CASEing the Catty #498 - CASE A Project Featuring Animals

CASE A Project Using Animals meets In the Grove & Reindeer Fun

Hello, Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and #498 Challenge with CASEing the Catty.

I am so glad you have dropped by. You may have come from Rebecca Scurr, as you take this week’s Blog Hop or perhaps arrived a different way; either way I am delighted you are here. At the end of my blog, I have linked to Julia Quinn so you can continue with 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 projects featuring Animals in either the 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue or the 2024 September-December Mini Catalogue.

There were so many possibilities, but in the end I chose to CASE a card pictured on page 70 of the Annual Catalogue. This page showcases the In The Grove bundle. For this week’s challenge I chose to use this card:

As soon as I saw this card in the Catalogue, I felt a pang of guilt that I was yet to use this bundle, even though I loved it and had really enjoyed using the carry over Grassy Grove/Grove bundle. I also wanted to create another Christmas Card to add to my cards to send for Christmas.

Rather than a DSP  background, a panel of Basic White card-stock was stamped in Lost Lagoon Stampin’ Classic ink with the mountains from the In the Grove stamp set. Grasses from the Grassy Grove stamp set were stamped in Pretty Peacock ink. Trees from the In the Grove stamp set were also stamped in Pretty Peacock ink. Some Pool Party ink was lightly blended in the sky and a Pretty Peacock Stampin’ Write Marker added some splatters. I thought I would go for a monochromatic background.

Rather then use the die cut tree die from the Grove dies beneath the tree trunk die from the In the Grove dies, 2 of the same In the Grove cut out trees die were layered one over the other and a little askew to the right with the top layer positioned with Dimensionals.

Rather than use the little deer from the Grassy Grove dies the reindeer and baby deer from the Reindeer Fun stamp set was stamped on Basic White card-stock in Early Expresso and coloured with Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blends combo with touches of Light Petal Pink and the Colour Lifter. The mother reindeer was partially tucked behind the top layer of trees and the baby deer was positioned centrally on the top layer.

A sentiment from the Reindeer Fun stamps was heat embossed with the lovely White Wow Emboss Powder from the Basics Emboss Powder pack onto Pool Party card-stock. It was positioned with Mini Dimensionals and a double Linen Twine bow was tucked underneath. The final touch was a scattering of gorgeous Iridescent Faceted Gems. I love them.

The Basic White card inner was stamped with a different sentiment from the Reindeer Fun stamp set and some of the grasses from the Grassy Grove stamps - both in Lost Lagoon ink.

The C6 Basic White envelope was stamped in Pretty Peacock ink with the trees from the In the Grove stamps.

Thank you so much for calling in on your way around this week’s Blog Hop for the launch of the CASEing the Catty Challenge #498. I appreciate you dropping by.

Don’t miss any of the inspiration from this wonderful Crew. The next blog in the hop is by the lovely Julia Quinn. Just click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to her blog. I wonder which project she has CASEd - I am sure her project will be something special.

Join In The Challenge: We would love you to share a project you have created for this Challenge that has been inspired by the either the 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue or the September-December Mini Catalogue. To share, all you need to do is go to the CASEing The Catty Challenge Group on Facebook. 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 group on Facebook. We would love to see your creation.

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