CASEing the Catty #487 CASE Mix & Match

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Hello, Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and #487 Challenge with CASEing the Catty.

I am so glad you have dropped in. You may have come from Judy May, as you take this week’s Blog Hop or perhaps you’ve arrived another way; either way I am delighted you are here. At the end of my blog, I have linked to Rochelle Blok so you can continue with the next member of the Blog Hop.

At CASEing the Catty we love to use the samples from the Stampin' Up! Catalogues as inspiration and each week we have a different theme to guide our CASEing. To CASE is to "Copy And Selectively Edit" or some say "Copy And Share Everything". This week we are CASE-ing a project from the Mix & Match section in the 2024 - 2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue, ie pages 16 & 17.

Here is the card I have CASEd. As soon as I saw the card on page 17, I thought of creating my own background and then adding trees in the mid-ground and a large tree in the foreground.

For this week’s challenge I actually created two similar, but different cards. Here are my projects:

CARD 1:

Here is the card I initially imagined. The background was water-coloured using Azure Afternoon Classic Stampin ink, Fluid 100 Paper and the wide-brushed Water Painter. After the panel was dry some Versamark ink was smooshed onto the top edge of the background panel before being sprinkled with Silver Emboss Powder and then heat set. The background was also lightly splattered with an Azure Afternoon Stampin’ Write Marker.

The row of smaller trees from the Peaceful Evergreens stamp set was inked in Granny Apple Green ink and then some Shaded Spruce ink was added to the stamp using a Blending Brush before being stamped onto Basic White card-stock. This was repeated. I already had this gorgeous larger tree on my work desk from prior crafting and it was perfect for this card. I had created it using the Frosted Forrest bundle. It was stamped in Pretty Peacock ink and then coloured with Lost Lagoon, Garden Green, Pretty Peacock and Shaded Spruce inks using the coordinating masks and Blending Brushes. White Embossing Paste was added using the third mask.

A sentiment from the Peaceful Season stamp set was white heat embossed onto Azure Afternoon card-stock. Some silver sewing thread was looped around my fingers and adhered under the sentiment with Dimensionals. The final touch, some gorgeous Drusy Embellishments - they are so sparkly.

Both the inside of the card and the envelope were minimally decorated to coordinate with the card design. An extra sentiment from the same set of stamps was added inside and a group of the small trees was also added inside.

CARD 2:

While I was creating the first card, I was thinking of other ways of using the same layout and kept thinking of using an unconventional Christmas colour Pretty in Pink. 

As with the first card, the colour was added using the wet on wet water-colour technique. A little Petunia Pop ink was applied  While the panel was drying, I prepared the trees for the card - this time using the delightful Decorative Trees bundle. I had decided to use the In Color Glimmer Paper for the trees so didn’t want to add a different form of metallic glimmer at the top of the card. To give the background the effect of heat embossing on the top edge of the card it was clear heat embossed - well I had run out of clear embossing powder so used an older container that I now know has a sparkly clear effect.

The Decorative Trees dies cut the background pieces from either Petunia Pop and Pretty in Pink Glimmer Speciality Paper. Other dies cut decorative tree designs from Basic White card-stock. The smaller detailed tree die was partially coloured with Petunia Pop ink and the larger die cut tree with Pretty in Pink ink. A couple of pieces of White Diagonal Trim from the Combo Pack was laid across the card before the trees were adhered in place - the larger tree on Dimensionals. 

A sentiment from the Peaceful Season stamp set was white heat embossed on Pretty in Pink card-stock. A little white Bakers Twine bow was tucked under the sentiment and some Iridescent Pearl Basic Jewels were scattered around. A little Petunia Pop splattering was added with a Stampin’ Write Marker. 

A different sentiment from the same set of sentiment stamps was inked in Pretty in Pink and Petunia Pop inks and the tree stamp was added in Petunia Pop ink.

Thank you so much for spending time with me. I so appreciate it. I hope you found something to inspire in some way. x

Don’t miss any of the inspiration from this wonderful Crew. The next blog in the hop is the lovely Rochelle Blok. Just click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to her blog. I am sure her project will be a 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, 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.

Here is a list of others in this blog hop. If you have missed one or want to check out someone again, just click on their names:

Julia Quinn

Rochelle Laird-Smith

Michelle Strazds  

Judy May

Andrea Sargent - You are here

Rochelle Blok

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