CASE-ing the Catty - Beautiful Blues Card

Hi there,

Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week.

If you’ve come from visiting Peta & Marvi, then welcome! If you’re visiting me, I appreciate you stopping by today! You can continue your journey to see the other inspiring creations from the CTC Crew by clicking on the button at the bottom of the post.

This week we are CASE-ing a card from a kit in the Kits Collection. Kits are a fabulous way to get started with crafting and there are kits for every style and requirement. You can choose something quick that has everything already prepped and you put it together to more creative kits with a stamp set, ink, acrylic block and lots of beautiful ephemera to come up with your own designs.

The kits have improved so much in the last few years, so if you haven’t checked them out recently, you might be missing something you will love. You can click on the image above or the link if you want to go and check out the Kits Collection.

I chose this card (above) from the Beautiful Blues Kit for my inspiration because blue and white is one of my favourite colour combos for home decor. Collecting blue and white china has been a pleasure of mine for many years.

This card features ink blended roses in 'Beautiful Blues' using the coordinating masks in the Layers of Beauty Bundle. The cropped image has been added to a dry embossed background.

I have chosen the blue colours and roses from the inspiration card. The large floral image from the Layers of Beauty stamp set was stamped in Memento Tuxedo ink on Basic White. The coordinating masks and blending brushes were used to color the image with Cloud Cover, Boho Blue and Misty Moonlight inks.

I decided on a Misty Moonlight card base to help the image pop and added the panel of Basic White. It was dry embossed with the Mini Corrugated 3D Embossing Folder to add background texture. The greeting from the Hearts of Elegance stamp set was stamped in Night of Navy ink and cropped with a die from the (retired) Stitched Rectangles Dies. I popped up the greeting over a faux bow of the Iridescent Striped Trim to add some soft texture and finished with a trio of the lovely glossy Cloud Cover flat pearls.

The inside of the card features a partially stamped image coloured in the 'Beautiful Blues' tones.

For the inside, I have stamped and coloured the largest of the roses by masking off the areas that I didn’t want to include.

I hope you can find inspiration from the wonderful kits in the Kits Collection.

Project Details

Stamps: Layers of Beauty, Hearts of Elegance
Cardstock & Papers: Misty Moonlight, Basic White
Ink: Misty Moonlight, Boho Blue, Cloud Cover, Night of Navy
Accessories: Iridescent Striped Trim, 2025-2027 In Color Flat Pearls
Tools: Mini Corrugated 3D EF, Layers of Beauty Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies (retired), Stampin’ Cut & Emboss, Mini Dimensionals, Blending Brushes, Layers of Beauty Masks

We would love to see your CASE of a card from the Kits Collection this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the ‘Join Group’ button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog.