CTC#326 CASE A Layout and Step It Up.

The 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.

CASE a project and step-it-up is the assignment, so I picked Shaded Summer, in particular the card in the centre back, and CASE-d that.

In some ways, I took my basic project back a step more than the catalogue sample, which had a separate tag for the sentiment, and ribbon placed under.

For the stepped up card, I heat embossed the flowers onto white card, and blended Misty Moonlight and Old Olive over the white embossing. The panel has been mounted onto a matt with a narrow border.

Shaded Summer has some particularly nice sentiments, so I chose to use a longer one, stamped onto a cutout from the Picture This dies.

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Product List

Blue Adhesive-Backed Gems

[153547]

$14.00

Shaded Summer Cling Stamp Set

[155783]

$40.00

Scalloped Contours Dies

[155560]

$61.00

Beauty Of The Earth 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[155841]

$20.00

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

$209.00

Paper Trimmer

[152392]

$44.00

Paper Snips

[103579]

$17.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$6.00

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals

[144108]

$6.00

Stampin' Seal

[152813]

$14.00

Stampin' Seal Refill

[152814]

$9.50

Adhesive Sheets

[152334]

$17.50

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[110755]

$7.00

Simply Shammy

[147042]

$14.00

Stampin' Scrub

[126200]

$31.00

Stampin' Mist

[153648]

$19.25

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$10.00

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$17.00

Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock

[159230]

$14.25

Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock

[147007]

$15.25

Misty Moonlight A4 Cardstock

[153086]

$15.25

Misty Moonlight Classic Stampin' Pad

[153118]

$13.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[147090]

$13.00

Blending Brushes

[153611]

$21.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$16.50

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109132]

$10.50

Heat Tool

[129056]

$50.00

More playing with colour!

Hi there!

Thanks for dropping by.

You might remember last time I was telling you how I started to make one card, and actually ended up with three?
This post I am showing you how to Step It Up, a common term for when you take a basic card and dress it up a bit more, or a lot! *wink*.

So the card to the left was the one I submitted for Freshly Made Sketches #89, some weeks ago now. You will notice that the dimensions of the basic card are smaller too, but the idea was the same.

When I Stepped It Up, I stamped the large blossom from Betsy's  Blossoms onto the large greeting panel, inking once and stamping twice to get two tones of the same shade of Primrose Petals. The greeting from Vintage Verses (retired Sale-a-bration) was stamped in Basic Grey on both, and banners were cut from More Amore DSP (retired) using the Hearts a Flutter Framelits.

The other main difference is the stepped up card has some embellishments added; pearls, Itty Bitty blossom punch flowers, a tiny punched butterfly in Pool Party to pick up that colour in one of the banners and an In-color Dahlia. The edges of the banners were all softened with ink too.

Which version do you prefer?
Rachel

Item#126006 $39.95 AU (clear)