CASEing the Catty #131

Hello everyone!

Just a short post today to share a card I am entering into the CASEing the Catty Challenge #131, it's a facebook challenge group so you don't even need to blog to take part! Each week the challenge is to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit)  the amazing inspiration we have right at our fingertips in the big, beautiful and shiny brand new, Stampin' Up Annual Catalogue that has just come out June 1st (my copy not so shiny anymore as it has been read & re-read SO many times!).

This week we had to use the Everyday Occasions section, pages 18-67, that's a lot of inspiration! What caught my eye was the cute-as Piggy card on page 48.

 I loved the look of the background and had to give it a go. Here is my take on it!

I am really pleased with how this turned out. Instead of the hearts I have used stitched shape squares, if you haven't already got the Stitched Shape Framelits, you need to get them. They would be my most used product, it's amazing how much difference a little stitched outline can make to your finished project.

My project uses one of the new In Colours, Lemon Lime Twist, it's one of my favourite colours now as it makes everything pop when it is used. My photography skills haven't shown it in the best light here so you will just have to take my word for it. As for my colour combo I have used Perfect Plum, Smoky Slate & Whisper White along with the Lemon Lime Twist. Did I dream up this combo? Nope, Stampin' Up did all the hard work for me. When new In Colours are brought out they put together an In Colour Combination chart and show you how all the new colours can go with the core Colour Collections. I had completely forgotten this until I was reading Kelly Kent's blog post this morning, thanks Kelly as I was a bit stuck! I had started with Perfect Plum and was struggling to come up with a colour combo that I liked, your post saved the day!!

**Click the image to download**

The inside needed some attention too, I used up some of the trimmed off squares from the front and pulled out another new stamp set Label Me Pretty, it is so easy to use with it's matching punch.

For details of what I have used see below for the product list, clicking on any of the items takes you directly to my shop. Be sure to use June's Host Code to share in the rewards & have some freebies posted to you at the end of the month. The code is DY2UCN3C.

For more details on the CASEing the Catty Challenges click HERE.

Product List

Lovely Inside & Out Clear-Mount Bundle

[145324]

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

Petal Burst Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[141493]

Big Shot

[143263]

Label Me Pretty Clear-Mount Bundle

[145305]

Tree Builder Punch

[138295]

Perfect Plum A4 Card Stock

[108615]

Lemon Lime Twist A4 Cardstock

[144250]

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

[106584]

Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate

[131291]

Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack

[144177]

Versamark Pad

[102283]

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109132]

Pearl Basic Jewels

[144219]

Lemon Lime Twist 1/2" Finely Woven Ribbon

[144135]

ESAD 2017/18 Annual Catty Sneak Peek Blog Hop

Hello lovelies! Today I am participating in another ESAD blog hop with the theme being Sneak Peek of the brand new Annual Catalogue for 2017/18 or aka  "catty " in Stampin' Up speak. You might be starting with me or maybe you have just seen some gorgeous projects from Josie Dean, for some amazing inspiration make sure you hop right around to all of us.

One of the many perks for being a demonstrator is you have the opportunity to go to Stampin' Up's twice yearly OnStage event (conference) and other than catching up with friends and making new ones you also get to see and play with new product a lot earlier than the general public, you even go home with a copy of the new catalogue, get to put in an order of selected items and wait for it, go home with freebies of the new stamp sets and products! This enables us to have a good play with it before we get to unleash it on our fabulous customers! So, we have had a bit of a play by now and thought we would get together and show off some of the projects we have come up with. Warning! It is probably going to grow your wishlist somewhat when you see all the awesome projects everyone has made to share today.

For my card today I have used the stamp set Happy Birthday Gorgeous, I love, love, love the font on this one.

To make this card I used a second generation stamping technique. I saw the technique demonstrated by Jennifer McGuire. It involves stamping exactly the same design twice. Firstly, fully inked up and then on the second piece without re-inking the stamp, hence you get a lighter image. The square that the sentiment is on is cut from the middle of the second piece of paper (with the lighter image). Ideally it would have been great if I had time to make something with the leftover pieces but I have been so busy planning for the Stampin' Day Retreat that myself and two of my stamping buddies are holding in a couple of weeks that alas, I ran out of time. But! stay tuned I will create with them in the near future and I will be sure to show you the results.

Of course, while I have the stamps and inks out I might as well make the inside pretty too and the envelope usually gets a bit of attention as well.

Well, I hope you have a pen and paper out beside you while you hop around from one demonstrator to another as I really feel that you will want to put some things down on your list for once the new catalogue goes on sale on the 1st June.

Thank you for stopping by today and thank you to all those lovely people who have subscribed to my blog and leave comments! (Note - to do this you need to actually click on the title of my post and go to my actual blog page.) To keep on hopping, just click the arrow below and you will be taken to some amazing delights from Cheryl Algie.

Product List

Happy Birthday Gorgeous Photopolymer Stamp Set

[143662]

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

Layering Squares Framelits Dies

[141708]

Classic Label Punch

[141491]

Blog Hop Participants:

1. Nicole Wilson

2. Lou Kitzelman

3. Kelly Kent

4. Libby Dyson

5. Rachael Lewsley

6. Josie Dean

7. Megan Lenske

8. Cheryl Algie

9. Leonie Schroder

10. Kristel Rimmer

11. Jenny Hayward

12. Carly Middleton

13. Rosalie Desmond

14. Tanya Bell

15. Renee Lynch

16. Violette De La Croix  

17. Sharon Dalton  

18. Kim Oliver

19. Peta Stephen

20. Sandra Mastello

21. Courtenay Heuston

22. Monique Fielder  

23. Cathy Pinchbeck

24. Richelle Fletcher

25. Maree McIntosh

26. Rebecca Jacovou

Guest Designer - Colour INKspiration #10 Blog Hop

Thank you very much for stopping by today. I am very honoured to be a Guest Designer for the Colour INKspiration crew! Colour INKspiration is a Facebook challenge site that on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month post a challenge colour palette.  It is accompanied by a very inspirational blog hop put together by the crew members. People then go forth and create amazingness and post it to the facebook page. You can get the details here. This month I get to hop along with the crew!! Excitement plus!

If you have been hopping along you would have just seen the amazingness ( I have typed it twice now, so it must be a word, right?) of my dear friend Lou Kitzelman. I can thank Lou for getting me onto the blogging bandwagon and entering challenges, she not only inspired me to do it but also coached me along the way, for which I am very thankful for.

For the challenge this fortnight we were given this colour palette.....

The colours just scream Autumn by themselves but then add the autumny images and I couldn't not use the new Colourful Season Stamp Set and matching dies.

With the colour challenges you can  add neutral/metallic colours, for my card I've used Very Vanilla and Copper. The leaf looks amazing in real life! I stamped the leaf stamp after daubing Cajun Craze & Island Indigo on with my sponge daubers and then spritzed it a little with water before stamping onto watercolour paper. Once it was dry I then stamped the leaf outline with Versamark and embossed with copper embossing powder.

This shows you the inside of the card and the card fold. I think it might be a lever card?? I saw a beautiful card by the talented Danielas Stempelwelt here and was inspired to nut out how to make it. I'm really happy with my results! I used the leaf die as a stencil and daubed over it with the sponge daubers to create the stenciled leaves and of course continued the copper embossing inside.

Here is another view of the card just slightly opened. Did you notice that I stitched copper thread through the holes in the stitched shape square. I love taking the time to add extra details like this and jobs like that can be done in front of the tv or anywhere you are just sitting around, like waiting to pick up the kids!

Thank you so much for taking the time to have a look see at my blog 😊 to continue hopping just click the next blog image below. It will take you to the talented Julia Quinn.

Cheers Megan xx

Product List

Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Bundle

[145348]

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

Big Shot

[143263]

Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate

[131291]

Island Indigo A4 Card Stock

[124390]

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

[106550]

Moroccan Designer Series Paper

[141645]

Copper Metallic Thread

[141696]

Versamark Pad

[102283]

Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder

[141636]

Sponge Daubers

[133773]

Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad

[126986]

Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad

[126965]

Simply Scored

[122334]

Colour INKspiration #09 Happy Birthday

Howdy lovelies!

Just dropping by for a quick post (I'm fanging to get into my craft room, a order has arrived! need I say more!) to share my entry for the Colour INKspiration # 09.

Voila! Here it is a CAS (Clean and Simple) design, well I think it is, as simple as I can go anyway. I'm loving the new Happy Birthday thinlits (available 1st June to customers), its a bit hard to see but I cut it out three times and glued them all on top of each other to create a more dimensional element. Then, to give it more dimension again, I applied a layer of fine tip glue over it to give it a glossy enamel look.

This is the colour palette we were given for this challenge and of course you can add in neutrals, in this case Crumb Cake, one of my favourite "go-to" colours.

Now I did warn you it was going to be quick, I'm quite pleased with myself how speedy I have gotten this done, bet there will be spelling or grammar mistakes! You'll forgive me though, there is an awesome brown box that is screaming to be opened! Wonder if my love for Crumb Cake has some subconscious link to the colour of the boxes our orders are delivered in???

Catch ya!
Megan xx



Product List

Happy Birthday Thinlits Die

[143700]

Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies

[143751]

Big Shot

[143263]

Happy Birthday Gorgeous Photopolymer Stamp Set

[143662]

Balloon Bouquet Punch

[140609]

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock

[121685]

Dapper Denim A4 Cardstock

[141419]

Pool Party A4 Card Stock

[124391]

Cherry Cobbler A4 Card Stock

[121681]

Dapper Denim Classic Stampin' Pad

[141394]

Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad

[126966]

Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

[126982]

Fine-Tip Glue Pen

[138309]

Silver Metallic Thread

[138402]