Happy Easter

 

I had a wee bit of fun mixing up stamp sets for this Easter card. Easter Bunny is in the Mini catalogue and will carry over to the new Annual catalogue. Rain or Shine DSP gives a spring-like background. 

I hope you've spent this weekend in the way you most enjoy. We had 4 of our 5 sons with partners and children visit, while the interstate family have Facetimed with us today. Not much chocolate here, but I think the children were happy with their haul.

CTC#413 Favourite Retiring Project

 

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. As a group, I think we are all in a fluster this week with the announcement of the stamps, dies and colours we are losing. Here we are sharing some favourites we are sad to see leave.

Sunflowers always cheer me up, mainly because they remind me of sunshine and happy holidays. I've used two of my favourite sunflower stamps, Celebrate Sunflowers and the matching Sunflower dies, and Jar of Flowers.

I like the rectangle dies in Desert Details, which are unfortunately leaving us at the end of the month, but if you like them too, you could order them with the huge 60% discount on 4th April. 

Misty Moonlight is a returning colour which is included in Harvest Meadow DSP on clearance, at only $8.00 that was a bargain! The Crumb Cake background is from the same pack. This card will be for my group of ladies at a community meet up. As there is already so much going on in this card, I have not added bling.

I've used the wooden bucket and sentiments from Cheerful Basket for the second card, while those flowers are from Jar of Flowers. There are 3 other arrangements of flowers in that set which fit so nicely into various containers.

I CASE-d my card from the green one in the middle (below) and stamped the Shimmery White panel with a long stamp using the Stamparatus to step-stamp.

The bottom left card used a mix-and-match approach for the sentiment, which I've imitated using Garden Green to make it bold.

We love for you to share your projects using the challenges. We do request that the projects you submit have been created especially for this challenge. You can CASE directly or be inspired by a sketch/layout, colour combo or embellishment. Ask to join our Facebook group, and then add a picture of your CASE letting us know which card or project you've CASE-d. I'm sure you have many retiring favourites in both catalogues that you can CASE.

Monique is sharing her favourite retiring item next on this blog hop.

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Your orders are very much appreciated, no matter how small or big, every little bit helps me to meet my minimums, and keep on creating. Hopefully you are inspired by some of the projects I share and want to make your own. My online shop is open anytime and delivery by tracked Australia Post takes 5-10 days.

Jar of Flowers 30% off $28.70 from 04.04.23

Sunflower dies $58.00

Celebrate Sunflowers 10% off $37.80 from 04.04.23

                                                    

Desert Details Dies 50% $30 from 04.04.23

     

Stamparatus, retiring $85.50.

Cheers, hope your week is a good one!

Country-Style Apples

No doubt you've been seeing lots of Fitted Florets stamps, dies and papers shared since they became available on November 1st. It is a lovely suite, and the good news is that the stamps and dies will be around until June 2023 but the papers and the Christmas stamp - Framed & Festive are only while stock lasts or January 3rd, 2023.

Wanting to try a different idea, I pulled Cheerful Basket from my shelf and had a play with a more rustic, country look using a checked paper from the Fitted Florets DSP.

Another paper from Texture Chic SDSP provided a weatherboard look in the matching Evening Evergreen. I really like the look of the diecut apples and leaves on the label which serves a dual purpose, also holding the Easel card up.

I'm looking forward to a fun weekend. I flew to Sydney today to attend a Stampin' Up! managers reception tonight before an all-day conference tomorrow. I love getting together with my stamping pals, and actually will stay a few days longer to have a little break.

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You can still shop online anytime while I am away.

Your orders are very much appreciated, no matter how small or big, every little bit helps me to meet my minimums, and keep on creating. Hopefully you are inspired by some of the projects I share, and want to make your own. My online shop is open anytime and delivery by tracked Australia Post takes 5-10 days. 

https://bit.ly/shopwithRachelPalmieri

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1st-30th November

 

CTC#389 CASE AN ANNUAL CATALOGUE BUNDLE

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. Thank you for visiting the blog of Rachel Palmieri in Melbourne, Australia.

The Cheerful Basket bundle is on page 162, and I was tempted to use one of the baskets on my card too but resisted in the end. Must play with it again soon though.

Instead, I've taken the three panels, but used the Scalloped Contour dies to make them a wee bit fancy. The piece I've cut them from was actually in my 'leftovers' pile, do you have one of those? I made a project some time back using white craft ink blended over the Quatrefoil embossing folder.

The Scalloped Contour dies has this lovely big, scalloped border included which I cut in white to back the 3 panels.

Instead of twine around the panels a nest of silver twine gave some lovely sparkle.

The scrap left over was also cut with the scalloped die giving a lovely finish to the inside.

We love having you join in our challenges. Ask to join our Facebook group, and then add a picture of your CASE letting us know which card or project you've CASE-d. No blog required, no special qualifications.

Next crew member to check out is my lovely friend Tina, I'm always inspired by her creations.

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1-31 October

 

Colour Creations -Week #13 - Cherry Cobbler

The participants in Colour Creations are all Stampin' Up! demonstrators and members of Art With Heart. We love to Blog Hop sharing all the Stampin' Up! Colours. This is week 13 of this round of Colour Creations Blog Hop, and we are sharing Cherry Cobbler.

I didn't want to make a Christmas card, and I did want to use some water coloured images. Fond of Autumn has  been on my desk for a week or so, and it had another run.

Cheerful Basket provided a wonderful image to colour as a bucket/barrel to hold this big bouquet. I was rather nervous while I was dropping ink onto the Fluid 100 paper, but I'm thrilled with how it turned out. All the floral images are from Fond Of Autumn.

Using blending brushes and masks, the checked background has been coloured with Blushing Bride and Cherry Cobbler.

Just a small flower on the inside to finish off.

Next up is Andrea Sargent

If at any time you find a broken link, please head to the blog of this week’s host of the AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop, Cathy Proctor, and she will have the list of all participants.