CASE-ing The Catty Crew are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from Australia & New Zealand who take inspiration weekly from the catalogues. The catalogues are a fantastic resource, and we love to inspire you to seek inspiration there too.
We are CASE-ing the Joy of Christmas suite which consists of two stamp/die bundles: Joy of Noel & Classic Christmas, plus Joy of Christmas DSP. I thought I would manage with just Christmas Classics but it wasn't long before I had to order Joy of Noel as well!
When I have new stamps in the craft room, I turn straight to my catalogue for inspiration. I decided that the leafy surround needed to be water coloured so I die cut a number of these from water colour paper, popped drops of ink onto acrylic blocks and began splashing water and ink around!
For the first card I kept it simple with a strip of DSP from Joy Of Christmas DSP across the card. There are no embellishments or ribbon added here.
The second card has been stepped-up with a Lost Lagoon base, and a small leaf stamped over it for texture.
Another water coloured leafy surround for the frame was added over a leafy piece of the Joy of Christmas paper. Die cut leaves and gold self-adhesive sequins embellish this card and there has been a change of ink colour for the stamped letters forming 'NOEL'.
A darker base called for a white lining, which has also had some stamping included. Do you like the simple version, or the stepped-up one?
Our next design team member this week is Peta Stephen
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Your cards are both fabulous! It's very hard to choose a favourite, even if Lost Lagoon is a favourite colour of mine :)
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