CTC#313 Favourite Retiring Stamp Set

 The CASE-ing The Catty Crew are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from Australia & New Zealand who take inspiration weekly from the catalogues. The catalogues are a fantastic resource and we love to inspire you to seek inspiration there too.

Seaside Notions was my choice for favourite retiring stamp set and I took the opportunity to try out a technique that Tina Gillespie taught me on my recent visit to Adelaide. Its an easy way to colour vellum and give it a water coloured look.

A trip to a hardware store was required to purchase a bottle of Diggers Isopropryl Alcohol, it is 100% unlike the one from the chemist which is 70%. It's also a great tool for cleaning glue off scissor blades, and marks off your trimmer, blocks etc.

I have used the picture on page 37 of the catalogue as inspiration, and I guess, stepped it up a little. The vellum was coloured with Stampin' Blends, just scribbling in patches, before spraying with the alcohol.

After heat embossing the seaweed in white to the other side of the vellum, it was coloured. The shell, and seahorse image were also heat embossed and cut out. There's some blends colouring on the reverse of the shell too. A Crumb Cake frame seems a good way to hold the vellum in place.

With so many great stamp sets retiring, I'm sure you have a project to share on CASEing the Catty Sunday Challenge Facebook page, featuring a retiring stamp.

This week Peta Stephen follows me. I wonder what her favourite retiring stamp set is?

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April 1-30
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Product List

Opal Rounds

[154289]

$13.00

Flowers For Every Season Ribbon Combo Pack

[153620]

$17.50

Seaside Notions Cling Stamp Set

[149278]

$40.00

Many Messages Bundle

[156272]

$87.25

Stitched Rectangles Dies

[151820]

$61.00

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

$209.00

Paper Trimmer

[152392]

$44.00

Paper Snips

[103579]

$17.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$6.00

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals

[144108]

$6.00

Stampin' Seal

[152813]

$14.00

Stampin' Seal Refill

[152814]

$9.50

Adhesive Sheets

[152334]

$17.50

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[110755]

$7.00

Simply Shammy

[147042]

$14.00

Stampin' Scrub

[126200]

$31.00

Stampin' Mist

[153648]

$19.25

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$10.00

Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock

[140490]

$14.25

Balmy Blue Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154830]

$15.50

Bermuda Bay Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154878]

$15.50

Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154881]

$15.50

Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154885]

$15.50

Heat Tool

[129056]

$50.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$16.50

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109132]

$10.50

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

[106584]

$17.50

Misty Moonlight A4 Cardstock

[153086]

$15.25

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock

[121685]

$15.25

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

$15.25