CASEing the Catty #470 Frames & Flowers Colours

Frames & Flowers meets Encircled with Nature

Hello, Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and #470 Challenge with CASEing the Catty.

You may have come to me via the wonderful Monique Fielder - I'm looking forward to checking out her lovely project too.

I so love the Frames and Flowers Designer Series Paper and am waiting for my order to arrive. This Challenge is focussing on the colours of this DSP, which I love. My project has used 5 of the 7 colours, although the Early Expresso is probably hard to see unless you really squint. I also took inspiration from the style of DSP and chose Encircled in Nature as the feature bundle. This is an on-line only bundle by Stampin’ Up! It is gorgeous and I can also see it useful for Christmas creating.

There is mix of stamping and die cutting on my card.  Stamping included the twiggy wreath as the base that was stamped in Early Expresso Classic ink. This base helped me layer the die cut pieces but is now almost covered. It can be seen a tad in real life. I also stamped the flowers, the inside of the card and the envelope - but more of that later.

The wreath and individual pieces were all die cut from Basic White card-stock using the Encircled in Nature dies. The wreath was coloured with Lost Lagoon & Pretty Peacock inks and a Mini Blending brush. The oak leaf twigs were coloured with Shaded Spruce and Granny Apple Green inks with different Blending Brushes. The pine sprigs were left white. The stamped twiggy wreath was cut out with the circular dies, positioned in place and some blending was added with another Blending Brush to the background inside the wreath area using Soft Sea Foam ink. To give this blending a little more character a little water was misted over and the water lifted with a paper towel. The flowers are from the Flowers of Beauty stamp set and were stamped in Petal Pink and Pumpkin Pie inks.

The unstamped area was trimmed away from the twiggy wreath and the other die cut wreath was similarly trimmed. All the pieces were layered. Some light splattering was added with Pretty Peacock and Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Write Markers.  A piece of Silver & White Sheer Ribbon was sliced lengthwise a couple of times and together tied into a bow that was added at the base with Glue Dots (they make attaching bits and pieces so easy).

The final touches included a white heat embossed sentiment than had been stamped onto Lost Lagoon card-stock using a stamp from the Country Flowers Stamp Set. It was fussy cut and added with Mini Dimensionals. Some Petal Pink and Pretty Peacock Foiled Gems were scattered amongst the wreath and near the sentiment for a touch of shimmer.

The card inner was simply stamped in the corner with the forest stamp using Lost Lagoon ink. A little Soft Sea Foam ink was blended over and a splattering Pretty Peacock added. As with the card front the stamped panel was mounted on a slightly larger piece of Pretty Peacock card-stock. 

A C6 Basic White envelope was stamped in the same way.

Thank you so much for spending time with me. I so appreciate you. 

Don’t miss any of the inspiration from this talented Crew. The next blog in the hop is the wonderful Rachel Palmieri. Just click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to her blog. I am sure her project will be something special.

Join In The Challenge: We would love you to share a project you have created that has been inspired by the new 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue. To share, all you need to do for to the CASEing The Catty Challenge Group. If you aren't a member, it’s easy to request to join and then all you need to do is upload a photo of your project to the main section. You can click on the graphic below to be taken to the CTC group on Facebook. We would love to see your creation using these wonderful colours.

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