CASEing the Catty #529 - CASE A Card Kit

CASE a Card Kit meets By Your Side Kit

Hello, Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and #529 Challenge with CASEing the Catty.

I am so glad you have dropped by. You may have come from Julia Quinn, as you take this week’s Blog Hop or perhaps arrived directly here; either way I am delighted you are here. At the end of my blog, I have linked to Peta Stephen so you can continue on 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 any of the current Card Kits found on-line in the Kits Section at Stampin’ Up! @stampinupofficial

What a choice! There are numerous current kits with many different cards to consider. They can be a wonderful starting point when wanting to create, whether making the projects as suggested within the kits or stepping them up or using the products to create something different. For this week’s challenge I decided to use the By Your Side Kit to make an alternative project:

The fun fold is one that can have the box section at the bottom, whether making a landscape or portrait card. This time I decided to have the box on the side. I have used a Crumb Cake card-stock base and used the card-base in the kit to create the top fold section and to decorate the base.

The front panel from the kit included a pre-cut hole so another hole, a bit smaller was punched out of the panel underneath. The picture below shows the card folds a little more.

As I wanted to add some scenic features behind the cute little dog. The friend who will be receiving this card is a fellow dog lover and we often walk together through linear parks surrounded by natural beauty, so it was important to include some trees and bushes etc. They were die cut from Basic White card-stock using some of the Scenic Adventure dies, then coloured with Old Olive & a little Calypso Coral ink.

Here is a close up of the central section.

I added a Basic White panel to the back of the card. and stamped the dog paws in Old Olive. The sentiment on the back is from the Scenic Adventure stamps.

A little bit of left over paper was added to the base. The top sections of the folds used the flap of the envelope. A piece of the envelope was added to the envelope below.

Thank you very much for calling by on your around the CASEing the Catty Blog Hop. I so appreciate it.

Don’t miss any of the inspiration from this creative Crew. The next blog in the hop is by the lovely Peta Stephen. 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 2025 Saleabration Brochure. 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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CASEing the Catty #527 - CASE DSP Projects

CASE a Project featuring Designer Series Paper meets Peaceful Garden

Hello, Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and #527 Challenge with CASEing the Catty.

I am so glad you have dropped by. You may have come from Peta Stephen, as you take this week’s Blog Hop or perhaps arrived directly here; either way I am delighted you are here. At the end of my blog, I have linked to Rebecca Scurr so you can continue with the Blog Hop.

At CASEing the Catty we love to use the samples from the Stampin' Up! Catalogues and On-line Exclusives 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 from in the 2025-26 Annual Catalogue or for On-line Exclusives that feature Designer Series Paper.

There is so so much choice this week. Also, as we are in July, I have started thinking about preparations for Christmas so I CASEd the party banners shown on page 87 of Stampin’ Up!s Annual Catalogue and have created a banner to hang up at home during the Christmas Season. 

I will need to create 2 banners but so far only have the first one finished. Here is the first Banner:

I have designed the banners to hang across 2 bookshelves in my living room. The first banner says “LOVE JOY” while the second banner will say “& PEACE”. The background banner pieces were die cut from two designs in the Peaceful Garden Designer Series Paper. This suite will be found in the coming September-December Mini Catalogue. I do love blues for Christmas as well as the more traditional reds and greens, so have fallen in love with this suite. Demonstrators had early access to the suite for Stampin’ Up!s Creativity Now event.  

This project was ALL die cutting. The wonderful Party Banners die set made cutting out the banner pieces so simple. The letters were die cut from the dark Peaceful Garden Glimmer Paper. Some doves and foliage were cut using the Peace on Earth dies using both Basic White card-stock, Cloud Cover and Misty Moonlight two-tone papers from the Peaceful Garden pack of two tone paper.

Here is a couple of close-ups of the lettered banners. I couldn’t resist adding a little splatter in either Cloud Cover or Misty Moonlight Classic ink. The banner dies comes with dies to cut holes in the two top corners of the banners as well as hole protectors to protect the banner from tearing when threading a ribbon or twine through the holes. I used the oh so gorgeous Iridescent Striped Ribbon to hold the banner flags together as well as to hang the whole banner up. 

I loved using the foliage and doves to decorate the letters - simple and effective.  I’m hoping the 2nd banner will be created over the next few months, when I have some spare time. (Hee hee)

Thank you so much for calling in on your way around the CASEing the Catty Crew Blog Hop for Challenge #527. 

Don’t miss any of the inspiration from this creative CASEing The Catty Crew. The next blog in the hop is by the lovely Rebecca Scurr, our wonderful leader. 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 that you have created for this Challenge which has been inspired by projects featuring DSP in either the 2025-2026 Annual Catalogue or On-Line Exclusives. 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 once anpproved 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 so love to see your creation.

 

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