CASE-ing the Catty - Loving the New Colours!

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Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty this week.

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. 

This week we are taking inspiration from a project in the new 2023-24 Annual Catalogue that uses some of our new colours. We have 11 new core colours in the Colour Collection and I'm thrilled to see some lovely brand new colours and some old favourites returning to freshen everything up.

The Bright & Beautiful Suite Collection on pages 14 and 15 is a bright, fun group of products that is perfect for all kinds of celebratory occasions. It also includes 6 of the new core colours and I chose the project in the photo above for my inspiration.

I have included all the key elements of the sample project, but mixed it up a bit. I started with a portrait tent fold card and added the stars and Berry Burst designs from the Bright & Beautiful Designer Series Paper pack to the card base. The fun fringe in Berry Burst was created with a die from the Beautiful Balloons Dies and I wrapped some Bubble Bath sheer ribbon around the top with a knot added separately. The fringe covers the join of the papers, leaving space for the'celebrate' greeting at the base. The die comes from the new Wanted To Say Dies and I have added Foam Adhesive Sheet to the reverse of Gold Foil to create lots of dimension and then adhered it to the shadow.  The 'celebrate' die is very fine, so you need to be super careful releasing it from the frame.

I have cropped 3 balloons from Blueberry Bushel, Lemon Lime Twist and Berry Burst card stock using the die from Beautiful Balloons Dies. The greeting from the Beautiful Balloons stamp set was stamped on the Lemon Lime Twist balloon in black ink. I've cropped another balloon from the new Gold Celebrations Specialty Paper (it is actually window sheet or acetate) that is part of the suite and carefully adhered it to the Blueberry Bushel balloon. If you put tiny dots of Tombow Glue on the reverse side on the streamers and let it go tacky, it will not smear. For the Berry Burst balloon, I've embossed it with the cross-hatch design from the Basics 3D Embossing Folders (from Online Exclusives).

 

Project Details
Stamps	Beautiful Balloons
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Blueberry Bushel, Lemon Lime Twist, Berry Burst, Bright & Beautiful DSP, Gold Celebrations Specialty DSP, Gold Foil
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories	Tinsel Gems Four-Pack, 3/8" Sheer Ribbon Combo Pack
Tools	Beautiful Balloons Dies, Cracker & Treat Box Dies, Wanted To Say Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, Foam Adhesive Sheet

 

We would love to see your CASE of a project from the new 2023-24 Annual Catalogue using the new colours 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. 

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

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CASE-ing the Catty - It's All About Love!

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Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty on this Mother's Day 2023!  I hope all the Mums, Nanas and carers (including of our 4-legged members of the family) have had a lovely day and feel a little special.

If you've come from visiting  Kathryn, 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. 

As it is Mother's Day today, it is appropriate that we are CASE-ing a 'Love' project from the new 2023-24 Annual Catalogue.

I chose the sweet 3D packaging project in the photo above for my CASE and turned it into a card instead.

My patterned papers arrived this week, so I've used the pretty floral print from the Delightfully Eclectic Designer Series Paper pack for the background on my card. I was going to leave the side edges bare as shown in the sample, but when I turned over the paper to see the pretty pink stripe, I couldn't resist! I added the pink stripes directly to the card and the floral panel to a piece of Basic White, to make it easier to wrap the twine around it. The treat box sample uses the Copper Clay jute from the 2023-25 In Color Jute Trim pack, but as I don't have that right now, I have coloured Baker's Twine with the Cajun Craze Stampin' Blends markers.  

I've used the largest circle from the Stylish Shapes Dies to crop the pierced circle from Bubble Bath card stock. This is such a lovely clear pink that we have needed in the colour collection. The foliage was cropped with a die from the Timeless Arrangements Dies using Garden Green & Old Olive card stock. The flowers were stamped in Bubble Bath and Cajun Craze inks using the Two-Tone Flora stamp set and cropped with the correseponding dies. The Bubble Bath circle is popped up over the twine and the foliage and flowers are adhered flat. The greeting from the Go To Greetings stamp set was stamped in Cajun Craze ink and cropped with a banner die from the Stylish Shapes Dies and popped up over the flowers and foliage. I finished with a trio of tinsel gems from the Tinsel Gems Four-Pack in the Berry Burst colour, which works very nicely with Bubble Bath.

 

Project Details
Stamps	Two-Tone Flora, Go To Greetings
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Bubble Bath, Garden Green, Old OliveDelightfully Eclectic DSP
Ink	Bubble Bath, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Baker's Twine Essentials Pack, Tinsel Gems Four-Pack, Brushed Brass Butterflies
Tools	Two-Tone Flora Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Timeless Arrangements Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, Cajun Craze Stampin' Blends

 

We would love to see your CASE of a 'Love' project from the new 2023-24 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. 

You can head over to the Rebecca to see her beautiful Mother's Day project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

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CASE-ing the Catty - 2023-24 Annual Catalogue

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I'm very happy to be back, but a little sad that our holiday is now over. It was a wonderful 6 weeks visiting France, Portugal and the UK and celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary. As it has been a while, I've given myself permission to keep it simple today. My new goodies from the 2023-24 Annual Catalogue are still on their way to me, so hopefully I'll have something new to show you next week.

If you've come from visiting my lovely friend  Tina, 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 have free reign to CASE any project from the new 2023-24 Annual Catalogue. I hope you've had an opportunity to browse all the amazing new products and take in all the new and returning colours that will be joining the core collection. I'm very happy that some old favourites like Berry Burst and Pretty Peacock are back. I have lots of happy work to do this week to reorganise all my colour collections and stamp sets ready for the new goodies.

I chose the card above from page 39 of the 2023-24 Annual Catalogue to inspire me to use the Cottage Wreath stamp set and coordinating Country Wreaths Dies that I have had for a little while, but haven't used.

It's never too early for a Christmas Card, right? I chose the Lost Lagoon design from the Hello, Irresistible paper pack for the first layer, using a die from the Basic Borders Dies to create the decorative border. The next layer is the polka dot vellum from the Vellum Basics pack cropped with the same border die. 

The bottom wreath was cropped from Thick Basic White and the top from Silver Foil and then adhered together and popped up over the banners. The greeting from the Cottage Wreaths stamp set was heat embossed in white on Lost Lagoon card stock, which was a lucky find in my scratch card stock pile. I cropped the embossed greeting with a die from the Stylish Shapes Dies and adhered it over the wreath, with some white foliage positioned underneath and the Baker's Twine bow, coloured with the Dark Real Red Stampin' Blend marker. I finished with clusters of berries using the (retired) Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels. 

I'll have to wait until I have the Lost Lagoon ink pad to finish the inside!

 

Project Details
Stamps	Cottage Wreaths
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Hello, Irresistible, Lost Lagoon, Silver Foil Specialty Pack, Vellum Basics
Ink	Versamark
Accessories	Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels (retired), Baker's Twine Essentials Pack
Tools	Country Wreaths Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Basic Borders Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, Heat Tool, White EP, Real Red Stampin' Blends

 

We would love to see your CASE from the new 2023-24 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. 

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

Thanks for visiting today!

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