It's Sneak Peek Week at CTC#32

Welcome to the CASE-ing The Catty Blog Hop. This week we are giving you a sneak peek of some of the new goodies coming in the about-to-be-released Stampin' Up!® catalogue. You may have come from my friend Kathryn's blog, or perhaps you are starting the blog here. Either way, keep on going around until you have done a complete circuit.

It's not long until the new Stampin' Up! catalogue goes 'live', Tuesday June 2nd will be a busy day, because you can purchase from all three catalogues, just for one day, but at 11.50pm Tuesday, last year's annual catalogue and the Occasions Catalogue will retire. I wonder if you have you marked your new catalogue with post-it notes, like I did? As a demo, I did get to order some select items earlier, and I'm loving playing with those, and planning my classes for the remainder of the year.

My favourite stamp set from Convention might be Sprinkles Of Life.  It could be the variety of cards you can make with these different stamps, or perhaps the Tree Builder Punch which matches it, making those clouds/ice cream super-easy to punch out. You can make cupcakes, ice creams, flower baskets, trees or clouds with just three stamps. They're all so much fun, because of the cute sentiments that go along with them. How about "Hope your day stacks up to be one good thing on top of another" on the ice cream card or "Every cloud has a silver lining - you just have to look up to see it" which is on the card with the grey clouds.

The card with the three scoops of ice cream features a couple of new In Colors:- Watermelon Wonder card and the lovely, soft, Dotted Lace Trim in Delightful Dijon. The new Paper Stack,  measuring 6" by 6" now, Cherry On Top comes in a gorgeous selection of fresh Brights and In Colors. The ice cream is Pool Party, Watermelon Wonder and Soft Saffron, the splodges behind, from Gorgeous Grunge, are stamped in the same colours. One of the new features in the catalogue which you'll love, especially if you don't have every colour in the range, is the co-ordinated packs of plain A4 cardstock which you can purchase to match the Paper Stack or 12" by 12" Designer Series Paper. They have eight sheets of  3 colours, a total of 24 sheets of card for $12.25.

You know another really good thing about Sprinkles Of Life? It's the stamp set that helps support Ronald McDonald House Charities, and $3 from the sale of each of these stamp sets is donated to RMHC in Australia (or the country in which you make your purchase). You can find this stamp on the inside of the back cover of the catalogue.

I CASE-d the Catty to make the card with clouds, just changing the colour of the striped strip down the right side of the card.

Maybe my raindrops are a bit lighter than the original too, and the Stampin' Up!® designers may have used silver embossing powder (I had none) while I have used Dazzling Diamonds. It does look like an awfully close CASE. I love the sparkle of Dazzling Diamonds. If you purchase from my Online Shop and use the Hostess Code B6VWKZMJ I will post you a 'little something' from my stash.

Folks who come to my June classes will get to make three cards with Sprinkles Of Life stamp set and the Tree Builder Punch. There are spaces on Friday 19th June at 7pm- 9.30pm, or if you and a friend would like to attend a daytime workshop in South Morang, Victoria. I am happy to run a class for 2 people, we will just have to negotiate a day and time. The third card, and some other options haven't been made yet but could feature a tree, basket of apples, flowers or something else. I keep my classes relatively small, and allow you a certain degree of creativity with your work. Email rpalmieri5@bigpond.com for more information or text 0417 500 681.

Perhaps you'd better pop along to Emma Palonek's blog now, to see which sneak peeks she is sharing with us all.
Cheers,
Rachel

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South Pacific Stampin' Up!® Convention 2015 - Day Two

Friday was the second day of Convention for me and sunny Queensland wasn't quite so sunny
anymore. There were strong winds and heavy showers of rain. My weather app. wasn't totally truthful about how bad the weather was!
We were at the Convention Centre in time for the doors to open at 8.30am for General session. By now, we'd all had a look through the catalogue, I'd even started post-it marking some of the ones I considered 'must-haves'. There were a few on the pre-order list that I was going to be able to leave off. The budget was looking like it would balance!

Then Sara Douglass demonstrated Sprinkles Of Life, the new stamp set that supports Ronald McDonald House Charities. It makes it seem so much better knowing $3 of the $37 purchase price goes directly to RMHC in the country of purchase. Stampin' Up!® support this charity in other ways as well. We all contribute cards for the occupants to use, and many demos and SU staff take part in community service activities. Above,is one of the cards Sara showed, there are so many super-cute ideas, I can hardly wait to have this one as a class! (I'm thinking....July?) It has a dinky little Tree Builder Punch which co-ordinates with it too! [squeal]

Pam Jorgensen demonstrated a couple of new stamp sets too, and also included Crazy About You. The colours she used for her samples were very vibrant and I was so enthused I added Build A Birthday to my wish list.



Last item for the morning was being taken through the Make and Take before we broke up and went to another big hall to make our card, and eat our packaged lunch. There was an opportunity to play with new products again if you hadn't already, look at and photograph samples before an afternoon of business training.

Sharon and I were heading back to the hotel for a rest before the evening party. It was only raining lightly, but oh boy! were we being buffeted by the wind? This wasn't the only time our umbrellas turned inside out, but Sharon grabbed her phone and snapped me hanging on for dear life. A little later the rain began bucketing down, and we wondered if we'd go to the presentation and party in the evening. After firing a few text messages around, we'd decided that a taxi was warrented, even though it was only about 500 metres and luckily, the taxi drivers had no qualms about short distance fares.

This has turned out to be a rather long story, so I will hold over the evening event for another post.
Let me know if you enjoy hearing about our event, and if there is anything you want to know, just ask.
Rachel