Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 17 - Cherry Cobbler

Contributors to this blog hop are all members of Claire Daly's Art With Heart group. We love chatting, crafting and getting together in person.

I'm sure we will see lots of wonderful projects shared by the team this week featuring Cherry Cobbler. I began my Christmas crafting at the weekend playing with Rocking Horse, not really intending to create for this Colour Creations Blog, but sometimes cards take on a life of their own!!!
 

You will find the Rocking Horse bundle in the latest Stampin' Up! mini catalogue, going live for customers on September 6th. It appealed to me since it is a little different to the usual offerings for Christmas. The rocking horse is a pleasure to colour, being a reasonably large image.

A plaid background seemed ideal, so I used this one from Let's Go Fishing DSP. I think the colour is rather nice with Cherry Cobbler.

There are a number of sentiment stamps included in Rocking Horse, I've used one on the front and two more on the inside.

Next participant in the blog hop is Rachel Woollard

If at any time you find a broken link or would like to see a full list of participants, please head to the blog of our host of the AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop, Catherine Proctor.

CTC#380 CASE A Christmas Tree Project

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.

Decorated With Happiness was the first Christmas bundle I ordered from the mini catalogue. I like the sketchy, modern style.

The colours were the inspiration for this CASE, but I've kept my layout traditional.

There are even a couple of the newest In Colors in there.

It's always nice to decorate the inside at the same time, and the envelope too.

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

Next fabulous crew member is Julia Quinn

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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. 

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Favourite Holiday Project CTC209

Welcome back to another week of CASE-ing The Catty. The crew is made up of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all parts of Australia and New Zealand.You are at the blog of Rachel Palmieri, Independent Stampin' Up!® demonstrator. I run classes at my home studio in South Morang, Victoria, share Stampin' Up!® products and tools at parties for my customers, coach my lovely team and create cards and the occasional 3D project. This week the design team are focusing on our favourite Holiday project. I'm sure if you love Stampin' Up! products, you will have a favourite project too.

So Santa was a last-minute purchase for me. In the end I couldn't resist, because he suits our Australian Christmas so well. I made a quick little decoration for the ever-handy Pizza Box, which has Christmas tea light candles inside. I based the colours on the decoration I found at my local supermarket - isn't he fun? 

My next task was to make 23 Christmas cards for the children in the classroom I work in at school. I began with stamping notecards. This is #simplestamping at its best. The sentiment is stamped below the image, to make simple one-layer cards.

Probably, I could have left them as they were, so the kids could colour them in, but I decided some minimal colour was called for. The watercolour pencils were handy to use, as I did it in odd moments between other chores this week. 

Then just because I couldn't leave them alone, I've stamped 'clouds' using a stamp from an upcoming stamp set called Geared Up Garage. Check your Occasions catalogue for that one and place your order from January 3rd.

The image on the Pizza Box was coloured using Stampin' Blends, but no matter what your favourite way to colour is, this So Santa stamp set is a good one to try. My preference is the clear mount stamps, which are $40 here in my online shop but because wood mount are being phased out, they retail for $37.80 and you'll find them in the Year-End Close-Out Sale.  This special ends January 2nd, in time for the Occasions Catalogue starting. If you do order through my Online Shop and remember to use the Host Code WAN2Q3HZ at checkout, you'll receive product in the mail from me.

Maybe you'd like to share your favourite holiday project too, and pop on our Facebook page.

Next crew member on the bloghop is the wonderful Rose Packer

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Beachy Little Christmas

Christmas and the summer holidays are advancing rapidly so after finishing the assembly of my Beachy Little Christmas cards last night, I thought I'd better package them up for sale at work. I was in such a rush, I hadn't even taken a photo, so these pics were snapped on a desk at work with my phone.

I'm so glad I did, because they were snapped up by the first two people I showed them too, and although I don't believe this stamp set is carrying over past 03/01/2018, for us here in Australia, it is so appropriate to our situation at Christmastime, you might need to grab this one before it 'retires'.

Beachy Little Christmas is on page 19 of your Holiday catalogue, and the clear mount stamp retails for $35.00. I couldn't resist adding Santa to the scene using some of the pieces I had pre-stamped and die cut back when I was making cards with Santa's Suit.

The little beach shacks can make a cute birthday card too, with a change of sentiment and there is a glimpse of Santa's Paws there too, and all of those sold out today too. One happy little stamper here, off to make some more cards! Don't forget to contact me if I can help with crafty questions, how to... etc.

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AWH Team Blog Hop Holiday Catalogue

Tonight some of the Art With Heart Stampin' Up!® Team are sharing some fun and fabulous ideas from our Holiday Catalogue, to inspire you. The Holiday Catalogue is available now, to order from 1st September 2017 until 2nd January 2018. Be sure to request your copy of the Holiday Catalogue now.

I arrived home from holidays to find a small box of pre-order goodies here waiting for me. Quickly I sorted the dirty washing before unpacking the box to check out what I would make for this Blog Hop. I had ordered a number of Christmas stamps, but this one - Every Good Wish was a winner for me.

It is such a simple stamp set, with 6 stamps, including two very useable verses for the inside. The sentiment is the feature of this stamp, and you can't really go wrong with it. It doesn't have to be perfectly straight, and if you smudge it, just cover up with some more splatters (stamp included!).

If you are just starting your stamping journey, or even if you have a heap of Christmas cards to make, this would be perfect. Everything you need is listed at the end of the article.

One of the large sentiment stamps, inked with Lemon-Lime Twist has been stamped in the centre of the notecard. The holly stamp was inked with the marker in two colours, and some more splatters were added. If I was making a number of these, I would fold all the cards, then stamp all the sentiments, before going back to add the holly.

Tranquil Tide was my choice of ink for this sentiment, but it would look good in any colour you choose. I don't think it would have to be a 'Christmas' colour either.

Intentionally, I've kept the supplies to a minimum here, to illustrate that crafting doesn't have to break the bank. You may already have the stamp pads or markers, which will reduce the cost even more.

• Every Good Wish Page 8 Holiday Catalogue #144865 Clear mount     $31.00
• Old Olive & Real Red Stampin' Write Markers Page 21 #145059         $12.25
• Lemon-Lime Twist stamp pad P184 Annual Catalogue #144086          $11.50
• Tranquil Tide stamp pad P184 Annual Catalogue #144085                   $11.50
• 20 Notecards & envelopes P195 Annual catalogue #131527                 $10.50

At this stage you don't need a cutting tool, adhesive or card. The notecards are already scored and come with envelopes. I hope you find this information useful.

Now it is time to hop on over to see what the very lovely and talented Kate Morgan has made.

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the participants below:

1. Alisha Watson
2. Claire Daly
3. Ros Davidson
4. Judy May
5. Monika O'Neill
6. Rebecca Jacovou
7. Rachel Palmieri
8. Kate Morgan 
9. Caroline Manwaring
10. Catherine Proctor
11. Tina Gillespie
12. Kathryn Mangelsdorf
13. Rachel Woollard
14. Sharon Davern
15. Kimberly Hern

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Last Christmas Cards CTC#109

"CASE anything from all Cattys" they say, but what do I do but my very last Christmas cards for this year (I think). So... looking for inspiration for a nice card for the ladies at work, I came across the Hostess stamps in the Holiday Catalogue, right there at the beginning on page 3. This is a CASE of Holly Jolly Layers. My design has been simplified slightly to allow me to make a number of them as rapidly as possible. Luckily I made them before my bouts of summer sickness began. I had bronchitis for my birthday, and acute tonsillitis less than a fortnight later. Oh, the joys of working with children!!!


Anyway, the weekend has been restful and pleasantly family oriented (7 year old grandson's birthday today) and I have only 1½ days left at work before a LONG break, so I can hang in there.

Here is my sample. The layers on the stamped image are there, there is ribbon and gold thread, even the die cut 'jolly' - don't you love the diecut words? They add a certain elegance to a project.I wasn't sure how far my musical DSP was going to go, so I cut smaller pieces and folded less, but I'm happy with the result.

Apologies for the blurred photo for this card. The very last card is for the youngest on our team, and for a bit of fun I changed her card a little. It has a very simple stamped greeting which was just the base for the layered tags, one piece of ribbon, no gold bakers twine BUT a couple of cute owls from the other Hostess stamp set on the same page, Cozy Critters. I have to confess now that this one is my favourite, possibly because I changed it up the most.
Wishing you all the joy of the festive season. May you spend your holiday time with those who are special to you.

Next you're hopping along to Monique

Cheers, Rachel