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. Mybe you have come from my lovely friend Tina Gillespie, but if you have started here, remember to keep on clicking on the 'Next' button at the bottom of the post to get to the next design team member.
CASE Anything!!! That's a pretty big call, so much to choose from and how to narrow it down? I needed a project this weekend to share with two Stampin' Up! demonstrators who spent the weekend with me. I have been playing tour guide on Phillip Island during the day and we filled our cold evenings with crafting by the fire.
I settled for some watercolouring using Rooted In Nature, which happily carries over into the new catalogue. It's a delightful set, and perfect for cards for men or women. In the past I've CASE-d the card top left here, so now I'll try the one centre bottom.
With the addition of new paper, Perennial Essence DSP, and fairly much the same layout, I'm very happy with this card. Usually I would like to skew the image, for a playful effect, but I will most likely use this for a condolence card. I love the rich jewel tones of the Perennial Essence paper, and the Magnolia Lane ribbon is neutral and goes with everything!
Beginning with a piece of watercolour paper cut to size and sprayed both sides to wet it, I added drops of Pool Party and Crumb Cake ink to an acrylic block. I used an aqua painter to lightly spread those colours. A very small amount of Early Espresso ink was scribbled through the Crumb Cake, and I dried it with my heat tool.
Once the background was dry, the tree stamp was mounted on the Stamparatus plate. I chose to do this as the watercolour paper is very absorbent and I predicted that I may have to stamp the image more than once. Pretty Peacock was used for the sentiment, it's a new Incolor which didn't really show up in this stamping, but the card base is also this colour.
The girls were keen to try a floating frame card too, so I made this sample. By adding all the leaf stamps to a plate on the Stamparatus, it is possible to stamp a half dozen Rich Razzleberry leaves, and then a half dozen of the next colour. That's a real time-saver!!!
When you make a Floating Frame card, and you cut the centre out, you end up with another piece for your next card. I had these two inch strips of woodgrain paper from the soon-to-retire Wood Textures and after gluing that to a Crumb Cake base, a Soft Suede frame was die cut, just to contain the leaf images. This one might just be my favourite, although it didn't photograph as well as I would have liked. At the moment, I haven't added a sentiment.
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| Andrea, me and Kathryn crafting |
When I demonstrated my cards to the ladies, the cards ended up like this. Just small variations, but it was fun to try different shapes in the centre.
Next talented member on this hop is the lovely Sandra Collett
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Beautiful Rachel!! Really need to use that set some more.
ReplyDeleteI really love the curve centre for your floating frame. It looks great with the tree log under the sentiment. Gorgeous colours. What great fun with your friends!
ReplyDeleteLovely cards Rachel. The water colouring on the first card looks fabulous.
ReplyDeleteYou have been busy Rachel - tour guide and tutor. Your colour choice is fabulous, think it will make a very suitable sympathy card. Love the variations in your floating frames cards too x
ReplyDeleteHow fun to have a crafting holiday!! I love your colour choices for this card.
ReplyDeleteAww, your cards are fabulous, and I'll bet you had a wonderful time with Kathryn and Andrea.
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