What an honour it is to be a guest on the CTC Sunday Blog Hop this weekend!

The design team are celebrating a massive 500 challenges (yes, it really has being going for 500 weeks!), and I’m joining in today as one of the past members of the design team. The CTC challenge had a huge influence on me, and I am truly grateful that I was part of this special team. This weekly challenge helped me learn so much about paper crafting (and blogging!), and the design team are an incredibly talented and truly lovely group of creators. Jump over to the CTC Facebook group and follow along to see all the future fab creations from the crew.

If you aren’t familiar with the concept of ‘CASE-ing’….
CASE stands for Copy and Selectively Edit (sometimes referred to as Copy And Share Everything), and the idea is that we look at the amazing Stampin’ Up! catalogues (aka ‘catty’) for inspiration.

The catalogues are truly an incredible resource. Even now, if I need a spark of ideas I will turn to the catalogues and re-create one of the projects there. Often it gives me just the kick-start I need, and then I can add my own touch to the project.

That’s exactly what happened with this project! 

I was inspired by the card on page 107 featuring the Perennial Lavender papers and Perennial Postage dies, along with the Painted Lavender dies. These products appeared in a catalogue last year but are still available in the Online Store, and I must admit I haven’t used them for a little while. The sentiment is from the Changing Leaves stamp set, and is a special message from me to the CTC Sunday Challenge and all the crew!

This is what the card looks like in the catalogue…

I jiggled the layout a bit, and changed the proportions, but you can see where the inspiration came from.

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Would you like to have a go at this week’s challenge? To join in, all you have to do is make a project inspired by any project in the ANNUAL CATALOGUE or MINI CATALOGUE. Then simply take a photo of your project and upload it to the CASEing The Catty Challenge group on Facebook. Each challenge will end on the Saturday before the next challenge is posted. The design crew will pick some winners but most importantly it’s a fun way to get out of your creative comfort zone and try something new. 

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For more inspiration, click on the link below to visit Alisa Tilsner’s gorgeous project.

Thanks for visiting!

Happy stamping, 

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