Favourite Annual Catalogue Bundle CTC#101

This week at CASE-ing The Catty, we are CASE-ing our favourite bundle from the Annual catalogue. It's so nice to return to this amazing source of inspiration, but I had so much trouble deciding which bundle to CASE! In the end, my friend persuaded me to use HER favourite bundle - Sunshine Sayings stamps and Sunshine Wishes Thinlets Dies. They are on page 97, bundled together at a saving of 10% for this catalogue only, and such a versatile combo!

My son and D-I-L went to the wedding of a very good friend yesterday, and we had the pleasure of having their wee man stay overnight. This is one of the cards I made for her to choose from, and actually the one she did choose, using the lovely hearts tied together with some copper metallic thread. I adore copper, it is such a warm colour!

Continuing on with that theme, LOVE has been die cut from copper foil, while 'is in the air' has been heat embossed with versamark and Copper embossing powder. All of these products can be purchased from my online shop, and I'm happy to help you learn how to use thes products.
The paper on both these cards is Serene Scenery, a 6" by 6" paper stack with photographic images on one side and lovely muted colours on the reverse.

There are 26 rubber stamps in this set, mostly words and short phrases and when I mounted the stamps and adhered the labels to my wood mount set, I confused these two, so instead of wasting a card, I went ahead and embossed them at the same time and changed up the card a touch.



I had to include the big sunshine from Kinda Eclectic because my friend was asking me how you would use that stamp. Stamped in So Saffron it adds a nice touch here. I wonder which will be your favourite bundle, or do you have a favourite already?

Time to head over to my friend Kathryn and see which her favourite bundle is.

Cheers, Rachel

Stars Card in a Box

It was a lovely card class here on Friday night, with the girls making Card In A Box cards, all individual and all beautiful creations. The trouble with working at night is a) tiredness b) difficult lighting! We all agree that my electrician son should install some more down lights in the craft room, but trouble is, he doesn't work in the trade anymore because he doesn't like getting into the ceiling space.
The conditions weren't really ideal for photographing their creations, but earlier I had taken a reasonably clear photo of the back of a card being created for Mother's Day which has a Travel/French theme. The front was gorgeous too, but by the time it was finished , it was VERY late! We had some lovely floral fantasies for special birthdays, and a small boy's first birthday card. I'm sure the recipients will be thrilled!
If the ladies email me photos of their finished card, I will edit them into the blog, how about it girls?

Genella's card above and below

During the week before the class, I decided to put together another variation of this fun card. Simply Stars and Starburst Sayings featured heavily in this production. The Starburst Sayings stamps are a breeze to cut out, with their matching Framelits, and you know, if you bundle the stamps and framelits, key in the right code (wood 134817 $77.25: clear 134818 $69.50) you save 15%. If you do it before Monday 31st at 11pm, you'd only have to buy another $20 (approximately) to earn a FREE SALE-A-BRATION item. $90 before shipping qualifies. After Monday, it's all over for another year!

I'm lucky enough to still have a retired star punch, which punches the larger star from Simply Stars. I sell off some of my retired stock to help finance the next purchases, but some things are just too good to let go. I do hope star punches return, or maybe there will be framelits for those in the new catalogue, released July 1st in Australia. The Circle Card Thinlets Die has a star and a heart included, and they were well used in the class.

Label Something stamp set provided the greeting and just like all the stamps in Label Love, it can be punched out easily with the Artisan Label Punch. My girls love Label Love, it has stamps for babies, weddings, birthdays, just for you and more. I've forgotten to point out to them that if they buy the stamp set and the Artisan Label Punch together in a bundle, they can save 15% on the cost as well. It jogged my memory when another clever customer put her order in today, so I'm just pointing that out too. The prices are actually slightly lower than shown in the current catalogue, a lovely surprise when you enter the following codes, although the prices I've entered here are correct - wood mount bundle 132723 $60.25: clear mount 132722 $52.50.

The back of the card is reasonably plain, another star punched out and 'Make A Wish' sentiment from the Perfect Pennants stamp set. That can be bundled with the Pennant framelits for a 15% saving. You just need to find the Bundle and Save  boxes throughout the large annual catalogue or the thinner Occasions catalogue.

You can see a floral card here, or another floral in a different color scheme, plus some childrens cards here.

If you and a friend would like to make your own card in a box, and South Morang, Victoria isn't out of your way, email me for a day or night. It takes about 3-3½ hours. The 8th and 9th April are good for me at the moment, daytime or evening.

Hope you're having a great weekend,
Rachel