CASEing The Catty #483 CASE MARKET DSP COLOURS

CASEing COLOURS of the To Market DSP meets Rustic Crate & To Market

Hello, Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and #483 Challenge with CASEing the Catty.

I am so glad you have dropped by. You may have come from Peta Stephens, a member of the CASEing the Catty Design Team, as you take this week’s Blog Hop or perhaps you have joined me another 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. 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 the colours of the To Market Designer Series Paper found on pages 38-39 of the 2024 - 2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue.

The To Market Suite colours are Garden Green, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Pecan Pie and Blackberry Bliss. One way to CASE the colours is to feature the Designer Series Paper itself. That is what I have  done this week.

This card was designed around the bunches of flowers DSP design. Five bunches were fussy cut out and a number of individual tiny flowers were fussy cut using part bunches from the edge of the DSP.

A second DSP design panel was mounted onto a Basic White card-base. As this lovely background tended to fight the central panel for dominance, a layer of white speckled vellum from the Graceful Greenery Vellum pack was added over the background. I love using vellum to subtly soften a background as it maintains the effect of the background and just mutes it a tad. 

A die cut crate from the Rustic Crate bundle was cut out of Pecan Pie card-stock. A little Classic Pecan Pie ink was added to the front of the crate with a Blending Brush to strengthen the effect of the woodgrain texture. Some sprigs of leaves and twigs were cut from Basic White card-stock or Copper Textured Metallic Foil using 2 dies from the Painted Lavender dies. Some Garden Green ink was blended over with a Blending Brush.

A Basic White panel was mounted onto a slightly larger piece of Copper Textured Metallic Foil. A little splattering was added with a Garden Green Stampin' Write Marker. Some Linen Twine was wrapped around the panel and a double Linen Twine bow was added with a Glue Dot.

After arranging 3 bunches of flowers, leaves and twigs in the little crate, the back of the crate was adhered to the central panel and a few Dimensionals were added to give dimension to the bunches of flowers. The tiny fussy cut flowers were added with Mini Dimensionals. A sentiment from the Layers of Beauty stamp set was Copper heat embossed on Basic White card-stock and fussy cut. This too was added with Mini Dimensionals. The final touch - a few Adhesive-backed Metallic Gems.

The card inner was decorated with a little strip of the background DSP on the outer edge. A bunch of flowers was also added. A Basic White C6 Envelope was also decorated with another bunch of flowers. It was a simple way to link the envelope to the card it will hold.

Thank you so much for spending time with me. I so appreciate it. I hope you found something to spike your interest. x

Don’t miss any of the inspiration from this wonderful Crew. The next blog in the hop is the lovely Julia Quinn. 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 colours of the To Market DSP in the 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue. To share, all you need to do go to the Facebook site for 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.

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AWH Heart of Christmas Blog Hop #2

Christmas with Rustic Crate

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the second Art with Heart Heart of Christmas Blog Hops for 2024. This 2024 series runs from August until the end of November. I hope you can check us out each week as I know there will be so many different projects shared with a range of ideas to help your Christmas preparations.

I love creating and sharing Christmas creativity with you. This week I am focussing on a bundle from the current Annual Catalogue that carried over from a previous Catalogue. The Rustic Crate bundle has stamp and dies to create a crate with a number of different contents. Among the images of things to go in the crate are poinsettias, which I’m using this week. To add some extra fun the card is a fancy fold.  There is also a coordinating gift tag.

The crate was created using the Rustic Crate dies and one of a Pecan Pie designs from Nature’s Sweetness Speciality Designer Series Paper together with Pecan Pie card-stock (for the back section). I don’t think one can see that the poinsettias are sitting in a cute little folded crate - ah well at least I know and if its given to a paper-crafter, they are likely to check it out.

A Thick Basic White card base was scored, folded and burnished; then covered with 3 designs of the gorgeous Nature’s Sweetness Speciality Designer Series Paper. The opened card is shown near the end of the blog. The poinsettias were gold heat embossed on Basic White card-stock and coloured with Stampin’ Blends, ie Cherry Cobbler combo, Light Real Red, Dark Flirty Flamingo, Light Daffodil Delight, Old Olive combo and Dark Granny Apple Green Blends. As I wanted to cut the two poinsettias apart to have 3 sitting in/on the crate, I fussy cut them all. The second separated flower was tucked under the crate on the LHS.

The label was die cut from Basic White card-stock using one of the Countryside Corner dies and then stamped with the willowy plants in 2nd generation Pecan Pie Classic Stampin’ ink.

Some Pecan Pie Centre Stripe Ribbon (an Online Exclusive) was tied around the fun fold card with a little Tear ‘n Tape adhesive tucked under the ribbon on the top layer of the card (the white and distressed gold SDSP). The label was adhered over the ribbon, ensuring the Multipurpose Liquid Glue was only applied to the back of the label where it sits on the top layer of the card. The crate, poinsettias and gold foil die cut foliage (cut using the Layers of Beauty dies) were arranged with Glue Dots and Dimensionals. A different sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamp set were gold heat embossed, then fussy cut and added with Mini Dimensionals.

Panels of the SDSP were also adhered inside the card. A Basic White panel was gold heat embossed with another sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamps. An extra coloured poinsettia image was adhered on this panel as well. A Basic White C6 envelope was gold heat embossed on the flap with the poinsettia image (not pictured).

While creating the above card a coordinating gift tag was created with the same products. 

Thank you so much for joining us for our second Heart of Christmas Blog Hop for 2024. I hope you are enjoying this blog hop and are being inspired for your Christmas paper crafting.

There is more Christmas creativity so do continue with the blog hop. Just click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a talented friend, Rachel Woollard. I am looking forward to checking out Rachel’s creation(s). I do love seeing everyones' projects - there is always so much inspiration.

Also, many of us participate in the Colour Creations Blog Hop that goes live every Wednesday night where we showcase one of Stampin’ Up!s colours each week. It would be fantastic if you could also check in on us for more creative inspiration.

Stay well, stay safe and be kind to yourself.

Andrea 💕🐾

If you find a broken link or would like to view the full list of participants go to Sharon Davern’s blog @ Rhapsody in Craft. Sharon is our wonderful Art With Heart Team Heart of Christmas Coordinator.  She is a special lady. Check out her delightful creation while you are there.

If you live in Australia, don't already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and would like your own copy of the Stampin' Up 2023-2024 Annual Catalogue and or the coming September-December 2024 Mini Catalogue, then let me know and I will be delighted to send them to you.  Please don't hesitate to make contact with any other queries about these projects or Stampin' Up!. 

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