SAB Botanicals Are Just For You CTC#66

This week at CASE-ing The Catty we are sharing another SALE-A-Bration pick, whether it be a stamp set, one of the papers or even Project Life - they're all available for you to pick when you make an order of $90. If you happen to be mad for everything in the Occasions catalogue, you can pick an item for every $90 you order ($180 = 2 items, $270 = 3 items, $360 = 4 etc). If you get as high as that, maybe you should have a chat to me about joining up as a demonstrator, Stampin' Up!® welcomes and supports all types of demonstrators from the hobby demo buying crafting supplies at a discount, through to those making it a full time business. During SALE-A-Bration you get to choose $60 extra, choose $295 of any products from the Annual Catalogue and/or the Occasions Catalogue and pay only $169. Of course, if you prefer to be a customer, you can purchase your supplies through my online shop, or by contacting me, you just need to have a delivery address in Australia.

I was rather impressed with this sample from the catalogue, it is so simple but sweet. If you also like this delightful "Hello" you'll need to put your $90 in pronto, as this SAB freebie won't be available after February 15th!

Unfortunately, I have trouble keeping my creations simple, and I did add three colours and quite a bunch of flowers!!!

Using Watercolor paper and Versamark, the big statement stamp from Botanicals For You was stamped and heat embossed in white. With watercolor paper, there is no need to swipe your embossing buddy over first, the paper has a different composition to regular card. For the watercolor wash, you use an Aqua Painter and squeeze the ink pad with the lid closed, causing some ink to be deposited in the lid. Then you can splosh around to your hearts desire, leaving the colour bold with little water added, or more subdued by using more water. I decided on three shades for my watercolouring, and took up a larger part of the card front.

Instead of the very subtle white butterflies, I went with nearly-as-subtle pastel flowers.The flowers are from Botanical Builder Framelit Dies, and there are so many styles of flowers, stamens and leaves to choose. There are three here in colours to match the inks used, and a ferny leaf the same shade as the card base.

The Botanicals For You fits in so nicely with Botanical Blooms, you'll need them both! Another quick CASE, this one from page 5 of the SAB catalogue. The flowers are like the illustration, but I wanted to see what I could come up with for the boys. These balloons from Balloon Celebration, and stars from Pictogram Punches and Something To Say are great alternatives, and I'm sure there are many more.

If you like doing bloghops in reverse, you'll be clicking on the 'previous' button and heading to visit Helen Heil, but if you've already been there you need to click on 'Next' and head on over to Kathryn Mangelsdorf.

    

Starting this year we are doing a monthly challenge. If you have been inspired by any of the projects in the catalogue or on the blog hop, feel free to share with the linky tool on this post. A winner will be chosen and announced on the first post of the following month.

Cheers, Rachel

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Timeless Celebration TCTC#1

Challenges are marvelous ways to get your creativity activated when you're feeling stale and so I'm going to try out a couple of new things today. Number one is a colour combination I'm not particularly comfortable with. Number two is a new stamp set that landed on my doorstep yesterday. Number three is probably the fact that this collage-style of stamping isn't really 'me', but I've been loving what everyone else is doing with it, so here goes!

Bronwyn Eastley at The Colour Tree set the challenge, and is also giving a free PDF file of a fabulour 3D project she made for the challenge. You ought to click on the link just to see her floral arrangement, Timeless Textures from the  Stampin' Up!® Occasions Catalogue is the main new stamp set I've used and I've used a couple of pictures from the catalogue to inspire a design. It's a little bit from Timeless Textures, and a little bit more from Grateful Bunch (and then I added three flowers from that stamp set too.

There are no sentiments with Timeless Textures, but lots of very interesting background stamps! Enjoy The Little Things was a stamp set I picked up at Stampin' Up!® Onstage back in November, and I've made good use of it. Celebrate Today is from that stamp set, and then I couldn't help myself and added   ....on your special day from the SALE-A-Bration stamp set Botanicals For You.

I've just added a picture of the sweet reason I wasn't able to open my box of new goodies to play when it was delivered!

Maybe it's too much, I don't know for sure, but I do know that I will be trying out a lot more new things with my new stash this week!
Cheers
Rachel




If you can't wait to get some of these goodies in your hands, and you'd like me to be your demonstrator, you can shop in my online store here. Australian buyers only. My phone number ifyou have any questions is 0417 500 681. If your order is less than $250, it would be great if you used the Hostess code 4G296SCD when you checkout.
If your order is more than $90 I will post you a pack of It's My Party Enamel Dots, mid February.

The email address if you're in Australia and wanting those catalogues sent is rpalmieri5@bigpond.com

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Happy New Year! First Classes For 2016

Happy New Year to all!!! We enjoyed the company of two sons, one D-I-L, and the youngest grandson for dinner on New Years Eve, but Oliver needed to go home to bed quite early. My husband and I enjoyed a quiet evening, and went to bed once the neighbourhood quietened down at 1 a.m.

 Today I've spent a lot of time in my craft room getting class samples made. It's very exciting with the Occasions catalogue being available for you to order from on January 5th, and SALE-A-Bration starts at the same time.

As a Stampin' Up!® demonstrator, I get to order from the new catalogues a month earlier - and that's why you're no doubt seeing lots of gorgeous new stamps, dies and papers on Pinterest at the moment. Perhaps you've been wondering what is involved in being a Stampin' Up!® demonstrator. I'm looking for new team members, so if you live in Australia, I'd love the opportunity to add you to my team, South'n Stampers. I'm happy to fill you in, if you let me know you're interested, there will be contact details at the end of the post.

On to class details now. My usual monthly class is the third Friday of the month, so 15th January. It will be possible to run a daytime class at 1pm - 3.30pm and an evening one at 7pm-9.30pm but I need to know who's coming so that I cut the correct amount of supplies. (Let me know by the 12th please).
I know that some of my regulars are unable to attend, so if you've been thinking about classes for a while, January might be as good a time as any to begin.


You will make three cards, two of them this month involve a fun technique, and one is a simple one-layer card. I will guide you through the steps if you need help, and you are free to choose whether you will make cards for men or women or a mix. These are all birthday cards. You will see my sample of a masculine and a feminine card for each, and you can copy them exactly or make changes to the design using the products I provide. The cost of the class is $20 and you do not need to bring anything.

If you don't already have a Stampin' Up!® demonstrator, I'd be happy to supply a copy of the Stampin' Up!® Occasions and SALE-A-Brations catalogues, if you send me your name and mailing address. Australian customers only thank you.
You can email me at rpalmieri5@bigpond.com  with class, catalogue, joining team in the subject line, depending on your interest.

Cheers, Rachel