Casing the Catty Day 5

Stampin' Up's card is to vibrant, I just fell in love with it.  It is on page 18 and uses the new popular set called Eastern Palace.  Jury is still out on whether or not I need this set.  But in the mean time, below is my card with what I have on hand.








My card started with me thinking about the pretty DSP Eastern Palace Specialty DSP.  I went to my Brights stack and got the Pacific Point paper and then took my Emerald Envy marker to it and added the green.  Quite brilliant if you ask me. The Lucky Limeade piece at the back was just Whisper White sponged with Twisted Citron Distress Ink.  Since I don't have the cute Mini Sequin Trim I had to substitute it with a thin strip of Gold Foil Cardstock.  The sentiment from Lotus Blooms (R) was stamped in Eggplant Envy and die cut with my KUUQA stitched circles from Amazon  The background used two sets Fresh Vintage(R) and Mixed Bunch(R).  Emerald Envy is the color of the base.

Having so much fun, let me know if you've taken the challenge and where I can find your cards.

Happy Stampin'
Heather

Casing the Catty Day 4

Today's  is on page 16 of the new catalog.  I liked the colors and the simplicity of their design.  So now to find things in my stash to recreate it.  The closest thing I had for the background was a stencil from Wal-mart, I just sponged Calypso Coral, Peekaboo Peach and Blushing Bride onto the stencil and it turned out not to bad.  Then, for the flower and leaves I grabbed my Owl Punch and punch out the leaves from Emerald Envy.  The flower is the from the Petite Petals punch and believe it or not that is Calypso Coral.  I embossed the stamped image from Riveting (R) in white EP on Gold Foil.  I punched out the two gold foil pieces with circle punches.  To finish it off, I added Gold Metallic Bakers Twine and a white center on the flower from Ranger Enamel Accents.

Hope you like my take on the card.  Please leave a comment, I'd love to hear from you.

Happy Stampin'
Heather

Casing the Catty Day 3

Hello friend, it's day 3 of my casing the catty month.  This card is on page 8 and it is one of my favorites.  I am a fan of copper and was so happy to see it making a comeback.  On this card I used my very old SU copper cord and embossing powder.  I am thinking they have to be at least 10 years old.

I really, really liked this card the first time I saw it.  So, to recreate it I used an Avery Elle die, Amazing and used the retired ribbon punch for the border.  The DSP in the background is Sweet Sorbet, the small flowers on the Blushing Bride panel are from Botanical Blooms.  The base, Calypso Coral and the work friend is from Birthday Blooms.  I was pretty happy with how this card turned out.  Do I need this kit.  At this point, I think not.

So, what do you think!

Happy Stampin'
Heather

CASING the Catty Day 2

I hate when the colors don't show up true,  in this case, Rose Red looks more like Real Red.  Anyway, the card at the top is on page 2 of the catty, certainly not a favorite card of mine but one I felt would be very easy to recreate. I picked Rose Red, and Emerald Envy for my inks, The stamp sets are Simple Shapes (R) and Friendly Phrases (R).  The DSP is really old and from a big stack I got from Walmart the brand says Momenta.

I am really starting to think that Lemon Lime Twist will be on my first new catalog order.  I really like how much more vibrant it is.  

The card tomorrow is one of my favorites.  Hint, I used copper EP.

Happy Stampin'

Heather

Casing the new Stampin' Up Catalog Day 1

     A blogger, I'm not, but I am a stamper who has loads of supplies.  Being a demo for about 10 years, I have accumulated scads of stamps, paper, ink and tools from Stampin' Up.  That doesn't include the contraband I collected as well.  So, with that in mind, at the start of the new Stampin' Up catalog year, I have decided to CASE cards from the catalog using stamps I own that are either similar to retired Stampin' Up images, or current ones. In a few cases, I found images from other companies I could use.  Also, I used some retired inks, tools etc.  At this point I have made 35 cards and for the next month or so I hope to post a card a day that I have attempted to recreate with my existing stash.  Does this mean that I don't need anything from the new catalog?  Of course not, but do I really need it all, no.  Please help me along and leave a comment.  So let's get started with day one.

The cover.  This card is made using Work of Art, which is still current and  Summer Solstice (R) for the flower.  I love you is from a dollar stamp from Michael's by Studio G I only used the I love you part of that stamp.  The colors I chose were Lucky Limeade (R) and Melon Mambo.

Happy Stampin'
Heather

Bella's Thoughts

Today's card is for Freshly Made Sketches challenge 281.

FMS 280 Simple Card

Such a fun sketch this week over at Freshly Made Sketches  It's simplicity makes it so that the images have to take center stage.  For my card my first thought was that I wanted to use my sand dollar die from Gina Marie Designs.    I cut it out with watercolor paper and sponged on SU's Baked Brown Sugar.  Then I was stuck.  A few days later it came to me,  the retired SU set, Beautiful Beach, the shells are the right size to go with the sand dollar.  I heat embossed the shell onto the front of the card with white EP then used SU Blushing Bride and Baked Brown Sugar to watercolor the shell.  After that I decided I wanted to fussy cut the shell and then make a background for them.  I used Salty Ocean distress ink mixed with Sheer Shimmer Spritz.  Put the card base into the mixture and played around until I got something I was satisfied with.  Then on the bottom I sponged a bit of Baked Brown Sugar to mimic the beach.  I used dimensionals to pop up the sand dollar and then added the sentiment from the same set, Beautiful Beach by stamping it in Versafine black ink and heat embossing with clear EP.  

Inkingly yours,

Heather