CASEing the Catty 5 May 24

Unbounded Beauty Meets Nature’s Sweetness

Hello, Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and #468 Blog Hop with CASEing the Catty.

I am so excited to have been invited to join the CASEing the Catty Crew. This is my first Blog Hop with these talented creatives. 

The new Stampin’ Up! Catalogue for 2024-2025 launched on the 1st May and this Blog Hop, #468 is focusing on the whole Catalogue. There is so much gorgeousness so it was hard to choose a card to CASE. I selected a card featuring the Unbounded Beauty Suite on page 53. Here is a photo of my card alongside the card I CASEd. 

I’m sure you know what can happen when best intentions meet multiple issues - it’s not only one thing that goes astray, but there can be multiple impediments. That is what happened to me while preparing this blog. I am so thankful for the patience of others, including Monique Fielder & Kathryn Mangelsdorf, who helped me overcome some newby issues.

I love the delicate focus on die cuts. I have used different colours and Designer Series Paper, plus there are a few other differences. One of the gorgeous DSPs that has continued into the new Catty is the wonderful Nature’s Sweetness Speciality DSP. One side of the SDSP includes gold into the designs. One of these beauties was selected as the background.

I was initially thinking of a neutral colour scheme, but couldn’t resist adding some Petal Pink. It works so well with the new Basic Beige, Pecan Pie, Nature’s Sweetness Speciality DSP and Gold Textured Metallic Speciality Paper.

The leaves and flowers were die cut using the Flowers of Beauty dies and Basic White card-stock. They were coloured with either Basic Beige, Pecan Pie or Petal Pink Classic Stampin’ inks and Mini Blending Brushes. I love the colour variation with this technique. The frames in the background were cut using an Unbounded Love die and the gold foil from the Textured Metallic Speciality Paper.

The sentiment is from the Unbounded Love stamps and was gold embossed on some Basic Beige card-stock and fussy cut. Some gold trim from the Gold & Silver Combo Trim Pack was cut in half lengthwise, frayed a little, tied into a bow then tucked behind the sentiment. The finishing touch was a few dragonflies from the On-line exclusive Adhesive-backed Dragonflies & Birds.

Thank you so much for spending time with me. I so appreciate it. Don’t miss any of the inspiration from this talented Crew. The next blog in the hop is the wonderful Rochelle Blok. Just click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to her blog. I am sure her project will be a stunner.

 Or you may want to head back to Monique Fielder, the previous Blog 

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, its 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 group on Facebook. We would love to see your creation.

If you live in Australia, don't already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and would like your own copy of the new Stampin' Up 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue, then let me know and I will be delighted to send it to you.  Please don't hesitate to make contact with any other queries about this project or Stampin' Up!. I would love to help you.

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