With a title like Casing the Catalog I could mean that I’m looking through it for clues and details, right? Well what I really mean is that I saw a sample in the new catalog that I really like and want to copy it. That’s exactly what I did with the sample found on the bottom of page 34 in the 2019-2020 Annual Catalog.
This sample in the catalog really caught my eye. I knew I had to make it sometime so I tried recreating it for my class. Well, naturally my sample didn’t look quite as nice as the catalog sample so I decided to wing it and make it my own. When I do make things my own it’s not always because I see things differently, as in this case, it’s because I can’t get it to turn out the way the original is. 🙂
Above you can see the changes I made. I like the look of the striped designer series paper so I used it on all of the different colors of scallop cards since it matched them all! Then, since I couldn’t get the flowers to stamp the way I wanted them to on the card itself I added a layer of Whisper White cardstock for the stamping. Of course you can’t just add one layer so I added the little strip of Calypso Coral to it. On the coral colored notecard I used a strip of Old Olive to make things pop.
There you have it. Another card that I made my own. I really like these Scalloped Note Cards and Envelopes. They’re cute and a little different. They come in four different colors. They’re not exactly Stampin’ Up! colors but pretty darn close. There is Old Olive, Petal Pink/Blushing Bride, Calypso Coral/Terracotta and Balmy Blue.