Colour INKspiration Challenges - #CI200 Your Favourite Colour

Colour INKspiration Challenges is celebration 200 Challenges, wow what an achievement!  As an original Crew member I was asked to come and celebrate with the very talented creators.

Lou Kitzelman set a challenge of creating a card using my favourite Stampin' Up! colour (current or retired).  We can also add Basic White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige, Basic Black and metallic colours.

I could not go past my favourite green "Old Olive" it's an oldie but it's still my go to green shade.

I have chosen a  variety of stamp sets to create a background of green foliage, I masked off a strip on an angle in the centre which I stamped straight onto the cardstock.  I added a strip of Very Vanilla mounted onto a piece of Old Olive cardstock which I stamped the sentiment

Then I layered some foliage die cuts which I added some more Old Olive ink with my blending brush onto Very Vanilla cardstock and vellum (which is again available as an online exclusive in 12" x 12" sheets.  Finally I put some Holographic Resin Dots to finish off my card.

Stamp Sets: Textured Notes, Gallery Blooms, Biggest Wish

Cardstock:  Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Vellum

Ink:  Old Olive

Accessories:  Cut 'n Emboss Machine, Petal of Beauty Dies, Holographic Resin Dots

Close up of the Old Olive foliage.

Inside the card.

INKspired to join the challenge? It's so easy. Firstly, get some INKspiration by checking out all of the creations of the Colour INKspiration Crew in the challenge album on our Facebook page. Then you have 12 days from today to make and upload your creation to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group. You don't have to have a blog to participate but if you do you can link back to your post. Make sure you use all of the challenge colours. You can also use neutrals such as Basic White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and Basic Black as well as Metallics.

Not a member of the Colour INKspiration Facebook group yet? Just click here and ask to join Colour INKspiration, add the group to your favourites and share it with your crafty friends so they can join in the fun too. We can't wait to see what you create with these gorgeous colours.

CASEing the Catty - #CTC546 Case a Punch or Die Project

This week at CASEing the Catty we are featuring a punch or die project from either the Annual or Mini Catalogues.

Welcome to the blog hop or you may have come from Peta Stephen.

I have been going through my Designer Series Paper earlier in the week searching for a pink shade and realised that the packet of Florals in Bloom had not had any love for a while, sometimes the Annual Catalogue gets forgotten when the Mini Catalogue and Online Exclusives come out.  

I cased the card featured on page 41 of the Annual Catalogue and have used the same Designer Series Paper however I have used the new Online Exclusive, Words of Beauty Stamp Set and Dies for the beautiful sentiment.

After creating this card, I then thought I would make a Christmas card using a green and Cherry Cobbler theme with the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper with a Shaded Spruce card base.  

I did not have the Christmas Words Collage Hybrid Embossing Folder and Die so I stamped the "Christmas" in Cherry Cobbler from Traditional Labels and fussy cut it out and then stamped "Happy" from Simply Said in Black Memento. 

Stamp Set:  Words of Beauty, Traditional Labels, Simply Said

Cardstock:  Timid Tiger, Petunia Pop, Basic White, Floral in Bloom Designer Series Paper, Shaded Spruce, Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper

Ink:  Black Memento, Cherry Cobbler

Accessories:  Cut 'n Emboss Machine, Words of Beauty Dies, Secret Sea Flat Pearls, Poppy Parade Opaque Adhesive Backed Gems (retired)

The Florals in Bloom Designer Series Paper card.

Close up of the Words of Beauty sentiment.

I had to make a Christmas version as well using the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper.

Close up of my fussy cut Christmas as I don't have a die for this one.

Thanks for stopping by this week, now it's time to see what Andrea Sargent has created.  If you have not heard my lovely team member has again been chosen for a second year as a Stampin' Up! Artisan.

CASEing the Catty - #CTC545 Case Online Exclusives

On Tuesday, Stampin' Up! updated the Online Exclusives with some more wonderful products and this is what CASEing the Catty are featuring this week.

Welcome to the blog hop or you may have come from Monique Fielder.

I have choose the background Lasting Linen stamp example to CASE this week, this card also features the new Friendly Foliage bundle.

I started by gold embossing the Lasting Linen background stamp set which I layered onto a piece of Garden Green cardstock which I put onto a Thick Basic White card base.  

I then added Old Olive ink to the featured foliage centrepiece with border and used a sponge dauber with Garden Green to make a two tone green effect.  The matching dies cut out the outside border and the inside so you can see the lovely gold embossed linen effect in the gaps.  

Finally I white embossed the sentiment onto a strip of Old Olive and an added a large white baker's twine bow.  

To decorate inside the card, I had a little thin strip of the gold embossed which I added on top of a couple of leaves I stamped in the two tones of green as featured on the front of the card.

Stamp Set:  Lasting Linen, Friendly Foliage

Cardstock:  Garden Green, Old Olive, Thick Basic White, Basic White

Ink:  Old Olive, Garden Green, Versamark

Accessories:  Cut 'n Emboss Machine, Friendly Foliage Dies, Gold Embossing Powder, White Baker's Twine

Close up of the gold embossed linen background and the two toned green foliage.

Inside the card.

Thanks for stopping by this week and now it's time to see what Rebecca Scurr has created.

CASEing the Catty - #CTC539 Case Peaceful Garden Suite

Wow, it's my favourite Suite of the Mini Catalogue, the Peaceful Garden on pages 32 to 35 of the Mini Catalogue which we are featuring this week at CASEing the Catty.

Welcome to the blog hop or you may have come from Monique Fielder.

I have chosen the decor frame on page 35 but there are so many lovely cards on these pages that you could copy.  

I have started with a Cloud Cover card base and layered with a tone on tone Peaceful Greenery 3D Embossed.

Adding some more texture to the edge with ruffing up with a pair of scissors and then a little blending with again Cloud Cover to give further depth around the edge.

It was time for some glimmer in the middle with the largest tag and again some blending on the Basic White tag and finally I added the beautiful die cut doves and the leaf and envelope. 

Stamp Set: Peace on Earth

Cardstock:  Cloud Cover, Misty Moonlight, Basic White, Blue Glimmer Paper

Ink:  Misty Moonlight

Accessories:  Cut 'n Emboss Machine, Peace on Earth Dies, Peaceful Greenery 3D Embossing Folder, Blending Brushes

Close up of the centrepiece of doves.

Thanks for stopping by now it's time to see what Julia Quinn has made.

CASEing the Catty - #CTC537 Case Traditions of Christmas

How are you going with preparing your Christmas cards this year?  I am making good progress to the 100+ cards I send. 

This week at CASEing the Catty we are featuring the beautiful Traditions of Christmas suite on pages 21 to 27 of the Mini Catalogue.

Welcome to the blog hop or you may have come from Monique Fielder and wow I love her card featuring the beautiful bauble.

My card to Case this week is from the left hand side of page 24.  I have stepped it up by adding an extra layer of Old Olive cardstock mounting on the Basic White embossing with the Peaceful Greenery 3D Embossing Folder.  

I have also added a die cut the bunch of flowers to make the centrepiece from the Traditions of Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper instead of colouring in the image using the Stampin' Blends and the gold outline really makes it pop off the white background.  I have also added some gold sequins to finish off the card.

Stamp Set:  Traditional Labels

Cardstock:  Thick Basic White, Basic White, Old Olive, Gold, Traditions of Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper

Ink:  Versamark

Accessories:  Cut 'n Emboss Machine, Peaceful Greenery 3D Embossing Folder, Christmas Greenery Dies, Gold Sequins, Gold Embossing Powder

Close up of the beautiful die cut bunch of flowers from the Specialty Designer Series Paper.

Thanks for stopping by this week, now it's time to see what Julia Quinn has made.

CASEing the Catty - #CTC536 Case the Mini Catalogue

This week at CASEing the Catty we are featuring the new Mini Catalogue, it has so many Christmas themed products which I just love which I could have CASEd this week.

Welcome to the blog hop or you may have come from Julia Quinn.

I have started an scrapbooking album which will feature Christmas with my family.  I have a lot of catching up as I have had 53 Christmas' and I am not sure there will be photos each year prior to my nephews birth some 29 years ago.  

In recent times I have taken a family photo on Christmas Day, especially now that you can set your phone to a timer so we can all be included. 

Unfortunately due to the sad passing of my mum, dad and sister it's always a small gathering but it means so much to me and I cherish these memories that I am now recording.

I only had two photographs from last year so I decided to make a single page using the Keeping Traditions Scrapbooking Workshop Kit and I think this page works either as a double page or as a single which I have made up.  

If you are like me and don't have a lot of experience in scrapbooking these kits make it so easy with lots of instructions and die cuts ready to apply to the pages.  You only need some adhesive of your choice, dimensionals and your trimmer and you are set to create these 3 double pages.

Close up of the die cuts and scallop features.

Thanks for stopping by this week, now it's time to see what Rachel Palmieri has created for Father's Day.