Showing posts with label Petite Petals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Petite Petals. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Amazing Birthday With Flowers

Because I've headed off on holidays, I've scheduled some posts to help inspire you to create. Amazing Birthday is a favourite stamp set of mine, you can use it in so many different ways, and I used it last year for a number of male birthdays. You can see two here and there is another one here. It's also super cute in feminine shades like these: - Coastal Cabana, Crushed Curry, Rich Razzleberry and Rose Red.








The addition of a bloom from Petite Petals to secure the banner echoes the use of small flowers from Something to Say. The panel with stamping has also been debossed with the Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Large Polka Dot. It's a technique I like using, stamping into the depression. There are a couple of different ways to have all the words in different colours. One is the  'ink to rubber' technique, but this time I stamped out four times in four colours, chose the Rich Razzleberry as the  base, and cut the corresponding 'happy' from the others and
adhered to the appropriate spot on the tag.

Now...... I have no idea what the Weekly Deals are while I am away, but remember there are extra savings, and limited quantities all through August, so I am reminding you to pop over to the shop and check them out. Even though I'm away, the shop continues to run 24/7 and if you purchase while I'm away, you will still receive your products in the usual 5-14 day delivery timeline. The hostess code for this month is 36JSEMF6 
(I've had a quick sneak peek as they've gone online this morning, and they're really good deals for lovers of glimmer and gleam in gold and silver!)

Cheers
Rachel
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Friday, 8 May 2015

Thinking Of You CTC#29



Every Friday night at 7pm (AEST), the CTC Crew will share some ideas with you from the latest Stampin' Up!® catalogue.
***Excitedly waiting for the new catty on June 2nd***
We might CASE totally(Copy and Share Everything), or use a sketch/layout, colour combo or an embellishment to begin the creative process.
You might be starting here with me, or you may have arrived from the CTC Blog, either way, you can continue all the way around until you get back to the start.

This week the challenge was to use the card at the top left of this page, the one with the pink tree and the doiley as our inspiration.  I'll let you in on a little secret too, you'll be seeing more of Sheltering Tree over the coming year. I could so easily have directly CASE-d this card, but decided to try to experiment a little.




I had a piece of card stamped with Hardwood and I've paired it with Lost Lagoon and Soft Sky. The doiley was layered on first, followed by a banner cut from Irresistably Yours Specialty DSP. There is a quite similar DSP coming in the new catalogue too, which I am very pleased about. I used Petal Potpourri for the large flower, and the smaller Petite Petals. Both these flowers have matching punches. Petal Potpourri hasn't made the cut for the new catty though so if you like this stamp set, you need to order it before the end of May. You'll find a link to it at the end of my post. The lovely sentiment is from Sheltering Tree.

 I spent last week away on the Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia) at the South Pacific Stampin' Up!® Convention. The motto for Queensland is "Sunny one day, perfect the next." Unfortunately a cyclone came through the week we were up there, and I was very glad that I didn't have too high a floor for the apartment, as the winds were extremely strong. The weather didn't stop us enjoying our convention, it's always so much fun: learning about new products, having inspiring demonstrators share with us, getting together socialising. If you would like to join Stampin' Up!® and be a part of this sort of fun (and pre-order from the new catalogue now) contact me to find out more. rpalmieri5@bigpond.com or phone/text 0417 500 681

A lot of the Australasian CASE-ing The Catty Crew finally met face-to-face for the first time.We tried to get together for a dinner, but there were so many other things going on that only a few of us could go. However, we have finally made a connection and the friendships will continue to develop.

Now you can hop on over to see Rebecca Benson, I'm sure she has something wonderful to share with you.

Cheers,
Rachel
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Tuesday, 10 March 2015

50th birthday

This weekend, a lovely friend celebrated her 50th birthday. She's a bit cheeky, always teasing others about their age, so it's quite amusing (for me) that she is now a "Golden Oldie". 

How does it feel, G? Ha,ha,ha!...... hope you had a good one and lucky you for getting a day off work for it.

Petal Potpourri and Petite Petals are the main stamps used here, with some of the Little Leaves die cut from gold foil along with '50' (not Stampin' Up! dies). The new Flower Medallion Punch, available as a bundle (15% off) makes the cutting out of multiple flowers super-easy and guess what? It also matches one of the flowers in Crazy About You.

The sketch is a Freshly Made Sketches one from a few weeks ago, where I ended up submitting a different card, Little Buddies Birthday. The colours were from that same week, at ColourQ.


Thanks for looking in, lovely to have you visit.

Rachel

If you choose to shop with me to stock up on your Stampin' Up! supplies (and earn a SALE-A-BRATION freebie with your $90 order) remember to use the hostess code, and I will mail you an additional small gift.

You have until 20th March to use this particular code. This month's Hostess Code is B3M6SRH7 

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Sunday, 8 February 2015

Happy Day CTS109

I've had such a busy weekend, but I needed some 'me-time' before I organise Sunday dinner. I checked through to Case This Sketch and what do I see, but the delightful sketch you see below. You MUST pop over to see the work by the design team, and the other submissions.

I just had to switch the panel over to suit the way my brain thinks, and picking up my three favourite blue inks, I roughly inked up the long wavy border stamp from Chalk Lines. Continuing the blue theme I stamped and punched out the scalloped oval from Flamingo Lingo. The sentiment, Happy Day,  is also from Flamingo Lingo, but there's not a Flamingo in sight for this simple card. The final decoration is a Petite Petals flower stamped and punched, and finished off with a Daffodil Delight Candy Dot.

Thanks for popping by,
Rachel.











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Thursday, 4 September 2014

Yellow Flowers for a Happy Birthday

I was asked today, "What have you been doing lately?" and I didn't really have any smart answer for my friend, except that I am just enjoying being happy. It is kinda funny when you feel this content with your lot in life for no particular reason! I suspect it is something to do with the sun showing its face more frequently, but I'm enjoying my work at school, the family are beautiful and we are all relatively healthy.I suspect it is spilling over into my creativity too, as I am using yellow a lot lately.

I have so much to be thankful for.

I've been out and about running messages, and having my weekly swim today, but tonight I have disappeared into my craft room to make this bright, breezy, yellow birthday card using the long-neglected Flower Shop and Petite Petals. I love the matching punches, and I'm so glad I went to the trouble of positioning them correctly when I bought Flower Shop and the Pansy Punch. I have a small 'T' inked at the top of each flower block, to help out further. I wasn't sure how I would arrange this mass of flowers or which greeting would suit, but eventually chose Tag Talk and the matching Label Bracket Punch, so this truly relied very heavily on punches today.

The patterned paper I chose is retired, Eastern Elegance DSP. I haven't ordered much current DSP yet.  I was hoping Stampin' Up!® would offer us the special they offered the North American market recently, but it is beginning to look like we won't have it. In the meantime, it forces me to reduce my stockpile of DSP, not a bad thing.

The Paper Players Challenge is a Tic-Tac-Toe, always lots of fun! I chose the left column: Birthday, Yellow, Patterned Paper.
Too easy!

Shimmery White was the card I used for the base, flowers and label. It gives a lovely shimmer and has more 'body' than Whisper White. You can just see the flowers stamped inside too.
Have a great day!
Rachel



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Saturday, 30 August 2014

Life's Adventurous Bicycle

Often when I see sketches with multiple layers, I'm reluctant to try them. When I do though, I'm often so pleased with the result it makes me wonder why I hesitate. This ended up being such fun to put together, love the colours in these patterned papers.
Stampin' Up!® make it so easy for us with all these lovely papers that coordinate without any thought and I chose a couple from the All Abloom DSP Stack for this. The colours are listed on the cover, so it is easy to pick out the ink, card  or ribbon to match everything up.




There is a guest designer at Freshly Made Sketches this week, thanks Kim for the challenging (and FUN!) sketch.
I used another stamp from the Hostess stamp set Life's Adventure, and  THAT blossom from Petite Petals. I really do need to use some of the other flowers from Petite Petals or they'll feel neglected, but you know how it is when you get a favourite?

I just happened to have a scrap of card from the Fringe Scissors class samples, and it fitted under the strip and matched the colour scheme, so it has been added in. You can even get a glimpse of how I finished off the inside of this card with a matching strip of DSP and some more Petite Petals flowers.



I hope you have something nice planned for the weekend,
Rachel








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Friday, 29 August 2014

It's Your Sparkling Celebration

I had some friends over last night for a little stamping and the Hostess stamp set, Life's  Adventure was used for the 'inside' sentiment in an 18th birthday card. It's perfect for that, but before I put it back on the shelf, I decided to use it for this card using The Paper Players sketch.


I stamped in Strawberry Slush onto Shimmery White card for another hint of sparkle and then went to town colouring with Stampin' Write Markers in a range of soft colours: Pistachio Pudding, So Saffron, Blushing Bride and Pool Party. The flower is one of my favourite blossoms from Petite Petals, punched out of course. Dazzling Details has added some sparkle and shine with a row of  rhinestones as the finishing touch!
 

Thanks for checking out my blog, Rachel


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