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

JAI 638: Just Choose Two

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Welcome back to my blog for the new Just Add Ink challenge. I love Fridays and the new challenge! This week Di has challenged us to a Choose Two project.

The choices are Candles, Cake or Celebration. As soon as I saw this challenge, I knew the exact stamp I wanted to use - the 'CEL-E-BRATE' stamp I used for my background. It's from a retired Kindred Stamps set, called Time Traveller.

I stamped it down my card using my Stamparatus and the step-stamping technique. The celebrate die cut is from a retired Stampin' Up! die set, called Celebrate You. I was so excited about the 'celebrate' elements of my card, I nearly forgot to choose the second. A few candles, from Ink Road Stamp's Belated stamp set, fit the bill!

My robot (hopefully you can hear him saying celebrate in his particular voice!), is from another Kindred Stamps set, called It's About Time. I struggled with which colours to use on him, but finally settled on red and grey.

I decided to go with another villain from the series on the inside, despite this image not looking very villainous! She goes well with the sentiment, and both are from the Time Traveler set. I'm sure the someone who loves this fandom will love the card!

That's all from me for this week's challenge, but your job is just beginning! Jump on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find lots more inspiration from the Design Team. Then you can choose your two elements, and get stamping! Link your card over on the JAI blog when you're done. 

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Polished Pink

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It's Wednesday, which means that it's Colour Creations time! Woo hoo! This week we have Polished Pink, one of the outgoing In Colours. If it's a colour that you love - stock up now!

I quite like Polished Pink. It's a bright pink, but not too overpowering. I absolutely adore this combo by Brian King. Such a great idea to pair it with Blackberry Bliss and Crumb Cake. I chose my new Taco Fiesta stamp set to use for this week's card. Probably not what you'd expect with this colour combo - but I love the card I made!

When I buy a new stamp set, I often start by CASEing another card that I like that uses the set. In this instance, I CASEd a gorgeous card by Heidi Collins from On Y Go Stamping. Her card used different colours, but I kept the layout basically the same.

I stamped the piñata on Shimmery White cardstock with Crumb Cake ink, and then watercoloured the body with the same ink. I wanted a very soft effect. The rest was coloured with my Stampin' Blends to get the bolder, rich colours.

I used the hat on the inside of the card, but I'm a bit worried that it doesn't look much like a hat! Maybe I should have left it uncoloured, or stamped it in black. You may notice that I've split the sentiment over the front and inside of the card - I just masked off the section that I didn't want in each case. Easy!

The next stop in our Blog Hop tonight is the lovely Caroline Manwaring. We've missed her on the hops, so it's great to see her back.

As always, the wonderful Catherine Proctor keeps us all organised each week. Jump on over to her blog if you run into any issues with links - she'll have a full list of all of tonight's participants on her blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 404: Country Floral Lane Suite

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Thanks for stopping by on your way around the CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. It's a great way to finish the weekend, don't you think?

This week we are asking you to CASE a project from the Country Floral Lane Suite pages of the new Mini Catalogue. The projects are all a bit lovey-dovey for me, so I decided to make a birthday card instead.

My eye was caught by this card on page 8. I really loved the strips of DSP, the ribbon that has been cut in half, and the layering under the sentiment. I included all of these things in my card, but in very different ways.

I started by cutting some strips of Country Gingham DSP and cropping the edges of most of the pieces with the border die from the Penned Flowers Dies. These were layered over a Thick Whisper White card base. Shhh, I snuck in a little bit of retired Mint Macaron Glimmer Paper to finish it off.

I cropped some Balmy Blue paper from the Subtles Stack using the outline flower die in the Penned Flowers, topped it with some White Glittered Organdy Ribbon, which I'd cut in half. The butterfly over the top has one layer cut from the Mint Macaron Glimmer paper, and the second from Layering Designs Vellum. A few scattered pearls finished off the front.

I used my Simply Fabulous stamp set for sentiments throughout the card. The butterfly was cropped using my Brilliant Wings Dies from some left over DSP from the front. I don't like to waste any scraps!

All you need to do to play along with us is make your project and add a photo to our Facebook group. It's that easy!

Before you go, please do continue your way around our blog hop for plenty more Country Floral Lane Suite inspiration. The next stop is the lovely Monique Fielder.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 637: Just Add A Sketch

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Hello, there! It's Friday, which means that it's time for the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week it's a sketch challenge, designed by me.

I've been doing a lot of hand quilting for the past 6 months or so, and the triangles in the sketch made me wonder if I could translate some of my new skills with fabric to paper using the gorgeous Lovely Linen DSP. It's a lot like quilting fabric, so I was pretty sure I'd be able to make something awesome.

I was right! I used my Stitched Triangles Dies to fussy cut the paper, and then adhered it to a Night Of Navy base. I always love the new patterns that this process creates.

I couldn't bear to cover any of the card front up with something to represent the circle part of the design, but then I realised that the square cross that's formed in the middle of the card works for the circle element. The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted's Bedtime Story stamp set.

I'm not yet sure who will get this card, or for what occasion, so I've chosen not to stamp on the inside of my card for now. A strip of the DSP will do for now!

We'd love for you to play along with us this week at Just Add Ink. I'd especially love to see what you do with my sketch! You can see what the rest of the Design team have done with it over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also link up your card for the challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Petal Pink

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Thanks for stopping by on your way around the latest Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are focusing on Petal Pink, which is one of my least favourite colours in the SU range. It's quite an orangey/peachy pink, and for me that makes it a difficult colour to work with.

I did like this combo from Brian King, so that became my starting point. I also received my first box of goodies from the new Mini and Sale-A-Bration Catalogues on Monday, so I decided to use some of my new things.

Top of my must-haves from the Mini Catalogue was the Watercolour World stamp set. I'm a sucker for anything map related! I used my Stamparatus to stamp the image onto Whisper White cardstock and then trimmed it for my card front. I decided to do something a little different and cut the image in two pieces. The right side of the globe went onto the left side of my card, and visa versa. I lost a bit of the middle (sorry Africa and Eastern Europe!), but I quite like the effect.

The double matted panels were layered over another new product - Country Gingham DSP. Gingham's another thing that I'm a sucker for! The sentiment is from Biggest Wish, fussy cut, popped up and layered over some Soft Sea Foam card and Vellum.

All of the same products were used on the inside. I contemplated using the middle piece of the map that I'd cut away from the front, but it didn't really look like a map without the rest of the image - just weird blobs of colour. A strip of the DSP had to suffice!

Next up is my lovely friend, Andrea Sergeant. I'm sure that she's done wonderful things with Petal Pink, so you won't want to miss her blog!

Catherine Proctor is the lady in the know, as always! If you get lost or find a broken link, please pop on over to her blog, where you'll find a list of all of tonight's participants to help get you back on track.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 403: CASE The SAB Catalogue

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Welcome back to the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. Isn't it a great way to end the weekend - or start your week - depending on your perspective?

This week we are asking you to CASE a project from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue. The catalogue may be tiny, but there's a lot of inspiration to be found.

I found this fun card on page 15. I really liked the diagonal lines in the card and the circular focal point. In thinking about how to recreate the card, my newish Timeless Greetings Kit with the globe and the pocket watch came to mind.

I cropped one of the card bases for the topmost piece of DSP on my card. I inked around it with Crumb Cake ink to help it stand out from the Crumb Cake card base. The bottom black check plate print DSP was cut on an angle and popped up over the top. I cut one of the Cajun Craze sentiment mats in half longways to use as the feature strip on top of the black. The join in the two halves is hidden under the globe!

Isn't this sentiment great? It fits with the globe element perfectly. It didn't fit on the angle, so I popped it on the card straight.

Some of the smaller left over paper scraps from the front of the card were put to great use on the inside of my card. Waste not, want not!

To play along with us, all you need to do is add a photo of your card that CASEs a card from the SAB Catalogue to our Facebook group. Easy!

We'd love for you to continue on with the blog hop, the next stop along the way is the lovely Peta Stephen with a gorgeous card in some of my favourite colours.