Elephant Parade

 

The artist who drew these baby elephants did a great job capturing the cuteness of them. While they are certainly a little cartoonish, there is that look of a new baby elephant about the images as well.

Picture This dies create cute windows to place items in, and I will definitely be keeping my dies. From cute creatures, pretty flowers and small sentiments, they can all find their place within this die.

The unfortunate end to this short tale (tail) is that the Elephant Parade stamp has sold out in Australia. The Elephant dies are still in the shop. I've been using Best Day a lot, especially the sentiments. I love colouring the kitty in a cupcake, but having a sentiment for the inside is the icing on the cake.

Click on picture to order - $26.40 reduced from $44

Unfortunately, Elephant Parade stamp has sold out.

Best Day $41 - retiring soon

Picture This dies reduced 10% to $54.

Have you been able to pick up any bargains in the Last Chance sale?

Do you have a wish list for the new catalogue? Such an exciting time in the stamping year!!!

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Colour Creations - Week #25 - Gray Granite

The participants in AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop are all Stampin' Up! demonstrators and members of Art With Heart. We love to Blog Hop sharing all the Stampin' Up! Colours. This week we are sharing Gray Granite a wonderful part of the neutrals range.

Gray Granite is a useful colour, perfect for building materials. I selected 2 different finishes on these cards, one stamped and the other texture embossed. The card with a girl has a stamped finish - Stacked Stone inked in Gray Granite (page 116, AC). It is a single large background stamp, so easy to cover a piece of card. The card with a boy is simply Gray Granite card embossed with a folder - Brick & Mortar (page 176. AC) with some white craft ink smeared on it to add some more interest. The card with a girl has a stamped finish - Stacked Stone inked in Gray Granite (page 116, AC). It is a single large background stamp, so easy to cover a piece of card.

The main stamp & die bundle used is Warm Welcome. It will be in the next mini catalogue, the January to June catalogue, but it has been introduced early. You are able to go to my online shop to order it yourself. Emma Goddard, a demonstrator from the UK initially inspired me by using the presents in the doorway, but I thought it would be fun to add the small characters from By My Side.

Balmy Blue and Fresh Freesia are the main colours used for colouring the stamped pieces, to tone with the Hues of Happiness DSP.

This style of easel card is very easy, and I often use it to display a new stamp. A Grand Kid has some sentiments just for the grandkids, and 'it's your day' is from Warm Welcome.

This one is for Tyler, who is about to turn 11. I am a bit worried that this is a bit childish for him, except he loves cartoons and does great drawings, so hopefully this is a bit on his wavelength.

I absolutely loved the way the Tahitian Tide and Parakeet Party blends combined when colouring the gifts.

Guess where the 'Be Awesome' sentiment came from? I happened to notice 'And Be Awesome' in Nothing's Better Than, did a little masking and it suits a young chap's card.

Just so Tyler doesn't take it personally, I've signed off (as I often do) with caricatures of Pop and me! It's a retired stamp set called Senior Years which I kept in my stash for just this purpose.

I'm looking forward to seeing what Kathryn Ruddick has made in Gray Granite this week.

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.

CTC#375 CASE Favourite Retiring Product

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. You may have just arrived from Sandra Collett in New Zealand and now you are visiting the blog of Rachel Palmieri in Melbourne, Australia.

It really is too hard to pick a favourite retiring product when so many that have been a part of our lives for only 6 months up and leave. I do like 'Catch You Later' on page 63 of the January- June mini catalogue, especially the cat gazing into the fish bowl.

So what better to use than the equally cute Elephant Parade? This is probably a case when it would really pay to invest in the bundle at 10% discount.

The elephant used on this card has a resemblance to Dumbo I think or is it just the stance?

 My scrap jar has multiples of coloured strips, some slight differences in width depending on if I were cutting a base or a layer, but the frugality of weaving random strips appealed to me.

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 amazing crew member is my good friend Kathryn Mangelsdorf in South Australia.

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