Tricia's Stamping Creations: CASE

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

New At SU April Blog Hop CASE A Team Member

Welcome to the New At SU April Blog Hop and this month we have been challenged to CASE a project created by one of our fellow team members. I will be CASEing Nina McMillan and as she is a new member to our blog hop, I have chosen a card she created before she joined us. I am excited to share what I have created and how Nina's card became my inspiration.

As you can see from Nina's card design, she has showcased designer series paper to create a fun design with strips spaced across her card front. The sentiment is her focal point for this design and she has added some twine and embellishments to create a beautiful clean and simple design. Just the kind of layout that I love.

So for my design, I chose to step up her layout by adding an additional layer and I chose to use the retiring Earthen Elegance Designer Series Paper to create my strip pattern. For my sentiment, I used the retiring Next Destination stamp set and heat embossed the sentiment to step it up. While Nina's design is more feminine, I chose to go masculine and I love that this layout works perfectly for both situations.

Products Used:

Next Destination stamp set (item #161427) - Retiring

Something Fancy Dies (item #160424)

Earthen Elegance Designer Series Paper (item #161503) - Retiring

Night of Navy Cardstock (item #100867)

Pretty Peacock Cardstock (item #150880)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Embossing Powders (item #155555) - Retiring

Linen Thread (item #104199)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Night of Navy Cardstock

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

Large Label die cut with the Something Fancy Dies

Pretty Peacock Cardstock

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

Sentiment Label die cut with the Something Fancy Dies

Earthen Elegance Designer Series Paper

9 Strips - 1/2" x 4" (Variety of Patterns)

This card design was so much fun to create and it's a great way to use up your designer series paper scraps. I cut 9 strips measuring 1/2" x 4" and arranged them onto my Pretty Peacock cardstock in a pattern that I was happy with, before adhering them to the cardstock. I wrapped a piece of Linen Thread around the card front twice and then tied a bow on the left side. For the sentiment, I heat embossed the image with Gold embossing powder onto the Pretty Peacock label and then layered it onto a Night of Navy label to help make it pop. I attached the sentiment label to the card front with Stampin' Dimensionals, placing it over the Linen Thread with the bow just to the left of the sentiment label. I then added the card front to the Night of Navy card base using Stampin' Dimensionals to pop it up. To complete the card design, I added several Gold sequins to coordinate with the heat embossing. I just love how this card design turned out and I had so much fun CASEing Nina's beautiful card design.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will encourage you to CASE projects that you see to help spark your creativity. There are so many wonderful options to explore to help you create fun card designs.

Please take the time to see all the wonderful projects created this month by clicking on the links in the Roll Call List to visit our Design Team member's blogs. We would appreciate it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects. I hope you enjoy the rest of our blog hop.

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Tricia Butts
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Saturday, October 9, 2021

Stamping With Friends October Blog Hop CASEing The Catalog

Welcome to the Stamping With Friends October Blog Hop as we showcase projects we have CASEd from current Stampin' Up! Catalogs. What is CASE you ask? It stands for Copy And Share Everything and it is a way to jump start your creativity when you might be feeling stuck. You can choose to copy a project exactly or you may choose to select the layout, color combination or certain elements to create your own project. You will be visiting with talented Stampin' Up! Demonstrators as they share their projects and ideas to help inspire you.

The card I chose to CASE is from the 2021-2022 Annual Catalog on page 22 and features the Dragonfly Garden Bundle. I really liked the layout of this card design and the heat embossing for the background using the stamp images from the Dragonfly Garden stamp set. I decided that I wanted to recreate this card design using a different color combination to come up with my own version of this card.

For my card design, I wanted to create a Fall themed design based on the card from the Annual Catalog. The colors I chose were Mossy Meadow, Misty Moonlight and Cinnamon Cider with accents of Silver and Gold to help step up the design. For the heat embossed background, I used Silver embossing powder so that it would pop against the Misty Moonlight cardstock layer. I chose to use the Tailored Tag Punch for my sentiment and I like the way the Cinnamon Cider cardstock label has the look of leather. For the large dragonfly, I heat embossed the dragonfly with Gold embossing powder onto Gold Foil and then punched it out with the Dragonflies Punch. I love the detail and texture this adds to the card design.

Products Used:

Dragonfly Garden Bundle (item #156224)

Tailored Tag Punch (item #145667)

Mossy Meadow Cardstock (item #133676)

Misty Moonlight Cardstock (item #153081)

Cinnamon Cider Cardstock (item #153078)

Gold Foil Sheets (item #132622)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Embossing Powders (item #155555)

Mossy Meadow Stampin' Blends Combo Pack (item #154890)

Baker's Twine Essentials Pack (item #155475)

Basic Rhinestone Jewels (item #144220)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Mossy Meadow Cardstock

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

Misty Moonlight Cardstock

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

Cinnamon Cider Cardstock

Sentiment Label punched out with Tailored Tag Punch

Gold Foil Sheet

Large Dragonfly punched out with Dragonflies Punch

This card design features one of my favorite techniques - heat embossing. I love the way it steps up a card design and I chose to use both Gold and Silver embossing to create a fun contrast. I stamped the images from the Dragonfly Garden stamp set onto the Misty Moonlight cardstock card front with Versamark ink and embossed them with Silver embossing powder. I also heat embossed the sentiment onto the Cinnamon Cider sentiment tag using Silver embossing powder to create a rustic look. For the dragonfly, I heat embossed the stamped image with Gold embossing powder onto the Gold Foil and punched it out with the Dragonflies Punch. I love how the embossing brings out the wonderful detail of the wings and body on the Gold Foil. For the Baker's Twine, I took a piece of White Baker's Twine and wrapped it around the card front twice and then cut it. I colored the White Baker's Twine with the Light Mossy Meadow Stampin' Blends Marker so that it coordinated with the card base. I then wrapped it around the card front twice and tied a knot towards the right side of the card. I attached the sentiment label with Stampin' Dimensionals over the top of the Baker's Twine and added the Gold Dragonfly with Stampin' Dimensionals so that it slightly overlapped the bottom right side of the sentiment label. To finish off the card design, I added three small Basic Rhinestone Jewels, one to the top of the sentiment label and the other two to the centers of the embossed dragonflies. I love how this card turned out and how I was able to use the different elements from the card design in the catalog to create my own version.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to explore CASEing to create your own wonderful projects. It's a great way to spark your creativity and provide you with a starting point for your designs.

Now it's time to visit Victoria's blog and see what she has to share with us. Just click on the Next button below to visit her blog or use the Roll Call List to find your way. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects. I hope you enjoy the rest of our blog hop.