Tricia's Stamping Creations: Stamping With Friends November Blog Hop CASEing A Demonstrator

Welcome to the Stamping With Friends November Blog Hop with our challenge to "CASE a Demonstrator". What is CASE? It stands for Copy And Share Everything or Copy And Selectively Edit, and is basically a great way to get inspiration when you are creating your own projects. Projects created by Stampin' Up! Demonstrators can provide you with amazing ideas to help spark your creativity. Visit with our Design Team members as they share their ideas and projects to help you get started.

The hardest part about today's blog hop project, was choosing which Stampin' Up! Demonstrator to CASE. There are so many wonderful, talented demonstrators from around the world that inspire me on a daily basis, and I could have chosen anyone of them for today's project. In the end, I discovered this beautiful Christmas card designed by Australian Demonstrator, Catherine Proctor, and I just knew it was the one I wanted to CASE for this blog hop. You can click here to see Catherine's original post.

For my card design, I chose to use the layout from the original card design to create a bright and cheerful Thank You card. For the colors, I used Starry Sky, Orchid Oasis, Tahitian Tide and Sweet Sorbet from the 2022-2024 In Colors and I love the variety of patterns in the 2022-2024 In Colors 6"x6" Designer Series Paper that helps to add wonderful texture to the design. This beautiful clean and simple card would work well as a masculine Thank You Card to show your appreciation.

Products Used:

Wildlife Wonder stamp set (item #157923)

Amazing Thanks Dies (item #157816)

Stitched Rectangles Dies (item #151820)

Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder (item #154317)

2022-2024 In Colors 6"x6" Designer Series Paper (item #159253)

Sweet Sorbet Cardstock (item #159268)

Starry Sky Cardstock (item #159263)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Sweet Sorbet Classic Ink Pad (item #159216)

2022-2024 In Color Matte Decorative Dots (item #159186)

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals (item #144108)

Measurements:

Sweet Sorbet Cardstock

Card Base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Thanks Outline die cut with the Amazing Thanks Dies

Starry Sky Cardstock

Detailed Thanks die cut with the Amazing Thanks Dies

Basic White Cardstock

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4" Embossed with the Painted Textures 3D Embossing Folder

Sentiment Label die cut with the Stitched Rectangles Dies

2022-2024 In Color Designer Series Paper

3/4" x 4" - Orchid Oasis Polka Dot pattern

3/4" x 4" - Tahitian Tide Plaid Pattern

3/4" x 4" - Tahitian Tide Polka Dot Pattern

3/4" x 4" - Starry Sky Stripe Pattern

To create my version of Catherine's card, I chose to use three of the In Colors for the strips to create the background design. I love that the tone on tone patterns add subtle texture to the card front without being overwhelming. For the Basic White cardstock, I wanted to add more texture to the card front, so I embossed it using the Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder. I arranged the strips and adhered them to the card front in a staggered arrangement similar to the original card design. For the sentiment, I chose to use the Thanks die cuts using the Amazing Thanks Dies. The contrast between the Sweet Sorbet and Starry Sky layers really makes it pop against the card front background and coordinating with the Sweet Sorbet card base. The stamped sentiment from the Wildlife Wonder stamp set, was stamped with Sweet Sorbet Classic ink onto a Basic White Stitched Rectangle. I attached both sentiments using Mini Stampin' Dimensionals to the card front to add some depth and dimension to the design. To finish off the design, I added some Sweet Sorbet and Orchid Oasis Matte Decorative Dots to the card front. I love how this card design turned out and how I was able to take the layout from Catherine's beautiful Christmas card and transform it into this wonderful thank you card.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to try CASEing as a way to spark your creativity and create your own beautiful projects. There are so many possibilities to explore.

Please take the time to visit with my fellow Design Team members to view their wonderful projects. Just use the Roll Call List below to find your way along our blog hop. We would appreciate it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects.

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you.