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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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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