CASE-ing the Catty - Celebrating 500 Challenges!

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Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week. 

We have an absolutely huge hop for you this week, as we celebrate 500 challenges! I joined the Crew in 2015 at about #37 ( I wasn't so methodical with my numbering back then!) and I've still enjoy the challenge, even when it takes me out of my comfort zone!  We have lots of past Crew joining us this week, so make sure you settle in with a cuppa and enjoy all the creative inspiration.

If you've come from visiting Monique, 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.

For our 500th hop and the last for this year, we are CASE-ing a project of our choice from either the 2024 September-December Mini Catalogue or the 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue. Wow, that makes for a huge choice!  I'm still madly trying to make a few more Christmas cards, so I decided to use up some patterned paper that I have left.

I have a 6" x 12" piece of the pretty candy cane border design from the Sentimental Christmas DSP pack that I have been holding onto, so with inspiration from the project above, I turned it into 3 cards.

I wanted to give my cards a bit more pop, so I've chosen some complementary background designs from the Take A Bow DSP pack. This pack has been a workhorse for me this year, as it goes so well with quite a few of the patterned papers. The good news it is staying around for a while longer.

This is the first card I made with the candy cane border on the left. I covered the Basic White card base with the Garden Green & Granny Apple Green spotty design paper and added a Basic White mat to the piece of candy cane paper. The Real Red ribbon was tied vertically around the panel and finished with a bow at the top. I stamped the greeting from the Peaceful Season stamp set in Garden Green and cropped it with the smallest of the Countryside Corners Dies. I popped up the greeting over the ribbon and then popped up the entire panel onto the card base. I finished with some gold adhesive-backed sequins.

For the next card, I've used the straight section of the border in a landscape format card. I've gone with a wider border this time of the candy cane stripe from the Take A Bow DSP, as I needed to leave enough of the candy cane border paper for the 3rd card. I added the Basic White mat and popped up the centre panel and added the Real Red bow to the candy cane. The greetings are both from the Peaceful Season Bundle with the die cut Christmas from Garden Green card stock on the Basic White background. The second greeting was heat embossed in white on Real Red card stock and cropped with a (retired) Stitched Rectangle Die and then popped up. 

For the final card, I've used the off-cut of the Garden Green spotty paper to create a border on each side of a Basic White card base. The Basic White border was added to the edges of the candy cane paper and I decided to stamp the greeting from the Peaceful Season stamp set directly onto the DSP before adhering the panel flat to the card base. The Real Red ribbon was tied around the top and finished with a bow. The Merry Christmas from the Reindeer Fun stamp set was heat embossed in white on Real Red card stock and cropped with the banner die from the Stylish Shapes Dies (cutting twice to get the length) and popped up. I finished with some gold adhesive-backed sequins.

 

Project Details
Stamps	Reindeer Fun, Peaceful Seasons
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Garden Green, Sentimental Christmas DSP, Take A Bow DSP
Ink	Versamark, Real Red, Garden Green
Accessories	Real Red & Garden Garden Green Faux Linen Ribbon (retired), Neutrals Adhesive-Backed Sequins, Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints
Tools	Stylish Shapes Dies, Peaceful Season Dies, Countryside Corners Dies, Stitched Rectangle Framelits (retired), Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, White EP, Heat Tool

 

We would love to see your CASE of a project from either the  2024 Sep-Dec Mini Catalogue or the 2024-2025 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 Julia to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

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CASEing the Catty - More Reindeer Fun

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 

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. 

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.

 

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!

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