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CASE-ing the Catty - Splendid Autumn Belt & Buckle Fun Fold

September 08, 2024

Hi there

Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week.

If you've come from visiting Andrea, 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 from the new 2024 September-December Mini Catalogue that is now LIVE to customers. We are free to choose any project from the Mini Catalogue, so I thought I'd take a break from holiday projects by using the pcard above for inspiration (although you could totally use the layout for a holiday card, too).

This card uses the pretty Spendid Autumn 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper and I really like that the reverse side has coordinating colour in a soft wash style that makes it super easy to create with.

My card is rectangular rather than square, but hopefully you can see the key elements I've taken from the layout. I've changed it up a bit by making mine into a Belt & Buckle Fun Fold card that uses almost all of the 6" x 6" sheet of paper. I started with a Fresh Freesia card base with the fold at the left side and cut 1" (2.5cm) off the right side. I chose the pretty mauve floral design and cut 1/4" (6mm) off the top (sky) and then the remainder off the bottom to fit my card base with a narrow border. Cut the narrow strip from the right edge and then the larger piece, to keep the design flowing across the card.

Before adhering the narrow strip of patterned paper, I attached the 'belt' to the right edge. It is a 1" (2.5cm) strip of Fresh Freesia card stock that is cut to an arrow shape at the end. To make the belt more flexible I used my Bone Folder to stretch and soften the fibres so it wouldn't crack when flexed. The 'buckle' is a label cropped from Whisper White using the Nested Essentials Dies and the greeting from the So Sincere stamp set was stamped with Mossy Meadow ink. I cut 2 strips from the edge of a sheet of Dimensionals and placed them each side of the label, so the 'belt' could go through the centre. The label was embellished with flowers and foliage cropped with the Country Birdhouse and Country Flowers Dies and I chose Petunia Pop and Garden Green to add contrast and pop. I added Irridescent Pearls to the centre of the flowers and finished with a couple of Brushed Brass Butterflies.

For the inside, I have a Basic White writing panel with a little spray of flowers from the Labeled With Love stamp set stamped in the corner in Garden Green and Petunia Pop ink. The narrow strip at the bottom is the reverse side of the 1/4" strip I took off the top of the sheet. You can see on the right I added a strip of the patterned paper to the reverse side of the 'belt', which adds extra strength as well as being as being decorative.

The card will stand nicely with the belt slightly open as shown above.

Project Details
Stamps	So Sincere, Labeled With Love
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Fresh Freesia, Petunia Pop, Garden Green, Splendid Autumn 6" x 6" DSP
Ink	Mossy Meadow, Garden Green, Petunia Pop
Accessories	Irridescent Pearls, Brushed Brass Butterflies
*Tools*	Country Flowers Dies, Country Birdhouse Dies, Nested Essentials Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, Glue Dots

We would love to see your CASE from the 2024 Sep - Dec Mini 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.

Thanks for visiting today!

Posted at 06:55 PM in CASE-ing The Catty, Feminine, Get Well | Permalink | Comments (0)

CASE-ing the Catty - Bee Mine Section

January 21, 2024

Hi there

Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week.

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.

This week we are taking inspiration from the Bee Mine section of the 2024 January-April Mini Catalogue, which is on pages 8 - 13. There are lots of cute samples here for projects where you want to send love.

I've chosen the project above from page 9 of the 2024 January-April Mini Catalogue for my inspiration, as the cute 3D frame caught my eye.

I'm not sure of the size of the sample made by the Stampin' Up! concept artist, but the finished size of mine is 5" (12.7cm) square and the inside space is 4" (10.2cm) square. That means a starting size of 9" (22.9cm) square of the Sweet Sorbet design from the Bee Mine Designer Paper. Once you know the principles of how the frame is made you can adjust the size as desired. I have a tutorial available for a rectangular version, but the construction process is the same whether the frame is square or rectangular.

Once the frame is made, it is all about the decoration. I added a layer of the sweet floral into the centre. I stamped the greeting from the Heartfelt Hexagon stamp set with Poppy Parade ink on Basic White and cropped it with the coordinating Heartfelt Hexagon Punch. I cropped another in Pool Party and cut it in half to frame the greeting at the top and bottom. To give my greeting some focus, I popped it up on a Vellum circle cropped with the Deckled Circles Dies. The cute bees were fussy cut from other sheets of the Bee Mine Designer Paper and popped up at the corners. I added some foliage in Granny Apple Green cropped with a die from the Thoughtful Expressions Dies. I adhered the embellishment in the centre of the frame, with Glue Dots adhered on the back of the Vellum circle where they couldn't be seen and finished with a couple of Petal Pink flowers from the Adhesive-Backed Hearts & Flowers embellishments.

On the reverse of the frame, I have white writing panel and the flowers from the Bee My Valentine stamp set were stamped in coordinating colours of Petal Pink, Pool Party and Sweet Sorbet on Lemon Lime Twist stems. The panel was added to a Pool Party mat and adhered to the frame.

I'll be sending this to my Mum who is unwell at the moment and I hope it will bring a smile to her face.

Project Details
Stamps	Heartfelt Hexagon, Bee Mine Valentine
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pool Party, Granny Apple Green, Bee Mine DSP, Vellum Cardstock
Ink	Poppy Parade, Pool Party, Lemon Lime Twist, Petal Pink
Accessories	Pool Party 3/8" Grosgrain Ribbon, Adhesive-Backed Hearts & Flowers
*Tools*	Deckled Circles Dies, Thoughtful Expressions Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Heartfelt Hexagon Punch, Dimensionals, Glue Dots

We would love to see your CASE of a project from the Bee Mine Section of the 2024 Jan-Apr Mini 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 lovely Julia to see her cute project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

Thanks for visiting today!

Posted at 06:55 PM in 3-D Project, CASE-ing The Catty, Feminine, Friendship, Get Well | Permalink | Comments (1)

Get Well with Seasonal Branches Bundle

July 22, 2023

Hi there

I've just returned from a lovely week away in Melbourne, where I attended a team event to celebrate 35 years of Stampin' Up! Instead of a large event, Stampin' Up! has selected 35 events worldwide that are hosted by local team leaders and attended by a representative from the Home Office. This is rather novel and I'm fortunate that my team leader Claire Daly was successful in being selected for one of the events. Not only that, we had the CEO, Sara Douglass come all the way from Salt Lake City, Utah to spend a fabulous day with us. I stayed on for the rest of the week to catch up with friends I haven't seen since I left more than 2 years ago.

I designed one of the four make & take projects for the attendees, so today I'm sharing the card I designed. It was a busy time cutting and assembling the card kits before I went. This is the class table in my studio with 59 card kits laid out, so I could compile all the required pieces and not miss anything. They were then packaged into individual cello bags so nothing could get lost

It is surprisingly challenging to come up with a design that can be completed within 30 minutes, is not too expensive, doesn't use too many tools (only the Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss machine) and isn't too boring for a group of Demonstrators! Here is what I came up with.

As this is a get well card, I've chosen the very calming Boho Blue for the card base and then added the bright white panel embossed with the cross-hatch design from the Basics 3D Embossing Folders. The octagons created with the Countryside Corners Bundle form the background and the white octagon has a softly blended Balmy Blue 'sky' for the bird and branch from the Seasonal Branches bundle. The bird was coloured with Boho Blue and Pecan Pie Stampin' Blends markers.

For the inside, I have stamped part of the leaf set across the bottom of the writing panel and added another bird. Unfortunately, there wasn't time at the event to do the inside, but I encouraged everyone to stamp and colour the second bird to finish it at home.

Here, Sara is preparing for her surprise demonstration with a table of ladies behind, doing one of their make & takes. We had lots of lovely display boards and samples to look at, plus yummy treats for morning and afternoon tea and a bento box lunch.

I managed to get a pic with Sara at the start of the day. I was totally knackered by the end, after supervising the 8 tables doing my make & take, but it was a fabulous day, enjoyed by all.

Project Details
Stamps	Seasonal Branches, Countryside Corners
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Boho Blue, Pecan Pie
Ink	Boho Blue, Balmy Blue, Old Olive, Pecan Pie, Early Espesso
Accessories	Brushed Brass Butterflies, Linen Thread
	Basics 3D Embossing Folder, Seasonal Branches Dies, Countryside Corners Dies, Paper Florist Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, Tombow Glue, Glue Dots, Stampin' Blends - Boho Blue, Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Pie

Thanks for visiting today!

Posted at 06:06 PM in Get Well | Permalink | Comments (3)

CASE-ing the Catty - Feels Like Frost DSP Colours

September 15, 2019

Hi there

Welcome to another week of CASE-ing the Catty!

If you've come from looking at the lovely project on Peta'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 CASE-ing the colours from the Feels Like Frost Designer Series Paper on page 40 of the Holiday Catalogue and taking inspiration from the layouts on the same page.

This paper incorporates a lot of colours, so plenty of options to choose from in this pack. The other fabulous aspect to this paper is that the reverse side of every sheet has a silver foil and white design that will coordinate with a lot of projects.

I've taken my inspiration from the card above, using one of my favourite designs from the Feels Like Frost Designer Series Paper. I love the soft purple shades with just a touch of green and the soft blurred background. Instead of a Christmas Card, I've made a simple everyday card with a flexible greeting that could work as a birthday, get well, sympathy or friendship card. It's great to have some of these types of cards in your stash and this paper is perfect for them.

I wanted to maximise the beautiful designer paper, so I've gone for a large square card base (size is 13.5cm or 5 1/4") in Highland Heather and I added a white mat to the designer paper to give it a bit of pop. Can't get simpler than that.

For the embellishment, I started with a large oval of Vellum card stock, just to soften the background and give it more focus. I added a zig-zag of the lovely Old Olive/Pretty Peacock Reversible Ribbon to pick up the green in the paper and add a pop of colour. The greeting from Good Morning Magnolia was stamped in Gorgeous Grape and cropped with the Stitched Nested Label Dies. I shortened it by cutting 3/4 of the image first then moving the die to the length I wanted. This is a great technique to master as you get more mileage out of all of your basic shape and label dies.

The flowers in the paper reminded me of the foliage in the Frosted Bouquet Dies, so I cut some in Silver Foil and Vellum card stock and positioned them under the corners of the greeting label, which I popped up over the top. I finished with a little popped up Silver Glimmer heart and a sprinkle of Frosted Epoxy Droplets.

For the inside I have a Silver Foil mat for my writing panel and I have stamped the floral spray from the First Frost stamp set on the right. It also looks a bit similiar to the flowers on the designer paper and I used Stampin' Write markers direct to the rubber with Gorgeous Grape and Granny Apple Green. I added a narrow strip of Silver Glimmer at the base to ground the floral spray.

Project Details
Stamps	Good Morning Magnolia, First Frost
Card stock & Papers	Highland Heather, Whisper White, Feels Like Frost DSP, Silver Foil, Silver Glimmer, Vellum
Ink	Gorgeous Grape
Accessories	Clear/Frosted Epoxy Droplets, Old Olive/Pretty Peacock Reversible ribbon
Tools	Layering Ovals Dies, Frosted Bouquet Dies, Stitched Nested Labels Dies, Be Mine Dies, Big Shot, Dimensionals, Stampin' Write Markers (Gorgeous Grape, Granny Apple Green)

If you would like your own copy of the 2019-20 Annual Catalogue or the new Holiday 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 Lauren 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!

Posted at 06:55 PM in CASE-ing The Catty, Feminine, Friendship, Get Well, Nature/Floral, Sympathy | Permalink | Comments (5)

CASE-ing the Catty - CASE-ing a Layout

June 16, 2019

Hi there

I'm back this week to join the CTC Crew in case-ing a layout from page 36 of the new 2019-20 Annual Catalogue.

If you've come from looking at the lovely project on Michelle'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.

These are the projects on page 36 of the 2019-20 Annual Catalogue using the gorgeous Magnolia Lane Suite. Lots of great layouts here, but I decided to use the one in the bottom right corner.

So you an see it more clearly, I've cropped out the card above, that I'm using as my inspiration today. This is such a flexible layout that incorporates designer paper as well as some focus images and a greeting panel.

I decided to ink up my new To A Wild Rose stamp set for the first time. This is a DistInktive style stamp set, so you get lots of fabulous shading in your image, plus it is also a Two-Step as well. You can combine an outline image with either or both of the solid images that are included, or you can colour the outline image using any of your favourite colouring methods. In addition to the rose, there is a set of two-step leaves and some lovely greetings in mixed fonts. I know I'm going to be using this set a lot.

My card base is Crumb Cake and I added a layer of Blushing Bride gingham designer paper. The greeting from Good Morning Magnolia was stamped in Soft Suede and then cropped with the fabulous Stitched Nested Labels Dies. The leaves were stamped in Crumb Cake and then the outline image was stamped over the top in Soft Suede ink that was stamped off once.

I have used all 3 of the rose stamps, with the first layer being Blushing Bride, the second layer for the darker shading is the new In Colour Rococo Rose stamped off once and finally, the outline image in Soft Suede stamped off once. This set has the coordinating Wild Rose Dies that I used to crop the leaves, but I elected to fussy cut the flowers right on the edge as I like look. I've used one of the extra dies included in the set for the foliage in Gold Foil. The front rose has been popped up and although difficult to see there is some white Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon peeping out from underneath.

For the inside I have a mat of Blushing Bride and I've stamped some soft floral images from the Beautiful Friendship stamp set in Rococo Rose (stamped off once) on the writing panel.

Project Details
Stamps	To A Wild Rose, Beautiful Friendship, Good Morning Magnolia
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Blushing Bride, Subtles 6x6 Designer Paper, Gold Foil
Ink	Blushing Bride, Rococo Rose, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede
Accessories	Metallic Pearls, Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon
Tools	Wild Rose Dies, Stitched Nested Label Dies, Big Shot, 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 Sandra has to inspire you this week.

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

Posted at 06:55 PM in CASE-ing The Catty, Feminine, Get Well, Sympathy | Permalink | Comments (9)

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Hi, I'm Judy May and I live in Toowoomba, Queensland with my husband. I love Stampin' Up!® paper, stamps and ink and using them to make beautiful projects. Let me be your creative coach and inspire you to bring the joy of creativity to your life!