Bird Ballad Pop-Up Fancy Fold

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Today I'm sharing a fancy fold card using the Bird Ballad Suite of products. I was inspired by this card from Amanda Bates and decided to come up with a landscape version of her Pop-up Front Step Panel card.  I've sized it for the frame I created with the Stitched Rectangle Dies that fits the large bird image from the Free As A Bird stamp set. 

The back panel and the step is created from a single piece of Pool Party card stock and I've used two coordinating designs from the Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper to embellish them. 

I stamped the bird image onto a piece of Whisper White cut to the exact size of the frame I created with two Stitched Rectangle Dies. I used Memento Espresso Truffle ink for a slightly softer outline to the image and then coloured it with Stampin' Blends markers. I went over the background with the Light Pool Party Stampin' Blend marker to add some sky. White Baker's Twine was wrapped twice around the finished art piece and then adhered to the front panel. The finished front panel was then adhered to the back panel and the front of the step. The greeting was white embossed on Bermuda Bay card stock and cropped with the smallest of the Stitched Rectangle Dies. I finished with a fussy cut flower, bud and leaves in the corner.

I have created a writing panel on the reverse, with a mat of Petal Pink card stock and part of the bird image stamped and coloured in the bottom corner. 

The card fold flats for easy mailing. To get the proportions I was happy with, it is slightly over size, so I made a custom envelope for a snug fit.

 

Project Details
Stamps	Free As A Bird
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pool Party, Bermuda Bay, Petal Pink, Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper
Ink	Memento Espresso Truffle, Versamark
Accessories	Rhinestones, White Baker's Twine
Tools	Rectangle Stitched Dies, Butterfly Beauty Dies, Big Shot, Dimensionals, Stampin' Blends (Petal Pink, Old Olive, Pool Party, Bermuda Bay, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake), White EP, Heat gun

 

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CASE-ing the Catty - CASE a Layout

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Welcome to another week of CASE-ing the Catty!

If you've come from looking at the lovely project on Sandra's blog, 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 buttons at the bottom of the post. 

This week, our challenge is to CASE a layout from Page 103 of the Annual Catalogue and change the theme.  

I decided to CASE the cute baby gift bag in the photo above, which I've cropped out so you can see it better.  I decided to change from a 3D item to a card and the theme to a feminine birthday.

I started  with a piece of Balmy Blue card stock embossed with the Subtle Embossing Folder that I found in my scrap bag and used a Layering Squares die to cut the aperture. I placed it on the thick Whisper White card base and traced around the aperture and used that to position another Layering Squares die, resulting in a double frame. I added foam strips to the Balmy Blue panel and popped it up over the white card base so that it would stay firm and not go saggy.

I could have stamped the greeting on the inside of the card, so you could see through the frame, but I decided to stamp the lovely greeting from the Rare Blessings stamp set in Blueberry Bushel ink on another panel of Whisper white and adhered it to the inside and it covered the not so nice back of the die cut.

I have stamped and coloured the lovely blossom spray from the Bloom & Grow stamp set and popped it up at the bottom of the frame.  I used Stampin' Blends alcohol markers in Balmy Blue, Rococo Rose, So Saffron and Granny Apple Green. I didn't want to cover the frame, so I added a double bow of silver/white Baker's Twine at the base of the flowers.

For the inside I have a Balmy Blue mat for the writing panel and a strip of Balmy Blue Gingham at the base. I fussy cut part of the floral spray and added it to corner. The birthday greeting is from the Perennial Birthday stamp set and stamped in Blueberry Bushel ink.

 

Project Details
Stamps	Rare Blessings, Perennial Birthday, Bloom &  Grow
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Balmy Blue, Subtles DSP Stack
Ink	Memento Expresso Truffle, Blueberry Bushel
Accessories	Rhinestones, Silver/White Baker's Twine (retired)
Tools	Subtle EF, Layering Squares Dies, Budding Blooms Dies, Big Shot, Stampin' Blends (Balmy Blue, So Saffron, Rococo Rose, Granny Apple Green), Foam Strips, Dimensionals

If you would like your own copy of the new 2019-20 Annual Catalogue, then leave your details over on my Free Catalogues page.

Now it's time to click on the Next button below to hop over to see what Shannon has to inspire you this week. 

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CASE-ing the Catty - Garden Lane Colours

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Welcome to another week of CASE-ing the Catty!

If you've come from looking at the lovely project on Monique's blog, 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 buttons at the bottom of the post. 

This week, we are CASE-ing the colours from the Garden Lane DSP on page 41 of the Annual Catalogue.  The Garden Lane Designer Series Paper is in lots of shades of green. I use green a lot for accents, but it isn't a primary go-to colour for me, so creating just with these colours was a real challenge. 

I chose one of the designs from the Garden Lane Designer series paper pack as my starting point and then took my queues from the paper. 

I started  with a Mint Macaron card base and added a piece of the soft leafy patterned paper with a white background. In the centre is a panel of Mint Macaron card stock that I have dry embossed with the new Bricks & Mortar 3D Embossing Folder for some added interest and texture. 

My focus is a fluffy white daisy created with thick Whisper White card stock and the Daisy Punch and the new Medium Daisy Punch. I've got 3 layers of petals for the base and 2 layers for the centre. The stamens are in Mint Macaron and cropped with a die from the Magnolia Memory Dies. I finished it with a large Clear Faceted Gem. Also from the same die set are the 2 leaves in Mossy Meadow. 

I also stamped the greeting from the Rare Blessings stamp set in Mossy Meadow and cropped it with the Rectangle Stitched Dies. To finish I have finished with a silver leaf from the Leaves Trinkets topped with a Mint Macaron Baker's Twine bow. I used the Light Mint Macaron Stampin' Blend marker to colour White Baker's twine.

For the inside I added a layer of the designer paper and then the stitched rectangle writing panel matte on Mint Macaron card stock. I added another daisy at the base, this time just using the Medium Daisy Punch and a centre of Mossy Meadow. Instead of a gem I added a punched circle in Silver Glimmer.

 

Project Details
Stamps	Rare Blessings
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Mint Macaron, Mossy Meadow Garden Lane DSP
Ink	Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Clear Faceted Gem, White Baker's Twine, Leaves Trinkets,
Tools	Bricks & Mortar 3D EF, Rectangle Stitched Dies, Magnolia Memory Dies, Big Shot, Stampin' Blends (Light Mint Macaron), Daisy & Medium Daisy Punches, Dimensionals

If you would like your own copy of the new 2019-20 Annual Catalogue, then leave your details over on my Free Catalogues page.

Now it's time to click on the Next button below to hop over to see what Liz has to inspire you this week. 

We would love you to join us with your CASE this week, using our Facebook group. 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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CASE-ing the Catty - CASE a Layout

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Welcome to another week of CASE-ing the Catty!

If you've come from looking at the lovely project on Rebecca's blog, 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 buttons at the bottom of the post. 

This week, we are CASE-ing a layout from page 151 of the Annual Catalogue.  You can see the variety of layouts in the photo above. My initial inspiration came from the card at the top right with the weather vane and also the card on the top left with the cropped Stitched Nested Label Die. So my card is a mash-up of both layouts with a bit of creative license thrown in!

So this is what I came up with. I turned the card at the top right 90^o to make it portrait. The card base is Lovely Lipstick and I add a panel of Gray Granite card stock that was dry embossed with the Subtle 3D Embossing Folder. I then created a waist band at the top and added some belt loops. The straight die that comes with the fabulous Stitched Nested Labels Dies was used to create the stitched look, which makes it look authentic, don't you think? I found out the hard way that you need to do the embossing before adding the stitching, as the stitching gets flattened.

I bought the Pocketful of Happiness stamp set as I loved the slightly retro look of the imagery and the sample project in Annual Catalogue. Are you old enough to remember embroidered jeans from the 70's? The 'pocket' image coordinates with the Pocket Dies that I don't have, but when I saw the cropped Stitched Nested Label in the card at the top left, I wondered whether any of those dies would be large enough. Well, I'm stoked to tell you that the largest of the Stitched Nested Label Dies works perfectly with this image and I used the straight die to add the stitching across the top.

The image was coloured with Stampin' Blends - Lovely Lipstick for the flowers, Granny Apple Green for the leaves and the background with Light Pool Party.  I also went around the image with Dark Pool Party to add a bit of shadow. I used the Chalk Marker to colour the bird and then added a hint of shadow with the Basic Gray watercolour pencil. The flowers in the pocket are a separate image, which were coloured and then fussy cut and popped up at different heights in the pocket. The greeting is from the Very Versailles stamp set and is pretty flexible for a friendship, birthday or 'just because' card. I wanted the greeting label to be the same colour as the pocket, so I coloured a small piece of card stock with the  light Pool Party Stampin' Blend marker. When it was dry and I stamped the greeting in Lovely Lipstick ink and cropped it with the smallest of the ovals from the Stitched Shapes Dies.

For the inside I added a Gray Granite mat to the white writing panel, which tones down the brightness of the Lovely Lipstick a little. At the base is a strip of the Lovely Lipstick gingham designer paper and at the top I've stamped and coloured another of the coordinating images from the Pocketful of Happiness stamp set. 

Well, I hope you can see how the creative process brought me to this point! CASE-ing is a great way to get inspired and who knows where you will end up, lol.

Project Details
Stamps	Pocketful of Happiness, Very Versailles
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Lovely Lipstick, Gray Granite, 2018-20 In Colour DSP
Ink	Memento Espresso Truffle, Lovely Lipstick
Accessories	Rhinestones, White Baker's Twine
Tools	Stitched Nested Labels Dies, Subtle 3D EF, Stitched Shapes Dies, Big Shot, Stampin' Blends (Lovely Lipstick, Granny Apple Green, Pool Party), Chalk Marker, Basic Gray Watercolour pencil, Dimensionals

If you would like your own copy of the new 2019-20 Annual Catalogue, then leave your details over on my Free Catalogues page.

Now it's time to click on the Next button below to hop over to see what Siobhan has to inspire you this week. 

We would love you to join us with your CASE this week, using our Facebook group. 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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CASE-ing the Catty - Love, Thanks, Support

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Welcome to another week of CASE-ing the Catty!

If you've come from looking at the lovely project on Siobhan's blog, 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 buttons at the bottom of the post. 

This week, we're taking inspiration from the Love, Thanks & Support section of the Annual Catalogue on pages 72-97.  There are just so many fabulous samples in this huge section of the catalogue.  I'm definitely going to be CASE-ing a few more projects from these pages in the future.

I settled on the card above, using products from the Bird Ballad Suite. The Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper is fabulous for fussy cutting the pretty bird images and I love all of the coordinating colours.

I decided to make my card square, so I could create some extra 'real estate'. As with the sample, I have used Pool Party for my base card and the top layer, which has been die cut with the fabulous Stitched Nested Labels Dies. The leaves were stamped with Pool Party ink before adding a layer of Whisper White behind the aperture, leaving a narrow border.  I wanted to bring in some extra colour so I added a wider border of Petal Pink before layering the panel on the 13cm square Pool Party card base.  

I knew I was going to pop-up the image, so I adhered it first to some Whisper White before fussy cutting. I chose to cut close to the line as you can then go around the image with a slightly lighter marker (I used a Soft Suede Stampin' Write marker) to cover the white core. Because it can be hard to get into areas such as behind the bird's legs, putting the image on the same colour background (in this case white), means that it is much less noticeable. Where this isn't possible, you maybe able to colour the background like I did for the top flower in the photo. I used a Light Pool Party Stampin' Blend Marker to colour the small area between the flowers.  Some of the stems on the flower buds are very narrow, so another trick I use is to leave a little bit of white on each side of the stem and then colour it with the marker.

I used a greeting from the Itty Bitty Greetings stamp set, stamped in Calypso Coral on Petal Pink card stock and cropped with the Classic Label Punch, which mirrors the shape of the aperture. I added a little scallop border in Calypso coral to tie in the Petal Pink mat and flowers. A sprinkle of rhinestones finish it off.

For the inside I have mirrored the Petal Pink mat with the white writing panel. At the base is a strip of the sweet striped designer paper which includes most of the colours in the bird image. On a scrap of designer paper I found the half bird image, which was the perfect colour and conveniently facing in the right direction. 

 

Project Details
Stamps	Free As A Bird, Itty Bitty Greetings
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pool Party, Petal Pink, Calypso Coral, Bird Ballad DSP
Ink	Pool Party, Calypso Coral
Accessories	Rhinestones
Tools	Stitched Nested Labels Dies, Big Shot, Light Pool Party Stampin' Blends, Classic Label Punch, Decorative Ribbon Border Punch, Soft Suede Stampin' Write Marker, Dimensionals, Tombow Liquid Glue

If you would like your own copy of the new 2019-20 Annual Catalogue, then leave your details over on my Free Catalogues page.

Now it's time to click on the Next button below to hop over to see what Julia has to inspire you this week. 

We would love you to join us with your CASE this week, using our Facebook group. 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. 

I hope you've enjoyed my project inspired by a card layout and thanks for visiting me today!

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