CTC49 - Home For The Holidays

Another week of CASE-ing the Holiday Catalogue, pages 8-21 "Home For The Holidays', is the theme. I don't know if you're having trouble deciding what you like most in the Holiday catalogue, but on pages 10 & 11 are two photopolymer stamp sets, and two sets of framelits which fit together as snuggly as a hand in a glove. Naturally, I had to put both bundles on my first order, at least I was saving 15% and I've had such a lot of fun playing with combinations of the two - so cute!

Maybe you have arrived here from Stasia's blog, but if you're just starting out here, you can follow all the links around, doing a Blog hop with the design team at CASE-ing The Catty.

Initially, I cased the tag on the gift here on the right, almost exactly. I have to confess: - I love miniature things, so that teeny tiny wreath is a winner for me. I will have plenty of tags for my Christmas gifts, so it has been made into a full-size card.

Because we are inside looking out, I left the Soft Sky card plain, like a painted wall. The window frame is Crumb Cake, cut with the die and left plain. The group of  trees out the window come from Happy Scenes stamp set. The sentiment is from the same stamp set, and because it is photopolymer, it is possible to curve it. I used the base of my Stampin' Mist bottle as a guide and just hand-cut the banner. Easy-peasy! The tiny wreath features in Festive Fireplace. Again, easy to stamp in Mossy Meadow, before using the Stampin' Write Marker in Real Red to colour some holly berries. I grabbed a little red twine from the Oh What Fun Tag Kit and tied a knot before using a mini glue dot to attach it to the window frame. This card is one of the options to make at my November Christmas card class (Friday 21st at 7pm).


For the other card, the cat features.... peering out the window, watching his family heading off on holiday, towing a caravan behind the car. This is so typical for an Australian Christmas, since it is summer here at that time of year. My husband and I often head away to the coast, soon after our Christmas celebrations. Fortunately we don't need to take our cat anymore, because our adult sons stay at home. Our 10-year-old cat has always hated travelling in the car, and would cry for the whole trip! Two solid hours of wailing, even while being comforted, not good for any of us, so I bet he's glad to sit at the front window and watch us head off!!! The little scene makes me chuckle inside.

Let's Get Away provided the car and caravan, and the tree and birds stamp is from Happy Scenes, I just stamped some 'leaves' for the autumn tree, since it is bare but obviously wouldn't be in summer. I chose a greeting from Wondrous Wreath for this card. I'm having a lot of fun with these stamps and framelits, maybe at this rate I'll have all my Christmas cards made soon?

Now it's time to head on over to my buddy , Kathryn's blog to check out what she is sharing this week.

If you are wanting to purchase any of these items, the links below take you to that item in my online shop, but if you'd just like to check out the Weekly Deals (new every Wednesday), Clearance Rack or the catalogues in general, you can visit the online shop here. The Hostess Code for this month is EUFRFMNX

To find out more about the class, there is more information under the 'classes' tab.

Cheers

Rachel

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

First Christmas Card - CTC 47 - Let's Kit Together

Welcome to this week's CASE-ing The Catty Blog Hop. After a few weeks away, I'm back to play along  as we look at pages 4 -7 in the Holiday catalogue, where the super-dooper kits are featured. You may have arrived here from Stasia's blog, but if not, just keep on hopping through all the links until you have gone full circle.

Even though I was supposed to be relaxing on holiday,  I had my order all sorted and was able to just press the button to send it a week before we came home, so I wasn't surprised when there was a lovely box of goodies waiting here for me, but my sons think I might have a problem!!!
SHHHhhhh......I'm a Stampin' Up!® addict!!!!!

In my order was the Oh What Fun Tag Project Kit and the matching photopolymer stamp set, Oh What Fun. It seemed it might just be great fun to 'take it up a notch' and turn the tags into cards.

This first card uses a striped tag and a plain white one from the kit, the silver star is also part of the kit and I changed up the sentiment to another from the stamp set which worked better on a card. In addition, I've cut an extra banner of Crushed Cucumber, stamped the card base with a holly stamp, also from the Oh What Fun stamp set, and scattered some rhinestones around. Quick and easy, my first Christmas card for the year!
(I've realised it is actually the second, as I made the Navy Christmas tree one earlier)


The second card has a Smokey Slate base card, and for some added texture it has been embossed with Elegant Dots Textured Embossing Folder. The other non-kit piece is a banner cut with the largest of the Banners Framelits from Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper. The striped tag, the white tag, the red Glimmer Paper banner and red twine are all from the Oh What Fun Tag Project Kit. Don't you love this stamp? It's from the Oh What Fun stamp set too, and I inked it up with Real Red before removing the red from the holly leaves, and inking them with a Crushed Cucumber Stampin' Write Marker®.

For my third card, I decided to change it up a bit and make a birthday card. The tag is from the kit, and the Oh What Fun stamp has been used along with 'It's your birthday' from Endless Birthday Wishes, as is the cake. I added a card base in Mint Macaron plus a layer of Real Red and another slightly smaller piece of Whisper White. The cake has been water coloured using ink in the stamp pad lid, applied with the Aqua painter. Embellishments from the kit include the piece of Mint Macaron lace, the green & white twine, sequins, and the two silver flowers were punched from a scrap of silver foil paper left over from the snowflake on the first card. Waste not, want not! The rhinestones, an absolute paper craft essential, have come from my stash.

I hope this has helped you to see the potential of any of these Stampin' Up!® stamp kits, you can use them as intended, but if you don't use up all the supplies, there are plenty of other things you can do with them. I will make up tags for my Christmas gifts as well, and I bet I still have more left overs! Give your demonstrator a call if you need a copy of the NEW Holiday Catalogue, or check it out online. The Hostess Code for this month is 36JSEMF6

Now, let's hop on over to see what  my friend Kathryn has to share with us this week.

Cheers
Rachel

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog