CTC #509 CASE Floral Delight

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.

This week we are CASE-ing Floral Delight from pages 33-37 of the mini catalogue. I chose the yellow card at bottom right and it spun off into two cards.

Card one:

The variations to the original were using Mixed Media Florals DSP instead of the background stamping, the same label from Spotlight on Nature dies and a stamped image from Mixed Florals stamp.

The DSP was a black & white piece, which I coloured with blends. The die cut sentiment, wishing, and a stamped sentiment from Delightful Wishes was included. I might have used a coloured label now that I have stepped back and looked at it.

Card two:

For the second card, a piece of basic white was texture embossed, then die cut using Memorable Blooms octogen-shaped label.

Instead of being placed to the right edge, I centred it before attaching it to a black card base.

For this card I coloured the floral image to help it stand out against the background. CASE-ing is a great starting point and can take your creativity in many directions.

Now it's your turn. We do request that the projects you submit have been created especially for this challenge. You can CASE directly or be inspired by a sketch/layout, colour combo or embellishment. Ask to join our Facebook group, and then add a picture of your CASE.

Our next talented crew member is Rebecca Scurr

Happy crafting everyone,

 

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 39 -Old Olive

Contributors to this blog hop are all members of Claire Daly's Art With Heart group. We love chatting & crafting together. This week we are creating with Old Olive. This is a colour I use infrequently, I suspect because it has been around so long. I don't dislike it, so I allowed myself a session one afternoon to just play.

CARD 1:

Using two stamp & die bundles - Linked Together and Delightful Wishes I mixed and matched to create three cards. This one had a majority of pieces from Linked Together but 'Wishing you well' is from Delightful Wishes.

Serene Love DSP comes in three monotone colours, Lost Lagoon, Night of Navy & Old Olive. I'm sure you have seen them already.

CARD 2:

Card 2 used the masks from Linked Together (there are stamps, dies & masks in this bundle). All the ink blending used Old Olive but with each layer it became darker & darker.

Frequently I use three panels on my card front, whether it be DSP, embossed card or masked and blended as it is here. This is all 5 of the Linked Together masks inked one after the other.

The oval & sentiment are from Linked Together too, but the branch & flowers belong to Delightful Wishes. I really believe these two bundles work really well together.

CARD 3:

I wasn't going to share this card, it was the first one I made and now looks a bit basic. I was experimenting with the masks not worrying about the numbers on them or lining them up, just always using Old Olive. I would like to continue to experiment with that and take it further. The masks are from Linked Together, "wishing you a happy birthday" and the die for the label are all Delightful Wishes and the flowers have been cut from Serene Love DSP.

Happy crafting,