CASE Study Challenge #74
Fabulous! Would have to be one of my favouite words, I use it all the time and I even have friends pick me up on saying it, they will repeat me they mock me when I say it or knowing me so well they say it before I can even say it is a cheeky way… I say it with such enthusiasm! I have a dear friend who will be 40 soon and she is very fabulous so I will pop this one away for the big event.
It is CASE Study time again, we are just over the half way mark with the January muse Jen Rzasa, you can see to the left her card for this week, I am very excited to see what everyone comes up with this week, the card has lots of options to case and inspire exciting projects, so if you have the time come and play with us at CASE Study. I am wondering can you see what inspired me? It’s pretty clear this week, it was all the squares I just thought they created such a wonderful feature on the simple card plus it is a good way to use up scraps of paper because lets face it most of us all have scraps that we have saved for some project down the track when you just need a little bit! Am I right? Great way to use them. I sponged the edges of my squares then added a little stitching and you may notice I have randomly stamped a light script over the squares.
Inside… I made a little mistake stamping the greeting and I inked up the edge of the stamp and did not look at the image before stamping it down… which I almost always do and the edge never has ink on it the one time I do not look grrrr! So I stamped the greeting on scrap Very Vanilla, punched out the greeting, added a few extra layers in a poor attempt to cover the unwanted ink. Normally I say we make no “mistakes” only creative opportunities but it would of looked so much better with the greeting just stamped straight on the cardstock.
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I am playing a little catch up with this post, I should be sent to the naughty corner as this is a CASE Study card from December, the card was posted on CASE Study blog with the other DT samples at the correct time but I did not post it here on my blog, the amazing Amy Sheffer was the December Muse {I love Amy’s work, if you have been living under a rock and not seen her work before then you better go and check her out….it’s dazzling} below is Amy’s card that was our inspiration for week 71.
I am going to be totally honest, even though I think Amy’s card was awesome it scared me a little, I think it was that the design was so far away from my comfort zone and normally boring layer on layer style I don’t normally cluster my elements, now as I type I wonder if it was that I wanted to do a good job because Amy is one of my stamping hero’s, this was our last week with Amy as the muse and I wanted to do her card justice. Can you tell that I over think things and get myself all worked up sometimes, I liked my card at first but now I am not so much a fan but I do like the verse. I think it is pretty clear what inspired me, the layout played a huge part like Amy I have cluster the elements, I have used a paper doilies, a heart and Amy created pleats with ribbon, I have used that idea but used paper pleats.
Inside….
CASE Study Challenge #73
Oh my, this is not a good sign for 2012 I was late with this weeks CASE Study I think I am stuck in relax mode after Christmas /New Year break and I am just little under the weather at the moment. I ended the year so strong with my Christmas Create Down then nothing! But I am relaxed and positive starting 2012, I had a great break with lovely sleep in’s, potting around, time with my family and waiting hours and hours on Pinterest. I did receive the best type of Christmas presents…. Yeah you guessed it Stampin’ Up! Product, I love having my Mum as a demo because I just told everyone to get me anything SU! and I would be happy, having mum order means it’s a surprise! In the past years I would order the items, therefore knowing what I was getting…but don’t get me wrong I still loved what I got. I was happy to play with new products, one thing that always gets me excited is new printed papers! I can never wait to rip the plastic back and look at both sides of the paper. The paper I have used today is a upcoming paper that is part of Sale-A-Bration starting on January 24th….I like it a lot!
To the left is the Muse card for CASE Study this week by Jen Rzasa she has a very clean and simple style which I am sure you can tell from this weeks sample. I just loved her sample, yes it is not my style but it has lots of inspiration…. This is what I was inspired by?
- Butterfly Silhouette, they are the star of Jan’s card so I just had to include this element on my card.
- Three, Jen’s card had 3 of three….. 3 Butterflies, 3 pearls and used 3 colours, I may be over thinking things at this point but I had to use 3 somehow so I have 3 images on my main image the butterfly silhouette, crown and greeting, I have stamped the script over 3 layers and finally I added stitching to 3 of the layers.
- The v point flag, Jen has used this element to stamp her greeting I have used this idea for for a greeting but to add a layer and interest to my card.
Inside…
Day Thirteen
That was badly planned that I end my Christmas Create Down day 13! I hope I do not bring bad luck to Christmas… No I am sure it will be fine. I love Christmas eve we have so many little traditions that have formed over the years and my beautiful little niece who I just love and adore more then anything are so excited for Santa to come. Tonight we are building and decorating our ginger bread houses, we also have late dinner which is just the adults which is so nice because tomorrow is all about the kids, after dinner my sister and I will wrap all the kids gifts and set up the room where the gifts are for the kids to go crazy in the morning. We normally did not get much sleep but it is such fun.
It is only fitting to show you what I have made to go on my Christmas table this year, I always like to have a little sweet gift at each place setting, inside is 4 Hershey Nuggets, I love the little bell hanging off the bow.
Now I do have more Christmas project’s and simple cards that I made through the year, I will pop them in a folder in my facebook to help with Christmas inspiration next year. I will not wish you Merry Christmas yet I will pop back tomorrow and say that but happy Christmas Eve.
Day Twelve
Christmas is only days away, today I have my last market and class for the year then I have a few weeks off to relax, create and get organised for 2012. I have only a few projects left in my Christmas Create Down, this time around I have this cute stocking cash wallet, I have heat embossed all the stamping in Cherry Cobbler EP and I added glass glitter which I am a little in love with. I am SO happy SU! now have a 1″ square punch and it works perfect with the new postage stamp punch, such a cute couple.
Open the flap and I have the cash…
Day Eleven…But Posted a Day Late
That’s right I talk myself up on day 10 about how good I have been posting then completely forget to post on day 11! Sorry, but I got all court up in Christmas preparations, baking which did not go as planned and making items for our last market of the year. As I mentioned in day 10 I was baking sugar cookies, well I did have a little helper my niece Bailey, the plan was to bake these cookies and put them in boxes I had made to give to some of our close family friends and I also made boxes that different images from “Creatively Yours” and give to some of my neigbours BUT baking is SO not my thing, my sister is amazing at it and everything she bakes is yummy… ME normally always fail! Long story short after3 batches I had no cookies I was happy to give away or feed to a human so that mission was cancelled now I have lots of these boxes below to store until next year when I try this baking thing again.
Side view.
Day Ten
Wow I am in a little shock I have made it to double digits in my Christmas Create Down YAY 10 days straight of posting that must be a PB {Personal Best}. Anyway I will keep that chatter short, my to do list is longer then my arm with things to do before Christmas and having Bailey {6} off school means I don’t get as much as I hoped achieved, you know what I mean as you shake your head. I have sugar cookies in the fridge chilling and I am about to pop the first batch in the oven but you will hear more about them tomorrow… for now I have a card I make in a Stamp-A-Stack in December…
Day Nine
I was going to start this post singing the worlds to Joy to the World until I googled the correct words and realised I have been sing the wrong world for year and I was not even close to what it should be! Who knew the words were so meaning full I have just being singing that “Joy to the World, the lord has come: to sing and bring peace, let earth sing and praise the King, let heaven and earth sing, let heaven and earth sing and praise the King, Oh joy to the World, the Lord has come.…. I will stop killing the words to this Classic Christmas Carol. I am sure my parents are so happy they sent me to Catholic’s school for 13 years and I get the words so wrong, I am a little embarrassed that I am so dumb….I don’t think I should even be sharing this. Anyway all that chatter was about the card below “Joy” I have have used the same stamp set as yesterday Tag til Christmas and sizzix die to cut J and Y. I have used more glitter paper which I am a little in love with at the moment.
Day Eight
Are you on the naughty or nice list this year? I always think be naughty and save Santa the trip {lol} one of my favorite Christmas stamps is this one below from Tags til Christmas from page 24 of the Aust Catalogue, it is just the perfect greeting for many of my friends. I am going with the sweet treat theme here in day 8, inside I have a Ferrero Rocher. For those who are playing along at home and wondering how I made the packaging I have used the Two Tags die from the Catalogue in the same way I made the little Santa’s and Marelle Taylor has a tutorial here showing us how….. Thanks Marelle!
Day Seven
We are on the down hill run to Christmas! This time {as I type at least} next week it will the big day, the gifts will be open, kids will be playing, the adults will be lying on the lounge wishing that had not eaten so much at lunch {lol} well that is what will be happening in my house. Today as part of my Christmas Create Down I have Elf Kisses to share which I made as gifts for my little niece’s to give to friends. They are cute I think and I am pretty happy with myself because this is one of the first times I have ever used Garden Green from SU! It is just not my kind of green but it was a good match for the green kisses. I stamped a little on the header but mostly I designed the tag and headed on the computer… I am hanging out big time for Stampin’ Up! to bring MDS to Australia… Maybe I should drop an email to Santa and tell him I want MDS for Christmas {lol} I hope on the nice list this year?
