Lighthearted Leaves - CTC55 Into The Woods

This week at CASE-ing The Catty we are looking at Into The Woods section of the Stampin' Up!® Holiday Catalogue. Don't forget to click on the link at the end of my post to continue blog-hopping all the way around the CASE-ing The Catty design team.

Can you see the card at the centre front of the picture above? That's the one I decided to case beginning with the tiny leaf stamp from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamp set. There are some great stamps in there, especially for card backgrounds. That gave the opportunity to introduce Old Olive, Daffodil Delight and Rich Razzleberry to the colour scheme.

I used a couple of layered banners too, but needed to trim both down a fraction at the top, so that the quote from Emily Bronte wasn't covered. For the next step, I slept on it, and decided to add Hardwood in Sahara Sand to the white banner, a little banner of ribbon and then two buttons stacked and sewn together with linen thread. I'm a bit keen on stacking buttons, and have invested in some darning needles, which have a larger eye to thread Bakers Twine or thicker threads through.

I hope this blog is providing you with some inspiration today. Don't forget, if you need some supplies and you don't have a demonstrator already, perhaps I can give you the service and support you need.

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Now it's time for you to hop across to see what Rebecca has made for us this week

Cheers

Rachel

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Lighthearted & Lovely - FMS#207 CTD#363

There's a lot going on at the moment, but the best way to keep life on an even keel is to slip away for a few minutes to play with paper and ink. I'm looking forward to another weekend away with three of my grandchildren, and there will definitely be no 'time out' for Gran and Pop!!!

Freshly Made Sketches always has some inspiration over on their challenge blog, and by just rotating the sketch it has accomodated my design. This time I found my colour inspiration at Color Throwdown.

I began with flowers and fuss but quickly changed track to this very simple card, with a sentiment from Stampin' Up!® Boys Will Be Boys and a single leaf from Lighthearted Leaves. When making a card like this with pieces needing precise positioning its always a good idea to have  Tombow multipurpose glue handy because it allows you to slip the pieces around for a short while.



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Rachel

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Lovely Leaves Colour Me CMCC#89

Last night I was lucky enough to have some bonus me-time, and off to my craft room I trotted. I had wanted to work with these colours in the Colour Me Challenge no. 89. It has jolted my memory, I love Island Indigo! Unfortunately my stash doesn't extend to Garden Green, except for a marker pen, so to colour those lovely Lighthearted Leaves, I scribbled with markers on an acrylic block and used my aqua painter to fill the gaps.

What do you think of the sentiment? I've used the H happy from Project Life This Is The Life and then grabbed birthday from Endless Birthday Wishes to finish off the sentiment. So many expressions you could make up this way, using those two stamp sets.

After all the die cutting, stamping and colouring, the card wasn't appealing to me, so I went to bed. With fresh eyes this morning, I was much happier with the symmetry of it, and decided that adding Hardwood to the background was the only change I needed to make.

What a thrill! My card was picked at Colour Me! this week!

Cheers

Rachel

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Lighthearted Birthday -CTC 48 - Holiday DSP

Here it is Friday again and this week at CASE-ing the Catty we are inspired by the Holiday DSP - that's the patterned paper to put it simply. You may have arrived here from Julia's Blog, didn't she have a lovely project? However, if you have started with me, just keep on clicking on the links at the end of each blog, and you'll see them all that way.

My first order from the catalogue consisted mainly of the must-have stamp sets, no Design Series  Paper at this stage, but I do love the colours of the Into The Woods DSP.  So for this Holiday DSP challenge, I decided to be inspired by the colours used in that range, there's quite a lot to choose from, so it was easy to pick a few to try with the Lighthearted Leaves stamp set from the Holiday Catalogue,

Something about this stamp set (and Dove Of Peace) remind me of the seventies and the gorgeous, colourful fabrics clothing was made from and I know that I am going to enjoy lots of colouring in with these two. Gold heat embossing was the starting point today, and onto the Stampin' Up! White Vellum Cardstock, because it has lots of body. Once the embossing had set, it was easy to colour the gaps with Stampin' Write Markers® and then adhere with mini glue dots. I chose a sentiment from Cottage Greetings, the mixed fonts appeal to me.

Could you see that I used the thick Whisper White card and dry embossed it with Woodland Textured Impressions Embossing Folder? It is rather subtle when you don't ink it up, but on this card I was aiming for a 'clean' look. The embossing folder was in my initial order from the Stampin' Up!® Holiday Catalogue too, and I know I will use it in many different ways, it complements leaf and tree stamps so perfectly, and there are some amazing Christmas stamps about, also using the Woodland folder.

Already in my stash were the Leaflets Framelits, which I bought at 15% off as a bundle with Vintage Leaves when the Annual Catalogue was released. I'm yet to share a card using that stamp, but it is great for masculine, sympathy and cards for gardeners - so I had to have it too!

If you need more information, or just want to tell me you like my card, leave a comment at the end, and I'll get back to you. There's a complete list of all the 'ingredients' used at the end of the blog, with a link back to each item in my 'Open All Hours' online store or this link will take you to the storefront. Now it's time to pop on over to Elizabeth's blog, Lilly Loves Paper.(I love that blog name!)

Cheers
Rachel

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