Stampin' Pals: Perennial Birthday

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Sunday, 8 September 2019

Blooming Birthdays CTC#245

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, create Craft By Post classes, coach my lovely team and create cards and the occasional 3D project. This week we are CASE-ing the Let It Snow Suite, pages 18-23 of your Holiday catalogue.

The Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue went live last week, were you keen to order your favourites? Never let the fact that you don't have anything from this suite dissuade you from joining in. I certainly wouldn't let it stop me!!! After glancing at the card samples on page 18, my eye was immediately drawn to the Flirty Flamingo snowman card at the top.

I needed to turn the page to find out the other included colours, and settled for Coastal Cabana. There was a slight issue here as I have the FF blends but only a Stampin' Marker for CC so I decided to be minimal & just put dots of colour on blue flowers. (Coastal Cabana is not yet available in Blends) My preference is to use Blends as I seem to get a smoother effect, but some of my customers are better at colouring with Markers.

To CASE I used a) the layout, minus the circle b) the colours c) twisted ribbon and a DSP strip behind the label d) coloured card for the sentiments e) a textured embossed piece over the card base

There is always so much inspiration in these catalogues, I'm sure that is why CASE-ing the Catty is so successful! Now it's your turn to show what you can do with a little catalogue inspiration. Add your work at our Facebook challenge here.

The next crew member to share is Michelle Strazds

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16 August - 16 September

I'd love you to choose my online shop to purchase from, and if you use the Host Code when asked at check out, I will send you a gift, along with a handmade card. The items listed below were used in my card above, and link to that item in my online shop.

Product List

Bloom & Grow Photopolymer Stamp Set

[149229]

$45.00

Bloom & Grow Bundle

[151069]

$91.75

Perennial Birthday Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[145760]

$38.00

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$17.00

Flirty Flamingo A4 Cardstock

[141421]

$15.25

Card Stock A4 Coastal Cabana

[131302]

$15.25

Country Floral Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[149698]

$0.00

Flirty Flamingo Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack

[147278]

$15.50

Shaded Spruce Combo Pack Stampin' Blends

[147938]

$15.50

Stampin' Blends Color Lifter

[144608]

$7.75

Rococo Rose 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Gathered Ribbon

[149587]

$14.75

Share What You Love Artisan Pearls

[146927]

$10.50

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$10.00

Stitched Nested Labels Dies

[149638]

$61.00

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[110755]

$7.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$6.00

Wednesday, 28 August 2019

Happy 40th CI#62

Colour INKspiration is a fortnightly blog initiated by Bronwyn Eastley in Tasmania. The design team 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 is our inspiration picture for Challenge #62, using Call Me Clover, Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake & Whisper White.

I want to share with you the funny reaction my husband had when he saw me making this 40th card. He asked who it was for, and I told him our son, and he turned pale. I asked him what was wrong, I really couldn't imagine, and he informed me that he was having a big dose of reality! This isn't the first time a son has turned 40 mind you, but he is definitely in denial about aging.

Most of the stamps I used were inked for the first time today, the exception being the 'HAPPY' from Perennial Birthday. I had to swap out the little 'happy' from Family Party, because happy should never be small and restrained, always big, bold and LOUD!

It was easy enough to do too, because this large birthday sentiment in Perennial Birthday has a decent separation between the two words. I checked approximately where I thought I should place it, but felt it was too far to the left.You see below, it is not exactly centred. Also, was it perhaps lacking in colour? Here comes an opportunity to embellish, and this crafty lady jumped at it, stamping the HAPPY onto a scrap of Crushed Curry and die cutting with the Stitched Label dies.

Now, isn't that more balanced? I bought Family Party especially for all these 'special' birthdays, the big 0 birthdays, and the family ones. I also bought Beauty & Joy especially for this particular birthday because my son has a large bonsai collection, and the tree looks like it might be a Ficus, or some tree he would happily trim.

There is actually supposed to be a pedestal on the base of the pot, but that is not how bonsai pots are, so it got the chop. I love the way the stamp fades out to highlight parts, without any effort from the stamper. You can see this best on the pot and the tree trunk.

I had thought about using an embossing folder for the background for some textural interest, but remembered I had this Crackle Paint stamp, which had never seen ink either. Lots of people are using the Birch stamp, but I think I like this just as much. I added another strip across the bottom of the inside layer to finish. I can't share this card on my facebook page, as Jake will see it, and his birthday isn't till the end of September.

Kim Badelt is next stop on this blog hop

I'd love you to choose my online shop to purchase from, use the Host Code when asked at check out, & I will send you a gift, along with a handmade card. The items listed below were used in my project above, and link to that item in my online shop.