Bron’s Birthday Blog Hop #4

Theme #4: CASE the Catty from a page numbered in the 60s

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the fourth blog hop celebrating Bronwyn Eastly. We're a group of stamping friends that are recognising Bron's 60th Birthday in 2022 with six blog hops, over six months, with six fun themes! 

The theme for this blog hop is to CASE a page numbered in the 60's from Stampin' Up!s  2022-2023 Annual Catalogue. The picture above shows the cards illustrated on page 66 featuring the Awash in Beauty Suite. The card I am CASEing is the card at the top centre with the So Saffron card-base. Here is my version:

I CASEd the CATTY's card layout and that there was a die cut as background to the design. I so love the background die from the Organic Beauty dies, but it hasn't made its way to my homes as yet, so I needed to find another background die. Prior to making this card I had just created my first Christmas card for 2022, so as I was starting to get into the Christmas groove my eyes fell on the Christmas Pinecone dies. That decision completely changed the mood of this CASE. I had something different in mind.

I started by die cutting the finer pine/pinecone background from some Pearlescent Speciality Paper. After being partially adhered down onto a piece of Basic White card-stock that had some splatters randomly stamped in Fresh Freesia ink; some Soft Sea Foam Classic ink was very lightly blended over the background with a brilliant Stampin' Up! Blending Brush.

Next - some stamping on Basic White card-stock using the Merriest Moments stamp set. The poinsettias were stamped in Polished Pink, holly in Soft Sea Foam, Pine fronds in Mint Macaron and the rounder leaves in Soft Succulent. They were all fussy cut and I couldn't resist adding some Shimmery White Embossing Paste. It's such a pity the camera doesn't show the shimmer. The flowers and leaves were arranged with a sense of the layout of the card I was CASEing.

The card was finished with a white heat embossed sentiment from the Christmas to Remember stamp set on Mint Macaron card-stock. The sentiment was die cut with a coordinating label die from the Seasonal Labels dies. The label was trimmed a little narrower with my Trimmer. Some Iridescent Pearl Basic Jewels added that final touch to the centres of the poinsettias and were scattered on the label and background. I don't know what came over me - using so much shimmer - ah well it's for Christmas.

An extra poinsettia and leaves were adhered to a Basic White card inner. Some extra poinsettias were adhered to the back flap of a Basic White C6 Envelope. I do love, in some simple way, to link the card inner and envelope to the card front design.

Thank you so much for dropping in and helping to celebrate Bron's coming birthday. While it would have been so disappointing for Bron to give up the dream of celebrating with an overseas holiday, it is so much fun to celebrate with monthly blog hops and there are still more to come over the next 2 months. We will be here again on the 3rd of August, launching the blog hop at 7.00pm EST.

Hop on over to the next blog by the lovely Elizabeth Gross and check out her delightful creation. Just click on Elizabeth's name or the Next graphic below to be taken to her Blog, Lillybet's Papers.

If you come across a broken link or want to head back to Bron's blog just click on this link 

Apart from this Blog Hop there is also an Instagram Hop starting with Bron at @addinktivedesigns. Check it out too - there is more creativity to find.

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