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Sunday, 28 October 2018

Nature's Poem

As soon as I spotted Nature's Poem at our Onstage Product Preview, I had a feeling it would be top of my order form. It was! Although we have the very durable Lovely As A Tree, which has been in the catalogue for at least 10 years (what a star!) it has no sentiments with it. I have often used elements of it for masculine birthday cards and for sympathy cards.

Rooted In Nature has sentiments which also suit those occasions, which makes it doubly useful. "Thinking Of You" can sometimes do the trick, but even nicer is the other sentiment, "words are never enough." I decided to use Tranquil Textures DSP on the card at the rear, and drew colours from the paper to stamp leaves.

There are dies available to match the stamps, if you have a Big Shot, and some lovely accesories.
I am travelling in the US at the moment, sightseeing in San Francisco, before attending a 3-day convention with Stampin' Up!® demonstrators from all over the world. This fabulous company is celebrating their 30th anniversary this year. Online ordering is your option for getting supplies while I'm away.

You can shop for paper, stamps or ink at any time with me, by using the Online Shop. Add the host code, and there'll be extras in the mail when I get back. Order more than $100 using the Host code and you'll go into the draw for one of these exclusive shopping bags.

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Thursday, 26 July 2018

Thrifty Thursday #5

Happy Thrifty Thursday!

As I live in Australia, I use metric measurements and our A4 card is sized differently to the States too. I like to cut my card at 14.5 cm, which is a little less than half our sheet. The reason is that it makes it so much easier for working out the size to cut mats. It also leaves a narrow strip of card, and of course, to be thrifty, I need some ways to use it.

I sent a bunch off to our school after-care for the kids to weave with, but then I discovered so many ways to use it on my cards. You can see how effective it is here instead of the usual mat. The colours from the stamping were pulled and laid at even intervals behind the 'art' piece. That was purposely added a little skewed for a casual feel.

This hint is more of a time-saver than thrifty.

I also pre-cut other pieces to have on hand for quick card-making sessions or classes. One of my favourite sizes is 12 cm by 8cm, and if you make a mat for it, that will be .5cm larger. When my friend was visiting from interstate, we had a stamping evening using the new stamp set, Rooted In Nature. This is not an inexpensive set, but it is large and it is very useable, much like the old favourite, Lovely As A Tree. I don't have any inside information, but I suspect that Rooted In Nature may replace Lovely As A Tree. Its strong enough for a masculine card, but has a number of feminine elements which make it suitable for the ladies too. There are words for thanks, and 'Thinking of You' suits a get well or sympathy, as does 'words are never enough.'

Kathryn didn't mention it, but I'm sure she was very impressed that I had all these pieces of white card already cut! We stamped a number of different versions following this basic idea of the 2 sizes of leaves stamped in toning colours. If you want to take a look at Rooted In Nature in my shop, click on it's name. If you order and use the Host code, there'll be surprises in the mail from me in the following month.

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Sunday, 26 November 2017

CTC#156 Annual Catalogue Christmas With A Twist

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, Stampin' Up!® demonstrator. I run classes at my home studio in South Morang, Victoria, demonstrate Stampin' Up!® products and tools at parties for my customers, coach my lovely team and create cards and the occasional 3D project.

Our mission this week is to CASE the Annual Catalogue and give it a Christmas Twist. Happy Celebrations, Page 34 of the Stampin' Up!® Annual Catalogue, paired with Lovely As A Tree were my choices to CASE the baby card pictured below.

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I have to say that I love these trickier challenges, even if I sometimes lose sleep trying to get the ideas to flow. Once I'd studied the Annual catalogue, the design above seemed to fit the bill. The gold and silver acetate sheets seem quite Christmassy, and I've been on the lookout for ways to include them in projects.

It seemed a fun idea to use the debossing folder which also says 'Celebrate', rather than fussy-cut the word. Then I just had to search for a suitable stamp for 'Christmas' as that particular one doesn't come with Happy Celebrations. The chosen stamp set was from 2016 and is now retired.

Lovely As A Tree provided a stamped background, using two stamps. A row of bare-branched trees fill the background with a tall evergreen in the foreground.Some silver enamel shapes. along with Real red enamel shapes were included to tie in with other parts of the card. Emerald Envy with a hint of Lemon-Lime Twist are the Christmas-with-a-twist colours - do you like them?

I must share with you the discarded sample. There are stamps included with Happy Celebrations which make great splatter backgrounds, but I think the overall look was too heavy and constructed, so I tried another favourite technique of mine - smooshing! Usually people say, "The photography doesn't do it justice, so much nicer IRL." I'm saying, "Can't believe that the photography has enhanced the colours. IRL it looks dark and indistinct!" You can see the way my thought process jumped from one idea and then onto the next.

I imagine you have some great ideas to Give a Christmas Twist to something you CASE, so why don't you share it on our facebook challenge. You can link your blog to your post if you have a blog, but if not, just post a picture.

You may have come from Peta Stephen, and now you are on your way to the very clever Fi Cobbin. Just make sure you visit all the blogs for some Christmas inspiration.

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Any orders in my online shop with the Host code receive a gift from me in the post. Since November is my birthday month, I am adding a handmade birthday card as well, for you to send to someone else.

Wednesday, 23 August 2017

Birthday Blues CI#16

Colour INKspiration is a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from the South Pacific, all through Australia and New Zealand. We love to get together for these colour challenges, to inspire each other, and you, to create. We love it when you join in with our challenges to share your work and all you need is a Facebook presence. You can link in here on Facebook.

This inspiration pic is really cool, with its painted boards on the floor, sparse decor and that fabulous map. I will need a card soon for one of my older sons. He is a builder, and his hobby is nurturing bonsai, so I gathered together a few stamp sets to make this retiform panel. I've used the tools from Guy Greetings before for a number of cards. I really do know a lot of plumbers and carpenters! I thought a brief repeat appearance wouldn't hurt.

Three stamps from In This World were included. There's a door, a portion of blue-print and a key. That key looks exactly like my mother's house keys!

For a couple of other sections, I used Lovely As A Tree. My class ladies are really keen to make a card similar to this using retiform, and a Totally Techniques class is on the books for September. There is one pencilled in for September 8th at 7pm, and another a week later on 15th September at 7pm also. We love new people joining us for class, why don't you get in touch?

I think you'll see some amazing projects made with these colours. Now you are heading to Denita

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Happy crafting,

Sunday, 25 June 2017

Coming Classes

The last June Class is also running on 1st July, due to unexpected demand. I'm very happy to accomodate as best I can, so this one is on Saturday 1st July at 2pm - 4.30pm. There are 3 spaces in this class, so if you haven't participated yet, and would like to, you can use the link on the date or click on the picture to book in via Facebook. You can leave me a message at the end of the post, or text me on 0417 500 681 with your name, the name of class and the date you want to attend. Rachel Palmieri- Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, is where I keep you updated on classes, specials and mainly things Stampin' Up!® related. I'd be very happy to get some more 'LIKES'.

Christmas In July is the class for next month and I have two dates available. Friday 7th July at 7pm and Friday 21st July at 7pm.

The August class is Mainly Masculine, but don't let that put you off if you're not wanting masculine cards, as I've prepared alternatives. The date for this one is Friday 18th August at 7pm.

Leaves can be any background colour, there are substitute cards for the other two.

Masking and sponging is the technique we are exploring on the leafy card. The colours can easily be altered to suit your taste. The other two cards have alternatives available. The base is changed about by using different DSP (designer series paper) and I have lots of these prepared already. There are two different sentiments from the same stamp set which can be used on this card.

You will make three cards as usual for $20. If you are a particularly fast worker, you can purchase additional cards at $3, stamp the sentiment and finish the card at home. This is special cash and carry for this class only, as I have prepared a LOT, due to the fact I only arrive back from holiday a few days before this class.

Super Duper is a fun and versatile stamp set. These are other versions of the two sentiments, made with more masculine-type colours and patterns. There's a dramatic YAY! as well.The bonus with this easy design is that you can add to it for a bit more 'dash'. Numbers for a special birthday, flowers for the ladies, an anchor for a sailor, and ice cream cone for a special little girl.

I'd love to give you some help in your creative journey, so let me know if you want to attend a class. I hold them at my home studio in South Morang, Victoria. I can send you further information on request.

Hope you've had a crafty weekend

Rachel

Sunday, 6 December 2015

Lone Christmas Tree CTC#59

Hello, its Sunday night, and I've been CASE-ing The Catty again. Maybe you have arrived here from Julia Quinn's blog, did you love what she shared? Don't forget to click on the link at the end to continue blog hopping around all the CASE -ing The Catty crew. This week we have been inspired by the Christmas trees in the Holiday Catalogue. There are plenty of them, so it wasn't hard to find inspiration. I chose one from page 12 of the catalogue and stayed with the same colour scheme and musical DSP. However, my tree comes from the much-loved Lovely As A Tree. The one I've CASE-d is the Bermuda Bay one on the right of the picture.

I've made this card 5.75 inches square, as it is accompanying a small calendar (of Australian scenes) all the way to Ireland, to get my cousin and his wife enthused for the Australian east coast road trip they are doing in January.

I've already made a number of thank you cards using this musical DSP, an order for a customer, but I decided I MUST make this card too, before I use all the paper up!

Lovely As A Tree is an absolute winner of a stamp set, it has been around for at least eight years, and its not going anywhere any time soon, because it can be used for Christmas, sympathy, birthday cards. After using Hello Honey ribbon on the front, it seemed logical to line the inside with that colour too. I had considered the DSP, but too much was hidden, and the honey colour looks so good with Bermuda Bay.

I decided to use the verse from Calm Christmas on the inside as the message is a lovely one for this time of year. Now, if you're wanting the cute littl wooden snowflakes or DSP with music - it's actually Jingle Bells - then you need to order before 4th January. Most of the Holiday Catalogue will be retiring then, if you want to know what is carrying over, I'm happy to share with you. You can shop 24/7 in my online shop and there is still time to get supplies before Christmas. Don't put it off, word is the word is that stock of the Sleigh Ride Edgelits Dies has been exhausted in Australia. Hope you weren't wanting to order those!

Now it is time to check out what the lovely Helen at H2 Designs has to show on her blog. See you next week,

Cheers, Rachel

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Thursday, 4 December 2014

Train Traveler PP224

Tic-Tac-Toe, what a fun challenge this is! I always intend to go back and see how many
combinations I can play, but I'm not even going to suggest that at this crazy, busy time of the year. Thanks to Jaydee at The Paper Players for this challenge.

I've taken the top line: tree, transport and white.

If my uncle was still with us, this would be a perfect card for him, as he was a fan of anything steam driven. He took part in many agricultural shows where they rolled out the old steam traction machinery, and all sorts of ancient contraptions!
The picture was composed using the old steam train stamp from Traveler, paired with Lovely As A Tree and a bold sentiment from Bravo! This was the first time I had used the Bravo! stamp set, and I hadn't realised how big and bold the hip-hip hooray actually was. Usually, Stampin' Up! show the stamp images at 100% but lately, with the images so large, they have reduced them in the catalogue and on the stamp cover it seems. It is actually written in rather small print that the images are shown
at 65% . Since it's a photopolymer stamp set, I was able to hold it over the design to see how much of it covered the trees, and decided that big and bold would be fine.
I'm off to a Team Catalogue Launch Webinar about an hour away from home. One of my downlines is driving and we'll have lots of fun having a bite to eat with members of the extended team and having a sneak peek at the new stamp sets, Framelits, punches and papers coming in January! One of the great bonuses of joinig Stampin' Up! has been new friendships with others who share your hobby.

Cheers
Rachel

Sunday, 28 September 2014

Brightly, Playful Leaves CMCC#39

What gorgeous colours, don't you agree? They look so vibrant all grouped together like this. It was so much fun to play along with this challenge at Colour Me...playful.

I took a panel of watercolour paper and saturated it with water before dropping colours from the various Stampin' Up!® re-inkers. I had to wait awhile for it to dry, but if you're impatient you can pull out your heat tool and give it a blast!

It is probably a little too vibrant to be Autumn leaves but I like the way the leaves from Lovely As A Tree look in black, stamped over the bright colours. Banner Greetings was a Hostess set from last catalogue, so it is retired now, but it will remain on my shelf for a little longer.