Toil & Trouble CTC200

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 pages 48-55, and I headed straight to page 55 and the Hostess stamp set Hung With Care. CASE-ing is an acronym for 'copy and share everything' and the Stampin' Up!® catalogues are the most logical places to start.

I don't have Hung With Care stamp set....yet, so I substituted Beautiful Baubles, because of the similarities. Stockings and baubles both hang, and there was a long sentiment to place above. It was more effective in a portrait orientation, rather than the landscape used for Hung With Care. On the catalogue sample, one of the stockings has been 'fussy cut', but the Beautiful Baubles Dies includes a die to cut out all those hanging ornaments in one move. 

It was much easier to colour them with Stampin' Blends before die cutting, and 3 of the baubles are raised on mini dimensionals. You do know that there is a special code to use when buying both the Beautiful Baubles stamp and the Detailed Baubles Thinlet Dies? That code (#149920) activates a 10% discount, your reward for buying them as a bundle. You can check out this set on page 10 of the Stampin' Up!® Holiday Catalogue.

The Stamparatus really comes into its own when it comes to making Christmas cards, as they are often a card you'd make multiples of. Another wonderful accessory is the 6 inch square grid paper, recently introduced, along with spare plates. I was using the regular grid paper cut down, but there was a bit of wastage with the size it is. I find the grid lines very useful for lining up the strings from the baubles, words etc. The Stamparatus itself saves wasting card, because when you stamp an image missing pieces like shown in the pic above, you can re-ink and re-stamp for a clear, crisp image.

I CASE-d the green card with multipe stockings.

You are very welcome to join in and CASE pages 48-55 also, then link into our Facebook page to share your creation.

Rebecca Scurr, that very talented Queenslander is your next stop on this blog hop.

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Festive Farmhouse CTC195

 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 pages 12-17 and I chose to top up my supply of baby cards for new baby girls.

Sweet Baby is my go-to baby stamp at the moment. I love colouring the babies with Stampin' Blends, and the dies definitely make them more fun to cut out. The Detailed Baubles Thinlet Dies has a beautiful large lacy die, which seems perfect for these sweet little cards. It seems like it's the same one used in the catalogue sample too.

It is lovely sitting and colouring, and a bit of fun dreaming up colour combinations too. The new Tufted textured impressions embossing reminds me of a soft quilt, perfect for our baby.

Petals & More thinlets has this die to cut out the sentiment, just a touch fancy, and a little longer to accommodate this particular one. It helps when the stamp set has a sweet little sentiment for the inside, like the one below. It has a lovely font, don't you think?

Stampin' Up!® Catalogue sample

Here is a second variation using the same key products. It is a different pink card, and I borrowed a sentiment from the fabulous stamp set Better Together. At least I'm ready now for the next couple of arrivals, so long as they're girls!

Next along on the blog hop this week is the talented Angela in New Zealand

If you'd like to share your creativity from CASE-ing the Catty, remember it is pages 12-17 this time, and you can pin it on the wall here on Facebook.

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