Big Baby News RS#133

This is an interesting sketch, as they often are at Retro Sketches, and I love a challenge!

I had been looking through my DSP, to see if I had anything that would help with another colour challenge, and I came across the retired Storytime DSP. This sweet check reminds me so much of the little check shirts my baby boys looked so cute wearing, and I decided to team the paper with the Retrosketch challenge and Big News stamp set and, some of the Nordic Designer Buttons out of the Holiday Catalogue.

I also used a couple of stamps from Baby We've Grown and the design worked better for me when the sketch was turned 90°. The card is finished inside with a square of white card and a strip of the check, but I might add another stamped image and greeting before posting.


'Bye for now
Rachel

Big News Wood-Mount Stamp Set

$75.95

Big News Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$55.95

Baby, We've Grown Wood Stamp Set

$41.95

Baby, We've Grown Clear Stamp Set

$33.95

Pool Party A4 Card Stock

$11.95

Real Red A4 Card Stock

$11.95

Nordic Designer Buttons

$9.95

Starburst Framelits Die

$45.95

Stampin' Trimmer

$49.95

Envelope Punch Board

$31.95

Fuse Fast Adhesive

$16.95

Stampin' Dimensionals

$6.95

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Baby Boy For Mindy, Congratulations!

I was thrilled to hear that Mindy Backes has had a darling wee boy, and the rest of the crew have hi-jacked the Fab Friday Blog to make baby cards. What a great idea! Love sweet new babies, so glad we have a little one in our lives too.

The main feature is Pool Party card cut with the Hexagon Hive Framelit. There is a lovely houndstooth DSP showing through the cut out hexagons. Some of theleft-over hexagons have been embossed with hearts from the retired Adorning Accents Embossing Edgelits and adhered.
The sentiment is very simply 'Sweet Baby" from Baby We've Grown stamp set and the oval is tied to the Hexagon Hive piece with Baker's Twine from the Sale-a-bration promotion last March.

The card also 'fits' the SUO Challenge,Make It Geometrical, although I doubt it's as good as the design teams efforts. I did try, next time I'll try even harder!

Have a great week!

Rachel

Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

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Pool Party A4 Card Stock

$11.95

Hexagon Hive Thinlits Die

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Baby, We've Grown Wood Stamp Set

$41.95

Baby, We've Grown Clear Stamp Set

$33.95

Ovals Collection Framelits Die

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CASE-ing The Catty #5 Baby

Oh, who doesn't love a new baby? I love to make things for babies, and I'm sure you do as well.

We had a new addition to our family in May and I was asked to make some wall art for his room. Of course, I had to pull out my stamps and Zoo Babies was the ideal stamp set, as these new parents are "Friends of the Zoo" and have also travelled to Borneo to see Orangutans and other animals in their natural environment.
I have shared these before, but I thought I would again, just to demonstrate what you can do with your stamp sets. These are just two of the three, before they were placed in the frames.

Stampin' Up! make a Coaster Board, which is thinner than chipboard, but sturdier than card, so I used it to die cut numbers for the pictures, and sponged colour onto them. The animals are also stamped onto Coaster Board and handcut. I used a variety of different Stampin' Up! stamps to put together the 'scenery'.

Now, onto my CASE of the Catty for this challenge.

I decided the card on page 78 was perfect, but I would give Zoo Babies a rest this time. However, I did use the Lullaby Designer Series Paper and the same layout.
The stamp set is Baby We've Grown, it was first seen in the Occasions Catalogue and it was good to see it appear in the annual catalogue too. I have used this soft bunny for many cards. The outline lends itself to a little water colouring, which softens the appearance even more.

Next, I got so excited by this simple little design, I almost began a production line!!!

I continued with the Lullaby DSP and used Something For Baby, for the stamped and/or die cut images. Something To Say has the two-part sentiment ' a little something cute.... for your cute little someone!'  
I could have kept on and on (except I probably have more than enough baby cards now). Naturally, there is no reason why you can't change things up again, and make birthday cards, or wedding or even sympathy cards.

What are you going to share with us this week at CASE-ing The Catty?

I do hope you enjoy my post, and get inspired to CASE the Catty too!

Cheers...
Rachel

Something For Baby Wood-Mount Bundle

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Something For Baby Clear-Mount Bundle

$68.75

Something For Baby Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$37.95

Baby's First Framelits Die

$42.95

Baby, We've Grown Wood Stamp Set

$41.95

Baby, We've Grown Clear Stamp Set

$33.95

Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad

$9.95

Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad

$9.95

Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad

$9.95

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad

$9.95

Lullaby Designer Series Paper

$18.95

Vanilla Coaster Board

$9.95

Crisp Cantaloupe Thick Baker's Twine

$5.95

Pistachio Pudding Thick Baker's Twine

$5.95

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How Project Life Fits My Life

My scrapbooking has fallen a bit behind lately, so I am looking at Project Life with great interest. I have bought a packet of pages and slotted some photos in, using some Everyday Adventure Project Life Card Collection and Everyday Adventure Project Life Accessory Pack. That set suited my days away in Melbourne at the South Pacific Stampin' Up! Convention and we were given the accessory pack at Convention too. We had a blast there! It was at the end of May and the weather was warm and summery, most unseasonal for the end of autumn in the southern part of Australia, but very welcome.


Last Friday, I held my Catalogue Launch where I displayed the pages I have almost completed. (They're so hard to photograph in the plastic sleeves, I could do with some tips, if anyone has some for me!! There are a couple from Convention and another two 12" by 12" and 1 x 6" by 8" of my latest grandson. I used pieces of the Lullaby Designer Series Paper. The patterns are very subtle, not particularly baby-ish and Pistachio Pudding is my daughter-in-laws favourite colour. I used recently retired ABC-123 Sketch Alphabet & Numbers to stamp his name onto banners. Sweet Baby and the soft, little bunny are from Baby We've Grown. I'm so glad that stamp set made it into the new catalogue, we really have a great range of stamps for babies (and weddings too), in addition to the always great range of birthday stamp sets.

I am now ready to order Playground Project Life Card Collection and Little Moments Project Life Card Collection, because a lot of my photos are of my grandchildren, who are all young, under 6 years.


Reminder
If you want to place an order, and do so anytime between 1st-10th July, each $50 order will earn you a small gift from me. I have set up a hostess code, beginning July 1st and if you order through my online store and use the Hostess code, 2PDEG76K ,you will be eligible for any hostess benefits this 'party' earns. Only do this if your order is less than $300, once you reach that amount you are eligible for $50 of hostess benefits all for yourself! When you have finished shopping and 'view shopping bag' it will take you to a summary of your order. Down at the bottom left is a box for the Hostess Code, which groups all the orders together, just like a virtual party.
If you view this online, you will see a link (just over there on the right side of the page) which takes you to the new catalogue online.

Hope you're finding time to get inky!
Rachel

Sweet Baby Girl CTD298 Card Concept13

I paused in my preparations for  my Catalogue Launch this coming Friday, to spend some time this morning
creating. Actually, it doesn't take a lot to distract me from cleaning and tidying!
Color Throwdown have presented the prettiest combination of colours, and I love the flowers in the picture too. I've included the crumb cake in the card base and the tiniest touch to bunny, applied with a blender pen. There is only a hint of Wisteria Wonder too, its mainly Blushing Bride which I used instead of Pink Pirouette.
The Card Concept have challenged us to create a baby-themed card - one of my favourite types of card at the moment.I'm pretty sure my style is clean and layered, click on the link and see what your style is.
A combination of stamp sets worked really well here too, Baby, We've Grown has provided all the stamped images, and Something for Baby is a stamp set with matching Framelit Dies. The onesie is cut from patterned paper.

In the NEW Stampin' Up! catalogue, which begins next Tuesday in Australia, you will find Something For Baby stamp set, Baby's Firsts Framelit Dies (you can bundle & Save 15% with those two) and a new paper piercing template - Eclectic, which has images for Kinda Eclectic, Angled and Scalloped Tag Toppers, Stars, Chalk Talk, Word Bubble Framelits, and all on three small sheets. Very Eclectic indeed!!!

Rachel

Australian readers - You can shop for supplies in my online shop, there's only today and Monday till the mini Occasions catalogue and main catalogue finish. Lots of retiring bargains and weekly specials too.
After July 1st you can order lots of fabulous new products!
Just a little hint, in this upcoming catalogue you will find the clear stamp sets and photopolymer stamp sets VERY affordable. My preference, wood mount, are still about the same price point as previous years.

Hostess code C2KVNKJJ until June 30th

Catalogue Launch: Friday 4th July 2pm - 8.30pm
If you'd like to come, ring 0417500681 for more details, or email me.

Classes for watercolouring available if you are near to South Morang (Melbourne) VIC

Thursday 17th July 7.00pm - 10.00pm

Friday 25th July 7.00pm - 10.00pm

Saturday 2nd August 2.00pm - 5.00pm (daytime)

Retiring Stamps & Celebrate The Everyday

Just popping in to remind you that this is the month to buy retiring stamps, ink, card, ribbon, brads and other retiring stock. The best link is probably direct to the online store here.

Stampin' Up! have let us know that the stocks of  these stamps have been exhausted...

Blast off -clear
Delightful Dozen - clear
En Francais - wood (but still showing in my on line shop)
Fabulous Florets - wood
Fine Feathers - wood
Five-way flower - wood
Simply Stars - clear
Zoo Review - clear

and these Accessories ....

Basic Glimmer Brads
Dazzling Diamonds Stampin Glitter
A4  card stock Gumball Green
A4 card stock In Color 2012-2014
A4 card stock In Color & ink pads 2012-2014
Primrose Petals re-inker
Raspberry Ripple re-inker
Basic Black Stampin' Around Cartridge
Baby Tees Stampin' Around Wheel
Lattice Bigz Die
Little Leaves Sizzlets die
Small Heart Punch
Full Heart Punch

This baby card at right has two retiring stamps on it, which I have used such a lot. The little feet are from a set called Baby Prints, which also has hand prints and some useful words. The verse which I stamped over the footprints is from another retiring set called Cuddles & Kisses. Both stamp sets will remain on my shelves for a while longer, for sure. In the retired list online, you can buy the woodmount set for $2 less that the clear at the moment. With Cuddles & Kisses, both types of stamp are reduced, check it here. Luckily, the Alphabet Press Embossing Folder remains for the new catalogue.


The slim catalogue, Celebrate the Everyday, which was released in January will end on June 30th too, and not everything has made it into the new catalogue. If you don't want to buy now, but have your eye on something in the catalogue, feel free to send me an email to check if it will carry over to the new catalogue. You can reach me at rpalmieri5@bigpond.com and if you list the item name and catalogue number it will make it easier for me to check.

En Francais is the background stamp on this card, and it is also one of the stamps whichis meant to have sold out in woodmount. It may be the clear mount stamp here, which has sold out as I have linked to wood, and could enter it to my shopping basket. Be quick if you want this one!!!

Baby We've Grown is in the slim Celebrate the Everyday catalogue, but it also made the cut to the new annual catalogue.

Another exciting piece of news for all you "Memory Keepers/Photographers" out there. A small sample of Project Life is available for you to purchase from the online store now, with the remainder of the range to be available when the catalogue goes 'live' on 1st July.

If you'd like to buy your supplies at 20% off, have you thought about joining Stampin' Up! as a hobby demo? Ask me, if you have any questions.

I'm looking forward to sharing the NEW catalogue with you too, are you coming to my Catalogue Launch on Friday 4th July? It's basically a drop-in day, free to attend and collect your catalogue. You can check out the new colours, some stamp sets and dies, even try paper punching.

Call me 0417 500 681, or email me with your name and phone number, so I can give you a call with the address. I'm in South Morang, Victoria. I'd appreciate knowing if you're coming, and if you have a friend who'd like to come, so I prepare enough samples.

Glad you popped by
Rachel