CASE IT IG Hop - November 26

Hello again friends. I hope you've had a great start to your weekend. I'm here to share this month's card for the CASE IT IG Hop where we find a project on Instagram that inspires us and we will share that project as well as the project we’ve created. There are so many beautiful creations on Instagram the only difficult part is narrowing down which one to CASE (which means Copy And Share Everything).

This month I was inspired by @kz_creates and as soon as I saw Katrina's card I knew I had to case it.  I loved the clean and simple layout and the plaid (I'm a sucker for a plaid background)  I flipped the orientation of her layout and changed my card to a birthday card but you can definitely see that my card was inspired by hers! 

Here is Katrina's card for my inspiration:

Isn't her card just amazing? Using Ardyth's LIMES process (you can watch her video here) we list what we see - she has used red, white and a touch of green as her main colours, a die cut scallop border, plaid background, a large stamped sentiment, 3 sets of holly leaves and some clear sequins. So as I said I pretty much followed Katrina's layout but flipped the orientation.  I changed my colours to pink, white and grey and my plaid is stamped instead of paper.  I die cut some flowers in place of the holly leaves and swapped her clear sequins for silver sequins. I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

a closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and using the plaid background stamp and carnation ink stamped the design over the whole panel; I also took the stripe stamp and used a grey ink for some extra detail.  I took another white panel and die cut the scalloped border.  I trimmed the plaid panel to 3" wide and added the white scalloped panel on top using foam squares and trimmed off the excess to make a 4 1/4" wide panel.  I did cut the length too short so my finished card height is only 5 1/4".  I die cut 3 flowers from pink card and also 3 leaves from grey card.  I adhered them together with liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment using the same grey ink as I used for the plaid stripes and used the coordinating die to cut it out.  I also stamped and white heat embossed a sub-sentiment onto the same pink card as the flowers.  I added the sentiment in the centre of the white panel using foam squares and also added the flowers and sub-sentiment around it with foam squares.  I finished off with some silver sequins.  For the inside I cut a white panel 3 3/4" x 5".  I cut another scalloped edge from the left over white card and adhered that over the the left over piece of plaid background using double sided tape.  This was then adhered to the bottom of the panel using liquid glue.  I die cut another flower and leaf and adhered it to the bottom left corner using liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre using grey ink and added the panel to my card base using double sided tape. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

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We hope you will be inspired by our CASE IT Instagram Hop and will pop over and check out all the gorgeous cards along the way. If you would like to join us please visit my Instagram page or use the hashtag #caseithop and we will find you. 

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your weekend. 

Lots of love

card supplies:

Concord & 9th - plaid background stamp

Spellbinders - be bold blooms die set

Clearly Besotted - scalloped border die collection - retired

Gina K Designs - fancy phrases stamp & die set (for outside sentiments) ? retired

Gina K Designs - birthday cheer mini stamp (for inside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - sentiment strips dies

Gina K Designs - medium carnation ink pad

Gina K Designs - white pigment ink cube (I use this when heat embossing in white)

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Limetree Craft - 300gsm smooth white card (for my card base)

Versafine Clair - morning mist ink pad

Lawn Fawn - rainbow cardstock pack (for pink card)

Heffy Doodle - mixed card pack (for grey card) - store now closed

WOW! - opaque bright white super fine embossing powder

Spellbinders - silver smooth discs color essentials sequins

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Thank you x