#CTC312 Favourite Retiring Dies

 

Use your Favourite Retiring Dies from the annual catalogue:

I've gone with the Butterfly Beauty dies on page 180.

I've cut the two large butterfly dies in Night of Navy and Very Vanilla cardstock. I've layered two sets over each other, reversing the colours. The bases are Thick Very Vanilla cardstock. I've added a piece of the also retiring Boho Indigo DSP to each of the bases and adhered the butterflies using Stampin' Dimensionals. 

The third card is a single layer of butterflies which I've embossed with the Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder, again adding it to the card with Stampin' Dimensionals. I've snipped the butterfly off the top right and will add the greeting here for this one. 

I have left them all without greetings, as they could be used for many occassions and I like to have a stash of cards that I can personalise when I need. 

I've also added some of my favourite embellishments - (get them while you can!) the clear Flowers for Every Season Gems.

The other cards have all the butterflies intact and I will either add a skinny greeting over to the right, or leave it and add a greeting on the inside of the card

We hope you'll play along with the challenge this week. Add your card to our Facebook page using the link over on the right.

Next up we have Rebecca and her striking card:

#CTC306 CASE a Glitter/Sparkly Project

 

CASE a Glittery/Sparkly Project - Bring on the Bling

I've decided to use the image 2nd from the right on Page 80. The heat embossing was my target for the sparkly aspect, although I opted not to do any for my CASE.

For one more week you can choose the Oh So Ombre DSP as your free Sale-a-bration item with qualifying purchase.

 

I've cut strips of the Blackberry Bliss Oh So Ombre sheet with the dot pattern and adhered them to a panel of Whisper White which was then added to a base of Blackberry Bliss.

I've diecut a Rectangle Stitched Die from the plain Blackberry Bliss Oh So Ombree sheet and added Bokeh dots with my Whisper White Craft Stamp pad and a sponge. I'd punched circles using 1/2", 3/4" and 1" onto scrap card for my stencil.

The butterflies were cut using the Butterfly Beauty dies with Blackberry Bliss and Whisper White cardstock which were adhered together and trimmed to become single butterflies. The greeting is from A Touch of Ink stamped onto Whisper White card using Blackberry Bliss ink..

We would love to see your take on a Glittery or Sparkly project from the January-June mini catalogue. Just add it to our Facebook page using the link over on the right.

Next on the hop we have Judy and her delightful project:

#CTC289 CASE a Halloween Project

CASE a Halloween Project:

I've used the tag on the far right page 65 of the Aug-Dec Mini Catalogue:

I've used a base of Gray Granite cardstock and my tag is cut from Peony Garden DSP. I've cut 3/4" strips of Petal Pink cardstock and used the Banner Triple punch to cut the end, then used that as a pattern to chop the other end, then I've embossed them all with the Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder and adhered them haphazardly onto the tag. 

The greeting is from Zany Zebras in Gray Granite ink onto the same colour cardstock. I've used the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch to cut it, then repeated with a mat of Whisper White and another of Gray Granite. My bow is the lovely Petal Pink Organdy Striped ribbon popped on with a Glue Dot. I've finished with butterflies in Gray Granite cardstock using the Butterfly Beauty Dies - much prettier than bats!

Next on the hop we have Monique and she has a super project to share:

#CTC257 Kids & Babies

CASEing the Kids and Babies section pages 98-105 this week

For me, it was the picture on page 98, bottom left. 

I've chosen a base card of Purple Posy, strips of cardstock (3/4" x 5 3/8"} of Perennial Essence DSP. I've added a Whisper White panel embossed with the Country Floral 3D EF. I chose to cut butterflies from a scrap of Seaside Spray from Butterfly Beauty Dies and used strips of Stampin' Dimensionals to adhere to the embossed panel. Next I've stamped the words from Floral Essence in Night of Navy onto Whisper White, fussy cut and adhered to each of the butterflies.

Might be the youngest of the house is having a birthday this week! Happy Birthday to her!!

Thanks for stopping by. Please hop on over and see what our lovely Shannon has for us this week:

#CTC240 Everyday Occasions

Head to the catalogue and choose anything to CASE from Page 12 through 71

I found this butterfly card on page 34:

I cut 3 strips of Whisper White cardstock 1 1/2" wide and punched one end with the Everyday Label punch. I took the tiny solid butterfly image from Butterfly Gala and using Highland Heather ink I stamped 3 times before reinking the image - for those of you waiting to get your hands on Purple Posy - the last time is a very close match. 

These panels were then embossed using the Country Floral 3D folder and attached to my base card of Thick Whisper White using Stampin' Dimensionals.  I've cut Pretty Peacock butterflies with the Butterfly. Beauty dies and added them along with a greeting from Varied Vases.

We hope you'll play along and add your photo to our Facebook page using the link over to the right. Next on our hop you'll find Siobhan has some cuties to share:

#CTC233 Case a Layout from Page 36

This week you don't have to think too much - open your catalogue to page 36 and CASE any layout!

I've chosen the card towards the middle with the large magnolia flower on it.

I've swapped out the large flower for a portion of the Butterfly Beauty dies, I've cut the top layer from Gorgeous Grape and layered it onto one cut from So Saffron, then trimmed a few of the butterflies off. I've stamped around the edge of vellum cardstock with an image from Beauty Abounds in Memento Black ink and just to be on the safe side, heat set it. On the reverse I used Gorgeous Grape, Mossy Meadow and So Saffron Stampin' markers to colour the images.  

Initially I was going to mount the vellum directly onto the Mossy Meadow base, but I felt the colours didn't pop as much so backed it with a piece of Whisper White cardstock cut slightly smaller than the vellum. This was all adhered to the Mossy Meadow base. The butterflies have been raised with Stampin' Dimensionals and the greeting from Painted Glass was stamped onto Whisper White using Mossy Meadow ink then punched out with the Tailored Tag punch and glued in place.

I hope you get the chance to play along with us this week. Time now to pop over and check out the lovely Rose's cheery card!

#CTC226 CASE a Layout

This week the crew are CASEing any layout from the Occasions Catalogue.

I've chosen the image top right of page 38

I have a base of Thick Whisper White  layered with a mat of Whisper White embossed with the Country Floral 3D TIEF. The 3 panels of DSP are a sneak peek of Mosaic Mood Specialty DSP all On Stage attendees received. 

I have broken the fibres on a scrap of Pumpkin Pie cardstock and separated it to use the inside for some fluffy texture. The greeting from Better With You stamped in Sahara Sand, trimmed and adhered to that piece. The bird from the same set has been stamped with Sahara Sand and coloured with Stampin' Blends then fussy cut. Foliage Frame Framelits will be sadly missed by me #getthemwhileyoucan, and were used for the white and pumpkin diecut elements. All these were popped onto a trimmed BlackBerry Bliss diecut from Springtime Impressions and raised with Stampin' Dimensionals. My final case was the three butterflies with mine coming from the Butterfly Beauty dies which will carryover (yay!) using BlackBerry Bliss cardstock 

Time to hop over and check out what the lovely Judy has for us this week: