Festive Farmhouse CTC195

 Welcome back to another week of CASE-ing The Catty. The crew is made up of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all parts of Australia and New Zealand.You are at the blog of Rachel Palmieri, Independent Stampin' Up!® demonstrator. I run classes at my home studio in South Morang, Victoria, share Stampin' Up!® products and tools at parties for my customers, coach my lovely team and create cards and the occasional 3D project. This week the design team are focusing on pages 12-17 and I chose to top up my supply of baby cards for new baby girls.

Sweet Baby is my go-to baby stamp at the moment. I love colouring the babies with Stampin' Blends, and the dies definitely make them more fun to cut out. The Detailed Baubles Thinlet Dies has a beautiful large lacy die, which seems perfect for these sweet little cards. It seems like it's the same one used in the catalogue sample too.

It is lovely sitting and colouring, and a bit of fun dreaming up colour combinations too. The new Tufted textured impressions embossing reminds me of a soft quilt, perfect for our baby.

Petals & More thinlets has this die to cut out the sentiment, just a touch fancy, and a little longer to accommodate this particular one. It helps when the stamp set has a sweet little sentiment for the inside, like the one below. It has a lovely font, don't you think?

Stampin' Up!® Catalogue sample

Here is a second variation using the same key products. It is a different pink card, and I borrowed a sentiment from the fabulous stamp set Better Together. At least I'm ready now for the next couple of arrivals, so long as they're girls!

Next along on the blog hop this week is the talented Angela in New Zealand

If you'd like to share your creativity from CASE-ing the Catty, remember it is pages 12-17 this time, and you can pin it on the wall here on Facebook.

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Happy Hello CTC#146

Welcome back to another round of blog hopping with the CASE-ing The Catty Crew. My name is Rachel, and I'm a Stampin' Up!® demonstrator in South Morang (outer Melbourne) in Australia. All of the crew members are from the South Pacific (Australia & New Zealand) so if you are looking for a demonstrator, one of us should be nearby. You can order from my online shop from anywhere in Australia and your order will be shipped straight to you, costing a minimum of $5.95.

I've chosen to CASE the card above with a green gingham background. My card has a central image, and the banner sentiment. All but the bike version has a soft sky banner tucked behind the sentiment.

These cards came about because I want to get cards in the post to people I haven't touched base with for some time, for many different reasons. Bike Ride is a photopolymer stamp set on page 20 of the Annual catalogue. All of these images are included in the set, though actually, that's incorrect as there is no stamp for the butterfly. It is part of the Bike Builder Framelits which can be purchased as a bundle with the stamps, saving you 10% off the retail price. This bundle is available until June 30th 2018, unless stock runs out.

All of these little images are to go in the front basket on the bike, or in a picnic basket on the rack at the back. I didn't incude either of those for my bicycle, just kept it simple. There are a mix of Granny Smith apples and Red Delicious in the picnic basket here.

There is a big pile of books tied with string here, next to some more Red Delicious apples.
There are 3 stamps for the books. One is the black outline, and there are two separate ones for the spines of the books, which are fairly easy to line up being see-through photo-polymer. A nice image for teachers, or librarians perhaps?

Simply sunflowers, 3 of them sitting happily in the basket.

More wrapped sunflowers, along with a basket of greenery and other flowers.If you've been wondering the sentiment comes from Better Together. For someone just beginning to build their stamp collection, Better Together is one of those very valuable stamp sets with a sentiment for most occasions. There is a wedding, sympathy, new arrival, birthday and Christmas, as well as this one. Even better, there is another sentiment for the inside of the card, and that is why it is a fabulous stamp to begin stamping.

 Last is our happy pooch, sitting in the basket and looks like he's smelling the fresh Spring smells around, while butterflies hover. Bike Ride is definitely a fun stamp set, and I've really enjoyed experimenting with it this week. I probably wouldn't have thought of making the cards with two banners if I hadn't noticed it on the catalogue sample and I do think it adds to the look. Is there one you like more than the others?

If you'd like to play along, you need to check out pages 20-27 of the Holiday Catalogue and share on our Facebook page. The link will take you straight there. Come on team members, why don't you give it a go?

Next blog along is the very talented Krissy Buck

If you are making a purchase under $250, and you add the Host code when you are promted to, I will send you something in the mail.

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Have a wonderful week.

Birthday Foxes

Another birthday celebrated this past weekend and I just had to use some foxes on this one. The one on the left is from the Foxy Friends stamp set in the Annual Catalogue, and the other is from a hostess set at the front of the Holiday catalogue, Cozy Critters. That also has the branch I've inked with Stampin' Write Markers and the owl with enormous eyes.

The tree stump is from Foxy Friends too, just hand cut, whereas there is an owl punch and a fox punch if you don't much fancy hand cutting.
I used a tutorial from Bronwyn Eastley (addinktivedesigns.com) for the basic dimensions of this card, and it fits beautifully into a Stampin' Up! envelope.




Mine is a much simpler card, Bronwyn's are absolute works of art.
Kirsten was thrilled with her card when she opened it, and I have to admit, it gave me a lot of pleasure making this Z-Fold card. I'm wondering if anyone wants to come and do a class for this card - let me know if you do.

Have a productive week
Cheers, Rachel