimline card was decorated using the outline parts of the cropped trees, more stars and another sentiment from Christmas To Remember.

We'd love for you to play along with us this week and every week! Do you have some favourite colours amongst those in the Santa Express DSP? Maybe you'd like to stretch yourself to use a less favoured colour. Either way, we'd love to see your card in our Facebook Group.

Please continue your way around our blog hop tonight before you dash off to get inky! We'd love for you to play along, but first check out Rachel Palmieri's blog for her gorgeous card using the fabulous colours of the Santa Express DSP.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 388: CASE An Embossing Project

 Hi!

Welcome back to a new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. It's been a few weeks since I have played along - life just got a bit busy. It's good to be back!

This week we are asking you to CASE an Embossing Project. It can be from either catalogue, and can be heat, dry or paste embossing.

I chose this card from page 38 of the Mini Catalogue to CASE. I'm usually a bit lazy about getting my heat embossing stuff out, but it already happened to be out because I'd used it on another card. I also loved the distressed look to the dry embossed background on the card.

I changed the card to be a regular sized card, rather than the mini slimline in the catalogue. I also made the dry embossed panel smaller, so that more of the Celebrate Everything Host DSP underneath can be seen. To get the distressed look on the Melon Mambo card, I simply swiped my Craft White ink pad over the top, after it had been embossed with the Whimsical Woodland 3DEF.

I stamped the tree, as in the sample, with the Trees For Sale stamp set. I stamped the baubles over the top, and then realised I hadn't opened my Pearlised Enamel Effects yet. Perfect opportunity! It's so easy to use - just a little dot of the thick liquid over the stamped bauble and let it dry! I cut the panel with my Beautiful Shapes Dies before stamping and adding the Enamel.

I'd made a full card front sized panel when I did the embossing and distressing for the front of the card, so I was able to use the offcuts for the inside. I couldn't resist adding more Enamel to the tree, too. Isn't the dimension wonderful?

That's all from me, but we'd love to see which embossing project you will CASE this week. When you've decided, just add a photo of your card to our Facebook Group before next Sunday's blog hop.

My fellow South Aussie, Michelle Strazds, is the next stop in our blog hop this week. She's created a super-sweet card that you won't want to miss! It's so pretty.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Crumb Cake

 Hi!

Welcome back to the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. It's Crumb Cake week! Crumb Cake is a very popular colour from the Neutrals colour family.

I loved this colour combo from the moment that I spotted it. Brian King is on a winner again! I decided that it would look super cute with the caravan from the Tree Lot Dies.

I wanted a bit of texture in the Pool Party layer, so it was my new Whimsical Woodland 3DEF to the rescue. Have you spotted it in the Mini Catalogue? I hadn't noticed it until some of the AWH ladies started using it in our Heart Of Christmas blog hops of a Monday night.

The caravan dies layer up so well! I snipped the tyre and the stabiliser pole thingy away from the Crumb Cake layer, and added a Basic Black layer underneath. It was very easy to line up. The door was fussy cut from a Real Red die cut - I only popped a small piece of cardstock under the die, as I didn't need a whole red caravan. A quick swipe of my Basic Black marker emphasised the door handle.

I made a second caravan in exactly the same way for the inside of my card. And there's my new Let's Celebrate stamp set for the sentiments - I did say that I really loved it!

That's all from me for tonight, but please do continue your way around our Blog Hop. The next taste of Crumb Cake yumminess is from my wonderful friend, Andrea Sargent. You won't want to miss her visual feast!

If you run into any issues, the fabulous Catherine Proctor is the lady who keeps us all in line. Jump on over to her blog, where you'll find a list of all tonight's hoppers.

Bye for now,

Tina