Rose Wonder CTC#129

We are Case-ing our favourite project from the Annual Catalogue, which is really difficult, like picking which of your children is your favourite. You may have just arrived here from Kelly Kent, but if you are starting here, don't forget that blogs are full circle and you can check out what all the design team selected by pressing the next button at the end.

Rose Wonder is a beautiful stamp set with some wonderful sentiments and I CASE-d a card using this on page 133 of the almost retired catalogue, to make my version.

Stampin' Up!® Catalogue Sample

I was searching for something fun for my ladies to make at our next stamp class. It is often hard to decide on something which will challenge them without overwhelming and so I've made a plain sample of white on white, and then my attempt at CASE-ing the other catalogue sample.Again, I glued white to the base, and then I had fun with re-inkers and an Aqua Painter. Also used the speckles from Touches of Texture. I know I will be using Touches of Texture, and probably that particular splatter stamp a lot now that Gorgeous Grunge is retiring. Bonus is, there are some lovely flowers included in the Touches Of Texture stamp set.

I decided not to stress too much when I couldn't cleanly remove all the pieces from the die as it hadn't cut right through, I just went with what I had. Really, the problem was not using the Precision Base Plate which is suggested for more intricate dies.

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We always love to see what you are crafting too, so what is your favourite project from the Annual Catalogue? You can link to our Facebook site here if you'd like to share.

Now head on over to see what the talented Rebecca Scurr has made.

Happy Crafting, 

Rachel

Pretty Party Sentiments- CASE-ing Winter Wonderland CTC 51

It's Sunday, our new night for sharing,so here we are again on a CASE-ing The Catty Blog Hop. You may have arrived from Emma's blog, but if this is your starting point, make sure you click on the links at the end of each blog, to see what the design team came up with .

Catalogue Sample

This week we are CASE-ing Winter Wonderland featured pages 22 - 45. I used the picture from page 31 from the catalogue as my inspiration, but  I didn't want to use the stamp which features on this particular card. Flower Shop and the retired Petal Potpourri were already on my work table after being used to make samples for my October card class, Card-in-a-Box. There are still spaces available for this class if you're interested in making one of these very popular 3D cards.

For my CASE of the top one in the catalogue sample, I've stamped all over with one of the Flower Shop flowers in Perfect Plum, adding a few leaves in Old Olive from Birthday Blossoms.

Next I used Butterfly Basics for the sentiment and pulled my NEW Precision Base Plate (page 14, Holiday Catalogue) to cut the butterfly in gold foil - it works an absolute treat!!!
The butterfly was a substitute for the doily. I had another piece of finer gold foil left from the Tin Of Cards project - must share that with you soon - so I flagged the ends and laid it down first, then a Perfect Plum butterfly, a gold foil butterfly, some gold thread and finally the sentiment.

There is a little bit from many different stamp sets on this second card. I decided the zig zag stamp from Gorgeous Grunge was perfect for under the circular sentiment, my favourite one from Birthday Blossoms.
I used silver ink for some more Gorgeous Grunge splatters to match the silver cording. The Petal Potpourri daisy is stamped in Rich Razzleberry, while the Flower Shop daisy is Perfect Plum again.

And now it is time for you to continue around the blog hop, your next stop is the lovely Liz at LillyLovesPaper   but if you lose your way at any stage, you can check it all out at CASE-ing The Catty.

Cheers,
Rachel

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