CASE-ing the Catty - Layers of Beauty

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Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week. I'm pleased to be back creating after a 6 week break for our holiday in Finland, Sweden and Norway. I'm feeling very rusty though and still working through the jetlag.

If you've come from visiting Courtney, 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 an Embossing Project from of the 2024-25 Annual Catalogue. Embossing covers both the heat and dry embossing options.

I chose the project above for my inspiration, as I was looking for a simple layout and this one certainly fits the bill!

I started by stamping the large rose from the Layers of Beauty stamp set in Basic Gray ink and used the coordinating masks to colour the image with blending brushes using Bubble Bath and Moody Mauve ink. I chose to fussy cut the images, as I wanted to include some extra details that would have been cropped by the die. 

I used the Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder for the background panel and added it to a layer of Moody Mauve cardstock with a narrow border and then onto a Bubble Bath card base. The greeting from the Friends For Life stamp set was heat embossed in white on Moody Mauve cardstock and popped up over the images.

For the inside, I have a Moody Mauve mat for the writing panel and I added another of the ink blended roses in the corner and trimmed the excess.

 

 

Project Details
Stamps	Layers of Beauty, Friends For Life
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Bubble Bath, Moody Mauve, Old Olive
Ink	Versamark, Basic Gray, Bubble Bath, Moody Mauve, Old Olive
Accessories	Rhinestone Basic Jewels
Tools	Layering Beauty Dies, Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, White EP, Heat Tool

 

We would love to see your CASE of a project from the Bunles pages of 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 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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CASE-ing the Catty - Layers of Beauty Bundle

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Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week.

If you've come from visiting Rebecca, 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 Bundles on pages 57 - 73 of the 2024-25 Annual Catalogue.

The Layers of Beauty Bundle captured me from the time I saw it at OnStage in March. I love roses and the masks that are included in the bundle make it so easy to look amazing at colouring without much effort! The sample above is very lush with two full images displayed on the card and the outline has been heat embossed in white.

I've gone in the other direction with my card. I've stamped the floral image in Basic Gray as it isn't as bold as Memento Tuxedo Black and used Highland Heather to create the 3 layers of shading. The smaller flowers are coloured with Lemon Lolly and Pumpkin Pie for the centre and the leaves are Granny Apple Green. You can of course use different colours together, but I think a single colour gives a very natural, elegant look. 

After cropping the image with the coordinating die, I cut it into 2 pieces and placed them against the top and bottom edge of a Basic White panel that I dry embossed with the Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder. I added the panel to a Highland Heather Mat with a narrow border and wrapped the Silver & White Sheer Ribbon around the panel and finished with a bow on the left.  The finished panel was popped up with Dimensionals on a Thick Basic White card base. The greeting from the Layering Leaves Stamp set was heat embossed in white and cropped with a circle die from the Spotlight on Nature Dies and popped up over the ribbon. I finished with a little Silver Glimmer heart cropped with the retired Well Written Dies and a trio of Purple Shimmer Gems.

For the inside, I have a Highland Heather mat for the writing panel and I partially stamped the large rose in the corner and coloured it with the masks.

 

Project Details
Stamps	Layering Leaves, Layers of Beauty
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Highland Heather
Ink	Versamark, Basic Gray, Highland Heather, Granny Apple Green, Lemon Lolly, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories	Silver & White Sheer Ribbon, Purple Fine Shimmer Gems
Tools	Layering Beauty Dies, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder, Well Written Dies (rretired),  Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, White EP, Heat Tool

 

We would love to see your CASE of a project from the Bunles pages of 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.

 

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CASE-ing the Catty - Sketch Challenge

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Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week.

If you've come from visiting Courtenay, 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. 

Have you noticed the card sketches/layouts/templates in the new 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue? They are at the bottom of page 22 and there are 22 different layouts to give you inspiration for your cardmaking. This is a fabulous resource and this week the Crew are choosing one of these sketches for their inspiration.

I've chosen the sketch above for my card today. As soon as I saw it, I knew what I was going to do with it; isn't it funny how that can happen sometimes. As it turns out my card is a variation of my original idea, but I like the extra detail that resulted.

Instead of taking up the entire card, I've chosen to create a smaller centre panel with the layout, leaving a nice border of the Petunia Pop card base showing.  I used the smallest circle die from the Stylish Shapes Dies to create the 12 openings in the Thick Basic White panel. Yes, there was a ruler involved, lol, but you could probably just 'eyeball' it as well. It was a little more effort than adhering 12 black circles (my original thought), but I like the stitched detail around each circle that you get with this option.

You can see the stitched detail around the circles more clearly in the photo above. I adhered the panel to Basic Black with a narrow border, giving a bold background to make my sweet flowers pop. The greeting from the Country Birdhouse stamp set was heat embossed in white on a narrow strip of Basic Black and popped up between the sets of circles. I added the panel to the card base with Dimensionals, leaving the flowers to last, so they wouldn't get flattened. I chose 4 colours and cropped the flowers with a die from the Country Birdhouse Dies, using a stylus in the centre of each to add dimension before adding the 3mm rhinestone. I adhered the flowers with a dot of Tombow glue in the centre of each circle, leaving it to go tacky, so it wouldn't squish when I added the flower. Rolled up Mini Glue Dots would work well, too.  I added a little bow in white Baker's Twine and a small version of the flower in corner of the greeting. This satisfied my need to have an odd number of flowers on the card!

For the inside, I have cut the writing panel at the same size as the focus panel on the front, with a narrow border of Basic Black. The birthday greeting from the Country Birdhouse stamp set was stamped in Petunia Pop ink and a little cluster of flowers adhered flat in the corner.

As my husband said when I showed the card to him, 'that's different'! Yes, it's a bit different to my normal style, but I like the fun graphic look for a change.

 

Project Details
Stamps	Country Birdhouse
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic White, Petunia Pop, Summer Splash, Lemon Lime Twist, Pretty in Pink
Ink	Versamark, Petunia Pop
Accessories	Basic Jewels Rhinestones, Baker's Twine Essentials Pack
Tools	Stylish Shapes Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, Glue Dots, Tombow glue, White EP, Heat Tool

 

We would love to see how you used one of the sketches/layouts/templates from page 22 of 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  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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Flowering Zinnias Fancy Fold

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The Flowering Zinnias DSP from the Online Exclusives range has to be 0ne of my favourite paper packs. The colours are simply gorgeous - bright, summery and they make you smile. 

In the pack is this fabulous sheet that provides 2 border strips. It would be fabulous as a border on a scrapbook page or of course, cut into card fronts.

However, I wanted to use the complete border or most of it at least and this design by Rachel Tessman fitted the bill perfectly.

Rachel has named it the Twist Corner Tri-fold card. It starts in portrait style as you see in the photo above, but morphs into a tri-fold landscape card that displays the beautiful Zinnia border. I've changed up the measurements to be closer to a metric size card and made the message panel a little larger as well. I love that the bright Lemon Lime Twist print on the reverse side is also displayed and I've used it as an accent together with a pop of Berry Burst.

When you open the front panel and turn it to landscape the border starts to unfold. I've used my favourite birthday greeting from the Unbounded Love stamp set and cropped it with the pierced label die from the Unbounded Love Dies and trimmed it with another label cropped from Lemon Lime Twist cardstock. The Berry Burst panel on the right has been dry embossed with the cross-hatch design from the Basics 3D Embossing Folders and embellished with a fussy cut Zinnia from another of the sheets. The narrow strip of Lemon Lime Twist print is the piece I cut off the border panel to form the card base, so all 12" (30.5cm) of the border has been used. 

The photo above shows the card fully extended. I've added an embossed strip trimmed with Lemon Lime Twist to host the 'Celebrate' cropped from Berry Burst card stock using the Wanted To Say Dies.  The writing panel is trimmed with a Lemon Lime Twist mat and another fussy cut Zinnia. Lots of Brushed Brass Butterflies have been sprinkled around the flowers. 

This card has a real 'wow' and the ladies enjoyed making it in our class last week. 

 

Project Details
Stamps	Unbounded Love
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Lemon Lime Twist, Berry Burst, Flowering Zinnias DSP
Ink	Berry Burst
Accessories	Brushed Brass Butterflies, Iridescent Adhesive-Backed Discs
Tools	Unbounded Love Dies, Wanted To Say Dies, Basics 3D Embossing Folders, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Tombow Glue, Adhesive Sheets

 

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CASE-ing the Catty - New 2024-25 Annual Catalogue

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Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week and the brand new 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue. We have a HUGE hop this week to inspire you as we have new Crew joining us. Make sure you follow the link at the end of the post and welcome them with some comment love!

If you've come from visiting Michelle, 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 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue, which means we get to choose any project.

I decided on the project above using the Layers of Beauty Bundle for my inspiration. This bundle consists of the stamp set with the large floral image and a selection of greetings, the coordinating dies and the Decorative Masks. The masks are a fabulous way to quickly colour a large image with Blending Brushes and perfect for those who are not super fond of colouring. Of course, you can also colour the image directly with Stampin' Blends alcohol markers, Watercolour Pencils, or watercolouring with inks and Water Painters. This makes it a super flexible bundle with lots of techniques. Today, I decided to use the masks and wanted to give you another option with the finished image by cutting it apart for a totally different look.

I used Pretty in Pink, one of the new 2024-2026 In Colors for the large roses. This colour was retired about 5 years ago, but has returned for the next 2 years.  I wanted a soft look, so I used Pretty in Pink for all 3 masks that colour the roses and Petunia Pop on the smaller flowers and Old Olive for the leaves. Again, I've keep the leaves quite soft with just a little shading. You can of course make it darker if you choose by using more ink.

With the image coloured, I used the coordinating die to crop the image and then went one step further and cut the image into 3 pieces. By cutting the image into pieces, you can achieve different looks, making it even more flexible. There is a separate die that crops the largest rose with the 3 leaves, but I just separated the 2 larges roses from the third rose with the small flowers and foliage and the small flowers with foliage as a third piece. This allowed me to create a more compact cluster, which I layered on a Basic White background dry embossed with the Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder. The 2 large roses are popped up on Dimensionals and the smaller rose and flowers are popped up on 1mm foam pads to give it a little dimension as it sits under the main image,  I added a narrow mat of Pretty in Pink card stock and then popped it up with Adhesive Foam Strips onto a Thick Basic White card base. The greeting from the Stippled Roses stamp set was masked to separate the words and stamped in Petunia Pop ink. I finished with a sprinkle of 2024-26 In Color Shimmer Gems. The finished card is 13cm (5 1/8") square.

For the inside, I have replicated the Pretty in Pink mat for the writing panel at the same size as the front and I've added the remaining piece of the floral image that I cut apart. 

 

Project Details
Stamps	Layers of Beauty, Stippled Roses
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pretty in Pink
Ink	Pretty in Pink, Petunia Pop, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight
Accessories	2024-2026 In Color Shimmer Gems
Tools	Layers of Beauty Dies, Distressed Tile 3D EF, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, Layers of Beauty Masks, Adhesive Foam Strips, 1mm Foam Pads (not SU)

 

We would love to see your CASE of a project from 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 new Crew member Courtenay to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

 

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