Graceful Glass CTC#193

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, coach my lovely team and create cards and the occasional 3D project. This week the design team are focusing on pages 164- 179 of the new Annual catalogue.

Page 167 Bouquet Blooms

I popped over to page 167 and CASEd a Crumb Cake card there, using different stamps and colours, but the basic idea of a circle adorned with flowers. I've used flowers from Beautiful Bouquet and Jar Of Love and really intended to use a sentiment from Beautiful Bouquet also, till my eye alighted on A Big Thank You.

I wanted to use a sentiment referencing flowers, and saying more than Happy Birthday or thank you, so this is perfect. Friends are flowers in the garden of life. Two design points of the catalogue sample which I particularly liked were the design panel set to the upper left of the card, and the leaves stamped on the base. I used a favourite stamp from Rooted In Nature for this.

Something else I decided to include was the trim on the right side of the art piece, and I used a lacy strip from the Bouncing Baby Framelits.

There are definite signs of spring in Melbourne over the last few days. The sun has been shining and warming up a little, the birds are twittering in the trees in the mornings and evenings. I even had doors and windows open on a couple of days to air things out.

My friend Julia is next stop along the hop, check out her gorgeous project

It would be great if you felt inspired to join our challenge this week, and you can link your project on our facebook page.

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