CASEing the Catty - More Reindeer Fun

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Hi there

Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week. It has been 5 long weeks since I have been able to participate and my mojo is feeling very rusty! I've just returned from a month long visit to Western Australia to sort and pack my Mum's house so her hubby could move into an independent living unit on the same campus where she is in residential care. Wow, what a huge job, even bigger than I originally thought. I'm going to have a goal to go through my cupboards annually, to weed out the stuff that isn't needed anymore!

If you've come from visiting Peta & Marvi, then welcome!  If you're visiting me, I appreciate you stopping by today! You can continue your journey to see the other inspiring creations from the CTC Crew by clicking on the button at the bottom of the post.

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This week we are CASE-ing a background in a project from either of the current calalogues. There are so many options for creating a background on your card and whatever option you choose will step up your card another notch.

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I've chosen the project in the photo above for my inspiration, which uses repetitive stamping to create the background behind the foliage frame. There are a few samples of this technique in the catalogues you can check out.

Stampin' Up! Reindeer Days Suite | Judy May | Just Judy Designs
I started by stamping the background panel with the greeting stamp from the Reindeer Fun Bundle. I found that putting a piece of grid paper behind the Basic White card stock and adhering it temporarily, helped me to line up the lines of text. Start off the page and then fill the line and start in a different position on the next line to create the variation.

Stampin' Up! Reindeer Days Suite | Judy May | Just Judy Designs
For the front layer, I have used a design from the Take A Bow DSP and cut the foliage frame using the die from the Reindeer Fun Bundle. The stamped panel was adhered behind the opening and I added the fussy cut reindeer and holly embellishments. The complimentary greeting from the Reindeer Fun stamp set was stamped onto a strip of Basic White and adhered under the fussy cut reindeer to ground it. I used the retired Scalloped Contours Dies to create the sweet scalloped border under the greeting. The finished panel was adhered to the Real Red card base with a narrow border. The Real Red satin bow and some cute Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints were the finishing touch.

Stampin' Up! Reindeer Days Suite | Judy May | Just Judy Designs
For the inside, I have a Granny Apple Green mat for the writing panel and I added a strip of the green design across the bottom. I fussy cut the partial reindeer image and adhered it on the left.

Stampin' Up! Reindeer Days Suite | Judy May | Just Judy Designs

 

Project Details
Stamps Reindeer Fun
Card stock & Papers Basic White, Real Red, Granny Apple Green, Festive Glimmer Paper, Reindeer Days DSP
 Ink Real Red
Accessories Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints, Real Red Satin Ribbon (retired)
Tools Reindeer Fun Dies, Scalloped Contour Dies (retired), Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, 3/16" punch (not SU)

 

We would love to see your CASE of a background from a project from either the 2024 Sep-Dec Mini Catalogue or the 2024-25 Annual Catalogue this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the 'Join Group' button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog. 

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You can head over to Rochelle to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

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I hope you'll join us for our 500th CASE-ing the Catty Blog Hop next week and our last for the year.

Thanks for visiting today!


Heart of Christmas - Week13

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Hi there

Welcome to another week of Heart of Christmas. Each week, the talented ladies from the Art with Heart team will bring you inspiration for your holiday craft projects.

This week I'm having my first play with the Decorative Tree Dies and I don't know why I waited this long! There are lots of dies with lovely details and overlays to add interest and texture and so many options for mixing and matching. I wanted to make use of our beautiful glimmer papers again for lots of sparkle and shine. The dies cut the glimmer paper beautifully even the finest of the overlays.

Stampin' Up! Decorative Tree Dies | Judy May | Just Judy Designs

I started by die cutting some solid trees from the white glimmer and overlays in various colours to get a feel for the dies. I decided to keep it simple and go with just the red and white and I found a panel of Pool Party that was already embossed with the Snowflake Sky 3D embossing folder ready to use - don't you love when that happens! I added some Craft White ink to the embossed panel to bring some more definition to it and then layered it on Real Red to create a tiny border.

Stampin' Up! Decorative Tree Dies | Judy May | Just Judy Designs

The first tree has the plaid overlay and the second tree the very fine detail centre overlay. To make it super easy, applying Adhesive sheet to the reverse first would be recommended. However, using my Silicone Mat I just added tiny dots of Tombow on the reverse of the die cuts and waited until it went tacky. This ensures the die cut adheres easily without slipping around and getting messy. 

The 'Christmas' greeting was cropped from Gold Foil with the Peaceful Season Dies and adhered at the bottom and the 'MERRY' from the Greetings of the Season stamp set was heat embossed in white and cropped into a banner with the Stylish Shapes Dies. The trees were placed in position and I decided to add the smaller greeting from the Peaceful Season stamp set at the top, that I cropped with a banner die from the Nested Essentials Dies. To finish, I added a star from a scrap of retired Gold Glimmer to the mainly white tree and sprinkled some cute peppermint embellishments.

Stampin' Up! Decorative Tree Dies | Judy May | Just Judy Designs

For the inside I have a Basic White writing panel with a tiny border of Real Red and I've added some die cut parcels using the Reindeer Fun Dies. I don't usually put embellishments on the inside but I couldn't resist putting the tiny peppermints in the centre of the bows. I added Wink of Stella to the Pool Party parcel and bow so they could have some sparkle, too.

Stampin' Up! Decorative Tree Dies | Judy May | Just Judy Designs

The camera can't do justice to how pretty and sparkly the trees are!

 

Project Details
Stamps Peaceful Season, Greetings of the Season
Card stock & Papers Basic White, Pool Party, Real Red, Festive Glimmer Paper, Gold Foil, Berry Burst, Old Olive & White Glimmer Paper, Gold Glimmer (retired)
 Ink Versamark, Real Red, Craft White
Accessories Real Red & White Adhesieve-Backed Peppermints
Tools    Nested Essentials Dies, Decorative Trees Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Peaceful Season Dies, Reindeer Fun Dies, Snowflake Sky 3D EF, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, White EP, Heat Tool, small Star punch (retired), Wink of Stella 

 

Now it's time to hop along to see the fabulous project Andrea has made for us this week.

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If at any time you find a broken link and the next blog doesn’t come up, please click on the link for our lovely host of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop, Sharon Davern, and she will have the list of all who are participating.

Thanks for visiting today!