Animal Inspiration CTC#532

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

Tonight you get to enjoy our amazing CASEING the CATTY blog hop.  To CASE is to Copy And Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit and we love to CASE from our amazing Stampin' Up! catalogues (catty!)

This week, we are CASEING the critters in the catalogue!!  

2025 - 2026 Annual Catalogue Stampin' Up! © page 95

I thought it was time I played with the interesting stamp set Along These Lines pictured on page 95.  The stamp set includes a puppy, tiger and the dolphins - which is what I've used!  I was inspired by the card on the left with the white space at the top - although I substituted my white space for Cloud Cover!

I also wanted to play with tearing paper and using the two tone papers gives you twice as many variations of colour with the dark and light sides of the paper.  

I've used Azure Afternoon, Blueberry Bushel, Misty Moonlight and Night of Navy.  I heat embossed with white onto the two darkest pieces.  

I did have a dilemma about weather to tone the colours from light to dark down the card or the opposite - in the end I went with the dark at the top and I do think it looks right!  The greeting comes from the Blooming Phrases online stamp set and I think the long lines on this set work really well with the line art images I've used.  The bottom of my card features some Riverside Pearls.  

Inside the card I've added some more torn pieces of paper along with the smaller dolphins stamped.

What do you think?

Up next is the extraordinary Rachel

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Torn Sea Along These Lines

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